Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — Night Life of Young Men. [ARTICLE]

Night Life of Young Men.

One night often destroys a whole life. The leakage of the night keeps the day forever empty. Night is Bin’s harvesting time More sin and crime are committed in one night than all the days ofthe week. This is more emphatically true of the city than in the country. The street lamps, like a file of soldiers with torch in hand, stretch away in long lines on either side walk; the gay colored transparencies are ablaze with attractions; the saloon and billiard halls are brilliautly {llluminated; music sends forth its enchantment; the gay company begin to gather at the haunts and houses of pleasure;; the gambling dens are aflame, with partial splendor; the theaters are wide open; the mills of destruction are grinding health, honor, happiness, hope, out ot thousands of lives. The city under the gaslight is not the same as under Gods sunlight The alluements and perils and pitfalls of night are a hundred fold deeper and darker and more destructive. Night life in our city is a dark problem whose depths and abysses and whirlpools make us start back in horror. All night long tears are falling, blood lsatreaming.