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They are but a sample of the interesting siwcialties which appear daily in The News, which is certainly the most readable and spicy newspaper oublished In Canada, Every Saturday, Rev. T DeWitt Talmage's sermon of the Sunday before, Clara Belle's New York lett«.r, a cartoon by Mr. S. Hunter, and two columns of dramatic gossip, including many glimpses of life in the Green Room, are regularly given, besides an endless variety of humorous sketches, and a complete compendium of the news of the day. The News has no Canadian rival aa a first-dasa family newspaper, one which will be read through every day by every member of the family. PUBLISHED BY EDMXJNID E. SHEFF A.RD, 106 YONGE STREET. TORONTO. DEAD THE TABLE OF C0NTE|^T3. iNTRonnonoif .. « TOILKUS OF THE NiOHT A 2 Ai,L-NiaHT Eatino HousB 3 A Hackuan'b EuiaixNOB * . BlLUAIlDUTIO BOTS Q Tub Qambubb ' . . " • Pluokinq thb 8uQK»Ba g Thk Wobk of thb OAPPBRa ' 9 NlOOBB liOO , . .... 10 SjoHTB Sn5 BY THB NlQHT PoLIOKHAN 12 Thb Skbvaht GiRi/s *' FxLLBR " ' ,, '" _, jg Thk Findbrs ' * j4 Thb TuiBVBa , " __ " 15 All Night tn not CiJk. . . ' . . Ifi Thb Foliob C3odhx ' . . . . .."..*.. 17 Phomenadiho thb Sthketb 1(» " Thb PiE-BcTBiis " AND BtAOkwuERS ...... 20 ALL.W10HT MKEtiMO of THK "Sals" ..22 TbB Dancb- Halls .. _, *.."... 23 " MANNKBa NoNK— Customs Nasty " ' .. 24 A Vao by Choiob . . . 2(i The Slum Dwbllbb 28 Relbabbd CXiNvioTa . . 29 Graoe Mabks ; the Gnu, IddnnEmBs , . . .... 80 Thk Baby Fabhs ' ' jj In"DBWaed" .. " .. ■" .. " ., * ■ 32 A Ruined Woimm . . 33 A Pest l^csE WIPED Ot)^ .. * ' 35 Scenes on thb RAilvSiy ^ The Goffin on thb Ni6ht <£lKf^B^ . . ' . . 86 The Ehiobant T&ain . . .... . . 41 The WBEoimu.ids stran^relv ine lonjT rowsof (ras-iamiw ,-,, fi ■ CHAPTER r. THE TOILERS OF THE NIOIIT NIGHT ilAWK.S OF A CRKAT CITY. imporUnt divi»ion» of thuie toilcrt of tl)« oisriit. Ill roniiection with thn dilTorent new»- T'ap.r t'KtaliliihiiK'iitii in tin citv then' are pHib.ibly iilxmt tiUO perHoii* fiiipldj-eil at niKlit. Tliftu iiicliidu cmnpoHitiuK, pru.-i.-,- nipn, Htfcr»'otyr«'r», mailing cloiks, oditorH, riporttTH, iuul route buyii, All ilo not work during tho siuno hoiuv, h\v Boinu portion* of tlieii various tanks ajr iiccoiiipliHlied wluin " Ni^jht drawn hor cililo iiiaiitlu around and pins it with a star." Till! coni|H>sit')r» l*giii " Huttintf " about 7 o'clock and cca-in about Jl. 'I'liis dfes not coiniiriso tlio whole of their work, howunT, as thi) next day tlicy Hpi'iui two or three liour-i tilliiig u|) tlie ca.^es whicli they did thi>ir best to (!ini)ty tho ni^'ht b.-- foro. It is an exceedingly aeosaw busi- ncHu— undoinsf in tho day wluit they jier- formed in the nisrlit. Tho work Ih en- tirely by the piece, and a fast hand makes a pood wage to reward him for hin toil, but this wajfo represents twelve or thir- teen bourn of labor in tiie laree establish- monts. Many of the men think that it would be bettor to HESTUICT THK HOCn.S OP TOIL to ten, aa they claim that bosses don't look at the number of hours worked. b\it at the money earned. The hours of tho literary staff of a morning paper are fitful and uncertain, but the general rule is that when you are awake you bad bet- ter go to work. Tho stereotypers get to their cauldrons of boiling lead shortly after midnight, and tho pressmen are at , their post about 3.;t0— just vrtjen the tyjwi is washing his hands and preparing to leave. The mailing clerks are the next to put in an appearance, and almost simul- taneously the little route-boy slips through the door, prepared for his morning tramp. About sixty-five policemen hold watch I'^'er the sleeping city by • night. Their work varies in winter and summer. Just now thoy remr.in on beat eight hours at a stretch. In winter they are on three hours, off three hours, and on again for the same length of time. Their work and its incidents will form the topic of another of these sketches. The naxt most important body of men, and probably more numerous, is the bakers. It is calculated that about IlOO persons find employment in aupplyintr ouir citizens with their bread. All of these, however, do not work at night. Their labor begins about three o'clock, and they may be seen about that hour in their floury garments hieing them to their shops. Their work is performed in very hot rooms, and is on the whole LABORIOUS AND MONOTONOUS. ■ On their skill depends one of the irreatest luxurifH of the table— a well bftknd loaf of bread - and to tlirir ereUit be it naid, iiuece»» very (reijueutlv crowns iheir Dtforts. The telegraph o|)tTators who work at iiiKht do not averatrn over • dozen men. 'I'liis Htatf is liHKi'iied or increantd very inwch in Hynii)uthy with the f|uantitv of dispatches which are coming in to the morning papers. When any great event i!t transpiring in another land or another part ol this country, and long messages are coming in coneerning it, tho staff has to bo increased, and tor this purpose men are drafted from the day staff. It is an unhealthy buainuHS. In mo«t mortality tiibles, the lifo of the ojwrator shows th'' shortest average. Not long a;,'!) tlioy struck for higher wages anil mudo a [iliioky fight, but monopoly was too nuicii for them. Kverhince th'-y have had tho screws put on them jirotty tightly. Reductions in 4\w staff and reductions in the salaries h.ivo been the order of the dny in view of ^iiPHo facts some of them think that it is a good thing they don't live too long. Thr«flo are briefly the main facts con- nected with the toilers of the night, nieu who work while tiio rest of the world ire asleep—asleep feeling assured that the telegrapher is gathering in for them tho news of the world, and that tho news jiaper men are printing it for them, that tho baker is preparing for thorn the break fast roll, and that the policeman is watch ing over th«;. live* and their property, and keeping his weather eye on thosi. other people of the night, whom we are pleased to designate the Hawks. CHAPTER II: AN ALL-NIGHT RATING HOUSR. The classes alxjut whom we have been speaking take dinner nt midnight, and for some of thein at least, the eating hougfe which keeps open till early morning is in- deed a boon. It cannot be decried therefore even though it be a fact that tho night hawks are accommodated thereby. Some of these places keep open later than others, but, as far as I know, without ex. ception they are all Bituati?^ on York street, and are a pleas.ant substitute for the whiskey dens which used to flourish there. A series of visits paid to these places showed that very few of tho cus- tomers belonged to the class of toilers. The prowlers of all ranks and degrees though were well represented. The room is generally apportioned into little stalls curtained off from the room. It is a com- mon saying that .odversity makes strange bed -fellows, but gr.inting that that is so, it mav also be affirmed that liauor makes I NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. •tranpre companions T., ^„ x ,, •SPEAKING AT THE SAME TIME rpRardini? thoir travels 7,nt »„ i, ions ; in another vvpr,; I ^". Camion- HprinJiJe Clio •' co l^-' '^"."''^ "o* tlemen were seit..H >l-i, ^ i 'r"'"'* ot gen- liiore than mfe 1,1 ^'•''d been seen on court explain^ how .T' '" 't f^"''°« came to b^L in afoo.n where a'f'ar^^l* '"^^ was also found. These X?I '''^?"' in*,' h,gh, as the botUed ^ZUiZ'f/'"'- -re"s„.i,Vhrkati. "^"^ '^^y tiactly "ercVt ie kSd a rev.verof a dis- .vou saw skii, out iif^f^* ^"^ "'.*" ^^'i°m weary steo bnt vn "°''' '='""« '» «'''»! a hi-s m^esfo^ij^,'ir",„"rs:.rne*'L?h'^'V"^ •nS'^^i^j dt "r£e"S^ ^''--^-'' T ! Kenteel party, who. ame in fh"'? '"^ '^^^^^y >«orni„^ and'^'oocup.'ed a seat "t T ?l'!'' at which I sat i ^ . "''' ^"^ table jneal to^Js:^^. this^ 'Ke"„ ^^'^^.^^ ,„y jn wh.ch he chose and or'rrcd hiT v • "^7 from the rather limited bill „f tare «t ^^"'^f an acquaintance nf „„ '"',. ®-^"°*ved Jewell & c"ow or somT''^'"t,''"y ^'^^ restaurant His o-?r J^ ""'*"' s^'eH They wer^ bea„tS "'" "'"''^ * «t"'ly- PRIMA FACIE EVinE.VCE OF A SHIRT ond-hand dealers hnf I '^'^ * ""c- with snch '"taste ''"thit '7t' '='"^'^?'' veil pass for "a VinV, '• '"'^''^'^ my father secured amnn/fV^'^'i .*"■' ^^'^^ the fall of Delh?" A .^ ^'^ loot taken at bo" was t,Wsted in ot of nf k^^'"'^'^- '"i'^- oH.i3ves,butVn""u\^f:^utar-£^^ said|!'l"^''''---velth?ng.%"he thinS' th/t h:'fllud:S7„'^i)f 7'-fr«oly, involved. ""wea to the deception. the fdtff ScHr'Tr'' ^'""^-^- chansing my dress of Z'ovennT?'^ '" to transfer my latch-kev f^!!^ ^ ^"'■«'"<^ to the other, andthennn= "* ""•= P"'^'^et I wasi.ut tothennnn ''"''^''^^■"Sthat jny lan'd,ad;Vt'7n"reT.ni;e'%r tlie thought struck me that /f'Th^n' '"'^ keymstead of mv watrh it -^ ^'^'', ""J' no trouble x,3 *''"''""■'' would be- my landlady Jy i^ea an/r^^^'j,' \*°'d was capital, and offered fob*"" *'*°"«^''' '^ ; safe for me I haw. » """iP '"^ ^^tch eversince Iam„l,„™ '« ^-^^ **>"«■ timelrea^hmvinH • •'^''ticular wtiat ' trettingTnTheTe'^^JfiFd:.^? *" "^ «"" o^ veS'l;Siir'^^-;--iswasfeeding conversation."^ He "fent „n "l'«'^«ting of the Egyptian w!? ""j *" "Pea*^ [With his knife f^r """^ «^""'ed of General Gordon ^""^^ P^^'""" ucidly and to his 'n'*"'^ explained lact on how thP vor,f " *'"'""'' S'^t s- could^e r^L'feVv'^ry Sr ii^f'"*^"*^" parafvely trifling ejp'e^di^urrof "" ""^■ BLOOD AND TR&ASUKE. Sed'^LTtlu'^^^t'^ft^^ his beans ran out pf,f p.- *°"^"^ ^^^en evidently on the wan?"a„d h:''"'^''-^- "'^« i tinge of humilitv in k!' "® '""^^ ^itii a Iprolched tTe fandWl"''"'r'"- ."^ ^P' with " But mv d nv • .^*'^'" ^ senteaco nant restfurS^? ^^'ft" ^^n, 1'- ]-'^- dear sir nothino- • T f '"' My With this he ielieveH k"^T '"""^V^" ' hat. expressing h!i T*"^ *"■' '^•''''°'- of his it till To gotmid^5?h""'r'/°u" '-^ l^-^eP one had furnished a u^ k- ^^^^-^ *^*^nteei those sketches and h -^f •'^* ^"^ °"« °f worth 8ome?h7Ag / niiH""^- ^ t^^' '"'^ charged it to T^Ae x\S h'-°' ^"'* ately became di^nifilj? • ^^ 'wned - his hat, treated^?! p"? T'".' 'ef="vered. disdain and thankert^'^'"'"'f/^''h cold air, as 'if to say - Ou'k^'"* ^ J^""'y helped me out oVk littVe fix ?'f.,r" ^""'^ cate ..ome other time " ""^ ' ^ " recipro- Ponrdevil.I,,,vh.mthr.e hours ofter. -■(' he SIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. ft in an early opening bar looking very / snap to have a stranger come to vou at «leepyand fagged. He had probably the Union station and askTou to driCe been wa!k.ng the stroPts ever s.nce I left | him up to one of them hoir^eH Now iist h>m and had taken refuse here jn hopes look at such work as that-acting ^a bad that Bome fresh stranger would ask h-m to I woman's directory. But I .i„ "t know oil h»HV /'"^ "* ^^"^ I'qu.d for which he hackman on the stand who won't tak^the i.^'^..t'l*'"«1,°^'^''y 1""'/"^^'.'; 1"^ '^'}d f"! job. Yc, bet your life I make them el- "which ho will soon barter life itself. I did not ask him why he had omitttd to use his ingenious key. CHAPTER III. THE CABM.AN's chatter. If nowing that a hackman knew as much 'Of city life if not more, than any other one man out of 10,000, I climbed on the b(jx of a hack and asked an old-timer to drive 'Uie around town. "All right boss, get up here and I'll drive you to the (Queen's taste." After some general conversation I drifted to the subject of what sights .-ind sounds a hackman sees and liears after nightfall. " I've seen too much of that to my own aorrow, as you .know," my companion said. "If 1 had seen lesi of it, instead of being «notlier man's servant, I would have had ' & carriage of my own. Mot that there j ain't more money to be made at night I than in the day time if a man holds a good I sharp rein on himself. A fellow that keeps ' hib eye on the main chance and knows I how to keep a stiff upi)er lip will make dollars and dollars. " "I suppose your work has given you a 1 big insight into the wickedness of a great i city." I " What I don't know of the black- I guards, men and women, in this town ain't worth knowing. I am up to every acheme that has ever been tried, I believe. I tell you, we hackmen are about as fly I as they make them." " You can't .all be extra ' fly,' " I said. ' " Well, there are a lot of new fellows in *u V, • ' "•"-••■>•"' "o" •ciiuwB in iiiB oiner nignt. A younir fellow hired n-" fc?H'rl!^;?J ^? '■'*l"J=*^ '-•^•r.P^- "'« not very longago. ^He^aid:^! want It's them that spoils everything. They don't know the kind of men to strike for a good fat fare, and when they do they bungle it, and get themselves in the papers and give the hackmen a bad name. The businesi is overrun. Everybody that knows how to put on a horse-collar now wants to drive hack. They nee that it is a job whicli there ain't any hard work in. But there's any amount of dirty work for us. We're out in all sorts of weather, sun and rain and frost. We're liable to be out till all hours of the night and up by daylight the next morning to catch a tr.iin. Then, if we •want to make a cent, we have to do every- thing we're asked. It's quite* common lows pay accordin' to a snf cial tariff. Do you know, last sunimer I drove an old fellow from P.-vrry Sound up to a house on Little Nelson street. When he paid me my fare I saw he had a big wad of bills. He told me to come back next day about two o'clock, as he ^yanted to be driven to a sister of his who lived on the Kingston road. I called for him next afternoon, but the old man was not ready to go. and would vou believe, I called for that old tarrier for five days, ' on the fifth day he didn't have a t'une. J had to drive him to Sinfer'a purt'n shop, where he put up his watch and chain for money enough to take him ' home. He never saw his sister, and I often wondered what yarn he told the folks at home about his visit to town." '' Do you suppose they robbed him ? " "Oh! not exactly robbed him, but I heard afterwards that the old fool was offering prizes of five dollar notes for whoever could kick est. Do you know that if it for the strangers half of these would have to shut their doors." " I believe you you are right." "I know it. Why, the missuses of those places know that so well that a hackman who always takes such faros to her place is welcome to an occasional bottle of beer, and any driving that she has to do is given exclusively to hin.." " Well, «ir, I am sorry to have to say it, but it's a mighty poor business for a respectable man to have to engage in. " " Oh, indeed, I know it, but still I dis- covered something worse even than that the other night. A young fellow hired high- wasn't places to look for a certain person on King street, so I'd like you to drive very slowly along the south side close to the sidewalk.' I said all right, and I did as I was told. Every once in a while he would, say 'A little slower, cabbv,' and I saw he was peering out" of the window. By gob, says I, he is some American fiy-cop after someone. But I didn t think that long. I heard him say something, and thinking he was speaking to me I leaned over and found he was talking to a young girl on the sidewalk. I heard her say : -get out, you sneak.' I wa.=, on to him then. He- just did it onca more, when I jumps off the hack and told the girl to stop for a second,. and I would 6 ri^e a,.ci told hhn t' plnn'sa"'!]'" ^T a grand kick. ' All r riff ' r* -i*" ""^^e will be a policeman hit ^- ''"'*■ ^''ere That settled Tt. He ^"fd^ '" <* '"i""'"-' caped." P*"" nie and es- own mvl'lv- * ""'" '* '"^'■^ ^'^'"^ «-«B its work 1 wL'tellir''!°"'*''%^'' *^» minutes' «tand about my aSvl^'.T °^"^" "i^'V^ °" the them were sa^fn/that ,:.''"''' """'•' "^ •"an in the town^heVe whn' ''''!,* P""«- vateoarriaeeforrnoi- "° V^*^*^ hispri- ''*\£S?'T> --"-"« hacking/" Tl ^timp";?' ^f'^V*'"'* '" ^ was going on on K „" an^t)^'"*^'^-''*^'"'^ was on thP York strP« «f^ experience, i when ayoung n "nwi ;*"d ,T« "i*fht came up to me Th».o '* hlaek beard pretty nicely dressed ^""'^•'?"^:'"K but certain ha'^kmaT'^^-wSf ''t"'^ i°^* care, as a rule »k **^ '^°" "^ fares out of n„r' *''°"' Putting that of any othpr h"^" P*^ '"to fellow happened to h ^"''T- , ^"^ this and heardTs name xf^' hack to me, 'n. and I heard Z.;., Anyway, they got to theHumber' Timl"'"*^' '^"veme roe first hack on the sta.Hr'??^''^''/ ^^^^ more about it butin! V '.thought no pretty woman c.me ^.nT '"'""'"« ^ '«^J "cribedthis man «nH - i*°^ '"« »"d de- Been him. I Toid her h "l""!? '"^ '^ ^ had hack with a lady Yon 1 ^k. -^""^ 'n'" » •een that woman's .v-^^u' J"/* *" have that 'If you can rXh '"''""/ ^^'^^ her 8aid overtake-„?ert I'^T?"' ^.*hink she she, I'll gi^e you S5^"^ w *m^* ''*'='^' ««d they had gone to the B^,^' ""'"' ^ ''"^w pretty 8ure they wo^m'^v'V?'^ ^ *<" f«Bt, so I bundled her "^iV J^^ ,^««-y the box. I vi-a. 'i *"" ^ot on 'af they had ^nf , ^/\!'^ ?"''« how paving on Queen ^Ze.t u\ r^^^ ^'"'='^- •trike what WM fit to Hr- ' wanted to possible, so as to rn^kf "'' °V« «°°" as Pa8.the'hack So f went Z^ I wouldn't •t-eet to Esther and u.h '?"'f R«=hmond found the Htreet f 11 o7 hi" I ^°* there I me back, and we diJ„.; ^T\'- , ^his kept hack untilwe were on the I'l *V* ^'^'''''-^d When we got even whh t ? ""i'"^^ '°'"^- «top your load I w^nf f ' ^ **}''' J>m'ny, minute. He stopped ,d IT^ t *° ^^^ * mv far» out -u " ^ ' '"' when I ass sted , -ar_ out Phc nas tivmbling l,ke a leaf NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. I weS."?;;,:n'awV'^ ""'r •'-■'^ -^r hands nnd wVe, ahe took""'''""'' '" ''" ">" I 'n them the oth«r ^'" ?"* "he held j feathers. She threw thaTo'n th'"'" ^"'l and trampled on them uL ♦u*''^ 8^°""^ for the other girlai^'I' "2? then reached believe she would have pLl . u ^^^- f I another cabman hadn't n.^l'^ ,''? '^ ' '-^"'i And do you know^hVf ^t^H '""• ^way. hack never inSed or s,^'*'"'"^.'" 'he had a black beard and C/ u°^'^- «« face M-as as white a^T sheet f' ^'"^ ^'" we pulled her awav «J,l ■ 1 ^^* ^"on a.s the sand and commenced Hr*"*' '^T'l'" heart would break Thn^^if^ ^* 'f her out of the hiLk ;„H **'®'"'"»''ame ' I'or heaven's s^ke kJ""""/ "P *» her : ' exhibition of yourself^hl^' ^"° V"ake an , women are tCdSdSs? wu^*^"' ''''' saw. If gjjo ho^ '"ols you ever scratched the nose off^t, 'l V'"'^ ^'"i never have interiWodhnf- 'l"''band I'd she tackles the wom^n "'!j'«»lof that m^an villain began t^^":,^^ \^''» '^''t raised her up out of th. } }\ ^^' and down and dfove off wfth h"i'''? ^T'ed hack. Oh womol^ „, him m J m's bet that she iTtr ^1? Z'Z °"^^- ''" other woman and tL,, 1,*H*"'« "n the was a perfect • angd who U"^''"*'"*."^ astray by a desio-^n' - ^ been ed they cal?it. W^en I Zve^r^'^V^ ^^''^ to tow;,, and when tiZT% *'?® *f""^'« back «he was'hoppinTmad V^ *"°^ *'^ 'hink look at her mashed h't ^h''"^ *™« «he'd and find that woman sl^ "^^t^d to go much right tol^im as' th« ^^L'^ "''« ^'"^ =« , because he Paid attentions t^^J; '"er"' he was married AnH „ i " her before other woman because «h«L^ T""'^'^ the than she was. ' Ye. „„h , Jf *^"^'' <^^«1 said to nvself RnfM^*.*"'"°'^'"?.'I I that happeraat'Sgh"';f/rhl?V'^^"^ , so flustruted that I let th»r "** ^ was I without ever asking lo^mv"^"" ^ .°-* was all right A hr^i ^ *'• But it the stand next day a^^ handJ"" *" ""« ""^ yelope with a »10 bilFanH " r ""*. '*" ^"• inside with writing on U-'P-i'^."^ Sr^^'' ber and back." ' "^"'^^ '" Hum^ C7T AFTER IV. BILLIARDISTIC BOTS .?^fw.il^f!"ir^™-i can thin. „, outofwlFch innoceTen- ^ '='"' think of be extracted. Snallv-'T''"' "'*""<^* harm in young neo., i i^' • '"'" ^^e no billiards^or "c^arS^l^: ZTV'tl^"''''^ earned on in the hn,^ "^z ?? they are people. AZon'JlTy^'i'"^ y°""'' P'ifiiuo these Pleasure „^*^, '*''"=«' to watchful eve ote-aSi-^tha NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITV. they become dangerous. The billiard halla of this city are not supported liy men, but by lads. Go to any of them, either day or I nipht, and ten to ono you will find the majority of the players are yoiitha not yet ■ come of age. A remarkably large propor- ! tion you will find to be mere boys, and the skill with which they play seemH to argue that they did not start playing' yeateriiay | nor the day before. Just watch the swag- ger they assume. The blase airs of these young cynics is an article of first-class quality. After you have admired that, I call your attention to the cut of the gar- ments of these young gentlemen — very neat isn't it— and two or three of them sport watches, gold or silver. Then consider that it costs thi'se cute- looking chaps 30 cents an hour for every hour that they occupy that table and that some of them are here every night, and you will wonder where the wherewithal comes from. Some of them work. Some of them don't. In any case they must have indulgent parents, or— something. There is a group of Upper Canada College boys round that table. No doubt their wealthy and aristocratic progenitora make liberal allowances to their darling boys. They play good enough to n\ake a good showing in a tournament. If they are as proficient repavding the angles at the base and on tiie other side of the base of an isosceles triangle as they are with the angles in and about this t.ible they must be fine mathematicians. There is another group playing pool. Don't look at them too hard, because they are chipping in ten cents on the game. One Uttle boy who has not been playing very long, and who I oaw scoop in a " pot" shortly after I came up stairs, has lost the joyous look that then mantled his features. Just study that face. Look at the drt-iulf uUy anxious expression with which he follows the move- ments of the ball, and as it creeps slowly towards a Docket I believe the intensity of that boy's will makes the inert ivory move an inch further on, and it drops in the pocket. He flushes up to the roots of his hair. If he gets the next ball he will lake in the " pot" again. But he is very nervous, and makes a poor shot, and the next in hand pockets the ball. The little chap looks wistfully at the bigger boy who took in the forty cents, and goes up and whispers something to bim. " I can't do it Charley. You'd only lose again. You've got no show with us, and you'd better get out of it while you can." Charley goes and sits down, feeling very bitterly I've no doubt. There is the spirit of gaming in its essential characteristic — after all of your own money is gone, bor- row from anybody and everybody, and have another hazard. I went up to another prominent hall in the daytin-e, and found it filled with youths, but they did not seem such a re- sjiectabla-lookitig lot as those 1 saw at night at the first place. They were ii hoodlum lot, very n)isy, and uiur players. I vy.as much surprised. It seemed aston- ishing that during the working liouis there could be such a number of young niBii unemployed and yet playing a game which it reriuiivs funds to engage in. Tliero is something very ominous about this and no one could think otherwise than that tiinen must be very flush indeed to permit of it. A visit to a hall which is attached to a saloon ^howed me that this class of place is patronized luainly by men, nor was there half as nuuh noise as in the room Jast mentioned. 1 am told that in somo of these places they merely play for the drinks, and much drunkenness is the result. Pool is at present the most popular foim of billiards among the masses. It lends itself more readily to gambling than carom billiards, and any person who takes observation will come to the conclusion that more of the spirit of gaming is dis- seminated among our young men by this game than by any other half-a-dozen thiiics. It would seem to be quite as neces- sary that boys should bo prevented play- ing at dl in iiubljc billiard halls, as it is that they snould bo prevented buying liquor at a bar. CHAPTER V. THE (JAMBLEHS. The life of a professional gambler is not passed in a constant whirl of excitement, as tho uninitiated may suppose; neither is it a continual source of pleas- ure to him. as many of the fraternity in Toronto could testify did thev wish to relate their Police Court reminiscences, or the enjoyment they ox perienccd during their somewhat erratic periods of "financial denression." The crime of gambling at cards increases with the growth of every city ami for some reason or other the police make but spas- modic efforts to suppress it. 'J'his appears to be especially the ease in Toronto, where the members of this thieving i)rofes»ion openly defy tho detectives and laugh at tho puny efforts of the police constables and their ofttcers, who have sometimes oc- casion to visit the houses in search of thieves. Neither tiio coiiRtaules nor the de- tectives are to blame tor this deplora.ble state of affairs, but tho heads of tho de- « NiailT HAWKS or A UREAT CITY. partment are, because they know that- th^ < ru; f r t, ,. dishoMost, practices that tend to damn ^ ni°^. ;;^%,r-S. -^^ p chapter vi ofsodpf? %^^'^"''^''*«"^ .'S *'■'' «" many different r»„„- the chances of securing liis snoil VTr „ ♦ jmm.s8.oner«, and his Ho£ fu'^'^fA »«i° '^e other" wi'^l^'e'nswT^^ round and you have a deck of ••«?!.'•"* iiecter) i„ T ^^ voun^men hig who plays in '?;u ^^? 'capper," by Gas-light. x„e writer has and has hp3 JI 'nexf)erienc<.d boys. IN A FRAUDULENX GAME NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. 9 ■played in the pack. Tliey also p.iss ■cards from imo to the other to ■strengthen each other's hands, deiil from the bottom where thov have cards pre- pared, ring in cold docks— that in, a iiack of cards ail arranged to suit the ganibler, and exactly simdar in appearance to the ones in use— utilize the f le cut, and i.iake '' stripjjers" out "y •.". kind, ~oi, ,„ ..tur'ii'digSr Si ?I*foJ, NIGHT HAWKS OF A ailKAT CITY, It the wall, or what reniaiiia of it, is dis- colored and greasy, and thw table, once a light oak, lioti been blackened by the ac- tion of time and dirt, the unbrushed sleeveg ol the gaineBters, tobacco HDioke, Mid beer stains. There were five people, two white men and three "coons," seated at the table when the visitors managed to overcome their first feeling of disgust, and enter the room. Phew ! It was worse than executing a search-warrant in a York street junk-shop. They were play- ing poker, and paid no attentitn to the detective, when they found he was not followed by a posse of police. " It's all right, Slick ; only showing a friend of mine around a bit." "Good enough, boss; thought as you'so gwine to pull de ranch. Make y'setf to hum." That being impossible in so small and filthy a hole, the visitors s iuoczed themselves as near to tiir open window as possible, and watched the game. It was evident at a glance that the white men were pro- ficients in the art of cheatnig, and that the " coons " knew they were exercising their arts, but THE FASCINATION THAT LED THEM to the table kept them still in their seats. The deals go on, and as piece after piece of silver crosses from the stakes of the blacks to the whites, the silence becomes still more ominous, and the glitter of three pairs of rolling black eyes becomes more dangerous. The first coon deals the cards and all pass out, the next taking up the pack with a like result. Coon No. 3 clumsily shuffles the pasteboards, but does his "stacking" so poorly that every one gets on to his racket, to use a gambler's phrase, and passes out. Now comes a JUck-pot, where every one antes till the game is opened. The pack circulates three times, and no one will open it, although the onlookers see a pair of aces in one hand which disappear in a most mysterious manner. The expression on the faces of the whites differs widely. One is as cool as if he were engaged in a game of euchre for the drinks ; the lips of the other twitch nervously, his faci is as p,-.' 3 aa the whisky^lotohea will allow it to be, and his eyes have a peculiar shifting motion, as if he apprehended danger. But look at the coons ! Their wooly heads are pushed forward till their necks look as long as a plumber's bill, their protruding eyes are as stationary as a fascinated gamester at a faro tiible, and their arreat flat nostrils are dilated so as to almost engulph their mobile lips, from_ which no sounds aro issued. The pot is a large one for such a small game, and when the imperturbablt< white leans over and calmly observes, " I'll open it for a dollar," there is a dead silence, followed by a sudden move on the uart of the largest coon, who leaps to his feet, and with Haming eyes, yells, " No you don't, honey ; you gquidg&il dose keerds." Every man makes a grab at the pile in the center of the table, which is over- turned with the lamp, and in the EGYPTIAN UARKNEtiS that ensues a general fight occurs. The writer cannot say who got hurt ; he eot his body out of danger by changing venue to the roof. When he returned the crowd were e()u.illy dividing the money and the imi)ertu.»bable white was disgorging aces and kings from behind his neck and out of his vest and sleeves. * • • • If it were possible to i^onfino gambling at cards to the professional gamblers, there would be no causn for complaint, but an this is an impossibility, the Police Coni- missionera should take steps to protect young men who are first inno- cent victims and afterwards by their experience become villainouii cheats. It is a well-known fact that poker is largely played in private houses and at some of the clubs, but with these cases tlie police are powerless to deal, and it is only public sentiment that will break them up. In some of the hotels, too, rooms are set ai art for card-playing, but as the Magis- trate has stated that, on a hotelkeeper being convicted of such an otfence, he will annul the liquor license, it is safe to con- clude that the business is not carried on on a very large scale. The Police Coni- mis-iioners have it in their power to keep many young men from being decoyed headlong to destruction. Will they exert that power by arresting these " cappers " andunscrupulous night-hawks as vagrants, if they cannot catch them gambling, and give them a term of imprisonment without. a fine after th3 first conviction ? In conclusion it may be remarked that gambling is not the only offence of thn gambler against public morals. Many of them shun drink, and only indulge in oc- casional excesses in this direction, but all of them, without exception, are frequent- ers of immoral houses. When a gambler makes a haul his first impulse is to repair to the bagnio, where he finds creatiirea who will welcome him when he is Hush. 'Thedebiising nature of gamin;; is shown in the one fact that the mnney won i«, largely spent in the inilulKein.e of guiily- pleasures. 19 CHAPTKR IX •"»lit policeman the other nil 5." **"^ a »»ay a« well »„ tl.ut .„ . ",'^*" '" me, you other. It w^«Xr /ni"'^^"*'•« '''' ""r n'orning, it wm a «f„ , "* ** '^'""k in the with noi^elesSe 3T"''' ^^ "f'^ni"*^ the hor«e-che8t"Sts over' hn 'T'^ '^""« "^ short, tlie nijfht Lwm ^'Y'' *"'^. '« wanted to chat and'uiuHT'' ^^ '"^^''i'' time away. I was not «P- *"""^ '^'"the v«nta,e o^f the hZTCZV'''''''' ''''■ Pf'riencrp:';r^oiri„^?h ""T ^"-^ ex- •indeed I havo " i, J"^tec( his cape over U, f^f-l «» he ad- indeed. You would hardlvH'^^*^''*' " y^" f told you some of then, sL^^^'*''V'»»«' '^ addu-ssmir .i wom«n u '''"■«• Kate." ■""HTH.V«.K.Or.onK.Tcm-. by /ailing down "'y Word giir u -ould'^ytrbreStt*"'"'"?^- I- and ''"te --'•''- nSeVlS'''* cellar. J " W.''"?'■'■'""him?" wouId conie"; Pin Th""''' '^ »>« »«« ? She a hole tlirougl^ ."'b'f" """;"'''» and Hwear PutahandoaliPr 'n'j'''?""'»t he never , -^'d look like a f;,nr^.::f7'' ^°"ld r beT I primande.! for br n jl,; " ' ' ''""'d be re- int,. court. yT , IWu'"'^ l'l/* them there, and the fello,rf::;, °^: •,^;f^doyou think bS have me before th" threatened to breaking in h 8 door" ^.""""''"'""^'^ 'o^ «oeneslikethat. lX'ofli"'^r&"' ^"ts of heard the devil's ownLl^' ^''^ ^ haVe f ''°"«e. and when l"ve t ?" fj"*? »" "• were all .«ittini? n,^, ' '," there tfcev furniture. ,, Zm ITZL"' ^"' ,°^ '"""''en «««^ar that the," hadnV *"'* ^^'^Y to mouths to speak 'for t'^,^„'t;Pf":d tl^eir .. Whatubout burglars"'^ ■"'' *'°""- „ I have had som„ ".•__ "ess, and th.7 pojeem'!?^ '? .*^" ^ark- ;-'^^r«=s:'v^^tS ^^e-eia^^{!^^K.^ _half an hour ^o tb^T^ ^^^^' 't'-* not that street ySnder wf "' f f ''"*f ^own «'*" « screams Tnd c£ nf^^""'}' * ^^-> could hear the sonnH f ^- ^"•'der. J *nd was not lonn Ion r^'"'""" blows, 1 The screams Zw loud ^^ "'^ '^""««' n>y baton, I ma^e a ru«h •■• • '"^' drawing andburn'itopeT AsI,T"''-' t''^ ^oo? hall the light in a back l^"'e''ea the little I struck a match? and Boi^.^. P"\°»'- ' • lamp on the table VeTl!; *^i:""»'' "* " eu, Bir, It Was A QUEER SIGHT. herTiffdrr.^ HerSf °" '^' A""' in bleeding, and there wa«'"'^""«" ^nd head. Her white^arm * f *""' °» her W'th blood, and sh« * '^^^ spotted 'ng ^ with pain t Zl^ ^'oan- stood her husband a )?;„ ^^^^ corner half dressed. * * ^'S, ugly feijo^ BiIl^^^?ayVF?."!;.^",i",Y y°" wife for tte. .. ^^ ^' You'll have to come with .,d,,^" I""" r«" renins ..<,„rt„ ,„,. " T t, L '"' ""rgli Ha/ht^Str:,?r^-Pe--e,. pacing on my be^t wL„ "r"^'" ' ^as hffure leap over a fenc'e tha/ ""'^ * ^ark the handsome premLs^f surrounded lawyer. I went to th^ f "^ " wcaithy °ver but it w-^s darKJT\ ^"^ l.>oked could see nothing C 'j^e terrace and I however, I saw ^ ** * ^ew minutes, THE D.^P.K FIGURE OP A MAV crawling stealthily , " ""^ ^ "AN "-' '^ -'"^?"'',ly along the veranda Window, w«w„ng stealthily anH.-.f"*L^."'r'>uih and in shone J a few minutes w "^'l ^i" °ut. iVrtunlTtdyfcould'h' ^'>'" .« - tance a f„„t3tep whU r ''l'' ?" '''« ^is- wasthepolicei^an on th„ '"1?''"^ J"dped wer.tupablockcadh- "'''"''■ beat. J »/ us returned to the 1 ?nd the two After consultation I J.^"^ "^ operations? watch the window whHo jV J"''^'^^ to • house. I found a room '*"^"*'-°und the floor djmly lit. Itaon^H°" the ground and m almost a m<7n enf^ r °? ^''^ window fet out of bed and come to^^''' * '»'»» It was the man of thJl ° ^''e window, nizedmeatonce i ^h"'^- »« recog. that I hadsee„"a,Ln l-Pf?^' *° him "neof his up.stafr^-J""^'"«f through said a word, b'it tecko^i!? r^" "" °e>^r front of the housrandTt ,^;''°""d to the b'm what part of K "'V A^ told ^as in, and w« ^^ h<*i8e it ctairs. We coulJ l,'^^"* ""ftly „* did we meet anyone w' "•* »""« "or hrough a lon^ Sor ' L""*w '" ^"f"/ three steps entered whaf T ? descending servants' quarters. SudLif ^ *° *^ thf panion touched me on th«l™^ 7^ «"»>• to a strip of light und.r:^™'»>d pointed cam. closer. .„d could -heiTwhll^S NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITV. inside. I oakcd him if T would burst the door, and he nodded. I drew back as far as I could, and then launched myself with all my force against the door, whicli gavo way easily, and we botli Bpranif into the room," " Did you catch the burglar ?" I in- quired, as the policeman started to wip« his lips and look up at the sky. T ",^"" ^6'^ ^ve did. Ho was rasy caught Jn fact, ho and the housemaid were Veil, Uiisjsa queer world. SUCH A SCENE I never saw. The girl wept, implored, prayed and finally went into a fit. The burglar" got down on his knees and begged for mercy, and the lawyer stormed and swore and finally lautrhed. The whole house was roused, and some of the women came m and cared for the wretched girl." I' Did you arrest the fellow?" ,.'.'No, the lawyer was satisfied with kicking the fellow into the street, and bundling the girl after him on the next miming, and that was the whole of it. It turned out that ha had been in the habit of visiting her in this wav for months, and he would not have been caught that time had it not been for the bright moonlight. He might have known better, but when a fellow makes up his mind to see his girl he will undergo any risk no matter what It IS. I often meet him, and he looks mighty sheepish, I can tell you. See that nigh door-step?" ' Which, this one ? " " Yes. " " Well, oue frightfully cold night last winter 1 sat down on that door-step a moment to make an entry in my book. I had hardly seated myself when 1 THOUGHT I HEARD BREATHING. I was^puzzled tor a moment, and looked all around, but couldn't make out where thfi sound came from. Finally I decided It was under the door-step. 1 got down reached under and pulled out two little children, a boy and a girl, half naked and ne^arly frozen. I took them to the station, where we thawed them out and saved their lives They had been out out half dressed by their drunken step-father, the poor little things had crept under the door-step for shelter, and if I had not found them wlien I did they would have been frozen to death as sure as fate. See that lane?" " Caught a burglar in there in great «hapo. I was coming along verv quietly one night when I ran against a fellow com- ing out of the lane. He made some ex- cuse and hurried away as quick as he could, and after ho got some distancn he gave a loud and peculiar whistle. I felt 17 that something was wrong, and wont dowa the lane a little piece to where there wuh*. Iiigli board fence. Some one called out Are you there Flight ;' 1 answered 'yoH,'" and then ho naid 'look out and catch,' and the next moment he threw a bund lu of stutf over the fence, and it lell right into my anns. Ho threw o\er another bundle, and then he climbed over himself when 1 collared him. He was the most suri.rised burglar you ever saw. I took both him and tlie bundles to the station, and ho got two years. I never found out who the other fellow was, but he was ni> good anyhow, or he would have risked n»|^8elf to warn his mate in some fashion. Yes, said the j)olicenian, as he went, softly uii a couple of steps, tried a door and then resumed his walk. " We hava ?°i"n- '"'='"y unpleasant expt^riences.. I'ulling a house,' as they call it, is not to my taste, but we've got to do it, all the- same. We never know anything about it till we are paraded at twelve o'clock a"d marched away in a body. The hous ? to be raided 18 then surrounded, menbting placed in the rear and at all points of exit, the rest accompanying the sergeant into the house. Sometimes there is .v great hullabaloo, but generally they keep mighty quiet. The last house 1 helped to raid was on street. It was a mighty cold night, and they had no sus- picion of what was going to happen. The house was pretty full and so were the inmates, and thev were dancing and raising particular Cain. When th& serge.int rang the bell they didn't stop, but after the woman of the house had peeped out and seen the police she gave one yell, and that settled it. We pushed >". and could see them dashing up stairs and flying for the rear of the house on all sides. One young fellow took it quite philosophically, li^'hting a fresh cigar and awaiting further developments. Those who ran out the back way were netted easily, and were brought back looking mighty crestfallen. None of the girls' tried the escape dodge— they simply broke for their rooms to secure their valu- ables. Two who had never been arrested before set up a most lugu- brious howling. They threw them- selves down on the floor, tore their hair, and cut up bad. Another girl swore a. steady stream of oaths for half an hour, while the rest cut jokes with us to cover their chagrin. The sergeant found one man under the bed. He hauled him out by the heels, and the expression on that fellow a face when the sergeant yaiiLed him to his feet by the collar, would make a dog laugh. Another fellow had teet. hid hv hi? girl ir. a narfow close t, .-.nd when found he was bleeding at the nose.. 14 WoUoi^ri. ' ''"" ''^''""■"'*'' '•''" dock- A OLTK (;ini,. ".Onon.ornitijf about two o'cock I wa. and a,, est hira.' 1 „ever ho.sitatcd to ^o ^^llh the woraan and I slnrt-d off sfl took u,e away three or four block; a, ? ^v;;«\tnrr'TL';:"r '■"■%" ''"V'^^^^^^^ Muashed on t h , fl " " i*"^ •^'«''«'' a7. tH;;.o.nL:. .^:rS:,^S„oLT mid a ter wa.sting about an hourl/' turned to my beat. Would you be LJo ft% Two of theuj houses had boen buSzcd I' And the woman—'" «.ot'whii:Xy wiriT^hr^ '^""^ '"^^ bet I'^ not fo/lcrirk'e iMgain"'^-^"" '. ^VP" .''*'■'' '^e'" arrested ?" that wo,Jd seTtl'e "?t * Tht'e "^ ''be mmpya suspicion that her ittle yam to MB that night was made ud hiVt Ir! ; or magistrate would convict her." ^""'^ „ THK PINDEBS. he gEd'I^lTt a^tr^h/r light" •uttn^d^rTarTg^ei?!-^^^^^ quired'"''"' "'^"*'^^ *^"'^^"-" I in ItCJ^in-^hTg^^L^^d-iit^'^l^rte some people do make their living Tn thk ' lio on." livinSn 5"e Wa"° Thl^ '=t'^'^ P^^P'^' davbrBik an!i ^- -J- ®y "'"^^^y °'>t just at ffiy'pktr^f ai"^Ki"'g'"'n°d''r"'^' streets on both r H«, a^ ?u '^"^''» .longtheyiLirs'cru^niznLS walks, alley entrances, door wavs and th! gutter maearch of Io3tflrticles7m*g„e;.etO MOUTHAWKSOFAGRKATCITY. [ -lUtStiuj^irt^Jt':^ --'^ -''• hunsolt >in anil iroca on I., ii ■ »'^' ^'^'' .lawn r.v,.als it to tho profess.o I^fi ^J^"/ """if Ills rovolvfr they get It honest enough. ^ "' ■rttrange things occur on the strfiota nn^ some robberies have their funny sfd'' ( )nf n.ght a couple of crooksniet" lawyer" ftom r ""nfy t"^vn not a thousand m^es rom ias s"i ?ln';y '^""'^ in Osgoode Ian". H^ wrrib"ifti'^errt^:it^^"'"s^^"^ £ep^ *^r re ^himwhfrf he^'co Ta dress and get into bTd Ho w i h many protestations of gratit^id« prepared himdelf for rest nnrf B^titude friends bidding him good niX .nH i,*''" with his hat, clothes, and Iboors wJich fe^e^^rad-gT^trte-S S.f/irrtl keg of 15 You lager or other choice stimilanta. can't preacli to iiiu about THK ADV.VNTAUhy OK HONEST LABOK. I have tried it. You work nine liour.i m (lay and get sjiokeii to like a dog. l''or tins you get throe meals a day and a bunk to sleep in at night. Yourdirst meal you haven't time to oat, tho second is oild and tastes of the tin pail in which it is carried, and the third is a mess made up of what was left by your bo.irilin'-house missus and her youngsters at their last meal. 1 tell you I may not get my mealB reg'lar, but they're daiMes when 1 do." It Was hard to decide what to say ta talk like this. It was suggested, howiaer, that in one plan of existence there was a prospect of long life and the ii!s))ect of your fellowmen ; in tho otiier thero wa.s simply death and disgrace. " Respect bod (J. The kind of re- spect a man gets who has no money is not wortii much. If I cracked a bank safe, and snaked a million dollars out of it, I'(i get all tho respect from my neighbors that any man gets. As for h)ng liie, i wouldn't want to live long if 1 had to work (iO hours a week fur the jileasuro of eating three poor meals a day." This, or somethiiur similar, is the phil- osophy of the hawkn. It is summeil up iu the phrase "a short life and a merry one." It is a rule of life which makes a man, presumably civilized, more dangerous than a savage. He has the instincts of the savage combined with more know- ledge anci power for evil. It is a phil- osophy which every right-thinking man should do his little all to combat. It aims at the foundations of society, and if its falsity could be made apparent in words of tiro, the human family would be a gainer thereby. It is surely nut making too bold an as- sertion to say th.at the most hardened enemy of society was ONCE A GUILELESS CHILD, He or she must have at some particular time taken his or her first step on the road to infamy. .Some particular form of allurement must have caught the youtiiful eye and dazzled the foolish brain. What aro these allurements? Can our youth bo made to recognize them and see whereiinto they lead? We think they can. It would bewell to show that theros(!8of sin bear fearful thorns, that the fruits of mere worldly pleasure turn to bitter ashes on the lips. The series of articles which are being publisho(l in these columns have this end in view. By showing how the vicious live we expect to show that the person who chooses to tread the way of vice will find u ia ail conacienro with IG Nir.HT HAWKS OF A GRICaT riTY. »-Dleiif jr of wayfarPM in it, fmt he will JU*> find tlittt Ui« tbi)rii» ftiul d "1 MtDHfH mrnw^ with (':M:h mile, until ito final mUtftf "^rwldi'ij with blwdiiig feiit iiiid WMtMd .;, vonnd tho inspr- ..t 8 dejk. and tint offi;. i' studied him coolly for a mompnt through the little wiekot,. and then demanded liis iiim,,., Tlio young •»an gavo it inechanieallv. and in the (' '»« way ti)ll puntiiitf, Htutnl lonkiiii; in at it with an uxprfKHioii on their fii ti tliat wu might <'x|it!ct to m-u (in tliiit of a hunter wlm lind inuithtMj i\ lion. Vin, it i« » man -iiii other aiiini^il ciin cuiim. Ho ipringu to hii fei^ with a hixirse ro:ir, and t:ikiiij; iho ham in his liandt. Hhakos the put.- w.th i) . Htion^th of ft iiianiac. Ho i)ttc«« Uj ! I 1 diiwii his narrow coll, iittir- Ian wild cries of ven^'oanco, till nt lant iio fn'.I uixin hit heuch cxhini-ited, and \m Inlnrcd broathiiisr tells that lie is asleeii. Mure druiik» ! all noisy, all battered. One of them waiitM to oiiibrat'o tho youiis man, who 8|irin((8 fnun him with a cry of diiwnright fear. Th.-n tho atfeutionnto drui'k iM^comos indilFereiit an.J wants to thump him, but, fortun.itely, he in too drunk to carry it out. The door opens, and a man coiiioh in quietly tliis time, Jlix hat is pulled down over his evil eyes and as hu ulinks to a corner "comnion thief "is maiked on pvoi-y inch of him. The aifuctionate drunk wants to embrace himaho, but the thief rises with a growl »nd threatens to hit him a crack on tho nosu if he doesn't ro and lie down and give him a rest. Tlio do(jr opens acrain, and a fashionably-dressed (rambler conies in, whoso last word to tho officer at the door is to " Send for Toininv ; he'll bail mo out." Tho afTectionnto drunk stands in awe of the newcomer's good clothes, and the thief, with a si le plaiice at his stylish pin, shru;.'8 his shoulders, pulls his ' slcuch hat further down over his eyes, and I settles himself for a sleep. 'JTho jfanibler ' goos into an open coll and lies down, but the young man p.-voos the room with clenched hands and fevered heart. And BO the weary night wears on, an(i as the gray morning touches the wiadoTVs with its cool fingers one by one tlie drunks rouse themselves from their sleep and shufHe over to tiie water tap to aucnili tho burning thirst that consumes tlieir throats. Evou these Wrt'tches can joke in their misery. "That W!is a surprise party to your stomach, I bet," says one, as ho watches another take his first eager gulp of water, jvhich fairly turns to steam as it goes hissing down his fevered throat, " Wouldn't a big John Collins go pood now, oh ?" ^ " Or a brandy and soda, yum, yum !" *' Water's a good thing to wash with," ■ays another boozer, as he lays down the cup and shakos his he;vd, "but it's no good to drink, not much.' Then they get sympathetic and friendly. ( " What do you expect to get ?'' says one. I "Oh, sixty dayi this crack, nuthing less." J The old ill, nil get into the l,ull- police m^^'intrate ubki* a " Ileeii ii|i before?'' "Hav.l? Humph »pot uiu ait luoii as I pen."_ " What kind ov a have y«/, in this bhihtt'd town bcKi/ir from i\u' lunch. They all look at hiin admiringly, euvi- ouily. " Never up befnro ?" ' " Never striiok the darn town in my lift) till last night, and betohor liio I'll ^',t outen it, too, as so.m as 1 git out o' jail." "You'll yit otf oil yer fust oifoin'e," I chorm the rest, and thoy look upon him as a company of p.iiipers would look on (Jiio I of their number who had been !• ft a j legacy. By this tiiiio the sun HU tho streets, the tide of h(f roars past, an i the ! er.iup^of wretches await the peal m St. j .famos' stooplu announcing a quartt to ten. chaptkr xil TIIK I'OI.It'E COL'UT. My experience as a police court rciiorter IS considerable, and in this sketch I pro- pose to give the readers of TnK News a sket'.'h of the Magistrate's morning levoo, m which those of thenight who hawksoomo to grief during tho hours of darkness an- pear to explain their shortcomings. In the first place a descriiition of tho surroundings of the Police Court might, and doubth'ss will, bo of interest to tlmso \vh() have neither the opportunity nor tho inclination to visit tho place and "inspect it for chomselvcs. Tiie court room is not un- like court looms all over the world. 'J'lnra IS tlio raised dais for the piesiiling magistrate, there is the little pen in front and immediately below it for tho clerk of the court. There is tlm table in froi.t of that for the lawyers, tho table for tho reporters, the prisoners' dock facing the magistrate, and the railing through tlin center of the room to keep back the; great unwashed. To the right ome more sergants and police como in and, standing erect, look about them with solemn and dignified air. Theduputy critically comi)are3 his watch with the clock. A couple of policemen are im- mediately on the alert. It is four minutes to ten. , "Bring in the first two prisoners !" The alert iwlicemen go out and in an incalculably short time brincr in two drunks, who are planted in the dock and t to swear to the informations. Then he wliispers with the deputy a moment and smiles. Then he leans over and wliispers with the clerk and laughs noiselessly, then he clears his throat, surveys th» court room with the eagle glance of a vetcian review- ing a troop of hnss.ars, and finally consults the docket before him. He looks up sharply at the two wretches standing in the dock and asks which is .John Smith. ,John is terribly sober, red-eyed, and befrousled. ".fohn Smith, you are charged with being drunk on street on the - — of May. Were you drunk ?" " Yer 'anner, I was afther going down to ." " Were you drunk !" ." goin' down to McBoasts, pwhin who shud I ." "Wereyou drunk!!" " phwin who shud I meet bud " " Were you drunk ! ! ! " " bud ould Mullin's son, and sez he to me, .Fohn, sez he . " " Were— you— drunk ?" "1 was, faith.'' "Why didn't you tell me that at once?" " I was tellin' ye all the time, yer anner, bud " " Were you ever up before?" "Och.ax me no kushtions — sure you know right well oi was." " I'ined SI and costs or thirty days in jail. Reuben Robertson— is youj name Reuben Robertson ?" '■ It irs, sir." inntr in two tlio dock and John Smith de." lull, rt is TKN. buried in tlie i\iU oiien ;ii}d Tlie bi'lls ill , liiij', litiij'"' — ledoorswinpfs iirp cries of liandsoiiio :iy hair and y in a frock lying beliind witli throe in his seat. Is .t11 round iwear to tho )ers with the 's. Tlu'ii he h tlie clork clears liis >m with the an roview- md finally L'fore liini. t the two k and askii in is teiribly d. harged with n tlio of going down oasts, pwhin 3et bud " , and sez he at at once ?" o, yer anner, IS — sure you irty days in I your name "}- NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. 13 *' \ on are charged here with being drunk last night. Is that so ?" " It is not, sir." " Who arrested this man ?" queries the magistrate. " 1 did, sir," says a policeman promptly. He steps into the witness stand, lifts h"is helmet, is tworn, drops his helmet on his head afrain, and faces tho prisoner, " Was this man drunk as cliar<,'ed?" " He was, your Worship. Jle was so drunk that I'had topet a handcart to bring iini to the statinn in." " Do you hear that ?" "Yes, sir." " VVere you ever here before ?" " No, sir, and if you'll let me off this time. I'll leave the city." '• Uiscliartred !" and Reuben makes a bee-line for the door. The French adopted the hat at one time as A TOKEN' OF LIBERTY. They were judges of human nature. The first impulse of a jjrisoner discharged in that police court is to clap on his cap. More drunks follow. Tho old. old story. One man is charged with being disorderly as well as drunk. " He struck me and tore me coat, " says the constable who arrested him. " Yes," pipes up the inspector, "and in the station beiow he was very obstreper- ous," " Fined $5 .and costs or sixty days." Then the wile-beater takes his filace in the dock. A low-browed, bull-headed, thick-lipped ruffian with bloodshot eyes. He leans his arms on the rail and gazes round him with a sulky air. His wife creeps reluctantly into the witness box — she keeps her face averted ; she cannot trust herself to look at her husband. He pleads not guilty. "She tripped on tho rug and fell against the table, yer Wor- ship." " Is this true ?" "It is not, your Worship," says the poor woman. " He— he struck mo with nistist,"and here she breaks down and sobs hysterically. "Do you hear what she says ?" queries the magistrate. "She's lyin to you, sir." " I would rather believe her than you," says the Magistrate, " 1 fancy a term in jail — or, say Central prison, would do you good." " Oh, don't send him to jtiil, sir," cries the poor woman ; " don't send him to jail." " But he will only beat you again." " Yes, I know, sir ; but then the chil- dren — the children ; where could they get bread and him in the i.ail, sir ?" It is enouglu The man in the dock winces like one who is staVibed. A thrill runs through the court. The man is dis- charged. The youth accused of burglary is led in. He is sullen, defiant, but uneasy withal. The detectives are nut ready to go on with his case, and he is remaniled. The father makes an ineffectual ai)peal for bail, and then goes home— lum", ah ! This fur- nishes the criminal docket. An abusive laiigu.age case comes up. Mrs, Drake is charged by Mrs. Gosling with the offence. Mrs. (iopliug is a sharp feat'ired lady in and old-fashioned bonnet and a tired shawl. Mrs. J)rake is tho woman with the wet lips, tho moist eyo and the baby. " Now," queries tlis Magistrate good natnredly, "\vhiit is this all a'lMut." " Your Woisliij)," says Mrs. Drake, "she called me a dirty scut." •' ( )h, list.;n till her \ listen till her ' " shrieks Mrs. (Tosling. raising her hands and eyes, " how can you tell a lie like that and you on your oat ? " " What is a scut," queries the Magis- trate. " Oh, Your Worship, I wouldn't shame myself by using such a word," " I never called her a scut ! " screams Mrs. (Josling, " I never did. She sed I wasn't married to me man," "Neither ye are," " Oh, ye lyin' hussy, how dar you stand there and — " "Come, come," says the M.agistrate, and with the aid of th-" pnlice both women are puieted down and after mucn trouble all the witnesses are heard and Mrs, lios- ling is fined %\ and costs. Shortly aft( r eleven, however, all the cases are disnosed of, the crowd disappears, the reporters rush off to their otiices and the room is locked up until the next day at ten. CHAPTER Xlir. PROME.VADINO THE .STREETS. This is Yonge street at 10.30 on a Thursday night. I will take up my stand in the shadow of this corner aiul watch tho crowds roll by. What a mov- ing mass of young folks, for the over- whelming majority are young folks. Some of them too young. It is after ten, and yet this bunch of juveniles moving south are not going home, judging by what I observed while 1 was walking, for I have been as far north as Elm street, I wouldn't be surprised if those two very immature maidens in the kilted skirts passed_ up and down two or three times Cully in recognizing I liave some diifi them, for there are 100 girls on the street 20 NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. who appear to nave been got ui) on the same model. There mav be Bli^'ht ditferencea of dress not" discernible by the average male eye, but m essentials this seems to be a dis- tinctive class. Fov the most part the other loungers on the street take it easy —walk slowly and languidly, but tliis tribe of whom I speak are in couijles, and they walk along with a fine, graceful, swinging gait tliat carries them swiftly forward. None of riiein are out of tlieir teens. Their dress is not loud. J'he colors are subdued, and the style of the Kate Greenaway order. The skirt is short, and enables a curious on-looker to decide tlie color and TEXTl'UE OF THE HOSE WORN and the plumpness or attenuation of the young woman's ankles. They are cer- tainly youtliful, and this short skirt makes thuin absolutely girlish in ap- pearance, but in other respects by bold and artistic padding they attain a robustness, not to say matronliness, which 18 rather paradoxical. The swiftness of their walk Uiakes them really the most noticeable persona^^'es on all Yonge street. Anyone who sees them oscillating regu- larly between King and C.iueen streets would come to tlie conclusion that they are on " the mash," but if you select a couple and keep tliem in sight for a little while you will find that they entirely ignore the presence of the men whom they encounter in tlieir path. These latter, however, do not ignore the girls. They are iroquently greeted as tliey go along with low-toned remarks, siich as " Hello, girlie !" " Good evening. Birdie !" and with sounds which 1 have observed are produced when ctie jiersc.n kisses another. To tliese endearing salutations they either vouchsafe no notice or else they treat the intruder to such a reply as causes him to let them jiass unnoticed the n^xt time. This class of our citizenesaes seems to me to be a very modern i)ro- duction, and their habits and usages hud cost me some thought. " Why do they parade up and down the streets?' 1 said to a long-headed detective friend, who sometimes gives me pointers and cigars. " Thi^y don't seem to be HERE TO JIAKE 'STRIKES,' and they are not shopping, and if they want to take the air it is neither necessary to walk so fast nor take to such a crowded •treet. I suppose it is none of my busi- ness, but, my dear fellow, I believe in the saying which the Greek driimatist puts into the mouth of one of his characters, 'I nni a man, and whatever concerns men Interests me.' Of course this concerus girls." Taking no notice of this brilliant sally, mv friend wont on to say: "You think these young women are not intent on making a strike. Those two we have just iiassed, and who took no notice ot your wistful gaze, would have returned it with interest if you had been the proper sort of a party. Those voung women, sir, are the best readers of human naturj with whom I am acquainted. Ihey took you in at a glance, and they said, He wouldn't stand the biled eystera or the Iiija pale ale." I know that pair of business-like females, but 1 do not know their exact capacity for bivalves and beer. I am certain though that it is phenomenal. Now, there goes another miss, some of whose history is familiar tt> me. She is jiale-faced, witli thin, straight nose and sphynxlike expression. That icy little thing black-mailed a prominent merchant of this town not long ago, and almost tortured him into his grave. L)e- tectives were hardly able to scare her off. Ihere is another who. if she prevailed ot* you to get into a cab with her, would try to make you believe that you were a very bad man, and it would require a portioa of your salary, paid periodically, to ALLAY HER RDFFLED FEELINGS." "Wheredo they live?" "Most of them live with their relatives, borne of them work by fits and starts. I assure you they are as passionless as mart)le statues, and yet they are as fully cognizant of the nature and constitution of man as the most learned professors of the universities. I believe that the great majority keep themselves personally free from gross immorality, yet in their pur- suit of what tiiey think to be fun, com- bined with pieces of cloth, silk hose, hi<'h- heeled boots and bright ribbons, thev go as Mas the hres or sin as it is possible to go and not get scorched, though 1 can assure you that the smoke of evil has so black- ened them that they are morally as bad a» those who have fallen, and should be avoided by decent men and virtuous women, "On what then, do they base their claims to man s gratitude. I mean that gratitude that exjiresses itself in present* of gewgaws and finery ?'' " It is all built up on hope and fear. I tel von, sir, that these maidens-there's lollyB just gone by ; I'll tell vou Bometliing about her presently. These maidens, as I was saying, find their chief game among the ranks of the old, staid, bald-headed married men. These old fel- lows in whom wickedness lives though youth be de.-id, are flattered by what they NIGHT Hk ,/KS of A GREAT CITY. think to be a mash made on one in whom thruba THE FRKSH BLOOD OK GIRLHOOD. It is simply wonderful how easily such men— shrewd old fellows that oould bar^'ain with Shylock on the Kialto-can be hood-winked and hoodooed by a slip of » girl. But I could tell you of scores of cases where toothless old men have been led a terrible dance by just such a girl as that Jessie C, who this moment flitted by us." " _What is the end of all these goings on ? "What is the end of it? The end of it it often very close to the beginning. A few weeks shows our old Komeo that Juliet may be young, but she is not in- nocent. In some cases they make an en- deavor to stick to their victim, but as a general thing thoy soon get everything out of the old fool, and then laugh at and discard him." "Hut i mean what becomes of the erirls?" " Well, sir, wonderful to say, in a great many instances they don't go from bad to worse, but sonietunes improve. I know some of them who ha\e got mar- ried. I can't say that any of them aro happily married. In most cases tho husbands must have known all about the "amusements" which occupied his wife's attention in girlhood, and are as lacking in decency as she ever was. Probably he was not only aware of it but shared in the "gifts" extracted from "hisold nobs," as they affect.onately name their victims. But w onderful as it may seem, some of these unions are blessed with consider- able happiness." "You say that many of them amend their ways. What about the others?" "The others are to be found in the fast houses of Toronto, Hamilton, De- troit, and Buffalo." _ "Well, don't you think that even that IS a very dreadful state of .affairs? The way y: she get them. But natural as would semn such an en- quiry her parents neglected to make it, and hnally she threw off tho mask by openly adopting a life of shamo. Then her parents bewailed and moaned at their mis- fortunes. I was looking after some ostrich feathers which were stolen, and m the 8e.arch for them I had oeeaaioii to visit a ■ house of ill-tamo on .Mbert street. In this house S had taken up her abode. bhe knew me and knew that I wa« ac- quainted with her whole history. I ques- tionetl her and her answers were to the effect that she was quite satisfied with hor life, and thnusrht that it Was inhnitely to be preferred to that which .ihe had led as a girl at her home. She in not 22 NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. naturally bad, but her training had boen such as to make her believe that any way by which good clothes, nice food and some fun could be obtained with little work, wa." the way which it was best CO take. She for},'()t or never compre- hended her loatlisome, beastly siiaine, and compared her slovenly, love- less childhood with her i)resent con- dition of rich fare, fine feathers, lovers, race-meetings and theaters, and decidtd that the latter was the best. Toor eh-\~ poor wretch, I might say— if slie could only pierce the future and see the end of it all. She's on the hill-top of shame now, where the sun is shining, but God iielp lier when she goes down, as surely she will, amongst the slime and dirt which she will find at the toot, and in nine cases out of ten it does not take over three or four years to go from the top to the bottom." CHAPTER XIV. AN ALL-NIGHT MKETI.VG OK THE ARMT. The crash of tamborines, the jarring roar of a badly strung snare-drum, and the troubled, fitful echoing of a discor- dant chorus breaks through the quiet atniosohsre of the darkening street. People turn and look back, some with a look of perplexity, others with a smile of contempt, while those going in the direction of the sound quicken their foot- steps. As they pass us we hear them say "the Salvation Army— an all night meet- ing," and instinctively we turn and follow them. As we draw nearer the people on the sidewalks thicken, while the music, which in the distance sounded at first like the wild air of a street minstrel ditty, assumes the style of a religious chant. The music, if it can so be called, issues h'om a dark, dense circular mass of peo- ple in the middle of the street. Suddenly It breaks into nervous and excited motion, and takes up a line of march, led by a man wlio walks backwards, facing those wlio follow, and beating time with a baton. He leads them in a hisrh pitched, cracked voice, which at the higher notes becomes positively painful, but is always earnest and impassioned. It is a motley group that foUt/ws him. Promin- ent among them are the women, who, regardless of the mud and slush, heedless of the coarse and impertinent remarks of loafers as tliey pass, tnidcre patiently, singing in a chirpy, squeaky voice, which has been utterly broken and toggled up by constant and strained use in the chilly, •(^-n air. Some of tliem are TOUNG AND PRETTY, slvly w.atphing thr ctowds as they pass, while others of them are middle aged and hard-featured, the material of which grasa widows are made. Each of them carries* tambourine which they beat out of all unison, and which, did they but know it, ure calculated to do moie harm than good, as their music is enough to drive any man to madness. On they march, the wild, weird music ris- ing and falling fitfully, while everv now and then the sharp ejaculations of "Praise God!" "Hallelujah!" etc., cut through the clangor like nervous shafts of sound. On either side of the column march a mob of men, women and urchins, some jeering them, others sympathizing with them, while hundreds tramp along out of sheer curiosity. The crowd thickens, sway* forward anxious to obtain favorable seats in the hall, as it is now known to all them that there is going to lie a "knee drill and an all night hand to hand fight with the devil while the gates of hell are to bo stormed towards morning by the forlora hope." The long, low barrack-hke build- ing is reached, the wide doors are flung o))en and the eager mob follow the soldier* with a rush into the vast and garishly litin- terior. Thena ncene opens on the eye whicb can only be witnessed in a great city. The high amphitheatre at the far end "is soon densely packed by Salvation army sol- diers, both men and women, most of the former dressed in red and blue coats with the breast illuminated with medals in various designs. The huge barn-hke edi- fice is filled as it by magic and by all classes of citizens, from the devout woman sitting patiently in fiont, who has come to listen and to jjray, down to the brazen- faced night hawk in the jockey cap and bangs, who has come to see and be seen and to make a mash if she finds a victim. And how many of such are here ! Their cold, calculating, treacherous eyes waich- ing stealthily the crowds cf tjMUG-FACED YOUTHS that occupy the I' wer part of the hall. Still the crowd comes j)ouring in until vhs place is packed to the doors, and then for the first time a partial stillness falls upon the place. There is a slight commotion in the front row of the elevated stage and then amid a. crash of tamborines and a roar of voices chanting a spirited chorus, a woma,ii with a pale, spirituelle face and fine, intelligent eyes, shaded by a plain black -itraw bonnet bound with red ribbons, steps to the front, stands still as a statue, and looks with a strangely pitiful expres- sion over the vast crowd before her. Even after the music ceases, she still stands there, with fingers tightly clasped and 1 ps. moving in silent prayer, and then, si:d- deiiiv and unexpectedly, she tliiiijs heraiilt down on her kaees,her whole body shaken Xir.HT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. 23 with Bpaamodic sobs. Tliu groat crowd is thoroughly stilled now. All fyus are bent upon her, nonie in alarm, some in pity, whilo others burn with tiie kindling' firu of religious fervor. Slio rises slowly and, Btretchine out her tremblin.; hands to t!ie audience, cries in a clear, bnt'lo-liko voice, "Oh, why will yo\i die?" and then overoomo by her feelings, bursts into a torrent of tears again. A thrill runs through tho vast assemblage, all havo caught ;»ho infecii m from her, and even the brazen — faced female in the back seat lets fall her eyes with a guilty look. Once more the electric woman on tiie platform begins to speak — at first brokenly, and gathering strength as she goes on, bursts out in an appeal to sinners, in which the terrors of a, real old-fashioned uj) and up fire and brimstone geheiuia are painted with a vividness which would DO CEEDIT TO A T.iLllAGE or an oldtimo backwoods hard-shell Bap- tist preacher. She talks with a rapidity that is marvellous!, every fibre in her willowy body vibrates, her eyes shii'e and her thin hands beat the air and rend the countenance of an imaginary Satan. She continues to speak until completely exhausted, and when she ceases another mighty chorus fills tho hall. One after another the soldiers get up and relate their experience. Yonder is a man who used to be a dry-haired and gray-faced drunkard ; now he is a man w-ith new life coursing in his veins and shining in his eyes. He tells what the Lord has done for him, and as he relates the story his wife, who will never be beautiful again, for twenty years of unceasing misery havo »tami>ed themselves upon her, falls upon har knees, and, with the fast tears flowing down her cheeks, cries, "Yea, it's all true, thank God, it's all true !" That girl who is speaking now used to be a night hawk herself, but no one can mistake her earn estness. ^nd thus the nicht wears on amid the crash of discordant music and the wailiugs and cries of the converted. The crowd begins to thin towards twelve o'clock, young men and women meet at the door, exchange a glance and a whispered word, and then slide out into the darkness. Suddenly there is a tumult in tht. lower part of the hall. A cry of "figlit!" a savage oath, the audience rise as if by magic, and two or three muscular soldier", wrench a dis- orderly visitor to the door and fling him into the street. The singers sing till they are hoarse, the talkers talk till their voices crack, ihe exhorters look wan and ghastly, the tamborin", players fall asleep in their scats, tiie noisy place EtiKs fre- quently, and by four o'clock in the morn- ing the last of them steps tliro.i^'h tho entrance and finds his way through the grey streets towards homo. CHAPTER XV. THE "SCHOOI.." Ask any old and experienced officer on the police force, What does more to corrupt tlu^ morals of the young men and youu;^ women of this city than anything else, and he will answer almost certainly, "These dancing st^ools." And if he added that they .also did more to under- mine the constitutions of many a "buirdly duel and bonny lassie " than even the doctors do, he would also b(! right. You will hear a younsr man or woman talk about " troing to school," but you do not need to be deceived into thinking that they are taking a course at the public night schools. The arts taught in ttia seliool that they attend, they are already probably very iiroficient in. Some eight or nine years ago these danc- ing assemblies were very common, and were attended by nice people, but year by year they have grown worse until the average "school" of the present day VNOald be shocking and ruinous to any girl of correct sensibilities. The "school," and its congener the hop, or dancing social, is invariably held in some public hall. A committee is formed by a number of young men, who stand to make some money if the " school"' ig a popular one. The committee should be composed of fighting men, a:* there is a good deal of constabulary 3uty to be done. At most of the schools the fair sex are admitted free, and quite a number of the blushing damsels who cannot get a "fellah" take advan- tage of that rule. When they get into tho hall, however, they ran a fair ciiance of PICKIXG UP A CAVALIER who came to the festivities unattached. On one occasion a spectator who had made up his mind to pry into the mys- teries of a school which met in an east end hall, near (|>ueen street, was ruiiinia.ging for his entrance fee when a buxom young lady came blithely for- ward and addressed the janitor in a tone of reproach, " Vou'ro not going to charge the repordei ..re ye,' and the change col- lector expressed himself to the effect that he never hiul any intention of charging: such a distinguished personiige. Menda- cious youth 1 — he h.ad his hand extended for the coin and a fixed expres.'e wiMltli, tliiiii);li his oiitwiird iiiiin ih, as tn driiSM, uiichaiiKoiJ, for lie, liUu many other IihiloaopheiH, tit'ata with bcorn tho vanity of dreiiH. CHAI'TKR XVII. A VAC BY OIIOK'K. A good many nf these unai)pointi'd •ttaches of tlie stevi-dorea have once boen sailors and still have a hankering for the water Hide. A few days ago 1 met a good specimen of this class, who, althmigli dressed in a dilapidati'd suit of " hodden gray," liad the unmistakeable look of tho sailor about him which needed not the " fo\il anchor' tattooed on the back of hia riuht hand, nor the Tnermaid and other di.'\ ices on his arms to confirm. 1 managed after a time to get into conversat on with him, hut the man seemed reticent, not to say surly. When I asked him if he had even bi^en to sea lie replied. " (lo to blazes and find out." I then told him that I meant no impi'rtin- ence or hanli by the ([ueslion. I told him that I had a son now at sea, and conse- quently I took an interest in everything in the maritime line. To keep up the unities I took a plug of tobacco with ■which I had supplied myself witli a view to just such an emergency, and offered the ancient mariner a chew, which \u'. acct.'pted and began to look a little more i)leiisant, and showed some signs of loquacity. I then proijosed that we should go and have a glass of gro;;, a Proposition which ap- peared to strike him as being correct. >So ve went to a water-side tavern sitting room where we each took what seamen call a throat se.ason. 1 then suggested th.at we should have a smoke, to which the ex-mariner agreed, and another " throat season," which proposal alsomet his views. By this time my cpiondam friend began to wax merry, and went so far as to volun- teer to sing a favorite song of his entitled "The Cumberland's Crew," a lyric based on the sinking of the United States war ship Cumberland by the improvis.'d Con- federate ironclad Merrimac at Hamilton Roads durintr the Yankee "rebellion." I told him that, glad as I would be to listen to the heroic verse, yet it being rather early in the day to burst into song, I would much prefer to hear him tell me some ot his doubtless many adventures that he had met w.th at sea. My ancient mariner at this stage of the seance began to get lachrymose, even unto- the verge of tears. " I don't like to sneak or think of my past life," said he, "but it I tell you any- thing 1 may as well tell : ^u all." "ijo so,' said 1. " 1 know it wiU be interesting," so I ordered Romo more grog and sat down again comfortably to listen to the story of the sailor tramp. Aly partner drank his errog, laid down his piiie, took a huge chew of tobacco, and commenced his yarn. " I am neither a sailor or a sojer now. I am NOTIIIN 1 JUT .V THAMP, although, by rights, I ought to be a geti- tleman. You needn't smile. I only said I ought to be one. but 1 am not. Yes, my father was a clergyman in the west of Kngland. 1 won't exactly en; where. However, he was rect(jr of the parish, and 1 was his eldest son, and consequently the hope of his hou.-e/ 1 had a younger bruther who, I suppose, is at home doing- well, .it least he was when I last heard from him, but that's a good many years ago. Well, I may nufely say that in all the w^-at, east, north, or south of England, or, for the matter of tlmt, any c.tlier coun- try, there never grew up a more mischiev- ous or incor.'igible boy than 1 was. Fnjia the time I was tirst put in trousers until I got the bounce for good from my reverend father^ 1 did nothing that I could help but rob birds' nests, upset beo-hivts, and abet poachers and other b.ad charact-Ts ia tht neighborhood. I ran away and stayed with a gang of gipsies for six months, and the vagabond proclivities o; my natur» were remarkably well developed, as you can re.'idily understand, in their company. A slight flirtation with a young woman, the particulars of which I need not men- tion, occasioned my hasty departure fri m the tribe, .ind I returned horn.; a prodigal son indeed. I was then sent to Eton, where I attained a smattering of cl.assic* and matliematics, but as I unfortunately took the liberty of puttin', a quantity of cobbler's wax in one of t'.e tutir's boots, and was convicted of divers other pecca- dilloes of like nature, I got my conge from my alma mater, and returned home again. My father, good man, got out of all patience with me, for my language was occasionally of the vilest, and 1 swore like our army in Flanders at the servants m all possible occasions. I was given a £'50 note with a request btiat I would go forth and seek my fortune, which I did in London, but didn't find it. I spent all my money, and as a last resource shipped as boy on a drogher bound to Newcastle for coals. I was just turned sixteen then, and bitterly did I curse the day I tried the .sea for a living. I was ropes ended by the skipper, thrashed by the mate, and kicked and cuffed by all. the crew. This didn't suit me at all, so I" stole tht, bfiat one night when I was on anciiur w.at;!!, and sculled myself tshorPj, letting the boat go adi lit when 1 landed. NKIHT HAWKS OF A GIIKAT CITY. 2T ftnd tramped my wny tn Liverpool. [ shipped UH boy again on a I'ackot ship for New York, and on tlio paniiajfe I got it lively from all hands, they lending ine the life of a dog. Well, wo were all dis- charged in New York, and I shipped a^^aiii, this time for Marseillu.i as ordinary seaman. THE CAPTAIN WAS A TYRANT, and the mates were even worse, All hands were j)elted with belaying pinn, and besides we were half starved, '1 here, happened to bo a "' tuiider " for a British man of-war drumming up recruits for thu English navy in the harbor, so I and two others put our shirts in the fire rigging (a sign that the officers of the tender well knew,) They sent an armed boat aboard, and 1, together with about a dozen others, said wo were Britinh seamen, and volun- teered to fight for the "widow," as the sailors call the t^ueen. We left in the tender f< r Malta, and were enrolled among the crew of the line-ofbattle shij) Brunswick, where we were put through our facings I can tell you. Wo com- menced by giving cheek, but they soon took the nonsense out of us with the cat- o'-ninetails. Well, to make a long story as short as possible. I was drafted into a corvette going home to Liverpool, i de- serted on the first opportunity, and shipped again for New York. This was during the rebellion. I then joined the Yankee navy and arose to the high posi- tion of captain of the foretop on the United States fricate Essex. At Baton Rouge I was struck by a piece of shell in the leg, and sent to hospital, where I re- mained until the war was over, when I was mustered out of the service. I had a right to u grant of land from the govern- ment, but I sold it to a broker and sjjent the money for whisky. Since that time I've been knocking around through the States on the tramp. I can't ship before the mast, for my lee is so ttiff that I am unable to go aloft. The only comfortable time I have is when I can manage to ifet into some hospital, where I get vilenty of nourishment and a good bed to sleep in. However, here I am now, but where I'll be to-morrow the Lord only kno\rs." " Do you ever think of going home ?" asked the scribe, " Home ! Well, I should think not. They, of course, think me dead long ago, and 1 don't want to disgrace them, any- way. My old father used to say, ' As ye make your bed, so shall ye lie,' or something like that. I've found it so, and must take the consequence." "(Jh, I tell you,'" added the jolly tar, " there are thousands like tDo knooli^ig around at sea." " Tivke another bowl ?" asked L " Don't care if I do," said the sailor. " There's MO use being poor when a half a pint of WllIMKY MAKES YOU KICH." "Well, see here, old fellow," sai.i F, " I don't wish to be impertinent, but don't you think grog has been at thti bottom of all your troubles '!" " No I don't," was his reply. " I never was much of a swizzer until lately. It'a my own inherent vagabond nature that has made mo the tramp 1 am. Whisky has? been the ruin of many a good man, but I don't blame it in mv case." " Well, good-bye old fellow," said I ; " I hope you'll strike luck some of these days." •' (lood-bye," said the ancient mariner, and as I departed I heard him order another glass of the ardent to be drank au solitaire. Here is one tramp, I mused, who ap- jiears candid enough, in all conscience, and whi), strantfo to say, does not charge his decline and fidl to" the demon, drink. I could not help feeling a pity for this unfortunate, who, born in comfort and luxury, broiight up at home and given every chance to git on iii the worlii mid lead a respectable life, had thrown him- self away and become a miserable waif and wanderer. Mars chacun a son gont — ■ Everybody to his taste. Some people have honors thrust U))on them, but here i.s a fellow who deliterately heaps dishonor on his own unfortunate head. How m:iny young men in the city of Toronto are, aster a fashion, like this poor sailor ? I know not their number, but I see samples of them every day. Thus musing I strayed along the Esplan- acic. While i chewed the end of a sweet and bitter fancy. Until brought up all standing by the voice loud and commanding Of a drunken seaman in a woolen "gansy." I was about to tackle the seaman in the guernsey, or " gansy," as he would call it, with a view of learning something of hi* history, but as he, in answer to iny polite enquiry as to the state of his health, told me to go to Halifax — or some- where—and not liking his hos le looks, I concluded that I had enough of |'" Sailor town ' for that day, and took a lateral tr.v verse in the direction of the St. L»wrenc» market. NIGHT HAWKS 0/ A URKAT CITY, CHAPTKR XVIIL It eannf)t be said of Toronto, »• it can )e of somo otfj.r titien, that wholn dis- tricts are in hulH a condition as to bo ai.tly nhabited by people whose manner of Inving IS 80 doyraded. and who.e homes «uch a term but thm cannot bo said of any one whole district or street. Even Lombard street, which has rather w un- enviable notoriety, lias h.,Mie8 in it where the peace and satisfaction which crown industry and sobriety are to be found, bt. John n ward, which is often alluded to slightingly, contains within its borders ^orae of the handsomest streets in the city. Our merchant princes dwell there, hundreds of mechanics make their happy homes in the Noble Ward. The slum por^ turn 18 very small compared with the acre.^ and acres where the domestic virtues go land in hand with industrvand plenty. Our city 18 ot such a composite character that next door neighbors are often as far apart in their manner of living as is the east from the west, htranpra who read about the doings of the denizens of York street two years ago were surprised to find on visiting the city that there were ma,,y bright, busy stores two fine hotels and plenty of res- pectable nouses on the street. Any re- marks in the following interviews regard- ing localities will therefore be understood IwaUties *'"'^'" P"""''""^ °f" t''°se INTERVIEWS WITH CLERGTMKN. For the purpose of getting the views of tr\lT *u 8:entlemen whoae profession brings them frequently in contact with the vicious classes of our city, News reporters waited on several clergymen: those selected were men who were kn..wn not to be shirkers from this unpleasant portion of a pas„r>8 duties. The result wiJl be found beluw. A CITY MISSIOXARY's EXPERIENCES ^omp^r'*"*^"''"' •'""^ '''^7 missionary of «ome years experience in Toronto was" in- terviewed "You cannot," ho said "teH what the Toronto slums a^e like, seeing them by day light. You enter ate f. nient house on Duchesa or Lombard btreets in the forenoon or at noon. All looks quiet enough. The women, gener ally of middle age, are standing at the ^oor exchanging gossip with their neigh work V. T "I'l'earance of household 1 roaches there is an odor of onion stew or fried pork. We enter. You a.e always safe in these regions when accompanied by a fohoeman or a rei..i t«r or a dty unsZn ary, but your visit would be much mor. iuO^lrr^'l " >""^ eHcort be " oitner of the two latter elasHf. Tlw. f ...tare of the livingVo'nn^ o 'thi cli' tBt and simplest description of sS ao""ler;rth''u i''"''" ^ battrTanJ dr kL Units Th'T "^ "'""merabla "ooKiMg Pouts, ihe chairs are e 'identlu r""'','-t.;Knmy are the floors, the ceunu'/ uensaljove. Almost all ot these ten«. .lent houses are a perfect baby burrow o enfatT/e;;]: rof 1 ^=^'1: -"^-'p°. ^p^St^;l-S^^K:SS lh« "^Z"""*' woman in fr.wsy d"'" better thu-H** ''"''''" ^'^"" ""HHiderably oeuer than the poorer onas a-;.ni,if the re. spectable sober working peo„. . • thev li?« ..i*f th they obey imphcitly being wfcn'h.v '"■'""' :«ls' p::n/"^^^ir^— ^-iTi^ir' DRINK REIGNS UNCONTROLLED. t^JeTy'littL^^h""^"'^ ^^''^ '' ^"'"Para- r um l.--^ ' ^h ^'='"''='"nK breath of the r m king will tolerate no rival ! M<,nev has been procured, if in no other way hv t\7u"'^'^?'' or tools to the peoZ o{ dens Ts''^ ^"''7'^ ""'^ of these Vnement atns IS, as a rule, an unlicensed eroLeerv and pawnbroker's shop ! The debau/h^ fiihf ''•""'?■' n«-irly always e.^s in a free S '.i" ^'^'''^h tho mo.t furious oomUt! ants are often the women. i^^cTt^'r'^"'''^"-''^--"^^^^^ " Yes unquestionably, and in mnr* not?ooi^'", "^?,P'« ^^""'-J think wh^ do r"es sin^^'h""; "'?"'-^^?f for the three scr! theeducated~ant-h uneSucrr^TlkS NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. t recent case. E.irly lust month I was called on to vigit, nut for tlui tir^t time, a young inurried woman wlioni I had known in daya whin slie had every riifht to tht) title of lady. 1 louuil Iht ocuu|.y- in>? a roiiui on the rearjjroiitid floor of a house on Teraulay titricl. Hit only baby, fortunately for linrHt-lf and for it, lay dead, 'liie lather had more than once thrown it at tho mother in a tit of drunken paHsicin, I Kave her money eiiouyii to provide de- cently for the funeral and |.ioinised to ro- turn two days nfterwarda, in order to conduct some Biuiple sort of funeral cere- mony. When I firnt knew this woman, then a girl years ayo, her father wan Ktill living a prosperous hotel-keeper on Voijx" Btreet, a i)r(imiiieiit cliurcli member, and an affectionate father who spared no pains on his daughter's education. Agtriesjrow up to bo a briglit en^ra^iiig girl, with a charminif figure, expressive hazel eyes, and long curling dark brown hair tliat reached to her waist. Sliu was espec- ially clevur at ciphering, and acted for some time as book-keejier for a well known Toronto firm. She became an accom- plished pianist, and sang for some years in one of ou" best church choirs. Her next mi.sfortuno after her buih in this evil world eighteen years before was her father's death. Her mother was left in fairly good circumstances, and the own- er of a respectable house on George street. She was a good-natured bnt weak mind- ed woman, the instincts of hotel life, were strong upon her, and as a matter of course, she took to keeping boarders. She kept a good liouse, .and g'lod table, for little Ag- gie was smart and looked after all that, and there were gay times when AG(iIK WOULD 8INQ and play for the young gentlemen in the eveninirs ! But one set after another of young men eamo and went, and Aggie was unmarried at twenty-six, for bless you Sir, you know boarding-house flirts, as a rule, don't marry. Meanwhile drinking habits had grown on the motlier, an in- ferior class of boarders came to the house. In an evil hour for herself A^'gie became engaged to marry a handsome well-bred and well educated cadet of a rich Lanca- shire family, cotton manufacturers, whose trade brand is known through the world. Horace B— had been at Oxford for a few terms. A subaltern in a militia regiment which he had to leave, a clerk in the Civil Service, finally he was shipped off to Caiiada. He married Aggie and was a shiftless, reckless, drunken husband I Through- him Agg^e became addicted to drink, and her mother lost house and home. After many migrations they sought refuge in the Teraulay ntrpet tenement, where I found tho dead baby. Two day* later [ renewed my visit. All trace of Aggie and her husband wag lost, on a pine table the sole article of furniture in tliH room, lay tho dead baby, purple with decompusitlon i>artly co\ered by » scanty rag I I learned from tho p-ojile of the next house that a drinking debauch had taken i>la('e,the participants in which. after hurling the furniture at each otiierg' heads, threw tho babv out of tile rear window into tho yanl ! I at oncn pro- cured decent eliristian sepulture for thu» child of sin and niiseiy. IDI.KNKftS AND niilNK. Tho Rev. William H. Laird, p.astor of Kim street .Methodist chureh, stated that but a small part of his congregation, so small as to bo liiai>!>reciable, came from the poorest part of St. .John's ward, on whose northern verge this churcii is situ- ated. Still ho had visited among tlii» very class a good deal, bein,' led to do so. by having partielular cases brought under his notice by a young people's association in connectiim with his church, who had undertaken this duty. He was very fre- quently appealed to for monetary aid and to visit the sick and distressed. \\'hen asked if ho had seen inanv cases in which reform had been effected through tho influence of religious agencies, Mr. Laird said : " Yes, but only in isolated cases." He considered tiiat tho two great causes of pauperism were shiftless idle- ness and drink. The cases in which pauperibin was the result of inevitable misfortune were, in his opinion, verv fiw. Tlie tramp, the bcg.'ar, the slum-dweller, owed his unhappy conciition to one, gener- ally to both, of the above cauocs. ItKI.I'ASKD CONVICTS. Among other clergymen of this city the writer was able to obtain the opinion of one who htvd been for some time acting chaplain of the Provincial jienitentiaiy at Kingston In reply to my question, '• Have you seen anything of tho Toronto ex-members of your conviet congregation since your residence in Toronto?" this gentleman made the following statement : '' I am glad to tell you that to my certain ■ knowledge there are now living in Toronto no small number of reformed criminals whom I have known in the Provincial penitentiary during my term of office as chaplain. One of them is a tradesman in a small w.iy living in St. John's ward. He h,as married happily, and is the father of several children. He is a most steady, sober, iudustrious man. 1 think great in- fluence for good was exerted over this man by the introduction of church music into the iienitentiary chapel, which, pra- 30 NIIIIIT HAWKfl OK A CRKAT CITY. viotmlv to my torm of omco, wah not iwr- lnitt(Ml l.y Ih.i iiiitlionticH. Th^ iimii ro- 1' rr.Ml to hail a t,'oM,l voic. , iiml wna i.iiuli liitiTOHt.d in oiirHiiitfiiiKi'liiHHri,, ,,i:,| „„„.,, Iiiii r.;lf.aii.. Ii., liiiH li.Tn ii Hl.ady alt.'n.liiiit ut a loronto ilmrcli, of whoHo dioir Im IH a valiitd niriiibcr. Annlli.T on<> Im that of a Votch yoiiiikf lady, who hid bt-.-n d.- coved to Ciiniuia i>y a tailhliNH lover, and lis too oltPn haiipins to jrirls not natur.i'ly VR'iuiM, ha.l found her onlv refiipe in a fiiKt liouse." tiaviiiff (luiirivh'd with tho inistieH.t of which, hIk; wan iiceiiied „f hir- CHiiy and went for a nhort t.^in to Kmi'- Mon. Since her rrleuHO lienevol.nt liidie* in Joroiito receivtd lier and provj.led for ner return homo, .Sho in tlie dan^diter of a misHioiiary on tho west co' ' ' Africa I also knew of goveral young . .n quitu respectatilo poRitions who imve actom- pliHhed tho .lifheiilt tnsli of rctrievincr chi.rneter an.l hal.itH, Bv.m after touching the lowoiit dupthH of a convict prison. Certain forms of crime seem to mo to be acute, like the moat daiiKcrous fevers which m.iy kill, hut reovcredlrom (h> not recur, it i« the gmallor chronic tvpes of crime, lyin?, thievin^r, drinkinfj,' which once contracted, linrdly ever arc eradi- cated. " Do you over recognize members of vour former convict congregation who fiavp not reformed ?" "Mat too frf(|ueiitly. Under the plare of loronto lamps I see but too many acosonco familiar to me in that un- Jiiipl'.v Hock of black sheep. 1 have recognized them among the loafers at the street corners, among THE IXCOlllUainLES half-thief and wtmlly drunkard, whom I have nu t when .'-uminoned to visit some case of illness or destitution in tiie citv sUims, 1 have seen tiie fates of uonien far miire imbnited than when I had known them as convicts, and these not amongst the ranksi of fallen women, strange to say, but chiefly as wives or iiuusekeepers in rooms or tenement dwellings, in JJucheao street or Ht. .lohn's ward. Unce, shortly after 1 had ceased to act as chaplain at Kingston, I had loft be- liiiul nie still a convict, but under a promise of release for her good conduct, a loronto girl named Annie — . Annie had been for some years a nurse in the prison hospital. She was singularly neat (?ood^humored, and devoted to her duties' and I was glad to hear she had been re- leased. One evening in the July of that year, returning home with my wife to our house on G avenue, what was my astonishment to see what appeared to be a bundle of rags huddled together on the jwrch by the dour. With the dress of a scarecrow, with nvery appeoranc* of ex|H)m{r.. to wind an.l weather. with unkempt hair and all ths appearanco of a human wihl l«,aHt wai.the once comely and gentle Annie.' We gavo her a trifle to g, t a bed, and told her to come again next moniing for I bieakfant and hoip, but hhu wander.Ml away in the night and wo saw her no more. J here are many such women ami men in this city who are never so hannv as when 111 i.risoii ; the prison is to such a iiiomiHtery, with its tiiree-fohl rule of poverty, oliedii'iice and temperance. Ol the criminal clais in Toronto there are t«.. grades J the tlist of these ronsists of those who commit the great crimes such lis nuirder, forgery and tho hka '• such .Tine 8 result in many cas. s Irotn motives wtiich may occur but once in a life- time; such cases of reform as I have s.!.'n have come mainly from these classes lint the crimes which depend on lyintr .lishoii. sty luziii.sH, and unchastitv an' ineradicable, huii.anly sjieaking. " The intenser forms of crime are like the dead lest diseases which attack but once in a ill. time ; the other class of crime clings to the character like itch or li^presy. , Among the more famous Toronto crim- inals under my care was tho famous OBACE MAUKH, THE (ilRL MUKDKIlEafl. She was a singularly beautiful girl, four- teen, with dark eyes, graceful figure, and a transparent olive complexion, when she and her paramour committed tlie 'T"'""' f""", ^'hieli he was haneed. f.iace had pleasing manners and though considerably past forty when un- (Jer my care, still retained the remains of her girlish b..auty. She t.ild me that for many years she never slept without seeing the face .)f tho murdered man in her drtains. She has been for some years % free wom.aii and is now a resuectably set- tied married woman in an American city 1 here is one class of women who trade iii human life, who are but too seldofli brought withm the grasp of tho law, and when the guilt of murder is most clearly proven, are too often allowed to escape with comi)arative impunity. Perhaps the worst case of this class kn.)wn in Toronto was that of the wife of an American quack doctor, to whom, and to her husband, wa» clearly brought h.ime the death, by mal- practice in their den, of a young girl daughter of a minister of the gospel? f saw this woman-fiend in the workroom* at the peiiitentary. pert, cheerful, and con- fident of the speedy relief she afterh-»rdj obtained. FROM THE EAST END. The Rev. Mr. Taylor, rector of St. Bar- tholemew s church, at the east end of Wil NI'.IIT HAW KS (tr A (UIKAT CII'V. 81 tnn flvnnue. iriivfl nnu> It intiTcttiinr iiifnr- «ii;itinii with nipnril ti> thf coiiditinri of tlif |iuiirt'r i'l:\«8m .it the cuitt eiiil of tlii' city. " Witli iiH," 111' KHid, "thiTi- is inmi' pHViirty thiiii imu|ieriHin. Whut |iiiii|Mr- iHm llirTM in, iiiilikc< that HI ri'i'iji'it Fnun puliljij \ii'\v by tlie alli'j ri of .St. .IhIiu'h wiU'il, cm Im gi'rn fr.iia tin' piililic tlioi'uiiijlifareii. Tho Inwrst di-tro', lkt".'«'iit street, I'nn bi! si'"ii fnitii Wiltnii iiMiuie. It irt vviilc Jinil Will (liuiiii'ii, Imt till' liunililii Iiovi'Im wliicli line itn sii|i..( luakf a liiili'uUK (01111111111 nn its iiinbitioiH title. Little bettiT timii this is St. D.iviil'H «tre< t, wliifli cro.sseH Hoi^'ent dtieiit, e;i-t iinil WL'st. Suhi.ilIi Htrcet \\iin povpi-ty- stritkeii few a yenrs aifu, but ii iimv iiii- Iiroxiii^r, but Snekville, .Syilciiliritn, I'.U'- iiaiiK'iit, and all the alrrets in tlim loirimi are ti) a irn'at diince iienpled by the |poiiri r chiH-en i>f iiur citi/.i'iia. " As f;ir as in.uiy years intiinate aci|ii.iiiitan('e with the puur of this tlistrict liiH entitled him t.i foriii an opinion, tlier>3 in little or no public iin inor.ility anii)n({ thorn) poople, who thus form an entirely ditlereiit class from the inhabitaiits of tho St. .lolin's ward slums. 'I'lie >;ri at evil is a certain shift lesaiiH.^ii, a tendency to liopo for ;*upi)oit anywhere or from any one rather than to their own ex- ertions. This 1 ha\o noticed especially amoii;,' iinmiv'raiits from London and other parts of Jvnijland. Mr. A. calh d on mo sevfcral years npo with an introduction from olio of tho best known and most liardworkinjf clcK;ymcn in a well-known London parish. He was rtipectib'.-/ dressed, and tliou>;li ho lived in one of tho poorest blmnties in a lano off Sackville street, tho place when 1 called there was clean, even neat, and decorated with a few Kood eiiKravings and other survivals of his former lOnglish home, lie had a wife, u neat, well-dressed person, threo tine girls, and two as nicu boys as I have i ver seen. The girls h.id already found em- ployment a.s dressmakers, a business to which they had been apprenticBil at Cnmberwcll, Limdon. The father sought a genteel situation, some- thing in tho line of a clerk, bookkeeper or secretary ; he coulii Wlite a good hand, and was a competent •rithmetician. But as ymi know, our city i« already overstocked with applicants for •ach ]iosition8. I soon found that Mr. A. looked to tho church for some slifrht ni'inetaiy assishincp, which, as our jjoor fund* small enough for legitimate uses, was already over-drained, I was obliged to withhold. The result was that Mr. A. KEPT AWAY FROM CHURUH for about a year. But tho evil righted itself, as the boys grew ii)) and found em- ployment. Tiiey aud tlieir sisters sup- ported tho family liy their narningii, an act of M'lf. denial uhuh, Ihave no iloiilit, was of the greatest poH^lble liiirul b' lietit to till iiineht N. Alter a tinii'Mr. /V. fmiiid oci'ii|iAtion not uimliy incompatiblo with his dignity, at caiotaker in a furiiiliiro factory, bii jinie a iir st regiiiar attendant at church and a comniuniciint. Tins isiha history of m,%nv of tin se Kiiisdish arrivaU ill Toronto, nioie especially of those who loine from Loinloii. 'liny are generally fairly willeiluc.iti il, are lesjiectably con. iiectefj, and in lu'ist eases, 1 U'lieve, aro "assisted" to this country by rol.iti"n» anxious to shift from their shoulders the burdens of diiiTtiiiK or aiding their course. Tlie itarents are people trained to earn nioiioy, if at all, in asinglo groove, »eldoin ill oH'i available in ( 'anada. They cannot, like our pio|ile, turn tin ir hand to any- thing that presents itself. But for all that they form a valuable element in our city population, for their children soon get Canadiani/.i il, imbibe the Canadian id> a of biing self-ile]iiiKleiit. and form the tust pos>ililo addition to our vastly increasing numbers. ( )iie of the ^'reati »t evils I liavu to contend against in dealing with this class is an absurd and bastard Drido and liive of keeping up aptioaraucRB. A wo- man living in a rented room on Sackvillo street lost a child by death. I provided her out of the pior luiid with a, plain black coffin as the means of conveyance to tha l)lace of interment. Soon afterwards an- other woman lodging in the same hou-a lost a child. I offered to do tho same for In r that 1 had done in the former case. The woman inditriimtly refused, but begged mo to give her money to get a more expensive coHin. Now, I had in my pocket a small l which, altlioiigli attended by many of the elite in Toronto upper- tendom, mainly consists of the lower micJdle class, and of the resjiectable in- habitants of the St John's ward streets. In this church, as in a few otiiers in the city, it may be said in tiie words of the oldest poetry, " The rich and the poor meet together, for the Lord is the maker oftliemall." This clergyman does not wish his name published, but btates his readiness to do so in a letter to The Nkws should any doubt be expressed as to the accuracy of tlie facts repox'ted. The portion of Toronto from whence his congregation is drawn covers the poorest and least reputable jiart of iSt. .John's \vard— Teraulay, Elizubetli, and Uiiiver- Bity streets, with the stretch of lanes and alleys between thein, east and west; but north and south from these Lines ex- tend smaller lanes, or rather rearages be- tween the houses in the front streets, and occupying the place of the closets and woodsheds. In this network of slums comes and goes a fluctuating population of pauperism, the eiifans perdus of the city, all tliose broken down by vice or poverty or misfortune. One morning at the early hour of three this clergyman was awakened by a hard knock at his door. He put his iiead out of the first window and asked what w.is the matter. A man on the door-step said tiiat his wife was dying, would Mr. visit her ? The clergymen hurriedly dressed, and accompanied Ins guide, who was far-gone in liquor, to a yard in the rear of one of the bye lanes alluded to above. As they entered the yard a num- ber of small curs ahout the various premises began to bark, on which Mr. — — beheld to his astonishment, several old woDden bo.xesgraduallv raised up, from ea»h of which, like the "head of a turtle from its siiell, jirotruded the head of a boy who had chosen this strange sleeping- place, the bare ground for his mattress, AN OLD BOX von HIS BED-OLOTHES ! Satisfied that no danger was to be feared, the unkempt little heads were withdrawn under tlieir boxes. Tliey entered a room, full of men and women, on a table in which, covered with a sianty rag, was laid the cori)8e of tli& woman, who, the clergyman soon ascer- tained, had been dead for three hours, ihe husband, he shrewdly susuected, had asked for this visit in order to obtain drink-money, under jjretence of assistance towards funeral exjienst s. The occupants of the room, male and female, were, most of them, more or less drunk; they belonged to the lowest type of Irish hoodlum ; in the cmter of the room near the table on which lay the corpse, sat up a skinny old bag, repulsive and horrible m her mirth. Mr. _A— was soon pressed for a small im- mediate sum of money, "jist to make things dacent." But my friend Mr. is possessed, not only of great shrewdness and resolution, but ha» also the physicial strength so necessary in visiting such dens. Ho refused their re- quest for money, but said he would come next day and help. This kind announce- ment was by no means received with enthusiasm. The old crone in the bed exclaimed "musha, lave the gintleman alone; sure to-morrow we'll sind to the ladies at the convint, and it's they will do the dacent tiling for us 1" This appeal to the odium theologicum was judged to be ill-timed by the others, one of whom gave the old lady a dig in the ribs which sent her flying from the bed to the floor. Xext diiy he purchased a plain but neatly got up coffin at a cost of six dollars, with a sliroud to match, and sent it to tho house of mourning. But wiien this warm- hearted clergyman later in the dav met the bereaved husband the latter broke out with "Arrah, tare 'an ages ! did yer rivcrence tiiink me woife 'ud be buried in a thin^ like that, and ?he arsle lady born ? Sure it 'ud disgraco tho h .nor' of the family!" On being thus rebuffed, Mr. told the man TO KETURN THE COFFIN aud its accompaniments to the nnri-t- taker. He learned that same morninj that the widower's plea of poverty was, as it often proved to be with the oc- cupants of those sluin -tenements, a mf> iiroc'eeded thither iit once. In a bare, unfurnished room, without a spark of hre, though it was February of a severe winter, weri^ three little eirls, each covered by a single ragged cotton garment. Their father was in a drunkard's grave • their mother, a frail, weak woman! was out of work. She could not earn enough to pay her weekly rent for tnat poor placo and provide a loaf of bread daily for her children. It lay oa the table ready for them to help thein- selevs, but the poor little things had but little appetite. The youngest w.ia five years old, the eldest seven. They lay in bed all day under the shelter of a siiigla coverlet, for they had NO CLOTHES, NO SHOES, THAT WIN'TKR DAT. The kind-hearted clergj'man .it once gav» gooa food and fuel. Grateful warmth and nonrighment followed in his wake, the httle girls revived, and in the words of the Book, whose lessons his life is devoted to carry out, "The widow's heart was made to sing for joy." A CHARLTON BILL CASE. One of the saddest cases that had com© under his experience this clerirvmaii reLated to me .is follow? : It will be re- membered that his parish includes that street stretching from Yonge street t.> College avenue, which may well be termed the vicus sceleratus, the Wicked Street, of roronto. Several years ago a youiig^ lady visited him at his vestry, who was evidently in groat distress. She had the manners and appearance of one who had been carefully and respectably brought up. Her story was soon told. Her par- ents held a good position in the town of , Ontario. She was engaged to bu married to a young gentleman of good ]>roi.;ssional priisptctf. Witiiin a week .if their appointed marriage, when ths NIGHT HAWKS OF A GKEAT CITY. wi^dding trwisspau had boon provided, lie forced till", iiiiHUS|i('ctinir girl to yield to his wisiics, then made an excuse for postpon- iii},' the wedding day. After several nioiitlis of this deception her condition necessitated Higlit. He took lier to Toronto and placed her as a boarder in oni! of tlioso nefarious "high-toned " fast houses wliere tlie Mother of Infamy en- tertains the dauijhters of death. When tile girl found out the character of the place in wiiich she had been l(fft liy lii-r lo\er, who had now wholly abandoned her, alie at once ran away, and oVitained Work as servant at a hotel. A day or so afterwards she was followed by the woman (tlie word seems niisa|)plied) who kept the *' high-toned "' den from which she had fled. This wretch informed the poor, trembling girl that she knew lier entire history, and would expose her if she did not return. Most unhappily the girl had not the; presence of mind either to appeal to police protection, or to throw herself, surely not in vain, on the womanly good- ness of the hotelkeeper's wife. She yielded, and became once more the slave of the ]jrocuress. She now appealed to the Kev. Mr. for aid to escape A LII'K WHICH SH?; .\UHORRKI). He gave her money to go at once to Lon- don and a letter to a kind-hearted Church of Kiigland clergyman in that city, j)rliK.\l)la-I, KK.MnUvS : of these wicked holes. A small feu was charged, but the j.roprietor dependec i more on the sale of bad liquor for hie profits than on this admission. .Many ol I the rove ers had other business specula- : tionsintheiruy.., and wo.. l,oto the man I wearing anything of value who did not ] keep all his sense's about him, and ever I then he \\ as not safe. "Havin- paid my ten cents to a , young man at the foot of the stairs ' I says an eye.witness of one of the.,e orgies, ! 1 descended into a ecillar wh.ie louL'h j stone, wa Is had oi.ee be-e- uhitewashed. , but which were now disc ,,red with the slimy moisture which oozed therefrom. Tlie i place was not large, „nd the IJ <,r IS , couple who wer.- on the floor did not have I much room m which to turn. Two ! colored lads sui.iJiud the music, one play- mg a very wbi^-zy concertina, and the other tooting a fife. The company was arsrely composed of bad w<,men and ttiieves. Hero and there,' However, could be seen a man who ought to be respect- able, and who usually was accounted among his fellow-men ns such. Thev were on thespree.aiid one of them.a master p asteier, I was told had been around the place for ft week. Ho was sitting on .1 stone which had been j.ulled out of the wall, with a loathsomn-look-ng creature seated on his knee. Among the SCOUg OF WO.MEN in the place there is not one who has one red..oming look of wom.anhood left, Ihey have not that one trait whith l^lf^rA. '""?*" l'«t--tho desire to look well, iheir fa^ies are swollen with th« hory hmiids they have been pouring into themselves all „,^,,,t. Thi men^ for tiio moat part are jiot nearly 88 NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. BO repulsive. The few " suckers " who are in the room, are doing all the treating, and ms they produce their money furtive glances ore exchanged, and that man's "roll" is spotted. The company gets more riotous ag the nif-'ht proceeds aitd as the liqaor begins to take hold. A fight starts in one corner of tiie room and all hands seem to join iu. Pandemonium has broke loose. " At once tliero rose so loud n yell Within that (hirk and narrow dell, Ah :f lie llcnds from heaven that fell H...I pealed the battle-cry ol: hell." Women and all join in the melee, and the cursing is terrible for its impiety and ferocity. At last the main combatants are parted, and one of them is carried up- stairs almost insensible, with blood stream- ing from his chin, where his antagonist had rended a piece of flesh half oti' with his tebth. The victor swaggers about with the air of a conqueror, and his blood- covered fangs make even the boldest rough of them all tremble. A girl entered after this, who took up a position nnar where I had squeezed mvself into a cnruer to be out of the way of 'fists and boot3, which were being thrown around loose a few minutes before. A glauoe sufficed to show that if she was vicious vice had not yet had time to mark her as it had the other creatures in the roj.ji. She looked a little frightened. •'They are having a good time," I re- marked. "Yes," she said somewhat doubtfully, "bat 1 wish they wern't so rough." I found out that siie was a servant girl i who had 'ieen out with her " fellow," and I was unable to gain admission to her house. Tne knave or the fool had then taken her here. I ventured to suggest to her that this was no place for a respect- able woman, and offered to go witii her in search of a hotel, but as I found that she suspected my motives, I gave the matter up. I found that a new piece of ftin was being promoted by the humorous gentle- men^ of the house. They were carrying' stones back and forth between two of the women, so as to PROVOKE THEM INTO A FIGHT. In this they ere successful, and the two poor misguided wretches were soon screaming and clawing like cats on the floor. The men and women, howling and jibbering, formed a ring about this -.mple of unaexed beings. When the men were fighting the desire of every man In the room was to assist in parting "them, but when two members of that sex. who p.re supposed to arouso in man all that is self-sacrificing and gallant.came to disgrace their claim to womaiiiiood, these wolves* not only stood by, but cheered them on t(V worse and worse shame. "{^'"ne, my men," aaid u spectator, thinking to appeal to the better nature of ' some of the beings present, " atop this ■ disgraceful scene." ]5ut he was taken hold of and hurled against tlie wall with oaths. Bound not . to witness what he could not remedy he made his wpy outside with a lower opinion pt humanity than ever he had in his life • before. "I tell you," said a friend the other day after the conclusion of the six days ■ walk, " a m.an has more endurance than, any animal." "Yes," said the spectator of the Mc- Quarry d.ince, " and he can be more brutal; and more ferocious." CHAPTER XXI. DOWN AT THE UNION STATION. I never could understand what attracts • people to the railway station. Go there when you will, morning, noon, or night, there are the .same or similar lollers on the- waiting-room benches, the careworn wom- en, the crying children, the same sleepy, looking men, not forgetting the half-de- voured buna, the rinds of oranges, and the peanut shells which litter the fioor. Buns, orangps and ptianuts, seem to have many admirers among those who go away in trains. Motion is the law of life, and nowhere does this universal decree of nature find a more striking exposition than, ai the railway station. I have seen many partings there, many warm handshakes, many tears, as I have seen many joyous- meetings. I have seen men decart, with as much bagg.ige as would fill an- express wagon, depart amid the cheers ■ of their friends, and I have seen the same men return poor in health and pocket, without a hand to welcome them or a cheery word to make them glad. I have seen men sneak up to the ticket-seller, . purchase second-class tickets, HIDE THEMSELVES away in second-class cars, and go- away unobserved. And I have seen the' same men come back in a parlor car. rich- in raiment and with many smiling, cring- ing friends to meet them. The railw.ay station is the place to study people, from the tr.amp who rides in astride of the draw-heads of a freight, to the gent^tjinau who occupies a section in the rearmost-- Pullman ; from that bride over thf • sur- rounded by gushing, kissing, hugging friends, to that other party following ». long black box as it is wheeled away along. KIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. the' •ahe platform. The other iiipht wlien I ^vas there 1 .saw a greiit, rnugh, y)iit still .Jcind- faced man sittincr by tlifj radiator, . lidldini,' a sleepiiitj child in his arms. Siio vas wrapi^d in a red cluak, tho - cl(iai!-fitunp hood of which could not con- iUv. two tiny strapt'ling curls. Jt was .little Ked Hidinfr Hood taken from tho liict\ire, and in the prasp of a shafrgy liear. Nvith her head nestled upon the liroad lireastof thenianand sujiportcd liy a lave, powerful-looking hairy h,-ind. she lodkcd out of place. Oh, where did such a man get . such a child ? He COULD KOT BE HER FATHER, '.for he was rough and powerful, Willie she was a dainty little thing whoso Appearance spoke of different surroundings from that of the man. He looked into the fair face with solicitude, and the unoccu- pied p;iw, heavy as it was, adjusted her , cloak and fondled her as softly as a wom- an's. Tlien she opened her eyes, and out •of the folds of her red covering crept a delicate little hand, upon which glittered a diminutive gold ring. It stole up to his hany f.acd and patted him on the cneek. 1 hen the great big beard and the ferocious- .lookin- ^nustache swooped down upon her and tl.ere was the s;:und of a kiss, and a childish npple of laughter. I got into con- versation witii tho man, when he asked for information in regarj to the move- ments of the triiins. He was going to Michigan, he siiid. H.id a mill there, and was a lumberman. I remarked that the beauty of his child spoke well for ISIich- igan. Kot his child, bless her, his sister's child. Her father and her mother had died in a far eastern village in Canada, his native place, and he liad come from his pineries to take charge of her. He w as a bachelor, but, bless you, that would not prevent his t.-vking care of his little -charge. Oh, no, Dolly (so he called her) would never want for anything, and would be brought up a lady. 1 would have preferred that he had said he would make a woman of her instead of a lady .seeing that we have so many ladies and so few women, but I could'nt ventiire that freedom with hira. For, whenever I hear of a girl being broue-ht up a lady I picturw ■ to myself A DAMSEL WHO PLATS ON THE PIANO a little, can dance a little, speaks i rench a little and English indifferently .and CO whom the rest of the family and ■ outsiders generally are expacted to look up.* As wo were talking, a woman of the street came in and crouched on the seat near tho steam-heater, for it was cold out- .Hide and frr,i=t ha;l foliourd the •.sunshine. Little Ked liidinghood noticed 37 her poor bedraggled look, and sidled up clos/! to her. " Are you a poor woman ?" she asked in a feeling way. '•Yes, a very poor woman, God help ">8. -I heaid the forlorn creature reply. _n oiild you take some money fioin me .'and Red Ridiiifrliood funil.'ied for her little pocket, and having found it dropped a piece of money in the woman's hand. "Won't you shako hands with me'" she asked as the little one w^is movin" away. ° •jS"'' ^^^' '^ youaro a good woman," said Ked Kidinghood, loud enough for all to hear. The hand-shaking did not take place, for just then a train rushed into the sta- tion, and iJolly's uncle, learning th.at it jyas the tram he awaited, called her, and lifting her in his arms, he nodded to me and hastened towards the platform. .lust before he went out the little red hood popped over his shoulder, and a childish voice cried out : " Good-bye, poor woman." I looked at the " poor woman " to mark the efft'ct of the farewell. She. was lean- ing towards the heater, with her chin rest- ing on her hands. There was a bitter expression on her face. I thou{) L'lcat rm.f. Tho most intfiuBt- ing scenes are IIidso witnis^eii on tliu arrival and dei)arture of the great express trams for the east and west. Karly in the niorunij,' the hi- ex|iress for Montreal and idl jinuili I a-it leaves the station. For an hour befi.rLliand iho yard men beyin to 'inake up" Uie train and tlio people ar- rive. Sitting,' patiently on their dunnage baRs and rough bcses in a corner are u Kroup of KiENCH CA-VADiAN LUMIiEUMKN on their way homo to (,)ueboo from the Mic n{,'an pineries. 'Jheir faces aie all brii^'lit with tlio expectation of being so soon back .vith the old folks at homo, ail l)nght, expectant and hajipy, save one who sits with his chin in his liands and .-i, look of sadness on his swarthy face. And why? IJecause Rapti.^te, his youni^'. his only brother, who had accompanie(r him tothe wouils full of stroiiuf lite and hope had been struck deal by a failint? tree not a month aL;o, and lay in a nameless grave beiieatii tile dark shadows of the Michi* gnn woods. And this has taken all the joy and light trom tlie home coming of ijiouis, who ,s woml, rin^' how lie will lace the old mother at lunue ai:d tell her for thehrst tune of the tragedy which has robbed her of her best-loved child. The crowd begins to tiiicken alone the plat- form. As 1 walk down through them 1 notice a party of prominent politicians magronj), and on enquiry I learn that they are a dej.utation to Dttawa for the l)urpo.-,e of interviewing the government, which will doubtless take tiieii- suggestions into its luo.-t s,;nou3 consideration. Hi're IS a portly merehant on his way to Afont- real to look after large consignments of goods, and to tlie last moment is closely attended by his clerk, to wlic^m he con- tinually pmir.T forth instruetions. The nobby gentleman, nonciialantlv smoking ' 1118 cigar as he coolly paces up and down la a c'o>r.\ii:iicrAL travei.ku .about to launch himself on the unsuspect- ing country merchant, lie has just seen th.at his eases of samples have been put on board, he travels according to the com- meicial tariff, the little leather bac" con- tains luxuries for the trip, and he feels perlcctly confident and at home. He chats with the conductor, nod-i to the brakes- man, and offers a cigar to the porter of the 1 uUnian. As ho stops to adju^^t his glasses, he rolls his cigar in his mouth and looks up ;it the murky ceiling with the air- of a man who is ready for anything or any- lJo(l3- J lii.se young follows vou see there are students on tlieir way hon'if. By their looks they haves),ont their last night in Toronto m great Bhape, aiul even iiow t lev appear somewhat enthusiastic as tliey i;aee to and fro arm in arm. Here ,s a lady bound for the distant uiirgh of Oshawa. ,She is loaded clown with tlowt'i-pots and parcel Shp. ryedin the face, and her n,.se. is "sharp. Mie 1. indu;triou. ^^'h"" the iaoard at Harrisburg. That w.as all right, but when they put an- other aboard at Paris 1 felt they vere givin It to me too much. I wasalom'. inthe «a,r, and tho' 1 ain't scared of c hosts und I that.yetld.dutfe 1 just to home, Tlieres no fun mridin aloi.u' in the dark witi, a couploot sti»„,„,„, iteil vou tC I ;;.';,:?."' f';rA"" ''""'f ""^ i-'-.idi,>k.'ep rn V eye.: otf them coHins. There lay two -•K men with their wooden .,vereoa't< on ndti.er.. I sot sm,.K,u' my pipe ami feel! I ornery, ^ome; ,- i,ot loose under urd";)t'"^'' ^''^ k^'-'^kin' undern!^Ui s u. led to me as, f one of them had come te ite and was ta;,pin' .,u the lid of his cofhnfurmetolethunout. Vou need 't laugh, ,t was no joke. Jt was a ride I'ni Well''"i"I^'ii",^T' '" " h"ny, either. V\ ell, 1 puled througii all right, an' run into Detroit in the mornin'. \ hearse w.asdrawed up.lmt when wep,.t "th.. coifiii, out we found that the lab.l car.ls had bee knocked otf, and we didn't know stitis themselves, y„„ k„„„,. ( )„„ „i,i n,,^„ came «„. and with tears in his eves said heuouldnt like to plant anvbody iu hi, lot but his own lilood relath.ns. WH Jp opened the cofKn, and I hope I mav.li,, 1 It wasn t f, lugged plum full of smuggled silks and l.iees. B6»tii '^' No stiff in it .it all?" " Stiff ! naw ; but tho other stiff was the gemnne article, and the old man driv O.I alter it >n great shape, as hapjiy as a clani, ves, sir. i i j "» a the goidsr -^ '"''■ *^"'^ "-'t^vl'o smuggled " -V.) ; but they never tried that trick on again, that I know of." Here I noticed a detective sauntenn? up and down the platform nirj^'""' '/;'•"'•" '■■",'•' ^' "^^''^t's onto- night, anything up?' ••Just wait a while and you'll see," with that wise and knowing air which only a detective can assume. At that moment the headlight of the locomotive drawine the tram from Hamilton app.ai.d at the west end ot the .station, and th,. detective suddenly became very al - He stoo ' midway on the platform, ,.iid as the train came to a standstill .-md the pas- sengore came pouring out he scanned the features of every one who stepped upon the platform. .Suddenly he made a swift little movement, dived thr.mgi the crowd, dodged round a kiss- ing and hand-shaking group and L.\IU HIS HANI) oy TUK SHOULDER of _ a middle-aged man, .accom- panied by a young woman. I was quite close by, and couldn't hear what was whispered in his ear, but the cliange that came over that man's face was something terrible to see. Ho turned white, then red, and finally a greenish yeiiow snndo settled on his wild and drawn face. Like a boy caught btealam 40 apples he whined, "lot me po, let me co • Ilk • a man with ,.^nu,, unJ ho would havo fi. Ion only the dctectiv-.'s firm hand aus- tamed h>m. The ^irl by his ,sido «..s a * r as outward ai.p.arance wa. c.ncor .cmJ t nost ,s.h-,.,.ssesHed of the two, but h". Mai tied eyc.« a mi pale face told that hIu' too ^assurfennfr. A curious cmv.d had gathiTed round, from v/hidi tie anf\h"„ tt'''".''y -^tricat..;i'-"th,i: to the Central Ktatioi'. Thev xvu h »earchcd,and a lar^e quantity ymom'y found on both of theni, but the ^iH was a lowed to go to an hotd, while the man XbocclU. Hewoiitdown like a drunken ' story may be interesting. He was a coun try storekeeper, influential, re.snecfed iio led at prayer-meeting, he was a delegate to conference, he was grand patHarch of mfZ h\ house mornmg and evenmg, ■ur H« ^;;a« looked up to as a modt ThI fnr.^ "^ * '^"', ^"'1 "i* children, -l.ho former was sickly. He engatrcd a K.r young and inexperienced in t?fe wold to assist his wife in household work She atteiidedhis bible class and looked up to A SUPERIOR BEING NIGHT HAWivS OF A GREAT CITY. He wasn't a bad man as the world goes but thV'tir' "^*'°"^''n^"^ >no'-allv. He and the girl made a mistake, he, becan-e he was morally weak-.she because she believed that he could do nothing wrong JaX ''h"'['^''"'"'^" '"« downward .vin ; 1 ^^ ^"""^'i-'d, embezzled and even stole money, and one afternoon bv a preconcerted plan the pair took the train 5° J h"*"; ^'"^l'^"^ ^^■■•^"^l', swift .as went the train bear ng him awav he thought forever.from thf scene on.ts'm.t deeds, a tiiiy wire string along the track bore a message swift as thought past h?m ho swift indeed, th.at a detective had ime to go home, eat a quiet supper, and walk Imurely down to the Uniorstkt^on and smoke a good cigar on the platform while waitmg for the victims that were sure to I S.in'th''"'!''^'""^ *'- pair^ee scheme, for fh^f^r'^^y '^'■'■''''*f° planning j f n r\ r *^'' '^"'"'■®> •■^"d never dre.am ng of what was before them. The nian was sent back to his own county for trLal and the girl's father came down a fevvd^,; afterwards and took her home. "''^'^''^^ | tyJJl'^ "''Prt-ss going west had made up bv i this time, and the crowd on the nlatfnrm v^H thickening. Cabs and om',;,t:s™ rattled down York and Si mcoe streets aud drew up on the Esplanade front. A I large group of well dressed peonle fi,^;.., ery with buttonhole and h.and buum. tT I jm. l-s. and laughter came sweepi g ,„' bl.'i,f ""7"''' f"ce :.nd unnaturally Y'us and constrained. She i» nuatW iook of proprietorship and triumph stanrl. a gentleman who glances w 1 1, no 11 t f •mpatience in his eyes first at the am with h"«\'^?*^'-""'; '^^"""" '> "■• Ct with the hist cLing of the gong THE V.Uin (iliows QUfETER. A constraint falls upon them. With the clang of the discordant note the bride ta"tliT ,%'""* %r^'^ ^°"^ '=^">"« into her ^^^s.e-:,^!^;^£;ffi^ I to her she may never see ag.ain .she will w.is.and all to go with this man for Iw-tter forwDrse. They Put their 2rms .romld t»:f,;,'^"d kiss her till .alUronrsie In stsintoan uncontrollable fit of weep •atelv t?II ?f ■*? **'''■" despe- f 1 I ^ , "11. led into the car sha folds her arms about her husband now her only hope and stay' hJr father' mother, brother, counsellor, coin ,?anion eveV^A mt'" '.'/'l^'""^ on^ar'd'aJid or" ever. A m.an with hat over hi.s eves darts hi "f o "on uirs't '"^^ . '"^ ticketf ^nd'Y^ the de te ve f ^^^ T • ''" '"^ f"«nd John, ^d'smlll^ '^;^s'™..^J''-''""'^ Dickey, m/b^y, ;o';:'„„«, tme up"i7.S'e GOINO HOME TO DIE. his step IS feeble and slow r • i '^"'^ ! to die .P Nottwovears?g:hec.amfto"th« city, robust and strong, fufl of 1 f^S Ce- nlHf^K 'f 'j.!?'?i"? home with his poo^ old father o die in the arms of his mother ■\V^ .^yaiting, waiting, waiting or hFm in^the old f.arin-house far awav , , ,»'" T-^^ °ld chap there with the slum "^Yes!""^'" John, the detective? ^^ " Well, go and interview him • he'm been cleaned out by confidence me" '» " I went up to the old gentlem.an and after some trouble got him to ta!.".' He NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. ■WM Bpitting tobacco juice rij?ht und left in « vicious mnnncr, and his lowoi' jaw \va8 chewing away uh if it went by clock-\vorl<. His tuft fif iroii-tjrey beard fairly wagffcd with righteous indij?nation. " I was (i staiidlu' on tho platform here this iiit'p.'ion, a-wnitin' fur the train to ^'o lioinc, when two rii,'litsmart vounpffllouH kt'in up, an' sez they, ' Hilfo ! old Jolin Hets, what on airth air you a-doin' ?" Got tliB iidvantaw uv mo,' sav» I, ' (lon't know yali !' ' What," sez they, ' don't know old man Turkman's navies ':" sez I. * Be you Levi Turkman's sister Maria's ' boys eh ?' Says they, ' why of course,' an' ■u-e got a-talking about Toronto and poli- tics, an' religion, an' the crops, when who ahud coino up to one of 'uin but a man who wanted payfor freiplit, ersomethin'er another. Well one uv these chaps pulls; out a hundred-dollar bill, but tho man sed he couldn't charge it no how. They then asked me to lend them the money, $09.47, and I COULD KEEP THE $100 BILL till we went up town and changed it. I forks it out convenient like, and tuk the SlOO bill, and the three of um went off to Bee about the freight, an' I haven't seen a Bight on 'em since." '' And the SlOO bill ?" '' xVin't worth shucks ! and they ain't old man Turkman's nevies no more lior you be. Ef I had the consarned cheats here now I cud lick a ten-acre held full on em. Bin a huntin' all over town fur 'em, but 'taintnouse. Dang the town enny way.'' Here comes a lady with her dear little boy— one of those dear littlo boys who makes the ordinary traveler just "ache to 6i)ank him. ''Maw 1" he says, " where you goin' to . " I want to see the conductor, dear." II Maw ! wot's a conductor?" "He has charge of the train, dear." ' Maw ! wot does he do that for ?" " For a salary, dear." "Maw ! wot's a salary ?" " Oh, dear, don't bother me." "Maw, w'y won't you let your little boy bother you ?'' ^ "Hush, I want to speak to the con- ductor. " " Maw, wot you goin' to speak to the con- ductor for?" "I want to know if the train stops at Guelph. "Maw, is that whore my gran'naw lives?" ' " No, he lives in Goderich ?" "Maw, wot does he live there for?" and so on endlessly. The crowd thickens, the pong strikes, *hs cheering "ail-aboard" of the con- 41 diictor is heard, and in a few minutes the night PApn.»8 is dartisg like a meteor through tho darkened l|nd. CHAPTER XXIV. THE KMIi;HANT TKAIN. It seems that when tho rain is fallinir when the a^r ih chdl, when tlie darkness ii deepest and when the great st.ition looks inost gloomy and dreary, the emigrant train arrive-. As the train draws in and slowly pnsses me to its alh.ted space the faces that I see through the duty window* are tired and worn .and the eye's are hol- low and sad. I went through an emi- grant train one uir,\\t and 1 will never for- get the experience. The emigrants were chiefly Irish, Engbbh and .Swedes. Some of them stayed here in Toronto but the majority were bound for points farther west. As I opened the door of tho first car a blast of hot, foul air smote mo in the face and almost turned me sick, and yet the jjeople whom I saw before me seomed to mind It but little. They were used to It .^nd it was a grnat improvement on the poisonous atmosphere of the steerage. The car was closely jiacked, every seat had more than its quota. It was impossible to see to the far end of the car on account of a steam which fermented the place and made the faces of people ia the middle of the car look obscure and dis- tcrted. Ihe emigrants were in every atti- tude and conceivable posture; some were lying prone on the floor, others were huddled in the seats, while others, with arms entwined, were resting their heads on each others' shoulders. One whole family, man and wife and six children were squeezed into two seats in the most amazing manner. The parents formed a sort of under strata on which the little children were piled promiscuously. Thev were all asleep, ' THEIR ARMS ENTWINED, their cheeks touching, and their spirita winging through dreamland back to the good land of Sweden far away. Utterly unconscious of their surroundings or of the great city mto which they had entered. Ignorant of the f.-vct that they had halted at one of the chief stopping places on their journey, they slept on, and as I watched them and saw their lips move and the in- telligible words drop forth, I knew that they spoke of home. One poor man with bowed fiead was weeping quietly, and I asked hiin what ailed him. "! J,>h. sir, she died in Monthrehal." . W ho died in Montreal?" " Me wife, sor, the voyidge killed bai 49 of I'KAIi, pity in lur .startled ■or J oh, wirrn, wiim, w i,y ,|ia 1 briiiK her tway. Tl.ruc litUn clill(ii('ii won) (■linsfiinr to llIM UllI'l'S 1111(1 l...,|i(M-U|, lU 111.' Willi U,„ ■ cliTiiii,' ..y, „. J'li,. ,„.n, yi,i„(.vii ii|, tlin.u-ii Jiis',.ar8 uhicl. ho «Uuck fi„i„l,H,.yu« WItll lUrt .•^llUt tuts. "Siiri! I'm i„.uir od' i1,jm tliiit ymnv criitlmr yuadtT yo an' sli|,ak,) to licr, •or. ' ' The wortiiin hit point.d out wua sittiiisr nloim 111 I,..,. s,.at. Slio wa.^ vouii- luul Koo(l looknit', but liur f.ifo was .liawu ami l»IIK:il<'d Wltll ^nlu.. buu.l.'ll lUld bltt.'r Wcf. net baby was wrai.|;..il ii, ,,, u^rk simwl, lyiiiif v.u'y ^tlli, and siiu ro.tk^'d it ■ (.■ntlv inliL'r anil.., aud talkisd to it m cooiui Voice. ™ " I • your baby sick ?" "iNoMI-." " Jt ia sk'Hiiintr tlinii ?" '' Vt'H sir, my b.diy iH sJooi.iri!?." A littl(!i,'iil wiio was DM lifr knet^a be- sidiitlui woman blt,;d the Bhawl from tlie •ilu.-i,(.r .s tac... 1 lu: baby waa dead ! Tlio mollier looked up with A (jUR'iv s!in)i)i:ii Of and with a world eyes. "Oh, sir, d.m't tell thtm, they would take luy baby away, aud ho would never see It. " U^lio Would never see it?"' '•It'.s her liu.sijuid siio iiianB.s,'" said tho sympathetie eliii;,-iaiit at my side "He smt lur her irom .Michigan. Tlie wee choild was bo.n after lie left, and slie w-aiita to brin,' him his baby dead or alue, poor eraythur. " "^ When did it die • ' "Thi.s -oide of Kins-ston, sor. Shure theraiwaymm don t know it yit. aud there slie lias oeeu iiouldiif tliat deadbabv m lier airuiiis ever sioec. ' " I yant t' let him s,'o it, sir ; I want t' let xMiles see h:s baby," and bondin- over tho httlp dead body the hot te.u. tell on the sonibur ahaul. In a far comer with their arms about one aiiotlier, ami x.ith her head Ivin" on his brL^ast, sat a youn- married couple who were tfom- west to seek tlieir fortune. What a straiiL-e bridal trip ! 81h was in a troubled slumber, but he was iiainfuby awake. I'lually she awoke and looked about her with an expressM.n of alarm on her tii-ed f-ice, out whe.. her eyes met his aswift.smilu oi gl,idiie.ss chased all fear away, and siie nestled lier face on his Bhoulder af,Min, and clasped lier arms about ins neck. "Jim," she said, softly, "I vng dreatiiino: <,f home-I thought I .saw fi,.. old brid-e, and the chapel on the hi 1 Where we u ere married, aud X thou.dit 1 Mr.IFT ITAWK.S OF A CnT'AT CITY. saw nio!h»reoiniirdowii past the boreen "■"iHl.e ,v i^-callin- to me,' • Kati,. K , ' ;vl.e.;eii.cyou.asthorer;u.ditw±D hu amis ,y,.«. • .I,„„„j.;. J},,. c,i„,;, like mo Ir.Miie ajfaill." A look of tiail ""■ept over h.s face. She saw it, ,u,d awoman-.sHwiftre,>,,tan..o«lu,.'M, 4 .;.' self uiioii h„; breast ami was silent. A look of utter weariness borderincr on misery sat on on.' and ail. ^ to be sure,' saui a very surprised and I -';'-;;vlmt liiKhteuod-looking imn.il-.-.int "^ ll.>w's that V '' \ o SI'.' Li, at w.M> K'lrrul sittin' there •■"' as i/sMe'i;?, ■;'.''' '''^"■'''■^''^'"■'^^•''•'''''''^•'■'i "\t- 1 ' ^"'■" '■'■•'"'■ '"'■>■ '^'''Ith-. mo., 1 ' T '"" «""■'•,''■« "<> loi, but a th eraythur was asleep hestol,- her beyoo- tijnl .-ollow hair wid a pair of sliayers, be ;; rt soi'ms to have frisrhteneii >-ou"" Ihrneloryou. | saw a man on the 1 latforni above wid only wan let' an' C oad.twouldntsnrpri.scUifhttriidto slital.' one av nioine. i jumped otf, l;ui<,'hin- at tho feUow's ments the tram drow out from the sheds. CHAPTI::R XXV. THK WUKCKIXi; TKAI.V. coldm't",,"""""'"^ """ ^ ^'''" ."''^'^''^-d the troopuiK down to the irnion station ."n ninrkedoneof them, a Hn,-, hearty, I'u.^ fellow I have wondered if he would eve- c.;meback A collision, a pitch i,'. a broken rail, or a low bridsje are nossibi ! ties always before them. 1 was in the I uion station one afternoon when ' wi-eckm- train came in from the ea-^t r'lnf'^U ■•'"."Ti:'""-^ P-'table parts of a tram whu'l, iiad been wrecked by a niteh- in away .Jowii the line. Four of the traa - lands, including tho en-ineer, had been hurt s.>m.' of them seriously, and to se" he hne youn,' f.'Uow.s. ail broken and hurt, 1, terl out of the ear to be sent to the hospital, w.-is mest sr.d. On the platform stood an old woman, who, on seeing her boy born., out, brok,. into bitter weepiu" Oh, .lohnny, Johnny, my b,)y, my boy ! Didn I always want you to 'k° n , ., .'■■ "'"ill ytiu lo Kt away from them awjul trams ? Don't take my .fohnny to tho hospital. I'll nurse him-mdeed, indeed, good p.-ntle- men, 1 can tiur.se my Johnny better than anyone. Then the subtle woman rose nn m her. " Is his face hurtcd ? Will he be- XrOHT HAWKS OF A UIIKAT CITY. 13 disfiu'iirorl ? Xo, UiankCoil ! Oli, Init he win ;i prrlty Imy." " How dill ii lia|i'i)iii '!" I oiKniircd. " l''rui>{ht tr.uu iiliua;! i.f us lost hor pripoii 11 j,'r;i(|i'. TIk! brfuks wniildii't liiild mid «li.' hr.iki) aw^iy and run luck and wo iiitoliol i!it,() her." " 1 Huppono youi unK'iuocr stuck to hia place ? Till) tniin hand Mindod a Hiini'rior sinili>. " Vou \'t iu- did ; iMtch !iill li'iivin,' lii-t poRt K'liilu tlturi) is uuy bIiuw to do wiy- thiii^'." Oni'mun Iiad hia Ip;; hroki'U, nnothiT had hi.i lHva-,t i-ni.sln il, Uif un-infiu- liad Bu.staiucd httal iuliTiial iiijiirii's, luid Johnny iiad hia »liouli|>T cru-h, d. TiiuH) thint;.! don't l)othtT railway nu n nuiuli. In a (I'W nionllis uftur all li.uidrt, with th- exception of the en^'imer, w.n; back at then' work a^ain as devoid of fear and careless of conseiiiiuiicus as eve.". co.vrjucroiis' kxi'khik.s-cks. "ThiTniia! inenwa aliout our lives which iiMkes it iiionotoiioii^,''siiid Con- ductor I!— as hu lit a ei^'ar I'lid roilect- ively U)s wi,s h tlioioughbrud, I tell you. \\'iien I was u frei Jit eondnetor I used to jiavn 9. lot of tmublo with them. I somi wax able to ed by a miracle. On another division of the road, however, a gambler jumped off and paid the penalty of hi» crookedueas by breaking hia neck.'' CHAPTER XXVI. MII.I.Ik's FiVK CKNT rrKCB. M'hile looking over his exchanges the other day Tkk Nkw.s editcr clipped from till' Switchellville Recorder a tuocolumii article with five headings, the first of which' was " Kidnapped,' in flaring letters. The article, dealing as it did with an erring woniaii, who had fled to the city, soemecl to him to toucli in some way or other tho night side of city life, and in that con- nection interested him. It led off as fol- lows ; " Mull id bux-u to truubio a.-; the '44 NinilT HAWKS OF A ORKAT CITY. fparki fly upwaril, but fnw jiro callnd upon t(i licar Hs iiiiicli truulild iin mir wealthy V)iit unfoituiuito fellow tiiwiiMin.in, Mr. iSwitdu'll. All will rfiririiilier vlicn hi- lu'Diijflit lioiMi) to liisliiiiKUouui r('Hi(l«iic(i a l.ciiiitiful wilV. NonrwiUfor^'tittlio aclvitiit ■ ;nty, nnd a certain •weetneHS of her own, has disappeared. The neiffhborinj,' country has been ddi- Kently Mearched, without" result, and tiie • Conclusion is inevitable tl.iat tho child has been kidnajiped by her BEAITIKUL, HUT EIIIUNT MOTIIEH. I No one who knew Millie wili wonder at it. Till) only wonder iis how the motiier could have lived so long without her ; but tho sympathy of all will be with the deserted liusband and lonely father. I'oor little Millie ! The villain Clarke will soon de- sert her mother whom he has already de- bauched, and she will drift into a life of still dee|)er sliame. Pure as Millie is, she cannot but suffer from contact with such associations. It is this thought that has almost driven her father crazy. Oh, if nien and women, before yieldiiiff to evil impulses, would remember that the little children must suffer for it, what a ditl'er- «nt world this would be." The article was continued to much the same effect through two columns. As thw IS'kws editor finished reading a letter bear- ing the Switclifllvillo postmark was handed to him. It was from Tin: Nf:w.s correspondent at that place, and read as follows : — " Head the Kecorder for big sensation. Since the Recorder was printed a domestic in the employ of Mr. Switchell has confessed that she bought a ticket for Toronto at the reiiuest of the child, who Was determined to go off in search of her mother. Thr News editor said to him- self "If the wanderings of that child could be followed up they would make an inter esting addition to the gaslight scenes." • ♦ « » I'Whatcher cryin' about, little girl?" said a red-haired, frecklnl face, ragged faoy, with a bundle of pajHiiB under his arm ns ho looked «ympatlietio»Ily %t m well dresiod little girl who won wiping away with her hanilkercliief THE TKAUH THAT IIAII EHCArEI) from her eyes despite a bravo effort to kei.|i them where they belonged. " VVhat- eher eryin' iil out, is yer lost?" "No, I'lii not, but my mamma u. A bad man lost her, and I'm tryintr to find her for my papa and me, 'cause .re'ro homesick with- out her," " Whore do yer live?" " Away, way off, I took my money from my little savings bank, and Mary UougTit a ticket to brinfr me to 'I'oronto. She said everybody came here, and she guessed my mamma wan here. I've just got five Cents left." "13ully," Olid tho hoy, "that's jmt j enough. If you want .•inything you can I get it by advertising in The News for I five cents." " Where's that?" "You just go down that street thoie until you come to the winder where all the jjicters is, and that's The New.s." « , * ♦ * " How manif [lapors do you want, little girl':''' said a clerk in the business office of The News, as he put his head through a wicket to take a five-cent piece which a child was holding up. "I don't want any papers. I want my mamma," said the child. " Your mamma isn't here, little girl. What is your name?" '■ -Millie Hwitchell, and I cotri'< to To- ronto to find my mamma, but it -s so bijf I'm aim. at lost- myself." " So you want to put au ad in ThB New.><, ilo you? " "Will that find her?" "I'erhapsso." The news editor had entered tho room while this dialogue wa- going on and he RECOIJNIZEI) llllj; CHILD. A dispatch was sent to her father, and before ho .arrived .Millie was persuaded that the better way would be" to allow some one well acquainted with the city to continue the search. The father on hia arrival said : " Jt maybe asking too much, but I wish you would suppress the names. If you must tell the story call mo Swit- chell and the village Switchellville. The people in my neighborhood will Mnder- Btand the case just as well with those n.imes, and very few of your other readers will know that the names are incorrect. I am sensitive enough myself, but would ask no lavors were it not that the publica- tion of names might have a bad effect on the child's future." Sympathy got tho better of journalistic instinct, and the real names do not appear. Nir.HT HAWKS OF A CJREAT CITY. « OHAl'TKtt XXVII. TMK ,IAIU Thie jail is a pliioa towards which tlio ni.,'lith.iwl{ jfravitHtus an naturally an'l u« ine^JHtibly^ M N.iwton's ni.pl.) to tho groiiiitJ. Thiiy iliHappfiir f(ir ii Hfaaon, •nd when thry riiit, hut thoro can hu no doulit tliut Hum lire lulinittod to tho jails or othor in-nal iugtitutioiiH who li'arn Huch a loshon tlioro- by that thoy dotormim- that thinr tirst taato of HUch a thiuj,' shall also bo thuir lant. Till' writer romomlxTs getting a very jfriiipliic account of hi« oxpcrienct'S from u Kfutlcnum who in still living in tho city, and who datos his rcfo.rniati(in from habits of iuHobrioty from a police maKistrato's | commitment to prison. Tho Ktiitloman | will of coiirao recoj;nino whoso pen traced j these lines, but as his naino will not aji- I Iiear in tho course of tho story, and as his I fato may serve to " point a moral and ! udorn a t:ilo," the liberty is taken of re- producing his confidences as nearly as pos- lible ill his own words. I " J'Vom my oightoeuth to my twenty- third year I had boon graduallv ' i^' up for myself u taste for "bunimii,,. .Vfter Imsinesa was done in tli'' atore I could not rest in the house at night, although I had »i i)lea8ant a home ,n ever sk young man h.id. My sisters devised all sorts of schemes to interest mo and keep me • ^ home. At tea-table, vvithuut seeming to wish to inform me , ; the matter, they would be discu THE ACCOM I of some youUr iau, they expectPd thero was all to no purpose iiiong themselves KN1V4 ASM) HKAUTY lend of theirs whom that niffht. But it I had made the acquaintnnco of a gang of fellows and I can only describe myself as b^ing in- fatuated with their society. If I had been com|)elled to stay away from them for one night 1 think 1 would have burst. I havo often thought tho matter over since and I have come to the conclu.'-ion that my liking for the society of these fellows lay in vanity. The most of our evenings were spent in saloons, where wo drank and talked, and sometimes sang. I always did my best to amuse and please, and it was \ ory flattering to my vanity to find that I was apparently successful in doing 80. My companions lauehed and applauded whenever I spoke. 1 will not ■ay how much their smiles were inspired by ttib round of drinks which was sure to follow s.a unusu.-.l hwrAt of UsightPr. This way of spending my even- ings soon began to tell its talo. I became a source of Mor- row and anxiety to all my friends, and as I bi^camo nioreaddieti.'d t^i lii|iior I ihi- cidedly descended in the eMliinatioii uf niy employers. Formerly all my drinking I was done at nights; now it Incline ueces- ! sary for mo to take an "eye-opener" in tho mornings, and finally I drank all li.iv long, taking all sorts ol oxciiHes to slip ] out and have a nip. I toll you hon.stlv, j .fack, thero is no sort of li(piors(jld cuera I bar whose taste I like. I know of no druif I that ismorodist'.steful to my sense of taste I and smell than tho strong li([uorrt, whisky, I brandy, gin, rum, and I can't siiv niueh I better of beer. Yet 1 used to jiuur all I these down my throat, concealing' as much ; as possible the wry face I was inclined t.> i make at iheni. 1 found myself at length I out of a situation. 1 now i llKAN.t IIAKUEH THAN KVKU I to drown my chagrin. Even at i this day, when I look back to I that time, I exiKjrionce a sense of humilia- I tion and shamo that makes me fear to j look my follow man in tho race. I nover yet preaclied a temperance sermon to any man ; jjerhaps becaugo I feel I havo no right to, but I say to you that I am firmly .convinced that drink Uoadena everytliing that is best in man. Let a young man be distinguishfHi for his domestic atfoctions, for gratitude, for chivalry to woman, or any other noblo (piality, and then let him take to drink, and as sure as night succeeds day piece by piece these virtues will vanish from hi». character, and be suoci eded i>y biiital in- difference, selfishness, and weak m ilful- ness. During these years my family viewed my decadence with almost silent grief. My mother would sometimes gently remonstrate m ith mo after 1 got very bad, but it app "aied as if I could not stay myself. I frofjuently woke in tho morning and found the clothing and boots, which i knew had been mud-bespattered almost beyond redemption in the debauclj of tho ni,:ht In-fore, br shed and tidied into res[jectabilii,y once more by my sisters' loving hands. This touched m» so that I determined to do L. iter, but tlie • resolutions were inij,'hty sickly ones, and seldom outlived the day. I was six months out of emuloyment, and during that time did nothing but waate my day* in taverns, sulking about like a criminal until I eot enough liciuor in m»* i.o make me feel bold. Oh, when I think of that six months my blood boils. Sometimes I was away from home for tvro or thre* days at a time. ON'K Vir.HT I GOT " PULLED is" by a policeman, and woke up ne.st morn-- to NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. I; llf in^ a prisonpr in the colls. But I did not kn lU- th;it f;ict when I woke up. I was lying on a Imnl iUior, but tliat did not sur- ijnse me, as I h.ad frequently had that as a waking oxpirienee. I looked about nu) for a few minutes, and found ttiat I was not alone in the room. Several other men were lying on the floor. The steneh in tlje place was sickening. "Where can I be ?'' I said, and I tried to recall tin' events of tlu! night befire. Just as 1 was trying to do so the chimes of St. .James' cathedral rang out, and like the thrust of a cruel sword the thought darted through con "^'^' "^^^ ^°'*' ^''"'" *'"" ''°''''° I must have been still full of liquor, but that thought brought consciousness wid soberness at once. I sat up against the wall and oh, what bitter thoughts thronged thn>ugh my brain ! In spite of ■ mo, the groat hot tears welled from my ^yes. The hero in the Silver King, which , '^V,^i ^^^"^ (irand, says, " U God, roll j"' ,.< rJ^u"'"^'*^'"''^"' =""^ P'^'e iii<^ yester- day ! Iheso were not the words I used, but that wag the thought. Oh, if I could only have avoided this last dreadful crowning shame of all ! But, sir, I thought things 111 that cell that have saved my ife. It was a bitter experience, but it has proved salutary. I could tell you every thought I had from the time 1 woke in the morning until I was put in the prisoners dock a few minutes before ten. One prayer was predominant in my mind and that was that my people would never hear of my disgrace. I was assured by my lellow-prisoners that, it being my hrst offence, I would be discharged. Well, I was brought into the court and placed in the prisoner's dock. I had an Idea that I presented an appear.ance of respectability in contradistinction to THE FROUST BESOTTED WRETCHES who were my companions in misery. But nobody with whom I came into "contact gave forth any sign that my appearance was not in consonance with my position. 1 he policemen pulled me here and there with as great disresi^ect as if I were the veriest bummer. I at length recognized that 1 was not only a bummer but that I looked like one. When I was asked to stand up I did so, and while I was en- gaged in wondering what the great gapinir crowd of loafers in the court thought about me, a man had testified that I had broken a window, and the magistrate im- posed a fine of $1 and costs oi twenty days imprisonment. I could not quite understand this sentence. I knew I hadn t a cent in my pockets, but I could not believe that for lack of §4 1 would suffer the mdigmti- of imprisonmcat, Uh It could not be. It was a wild, improb- able dream. But the drama moved on witli releutleK.s step, and j)r.JSontlv I and a iot of other miserable creatures were driven into tlie j,-iil v..a like a lot of dumb brutes. There is no use in dwelling ou my feeling.s. One hopeful feature of my ease was that 1 oid not blame any- body but myself. As I thought what anc»,where I micjht be and what and where 1 was I kept repeating to mvself, ies, lam iiiaauo." I said that a score of tunes, and thought I could offer good evidence in siipijoix of the assertion. lie vansweiitinat the jail gate and landed h.a- vagra.it load on the stone sti^pa of tlie imposing institution. Our names, occupations, reli;,qous belief, etc., were entered in a book. Dinner was over be- fore we got there and the now arrivals had towaittdl supper-time for food. This w.as no depriv.ation to me, as I could not have eaten a Dehnonico dinner, let alone the bill of fare prepared by a prison cook. VV e were searched and sent to our corri- dors. In the one to which I was assigned there were a Kiut a dozen fellows, mostly young, who treated me with more CORDIALITY AND FAMILIARITY than was agreeable to me, A turnkey came in, however, soon after and took them all out with the exception of myself and three or four others. I was then left to commune with my thoughts. I had not been in the prison half an hour before 1 was not only willing but anxious that my friends should kno-# of mv where- abouts. I shall go mad if -I am left here over night, I thought. Then I reflected that someone who knew me would see my name in the papers and that I would soon be rescued from my horiiblo position. I felt that if I stayed there twenty-four hours I would lose my seK-resiJect beyond recovery, ' One by one the hours of the afternoon wore away. The suspense in which I was held during that time was unbearable. l<.very step on tli« stair made me hold my breath and .almost stilled the beating of my heart. If any one looked in at the grated corridordoor their fe.atures assumed the shape of some one of my friends. At length those who had been working out- side came in and soon after we were mar- shalled out and proceeded in Indian file to BupjDer. I fairly loathed the thought of food, and the chunk of bre.ad and panni- kin of pasty porridge which were the only articles of the menu, unless you include water and salt, were not calculated to tickle one s fancy. There were no tables, the bench-is on which we sat having to be utilized for both table and chair. Inter- pretiiit' my look of disgust, my right and NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. left hanr! companions shared beUveen Uiem iny supper much to th,! disKUst of the fellow behind me, wno said he had asked me first. I m mediately after supper we wore locked up in our cells for the ni-ht Tint was my nii,'ht of nighla. Up till midnight 1 did nothmp but l.I(5rt.N WITH STRAINING EAR fo every sound of the great build- vng. lliroush the high iiday. Now there were things that Jimmy needed far more than a month'* holiday, namely, shelter, food, and clothes. He saw that something must be done. He bought a stock of newspapers and went to work to sell them. His Dright face and industry brought him suc- cess. At the end of the month he had paid hu way and saved $27. He senta «5 bill to his mother, who was in the coun- try, to come home. When she came buck he gave her the balance of his money to furnish a couple of rooms. Soon after she was reconciled to her husband, the boy went back home to live, and ever since ^ Harmony has reigned in the household I am sorry that there are not more ex- amples of this kind and less of those which follow. TIM AND SAM. " ^°^^f^^ '''** *"^® d"'' and tricks that The Toronto young vag Is peculiar." Wee Tim Me—-— and his pal, Sam V ' *'"® ?LPt'y described by the= above coupk ;. They are the best kii.,wn of any of the hundreds of young urchina who pick up a living on our streets. I hough scarcely more tlian 10 years old they have had a short residence in every charitable institution in the city la every case their evil genius tempted them to say and do things wliich co- Id not be tolerated by the managers, and thev were dismissed. Now they would find" it im- possible to get admittance to any of thff- places mentioned, even if they go desired which they don't. Time ha« hardeneci them. During the latter part of the win- tflr just closed Little Tim waa a freauent applicant for shelter at one o?ot1,er 2 the and 12 o clock, a ixihceman's attention was attracted by a ch lid 8 sobs. A search in the darkness revealed Little Tim lyi„^ under a street crossing, without coat"? .noes, and shivering from the cold. His association wi^h the officers of the law and tZ % »u "° '""8:«r trembles with fear at the sight of them, and he power which once deterred him from wrong-doing has but little influence upon his conduct. lie does not heS "Then opportunity ofiers, to appropriate ' WHAT DOES NOT DKLONO TO HIM Several times he has had interviews with otfenJes"" ¥^*^'f«*« "« "ocount of such justice m. • , .1; Tim « """i^'' Lomfrie. / ,X stS'ott^ lH^ ventures, ha. a home to go to, but he p4 lri?^r J"'?'- Hi^^orte isbegy ig fneirr-^.H '" ^^^y successful. H?s method 18 to hang around the doors of the ^heTher**'*"''^"** ^"'^ -otfee houses! thinl,h '5°'"'-;""^ approach that he thinks he can deceive, he instantly begins to sob as though his heart were breakn g The unsuspecting and kind-hearte^i stronger stops and enc.uires wh t ht trouble IS. lie replies, as he vainly at tempts to Stifle his sobs, that he Insn'fc had any breakfast, doesn't know where he can get any, and is all broken up with hune-er. A dime, or sometimes a quarter rewards his stratagem, and hegoes ar^ und the corner to laugh in his sLeve at the clever fraud he has perpetrated Not long ago Sammy's career was near beine ile liad stopped outlate, and knew it «ni j!«?-«'°g"home,so he crawLTi t^a Lleef, l're,.,^?r^' ""'^ .^"^^ «°"" «<">"J ask-ep. Iresently a couple of scavengers came along and dumped the barrel uS down into thair wagon. Poor litt'e ' 8AM WAS WELL NIGH SMOTHERED before the scavengers became aware f r„ m h; P'"''^^"''" ""') extricated hhn il^A *u\ "n.C""ifortabIe position, it"" he'* pJeters'T .*^l* ^'"'^ adventure if 1.. P"^"'®" a packing box or thu shelter of a street crossing to anythTng*i„ the shape of a barrel. Sammy's c^nfidonie n hia pal seems to have weakened of l.,te judging from a remark which he made t^J ii?H ' w^^^'^J?''"''''' **>« other daj- He said: ''\Vhen I've got money Tim sticks to me. but when T h-vent l-^. t-l- «o to the d-i." ' ' ^'^ ^"^^ "^ ^0 j NIGHT HAWKS <)F A CxREAT CITY. 49 I thP^v ^'^'•'V'"",''*,'' o'*f''t li'-vs belonging to with thTl'r' '"i^fJl^'^f ^"•'■''""' " '"ued with thj Heas of Tom Sawyer Thev pooled their spare cash, hired as lII l, 7 thl*""'!" '^^^"y^i^ to'thHslnd '\ ' h' I'o there a storm aro.o, and they wereafrai t.> 8h.%rply re,,rnnanded for tii.Mr co duct In thi'.i '"■'''"'"''' "'"'" al" It twenty of J^Tacoupe of months afterwards the boys slept ,„ ,h„ olrl i^.lt works bmld a on the Lsplanade. The hardships and ev o.m-e wliich tliey un.ierwent tol heavUy up^m them. (j„„ ,.„tur„ed to the l„d ^.^ wija severe cold, which clung toC ENDED V HIH DEATH in the hospital at the present tin,e Irom the same cause. In Ri.it,. „t „ii ,. " r,( th ,. 1 , "pite of all this, manv of these boys prefer to sleep on th. street Some .?f"t^ T^"''''^ ''' «"V restrlnit andT.a- ■> "'" .'"'? " '■"^'"^f Tever, does not wake even the lightest sleeper. She passes two or three (,f the little cots, and at length arrives at one where AS- 01.1) MAN LIES, lie has a white bandage about his chin. Mie scrutinii.es liis features, and then passes on. ycr last instruction3 before going on was to keej) a watchful eye on tins old man. He is a farmer, and a few days airo he was admitted to the hospital suffering from cancer." A great buncii ot the (levouniig ulcer wr.^ seated on his left .law. After cxamiiiatKni and consul- tation among themselves the' doctors told mm that if It was allowed to remain there he must die ; if, <,n the other hand, an operation was performed, ho might live, Ihey asked hnn to choose. He chose the operation. His vitality was low. and the surgeons knew that the chances were greatly against their utmost skill They do not liKe a case like this. The probability IS so great that the operation will merely hasten death, that it is an unpleasant one. Medicine is of no avail in this case. He is fed entirely on a milk and spoon diet. The operation was performed yesterday after- noon. After the old man recovered from the ether he lay in a state of stupor, breath- ing hard. In the evening the doctor saw hiin and shook his head, and then gave the night nurse explicit instructions rcKardino' him. The gas in the ward is turned down to a blue spark. Everything is very still. iVot even a snore is heard. Snoring is generally the result of sross and heavy feeding, and the jaded appetite of the sick helps them to avoid gormandizing. Every hvoor ten minutes the nurse leaves her chair in the corridor and passes down the w'ard with her little lantern. Som°times she gently . awakes a patient to apply a poultice or cooling lotion, bho always looks at the old man. At length she makes a longer pause and seems DISTURBED BY WHAT SHE SEES. The old man is breathing stertorously, Half of tne eye-balls are hidden under the upper eyelids- the whites are turned uu and make a ghastly continuation to ihi white bandage round the chin. The nursfl moves hastily away and summons one of the assistant physicians. Everybody else in the great still room 'is asleep and in its pale light no token li given of the presence of the angel of death, but before the physician's return tlie dreatf work is done, and the old man's troublnd spirit has passed into the land of shadows. ' -ihfi enllin'^ q( *"h" f\ti ^!r «.- rr i -1 NKJHT HAWKS OF A GREA^ CITY :inattpr of form. Everything is done yuictly. >() one is wakmied. A scrt-en 18 jjut about the littlo cot. Two stout iubu aro auinmoned fiom b(dow. Tlie corpse is pinned up and carried away through tlie ■ b' lo.it ward. ei CHAPTER XXX. PIECES OK MKN. The convalescent patients at the hospital are not only pjrmikted, but onooura^jed. to t.iku full advant.igo of tlio two greatest remedies in nature s phannacceijea, fresh air and exercise. On tlie west side of tlie iniiin buildmj,. a long, subst.intially built fita-.rway leads from the various wards to the recreation grounds below. Here are planted trees, grass in abundance, and benches here and there for the double purpose of rest and shade. A little north ■of the center building and the fever hospital is the convalescent-room, a large airy building, furnished inside with lounges, tables, chairs and the appurten- ances for such simple games as drauelits and dominoes. The upper story is devoted to the use of female patients. On fine days, however, the majority of the in- mates prefer a pipe outside. Although many of them are destitute of funds, few appear to 8U.fer from want of the magic v;-'>ed. There is a sort of freemasonry among smokers, and the Btingiest of men has scarcely the heart to rotuse an occasional handful of tobocco to his more needy fellow- sufferer. And how some of the poor bat- tered wrecks enjoy the luxury, even though the pipe be a short and rank dhudeen and Its contents the dry est and most bit- ter of five-cent plug ! That man in the blue coat, reachinic nearly to his knees, is a notable example. He IS THIN AND HAGaARD, and his ghost-like aspect is heightened by the sleeves pinned up at the shoulders of his dilapidated garment. If you ask him he will tell y>uhe has not six inches of arms to his whole body. He was knocked down by an engine some months ago while he was intoxicated. He fell length- wise, with an arm extended over each rail. To him the pleasure of an occasional pipe IS perhaps enhanced by the difficulty which attends the obtaining of it. It is quite a little study to watch how the poor devil goes about the process. Some kindly patient, acceding to his request for a « match, places one between his lips. The maimed man hops ioyfuUv off to a second, '•..lomhehas noticed to be the possessor of a fine T. & B, plusr. almost i.^t,".ct. Somebody hshes the suppliant's pipe out ' of his pockft, fills it with the crumbled baccv, and, less fa...ti(li<.us than incst readers would care to be, places the dirty stem in liis own mouth, and with a lew sturdy puHs, sets the contents L'lowinir bravely. And now the !innless nian his cutty fairly inserted in his lips, stalks off to an adjacent seat, secure of happiness tor at least one sunny half-hour. I'erliaoH mutilated as he is, and past shaniiKin what most men deem the active enjoy- ments of life, his mind is more at ease now than It has bi^un for many a day. Hia eye has lost the old ILIVriVE LOOK OF THE TRAMP, who never dared to strengthen his s'uppli- cations by a straii;htforward u'a/.e ; he is no longer a wanderer and homeless vag- rant on the fi.ceof an earth whose spring- time blossoms liad no messa^'o for him or his kind. Ha has forgotten already the cold nights passad in tho streets or in the parks; tho (|uestion.able benefit of a troubled sleep in some frowsy ten-cent lodging-house ; thejiitiful strug- gle, reversed day after day, to obtain enough food to keep soul and body to- gether. For the rest of his life he doubt- less counts on being beyond the reach of actual want. He will be cared for by some of our benevolent societies and re- ceived into some charitable institution where the balance of his chequered life will be (luietly spent, undisturbed by thoughts ot a past which had nothing in It worthy of regret. That man on the veranda is an old soldier, l.ike most of his class, he de- lights in nothing so much as to gather around him a little crowd of patient and interested listeners. He still cherishes a nne CONTEMPT FOR CIVILIANS, slightly modified by the present exigen- cies of his condition, which involves cer- t.ain obligations to the despised class, in the ;vay of tobacco and such like minor accommodations. He has been in India Afghanistan Abyssinia, Zululand, and last, but not least, the Curr.igh of Kil- dare. Curiously enouL*, it is of this last that his reminiscences are most lively and Its recollections are evidently cher- ished more lovingly than those of foreign lands. If he tells you anything about these last, you need not hope to hear much of unfamiliar customs,, of ptrangs sights, of hair-breadth 'scapes; your old soldier is seldom a great observer or a graphic reciter of stirring events. Bcrrack-room pranks, guard-room es- capades, and long dialogues with officers, in which the narrator invariably comes out ahead, are the st.iplo of his talk. Hia wooden ley does not seem to cause hiai » 52 NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. moment's trouble, and he tiltH it up on an adjacent chair as jauntily as if it were a souvenir of Isandhuhv, instead of a legacy from a drunken brawl in front of a Lombard street shanty. It is to be feared tliat this .incient warrior is a bit of a fraud; but he is such a licfht-hearted, garrulous, transparently mendacious old party that one is not inclined to be too hard on his shoi tcomincrs. This old man whom you saw move into a chair a minute ago is suffering from no Bpucific disease. Behind the tightl;' drawn skin can bo plainly discerned tne linea- ments of the fle-ihlesa skull. As he sits his eyes are the only features that save the face from being a perfect likeness of that of a corpse. When he moved to this seat his movements reminded you of a very jerky automaton, so stiff were his limbs and so wooden his body. I do not know one fact about the history of this old fellow in his shabby garments, but certain I am that* if it were skilfully treated there would be MOKE LESSONS TO BE DERIVED from it than from any one of the numerous " lives" of great men which flood the book Btores. " Failure" is written in every wrinkle of his clumsy clhthin? and in the sad lines of his face. It seenis to me that the life history of such a failure would be as interesting as the details of a career of one whose whole life might be summed up in the word succesH. But the particulars of the existence of such men are buried with their bodies in the odd corner of a churchyard, and we can only guess at the foolishness, the blunders and the sins which have withered this man's life. As I said before, this specimen of hospital flotsam and jetsam is suffering from no particular or specific disease, and there are a dozen around these grounds of which the same could be said. They bear about a blighted vitality which the ro- mance-writers call a broken heart. But wo are looking merely at the sad side of the convalescent. There are many happy httle scenes to be seen about. Men who liave long lain on beds of pain, who for the first time in months have wan- dered out under the summer skv and sniffed the strong odor of the budding trees and blooming flowers. One almost envies these fellows the superior beauties they perceive in nature's show. Others are being visited by friends and talking hopefully of gomg out soon and resuming their places amongst the toiling sons of CHAPTER XXXI. INFANT WAIFS. _ Below the glittering surface of our beau- tiful civilization, drifting in the silent undertideis a current of guilt, inj\;stico„ and despair that has no voice to iir.iclaim, its misery. But its contagion affects the- highest crest of the uplifted wave. The- beings who dwell in these sunless depths- of ignor.ance have been readied by no humanizing influences, and when events drive them into companionsiiips that aro new, with their imperfectly develop.^ natures, the results cannot be otherwise than disastrous. It is from such condi- tions as these that the majority of our "unfortunates" and cnmiiiiiis come, nnd all the philosophic sentimentalism of the age cannot render a belter accoimt for them. With no means, so far known in thy) beneficent age, of staying this mighty current, the victims must be waited for- near the bank of the whirip lol into which, they are sooner or later de^tined to plunge in their mad career. For this kindly help- ful purpose houses of reception, lying-m hoajiitals, and infant asylums are built and supported by civic and national gov- ernments, and benevolent, tender hearted men and women, of high social standing, I give their time and «,ttention to the man- agement and direc on of these institu- tions. The infant asylums and houses of re- fuge in Tonmto are many, and the most iniportant ones are large and commodious. I rom the windows of one of these fall the softest, mellowest light, for lamps are shaded and turned low so as not to dis- turb the innocent sleepers. There are sixty children in the house all less than two years old. Some are in the arms of their mothers, some are in charge of some- other unfortunate, and others lie in their little cots alone. Here is one resting a» balmily as if the angel of household love and prosperity had presided at his birtlv. instead ot the darkness of disgrace andi guilt. His cheeks are round and fuU< and flushed with THE WARM HOSE HUE OF SLEEP, '^alicate eyelids cover great blue eyes, and the golden lashes lie like silken fringes ■ on the soft face. Hair long and curling the color of a buttercup is tossed from a fine high forehoad, and a shapely tiny hand and rounded arm is thrust from un der the cotton coverlet. Ho is straiigely- out of keeping with his surroundings, this lovely cherub boy, fo# he would grace the finest linen and silken hangings of a princely couch. Happier still he should, have formed the golden nucleus of a home about which all the sweet domestic vir- tues might have bloomed. Other little ones look curiously up with half closed eyes and drop to. sleep again, but a wide-awake small boy lifts his dull eves towards the muUu.ti may consist of a sliawl wrapped it, and it is ■drucged into a it takes some ia-id Ptrctchps out his wearv arms for svm- |.atliy. In respouHe tho matron bestowg upon luni wooden caress that is wholly tinsatisfi. ry to the child. Soon the tired eyelids ■ ,1 haxo closed over all the tired «yeK, and save for an occasional small cry the dorn.itory is quiet for the night, and tlie nur«o in charge sleeps without serious interruption. At midnight, sometimes, there is a rin!,'inpof thedoorbell, a loud peremptory clangor. 'Ihe matron poes down, (Irawa the bolts, opens, and finds a policeman with a small parcel in bis arms, or a bas- ket in hia hand. "(live brought yez an addition to the famdy, mum,' says the man of the baton and he recites the street and number where the infant was found. The child is perhaps a few days old, has the scantiest of clothin<.r, indeed its entire wardrobe strip of an old woolen around and around pretty sure to bo stupidity from which days to recover, and many of them die of the narcotics. And thus this silent, despairing, dumb under- current manifest--, its existence to the lu r ,,^^ niotners of the children that ; fill foundling and orphan asylums are irom the most ignorant classes, Thev are not of the women of the town, compared with whom they are relatively innocent. Many of them are farm servants, and numbers of them are immigrants unable to speak the English language. Of the mothers of the foundlings nothing is posi- lively known ; every suspicion is founded -on conjecture. If the child is ever taken by^its parents it is by adoption, ihe mothers who present themselves with a child inarms, and just from the hospital, have to pass a board of in- spectors for admission to the home. They are required to remain m the institution Bix months, and each TO NURSE A MOrHERLES.S ONE beside her own or take charge of a run-about child. When the mother goes away she usually leaves the child and pays a weekly sum for its maintenance or makes it over to managers, who offer it lor adoption. A great many, most of the children who are taken to asylums of this sort, become candidates for adoption The ^ork of disposing the waifa in suitable homes 18 one of intense interest and anx- ious responsibility. The adoption com- mittee IS composed, therefore, of the most ethcient managers in the board. Mem- bers of this committee com.'> into contact -with no end of queei- peonhi and have oiiauy btrauge experiences to relate. The NTCnr HAWKS OF A GRKAT CITY. i"nori'i,l^""n 'f ' H *''^ ""'""'"^ "^ t''^ ^rim- in.d side of life these papers are discussing, ruous^h ° incidents are not incou. There are so many people and bo many different sorts ot people desiring children Ihrewn'; "u'"^M' requires a peculiarly shrewd faculty and a practical knowledge of hintiaii nature to discriminate between the worthy and the unworthy. The cir- cumstances of all iiersons wishing to adopt children are fully investigated: and re- torences as to their respectability must be presented and approved before a child is committed to their care. I'eisons movintr into new neij^hborhoods often intend passing the child as their own. Strange orders are often received troma distance-" special commissions," as manufacturers say. The child must have eyes of {.eouliar cerulean blueness. bair of a particular golden color, tingeri tapering, nails pink-tinted, toes gr.aduated to a nicety, and the limbs dimpled. There IS not a doubt but that scores of haiipv new mothers could furnish just such a wonderful babe, but this order comes to the matron and managers of an infant asylum. A woman writes for a baby with brown, curly hair and largo dark blue eyes and a man-but how should he know any better .'-telegraphs for a ciiild with light curly hair, warranted to turn dark as the child grows older-the hair, mind you. During a year not more than three or four children with dark hair and eyes are called for, whereas people are anxious to get blonde girls, and many applications are made for children of that description. Itlooksa8ifit\vouldtake a strong re vo- lution of popular feeling to restore bru- nettes to popular favor. Certain it is, these good people would not be so fastidious If they got up their own babies Ihe greater number of people who^ake children from asylums are CHILDLESS COUrLKS well on in life. A few children are adopted by widowers or widows. Some are taken by those kind-hearted, unselfish bodieswho want something animate to love ; others xeplace the loss of a dear little one by in- stalling in its stead one of these little waifs. However, there are children enough for 8,11 whose hearts have mother love to lavish upon them. Oftentimes the foundling asylum, in its general material capacity, is a very angel bringingpeace and good will to discon- tented, childless couples, and sending happiness to distracted hoinec An in- i stance of its good work in this trission I occurred HI a city not a thousai-d miles I from Toronto. Lata one night » private ca^mage drove to the resi- 04 NKillT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. denne m a fasliionablo portion of the city, of out) i,l Urn tniHtoes of an asylum. A woman aliahted, passed into till) hdusn, and secured an intorviuw witii the lady trustee. Tho visitor (,'ave first- class riif('r.3i;ceM, and by all hor outward inaiiifestat?on« was a person of wealth, and siio looked as if she would roquire tho Bervict'9 of .Suiry (ianip in i\, few days. "1 am fooling tho whole of them," she Raid after some prnliminary explanations. I Imvd been married some years, a' d am childless, and I am sure that mv husband, who IS now in Europe, will desert me on his return. His atreotions are completely ftlionaled from me." "But what can I do," exclaimed the trustee. " Let me have an infant from the asy- lum to pass on him as my o'vn. I will ■ettle S20,000 a year on it "when it comes of age. The trustee told the would-be mother she would look her out in the morning and consult the other members of the committee. And the woman departed well satisfied with the result of her visit. Next day her st.atements were all veri- fied. She was found to be in easy circum- stances, and in every way capable of tak- inp care of a child. So with thoholpof the hospital physician a pretty little girl, whose young mother on the night of its birth said she did not care what became of the nasty brat, was selected and tho anxious mother was provided with a baby. No one but the Hospital doctor, tho lady trustee and the ' mother ' knows the particulars of the dark transaction. The husband returned and went almost wild with delight. A few mo^iths later tlio trustee and the doc- tor were invited to visit the child. They found it lying in a satin-lined cradle, or- namented with blue ribbon and a white dove atop of the lace canopy. ^ "We are the happiest family in the world ; my husband thinks there is noth- ing good enough for me and that child,' is the testimony of the foster parent. The neatest part of the deception was that her mother-in-law was in tho house when the child arrived and h.as never had a suspicion of its genuineness. Here is an instance where the delusion is practiced on the mother herself : There are mothers who lose all memory and mind when their infants are still-born, and go immediately into a slow fever, from which they do not recover for many months. There was a case of this *ort in one of the most palatial of our city reBideuees not long ago, and, when it was known that the fifth child was dead, the husband brought a child from an institu- tion, and placed it in its stead. The mother is transported with joy over her live child. She does not wish to be told tliut tho babe she loves so much is not her own. She has her doubts, but she does not wish them confirmed. CHAPTER XXXII. THE PIliiTTV liOY. Thore is a section of tho vouii!? men in thecity whomay wellbe included in the ranks of the vi, nis classes. A deal of their miserable little histories is made dur- ing tho hours of tho night. Those are the young men who live and fatten on their families. One may have some admiration tor the brute courage of a man who takes the risk of death for the sake of ill-gotten gains of any kind. But what respect can we have for the thing that escapes labor by sticking like a barnacle to the hardly- earned comforts of a home on the strength of an affection that is all one-sided— that takes every thin and gives nothing. But *"ere IS a class c . young men in the city who do this. Fellows whom yon see hang- ing about in the daytime, doing anything else but making an honest living, and whom you will find at night in improper places at all hours. One has no )iatience in writing about these fellows. They are the sons of men who have to work hard to make a livelihood, but in this latter particular the sons take good care not to imitate their sires. Probablv every other member of the family contributes to the support of the decencies and comforts of the home except this drone, who is hiu mothers darling, and who is TOO PRETTY TO BE SPOILED on any mechanical work, and has not brains enough to do anything else. He sees his sisters go out very morning to earn a pittance which they loigrudgingly throw into the general funds at the close of each week, to the end that this loafer niay be clothed in tight pants, a diagonal jacket and a fawn-colored overcoat, wherewith he may stand at a corner at nights and insult other men's sisters. One has no patience writing of this jacka- nivpes. He is not generally a hard drinker. If he were to get drunk ho would disarrange the sweet little love- locks that are oiled down over his re- treating forehead. His greatest ambition 18 to make a mash on some in- . decent woman whose worst crime is her bad taste in bestowing caresses on such a creature. If her affection is of sufficient intensity to stand his bleeding her of her filthy gains, his joy is complete. The first- use he makes of his beauty-money is to- hire a furniRhed room in a public buildin? whero ho plays tlio spidur whilo silly young girls j.lay tiio flies. ' It is roaliy o.ttiaordiiiary the length of tiine It tukLS for this thing to exhaust the affection of his family. The old man gen- erally kinks pretty early in the game, but ih .f V?? *',^'"'"P'.y 'Sf""'"'^'' anything short of the old man s cow hide boots. His effrontery is amazing. Siiamo is a feelintr ^tt'T'l \" '"/"•„ ?^'' '" '' I"-'^ttyboy,and It IS the duty of ,ill luaielntives to preserve him in Ins pristine loveliness. He does Itlstho'" ''°°*°' ^^ siinijly uses it. ONLY PURE PLACE HE KNTKna k?^ *\n' thnreforo uncongenial to nim. All services rendered to him he takes as a matter of course, and as the natural homage which these inferior crea- tures, his motlier and sisters (mere women) should pay to their handsome relative. He has no belief in the general purity of woman, but hears it impugned by the scurvy canaille with whom he associates without a chivalric blush for the gentle women at homo to whom his iwinish passions would not be understood tie IS too much of a coward to commit tilZ^ w **'l° chances of the peniten- tiary. Wlien the day cornea that his in- dignant father will stand him no longer and kicks him outof doors, the choice of working, stealing, or starving is presented to him. He may steal now, often with a view to revenging himself on the people who have stood his disgr.acefnl idleness so long. He will do anything that is dirty or mean, or unprincipled rather than work, and the eternal justice is served wheji the penitentiary that fairly yearns foi him scoops him in. J'^^vma The only thiiig that he is regular in is hia meals, and he doesn't come to them when he can get any outsider to pay for one for him, *' j "» HE TAKES IN EVEUTTHINO. He may bo found at horse-races, in bil- liard-rooms, at cock-fights, at street cor- ners at hotel doors -and everywhere he is in the way. He has seldom any money in his pocket, and as ho must have good clothes, he spends ade.alof his time endea- voring to discover tailors, who don't know him, and who jjut trust in his nickel- plated promises. This is the most pronounced type of the genus well-dressed loafer, but there are grades, borne work a little, others work a good deal-all spend everything they make on themselves and exist at the expense of hard-workmg fathers, mothers, or sisters NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITV. 53 J CHAPTKU XXXIII. what's I.V a NAME? The reporter makes gossip a business. He knows all the news of thu city that is published, and ho knows a good ile-i] more that 18 never imblislied. He ,.sk« J u when he meets you, " Well, is there anything new?' and expects that vou NviU disgoreo all that you have heard that aay, even if it concerns a matter that for your own interest had better not obtain publicity. Ho will think y„u a very mean man if you conceal from him th9 wffh /u* ^'■?l"' ''^"P''tor has run away with the m,lkm.;^n that you y,nirs,.lf hava had a quarrel with your wife because she preferred the society of a man wli„ car- ned a blue bag over his should.ir to that of her husband, or that you are short in your accounts and intend emigrating that night to a land of more salubrious clim^ta than this. If you have had the mis- fortune toundergnany of these unuleasant- nesaes. or even others of lesser m.mient. the inquiring man of letters will feel utterly disgusted and aggrieved if you re- fuse to let him pluck the leart out of your mystery. If, however, you get the ftart ihlv L7°" have got him. fie will prob- ably betray his chagrm by replving th.-vt the freshest thing he has seen tHat day is yourself, or employ some other threadbare witticism to cover his defeat. Ho will do anything but disclose to you his budget of facts. He probably has in his notebook things that will make the hair on the scalp of tlie great-headed public stand on end when his paper is issued and strewn broadcast among the people, but no word will he breathe to you of them. He knows that you would tell the first person you met, and thus SET THE NEWS FLTINO S?u" *.J'''^' journalist "got on to it » When the news is act-ul! wade public through his paper, he has no further inter- est in it. It IS a lemon that has been sucked, and has now no piquancy for him. This is his attitude to^ n,?hn-h!l? inforniation he gleans that is published, but atiU more reticent is he in regard to what he does not publish The reporter, bit by bit, loses, like the doctor and the lawyer, his faith in human ,n f h''\ ^'^^ *'"'"' ¥ "f''«" F«t8 glimpses in the back corners of people's characters, which back corners are as guiltily hidden from the eye of man as the favorate sultana of an eastern monarch. As he goes along the street he sees many men who know him not, but wht.m he knows \ve.!. He knor/s of certain facts concern- ing them which the rest of the world ki.ow» M 11 nothinpr of. lie geea th.tn in rOaccH of b"n..r and tr««t. in the mart, an, in th. ch...ch and in tho b^lroom „nd y"t he know8 that were those l,tt le d maLMn^ oocurroMM.. '•learned by rote ai^ c C*^ into h.s teoth." the trader, the d«„"„ tht y^. !'»••'"'''• >n the danco would "hun the n like l.pers and „a« by on the other «ide. Many a rej.iitatiot> is saved bv his r"'';',fy' *'"" °f hi, commonest^" na e rh"?','" ""'"'''"' t°P"ti" certain namo8,uhM,.aiH)r,i8requoat8tokeci,otherg out Centleinun who have had the mi" fortune to a,,pear before the Maoist at" „ the niornmK are the most frequent at- tenders ,„ reoortorial roomn fo^Mspul pose. They fiave first made an.,lu.„f;.\. NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. ••-;■" »oH"»"'riai roc pose. They fiaye first made application to the re,,orter .n the Police court, a.!d h" -- ...-.„,,„, I,.. Ill tne I'oiice co\irt. and h« has referred them to the city editor That firentleman generally aaks, Why should the report be mutilated fo^ the purpose of keepmsr yo„ name out of the paper 'He po.nts out that the public pay the*^? money ?or a paper w.th the understanding Tat all the city happenings that came under THE nKPOUTKR'8 EYE fact'lha'J^ ^"""'^ '"""/^^d t^-^^in- The fact that you were discovered at two in the mornintr seated on a wood-pile Tock n>g a loose plank and «in«in^ Csh-I bj- Juciiiation that you were performing a Hwee domestic duty, would be a y^rfin S'"^f'*7!: *°«"r «P fo'-thecfelec- tation of tho people who live next door to you, and indeed to .11 those tt.m .n ^.""•i ^"^ ^^y should I rob tUcinofthat pleasure. Then the miZ l.hcant is heard as to why. Tit ^ a fi ^ offence tho cty editor, folfo wing the MaS prayer. Ih s is the case of a man who has 8ubstan,al standing in the commTin^ errknd A V "u'/"? "P °" the same dav aAd i^ n^^ street tough came in one e tar out o' Mulligan will you and that'll make it all right " ' ^ttT^nl"'T '^ '^^"'^ 'n *» office or Btoie creeks up the staiia and im- plores you for (iod's sake not To rdnh^nv''™'- "f">«« his situation! and XV hi n you agree to do so the gratitude £k"br;'''lh« "' •^*%-f -y. eyes i unmiV taxable. The poor fellow, in spending a ^:iiS'aSoi:„i::i.j':S;y':sf' been thereby .utficie,.riv pShed To thn< spoc;men the whole bu.lne . posseJe^ j^^:^,tr:;rr:-t-'-tnS r,£°si,tn:'-Kb;d:IJi ' JoilrVt^.Tr °"""'"^. f"'" ">" l' "li e any loss of character or S ion Ji oum" quence of its being made public^ '"""■ THESE IKLr.OWs WILL LAUGH and say they i.ave been on "a bit of n. spree and got lugged by a bohhv '• , H..kin an "ff-hand way.^^Ltit' hout w.nyou.m.stah."and.o^etane?'.liJt:h" editor very small person comparlj w th rcan.K:'-?'rifTorw?ui? ^^^Mca^J-,JrSffi him out of a scrape. Buthe is very ungrS he!p';::i?'^"^*^" co^ly: ..Ho'w"fa^'l ..''-^"^y^'ife," says the man "is one of store and when I anked forT little sun per sfie started to abuse me She said ^a lot of mean tings. I asked hor ♦ u i up for God s sak'e. and Se wo'i^n't td then getting a little hot I tried to stoD • tend X"f ^^ P,".".'"? *»>« Pillovv on he? head That v^ouldn't have hurt a lamb but she struggled so that she struck W head against th. corner of the bedpost and cS her.andasJthere'wTs-soml^fcr S wife s face he arrested me. I was hJeA out .mmediatelyafterwards, but heavei^s I Ido, r.^P"^' '" *^" ^••'"••* this nS'g^ 1 don t care so much myself as for my wife and family. I am a subscriber and Lver! t ser ,n your paper, and I hope you^ nn: say anything about it. " ^ ' 'Yes," said the city editor "Ti heard something about the ckse Yon got home at half-past one and^ wnnf!^ a'Xk''"^!?^' ""' °^ be"a;d"'co:r;:j able t Aff. '"""""J •^'■e ^e-y unreason- able ! After your work ng from ten irflTn had only thought of the long time it look iiiii To RHeR her h»s art) 1 to lice far laii ise- Tou to get home she would have had soma idfia how tiroa you wero '" *' W«ll, Hir, 1 didn't conio hero to bo made a tar^ot for your humor, Wliero s thecditorinchinf ?" ".'t-ro is P.^Tii "^'J,' ^"'J him down stair., gir." But the editor was out. .J}!" '".always "out" when cowardly cattle who beat their wivo. are arouud. XXXIV. TIfB SCAni.KT WOMAlf. The picki.ooket w'lo steals vour watch ni (Jdie ot the night, or the fo,)t.jm(l wiio kn,K.l' speaks for it^ eSdes^Ve^lfilirrp^in^t^^^^^^ KLASHr FEMALES NKJIIT JTAWKS OP A GREAT CITY. 87 her own shabb- enwn nnri .» «v • Hhowy enchantress, to h.y wh o.rm '''*' mouni^n^mi,^^,:^-,r^,'^:r.S break his spirit among theoti,^ ' J", , T Sft'o^heTo^: "^I'^^'r "fr^-3^' stealing th. goods- ,fof 2. t sf yUI^? wherein^anoth^rwomaif^raiul^n" '"^"• jewels. iJeside thesecarrion b rds of be.iute Z" uTTv'^"!""' ">*"'« ^if« or daigh kulk^n the H^'^rK.^*^"'^ f°""« "f ™ whinfT^ ^ayhght. coming forth only when the dark hours favor their calHnL but these birdi of prey hang out the Bignc of their nefarious culliL at hiib noqn, and strut the streets shaming tS ^irl «.h^'\? demoralizing the wea™ ^The girl who has worked all dnw „«♦;! i " and fingers and limb^ "retired," etuSrg homewards at nightfall, com'pares h"? ULMB, TEAULKSS AGONY, bof.re the picture of her son T^f n, be no desire, however tn h U^ ^^^',' infamy who" forgot'^Voifs io 'f "'^ " sister g devotion^r the smiles o'fTha lot" n.nsiS^k:.Et«-,^^;<:;;S My h.m conviction is that not one Tn t"rw;'g-r;^^o,tr^-,rrais^-r " and a Rood deaT ^Sig^ht Zthe^,''?"''.^ equa share of sin with the men.^' "" Y^ .V"" take a cynical view of the matter. You know well ihT lengths to which some "^m:,! wSl go to accomrihsh their ..urposes They seize some weak point in fh!f: victim and work upon that ? they^caT IfZ^tl '^ff««"<'"« under promi e o7 ma?-' nage they accomplish tlleir purpose If Bheisfond of dress or ornaments ^the rich hbertine captures her by rich presents." ♦»,= ^oun^firhtaswell excuse a thief on .trrnd'^"""''''- " * ''''' ^entiL": uneventfuf, d7ea.;i;i"wi;h t'hTSn'f; „. - «™'^« A handsome bonnet jeyuunt.::istcnceol these women. look^Zi'^n::t^ 1^1', Sl^^'T y"^ wouldn't par- wo.en. lool^it ^ dSn i^ ^^^y^^X^ r^ ffi M of handnoinft bonnets or fino boots. In reKanl to bcinif doorivoil l)y unn, I ifrant yon tliat I I. new pei«,.iiully <,f «,„„„ ea«. •; wh.irn wnv „ havB f,ill..t, tlirmgh the niuchinati„aHof villains— l)L't.n hroiitfhtto evil bvdi.viliKh, (M»,.:ul;.tinK, coldhl, vxlrd rieceit. IJiit I iiiii cert.iin that tho niiin- iHTSdfth.'HM iii-roportionto Ihn otlit-id i» very Hinnll indeed. but even these. Hpart from thn evil inv-lvej m their very Btru^«Io for rxistunoe. work wickednesH from tho innmptincs of a heart which very fiiBt becjiius hard and Jini>ressionlo88 as niiirblo. I tell you if there IS liny Bynipathy to bo wasted on I'lther, It IS to 1... ^nv,.n to the victims (.f these harridans. Let tl ein otieo pet their clutches on a man, and tl-ey will hold him there until th.^y have plucked him bare, und until he hiisn't enou-h character left to dust a tumbler with." " I am afraid tho discussions of your iociety have swainped your charity." " I have as much charity as most poo- pip. butwlwu I do say w that the social evil can t bo cured by pettiiiif and sym- pathy alone. Ot course, in the i.reaent condition of thiuKs, you can't put in force those NIOIIT HAWKS OF A GKEAT CITY. RKPKKSSIVE MKASUBHa which I believe to be the only wav in which the evil can be permanently lessened. You can't start drivin- girln out of the houNes they have to cover ihem without providincr some way in which they can tint food and shelter. But sir I anf convinced that the way to cut off tho supply of recruits is to make life in a bafrnio unpleasant, uniirofitable, and less seductive. Anyhow, hy all means keep ttieae flaimnR women off the streets. That does more to attract light-headed, vain pirls into the ranks than any other one thing. I believe this cmuUI be done very easily. Just intimate j^entlv that any bouse whose inmates w('ro constaiitlv par- ading the streets in their warpaint was liable to be raided, and J tell you this proii.enading would stop suddenly." " Now, have you any clear idea how ttie social evil might bo wiped out ?" "I don't believe it can be wiped out while the world lasts, but what I do be- lieve IS that if the matter were taken hold of with courage it could be lessened and rendered less attractive to weak girls I admit that even this is quite a difficult thing to accomplish. You would not be- lieve the amount ol sympathy that exists m high places for these women. You would have to encounter and defeat all thatand trample on a score of prejudices but the man or body of mea who tsicklo wiseTywiu'""' '^'"'''''"' " ^"'Jly^nd HAVB MANY A Oinr, I jfrfmftFniwablo, life ending in all prob- I ability in a miserablo death. .My loading thouKhtsahoutthowhoNbusi.i.Hsisthate4,r timlness and consideration for the women a ready ruined is eru-lty to certain clas^.n ot our females. H„tter be hani on tho erring than be neglectful of th- influem...^ and example's that surround those who ara asyetuncorruptid." "What did you accomnlish by the ra- pressivo measures put in forco -.ome eighteen montlii ago ?" f.r*P''''"? '^■'"°"'i''»';ould answer thntU.t- ttrthanlcan. I was out of to.v ,: for a will o after tho campaign was , it* hf'ight. Hut r have been told that the ■tr,v,ts at least were free from the i.reseiice "t the women. A gentleman told'nie tiint he knew of three cases .vlierj keepers or houses had abandoned the business and h:ul been living "-'"P'" ^^''" i^now mora "bout this than 1 do." 'CHAPTER XXXV. BEHOLD, TIIEUK MET HIM A \VOMA!T. The Nkw.s man sought a clergymnn who IS wellknown for his zeal and jfrntst preaching, which excuses him in the eye.* of many, at least, for his somewhat hotero- dox views. He was asked to ijivo his. ireatin'"' T'^'"'', *° *'"' ^^.ediency of treating such a .subject as the social evil in the public prints in the interest of IT^aSie. ^'""'"' *''''''"'""" ''" ^^°^ '• Here," ho said. " is what a greater anH rn'^'^^l" ^ ^"^ «'>''^"" '^at sub'ect' and tnough I would not be forgiven per- haps if I spoke so plainly, yet t^e words of the sage of Israel should com mand respect and excite the people to a greater activity in rejjressing this ter- h, h«T.r' ^''^'^- ^V'" '*' ^^hat we find "',the 7th chapter of I'roverbs:" i! or at the window of my house Hooked through my casement, and beheld among tnuth"""" "'"''• ^ 'J scorned among thi youths, a young man void of understand- ing passing through the street near her corner. And ho went the way to her house in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night. And, behold, there met him a woman heart """'^ "^ *"* harlot, and subtil of She is loud and stuoborn. Her feet abide not.in her house. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner. bo she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impiirlmit faco unid untn liim. I hav(! iiDiu.- r)ii(,iiiiv,M with ine. Thi» day hiivo I payinl my vows. Thirf-foro cnmo I i nth to mint thoo, chliKfiitiy to nuuk tliy fiuju, aixl I imvo fauna thi'c I have ili-clvod my bed with covorintfn of t^pestrv, with carvt'd workH. with tino li.ion of Lj,'y|)t, I have pm fumed ray bed with myrrh, Hlooi and ciniminnii. Come, h't ua tako our fill of lovou"'!' the morninu ; Itit u» solace ourauiv.' , with lovef. For tho jroodman is not at hor e, he ia Rone ft lon(?jinuiiiiy. Ho hath talci!naliaj,'of money « !l) j, m, and will come homn at the day nppi.-i., .\'. With her much fair spcuch shh i;n .\ him to yield, with thu llattoiingof hoi ' ,» she forced him. Ho poDtli after hor Btraifflitway, na an ox goeth to the slau^^'htor, or as a fool to tho correction of tho stocks. Till a dart Htrike through his liver, :u a bird liu-toth to tin snare, and knoweth not that it is for hig life. Hearken unto mo now therefore, O ye chddruu, and attend to thu words of my mouth. Let not thine heart inc) ino to her wayg, go not jiatray in nir paths. Korslu) hath i:ar,t down many wounded ; yea, many stroui,' nioti have been slain by Her honso ia the way of hell, gninffdown to the cliambiTS of death." "Theso words were written about two thousand years airo bv Solomon, thj son of David, the kinj; of' Isrmil. The laps.; of centui-ies has not abated a jot of their truth. No other part of holy writ con- tains plainer or more terriblo warmnffs thajiglonm from these versos. Sulonioii.the wiuostmau of Israel, evidently did net hold with tho doctrinn that it is bett.i that tlieso matters should be quietly in ■ iiored, let tho cancer NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. EAT I.VTO SOCIETY ■ rather than apply tho knife. ''t is a foul thing, therefore let it fester and corrupt, rathej than expose it to the phvsioian's *yo- -The physician cannot erad"icato al- tosfother, therefore let him not even try t" oontiiio its ravacres. There are many who hold these views, and their opiuKma are entitled to respect ; and it behoves Tou to explain tho motives by which you aro actuated and the practical purposes at v/hioh you aim in your i)resent inquiry. An explanation of this kind 18 called for inasmuch as the subject treated of has seldom been urged upon the public^ attention or exhibited in all its nainf-i: asaociatiuus. This being tUo cuueifc Would bo no matter of wonder ir in»»me instaiiei.H your Work should meet with an unwelomio receptic.o. The human min.l, when it jins l.m^' l«„,n f.imiliar with an existing ev.l, c.mea at last euuteiite.lly to endure, and will even bt-h.-ld with a jealous eyn any attempt, however well- lileaiit, t!,at would threaten U, overthrovr It. i hi aj-athy wliu-h lius lieou so geuer AW maiiifostod regarding the social evil can- not be account, d f.)r e.ve.-pt on «o,„„ n.ich princi|_)le as this. For it is a lamontaol., Ji'ct that while the HVlliii.ithies n' til:) l'. bhc have oiMiiiaw.ikoimil. thoirexeitioua ct. ■•vn forth, and their res.. nrees liberail/ or led in promoting oth.'r philantliroi io >'c\. mes having for their object tho U if ition of human suliering and tho j.ositivo advar.eement of the moral and physical well-being of the si.eeies, this mystery of ini^imty, more ruinous in its tendencies and more fearfully di-istiou.s in itselfects than any other kind .1 ltiiiio. has in a great measure been overlooked " •nanyindividualsdisapprovealtoirethnr of any publication of tlii^ kind on tlio pound tiiat tiio disolosunis necessary to bo made aro apt to minister to an already vitiated taste or to l-AJIILlAKiZH TIIK MINP.S of the young and inexperienced with sub- jects that have a tendency to mislead or deprave them. h.ipix,se this argument were admitted to have some force, what it may bo asked, is to bo done with a system se debasing in its nature and so ruinous in Its results? Is it better to suffer it to go on per|.etaating itself and contentedly to behold it carrying down its thousands to a glc.omv grave than to make a determined ettort to resu.t .ts progress, simply because such an effort may, perhaps, mini tertoa vitiated appetite or exert a deceitful in- fluence 011 the mind of some thougiitless- youth ? hven on the supposition that some wretched man may be rendered more- niisorable, or some hopeful youth may fiave his moral principles .shaken, still the- evil to be remedied is of so gigantic a nature that its arrestment would not be toy dearly purchased, were the supposed consequences necessarily connected with It. But It may, after all, bo a question whether bucii an idea be not visionary. U ould a disclosure that could be offered with any degree of consistency to tbj pub- lic, tend to dei.ravR still more the taste of that man who has already abandoned him- ' selt to sensual ^'ratifications, and who ia in the daily practice of associating with per- sons whose actions and habits constituta- the very essence of impuritv ': Or is a man who haa partially gone 'r.stray, but who still retains some seiiaiKilliw of junr-l beuliuieut, likuly to make a more rapii 'SO NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. descent when his path is seen to be strewed with the melancholy remains of liuman victims? Or shall it be attiniied that a youth— as yet uncontaminatfd with the vices of the world, and whose mind has been disciplined tosoundnessof think- ing:— would exnerience any o^.iier sensa- tion than that of horror at the exhibition of human folly and guilt?" "The News "he concluded "should consider its labor well bestowed, and its exertions amulv rewarded if through its inst.uine'ntality, the public shall be made to think more serionsly and to act more vigorously in re- jrarfl to « subject which I consider of in- finite moment, connected as it is with the • everlasting destiny of no inconsiderable portion of the human race." CHAPTER XXXVL KILLJOY HOUSE. The French in their superficial way speak of a bagnio as a maison de joie, which may be translated literally as a house of joy. It would be impossible to conceive of a more false description of these habitations of vice. Riotous exhil- ■' aration produced by drink there is, hideous nysterical hilarity there is— but joy, none. The merriment of the inmates of such a house has a commercial value, and they do not use any of it when the men who pay for it are not about. "I have often thought," said a man ■who was connected with the city police for some ten years, n man of great good sense and wide general reading, " that the people who apeak in condemnation of the social evil . do not dwell sufficiently on the actual re- volting facts connected with the life of a \voinan of tlie town. I have read sensa- tional newspaper articles, and I have heard preachers' sermons on the subject, but in all there is a lack of practical" treatment. After you have read or heard them, a person who does not know the facts would think that a house of ill fame was the abode of wicked and unholy but yet jncturesque passion. In spite of themselves they succeed in surrounding the unsavory mess with p. halo of romance, than which there could be nothing further from the facts. There is no romance in the lives of evil women. 1 • jrything about them is gross, sordid and mercen- ary. The master passion of their lives is not sensuality, but a greed for money and display conjoined with envy . ; d all un- charitableness. They are the siaves of the vile women who keep the houses in which they live. While they are new to the lif \ ■; pretty and popular, they are allowed cei tain latitude. These are the ones whom you see parading the streets, sitting in the houses of entertainment, and driving to the races. But when THEIK WITHKRINfi LIVES begin to tell upon their good looks, their days of merriment are over. They now become sliives in the vilest sense of the word. The money for which they sell their souls is the constant prev of the hoary old brothel-lceepp'r to whom they are in bondage. The ma- jority of the men who visit their dens are in li(iuor. Is there anything picturesque about half-a-dozen dull-eved creatures being roused out of their sleep intlio small hours of the morning to be marshalled be- fore an old brute with rum-laden breath and filthy person whose sottish fancy has led him Here ? Is it possible to conceive a woman with a single vestige of pride left consenting to be at the ))ick and choose of sucU a loathsome creature ? Yet this is a frequent sight in these houses of hell. Is there any romance about that? And when the choice is made the other hve are eaten witli eavy. But it is envy, spite- fulness, and all uncharitableness, morning, noon and night with them. The demon of hatred is the presiding spirit of their sunless habitations. fShe who has good looks and youth is a continual eyesore to the woman whose lustre of girlhood is a thing now of memory. She is hated and slandered, and she glories in the fact because it is a tribute to qualities whicn she has that they have not. But her hour comes too soon and too surely, and a younger rival hurries her down the slope, to be herself disulaced in turn as the months go by, leaving their impress of dissipation. Envy and hatred of each other are com- mon characteristics, and the same may be said of lying, intemperance and profanity. Lying is part of their trade, and is a necessity of their existence, and so much of a hab'^ does the practice beccmo that they LIE BT PREFERENCE. If t; ' i truth were equally profitable, they would lie by choice. 1 have often heard them relate the stories of their livelt to offi- cers of charities or prisons, and in almost all cases the statements were wildly improbable. One of them spoke of being of good family and having teen educated in a convent, when it was discovered tliat she could neither read nor write. The story of their downfall, as told by them- selves, is .-vlways attributed to lieing the result of loving not wisely, but too well. In many cases I have heard this claim made, when the men in the force knew the whole history of the dame, and knew NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. (l( ber representations to be absurdly false." " Well, you don't mean ti say that in J our experience you haven't met women who 3wed their downfall to the seductive v:lns of men." _ " I am only speaking of these women in the agt-regate, and givinff you their pencial characteristius. I look upon them all as unfortunate, and some more so than otliers. Soniu deseive tiie description of unfortunates in the same degree as the burglars and thieves in the prisons do. Others undoubtedly are led into t.he life by a cruel late. Indeed I know of such a case. I'lve years ago there lived near mo a family, consisting of a Imsbaiid and wife, and a son and daughter. The husband was a usaless old moke, who didn't even have energy enough to get drunk, but his wife liad, and did. The boy. who was the eldest of the two children, was a rough, and got into a fi;,'ht aboard an excursion boat, iind came near killing a man. He tied to the States, and as far as I know has never been heard of in this city since. Mary was tho only one of the family for whom the neighbors had any respect, faho was a shy girl and seemed to KNOW NOTHING BUT TO WORK away at an old sewing machine, making overalls for a factory. Any time that Mary was seen outdoors was carrying great big bundles wrapped in a brown piece of linen, which she brought back full of work, and was seen no more till that t^.ole of labor was completed. The neighbors tolerated the family (jn Mary's account. Mary s dress was about as uninteresting as the brown lining which invariably encir- cled her work, but those who look for beauty unadorned saw in her dark eyes and delicate complexion things that were pleasant to look upon. But the chief glory of humble little Mary was her brown hair which fairly flowed in a cataract down her Dack. She was very much ashamed of these unruly locks, and when she went abroad they were tucked away in as small a knot aa they could be squeezed into at the back of her head. But people caught ghmpses of them at odd times, and the fame of Mary's ringlets spread abroad on the street. Suddenly there came a change in her ways. She otominenced to exhibit some co- quetry in dress. But I need not weary you with the details of her decline and fall. Suffice it to say that Mary was missed from home one day and her mother be- wailed in her cups that her daughter had gone to the bad. One night I was standing in tho shadow of a lamp on Elizabeth street when a wom- en an came along. I knew Mary and stopped > her. She exhibited great fear andshame- facedness but I talked to her and finally gaiiied her confidence. She wfs very anxious to know what the neighbors- 1 thought of her. " They are very sorry that you have forgot yourself, Mary " I answered. " I had to do it," she said. I - tried to reach the meaning of this answer, but It was onl' after a long time that shu^ told me her sto.y. f;.,e told iu a singu- larly simple and feeli..g way HEU STOUT. " I am awfully sorry Mr. for what T^ "*I'Pened, but I couldn't help, it. My feelinjs were stronger than m>'self. There was something happened one day that changed all my lite Vou remember lo bundles I used to carry. Well, one day, when I was on my way home it started to rain, and before I went two blocks I was soaking. Just- then a car overtook me, and I hailed it. 1 was never on x 2ar before, but I had money that I had ^ust got from my boss, and I thought 1 could afford it. I strug- gled into the car with my wet bundle, ihere were six ladies and three gentlemen m the car. There was plenty of room for ine on either side if they had sat closer, but not one of them moved. I stood there like a fool till one of the gentlemen at the tar end of the car stood up and asked ma to take his seat. When I went to sit- down, the lady who had sat close enough to hun, drew as far aw.^iy from me as pns- sible. I never before felt what a dowdy Ill-dressed thing I was, but I thought so then. My face was crimson, and 1 could not look up for the world. Oh, howl wished I had never got on that car. It b<)camo unbearabk at ienerth, and I made a foolish attempt to get off the car before ringing the bell, and I fell on one of the ladies, and she was very indignant. The gentleman who had given me his seat, picked up my bundle and carried it out, while I slunk out after him wishing- that the earth would swallow me He- carried my bundle to the sidewalk and asked me which way I was going. I told hiin, and then when he found I had gut off the car long before t was near mv home, he laughed at me, and joked about the- way the old cats (that's what ho called them) had treated me. That adventure- was the TURNING POINT OF MY LIFE. That man's appearance and voice and smilo have haunted me to mv ruin. 1 thought him a god, and wheni con- sidered that he took my j)art before all those ladies I would willingly have let hiw "u "" " '""■ "'"^^' from. tnat man would have been sweeter a thou- '63 NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. sand times than the smiles of another. He dill not loso sif,'ht of nie. I could refuse tinu nothing and he waa but too ready to use his power over me. What is the'use of talking. You see what I am. " •' Now, sir, "continued my friend "the man who ruined this girl is what I call a professional masher. He still exists to l)ly his arts. That was as fine a girl as ever lived, and she was led away by her Ix'tter instincts, either love or gratitude, £ don t exactly know which. But I think this is an exceptional case. The creat majority go astray from pure cussednebs. Love of dress, indolence, licentiousness, and bad temper will be found to have more to do with the pn)|ia- gation of the social evil than man's perfidy and woman's weakness." " Your views are very like those of anotlier gentleman I interviewed— all in favor of the men." " 1 haven't said a word in favor of the inen. I loathe the men who consort with these Women, especially the married por- tion Jt them. When I was a policeman I became acquainted with the dirty habits of many of this class, and I felt so angry with them that when I would meet them going along the street during the dav with their sanctimonious faces i would feel like 8 appiiig them. No, sir ; I don't defend the men, but neither do I want to see the woman held blameless when she deliber- ately chooses this life, and by her example •corrupts and entraps others. But I started out to talk about the grossness of life in a bagnio, and here I have been tell- ing stories, but that's your own fault in interrupting me. I was looking for a thief one night when I was acting-detec- tive. I found out where his "woman" lived, and I felt sure the way to catch him tv'as to WATOH WHERE SHE LIVED. 'The house was neither first nor second- class, but a compromise between the two. It got very cold, and after loitering about for an hour, and getting chilled to tlm bone, I concluded 1 could watch inside well as out. My only fear was that some -of the inmates would recognize who I was. I took chances, however, and rang the bell. I was admitted without much trouble. I found that the greater number of the inmates of the house were much \inder the influence of liquor. There were three men in the room into which I was shown. Each had a woman seated on his knee. Three more came trip- ping down stairs, the first of whom threw herself into my lap and encircled lay neck with her arms. I cannot say her uttentions Were appreciated. A sickening odor of stale baer permeated her person and she waa decidedly drunk. The other two wno ha:i come down stairs with her were n..t so bad, but thev were evidently inclined to be sarcastic about the sudden- ness of her attack on me. They evidently thought she should have given me a chanca to nialve luy pick. I was anxious to find out which was the "woman " of the man I was 111 search of, and wlieii the nvmph who occupied iny knee asked me to buy a bottle of beer I complied, the, more will- ingly Hs It relieved me of her unpleasant bulk and ODORIFEROUS BRE.iTHINGS. The beer was brought and I was assessed 61 tor it. During its consumption J dis- covered- the woman 1 wanted A very brief conversation with her showed me that she was expecting some other society than mine that evening. " Uou't ho making up to me," she gitid. " I ex- pire!; a • friend,' and the landlady would raise Cam if I threw business for him." 1 felt pretty certain that my thief would show up shortly. Bv this time the drunkest of the three who had come down stivirs on my entrance, was quarrel- ing with the others and threatening all soririof dire disasters. Tiie profanilv and sowertKlk was something frightfuh At ,ast oiie of thein struck her with a glass, auQ in a moiiient there was a frightful commotion. There was no fight in the poor drunken creature, and the sight of the blooa which flowed from her brow frightened her into maudlin tears. She sat on the floor, while the blood dabbled her white night-dress, and n-oked back and fore, moaning " Cora, I didn't think you'd stab me." After this incident, although I saw no more drinking in the room, I observed that each time they re-ajjpeared thev were all getting druj ker and drunker. The landlady of the house, a coarse, scowling woman, tried to keep them quiet. but thev" sang snatches of song, and swore, and quarreled, and blows were over and anon free y interchanged. It was a scene 1 can neither describe nor forget, and 1 wai overjoyed in more ways than one when ] saw Fearl, who was the onlv one who wai ariyways sober, go to the do'or and return with my man. I had the handcutfc on him uefore he recovered from his surprise, Wnen it was known that an arrest had been made in the house, there was a greal huboiib. Women rushed here and there like demented things, and I took advant- age of this consternation to slip out with my prisoner. Atrain, I say, that there ii not one tinge of - omance, sentiment or any otiiti' eiinobnn;; *liing about the livei of evil womei.. Tr- >re is no jiassion, nol even sensuality on ii^e part of the wonian ! t t NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. t nothinfr but a dirty account of bargain ami sale^ tliivc one of the parties to tliH transaction may comiiound with a rapaci- ^ous brothel-keeper for her lodgings and fiemi occasional nioals. " With this remark my friend moved away. CHAPTER XXXVIi; LEAPING UOWN TO DEATH. It is seldom possible to watch the whole career of an abandoned woman. As they step lower and lowiir in abasement they keep moving from city to citv until they reach a stage where the next descent must be into the grave. It is, therefore, dith- cult to trace their progress, from the "high-toned "fast house to the hospital pallet where they finish a life of loath- aomeness by a still more loathsomu death. It has been calculated that the average span of existence for a w -nan who em- braces a life of shame does not average more tiian five or six years. A year of the irregular life suflices to neriously iini)air their youth and their good looks, and then they begin to experience the bitterness Jind the hatefulness of the terrible trade ill which they have launched themselves. The extravagance and improvidence of their natures soon put them com-^letely lu the power of the soulless harriuji. who I keeps the house. She contrives thi.i, they shall always bo owing her monev. She ' has good security in their wardrobes, and their lives from this time out become one long struggle with debt, hatred of the landlady who oppresses them, ill-health, and disease. Information derived from many quar- ters shows with unmistakeable distinct- ness THE .urpose of t-.eso sketches to preach. The aim has been merely to j.oint out what exists in our midst, and leave public opinion in its aggtet;ate wisdom to settle the problems vdiich thi!: J facts present. Every right- thinking person must lyinpathize with the etlorts that Christian men ilid women make to rescue this class from their lives of sm. The legislators of tlio province in establishing the Mercer prison, dealt with the()ueution both in a penal and re- formatory spirit. ( itliorlesser institirtiona have be^ui founded by philanthropic per- sons entirely reformatory ond helpful in their character. Of this nature ai-e the Magdalen asylum and tlio Httven. Both of these undoubtedly do commendable work. The porcwit.age of reformations rifTected IS certainl^y small, but small as it IS it encourages the willing workers to go on. Their chief endeavors should be di rected towards eradicating from public sentiment the feeling that the woman who loses her honor CA\ NEVKtt (1I.1M1) HACK into respectability and forgiveness again. 64 This is tho philanthropic aspect of the base. But it has another. It has its criminal aspect. Coanty Urown Attorney Fenton. who is the secretary of tl.e Society for the Pre- vention of Vice, was asked what his society rt-as doing in rejjard to the social 6Vll> " The society," he said, 'is in statu quo at present. Tiie g. itlemen who coniDose It (id what they could and got a great deal of help from the police com- missioners but they could not get Maior IJraper into their way of thinkine. Let- tersjiassed between the chief and me but nothing ever came of it. My last letter requested him to give me a list of the liouses known to the police to be houses of lU fame, but this he refused to do on the ground that he did not know what use 1 vraa to make of the information." Here Mr. Fenton laughed very heartily. " What were the plans of the society lor the eradication of the evil ? " "I don't think ;.'ie society had any hope of wiping out the evil. AH thev hoped to do was to keep it in check. I know that my views wexe simply these. Ihe law of the land declares that keeu- mg a house of ill-fame, or being an iii- mate thereof, are offences punishable by FINK AND IMPRISONMENT. The chief constable and all his men are Bworn to enforce the laws of the land, and I proposed they should do so in this par- ticular class of cases." "There were some raids made about tnem'"'™''' '**"'^ *'^° ''^"^^^^ °^ "Vyell. during the discussion of the question large numbers of the women took friijbt, and they left the city in droves, wi'ite a number were arrested" when the r^ids were made, and a few sent to the Mercer, and more fined. Two or three keepers were frightened out of the busi- ness. NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. CHAPTER XXXVI n. ANOrilKIt CLASS OK I'KOMKN.MmRg, In another of these cketulies I Iiave spoken of certain members of the feir.ila, sex who spend the most of their eveniii«s' m promen.c _ , i to check another outburst. If she had only known. That ^ov' would prove a better extractor f "oin from men's pockets than the disgu ,oing arts of her wretched trade. Her physical frailties would appeal more to men's hearts than her withered and sickening leai-. After some further conversation, which' need not be repeated. I said : good ash le of^er r ^ NIGHT HAWKS OF A GREAT CITY. "Cease being a curso to men, and a curse to yourself ! Before you die, reijent, and make peace with your Maker, whose image you disgrace. " She looked wonderinKly for a moment, then cast her eyes to the earth. _ " My (iod, sir,_I must have a place to a out another sleep to-night. If I sleep night itll kill me." If all the men and women of this tend could have heard the despair in that woman's voice ! A thousand maxims on virtue, a thousand sermons on sin could not produce the effect of these words wailed out in the night. This is the end of the " lark " — traversing the dismal streets, liawking about the very jewel of womanhood for the price of a ragged quilt and a covering from the skies. 65 The charity of a stranger gave her a bed for that night and for other nights. There came a night when she didn't, and in the morning a group of laborers stood looking at a form huddled close against a fence. 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