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Night Life Of Young Men

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
July
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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One night often destroys a whole lite. The leakage of the night keeps thu day Torever eiupty. Night is bin'sharvesting time. More sin and crime are committed in one night than in all the days of the week. This is more empJiatieally true ol' the city than of the country. The street lanips, like a file of soldiers, with torch in hand, stretch away in long liues on either sidewalk ; the gay colored transpareneies are ablaze with attractions ; the saloon and billiard halls are brilliantly illuiniiiated ; music senda forth ita enchantment ; the gay company begin to gather to the haunta and houses of plensure ; the gambling dens are aflame with palatial splendor ; the theaters are wide open ; the milis of dostruction are grinding hoalth, honor, happiness, hope out of thousands of üves. The city under the gas light is not the samo as under Qod'l ïunlignt. The allureraents and perils and pitf&fll of night are a hundred fold deeper and darker and inore destructivo. Night Ufe in our cities is a dark problem, whose depth aDd abysses and wliirl pools niake uh Btart back with horror. All night loDg tcars are falling, blood is stroaming. Young men, teil me how and whcro you spend your evenings, and I wijl write out the chartof your character and final dcstiny, with blanks to iusert your aunes, It leemi to me an appropriatc text would be, " Watehman, whatof thu night! " Pólice1 man pucintf the boat, what of the nigbt ? Vhat are the young men of the city doiiit! at night? Where do thcy spend the ir evenings? Who are their assouiatea 't What aio their liabits ? Where do they go in, and what time do you suo thrüi ponie out? Polioeman, would the night lile of young aien cotamond them to the confidenco of their omploycrs ? Would it be to their credit ? Make a record of the nights of one week. 1'ut in the morning paper the ñames of all the young men, their habits and haunts, that are on tho street for sinful plqpiure. Would there nut be nhuie and confusión ? Some would not dare to go to their places ol' business ; nome would return home at night; somt; would leavo tho city: sonie would oonnnit f-uicide. Kciuember, young iiion, that in the retina of the all -seciug eyo tlusre isnothing hid but shall bo revoaled on tlio last

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News