New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-08
SHARPENING THE scYTHE
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A STORY wffH 4 POINTED NJ


SHARPENING TdE sCYIdG,
STORY wtrH . POINTED MORAL
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'11I't AiS A. ,np,- s,roroor ora ,v;n+o, ; +a COM
A. ,oa+, ba haa.d tbo of tho
snads and tie click Of the hammer. A hundred
men are at work like bees 1non the cliff. each
| IN his own cell Of the great honev comb. his
rrivate massage The right to diS in his own
| bn ROW each Of these men have nurchased for n
| friAinq sum and he tolls in II daily Thoprl, If
| ia a narrow space, in which he is not able to
stand upright. and can scarcely turn: though
/ Tho orr in II that he breatbcs is damn and
/ dasalv. thouyh the color in his cheek i com
! mnnly the heetic of consumntion and he has a
! couoI that never leaves lin nipb+ or dav /.
| thonph he will himself remark that he does net
| Know amoug his neiphbors one Old man. and
I thougb, ali marrying early. few ever see a
father with his aroyyn-u9 son. vet, for ali this
he scvthestone enter works in his accustomed
y, sv, and lives his short life merriIy-tbat Is to
sa,t, he drinks down auy sense or care that he
MI ,i,t have. These Door men are almost with
onf ary execution sickly drunlards The
1or, on Gf this community are NOT much health
;ar n ia their task To cut and sbana the rouph
beyn stone into those pieces Whsrewith the
6 mnn,er whets his scythe..' The thin particles
of Inst that escape during this process are very
nernciors to the LUNGS but. as usual it is
ffnnnd imnossibIe TO helm the IGNORANT sufferers
bv onv thing in the form of an idea without
| 4 nnmber of masks and respirators have been
| move hon once nroyiCied for them bv the charity
| of +ba reiphborinr gentry but scarcely one
| yoman has ven them her counteuance
r,-a,,at ,;ro of +ho s,,,4l,o. .,+o,o o,++or :.
So ,;abIo - ha obrnn+1, onIo5
us 49, f roloo frnn, tho ,aibbnr;,,o
- ~ Iha1d bo dr;rap in ora by ono Hn o;tbeT
npou tt;nI a. 80, ~ io;I oa,as
soe ~ In % @ af sf 9e 4,e ~
:" aL',A' ,s love- hn1royy foryyard CbeoS ss
tss pusne olos a7o tbay orc 10 nfta,, j;snn,oa,,
~ npa,,n sos-oS1,, ~ 10 b,tndra,,
VIII 81 dis,so5 ara tn bn
| NM .t,,,,h ,rb;ob .on,a or,,.bol or pn+rooo teI
Fl, s nc ,o+ bear bro,,aht ont daad The
nn soi Nn,aa - aa,nn'o NON canrot nav rho trA,
oase 70 anssa,, ~ Inv, f noIo5 for +bs s,,r.
sast IS i,;s coli ,S,I the conseanenca Il tbpt
pors y, MS otl, n,,st .1rnas nv, han
soehet ~ y. ,,o stro, - tba ,e;o1ava hi 40
psn ., f',l nf sond bebind hi,n and sat an i'm
~ horr;o,, bat,voo, bi,, ona tba worla
.;tI,a,t II viii fben he n IittIa nrposa fiiat
.o+bar NAV he working near him nromnt tr
It! oiorn, and oss;stonce TOMS nnan TONS n
glN nv sanJ divida tho victim from the resorers
apd apd they must prop and roof their way al
avery step, lest they perish Such accidents
are ura ,nea crnsb cd Nv fa1i of sand mon him
NV as cen cut otf from the outer air. and suf
tocated in his narrow worm hole
| Whitekn ights is a small village at the foot Of
tbis cliff. inhabited almost entirely by persons
following this scythe-stone trade The few
nnr;euit7rai laborers there to be met with nav
he Distinguished at glance from their brethren
of the pits-the bronzed cheeks from the hectic
the muscular frames from the bodies which
disease has weakened, and which dissipation
helps to a more swift decay. The cottages art
not i'll built, but generally stand detached in Q
small garden Their little porches may be seer
Of an evening thronged with dirty pretty chill
drep, helping father outside his cavern. by car
ryipu the stone away in little baskets, as h,
hr,pgs it out to them.
Rsside the Luta rivulet, which has pleasantel
noohs, eis,N more ore dowery banks, and fnl more mu
veal, than any stream in Devon beside thi
!, .ook. and parted by little wood of beeche
| u Nh lanrel from the vilInne is a very pea r