The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-15
Npw uxCoNuERCIAL SAMPLES.
s,,,o,i scar in the East.
BY CHARLES DICKENS.

sionincnnce OF a ghastly mono!on hoC " oe
fnnnd in the. orglDal.. fhe Wehu .steicson ,
I.I. IounIu II L., Tho streets before me, and struck
r,eiy but IL was never at the paius ol H1sun- sun
inc 2isguse II plaI ed on no uulchuer mere
was wned with no h1%eeS; ba or trsinIted no
,ninscny sat ut no feast, cast no dice, counted
NO poId. II was SIMPLY pare, gaunt, Iamlsheo
eletop ssyinE us WAY snS stepnev eastward
M ondou and giving on the Impure river, were
the scene OF this uucompromslng Dance OF
Death, upon drizzlng November day,
sonand maze of streeGs, courts, and alleys OF
miserable houses let out i'll single rooms. A
,TildeIress OF dirt rags. and hunger. mud
desert chiefly Inhabited by atrloe IRON Whom
emnloy meut has departed or to whom 1t comes
-, a, 9rllv and rarely. They are not skilled
mechanics i'm any wise. They are but laoorers.
Dock laborers, water-side laoorers' coal porsers,
ballast. beavers, such like heWers OF WOOD ana
drawers OF water. But they nave come lnto
existence, and they propagate tnelr Wretcheo
race. -, .,st,,orrht tho slroIetop
seemed to play OF here; IL hal sLucS % e,eSt.o9 lou
hHIs on the walls, which the wind ana ram had
5e,eriorated into suitable rags IL had even
Summed no the state OF the poll, 10 chaik, on
the shutters OF one ruined mouse. " ulureu
The free and ndepende@t not 70 'oto Oomo o
90 tbev valued the state OF par ana the
national prosperity .(both OF great importance
to them, / think!), but, by returning Thlsm IN
and Thatman, eacn naught without the other,
10 compound q glorious and immortal whole.
surely the skeleton is nowhere more cruelty
ironical IN the original monkish idea
Pondering in my mind the tar-seeng schemes
of Thisman and Thatman, and OF the public
blessing called Party Tor staying the degeneracy,
phy ysical and moral, OF many thousands (Wno
shall say how many p OF the English race; for
devisiDg employment useful to the community,
for those who want but TO work and live; for
eaualizing rates, cultiVating waste lands, taclli
tatiDg emigration, and, above all things, saving
AMI utilizing the oncomng generations, and
aho in N mol alx-
ness into strength; pondering IN my mind
say, these hopeful exertiops, turned down a
marrow street 10 look into a house or two;
1t was dark street with dead wall on one
side, Nearly all the outer doors OF the houses
stood open. ] took the first entry. and knocked
at parlor door. Might L come in? might,
II plased, sur.
The woman of the room (Irish) had picked up
some long strips of wood, about some wharf or
barge, and they had just no " been thrust into
the otherwise empty CRATE TO make two. iron
pots boil. There was some fish in one, aud
there were some potatoes in the other The
flare of the burning wood enabled me TO see a
table and a broken chair or so, and some old
cheap CTOCkery ornaments ABOUT the chimney
piece 1t was not until l had spoken with the
woman for few minutes that | saw horrible
brown heap on the door in corner, which, bat
for previous experience IN this dismal wise. l
might not have suspected to be "the bed.n
There was something thro IN upon 1t, and l
asked what that was.
"'Tis the poor craythur that says here, sur,
and 'ts very bad she Is, and It's very bal she's
been this long time, aud It's better she'll never
be- and It's slape she does all day, aud tits wake
she does all night, and tits the lead, sur"
THE whatW
'The lead sur. Sure It's the lead. mills, where
The women gets took on at eighteen pence a
day. sur, when they makes application early
enough and is lucky and wanted, and tits lead
pisoned she is, sur aud some OF them gifts lead
plsOned soon and some OF them gifts lead plsoned
later and some but not many niver, and It's all
Tn and
some constitutions Is strong and some
Is weak, and her consttoosnun is lead.
plsoned bad as can De- sur, and her brain Is
coming out at her ear, aad it hurts her dreadful,
and that's what 1t is and niver no more and
ntver no less, SURF
The sick young woman moaning here the
speaker bent over her, took bandage from her
head, and threw open back door to let in the
daylight upon 1T, from the smallest and most
miserable backyard l ever saw.
That's what cooms from her, Sur, being
lead-pisoned, aud 1t coOms from her night an
day the poor sick craythur, and the pain of i
Is dreadful, and GOd he knows that my hus
band has walked the sthreets these four day
beng laborer, and is walking them no anC
Is ready to work and no work or him aud no tirt
and no food but the bit in the pot, aud no m r,
thau ten shlllDgs IN fortnight, God be good tC
us, and 1t ls poor we are and dark IL is anC
could 1t is indeed !"
Kuow that | could compensate myself
thereafter for my selfdenlal, ii sa it, had
resolved that woulo give nothing in the course
of these visits. | did this TO try the people.
may state at once that my closest observation
could not detect any indication whatever OF AN
expectation that would give money; they were
grateful 10 be talked to about their miserable
affairs, and sympathy was plainly comfort TO
them; but they neither asked for money in any
case, nor showed the least trace of surprise or
DISAPPOINTMENT or resentment at my giving
none.
The woman's married daughter had by
this time come down from her room on
in Qti
She herself had been to the lead mills
very early that morning to be TOOK
on" but mad not succeeded. She had four
children, and her husband, also a water side
laooIer and then out seeking work, seemed IN
no better case as to finding 1t than her father
She was English, and by nature of buxo n
figure and cheerful. Both in her poor dress anC
In her mothers there was an effort to keep AZ
some appearance OF Aeatness. She knew al
about the sutterings of the unfortunate invalid
and all about the lead poisoning, and how TIT
symptoms came on, ana how they gre ew-haVlns
often seen them. Tue very smell when yol
stood inside the door of the works was enough
TO knock you down, she said, yet she was COINS
back again TO get ''took on" What could sh'
do? Better be ulcelated and paralyZed 10
eighteen pence day, while 1t lasted, than Sc
the children starve.
touching the back door and all manner G
otfense, had been for some time the sleeping
place OF the sick young woman, ~
the nights being now Wintry,, ana IN
blankets and coyerlets "gone TO the leaUn
shop,n she lay ali NIGHT where she lay all da!
and was lying then, The woman OF the rooa
her husband, this most miserable patient an
Two others, lay on the one brown heap togetn'
fer warmth.
''God bless you, sir, and thank you'll" were th
parting words IRON these people-gra!eiull
spoken too-with which lett this place.
Some streets away, tapped at another parlf
door on another ground floor. Looking in,
found "A W BlttiI