The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-09-06
CRY LrRs.-How strangely inhuman

81, ClrY LrFs.-How strangely inhuman
is life in great city. You may live
months-sye, years-with Gully anime
inch wall separating you from people
you may never see, whose names you
may never know, except you hear them.
by accident, and who are happy and
sorrowful-are born. married and
buried without your being more than
aware OF it . usygt 9.-s& iss.t g f.
We shall never forget the feelings OF
isolation and loneliness We suffered
when alone. unfriended and unknown,
we first began the battle OF life in a
large city. Fresh from the country or
a country village, where we had known
every person within score Of miles,
we, did not dream that the nearer you
bring people together the more I'M
neighborly they get and the more they
wrap themselves in mantle Of SELFISH
ness, looking upon all strangers with an
eye of suspicion, and starving them
selves and all around them for want Of
sympathy, kindness and love. I'VE.
shall never forget the feelings of utter
loneliness that came over boys heart as
was passed bright homes filled with
happy faces and felt that amid all the
thousands of that great city there was
not one who cared whether the never
to-be-euded struggle for life we were
then commencing resulted gloriously or
disastrously. whether we succeeded or
miserably failed. And this has been
the feeling of many young men before
and since, and perhaps always will be.
Since that day we have crossed the
broad prairies, far away from any
human being; alonein a canoe we have
sailed down the broad Mississippi from
Lake Pepin to where Davenport now
stands, for DAYS without seeing a hui
man face, vet never in the wilderness
have we felt such feeling OF utter
loneliness as when standing in great
CITY with thousands after thousands
surging by, not one of whom we knew
or cared for, or who knew or cared for
us
In a great city you hear the piano on
the other side of the wall, or the wall
of misery, or joyous laughter. You
see the physicians chaise at the door
and you infer that some one is SICK
Some day hearse comes and several
carriages and you know that some one
ia dead, and that is all you know OF
what has occurred within foot Of You.
It NAV be that the man whose friend
ship you could trust or the woman
whose love might make the pathway
of life bright and beautiful to you,
eats, drinks and sleeps just the other
side of a brick and two inches Of plas-
ter, and yet you are forever lost to each
other because etiquette does not allow
human sympathy to pierce brick walls.
In the country you would be acquaint-
ed though you lived ten miles apart !;
in the city a single brick is an impassa-
bic barrier.
Isit any wonder that warm hearts
starve for want Of human sympathy?
Is it any wonder that young men fresh
from home, with the ballowed kiss Of
fond mother yet warm upon the
cheek; who hope to win their way in
the world and be cheered by the en-
couraging smiles of their fellows, find
all the warm emotions of their hearts
stricken with a deathchill when they
experience the utter selishness OF the
men they meet in q large city; men who
have no time for anything but money
getting, and forget that we are all men,
bers OF the same great family? Many
young man has been utterly and for
ever ruined for want OF one
" To speak word of common comfort
Which by daily use has almost loyt its
meaning"
This should not be so. There should
be, and are, warm hearted, large heart
ed men in every city who would rejoice
in whispering q word Of cheer and
comfort in the ear of the young enthu-
siast. But the great mass of men live
out the rule Of city life, Every man
for himself, and the devil take the
hindmost"
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