The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-03-13

nearly as we could MAKE IL out, WAS hah-
dis H. for eighteen years an inmate Of
this poor-h3use, aud, ike his miseiaole
comrades. for two years past doomed TO this
brutal incarceration. He was clad IN
blue frock. half covering his body. and lay
in a heap upon the litter of his cell, aP-
parcntly asleep or in a Stupor, from which
we could not arouse him, and we passed on
TO
CELL NUMBER SIX.
This cell is the most remote form the en-
trance. and its atmosphere was \ double
concentration of al the fetid stenCheS that
rervaded the other cells. Before we fairly
reached the ope.iug in the door we were
driven back hy The intolerable foulness Of
the IA. K Cdor, and sought relicf.H the outer
air God help those who are doomed to
live IN such place without even an Ccea-
sional breath of His pure air In a few
minutes we returned to our post and, peer
ing into the dark cage. We could diStIn-
guiSh the figure. iUt not features, Of man,
John A., sitting on the iioor. He Az
swcrcd Our address at first with an angry
imuatienCe: but when we told him Sc were
friends who had come to see him we heard
a rustliug i'm the straw a If he Was making
an effort to rise. But lie did not come; and
our attendant, who could speak English,
explained to us that he was paIalyZed and
could not walk.
Leaving these sickening sights, we cross
ed the road 10 the pooIhOuse hospital and
went through it's rooms, which were filed
with the old, the iutTm, the sick, tie
MANNED the blind, appealing with mute
eIuqueuce to all human sympathy, but not
presenting any features particularly differ
ing from those common to the average
county poOrhuuse hospital. But We had
not yet seen tue worst. Our attendant,
who showed no disposition to conceal any
thing, and who evidently did not think
there was anything out Of the way in what
we had sten. let us doan into the basement
q the hospital, and there, in a cage like
those We had already seen, except that it
was perhaps one foot larger, and, being
exposed to the outer air and some ventila-
tion, Was not pevaded by the deadly oIOr
Of tie other cells we beheid
a SHOCKING SIGHT.
Lying on heap Of loose straw, was a
young woman, trsDty yccrs Cf age. She is
dumb, utteriug only an uumeaning clucll-
ing sound. She was born Nth but one
hand and with her right foot SO feagfully
distorted rs to be useless. Mentally sLe
h..s been idiutic from her birth. But how
are VIC to diScube her condition? For
eighteen yerrs has this poor girl dragged
out her wretched life in this poor-huuse,
and the last sir gears have been passed in
this sly, upon tLiS litter Of straw,
NAKED As WHEN BORN.
unless a WiSp Of coarse bed ticking. Oriri-
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a sIeClacte Of civilized heafheu.Sm in IFS
lowest degradation She lay with her ap-
Pareut!y sound leg drawn up against !. ser.
and we asked # she could walk about her
Io,7.g tr,.,t y.,, She d.,,,t I'll, So -
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80 .. ,Is o'' 'lo ana stepping
ard drew the lf,.h d. -, -. -. =
II yrouI,I.o Aner,,s.-,,, , a.. - 81
acros- tIe Do,I cr.,f,, l.''. -, u
ouicI,Iy had, hin, ,a.fs+ C,I..LI,.:,', .,',
-I,s. WIS ytr,r,,.1,- III, - - -
len in aurpiranr.,. we .,sl-,.I IF -, .1..,
result of disease tI,a lac tJ,f,,i, -, .,
turned tovyald us l,..,.r s5 a,,,,,,,,P,5
Isrge as to surrc-t some dI.,,.sirI -. sfec+i,,,;
But with the exact air Of a farmer q,.I,iI,it-
ing some futteneG animal. ouT or7i3s a.
sured us that it was ..,olid fat :, ,7,I -
ed his fist utothis human flesh. as a jutcl,-
cr might do into the fIaul of "a nrize OK
Eighteen out uf twenty wears nf , vvo-
mans life ia such a home Si,- ,.a,,.a ,r
naked iunrispur,alrr m, tE 80.
an aImshnuse cell ! Never +, have known
wOmau'S shame Never to have know, y
mothers care Grown To yyon,anho,.d nm
der She sore afllicriops and defects =, l,icI,
came with her into the world ana a. have
them intensified into such a I,l7-7,.a.t IL
IS We turned AWAY. stunned nd -
heart over such a si,ecf,c1e Of E,,n,.,n ,,,.s.
aud inhuman indifference. we felt tLatIbis
poor aiiI missed ia, ono Iras,;,,,r e -, y =
when her ,,,otI,s,. f,5I4 80 =. -''S
her birth. = 60
Ne have told the story ,f ,r,fs. .ror,7,,,,sa
without a desire OF AN attempt at any ex-
9.rreyatior. ..,,- - 't,'s SA
need
no EyAccE, trTox
and it IS not easy to see how H. c,,,.r1.,
made worse tLan the unva1-,Iisi.d tr,,.I,
They are not the result Dr cluajty. Mt 1.gst
al ;,r,,-,,.,,,,- =. ~ ' ,'' .''S ='''' tll