Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-08
o be offensive to honest, tidy people,

to be offensive to honest, tidy people,
and that they in no way SAVIOR Of the
here specially undesirable discipline
of a charitable institution. The spirit
of non-interference is fully carried out
in the matter of ingress and egress. The
gas in the corridors is turned off at IL
o'clock, and the outdoors are closed for
the night; but each tenant is provided
with two Keystone for his tenement
and one for the the outer door-and
may thus come and go as he pleases.
It is not surprising to know, having thus
much of preliminary information, that
Peabody's buildings never have any
empty rooms. At the present moment
the one in Southwark street has upon
its books upwards of three hundred APP
picants over and above the available
accommodation. The tenants ore strict
ly of the laboring classes, it being an
imprinted rule of the place that no man
earning more than twenty-five, or at
most thirty shillipgs a week, is eligible
for admission. Nothing else is required
of an incoming tenant further than
voucher for his Responsibility, generally
sought at the hands of his employer,
and other things being equal, the super
intendent makes a practice of giving
the preference to families where the
bread-wlnner is engaged at a distance
not too remote to prevent his returning
home to take his dinner with his family
One of Charlotte Cushman's Last Letters.
Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge sends to the
New York Evening Post the following
extract from a private letter written by
Miss Charlotte Cushman to friend in
that city, only a week or two ago:
Dear, | am better; there is no ques-
ton that [ am coming through my
dreadful slough The way has been
long and dark, but at last a ray of sun
shine brightens everything, and in spite
CT the self-pity at getting no sleep, | am
not the wreck you might imagine from
my manner of expressing myself. If
you could look at me, as [ wish from
my heart you could, for my pleasure,
you would say, She has been pretend
ing 1 believe, now, that I am
going to get well And then-and then
what shall I do to show my love and
gratitude to the dear God who has
raised me up from death-and what
has been the mortal ailment before ever
since the foundation of the world?
What way shall [ live? What shall /
do? Perhaps read again, who knows?
Your portrait of me in your let
ter, is painted with liberal hand. If
[ could only have been or be all you
say, then | should wonder at nothing
which happens to me. But what would
affection be worth if it did not make us
add our own excellence to that of the
object beloved? You shall hear
from me again-how | am going on in
health, and all. Now am too tired to
write more. God bless you" Mrs.
Dodge says of the letter and its author:
at seems to me that you may think it
well to show this side of her grand,
trustful nature to the world, and that,
indirectly, the publication of the ex-
tract may tend to correct the popular
impression that actors are necessarily
lacking in religious feeling. Several
times during the past month | have
seen her brave and cheerful, while en-
during such torture of body as only a
heroic soul could bear. Her face, often
clouded with pain, would light up at a
word or the touch of hand, and at
moments holy fire would glow in her
eyes, making one feel that Charlotte
Cushman i'll, almost helpless, was
grander even than Charlotte Cushman
in the fullness Of her health and
strength