The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-03-09

On the secretarss s2lsrv-Le had no
means beyoni ,hat-bat that she had
Inherited wealth. the income Of which
was sufficient 70 justify al this &
fraTaga1ee. At her home the story
vas that the secretary had made some
lucky speculations before he went in
TO the cabinet, which accounted for
j. al where the inheritance story
would not 60 down. All this time
they were selling traderships, and
spending the proceeds in this foolish
way. There can be no doubt that
the woman had the man completely
under her thumb-that 50 infatuated
was he with her that he would have
stolen ten times the amount, had she
desired it. The man was doubtless
honest, originally, bat oh, how weak.
The merchants OF New York suffer
severely by this exposure. Il is ru-
mored that Mrs. Belknap owes vast
sums Of money to the fashionable dry
goods men and jewelers. here, which,
as the Belknaps have spent all their
stealings, they will lose.
HOW THE POOR LIVE.
A friend lately had a delinquent
washerwoman, and not finding ex-
cuses as satisfactory as shirts, set
out with me to hunt her mp, not
more out Of curiosity to find the
clothes, than to see for ourselves how
the poor live. Her address was a
marrow street Of dozen blocks, in
the heart Of down town, and there
was not decent building init. The
pavements were strewn with gar
bage, and the houses stained with
slops thrown from the windows. The
woman was in crazy old wooden |
tenemen. in the rear OF the one front
ing on the street, and in consequence
had Just as little air and light as it
would do to live. We found her in
room ten BY twelve, with bed,
washtub, cook, stove and boiler in the |
corners, leaving just room to worm
ones way between them. Her grown
son and little girl sat on the bed;
there was 10 chair, and string of
wet clothes hung above their heads
For this room and a closet for the /
boy TO sleep in, she paid eight dollars |
month rent, her whole means of |
living being her sons wages as boy |
in a grocery store, at four dollars
week, the washing from one family,
and a t-iae Of help ffom her daugh
ter, who got two dollars and fifty cts.
week as waitress in an uptown
house, Instead Of making way with
the clothes, as we supposed, we found
her husband had been sick with fever,
and the doctor had forbidden her to
send any clothes out Of the house.
The air could not get through the
house, the drains were out Of order,
and the stencil in the entries was 50
sickening that we were not surprised
to hear that there was diphtheria
and smallpox in the block. The
man had been sent to the hospital to
die, aud the house cleaned and disin-
iected by the board of health, but it
could hardly be kept clean by mortal
hands, and never healthy. Comfort !.
These people never expect that
All they can hope for is the barest
possible life so bare and naked tina:
full meal is something to be dated
from, and the possession OF dollar
matter to be remembered. And the
end Of that life! The hospital first,
and Potter's field afterward. That's
all there is about it.
THE PROFITS OF TENEMENT PROPER.
Passing a block Of ruinous build
ings On in street by the river, asked
the owner why he didn't tear it down,
and build something decent. He told
me, laughing the notion to scorn,
that such property, was the most
profitable in the city. 1t cost moth
ing to keep it in repair, for he never
made any repairs, and it was divided
into lodgings, twelve feet square, or,
few, twelve by eighteen, and they
were always full. There was no loss
Of rent, fer the money was always
demanded in advance, and if by the
next month the tenant was unable to
pay, the agent bundled hin out in the
street, and there were always plenty
to take his place. There arc families
On Fifth avenue who have incomes
sixty thousand year, from just such
property, and they want no better.
What horrid contrast between the
fastidious member of fashionable
club who rolls down to his Office in
his coups, of morning, from his
picture hung home in the
fright, wide uptown street, and the
evtr-sccntad dens where poverty
tricken wretches toll their lives
way, TO earn the price Of his lux
r;es. When will Moody and Sankey |
Dor, that mems hearts may be soft
ned toward their kind and take for
cir text, Your gold is corrupted,
d your riches are moth-eaten."