Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-04-23

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d-uce A. h .l-Enprc, tie state a lars
a. sola-~A&t n,-tt-r, osIng t1tlv IA
h5r ST Ir,i.i by NJ. u.ury LaI...luE.
r-ciAItHluS Aud rusdtzaAIug OpvrAI1as.
GoAt poverty 49,, EO-eSrr. Ncfs ey!-
lent.
AT Citizen. concern cts on every
face. Tor some miles around tie town
the reAsintry are on the verge OF star
vltIpn. Tie pawn offices are filled aIth
every sort OF movable hat can be
pledged. One pawnbroker assured me
that he had NO less than two hundred
beds AID blankets III his keeping Poor
women arc To he seen at daS break, sit
ung outside tue pawn office doors who
have walked Eive or Six Irish miles, from
the island and outlying districts, lesv-
ing helpless little children ut hum-, in
order to pledge their beds ana clothing
for food,
Tue overworked clergy are besieged
almost night and day, and their funds
are quite exhausted. Visiting one Of
them the other evening, | found the
passage and stairs crowded with women
implorlng help. l found families liv-
ing in what appeared to be heaps of
rubbish, but which turned out to be
mere coverings from tho weather, into
WhiSH thc W crawl.
The interior height could not be more
than two feet Six inches, the sea wash
ing up to the small hole which served
as an eutrance.
"Another cabin l saw upon hill
side, placed upon swampy ground in
which one sunk to his boot-tops in wa.
ter. These poor people have neither
food nor money to buy it. Men and
children are seen almost naked, and are
confined to their cabins on that account.
The cry is for employment, but there
seems to be very vague idea rs to
what form it shall take. and unless
some help is rendered soon the scenes
Of 1916 will be repeated.
e." The Society of st. Vincent de Paul
ut Clifden would, am sure. carefully
and judiciously distribute auy help
that might be accorded 10y generous
England. The Secretary would ac-
knowledge such gifts, whether of mon
ey, food or clothing.
There is sort of edible seaweed
called 'dlllisc' used by the people on
the Connemara seacoast. l saw a poor
woman picking up u meal of it, on
cold afternoon in December, along the
shore of Klllery Bay at Leenane. Per-
haps there was something in the back
ground of barren mountain, gray sea
ana stretch of stony beach covered with
brown weed that made the scene i'm
pfessive, but the lonely figure cleaning
u scanty supper from the shore looked
impressively sad. She told me the old
story of mo work, no money, no provis-
ION. 1t would be hard winter for the
poor, indade, God help them. Her
husband, after nine weeks journey in
Scotland seeking work, had returned
poorer than he went. He's up the
mountain now for basket Of turf. I've
three children, an it's only three weeks
old the youngest is itself. My ould
mother lives with us, too, and it was
only last Sunday l buried my sister,
In answer to the cries of u ragged ur-
chin, aud having filed her can with
weed she limped of, and soon dissp-
peared into wretched cabin, tho door
OF which served for both chimney and
window also.
We are familiar with the pictures
and stories setting forth the manner in
which rollicking Irishmen drive their
pigs to market under many difficulties.
uuuy uoW uTlNcS lis piB W tuat hct al
the same manner as of yore, but there
liz sort of settled melancholy on his
face; he looks terribly hungry, and the
cruel cold searches MIN out through
the manifold rents IN his clothing. In
many cases, after standing several hours
lii the marke,, he drives back the era
tur' unsold. The shopkeeper, small
blame to him, at times pources upon
the pig, AMI conhscates him for the
payment of long-standiDg debt.
THE price Of all sorts of live stock
is very small at present. 1t is ruinous
to sell and 1t Is ruinous to keep. Tor
the 'bastes are atIug their heads of
1t Is good feature 10 the present
crisis that, contrary to expectation, and
thanks to the spell of iue weather
which prevailed during the latter part
If tue year. the fuel Is plentiful.
Throughout the whole country ghe hills
and bogs are busy with women aud
girls carrying loads of turf on their
b4rks. Lluie gIrls fron l. t. 1 years
Of age carry large bAsKets OF faei
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