Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-02

women and children sleep under a roof

and
Within Walls Dripping with Wet,
while the mud floor is saturated with
damp, not uncommonly oozing out OF 1t
in little pools. In one case asked a
gaunt, starved looking man whom /
found literally endeavoring TO sleep
away the hunger, where his little chill.
dren slept, when he pointed to a corner
in the moist room, in which could see
no sign of bedding. do they wear
their clothes at night?" "No." Chow
do they keep warmP" "There is," yer
'oner," he replied, with the most smaz-
ing simplicity and composure, "a deal
of warmth in children" signifying that
they obtained warmth by
Hudaling Together Like Animals.
/ invariably found them crouching
around the semblance OF fire lighted
from the turf gathered from the
bogs, and this at midsummer, although
not very warm even at this time OF the
year, showing how terribly low must
be the vitality amongst them. Every.
where the condition OF the children was
otherwise dreadful, besides, there being
for them nothing but the Indian meal
badly cooked, to live upon, and
this provided them by charitable friends.
In one cabin I entered found mother
and six children seated around pan oi
potatoes and making their evening meal
alone. She told me the potato crop was
poor this year, and handing me several
potatoes remarked that they were black
and not in the best condition for eating,
"But," said she, "the 'youngins' don't
mind it." The reason was evident, as
the poor creatures
Could Get Nothing Else to Sustain Life
in their body. One old man, pale and
lean from want of food, whose boy lay
near the fire OF the cabin, senseless from
hunger, told me that the rent per year
for the miserable hovel he lived in was
four pounds. His last means OF subsis-
tence, a donkey, with which he occasion.
ally did little work had recently died,
and now being unable to pay his rent
he had been served with notice OF
eviction, which means a few days longer
of life on the roadside and then death.
In a week or a fortnight hence the
sheriff OF the county, his bailitfs and
regiment of Her Majesty's army will
march out to this village and carry out
the eviction notices which have been
served upon dozen families in this
place. We visited more than thirty
novels OF the poor. in which l beheld
Scenes Of Wretchedness and Misery
wholly indescribable. Facts, which can
be demonstrated beyond all question,
show that the physical condition OF the
houseless and starving thousands OF this
country is a disgrace, not only to its
government, but to the civilization Of
the age. A distinguished German
traveller writing OF Ireland recently,
says: II have seen the Indian in his
forest, the negro in his chains, and |
thought l beheld the lowest form OF
human misery, but l did not then
know the lot OF Ireland. Irish misery
forms type by itself, of which there
exists no where else either model or i'm
itation." All unprejudiced travellers
tell the same story. When one nation
greatly oppresses another, or when a
government is so administered as to pro-
duce general suffering and misery, the
moral sense OF mankind is shocked, and
it becomes a duty for the humane to
record their adherence OF the wrong
that public opinion may demand reme-
DIV. j. F. B.