National Republican., 1882-09-22

drinks again; he is not drunk, but in bis face wo
trace tho marks Of beastly intemperanco. He Is
on his way from one distant point to another He
has met with serious accident and is forced TO
take the journey on foot His feet are swollen and
his bandaged wrist Is agonizlng him with palm
at least ho says II Is Ills rheumatism bends him
half way over. We trace his record and we find
him at different points in the city with different
complaints, but pitcous tales of great dstress--a
trained deceiver and genuine imposter.
AGAIN, AN OLD WOMAN Is FOUND
upon the street and sent to us by sumo kind
hearted, sympathlzing person, who has plted her
with moistencd eyes She comes fortified with his
voucher, with a message of distress. She has
moved about with staff to support her trembling
limbs, and asked for aims from house to house.
She is the widow, so she says, of some foreign
minister. Her uncle ranked among the statesmen
of the land. He was man of wealth, and when
he died her husbands brother seized the estate,
and here she Is poor widow upon the cold
charities of an unsympathetic world. As she re.
lates her heartrending story of fall from former
greatness 10 distress the tears run trickling
down her cheeks, Her former friends forsook her
when misfortune came, and now there is no one TO
pity or to relieve. My heart is touched, although
steclcd for such emergencies, and my eyes are
moistened as she sympathetically proceeds, Her
children in whom she had the highest hopes, are
dead. We turn to our record and find her the
same old woman who has been preyiug upon the
charities Of the people of Washington for near q
score of years Her home is with another who
seems to share the spoils.
SHE HAS MADE BUSINESS
which she is now willing to forsake. Hertrcmblng
form, her ability to bring the tears at will, her
story well connected, are all her capital In stock
at some unguardcd moment sho reveals the fact
that she has friends in an adjacent state, who will
find her home, and we arrange to sand her there
but when the time arrives and the faithful agent
goes to escort her to the cars she stubbornly dc.
clincs to go. She has succeeded thus far in de.
coiying, but the veil is drawn aside, and she is
now unmasked-a dissolue, intemperate, impos-
tor, and fraud Next comes abandoned wives,
whose Incorporate husbands have not been heard
from for months, and sometimes years. Their lot
is hard left with lot of little children to support,
and only she TO do It, The rent Is over due, and
the exacting landlord says that she must yacate
What shall she do? We have no funds to save
her from such dire calamity Our funds arc
nearly gone, then what shall we do in all these
multitude of cases which this picture faintly
represents2
THESE ARE BUT PICTURES OF FEW,
and drawn from real facts Our plan is good, our
system, when fully understood, commends itself
to all. We serve double purpose We come in
contact with the worthy poor who need our
sympathy and our aid, and we keep record to
plolcct hghiHst ihpusition, duplicaioh, anu iIeuu
Our central Office is in communication will fifteen
subdivisions already organized as part or
branches of the Associated Charities ready to in
vestigate, report and aid. We do not feed so much
but find and point out the avenues for work. Yet
feed occasionally we must in cases of rare emer-
gencles and great distress. We are supported thus
far by contributions from the people, for whom
we labor without pay, to whom we must now ap-
peal for cooperation and support.
L. s. EMERY,
General Secretary.