The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-08-17
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II would seem strange that In 80 popu
lous and 50 prosptrous o city as Portland,
aalno, young man IN the flush o! life'
AGED ~ years, with the will to dare and
the disposition 20 do what FRANK l.. GULp
did dare and 90, should have met the fate
that beielI him. The account Is that last
week she died OF starvation. lie had II
mother, three sisters and brothers to snip
port, and as he could get no work, went
without food himself TO keep them from
starving and was thus attacked with ga'-
trio fever from which he shortly after died"
If we are disposed to be inconsiderately
severe, hard or practical We should say
that FRANK ought to have made known
his alarming situation and called for help;
that it were far more sensible to
have done this than let famine feed
upon his cheeks and chill perjury
to weigh down the heart till hot
low eye and wrinkled brow told OF the
consuming flame within. But who knows
what efforts he bad put forth to secure the
coveted work for willing hands to do? Who
knows how often, perhaps, he had
sought assistance, until repealed
at last SO frequently his in
dustry was palled, his spirit bowed
and his resolution was cast into despair?
He might have had princes mind, but
imprisoned in poor mans purse, it shrunk
to wretchedness. To the sensitive organ
ism the pill of poverty go sticks In the
throat that expression is suffocated. 1t is
easy enough for you, OH well'to-do citizen,
auartered in your own home or at your
luxurious hotel, with never the need OF
thought of how you are to pay
for comfortable, even lu1urlant
fare. who apparel yourselves in the
latest fashions, drive your fine carriages,
partake of banquets, go to sleep when you
choose, spend your. summers at some wa
teriug place, to say that the poor man or
woman should work and save. even as you
did, if you please. 1t is easy enough for
you to be amiable in your manners, fertile
of anecdotes, liberal in your views, free
with your advice and outspoken in your
criticisms, like 20 many sheep with golden
neeces for mask of gold hides all discrep-
ancies; but not so with the man Or woman
who has perhaps been used 10
better things, accounted with the
fineness of quality begot by blood
and earlier associations, and increased by
due education. 1t is not so easy for him
or her now in tattered garments, under the
cravings of hunger, SO pinched by poverty
that every nickle spent for even the neces-
ssries of life is as parting with friend, IN
deed, 10 be arrayed in the garb OF gayety'
or even to have the moral courage to ap-
proach the richer with the request Tor quick
employment much less for relief from
pressing want. The rebuffs have been SO
many that respondent Generalization pro-
Guces almost trcpidation. 1t issdlilicuIt
for an empty bag 10 stand upright.
A family IS sick in the house OF honest
toll and poverty, the physician is to be call
ed, medicines are to be procured, ana those
daily dependent Tor living are TO ioreGo
their work with its seant income to watch
the Overwhelming patient. Does the resi-
healthy young blood Of the wealthy mouse
hold comprehend. this? What does he
know about this greatest OF LIES lessons,
this finest lecture in that great school Of
the sick chamber whG% 'aeads
are scarce, ana monoy yet Wore 60?
Just 20 those who have known nsthing buc
wealth are unable to conceive of the true
condition Of things in the household Of
poverty, where perhaps ,Ac stay and sup-
port O. the family lies at deaths door, or
inc delicate pale fioe Of some iit'io angel
form lao5sas though il We're saying good
bye, 90 soma mo.her whose "HasoTs Me
weary and worn, With cyciids heavy and
rs6.' AS Mrs. LAxDoY eloquoutly e1-
prcssesit,
''Fcw elgo tho poor feel for ihe poor
The rich kuuw not how harG
II rs TO b3 of uec1iul rest
Aud uepdfui food csbHrTcd;
Vhrv know not OF the sceaty inlaL
Win small pale fares round;
y, five upon The cold. damp hearth
Whoa snow Is on the grOund.'
AN thes5 or similar scenes, this grinding
poverty, these piuching wants are around
and about Us in our daily life, in the large
cities AID inShc smaller ones, and we know
not Of hali;he misery, the mental anguish
thar is ~ existence Immediately around US,
resident W those VIZ least suspect are dis
Iurbed in any such way. We fail to see the
.ient. scaling tears that Cow from aching
hearts, and fall, so often even on hardy
frame. Ling Of two hands and master Of toll
and art, yet lucldess inhentors of misiort-
nne, until the dry rot Of despair I'M
lermines the temple Of the mind
md invites disease into the physical taber-
nacle, until at last the poor mans turf be-
rets the peaceful sleep, free from fears, that
him wakeful nights and horrid |
light-marc days. The case ofyoung FRANK
GoULp Is illustrative Of much that is silent |
y about us all to-day. IL, 10 the thousand
md one associations for the further promo
ion of wealth, one society or more in each |
for the discovery and alienation
# such cases could be organized and carried
uto practical service, how infinitely better
VI would thousands be ? Then there might |
De fewer tcneme nts Of gloom, fever graves
where lie the prematurely called.
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