Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-09-16
grown next year.
CASE OF CRUSHED TRUTH WHERE
IT DID NOT RISE.

WHIT IN iuItShru larger crop Will De
grown next year.
CASE OF CRUSHED TRUTH WHERE
IT DID NOT RISE.
A correspondent who recently visited
the pretty English village of Bowes found,
to his sstonishment, that the people held
the name of CHARLES DICKENS in utter
scorn and detestation.
II this correspondent tells the truth the
villagers of Bowss have reason for hating
the great novelist. The original ''DOthe-
boys Hall" of Nicholas Nickleby" was
located at Bowes, aud the building is still
standing. The son-in-law OF the teacher
who figured as "Wackfnrd Squeers" in the
story resides in the village, and his de-
nunciatiOns Of DICKENS are bitter in the
extreme.
It appears that the person carieatured
in the name 'Squsers" was Mr.. SHAW.
The old residents ell unite in saying that
SHAW and his wife did not ill-treat and
half feed their pupils, aud that Mrs.
SHAW was not the raW-bOned, harsh and
heartless virago painted by the story-teller,
The book ruined the school and caused
the death of SHAW and his wife.
The facts, if true, invest Nicholas
Nicklsby" with an unpleasant sort of in
terest, though everybody knows the story
WAS unpleasant enough before.
No doubt DICKENS bore no ill-will to-
wards the humble county school teacher
and his wife. He had heard, probably
some exaggerated tales about them, and il
struck him with still more exaggeratiOn
and fancy they would make q hit IN
novel. He was not mistaken. Millions
laughed and cried over his book, and the
SHAws were literally broken up and
barred under q mount ain OF unmerited
oblOquy.
II is imposlibls to estimate the evil that
one mans pen may do. 1t is nonsense to
say that truth crushed to earth will rise
again. 1t may come Up to the scratch
again in 'grOggy" way, but it is liable
to receive q right handler in the neck that
will knock il out OF time. The fsct is, an
able bodied, we'll equipped lie can give
the truth odds and beat il nine times out
of ten. The poor Yorkshire school-msster
and his wife went broken hearted to the
grave, unwept by sll save few ignorant
rusticS, while the brilliant libel in which
they were made forever infamous in the
sight of mankind still goes marching on.
A PEEP AT SOME AMERICAN La
Dor.
So much is said of late years about
American labor" and how grandly of il
is compared to the labor of other eOun-
tries that the impression is pretty general,
among q class OF folks who don't know
much about American labor, or any other
kind of labor, that the man who is fortu-
nate enough 10 be both an American and .
laborer must have his fortune made out
of hand.
Politics of course is principally respon-
sible for this, although the average Amer
lean is prone to believe that nothing could
be as bad in America As in other countries.
Nothing could be sillier than the sup
position that the average American laborer
ID q prosperous individual, or even much
better off than his contemporary of other |
countries in proportion to civilization, not |
Withssanding the greater density of pop |
ulation abroad. There is probably not case
which We read of occurring in England,
Germany, Italy or Belgium, and which ex-
cites our sympathy sad indignation, that
caunot be paralleled in this Land Of the
Free and the Home Of the Brave. We
have too many Mrs. Jellybys, male and
female, who are so fAr-sighted that they
cn see nothing under their noses.
A correspondent of the National Labor
Tribune, writing from the Adrian mines,
near Punxsutawny, Pa, shows bad state
of affairs there. He Is evidently . miner
himself, employed there. He writes en-
tertainingly, but in vein Of bitter sar-
casn. The mines are those Of the Roches-
ter and Pittsburg Coal snd Iron Company.
Says our writer:
The word has got sbroad in some shape that
THIS place Is running steadily and the men max
taz good wages and many men come here only