The daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1889-1890, 1889-10-27

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OF Christian charity
Under the sun
Oh it was pitiful
That near a city full
Home she had none!'
A few days ago the sympathy of our
people was aroused i'll behalf of a poor
| woman, and their just Indignation ex-
cited against the inhuman magistrate
by whose order this torlorn creature had
been forced to ride in a rough vehicle,
over twenty miles of rougher road, to be
incarcerated i'll the county jail, where in
| a narrow cell, she was soon delivered OF
a child.
1t is not the purpose of this article to
excite farther the feeling of indignation
against the committing officer, nor to
cxaggerate the suffering that his victim
must have endured We know that in
the iail she received humane treatment
from the kind hearted ,iailor and his kind
wife, and that the good women of the
| Flower Mission miniStered to the ne
cessitv of her. whom, however fallen she
might be, they acknowledged still to be
Il sister, so that she doubtless was more
comfortable than ever before in her sad
life.
Although committed to jail on a
charge of ofinsanity, she could tell a pitt
ful story of how, for weeks past, Home
she had none" even within a short dis
tance of this town, filled with bright,
happy people. How she had lived in the
woods; sleeping under haystacks; seldom
having a meal of wholesome food; when
obtaining work, being detrauded of her
earnings, perhaps by the very man who,
taking advantage of her necessities,
worked her ruin.
While peoples minds have still the
fresh memory of DIR. Weaver's statement
of this case, and their hearts still sOftened
with pity, we would ask them, what is
now to be done with this woman and
her child, and many other similar objects!
Must she in a few days be sent to the
county aims house, and when she re-
covers, be turned out upon the world,
with which she has shown herself so un-
able to cope?
The county commissioners cannot and
ought not to keep her at public cost in
utter dleness, and the chances are, that
if discharged, she will within a year be
the same wretched, helpless object she is
to-day, and her child, if it is so un-
fortunate as to live, grow up into the
vagabond, which is the natural conse-
uuence of such a condition.
Can no remedy be suggested! VIII
YOU not, worthy county commissioners,
at your next meeting, consider the pro-
priety of establishing, forthwith, a work
house for BuncOmbe county, where, under
wise and gentle discipline, such unfortun-
ate creatures may be placed, and taught
and required to work to repay, at least,
a part of their expenses? Like all true
charity this would be PRACTICAL and
anv one can see would soon save many
times it's cost by reducing the number OF
paupers?
The first step is often the hard one to
I take in such things, and the objection is
often made, that no suitable person can
be had to manage an institution of the
kind, inteligently and economically,
which are Identical terms; but this objec-
tion can no longer be made. The good
women of Asheville have already given
proof of their common sense business
ability, by the successful management OF
their hospital and of their Flower Mis-
SION and no doubt they are ready, with
out reward or hope of cward, except
that of consciousness of duty faith
fully performed, to undertake this other
charity.
Oh! gentlemen, let not this charity be
so rare a thing, but provide for these
, poor fallen beings home, which may
conduce to their restoration to happi
ness, both in time and eternity.