The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-06-16


seems to be no remedy All of the women
most all of the men, outside of the capt.
talists-have heretofore sympathized
with the toiIers in their demands for
less work and better pay They have
bitterly denounced the heartless mana
gers who would wear out the life of a
child before it gets grown--who would
keep them Gagged in factories from early
morn till lamplight with not an hour
for recreation. No May day, no play
day, no ball game, nor marbles nor fish
ing, nor frolic of any kind for the boys;
no hunting wild flowers of blackberries
for the girls, no youthful pleasures, no
recess. no Saturday; but from year to
year it's
Northumberland in the dull
December light,
And work-work-work, when the wealth
er is warm and bright"
How sad it is to see them toll as il
in treadmill, and to hear them sigh
as they glance from the windows of
their daily prison. and with longing eyes,
whisper
"Ohi but to breathe the breath of the
With the sky above my head and the
grass beneath my feet
And this is sad, pathetic, and but for
heartless legislation and legislators. would
have long since been remedied. 1t is the
good side of human nature that arouses
sympathy for the poor, and Leigh Hunt
never wrote sweeter line than that of
Abou Ben Adhenm's plea for entrance into
Paradise?
write me as one who loves his fellow
man."
In Eliminating about the wants of the
poor l have often thought thai the great
est want and the best boon to toler
was home. Home--one of the sweet
est words in any language. It's best def
milton is in the heart, for language fails
to express it. Indeed mere are some
languages that have no words for it-no
synonym. The French Las none and sub
stitutes only an abode or dwelling place.
The best difnition is found in the old
Sanskrit the sacred dialect of he Hin
docs and Persiahs. The WORT is X sh 9ma
and means permanent place of rest
and security. Would that all the poor,
dren in the land had that-a permanent
abode-a place of rest and ecurity. No
landlord to call for rents-no expiring
lease, no uncertain title; but a home
where the good wife car plant Ter own
vines and adorn her own yarl it'll fow-
ers and feel that they are hers ard
her children's. Why didn't MIR. Carnegie
think of this and give homes to the poor,
instead of books. Fifty millions of dol
lars would have given comfortable ZONES
to one hundred thousand poor familie S.
and given a permanent place of rest
and security to at5least half millDn
of the toilers. The time was when a
Methodist preacher was not entitled to
a home no more than a Roman Catholic
priest was to a wife lie must abide
for a year in any house that was cheap
and vacant. He must be the excmL lar
of humanity and unseIdshnesS, for they
said that the Savior was born in a man
ner and his softest bel was hay. But
there is some more scripture that de-
mands the best of everything for The
priesthood, and that says: Touch OF
My anointed, and 10 MY prophet no
harm" A better civilization now pro-
vides a good comfor .able parsonage III
almost every town md village and l am
for the preacher. but for his good, long
suffering and patient wife and her grow
ing children. Woman loves her home
and loves to adorn it with fruits and
flowers. When the Methodists get strong
enough to build a parsonage they should
not stop at the finishing of the house,
but have permanent committee of ladies
to plant vines and roses and make gravel
walks. and establish a garden with such
things that do not pass away and perish
with the year Plant fruit trees, make
an asparagus bed and don't forget the
strawberries and raspberries, and here
and there plant some of the old time
garden herbs, such as sage and balm
and parsley and calamus for a sweet
breath and mint for the children's collie.
Fix the place up for home and when
the good wife leaves it, of course, she
will leave it clean and leave it with re-
greet, and her successor will be happy and
talk about her to tie neighbors. If /
was bishop would aIIude to this at the
general conference. and lay much stress
on what John Wesley said, that "Cleanli-
ness was next to Goodness"
That is not in the Bible, but might
have been and done no harm.
Yes, the kindhearted people have gem
SGdIIy USeH SJupdCnIIlHS WIFI the SlFlk-
ers, but the case at Dayton, o., has dis
couraged them. We see that Mr.. Pattar-
son died suddenly this week lie was
only sixty-one years old and the op'1ton
is that his grief and modification over
the great strike caused his death. A
bier rich man never lived or died. He
was the presient of the National Cash
Register Company, that employed 300
men and women. For seven years he has
sought to make his extensive works a
model for all the manufacturers of the
world and workman's paradise. From
time to time he has reduced the hours of
work and increased the compensation.
The cottages for his people were models
for comfort-good gardens, nice flowers
a skilled man sent free to show them how
to plant and grow flowers, a free library
of well selected books hospitals for the
SICK good nurses, good beds, all free and
not lost time charged against them; bath
rooms with hot and cold water and time
given to battle; clean towels and soap
For the women and girls he had toilet
rooms and bathrooms and brushes and
combs and even curling tongs provided;
sofas and cots to recline on and books
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