Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1905-10-12

CI1H eternal rest Be-
cause this man has
| lived, useful citizens have been
raked out of the cutters and slums of
London, and many of the theories con-
corning original sin and total deprav-
ity have been severely punctured. His
name--Thomas John Barnardo-is
craven upon the hearts of thousands,
uplifted because he lived and worked,
and the world has been bettered be-
cause of him and his efforts.
Born in Ireland in 1916, Thomas
scent A Protestant and nonconform-
list, his education was obtained in pri-
vate schools, and at an age when the
sons of well-to-do fathers begin to
form in their own minds ideas as to
their future, he decided to become a
missionary 1t was his ultimate in
tention to spend his life in China,
and, desiring to equip himself the bet
ter for work abroad, he went to Lon
don, where he began the study of med
icine and upon the receipt of his de-
gree continued his studies in the hos.
pitfalls Of London, Edinburgh and
Paris. 1t was during his student days
at the London hospital in Whitechapel
road that he determined upon his
career. How well he fulfilled his mis-
sion is now written in the history Of
the worlds good deeds.
His first term in the London hospi-
tai was in that gloomy, eventful and
ominous year 1866, period of politi-
cal agitation, commercial disturbance
1T was in May that the stoppage of
the great discount establishment of
oVerend & Quincy produced such con-
sternation-and an outbreak of chol-
era, due to impurities in the water
supply. Neither the political situation
nor the commercial depression en-
crossed young Bernardo. He gave
evidence this early of the philanthrop-
&c stuff within him, and although COM
paratively inexperienced, volunteered
10" the cholera service. He was glad
ly accepted, for volunteers were few.
Inc v1rulence of the mysterious NAL
ady in Turkey and Egypt in 1865 had
created a feeling of despair in the
MINDS or medical men and laity alike
England had known it in 1882, when
the deaths numbered 14,SO7, and DIR
ing the second visitation in 1S47 the
mortality in London alone was 4497
whlle in the kingdom the list reached
55,lSl. The authorities were at their
wits end and the situation was hor
rible; but Bernardo did not hesitate
or his personal security he seemed
never to think and made a house to
house visitation of the East End poor
others refusing the service on the
ground that it would be going into the
jaws of death.
When the scourge was over DR.. Bar
nardo went back to the hospital and
dlssecting room. His work in the
poor quarters had given him a new
view Oh lie, however, and he made
up his mind that it was his duty to
contribute something toward helping
those who appeared unable to helm
themselves, AS beginning he estab-
lished a Ragged School in the very
center of squalid Stepney, to which
he devoted two nights each week and
all of Sunday. OF this work he said
some time before his death:
Il was young medical student
when my attention was directed nv
the condition of single little street
arab, OF whom | had then no knowl.
edge, to the necessities of the desti-
tute waits and strays of London. NV
acquaintance with that boy about
forty years ago led to careful inyes.
usation OF the great East End prob
lem. began in small way, knowing
NOBODY, to do my work; had one poor
niue chap In my own lodging for two
or three weeks, then two or three
more, and then as | picked up more
children | put them in lodgings. I
had at one time as many as fifty chill.
dren, lodging them all about me, send
ing them to the common day school
during the day and providing for their
wants through help from friends and
some of my fellow students. and, of
course, what | could spare myself.
The first regular home camo in
1868. 1t was small and very poor
affair; such ramshackle, broken
down place. We whitewashed the
walls and scrubbed the floors our.
selves, sent my first little boy to
Canada in 1867, so as far back as that
year began Canadian emigration and
continued to send occasional parties
until 1882, when / started organized
emigration on a large scale. Close
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