Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1907-12-02
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naught but this,
Defrauded ON child OF its rightful
bliss;
This wrong were enough our hearts
to thrill,
And inspire us in crushing the curse
of the STILL
And the supreme pity of 1t is that
really good-hearted men, who would
flight regiment of other men in de-
Tense of mother wife or child, will
themselves bring on their loved ones
all the dreadful SORROWS. shame and
want that come from this curse of
our country.
A Thanksgiving Tragedy.
4 Amidst the Thanksgiving peace
and plenty of our land a sad story
was sent from London. Two bodies
were taken from the Thames river
those of Alexander Good and his
wife. They had tied themselves to-
gether SO that death could not sep
arate them and sought escape from
starvation in suicide. On their bod
les carefully enoased in waterproof
paper, were letters telling of their
struggles against privation and
want. Both were educated, refined,
cultured persons. He was writer
of ability, but his books were not
popular and brought him no money.
She wrote poems and painted pic
lures and could not sell them; neith-
er of them had friends to aid them
with the influence that would have
made their talents successful, and
when hope had failed them they gave
up their struggle for existence.
; This world is often hard place
for the sensitive souls VIII ose poetic
or artistic talents are their only cap
ital Otway's genius did not save
him from starvation, and the boy
poet, Chatterton, only saved himself
from the same lingering death by
suicide; and it was the irony of fate
in this case that while he lay in his
foodless, fireless garrett, dying, that
a few persons who recognized his
genius were making arrangements
to place him in comfort and give him
a chance to develop his wonderful
genius. Help came too late, as 1t
often does.
These life-tragedles are always
going on, often around us, and one
so rarely knows OF them until 1t lis
too late.
Some Men Who Are Mean.
/ We always thought that the mean
est man we ever heard of was tho
fellow who would not allow his wife
to use her store teeth except on Sun
day, for fear that she would wear
them out. The rest of the week she
: had to gum it. We count that she
had sufficient cause for open rebel
lion but we see that another mean
man has been sentenced 20 jail for
three months, and the judge told
, him that he only wished that he
/, could throw in good dose Of the
whipping post. We would like to
shake hands with that judge.
This mean fellow was a big, hus-
, Ky one with no nerve and keen
delight in seeing other people suf-
fer. His wife was frail little, ner-
yous body easy to Brighten. and her
husband would take loads of newspa-
! pers and force her to listen to all
the horrible wifc-beatings and MUIR
r ders. He gloated over them and
kept her mind dwelling on them and
Q telling her which kind of torture he
meant to try on her, until she be-
came u nervous wreck through his
r cruelty.
But about as mean as either OF
+; these men was one that cheated a
!. poor negro man out OF q dollar the
other day in Baltimore. The negro
a man, named Moses Carter, who was
from the country. was hunting the
clerks office to get a marriage IL
= cense. A white man volunteered to
take his dollar and get the license
: He did not come back, so the negro,
having no other dollar, had to go
i home without the license. A mean
trick.
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