The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-02-02

taken In and built up BY Nike Mitchell,
No. 10 East Tenth street, New York,
was no other than Robert Louis Stew
enson. called now by loving and APP
preciative world, Louis, the beloved"
These Irish Good Samaritans sent him
on his way with good clothes and mon
ey and the inspiration of Fannie Os-
bourne, whom he married, brought him
fame. He always said he was born
on the day he was married to this
wonderful woman. 1t was she who
gave him birth and supplied him with
the mothering care that gave his spirit
wing.
Becomes Literary Shrine.
Mitchers place became a shrine to
literary men and they who know Stew
enson would often journey there to
drink a glass or bottle in memory of
Louis the Beloved" and the Irish good
Samaritans.
No doubt my readers are familiar
with the novels of Charles Dickens,
especially with his tender spirit: his
great loving soul, his intense sympathy
for the poor and unfortunate in our
pitiless In our cruel civilization; his
wrath and scorn for the makeshifts
land stupidities OF charity works with
their work uses" their Dotheboys
schools. their DR.. BLENDERS schools,
their sqeirs, their Smikes, Tiny Tim,
'etc. They no doubt recall Mrs Betty
Hidgen In what consider the greatest
1of all Dickens novels, Our Mutual
TREND" OF her Dickens said: "She
was one of those old women who fight
out many years, though each year has
come with its new knock-down blows
fresh to fight against her wearied
soul, an active old woman, with a
bright, dark eye and a resolute face;
quite tender creature too. But God
is good and hearts may count as high
in heaven as heads
Haunted by Constant Fear.
But Betty is haunted by the constant
fear that she may die in the hands of
the charity officials.
DO ever read the newspapers"
she asked. God help us and the likes
of mellow the WORKOUT people that
do come down get driven from post
to pillar and pillar to post a purpose
to tear them out. Do / ever read how
they:are put off, put off. put off. How
they are grudged, grudged, grudges.
the shelter, the doctor, a drop of
physic or the bit of bread Do l ever
read how they grow heart.sick of it,
and give up after having let them
selves drop so low and how they, after
all. died for want of help. Then l say,
hope ! can die as well as another,
and I'll die without that disgrace"
''Oh, my lord and gentlemen and
honorable boards" exclaimed Dickens,
"how utterly impossible by any stretch
Of legislation to set these perverse
people right in their logic"
Depicts Touching Scene.
The most touching scene in all liter
allure is the chapter in "Our Mutual
Friend" called the END of a Long
Road" where Betty Higden flees from
the public highway to escape the fury
of the modern organized Good Samar-
itan. She knew by the darkness that
steals over us sometimes" that her end
was near When she fell by the way
side a charity officer came and seized
her arm and she cried. ''Oh. master.
master, I've fought against the charity
and fled from it all my life and I
can't die free from it."
And Dickens utters his wrath here
when he says: "Old Betty Higden,
however tired, however, footsore,
would .start up and be driven on by her
horror of falling into the hands of
charity 1t is remarkable Christian