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In the quiet, neat chapel two or three of the inmates were kneeling at prayers; and others whom we saw in the kitchen and about the offices had nothing of the "workhouse" look which is so painful in the ordinary inmates of an English or American almshouse. "The trouble with the place," said Mr. Lavan, "is that they like it too well. It takes an eviction almost to get them out of it."
The contrast was very striking between the atmosphere of this unpretending refuge of the helpless and that of certain of the "laicised" hospitals of France, which I not long ago visited, from which the devoted nuns have been expelled to make way for hired nurses. I made a remark to this effect to the clerk of the Union, Mr. Lavan, whom we found in his office.
Lavan gave me the name also of another man who is now actually under a "boycott," because he has ventured to resist the modest demand made by the son of a man whose tenant-right he bought, paying him £100 for it, twenty years ago, that he shall give up his farm without being reimbursed for his outlay made to purchase it!
Lavan considers to be unreasonable in the extreme, and he attributes it to the influence of the National Leaguers here, whose representatives among the local guardians constantly vote away the money of the ratepayers in "relief to evicted tenants who have ample means and can in no respect be called destitute."
Captain BUCKLEY, Cleveland, Ohio troops. Lieutenant TIMOTHY LAVAN, Cleveland, Ohio. Captain McDONALD, Pulaski, Tennessee. Captain LAWRENCE SHIELDS, Nashville, commanding Tennessee troops. Captain PHILIP MUNDY, Chattanooga, Tenn. Lieutenant JAMES J. ROACH, Nashville, Tenn. Lieutenant JOHN MAGUIRE, Nashville, Tenn. Captain MICH'L CONLON, Memphis, Tennessee. Captain HAGGERTY, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Southwards we look over hills of coal and iron to the pleasant sea- fringed plain of Gwent. On the north and the west the sea is shallow; in some places it is under 10 fathoms for 10 miles from the shore, and under 20 fathoms for 20 miles. Tales of drowned lands are told of the sands of Lavan, of the feast of drunken Seithenyn, and of the bells of Aberdovey. But the sea is a kind neighbour.
JAMES GIBBONS, ESQ., Vice President, F.B. 333 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. THOMAS LAVAN, ESQ., 13 Superior Street, Cleveland, Ohio. T.J. QUINN, ESQ., Albany, N.Y. MILES D. SWEENEY, ESQ., San Francisco. Cal. JOHN CARLETON, ESQ., Bordentown, N.J. F.B. GALLAGHER, ESQ., Buffalo, N.Y. P.W. DUNNE, ESQ., Peoria. Ill. EDWARD L. CAREY, ESQ., New York City.
We sat down with Mr. Lavan in his office, and had an interesting talk with him. He is the agent of Mr. Mathews, who lives between Woodford and Portumna. Mr. Mathews is a resident landlord, he says, who has constantly employed and has lived on friendly terms with his tenants, numbering twenty, who hold now under judicial rents.
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