... Workhouse or Prison? We notice in the newspapers that a man was charged at Mansfield he other day with refusing to break stones. He said I am not going to break stones for three days on bread and water. I would sooner go to jail for I : fe. ' ' The mayor ...

... coming to billiards, feather beds and champagne for workhouse inmates. There can be no doubt about workhouse inmates being well treated in moat cases, and very few working, men will be found objecting to Guardians taking that course. What they do object to ...

... Socialism and the Workhouse. I have just read the following in a at-- intellectual magazne which I %et , very It from the pen of one Charles Carter, and I am sure my readers will appreciate it:—The most perfect example we have of Socialism the workhotne ...

... 1N THE WORKHOUSE. CHRISTMAS DAY. It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse , And the cold bare walls are bright With garlands of green and holly, And the place is • talesasant sight! For with cfean-waahed bands and faces. In a long and hungry line The paupers ...

... prison and the workhouse by 7, That is, men are more criminal than women and fill on dustbins more than momeii my dear friend Miss Jane famous lady drx-tor, H. _ _ I Axlilon. and of Th.)rolli I I I bury. puts another deep.re; . . :hat women are braver ...

... Workhouse System Dying. MEETING OF THE YORKSHIRE POOR-LAW OFFICERS. The annual meeting of the Yorkshile branch of the National Poor-law Officer's Association held on Saturday at :he Union Offices, Bradford. The piesident (Mr. T. E. Pearson, clerk to the ...

... life under happier auspices and with more ohances of encases Bien one which is brought op in a workhouse, wearing some noiforin which stamps it as • workhouse child. The Board of Guitediaus evidently think that the stigma of pauperism, as conveyed by a ...

... FROM WORKHOUSE TO WESTMINSTER. LIFE SKETCH OF MR. WILL CROOKS, M.P. ...

... ABOLISHING WORKHOUSE AND PAUPER- One thing to be noticed particlularly En the new Order was that the workhouse and the pauper had, officially a. any rate, been aboil.shed. At the same time one was struck by the tact that no names seemed to have bean found ...

... WORKHOUSE DIETA KY. Mr. J. Pointer, M.P., for the Attervliffe Division of Sheffield. has, on the invitation of a member of the Sheffield Board of Guardians, Made a detailed inspection of the Firvale Workhouse with a of asoertaining what truth there is ...

... LABOUR EXCHANGES AND WORKHOUSE LABOUR. A four-page citenlar has been issued by the Bradford Trades Council dealing with the above. They give the circular of the Lady Superviaor of the Yorkshire Exchanges, Mies Thornton, which says:— ...

... Some of the Secrets of a Workhouse. To the Editor of the Faetory Sir,—lt is of some importance that all woeimre should be supplied with as many facia as poesibla bearing upon the treatment that the poor receive when misfortune compels them to seek the ...