The Latter-Day Saints' millennial star Volume 8-9

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...party are not able to do as much work in the day, as two of them could have done at Christmas. This, continues the writer, is the case with all the labouring population in the county of Longford, and he calculates that the farmers must employ at least one-half more men to do their field work, than would have sufficed for the same quantity last spring. The physical strength of the whole population is fearfully reduced--the ablest men have become enfeebled--the delicate long since passed into eternity. The number of widows and orphans in the rural districts bears a remarkable contrast to the so-called able-bodied, left single by the famine. It would appear that the poor men provide for the wants of their wives and children, in the first place, where they can, and the man is the first member of the family to die of starvation. There are fourteen deaths from destitution reported from Sligo, nine more from Mayo, five from Galway, seven from Clare, four from the neighbourhood of Bally Shannon, and as to ill-fated Skibbereen, Bantry, and the extreme south of Cork, it may be observed that the deaths are beyond all calculation. What Makes Old Maids And Bachelors?--We will paint a picture--one in which the lights and shades appear strong, but which every one will recognize as not outraging the truth of nature. There are two houses built Bide by side. In the one, dwells a widow and her daughter, fair, light-hearted, the sunshine of her mother's declining years, but alas, not rich. With all the affectionate instincts of a woman's heart, with all the capabilities to create happiness in a man's house, she remains unseen and unchosen. As time passes on she gradually deepens into old-maidism. Where once she was heard singing about the house, like Una making a sunshine in t...