Show beggars la cold new borit the number of beggars in the streets is appalling it is impossible for any one to resist their appeals for the sufferings which many of these unfortunates go through is apparent from their wretched condition half of them are only partly clad and in some instances tho physical sufferings must be intense A day or two fianco a lady of my acquaintance told me of a woman and child who had taken up a position ou the comer near her house the woman turning a small organ in an effort to attract a few pennies she was actually sitting in tho snow and she remained there two hours until one of tho neighbors went out to her assistance there was not a penny in the tin box on the organ and the woman waa frozen almost into insensibility the child was taken to a hospital where it subsequently died there was no romance about the matter it was a simple illustration of the awful misery which has been the lot of the poor during tho recent cold weather in new york blakely hall in brooklyn eagle |