The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1857-12-19

closed now, and white Ooze coming
from between the blackened lips. Was
death ever more assured | saw him
open the eye-lids. and heard him give a
sigh of relief He told me afterwards
that the eye had not shrunken and 50 death
had not begun. He then attempted TO
open the mouth, but the teeth were tight
set, and they resisted his efforts. But
with force that seemed almost brutal
he wrenched the teeth apart, and opened
the mouth.
"Shame," cryed one of the bystan-
ders.
The father did not heed them, but
motioned to neighbor to take the child
in his arms. He did so.
Bring me the egg basket" he spoke
very sternly, almost without opening his
teeth, to the servant.
"What do you want Of it," "What
can you do with it," "He is craxyr
aud many such remarks followed, but the
basket was there in a moment.
He seized one of the eggs, broke it,
| inserted his fingers again between the
teeth, and wrenched them open by force,
though they we're shut with so convul-
sive a motion as to tear the flesh from
his hugers, and poured the albumen into
the throat. There was slight struggle,
nothing more, aud the spectators " ,re
Mortified a, the action.
" Don't; the child is DYING" said
| one.
"please don't hurt the little thing
it can't live" the mother found voice to
say, laying her hand on his arm.
MARY, be still.' he answered steruly,
while his teeth we're relaxing from their
clenchiag, and his face was as hard as if
he was entering battle, ''and don't any
of you mcddle with me; keep off p
The bystanders involuntarily obeyed,
with many harsh remarks upon bis cru
elty--but he did not heed them, and
went on. Another and another egg was
broken, aud still there was no sign Of
life Then the whole body of by-stand-
ers broke out in loud n,ur,nur, aud cries
of "brute." "let the child die in peace"'
"He is crazy---take the child away FROM
him T. were heard around the room.
He desisted for moment from-his eff
forts, aud turned with ferceness that
had before been altogether foreign to his
nature--but no one who saw him after.
wards forgot it. Fools" he hissed
'mind yonr own business, and leave me
to mine! Take her away, viii yoas Try
i" and he wen. on, emptying egg al
ter egg down the apparently hteless
throat.
The mother could bear this 10 longer
Her first born was being tortured TO deatl
before her eyes, and she imploringly Aun:
herself On her husbands father, who hat
a, Ina. n,o.aent arrived.
20 father, do stop him. she gasped
''he will obey you. lie is torturing th'
poor child to death"
The grandfather started forward stel
to interfere, for he too thought the pro
ceeding an outrageous one; but he stop
ped aud said, "Mary, let him alone. Th
child will die if he does not go on.
: cannot do more than die if he does.
woald not say a word to him for III
world. The child is his; let him do g
he thinks best.
There was a silence then. In a INC
ment more there was qulver of the eye
lids, cQnvulsiye movement Of the chest
! aud the teeth lost their tension, the {;
; ther seized his child, turned her fac
downward, and the poison began to to-
from her mouth. Again and the retcl
: ing ceased; he repeated the experiment
the life returning still more, and the fac
loosiny its color every instant. MOI
! than twenty times the albumen had bee
administered, and more than half tho:
times followed by the expulsion Of II
: poison, when the eyes opened, the fatht
: desiSted. the little suffer lay just alive
his arms. - little life terribly shattcre
but saved
! Then. when the necessity for excrtit
and determination was over, when II
. physician had been summoned, and tn,
!" knew that darling little Evelecn mig
:, live. after many weeks Of struggle b
' tween life and death; when the relieve
:, friends acknowledged that they h;
!, y yronred him ut frst---when the beautit
u and sorrowful wife had blessed hi
:" through her tears and kisses, and
= : knew that, under God, only such almc
: fierce determination could have saV,
4 the child--then the father sat down u
!. !, nersed, and wept like a child.
- Not in sI4ittle Sister Eycleen" did {
/, poison do It's fearful Office. Eyeleen
e alive to-day, and her brown eyes are ope
er ed upon womanhood. But there is
hour in my life that brings so thrilling
l.. recollection as that Of the yonug fathe
d struggle for the life of his child.
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