The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-12-30


and poured the albumen (white portion
of the egg into the throat There was
slight strangle, nothing more, and the
spectators were horri6ed at the ac-
ton.
Don't, the child is dyingl" cried
one.
"Please don't hurt the little thing-It
can't live!'' the mother found voice to say
laying her hand upon his arm.
"Mary, be still" he answered .sternly,
while his teeth were relaxing from their
clenching, and his face as if he was enter
ling battle; "and don't any Of you med
die with me, keep off.
The bystanders involuntarily obeyed,
with many harsh remarks upon his cruel
ty-but he did not heed them, and went
on. Another and another egg was bro
ken, and still there was no sign of life
Then the whole body ofbystauders broke
out in murmur, and cries of "brute!''-
"Let the child die in peace!" He is
crazy--take the child away from him''
were heard around him. ....
He desisted for a moment from his ef-
forts, and turned with fe-csness
which had before been altogether for
eign to his nature-but no one who saw
him afterwards forgot it. Fools" he
Kissed, .mind your own business and
leave me TO mine? Take her away will
you! Try it!' and he went on emptying
egg after egg down the apparently lifeless
Throat. ..s... .sg. !. e..
| The mother could stand it no longer.
Her first, born was being tortured to death
before her eyes in its death. and she i'm
4 lp'oringly dqug herself on her knees before
her husbands father, who had at that
moment arrived. ,.,.er...
20. father, do stop his" she gasped
l-"He is torturiag that poor dying
Ichild," ,.s5,s..
The grandfather started forward ster
to interfere, for he, too, thought the pro-
csediug an outrageous one; but he stopped
and said, "Mary lot him alone. The
child will die if be does net go on. i
cannot 60 more. than die if he does.
, would not say word 10 him for the
werld." r.s ,.... ...++,..
There was a silence then. In mo
ment there was quiver of the e5e lids, {
;. cenvalsive movement of the chest, thu
teeth lost their tension. The father
seized his child, turned her face downwart
and the psison began to aow from he
mouth. Again and again, as the reich
II ing ceased, he repeated the experiment
!, the life returning still more, and the fac
losing it's blank color every Instant
Mere than twenty times had albumes bee'
administered snd more than half thos
: times followed by the expulsion Of the poi
son, when the eyes opened, the father dc
sisted, the little sufferer lay just alive il
his arms, exhausted, its little life terribl
> shattered but saved
TheA-when the necessity for exertio
and determination was ever-when tn
physician had been summoned, and the
> knew that darling little Eveleen might live
= after Many weeks of struggle between iii
!. and death; when the relieved friends ha
!. acknowledged that they had wronge
: him first; when the beautiful and sorrow
: ful wife had blessed him through her kis:
: es and tears; and all knew that under Go
: only such an almest fierce determinatio
could have saved the child--then the fail
er sat down unnerved, and wept like
!. child ai sag t-a
:" Not in Little Sister Evelyn" di
. the poison do fearful Office. Eveleen
:, - alive to-day, and her brown eyes are opel
y ed upon woman-hsod. But there is +
= = hour in nay life that brings so thrilling
recollection as that Of the young father
o. =. struggle for the life of bis child. ~
SHOULD you be talking to . thin lad
~ of another thin lady, you. needn't descril
=, - the party alluded 70 asa "scraggy o
:" maid"
Id EACH moment makes thee dearsr-
to the parsimonous trsdesmam said to b
nd extrava a vant Wlfa -s..sss7 ffa--s3