Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-09-24
The gr- father started forward step to

The gr- father started forward a step to
interfere, for he, too, thought the proceed
ing an outrageous one; but he stopped and
said, "Mary, let him alone. The child will
than die if he does. I would not say word
to him for the world. The child is his; let
him use his pleasure
There was silence then In a moment
there was quiver of the eye-lids, con-
vulsive movement of the chest, and the teeth
lost their tension, The father seized his
child, turned her face downward, and tie
poison began to flow from her mouth. A
gain and again, as the retching ceased, he
repeated the experiment-th life returning
still more, and the face losing its black color
every iastantas More than twenty times al
bumen had been administered and more
than half those times followed by the ex-
pulsion of the poison, when the eyes opened,
the father desisted, the little sufferer lay just
alive in his arms, exhausted, its little life
terribly shattered. but saued.
Then-when the necessity for exertion and
determination was over-when the physician
had been summoned, and they knew that
darling little Eveleen might live, after many
weeks of struggle between life and death
when the relieved friends had acknowledged
that they wronged him first: when the beau
tiful and sorrowful wife had blessed him
through her kisses and tears, and all knew
that under God only such an almost fierce
determination could have saved the child
then the father sat down ,unnerved, and
wept like child.
Not as in Little Sister Evelyn" did the
poison do its fearful office. Eveleen is alive
to-day. and her brown eyes are opened up
on womanhood. But there is no hour in my
life that brings so thrilling recollection as
that of the young fathers struggle for the
life of his child.
/ A GooD EXAMPLE. Many years ago, in
Ian sobscure country school in Massachusetts,,
an humble, conscientious boy was to be
seen; aad it was evident to all that his mind
was beginning to act and thirst for some in
| tellectual good. He was in search of use
fuland practical knowledge Next we see
him put forth on foot to settle in remote
town ias1he tate, and pursue his--ss...l.ialb
as a sn0emaker, his tools Beng carrru1Iy
sent on before him In short time he is
in business in the position of county sur
veyor of Litchfeld county, Conn, being the
most accomplished mathematician in that
section of the State. Before he is twenty
five years Of age, we find him supplying the
astronomical matter of an almanac in New
York. Next he is admitted to the bar, a
self-ftt lawyer. Next he is found on the
bench Of the Supreme Court Next he be-
comes member of the Continental Con-
gress. Then he is member of the Com
mittee of Six to form the Declaration of In
dependence. He continues member OF
Congress for nearly twenty years, and was
acknowledged to be one of the most useful
men and wisest councillors of the land. AT
length, having discharged every office with
perfect ability, and honored in his sphere
the name of a Christian, he died regretted
and loved by State and Nation. This man
was Roger Sherman. We take particular
satisfaction in chronicling the career of such
men, and holding them up for examples fo1
the youth of the present day to follow