Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-11-14

"Shame !" cried one Of tho bys.anders.
The father did not heed them, but motiored
to neighbor to take the child In bis arms
He did so.
Bring ME the egg basket" he spoke very
sterny almost without opening his teeth, to
the servant
What do yon want Of it Z" "What can you
do with it 2" He is crazy !" and many such
remarks followed, but the basket was there
in moment.
He seized one Of the eggs broke it, inserted
his fingers again between the teeth wrencbed
them apart by force, though they shut with
50 convuls!ve n motion as to tear the hesb
from his fingers-and poured the abnmen in
! ihe throat. There was slight strnnge, but
nothing more, and the spectators we're borrl'
fed at :he action.
"Don'., the child is dying !" said one.
please don't hurt the poor little thing
it cant live !" the mother found voice to say
laying her hand upon his arm.
| MARY, be still,' he answered sternly,--
while his teeth never relaxed from their
cenchng, and bis face was as hard as if he
were entering q battle, "and don't any Of you
meddie with me-keep cf."
The bystanders involuntarily obeyed, with
many harsh remarks upon bis cruei;yS, but be
did not heed them. aud went on. Anctber
and another was broken, and still there was
no sign of life. Then the whole body of by.
ISLANDERS broke into loud murnur and cries
OF brute !" LET the child die in eace -
! He is crazy--take the child from him !" were
heard around him.
He desisted from his efforts for moment,
and turned with ferceness which had before
been altogether foreign to his nature, but no
one who saw him afterwards forgot it.
Fools" he hissed, "mind your own business,
and leave me 10 mine. Take her away, will
| your Try y and he went on. emptyng egg
after egg down the apparently ifeless throat.
The mother could bear this no longer
Her first born was being tortured before her
eyes in its death, and she imploringly flung
herself on her knees before her husbands
father, who had the moment before arrived
20, father, do stop him - she gasped "he
IS tortnring that poor dying child |"
The grandfather started forward n step to
interfere, for he, too, thought the proceeding
an outrageous one 4; but he stopped and said,
MARY, let him alone. The child will die if
! he does not 60 on. It cannot do more Shan
! die ii he does. ] would not say VOID to
him for the world. The child is his let him
use his pleasure"
| There was q silence then. In moment
more there was quiver Of the eyeld, a con-
vulsive movement Of the chest, and the teeth
lost their tension. The father seized his
Guild, tnrued her face downward, and the
| poison began to flow from her mouth. Again
and again as the retching ceased he repeated
the experiment-the life returning still more,
and the face losing its black color every
instant. More than twenty times the abu-
men had been administered. and more than
half those tir-es followed by tie expulsion of
the poison, when the eyes opened-the father
desisted, and the little sufferer lay Just alive
in his arms, exhausted, its little life terribly
sha ttered. but Sared!
Then-when the necessity for exerton and
determination was over-when the physician
had been summoned and they knew that
darling little Eveleeu might live, after many
weeks of q struggle between life and death ;
when the relieved friends had acknowledged
that they had wronged him FIRST, when the
beautiful and sorrowful wife had best him
through her kisses aud tears, and all knew
that under God only such almost fierce de-
termination could have saved the child-then
the father sat down, unneryed, 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 upon
womanhood. But there is no hour in my
life that brings SO thrilling recollection as
that OF the yOnng fathers struggle for the life
OF his chlld.-Netc York Despatch