Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-10-30

4 idHe reached out his hand and TOOK the
child from it's mother. Its eyes were
tnow closed and "a white ooze coming
from between itsi blackened ulips., Was
ever death more assureda j. saw him
open the leyelids, and Iuheard1 him give a
sign Nofo Telief.'F He told 1me afterwards
that the eye was uot shrunken, and SO
death hadfnot begun. Heithen attempt
ed'to open the mouth. but the teeth were
tight set, and they resisted his neforts.
But with anieffort that seemed almost
brutal he 5wrenched the teeth apart. and
opened the mouth. -,
Shame" cried one of the bystand-
Fers?. 7a1i83Deal eF 10y e shfu s{
g The father did not heed them but mo-
toned to a neighbor to take the child a in
his arms. He did 50. ~ s.,r,-, 8,
!" Bring me the egg basket" he spoke
very sternly, almost without opening his
teeth, to the servant. o
[" What do you want of it ?'' "What
can you do with it ga ".He's crazy !"
and many such remarks followed, but the
basket was there in moment.
He seized one of the eggs. broke it, in
serted his fingers again between the teeth
and wrenched them open BY force,
though they shut with so conyulsiye a
motion as to tear the flesh from his fn-
gers, and poured the albumen into the
throat. There were slight struggle and
nothing more, and the spectators were
Mortified at the action. .l3 b. 5fri
+" Don't; the child is dying u said
one. II
Please don't hurt the little ,thing-it
| lsoa 81,
say. laying her hand upon his arm.
Mary, be still ~ he answered stern
| ly, while his teeth were relaxing from
their clenching, and his face was as hard
as if he was entering battle; " and
don't any Of you meddle with me, keep
off w
The bystanders inyoluntarily obeyed.
many harsh remarks upon his cruelty
but he did not heed them and went on
Another and another egg was broken.
and still there was no signs of life. Then
the whole body of bystanders broke out
into loud murmur and cries of brute"
" Let the child die in peace l' " He's
crazy-take the child away from him J"
we're heard around him.
He desisted moment from his efforts
and turned with a ferceness that had be-
fore been altogether foreign to his ma
ture-bIt no one who saw him ever af'
forwards forgot it. Fools" he Missed,
"mind your business and leave me to
mine Take her away will you ? Try
it," and he went on emptying egg after
egg down the apparently liEeless throat. !,
The mother could stand this no longer.
Her Grst born was being tortured to-
death under her very eyes in its death.
and she imploringly flung herself on her
knees before her husbands father who
had at that moment errived.
"oh, father. do stop him ]" she grasp
ed; 4" he will obey you; do stop him. He
is torturing that poor dying child"
The grandfather stepped forward
step to interfere, for he, too, thought the
proceeding an outrageous one; but he
stopped and said, Mary, let him alone.
the child will die if he does not go on. I'll
can do no more than die if he does. II
would not say word to him for the
world. The child is his; let him use his
pleasure"
There was silence then. In mo.
ment there was quiver Of the eyelids, a
convulsiye movement of the chest, and
the teeth lost their tension. The father
seized his child, turned her face downs
ward. and the poison began to flow from
her mouth. Again as the retching ceas-
ed. he repeated the xperiment-the life
returning still more, and the face loosing
its black color every instant. More than
twenty times albumen had been admins
tered; and more than half those times
had been followed by the expulsion 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 saved.
Then-when the necessity for exertion
and determination was over-wheny the
physician had been summoned, and they
knew that darling little Eveleen might
live. after many weeks of struggle be-
tween life and death; when the relieved
friends had acknowledged that they
wronged him first; when the beautiful
and sorrowful wife had blessed him
through her kisses and tears; aud all
knew that under God only such an al
saved thechild-then the father set 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 upon womanhood. But there is
no hour in my life that brings SO thrill
ling recollection as that of the young
fathers struggle for the life of his child.
b. WHAT NExr.-The following is the
latest specimen of the New York Herald's
mendacity. Perhaps that journal will
next contend, that but for its exertions in
Fremont's behalf. Mr.. Buchanan would