The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-17

DhDlGb III blCSB uOyS.
Another of the precious batch of eleven speaks
palmer, and comes to the point without any pre-
liminary walking round it,
HT- ADoPTION.-A person wishing a lasting and
comfortable home for a young child OF either sex
will find tins good opportunity. Advertisers having
no children of their own, are about to proceed 20
America. Premium, fifteen pounds. Respectaole
references given and required. Address +. Y
All that is incomplete in the above is the ini-
tials; but one need not ask for the ~ thaJ
should come between the 'F' and ~ Alter
perusing the pithy advertisement, interpreted
its meaning simply this;-Any person
possessed of child he is anxious
TO be rid of, here is u good chance Tor
him. Perhaps IF. "" is going to America; per-
hnls he's not That is his business. The party
having u child to dispose of need not trouble
itself on that score For respectable refer
cnccs' read mutual confidence I'll take the
child, and ask no questions of the party, and the
party shall fork over the fifteen pounds, andask
no questions of me. That will make matters
comfortable for both parties, specially if the
meeting is at a cOiiec-hOusc, or at some public
building, for if don't know the party address,
of course he can have no fear that | shall turn
round on him, and return the child on his hands.
The whole affair might be managed while an
omnibus is waiting TO take up a passenger. 4
simple matter OF handing over a bulky parcel
and q little one-thc child and the moncy-and
all over without so much as good night if so
be the party is a careful party, and wouldn't like
even his voice heard.
Itmay be objected that the scduced factory
Nll - NNdIttlN hhtlN 10 beCOUlt INC \ltLllll OF
"F. ", masmUch as she never had fifteen
pounds to call her own in the whole course of
her life, and is less likely than ever to GROW so
rich now. And that is quite true, but as well as
a sCduccd there must be a sCduCcr. Not q man
OF position and means, probably: more likely
the fast young son of parents in the butchering,
or checscmOngcrng, or grocery intCrCst-a
dashing young blade whose ideas of "sccng
life is seeking that unwhOlcsomc phase of il
presented at those unmitgatcd dcns
IN lpl nt
OF which places, probably, the ac-
quaintanCC terminating so miscrahly was COM
menced. Or, maybe, instead of the young
master, it is the shOpman who is the male de-
Hnqucnt: and, in either case. anything is pre-
icrablc tOa row. and an exposure. Possibly
the embarrassed young mother: by stress of ne
ccssity, and imperfect faith in the voluntary
goodness Of her lover. is driven to make the
best OF the defensive weapons that chance had
thus placed in her hands, and her urging for
''sOmc little assistance becomes troublesome.
This being the case. and the Devil stepping in
with ''F. Ms advertisement in his hand, the
difficulty is Immediately reduced to one of rails
ing fifteen pounds. No more hourly anxiety
lest something should turn up to
explode the secret under the yerynOsc of parents
ormastcr, no more restrictions from amUsemcnts
loved so well because of dread lest that pale
laced baOy-caTrylnw young woman should I'M
trudc her rcpTJacAlUl presence, and her tears.
into their midst Only one CndCIvOr-l BIG
one, il is true, but still. only Ouc-aud the ugIv
GAOsL Is Iald aJ once ana forever. IGrmpS the
young fellow has friends OF whom he can bor-
articles OF clothing and JGweIry, that vii! pawn
for the amount If he has neither, still Inc is
IoI GlIlICiJ Wltuout resources M!'sIG-AaIs ana
u'ucng rooms cannot nc pauOnHCu on pare
jOurnG(llm 5 wages, ana proAaDiy alrcloy
the till has blcd ,lightly-lct it bleed more
couously And inc ihelt Is perpctratcd and 't.
y. releases the guilty pair of the little creature
luaI looks IN It's ncplessncss and innocence so
.ft l.. l,r..I A,.l Iii
likely that, alter ali, papa regards himself rs
fellow deserving ol commentator, perhaps but
emitted To some plJy, ana, Stll more, Oh approval
Tor ms sCll-sacrucIng. AnOIher lcllOW, hndlnG
himself in such fix, would have snapped his
HlGGrs III iOLy lacc, ana IolQ hcI 10 90 hCi
worst, and be hanged TO her; but, CQntognd "
all, he was not such n brute as nat, Having
got the poor girl into trouble, he had done all
he could to get her out Of u-clean out
of it, mind yOH. Not only had he
done all that he could towards this
generous end, but considerably more than
he ought; he had rislcd exposure as a thief, and
the penalty OF the treadmill, and all for her
sake. And so thiCk-skinncd is the young Iel-
lows morality that possibly he is really not
aware of the dOublc-dycd villain he has become;
that to strip his case of the speciOus WrapplnGs
in which he would cnvclop it, he Is nothing
better than scomdrel who has stopped to till
robbery in order to qualify himself rs an acces-
sorry TO child murder, or worse-the casting OF
his own offspring, like NANCY dog, on the
streets. to die in a gutter, or to live and grow
up to be terror TO his KINDA rlluan, ana
a breeder of ruiltans. Nor need it be sup
posed that this last is mere fancy
sketch. There can be no doubt that if
the history of every one of the ten thousand of
the young human pariahs that haunt London
streets could be inquired into, it would be found
that no insignificant percentage of the whole
were children abandoned and left to their fate
by mock "adopters, such as IF. X.'
1t is these "adopters" of children who should
va sr,npiollv looked oftpr sinpn oSSuyninU that