Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1874-09-03

wave. But this is not all. Tiltou and
Moulton are making q supplemental
statement, which they propose to pub
lish in a week or two, which those who
have seen it assert that il viii so clinch
! the matter as to leave no loophole for
! Beecher TO escape. 1t is said that Til
I ton and Moulton have not exhausted
| their magazines of ammunition in the
shape of letters, by any means, but they
/ have stock on hand sufficient 10 sink
their enemies. That something of the
kind is feared by Mr.. Beechers friends,
! is evident from the fact that since M0ul-
tons statement appeared they have mel
lowed down wonderfully. Nevertheless,
they keep a good front on it, and aver
that the legal investigation which Tiltou
has commenced will completely fatten
| him out, and leave the pastor in better
shape than ever. Let the whole world
hold its breath and wait. Ia the mean
time, ....
HENRY c. BoWEE.
the proprietor of the 1ndep psad,7lt, has
! got into It, The Brooklyn ArQHs pub
! lished a statement from western man
! to the effect that Bowen had stated that
| his late wife had, on her death bed, con-
! fessed 10 a criminal intimacy with
Beecher, and that Bowen accent
ed from Beecber a Sum Of money in
| settlement Of the matter. Bowen and
! his two Sons sue the 4rqus for libel
I This will be remembered as the old scan
. Al al
/ of Chicago, who received it from parties
here. What family is next 10 be drag
ged through this mass Of filth
GLRSDzNxSe,
! the Jersey City pastor Who was accused
Of running Mary Pomeroy. stoutly denies
( the charge, aud remains at his home
, awaiting the legal investigation. What
! a pity II is that the Beecher matter
I could not have been 50 managed!
! CHILDREN's oHAn1rE.-sT. JoHN's GUILD.
One Of the curious sights Of city life
! nowadays is the sailing Of the floating
/ Hospital of ST. Johns Guild. on its eX-
! cursions for mothers and sick children.
/ No one who has never tried to raise chill
! iren in q crowded city, even with com
( laaad Of unlimited means. knows what
u1eeasing care it demands, aga tis gi f''ii h
I - st-' -.'ie IioW can il he any other way.
. When the air they draw from their first
I breath is thick with fOufness Is the
! Mississippi water with silt, and they are
nursed by OYerworEed mothers, worn to
/ skin and bones with care, drudgery, and
miserable food. The saddest sights Of
I the poor quarters of the city are not
women in liquor plcdding the frozen
ground with bare purple feet, rs ] have
! seen them in the dead of winter, or the
/ crushed white-faced Iaeu, Whose fea-
T tlrres were sunken as death with worse
DESPAIR. but the woeful, wan faces of
the babies, lifting weary eyes to the sky,
as if wondering why distant heaven left
them so long 10 such q fate /; babies
hanging to the oyeFdrained breasts, from
which every scanty drop they drew came
straight from the mothers falling health.
! / have seen a large framed ScOtchwOman.
built for strength aud brought up in the
open air, crying with weakness, because
thI. food She could get could not nOurish
! her and her child. Another time 1 saw
a white, poorly dressed man sitting in
Central Park with baby covered with
I sores held tendeTly in his arms. Every
! other day, as often as be could leave his
work. be brought il from Mott Street.
one Of the most squalid in the city, FIVE
miles. that it might have the fresh air
/ for two or three hours after suhd0wn.
! He said the childs illness was caused by
I bad air poisoning its blood, and he look
! ed At the little scaTfaced creature as If
he would gladly have opened every one
! of his own poor veins TO save IFS dToop-
ing life.
The sturdy members Of 81. Johns
/ Guild are men of the working classes,
who see and feel the wants Of their
poorer ncighbers, as those removed from
them cannot do. and, headed by the
Rev. Albah Wiswald, whose name j
another word for prompt and sagacious
/ charity, they were not slow 10 devise
I help for the helpless ones. First Of all
/ steamer chartered as a hospital and
/ provided with every convenience
( for sickness, makes frequent trips
! up the river, taking poor mothers and
! sick children away where they can
have a long day in cool and pure air
4 Just such treatment as weakly children
| of the rich receive. who send them daily
on the North River boats for an airing
! the nurses taking lunch and only bring
ing them home at night. One would
say the hospital boat must be sad sight.
| filed, as il is with the sick and perish
ing BHt the patience of the children
of the poor has something heroic in it,
aud the suffering faces grow wonder
fully calm and sweet In the reviviBg air,
and wailings are hushed aS soon as the
boat is in mid-stream A ward full oI
poor sick children will not makess much
noise as a single nursery Of home dar-
lings. One wishes they could get over
this awful inbred restraint, and cry and
fight ike babies With the common rights
/ of humanity. but, thanks to their self
! control, the hospital boat IS far from an
/ unpleasant place, even for dainty nerves.
| The clean, white cradles are ranged III
/ the cabins, and cots, the r0cking-chaiTs
! and camp seats on deck are filed with
! plainly dressed mothers alike glad Of the
soothing sail and the good hearty dinner
| Of beef, bread and milk they get on
board. happy with one holiday ont OF
their hard year. and getting life ont Of
the clear and fair surroundings, rs. well
as the blessed air that blows about them.
Here a pair of great dark eyes looks
/ up from white face on is mothers
| shoulder Shy. unused smile of pleas
] ure creeps across it. beautiful TO watch,
/ as it is the first flash of happiness the
/
! brown lashes rest on a pale sailow cheek,
as if the heavy lids would neveroopen
! again, but, as il sleeps IN its crib, tiDge
of color steals into its cheeks, the breath
/ ing stirs its bosom, and the eyes of the
mother watchingi it fill it with a look thar
is better lhan prayer. Two weeks
age, she says, iD a low tone, fearful Of
waking the little sleeper, Il made up
my mind she was going, and poor peO-
pie like me and the father has no right
to have q baby at all. And I'd began to
put her away from me, and feel how the
house would seem without her, and how
my arms would be empty. She's never
had a color in her cheek before in her
life, and the doctor says the air IS rails
ing of her, and the voice sunk with the
burden of its hopes and fears. AS You
breathe the next free watt from lake or
prairie, think of those whose children
fail away from their bosoms for want of
decent air-the common heritage. Bless
the Guild of st. John with it carpenters
and tailors, who leave the work which
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