The daily gazette., 1875-03-11

self if her brothers eye did but rest on
her for more than passing moment
she tried when she went abroad in the
streets to crowd her secret into her
own bosom and conceal it there.
She lives through such agony as
would seem to a man an eternity,
days through which she prayed for the
night to come to conceal her and give
her little rcst-night through which
she prayed for the day to come, even
though it revealed her shame, that
thereby one more day might be count
ed off in the dreadful tally-medita-
ting death, meditating suicide,
meditating murder, the destruc-
tion of life that had not
Yet began. By and by her. little one
in her arms, under her fathers and
mothers eye; father and mother doing
what all civilized and, Christian folks
in this day teach, putting a premium
upon murder, say to her, as society
says to her. "Get rid of the child,
put it out of sight. If you stand quite
alone, and go some place where you
| arc not known, you NAV have q fresh
| chance perhaps in the world, but that
| child will hopelessly bring you to in
fanny; it is the scarlet letter known to
all the world; get rid of it." SO faith
er and mother said to her: eff you
take the childIaway, if you put 1t in
some foundling asylum, some home
for destitute children, you get
it out of the house, get it out of sight,
get 1t away from the neighbors, you
nay stay where you are, not other
| wise" Father and mother can shelter
you; provided you, the daughter get
rid of your child. So she took her
child and went out into the city to
look about her. In all the great city,
there was no place for such a father
less, nameless, homeless child. Some
body told here there was such place
ina neighboring town, to which she
went. AT its door she knocked-ah,
too many such mothers with such
fatherless and namcless children had
been before her. The place was full.
Back she turned, crossing Charles
) town bridge. Suddenly a thought
I struck her, 81 am going home, oh,
but they told me there was no home
for me, unless got rid of my child"
; Somewhere they said, anywhere, but
where, where?" And so thinking,
I she looked down into the dark, cold
water flowing under her somewhere.
: Oh, she thought, would this place,
g even if took my child there, be any
t less miserable TO her than the still
9 water! These founding asylums,
> would they put any more tender arms
!, about my child than the river will
lap around herY And to what life can
she grow up without name, without
. father, without home, without place
=, in the world-she with a curse OF
1 N wi
4, her mothers shame until she loses 1T
IL In her own. By and by she may ccme
,. TO Just such an hour and just such a
;s time as this. All, it cannot be wrong,
- it cannot be wrong, it seems to the
N poor distraught biain, to send this
10 child of mine to the bosom of Faith
3 er more merciful than any mothers
40 heart could bel And with the thought
70 the distraught brain gives way, the
- miserable hands unloose, the baby
N slips away into the river beneath. She
~, has got rid of her child somewhere
he Half crazed, she finds her way bach
oS to her home. A man whose acts con
~ Germ no one but himself, had done Sc
no much for her
;to The men come and drag the river
mr. bed, and pick up the little, cold, dea'
40. body. Men sat In coroner's inques
oI- on it men find true bill men G.
ses and drag her out of her home a ma
ans sits in the judges seat; twelve men 81
A | in the jury-box to consider the law
nj made by men for the protection @
ri such as she men consider, men d.
,bo eide, men condemn man passes sci
his tence, and now nothing remains that
to man can do for this girl, who, whi
ect having lived through an eternity c
life agony, has not yet numbered seventee
he wears of time. Nothing more remain
,elf for man to do in her behalf but pr
ar. sently for man to miserably adju
Inv. the hangsman's knot, and let the ga
re. lows trap drop under her.
on An ordinary, vulgar, commonPla'
his murderer, frequently without famil
hat home or refuge, is prescribed by all Il
,ro- laws, punished by the laws OF all Il
he. world. But this man, this assassi
the this man who has crucified love, wi
him is in very deed the murderer of t
hso- woman who has loved and trust
him and of the child of his own loi
+ as this man goes alone not merely U
be. punished, but unquestloned throu
,ger the world, since his deed has concel
i IN ed himself alone, and himself SO slig
ner. lyl Applause. That girls case
reak paralleled by ten thousands OF 9TH
man at this very hour. And what thi
ont. you of the teacher of this girl? WI
men shame ,remorse and trial | What thi
able you when such teaching and influer
" of is transmitted to children, who are
I of live and grow in the world, maxi
and of those children sinners, liars, sco'
and drels, thieves, murderers, by this y
,an's mans soul. How do such childl
soul grow up? How do they live d
This can such iiother SNo ne III
ined, gooo anu honorauio .ha nooo =,
lived woman VINO goes ln.I .ne ,a9e - " "
w ,'t to cicntly weighted without this. Ii
raoJ, can she run? The children are
10 his hanging about her neck, but are
sur. chains about her feet. What can 81
,etter a mother give good to such ch
II he and how do such children grow, G