Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-04-29

lit can't live !" the mother found voice
to say, laying her hand upon his arm.
"Mary, be still" he answered stern
! ly,. while his teeth were unrelaxing from
their clenching, and his face as hard as
if he were entering battle, land dor I
any Of you NEEDLE with me, keep of. "
The bystanders involuntarily obeyed,
with many harsh remarks upon bis
cruelty, but he did not heed them and
went on. Another and another egg
was broken, and still there was no sign
of life. Then the whole body Of by
ISLANDERS broke out into a loud rnurmur,
and cries Of "The brute Y @I,et the
child die in peace n He Il crazy
VI pc chila Away fro4s him l's.,WcTI
hei1S arouna hin.
lie desisted for a moment from his
efforts, and turned with a ferceness
which had before been foreign to his
nature, but no one who saw him after
ward forgot it. "Fools," he Kissed,
"mind your own business and leave me
to mine Take her away, viii you
Try it !" and he went on emptying egg
after egg down the apparently hfeless
throat.
The mother could stand this no long
err. Her tirst-born was being tortured
to death before her eyes, and she i'm
ploringly flung herself on her knees be-
fore her husbands father, who had that
moment arrived.
ooh, father, do stop him r she
gasped; Hhe will obey you do stop
him. He is torturing that poor dying
child"
The grandfather started forward a
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 il he does not 20 ON. tt can.
not do more if be does. I would not
say word to him for the world. The
child is h.s--let him use il at his plea.
sure"
There was silence then. In a mo-
mcnt more there was a quiver of the
eyelids, conyulsiye movement Of the
chest, and the teeth lost their tension
The father seized his child, turned her
face downward, and the poison began
to flow from her mouth. Again, and
again as the retching ceased, he repeat
cd the experiment the life returning
stu more, aud the face losing its black
color every instant More than twenty
times albumen had been administered,
and more than half those tunes follow
Cd by the expulsion Of the poison; when
the eyes opened, the father desisted,
the little sufferer lay lust alive in his
s..4-.s. @shaugted, It's little life terribly
shattered, but sapcd!
Then, when the necessity for exertion
aud determination was over when the
| physician had been summoned, and they
knew that darling little Blossom might
live, after many weeks Of struggle be.
tween life and death-when the relieved
friends had acknowledged that they had
wronged him first; when the beautiful
and sorrowful wife had blessed him
through her kisses and tears, and all
knew that, under God, only such an al
sess Gerec Dissemination could have
saved the child then the father sat
down, unneryed, and wept like child.
Blossom is alive to-day, and her
brown eyes ere opening upon woman
hood But there is no hour in my life
that brings 90 thrilling a recollection rs
that Of the young fathers struggle for
the life Of his child that Fight With
Poison which / have only family indi-
Gated because beyond description.