The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-07-05

were .sthat the child had been beaten
with undue severity until abe was much
bruised, and she was then washed in trir
pentine and salt, causing great agony
The defense was denial. and that the
child was incorrigible. The bench. com
mentipg on the undue severity of the
punishment, imposed fine of La. and
costs.
NORTHAMPTON.
At the police court to.day, John Old
was summoned by the society for the
Proven ion of Cruelty to Animals for
gross cruelty to a dog. The evidence
showed that prisoner had brutality ills
treated the animal. Hewas seen to dash
il against the stones and kick 1t re-
peatedly in the streets. He aiterward
severely wounded it by striking 1t with
shovel. He was about to bury 1t while
still alive, but was prevented. The anis
NAL soon died after from the effects OF
the prisoners i'll usage. Old was senr
fenced TO months hard labor without
the option of fine.
"The italics are mine. You see, II
you treat dog inhumanly you can't
get off with a fine; you must go to
prison for a month at hard labor. But
ifyou treat little girl inhumanly you
catcha scratching lecture from the bench,
and you have to pay fine twenty.
FIVE entire cents besides and stand the
costs upon top oil that. No, i whitfield
my opportunities down to this: One
could fling criticisms at the Unmatched
colors OF English ladies' dresses, hecould
poke fun at the peddling of sermons and
reyersions of livings,' and say sarcastic
things about various other trifies, but
after his book was finished there wouldn't
be fun enough in it to keep the reade
from dying of melancholy. No, looked
he ground all over; there's nothing
funny in England"
"Why, there's the English humorous
"They are not funny; they are ps-
thetic."
"You could have written about the
and customs7 2"
Yes, but only to certain extent.
For instance, / could have written freely
about public manners and customs, and
given instances. / could have said that
the innocent and ignorant backwoods,
man of the unvisited remoteness Of
America is the twin brother of innumer-
able well.dressed Londoners in one
disposition to glare and
stare into lady's face in the street, and
10 follow her up, shoulder to shoulder,
and crane his head around and still
eagerly glare and stare until the poor
victim is ready to cry with modification
and fear. could have written as much
rs pleased about public manners and
and been free to applaud or to
olame--but there an end. The real in
crest would lie in the private and
domestic manners and customs, and j
,ad no right to print anything about
hose, either praisefully or otherwise. I
was guest in many English homes, but
when man takes you into his house he
,acitly takes you into his confidence,
and it would be q graceless thing to
abuse it,"
s'Mr. Dickens was not go particular
with America"
"No, ne wasn't; but he recognized
later that he had not done thing to be
proud of, but just the reverse. When
he came to America the second time he
apolosized. But that's neither here nor
there. Private matters are private mat.
ters, and it is not right to meddle with
them. We all have our superstitions.
and that is one of mine."