Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-05-29

scarcely twelve years Of age, and there arc peni,
OF them only SIX or seven. We have in this city
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty TO Children
"a blessed association which has done much good
It has rescued many miserable little wretchel
whose bitterlives have been one dark vale OF tears
II It to stop now and do no moreit has earned
an immortal crown; and yetas / stood looking on
that molly crew the other day,so y0ung,so uncared
for. 80 apparently Collaboration, could not helT
asking myself, where is the Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Children They spent over one
thousand dollars to drag Little Corinne, the actress
from the stage, a child who sang little song and
danced little dance and who had every luxury
and every care, who kept her carriage and horses
and had her own private nurse, who lived at the
best hotels ard went clad in purple and fine linen;
and yet,sO fearful were these good gentlemen that
her health and her morals would suffer. that they
wanted to take the child from the care Of its
mother Had they no word for these miserable
waits who sell the Telegram, the HERALD the
News" and other morning and evening papers.
Often, as bend my steps homeward in the small
hours Qor your city newspaper man Is a night
hawk, hear those children crying their papers
down by the ferries opposite the bridge for they
dare not 90 home till the last paper is sold This
wild street life is bad enough for boys the temp
tati0n to crime is stronger than one can conceive
butt bad for them what must It be for little girls
cast at six and seven years OF age on the wicked
streets Of this great city. Here Is teld for mis-
sionary endeavorand harvest ripe for the sickle.
Special missions are open IN different parts OF the
city.deVoted to particular ends one looks out for
the convict just released from prison-walls and
tries 10 give him chance to make an honest liv-
ing; another labors among fallen women, and
seeks to win back from q life OF shame those whom
the priest and the Leyite pass by. Who viii look
after these childrens They are entirely OF foreign
paFentage, their fathers and mothers have placed
them on the road to ruin, and the State must be
their father and mother
It is wonderful the different ways resorted to to
get living without labor. have known one
old colored woman on Fulton street for sixteen
year, She just wants one cent to cross the ferry;
she has dying child on the other side she has one
cent and only wants one more. She has been try
ing to raise that one cent to my personal knowl-
edge for sixteen years. and I personally in the |
meantime, have given her enough to pay her PAS |
sage to China; but she has never got to the othai
side Of the ferry yet. One old colored woman made
good living for many years taking up collections
Tor ''Onr church" She was not particular abontJ
was fish that came 70 ner net.
from yard Of calico to a boiled ham. On one Oc-
casion met the old lsay in a Wholesale liquor
st0re-what wss doing theref well, IL was try.
Ing to get the proprietor to abandon his business
and join the sons OF temperance. The old lady
was somewhat exhausted after a hard days work,
and the proprietor asked her II she would take
some relFeshment and she said that she did not
mind trying little as medicine" After put
ing herself on the outside OF wholesome reviver,
she presented her subscription book for the up
building OF Zion's African NJ E. Church. The
proprietor gravely and carefully scanned the list
md said, "Aunty, have not got any money, but
III give You bottle Of whisky "Lor' bress you
honey, the old lady replied 'dat'll do jes as WELL
md suah as yer bon, III glib il 10 de minister"
4 favorite racket is, on a stormy night
or a woman with a little baby in her
rms, to ring the bell and say that she
las been put out Of her home for nOn-paymenl Of
entand she has no shelter for herself or her baby
rom the storm. 1t is not in flesh and blood TO
withstand such appeal that, and it is not till
he same woman with the same baby appears for /
he seventeenth time on the same kind Of stormy
light that it suddenly occurs to you that there is a
Olered gentleman in the wood pile. B.