Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-05-19
TIE ENaLIsH SAVAGE.

England.
From the CARDINALS article in the Oontem. |
psrsry Review.
In the most fagrantly wicked case, |
with which the society has had to deal.
twelve shillings week was the mans I
pension, and regular wages made this
into two pounds; yet with full time
work 1t was two pounds ten shillings;
yet his dwelling was horrible. Nor
had he many mouths to feed. AT mol
one time had he more than two chill |
dren, and only three in all. He was
so good workman, too, that his en-
ployer, anxious not to lose six months |
of his services, volunteered him high
testimonial, which was produced inI
court. Yet lie deliberately got rid of
his three children, all of them, one
after another.
The first passed away before this
society had made his acquaintance. |
The neighbors said it had never had
enough to eat; in plain English, that
| /. died of starvation. The doctor, CIV
ing the cause of death its scientific|
name, certified "mesenteric disease"
while the coroner looking at the " hole
facts of the case, called the man "a
disgrace to humanity" and there, tol
| the shame OF the locality be it spoken,
the matter ended, and the father was
free to go and do as he would once
more; which he did, and another child
followed. The medical certificate was
| furnished; the inquest and funeral and
everything in all respects happened as
before, with one exception this time
| the case came to the ears of the Lon-I
don Society. The death took place
| thus: 1t was in winter, in bare room,
on a mattress. The child, a girl, had
but two garments on, a chemise and a.
print frock. There was no blanket, mo
coverlet, no sheet. The window was
curtainless; the nights were frosty.
There was no fire in the CRATE, nor
had there ever been through all the
long illness. There was no food, no
physic, not even q cup of water to
drink. Through all the pain of her
slow, weary dying, she had been unat-
tended, while for some weeks before
she passed away she had been
quite unable to attend to herself; she
could not turn in bed, she could not
raise limb. Her bones almost pro-
tuded through the bed sores which
added misery TO her misery. Happily,
during very many of the last days
through which she lay in darkness and
bitter cold, while actual death was
slowly taking place, Inconsistencies
must have been as kindly TO her as
death, she possibly felt nothing, but
gently breathed herself away.
Down stairs sat the pair with whom
she had lived since her birth-her
father and mother. They brought her
no share of their tea nor crumb of their
bread. They had blankets for them
selves, they had fire there. During
these cold weeks a baby was born.
That was brought to her, and laid in
an onion box in heap of rags in one
corner of her room; it was not wanted.
Children were nuisance. Population
was a nuisance. Men were right who
said so. 1t made times bad and bread
scarce, and there wasn't much money
for pyramids and billiards. The
parents did not care for the newborn
baby in the box, nor the wasting child
on her couch. While the wailing o.
the hungry s'little stranger" continued
on February IA the girls heavy
breathing ceased. On her coffln-lid
was written, Sarah, aged seven
years." and she was laid on the top o.
her sister in the cemetery. To people
who tend their own offspring, new
born or sick, with such wistful care
listening for their invalid's loves
murmured want, turning their pillows
moistening their fevered lips, watch
ing for the least sign of exhaustion
through days and nights, having NJ
comfort till the little sick thing is wei
again, and who feel when it is deat
and gone that they must lie down an(
die themselves, such story SEEM
simply impossible. But unhappily
these narrowing particulars have al
been proved, and have been admitted
too, by the accused parents in a cour
of law.
Again we urge that it is not thu
humble fellow, with the short blacl
pipe in his mouth, lettering with SLOW
enly gait at the street corner, will
whom the friends of child-life anC
uhDDluCob hhNC w OOhtChd AOO OibCL
; it is with well-spoken, well-dresset
men, who would call him but an ami
NAL (and to his credit be it said, ht
does not disgrace the name), and who
will discuss with you "superstitions'
and high questions of State. Twice in
six months one father had to be sent
to prison, whom it seemed shame to
send at all. When he had gone his
second time, there was found on his
table "The Floating Matter of the
Air." by Tyndall, with his book mark
at page 24O, to which he had read
Had you passed him and his wife to-
gether in the street you would have
unconsciously felt certain pride in
the British workman; yet was he moi
ashamed 10 express openly desire tc
be rid of the tasks and limitations his
children set to his life, and twice in
one night he gave an infant of fifteen
months old a Gaming for crying Of
teething. His clenched fist could have
broken open a door at blow, and with
it, in his anger, he felled a child three
years and half old, making the little
fellow giddy for days, and while hi
was thus giddy felled him again: and
because the terrible pain he inflicted
, made the child cry, he pushed three o
his huge fingers down the little weep
er's throat-''pluggling the little deviPl
windplpe," as he laughingly described
1t. He denied none of the charges
and boldly claimed his right; the chill
dren were his own, he said. And ont
| of the Dapers quoting his remark tool