Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-08-02

the pcd-sores which added misery to ber
misery Happily, during 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 posoi-
bly, felt nothing, but gently brsathed her
self away.
| CHILDREN WERE A NUISANCE
| Downstairs sat pair with whom she had
| lived from her birtn-her father and
mother They brought her no share of their
tea nor crumb of their bread They had
blankets for themselves, they had ire there
During these cold weeks baby was born.
That was brought to her and laid in an
onion box in a heap of rags in one corner of
her room; it was not wanted. Children
were a nuisance. Population was q NUS
ance. 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
new born baby in the box, nor for that vast
ing child on her couch. While the wailing
OF the hungry little stranger continued,
February "A, the girls heavy breathing
ceased On her coiin-lid was written,
Sarah aged years" and she was laid on
the top OF her sister in the cemetery. To
people who tend their own offspring, new
born or sick with such wistful care, such a
story seems simply impossible, But un-
happily these narrowing particulars have
all been proved, and have been admitted,
too, by the accused parents in a court of
law
Again we urge that IL is not the humble
fellow, with the short black pipe in his
mouth, lettering with slovenly gait at the
street-corners with whom the friends of
child-life and happiness have to contend
Too often it is with well-spoken, we'll
dressed men, who would call him but an
animal and to his credit, be It said, he
does not disgrace the namel; 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 a 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 2I0, to which be had read Had you
passed him and his wife together in the street
you would have unconsciously felt a GER
tain pride in the British workman; yet was
he not ashamed to express openly desire
to lie rid of the tasks and limitations his
children set to his life, and twice in one
night he gave an infant Of Is months old
Gaming for crying Of teething- His
clenchei fist would have broken open a
door at a blow, and with it in his anger,
hr felled a child 3 years old, making the
little fellow giddy for days, and while he
was thus giddy felled him again: and be-
cause the terrible pain he inflicted made the
child cry, he pushed three OF his huge fng-
ers down the little weeper's throat-"plug-
ging the little DEVILS windpipe," as he
laughingly described it He denies none Of
the charges, and boldly claimed his right;
The children were his own, he said
ADDICTED TO CRUELTY.
Like most cruel men, he added to cruelty
the Wi kedness of false witness, which, be-
ing only against child, nobody ever pros
ecutes He said that they were bad child
rem, little liars and hends Three months
~ere they in the societys shelter, while
their maligner was in prison, and when
the grave, frightened little looks with
which they came had passed away, they
were full OF the ways Of sunny childhood;
snd more docile child, or one more ready
10 twine his arms around your neck, you
seldom find than was the little fellow he
again and again made giddy by his deadly
blows He was a man whom no pretty
words, 10 tender caresses could mollify.
Such mems children-and they are many
are subject to an almost eternal punish
ment
So far as the society can see the real root
OF persistent savagery to children is mainly
two-foid: it is, first, a sullen, i'll conditioned
disposition; and secondly, a cowardice
which limits its qualification to unresistIng
and helpless things 1t is due not to pecul-
iarity in the spirit of the abused child, but
to popularity in the spirit Of the adult
abuser Of the child Men become addicted
to cruelty as they become addicted to
drink and gambling. 1t is vile pleasure
in which they indulge, some occasionally,
some persistsntly; making their homes into
little hells Cardinal Manning in Contem
norarY RaYieW