The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-06-26
THE ENGLISH SAVAGE.
CARDINAL MANNlN6'S STORY or
SUFFERING CHILDHOOD.

Some of the Cases with Which a FRO
tective Society Had to Deal Hans.
Where Children Were Considered l
Nuisance unparalleled brutality.
In the most fagrantly wicked case Will
which the society has had to deal, l. shil
lings week was the mans pension, am
regular wages made this into -. with full
time work it was - 10 shillinss, yet hi>
dwelling was horrible. Nor had Ia many
mouths TO feed At no one time hal ht
moro than two children and only three in
all He was SO COOL a workman, too. tina,
his employer, anxious not to lose six months
OF his services, volunteered him high is
timonlal, which was produced in court.
Yet he deliberately got rid Of his thret
children, all Of them, one after another.
The first passed away before this society
had made his acpuaintance The neigh
bors said 1t had never had enough to eat
in plain English, that it lied Of starvation
The death Of the second took place thus
lt was in winter, in II bare room on a mat
tresS The child, a girl, had but two gar.
msnts on: chemlse AMI print frock.
There was no blanket, no ,oyerlet, no sheet
The window was curtainleSs, the nights
were frosty. There was no iire in thu
CRATE, nor hal there ever been through ali
tho long illness, There was no fool, no
Physic, not even cup of water to drink.
Through all the pain OF her slow, weary
dying she had heen untcnlei, while for
some weeks before she pas cd away she mad
been quito unable to attend to herself, she
could not turn in bed, she could not raise "a
limb. Her bone, almost protruIeI through
the bed sores which added misery t. her
misery. Happily, during many OF tho last
days through viii b she lay in darkness, and
litter cold, while actual death was ,lowly
taxing place, INCONSISTENCIES must have
been aS kindly to her as death. She la,si
bly, felt nothing, but gently bre,thri her
self away
CHILDREN WfEE \ NuiSANCE.
Downstairs sat a pair with whom she had
lived from her blfth-her father AMI
mother. They brought her no share ot their
tea nor crumb of their bread They had
blankets for themselves they had tire there
During these col worE, "a baby WAS born
That was brought to her aud laid in an
onion box IN "A heap u rags in ono corner OF
her room, II was not wanted Children
wore nuisance. Population was IA NUS
ance. Men were right who said q II
mado times ba and bread scarce AMI there
wasn't much money for pyramids AMI
billiards. The parents did not care tor tho
new born baby in the box, nor for that vast
ing chill on her couch. While the wailing
OF tho hungry little stranger continued.
February II, the girls heavy breathing
ceased TN her coilln-li1 was written.
sarah aged years, and he was laid ON
the top Of her sister in tho cemetery. To
people who tend their own offspring. new.
born or sick with such wistful care, such a
story seems simply impossible, lIut un
happily these narrowing particulars have
all been proved, and have been admitted,
too, by the accused parents in court OF
law.
Again we urge that 1t is not the humble
fellow, with tho short black pipo in his
mouth, lettering with slovcnly gait ut the
street.corncrs with whom the friends of
chill-life AMI happiness have to contend
Too often it is with well spoken, well.
animal and to his credit, H., II said he
does not disgrace the name; AMI who will
discuss with you "superStitions' AMI high
questions of state. Twice in six month,
one father had to bo sent to prison whom il
seemed q shame t. send at all When be
had gone his second tno there was ftplnl
on his table Tho Floating Matter of tho
Air. by Tyndall, with his book mark at
page 2io, TO which he had read Had You
passed him and his wife together in the street
you woull have unconsciou,ly felt "A Ger
tain pride in tho british workman; yet wa,
he not ashamed to express openly II desire
to l,o rid Of the TASKS AMI limitations hi,
children SGT TO his life, and twice in ono
night he gave an infant of II months obi
Gaming for crying Of teething. His
conchel fist would have broken open a
door at q blow. and with it, in his AMER,
lie felci u child year, old, making the
little follow giddy for days anl while he
was thus gidly fellrd him again; and De
cause tho terrible pain he inflicted made the
child cry, ho pushed three of his huge Ting
crs down the lltttc weepcr's throat plug
ging the little devils windpipe,' rs he
lalghingly described it lie denies none Of
the charge, and bodily claimed his right
the children were hi, own, he sail
ADDICTED T. CErELTY
Like most cruel mrn, he added to cruelty
the wickrdness Of false witness. which, be
ing only against child, nobody ever pros
ecutes. lie sail that they were bad child
rem, little liars and tends Three months
were they in tho socletys shelter, while
their maligner was in prison, and when
the grave frightened little looks with
which they came had passed away, they
w,re full Of the ways OF sammy childhood
AMI more do,ilc child or one moro ready
to Irvine his arms around your neck, you
seldom find than was the little fellow he
again and again made gdJy by his deadly
blows Tic was man whom no pretty
words, no tender carcsscs could mulllfy
Such mems children and they arc many
are subj ect to an almost eternal punish
Inent
SO far as the society can $40 the real root
of persistent sayagery b. children Is mainly
two fold it IS. first, a sullen, i'll conditioned
disposition AMI secondly, cowariice
which limits It's qualification 90 nnresistlng
and helpless thin-S 1t !, due not to Jecu.
iarity IN the spirit Of the abused child but
to popularity IN the spirit of the adult
abuser Of the child. Men become addicted
t. cruelty as they become addicted to
drink and gambling. 1t i, vile pleasure
in which they indulge, some occasionally
some tersstently making their homes into
l,tI, halle cardinal Nanninr in 1nntnu,