The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-07-17
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TREATMENT

IULHI HLVI
In the Office of Prosecuting Attor-
ney Upham at 2:30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon stood bright little bare
footed boy of eleven years, whose
name is Russell Simpson. He was IN
charge of Humane officer Charles Fra
ger, who had with the aid of goou
citizens of Louisville, rescued. him
from a life far worse than death.
The child is the son of Coshocton
couple who separated and left the
poor little fellow to shift for himself.
After wandering alone for weeks and
months uncared for and with no one
to give him a kind word or sooth his
broken heart as he strolled from place
to place. he at length found his way
to Canal Dover where he met one man
who was not too busy in the mad rush
for the almighty dollar to stop, look
and listen. The manly little fellow,
brave in the midst of the most de-
pressing and adverse circumstances,
lot in life and at once an interest was
aroused in his case that appealed to
fathers and mothers who have right
ideas of life and in whose heart a re-
sponsiye chord of sympathy was touch
ed
FOUND A HOME.
A place was found for the child in
the Tuscarawas County Children's
Home which is located midway be-
tween Canal Dover and New Phila
delphia. Here the child was given the
proper attention and being unusually
bright for one of his years soon be-
came a favoTite with all inmates and
attaches Of the home. Four months
ago one John Matti, farmer who re-
sides on the old Peter Baughnan farm,
three and one-half miles east of Lou
isville, visited the home and with a
promise of kind treatment and an edu-
cation such as would fit the bright
and ambitious little fellow to take
most any place in business or the pro-
LESSONS when he arrived at the age
of maturity, adopted him With an
expression of the kindest wishes for
Russell's success his little companions
bade him farewell at the threshold of
The massive brick structure near the
banks of the Tuscarawas river, whose
waters flow smoothly and lazily |
through one of the most beautiful and |
fertile valleys in Ohio's fair domain. |
FROM PARADISE TO PERDITION. |
When the little fellow arrived at the |
Matti homestead he soon discovered |
that promises quickly made are Oft
times easily broken, and instead of |
being treated with kindness and the |
fatherly and motherly devotion that |
one Of his tender years needs in the |
cultivation of a sweet disposition and |
the building of character which can |
withstand the assaults of temptation,
he was used in a manner directly op-
posite Instead of light work and
kindly companionship, good advice and
treatment that would develop day by
day into q character that would stand
out boldly above the storms and temp
ests for humanity, God and eternity,
the little fellow was put to work at
the hardest drudgery, being compelled
to pitch hay from daylight to dark.
Instead of his soul developing into the
likeness of one who died on the cross,
1t commenced at once to shriYel and
die away Ever since his adoption
and introduction into his new place
Of OH ha !, /
to the statement of both himself and /
the neighbors, to do mans work and
that on the poorest of rations and for
a day or more at a time. none at all.
BEATEN WITH WHALBBONE CLUB
On the least provocation he was
beaten with heavy butt end of a
whalebone whip.
Recently the boy was denied food
for thirty-six hours by reason of some
imaginary and objectionable sin which .
his tyrannical master charged up
against him, and becoming almost ex-
hausted from the lack of food he went
to neighbors and intimated that he
would like something to eat. The |
manner in which the boy devoured the
food set before him prompted the fam
lily to question the boy and TO them
he reluctantly said that he had had |
nothing to eat within the past 50
hours. In order to get away, even |
temporarily, from MATHS house the lad
was forced TO break through a win
dow. After hearing the boys story
of the abuse to which he had been
subjected Matti was informed that he
would have to treat the boy different
ly or else the outraged law would |