| Show A scene how many sermons are to be found in the actual occurrences of life here is one A well to do citizen of new York who is a hard drinking machad a sweet little daughter when drunk he was inclined to be ugly at other times sho was the apple of his eye it was his habit to call her to him for a kiss and if he was under the influence and she hesitated the maudlin beast would rap her on the head with cane knuckles or whatever was handy tho result was that after a while his mere approach served to throw the little one i almost into convulsions in 1 tion of the blows all this appeared to please tha brute ana the shyer she grew hie severer became ment that followed the Jen forced caress seized with illness and the physician who was summoned pronounced H a case of brain fever on head he found it full of knots and bruises 1 A farther diagnosis was i a i wi K tisia vy bt S and the medical man frankly told the father thi kheife of his child hung in the balance and she was liable to die at any moment aba intelligence sobered him and he insisted on being continuously present at her bedside one day just before the end came bhe looked at him long and lovingly and said papa I 1 aint afraid of 00 oo now oo 00 may me now as much as oo 00 pease and oo 00 may knock my poor head too if oo 00 want to papa for I 1 aint a goin to bubble oo 00 any more and with that she turned her baby face to the lall and in a little while slept the sloop that knows no waking the father realizing at last what be had done uttered a harrowing cry and fell insensible upon the floor the physician who described the scene says hejjas in the father another patient who will never recover for his mind is nearly gone his heart is breaking and he wanders hopelessly around the house moaning and weep ing for his murdered child |
