Identifier: hillsalbumofbiog00hill (find matches)
Title: Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Hill, Thomas E. (Thomas Edie), 1832-1915
Subjects: Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago : Hill Standard Book Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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n the Village and the Great City. ^ ;1; T HAS fallen to the lot of this cow to be in the hands of aneconomical owner, who determines that she shall obtain herfood in- the streets. The cow that is consigned to the street^^ has a terrible ordeal to pass. There will come the hot,dry, dusty days, when vegetation will cease to grow, and, enfeebledby hunger, she must starve or save herself by breaking into theyards where shesees green grassgrowing. Then come the hoots andyells of men andboys Willi stonesand clubs, accom-panied by the bit-ing and tearing ofher flesh by dogs.The accompanying illustration,which Is absoluttdytrue to life, is thewell-known villagecow, with tail bit-ten off, and horntorn away through the cruelties she has had to undergo. Thisanimal, emaciated by starvation, that quenches her thirst at theI)utrid mud-puddle—Ihat fs chased, stoned and clubbed a dozentimes n day, furninhej* the milk Ihat is expected to nourish, iit theclose of the day, a family of little children.
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Stooed by Boys and Bitten by Dogs. 7.^riHILDnOOD has an unwritten history of suffering that willifllfe never be told. We see faint glimpses of some of these in■VS^ this picture. ^^^ ■ There is the little waif in charge of the organ grinder, whomust tramp her dreary way, early and late, with her master and hismonkey, the joy of sunny childhood unknown to her. There is the little bent form ofa girl compelled togrow under loadsof wood, which sheconstantly gathersfor the family use;and there is alsoihe frail beggar-Lirl, in her rags,trained by hermaster to assume1 look of distress,who will knowvery little of happygirlhood. Even the chil-dren of the rich,through ignorance of parents, musl often endure their trials, asshown in the warmly wrapped and hooded girl in the foreground,whose lower Huibs are constantly allowed to be so exposed to eventhe most freezing weather as to subject her to sickness, sufferingand an early death. Methods of Cruelty to Children. CKIIKLTTES INFLICTED ON WIVE

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