Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 1, 1874, Page 10

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1874 Come up this way; it's s little private, Ah— don’t yon think it would be advisable—very - de- sirable, in fact—to change your mode of life somewhat 7" Wall, T dunno*” replied Joe with great delib- eration, “Think of movin’ nearer the claim " “Ah—I don't refer to,material matters so much 28 to, sh—epiritual ones,” said the Pro- fessor. ‘ All the promises, you know, are con~ suddenly upon_Nchemiah, who in alarm har- riedly eeized his rifle and fired at him. Tho ball cut the string which tied the robe sround his brother's head, npon which he jumped fo his feet, £0 frightening Nehemiah that b foll into s =pasm, from which be recoversd with reason en- tirely gone. ANOTHER i8 the case of & Captain of ship, ¥ho was sul} Ggh E ” AD £ her in this way,—it eatrikes the passer-by as i . eing quite ornate and handsome. _ In internal arrangement it js found to be very judiciously planned, with the kitchen, laundry, bakery, znd dispeneary in the barement. The offices And re- ception rooms occupy_thoe first floor, whilo tho upper part of th buildivg is_portioned into wards, asscmbly rooms, avd eleeping apart- WHERE'S THE YOUNG "DN 7 vacantly at Jim for o moment ; A Day at the Cook County Insane Asylum b DOIORTALITY. " [ ject to eptlontic fita. - Ak the timo o bia, acuis | ditioned on walling in ight” patbe, a4d. mala- | whilevery fow secondssho nitered o hormbla il the thirst that some me: {tack i ina, where suddenly re- ing & proper frame of mind.” . cry, balf groan, f yell, which made even the A emting of te | e ho s In Cuas * Look hero, Profousor,” eaid Joo, is it ta- | most whisky-iurdencd men abiver and tarm pale. ceiving intelligence of the losa of a large amount of money, his reason was gverthrown and he be- came s hopeless Junatic. He is a harmless and raplies dicating bave for fame, it may be mentioned that in the entrance hall to the institation aro built, into the wall on eithes side, two largo shield medallions, on which are cut into the stone—what? Tho names of the Committeo on the Poor-Honeo for 1670, and also in the opposite wall tho names of the contractors, carpenters, masons, cut-stone contractors, iron-work makors, tin-pipe furnish- ligion yor a-driviu’ at 7" “Txactly,” exclaimed the Professor, raising his glassos, and looking Joo full in the face. ““THEN IT'8 No 60," said Joo confidently. *The Deacon’s been atry- in’ it on.” ‘¢ Indeed!” exclaimed the Professor, hastily putting on & very reserved air. baby " shouted tho Major. The HMaener in Which Patients There Are Treaied, quiet patient, and when sddressed only by making a motion with is arms, in the rigo and fall of the waves. " pouscased with an iden that Another man is posseased with an someshing ineido of him does tho talking, which #1040 Lundred !" cried the Professor. “*Three !” roared the Deacon. heathen, an’ it runs a doublo resk.” .. ors, painters, steam-heating makers, and an S s A Urgent Necessity for Kore | 33 Ranie o hesting makers o Com fi;. is cortainly carried on with a vigor and vilgarity | = **Yes,” eald Joo. * Put ina rog'ler twenty- | “ "Tain't no use tryin’,” romarked Scventeener, P R Tho exceeding pocr taste of this bald puffing is | worthy of the devil bhimself. Ho frequently kegk blast; but it_only fizzled. Reckon the | ex-member of an Eastern fire dopartment. *No oom, epparent. Itis not tho intention to givo fho | elands at the register and talks to those whom | zock's purty tongh, Professor, an’ not much indi- | feller cud live in that thero firo more'n half & long list & free ndvertisement, so nemes are | ho conceives to bo in hell bolow; at other times | cations, no how.” Aud Jde leughod in hia | minit. He'd hov to breathe, an’ then *twounld be = sleeve, and started to find tha ajor aud beg a | all up with him. omitted, but that they have establisbed an en- | he is penitent and uhmedixmd implores that some oue il relieve him of ¢ cigar. 16 evil spirit which ; during claim to be written d Dogben Different Conduct of Male and | Joirgeisim tob Sritten, and that 12 | hofancles Las taken up ta sbode vithia i, | Ube Major gwo Joo s excellont cigar, Hlessgatly ssked og Baclsss, Gsin thus edvertisi 3 For the most part tho patieats aro apparent promised & larger monthly dividon an | crowd, and patting the ortunato Female Inmates. N T e e o | i eatae To Ao conbtion, Wi mea | e i Bt = S D iy sidend than | crowd, and pafing o Poor-Houee they are working a continual and positive injury to sensitive patients, is too clear a fact to need further pointing out. It is to be hoped that they will at once remove the evidence of their trifling weakuees. * UP-STAIRS. The three upper floors_aro divided into eight wards, of which themostdangerous have the up- )Er, and the most manageablo tho lower ones. ey are aleo divided into sections, the fomales having the part of tho houso to tho left of the central stairway, whilo tho males are confined in the wards to_tho right. Tho werds aro_simply long balls with sloeping-rooms of small gize, &nd calculated for the use of ono paticnt on esch side ; though o aro put in many of them, thero told Joe a firstrate story. And, when he had got Joo into an excellent humor, ho com- menced moving skillfally on Joe's outworks. *“ GOT MUCH LAID TP, JOE " inquired the Major with bland Lypocrisy. “ Nary 1" replied Jos with emphasis, and then ffl loud Iaugh at the utter absurdity of such an ca. “Time you commenced, old follow,” eaid the Major. ** You can be well off in a fow months, if the claim keops doing as well as now.” “No good of me savin’ money,” replied Jao, with an oath 88 generous as it Was unnecessary. * Somebody'd steal it." ' * Nonsente!” cricd the Major, * You'll want s of any Lind, except st intervals. In this condi- tion they are best used when thoy are treated LIEE LITTLE CHILDBEN, amused without ostentation, and quietly led to torn their minds away from their own misfor- funes to simplo_and easily understood thinga. | On every Saturday evoniug they are allowed to meet for o dance in the general hail i pleasure they all enjoy Leartily, and it is no doubt a greataid to o oure. The attendants are also selected with a view to sccuring those with tact and cheerfulnoss, which are necessary quali- ties, Human minds are so constitated that, when prostrated by mental affliction, they readic Iy assume the qualities of a domtnant mind, and A Wheat Speculator as Pius the Teath, as Maiy uttored anothor cry. it over Limsolf, and an fustant later DASHED INTO THE Not a man spoke: ‘Causes of Insaniiy---The Victim of a Practical Joke. followed the Deacon's example. The Inearcerated Artist---An Unfortunate being t twenty such rooms connected with | if they are treated like brutes they become eo; | wife and a house to livo in onc of these days; Girl. e ot i Signe . wanke. Teha oIl | of | dindnbes sed chaurlulisws, Gi che contrary, | and thon you'll find money very haudy, 00 mat- | had mearly crossed tho stroet, when ward itself thus becomes tho goneral | lead them to like buoyancy. ter hiow much you havo. : suddenly bo ugogpafl, screamed, *Catch i room of all tho patieats in the AT tgz Asn.umm — a ¢ House l‘:m wxfgl!i ;J’nctl'{{lnwdnglna. "dTll.\‘:vna. it! dth:u?h(ha cr!:;ld and dropped, face down- 3 ity i i it w and they are permitted to walk | fInthetroatmentof thepatientsunderhischarge, | der an’ picknxes, Major! No woman ' werd, on tho ground. at Inmbaty it R apodtion al;‘:g’t or &it dm\'nyun the &fm which are built !)r. J. W. Tope, Suverl:nlendnnt of our County | #uch a galoot a3 me Tzo Daafnn :n{a byml‘ian :ix’do e? l;m zi::;::x‘} for water and oil, 0 shoutin “Pleniy of them wonld, quick enough,” re- turned the inscnsible form over. plied tho Major. *‘You'rs young,and food- looking, and good-natured, and have plenty of good senso. All yon reed to do is to stop drink- ing, gambling, fighting, awu;\fini"— “Major,” intorrupted Joo, blowing smoke from both cornors of his mouth until his faco was affectually clonded, *' THAT'S TEE IDENTICAL GAME that two othor chops hea Lon a-pleyin’ on me this mornin’.” - ¢ Not the Deaconand the Profcssor ?” queried self-evident that it needs no farther proof than iz before our eves to establish it. The word frailty seems well applied to the wholo race, In i, however, there ars degreed, as in all else, snd .80 long a8 8 mzn is able to maintsin a certsin limii or boundary, which defines tho arca of what wa call sanity, ho is Leld to s personsl responsi-- ‘bility, both bylaw and society ; but, the moment he steps beyond the confines, the lawa are abro- gated in his cagc, and be becomes a charge on ‘Asylum, displays a high sense of bis duty and an ennest appreciation of the bestand wisest meth- ods to bo used.. This may readily bo scen when it is stated that, thoughmany paticnts Layo been received who waro violently benton self-destruc- tion at tho Lime of confinoment, thera are nous now under his cherge who cannot bo trusted alone. Ho complains fhat his accommodations aro not awple, and, as long a8 two patienta who are liable to_the most scnsitive impressions &t night sro_obliged to elecp 1n the same small room, and thus become an object of torror on cach side, or do as they choose, under ths eurveillanco of the threo attendants who arg coustantly in the room. To enter either of these halls is to find out the forco of the expression “\WORSE THAN BEDLAM,” - for each patient, baving his peculiar hallucina~ tion, Toams about for tho most part during the hours in which ho is allowed Libérty, giving vont to his appeals or reproaches, cries or laughter, o talking to his mad companions_with a perfoct indifforence to snything but his own mania. s critical glane. HE'S BREATHED THE FIRE ; breathe nothin® eles.” er soul ! : p Upon the entrance of a stranger theso symptoms D X 3 > 0 k : others, or, in other words, insane. To become | JEPE -0 SRt oot B oaP e g the | to . each — othicr, —bla . eompiatnts -~ ase | tho Major quisiis, and biing Lis Hps autiesly | M ommid b e e s ho i insane frequently 1::‘“.5, tbcrfifm, Mt;‘fifp 1‘3—:: lunatics approach with & wild and unnccngtnmtsd woll xu;naarl.l ‘This certainly is in]gp ““i under his n{in;l}che. OHe o i tn;pe%;; bu:h su%denly hfigupcbd, '?fi:":‘: 3 imagin ine drawn by society for if , and_addressiug them: in earnest but in- | man and cruel treatment. o i8 also *“Jus’ 8o, replicd Joe. *Onu of "em piled on | an en the Doncon ow, by y piibe g ol Lok e the brimatons; and tother friod sugar. Dut | Joo's head siaz oeet the Lind ol arm tuey bampered by being obliged to confess to the Commissioners who have charge of, bnt no in- interest in, matters at tho Asylum. He hos a number of projects in viow, snch 18 the pur- chaso of a piano, to ba placed in tho wards of the most tractuble patieuts, and othet intereste ing plans which he cannot carry out for want of monus. Under his management, however, the institution is cheerful, cloanly, and pleasant home for the mentally afflicted, and i8 relieved {rom all the wombrenass and gloom that usnally attech to amad-houze, and in time may be- come, by careful cultivation of the adjacent grounds and such internal improvements are suggestod, an institution which shall refiect credit on Chicago and on the theory of beneve- lenco in which wo believa, THE GQUICKLEDGE PARTNERS. From Od and New for March. _ . It was certainly o very odd partnership. Dea- cons, scholars, men of the world, and rowdies, msy bo found in mauy climes ; but it is not go easy to find a deccon, a scholar, a man of the world, nnd & Towdy, associsted as busicess-partners: st harder is it to find much a quartette ' living peace- ably togother in one small house, and eating their menls from tho samo table. ¥et Doacon Purkise, Prof. Bagg, Maj, Wynae, and Jos Backs coherent Ianguage, may well sbrink back in fright. supported 1, that Lis prtnor own protection. It would bo a somewhat curi- HAD DRAWN H18 LAST DIVIDEND. ous study to inquire whether this circle is pow parrow cnomgh for eocial protection, and whethor in the years to come, which, by the au- thority of our best men,—presumably our preathers,—are said to be bright with o_promiss of virtne hitherto ouly dreamed of, in Which all men shall do the right, it will not hap- n that it ehall Le so narrowed that any Fina "ot sin msy be decemed &n act of inssnity subjecting its autbor to confincment, in being defined a8 any act on the part of any individaal making any other unbappy or uncom- fortable. Thoe world is full of harmiess lanatics who, never treading rougbly on tho toes of others, are not sent out to Jefferson. Thoro ara young men who write, and even publish, poeiry; Deople who fancy tlat they shino in amateur thentricals; and mmen with schemes for payihg off the paticnal debt, But there are others who aro not so inmocent—Aldermen who talk for Bours, in the inkane belief that they aro pleasing their couetituents; men who bave theories on capital punishment, which they will vent in newspeper offices; and other offenders against the fime or ideas of men—wlko deserve to bo bronght beforo the County Court, tried by a jury of their pecrs, and sent to the Asylum. Itis indeed mot unlikely that onc-half the world ‘might be profitably employed in looking p tho other half. Bat it is not tho expectation that thess some- what radical views will meet with immediato tain’t no go, Major. Fact is, I've thought a heap about it ; an’ I've made Tup my mind thet what ther's so much fightin’ about is too much, Ey 5 long chot, fur me to git through my bead. Take somethin’'? Oh! yer don't driuk on duty, do . yer? well I do, yer Lnow;” eavin which, Joe sauntercd off io Sérrel's saloon, un waited patiently about until he could fall in with some one whoze conversstioz should run in o different strein from that ho had heard during the merning. At the dinner-table that day, the partners did not exhibit their usuel cordiality, ~ Joe, to ba sure, ato with a good appetite, aud told a good thing; or two he had hearg at thie ssloon; but Lis threo partners rogarded each other eomewhat after tho mauner of THAEE WELL-BRED DOGS having desigus on the scme bome. The Dedcon and the Professor felt aggrioved; and tho Mejor ceemed considerably an- noyed; but ail were too good-manncred to #Low any rudenoss, Joe finished his meal, and departed in eearch of more cheerful company. Aslo departed, the Deacon uttered a long sigh, and exclaimed: +<Ol, the depravity of the homan heart!” « &b, T {hink,” eaid the Professor, emptying his coffec-cup, **that it is perhups well to re- member thet the human mind is more smenable to persuteion than to force. Our friend is better-fempered than* most men; but ho _ despisca _the _scntument of fer, apd islikely to be indignant whon any ons TIE WOMEN. - It is & peculiar fact that the women are the most violent in their demonstrations. Entering the ward that contained the worst of these, the visitor was saluted by achorus of jeers snd howls and_objurgations to which Lie "can think of no parallel, unless it bo the Board of Trade on atcorner” day. In the men's ward only a few arose at Lis entrance, but Lero the wholo mass came forward, and, thrusting their baro arma u; to his face, or settling them ckimbo, shook their lieads atLim in angry reproach, and howled, it & wild and babal-liko confusion, a mingled tirade of abuse, imploration, and’ cruzy srgutent. Passing along through these, without giving at- ‘tention to their importuaities, the visitor shortly cams upon A BEAUTIFGL AND MELANCTIOLY GIRL of about 20 years of age. Sho bowed sadly as eho approached, as if renlizing in some degreo her own and the visitor's relative position ; but it was only for s moment, and then the intelli- gence fadod out of the dark cyes, a sad and puzzled look settled npon bier face, and, though &ho spoke some few disconnectod and iucokerant words, it wos too clear that her mind was gone, or wzs like “aweet bells jangled 2nd out of tune,” and that all tho beautiful promise of her Jife lisd passed away in 8cme supreme moment of agony. This proved to bie the case, for her revings vaguely bué clearly intimated that she bad “loved nat wieely but too well,"” and bed then been deccived and abandoned. ried totheoflico of the G: mained of tho hero; and many of nally broko tho silence. said be. *¢ Christian I" exclaimed the Deacon. while he gave his life.” sor. “‘Give, aud it tball bo Jos gavo hid lifo: can we beliove ho wi aosthing losa in retaru best; an’ KOBODY COULD DO MORE.” i wris e hione. ot Tiae o5 nothing ~ wes the peculiarity _of | °¢7 Were the solo, Joint, and equalowneraof | S8 By T Soken it in Tean on suitable inscription. fi:x‘pi: stian, st it i prnbar!;‘;o that in thinking | the insane Frond i which tho visitor 1. TEE QUICKIEDOR cLazy, ““"The law was mado for sinners,” replied the | the Deason rack his brain for a passage of Scrip= of it we are indulging iu more or leas of lunacy | now found himself eo distinctively mark- | 8nd resided togother in a smiall but ag amieably— | Deaccn, withs a eavage kick a¢ tho cook's dog: | ture which would be appropnate; and he finally ivilege, by the way. is not | edas in tho matter of earncsiness. With the | bleseed be tho amenities enforced by lucre !~-as | ‘‘that’s what ke Avostlo eays: and its terrors Pi}n(t}ad otn thle "f“ff&““o‘h“ “{Ea: shie, g s " Greater lov 1o man than 3 oureelves, which depicd, within certain limits. eught to bo talked to 'em till they're awakoned to s genso of their dauger, and ileo from the wrath to come.” R “Bupposs we approach the matter in A COMMON-BENSE MANNEN,” excoption alluded to, and ono or two others, who crouched In the corners and_glared forth in si- lonce as though they wero wild znimals at bay, tiie women crowded ebout him and followed him they had been lifolong acquaintances. The Deecon was a man of means; the Profes- sor wes a metallurgist; the Major was an excel- lent monager and gencral business-man; whila man lay down his life for his friends.” 1t is's conceded principal of the ethic of civili- ention that the intelligence of a race is ghown in Its monper of treating its unfortunates. Assum- ing, then, that euy barbariem is o species of | backwardsand forwards, repeating their impreca- insanity, or rather the evidence of a Iack of | tions with terriblo severity. Occasionally, when | Joe, who originally diceovered the “Iudications” | suggestod the Major. “If o are all | tho paint-brush, wroto: o eaity, it foilows {het the treatment wo extond | ons would Lecoms gurageozsiy Lad, the ditend: | oy Guickledge, and disclocod them to bis part- o gong to aitack Joo at once, | “IOW 'bout' feller thatsaves Injin babios to thixe who {all undar onr protection is 3 | ant would call out sharply, (St aown, Jewny,® | 10 KRR SO R TR O S T | orgin Dradgnce dictates it wa | thel baiwtbis friondy?” ~mensnre of our sanity. Dy this standard we find | or Ann, =8 the case might be, tnd the poor dazed | 2 act unitedly. Remember thoss two Mex- | And thusreads amunpuonfluA-!vngalv concern for services already rendered. ioans we had, who fought about s mule that thet we bavo made great progress. But wo also | cresturo would tare blankly for & moment, and d . tod & mere praclical letson, namely, that tho | then obey, eud perhans remain quiet for fivo | Tho Deacon was extremely religlous, s rightly | soma scamp stole while they squabblod 77 —_—— recovery of the insanc depends fargely upon the | minutes, when eho wonld again start up and re- | became s Deacon; the Drofessor was a churche | The Deecon Was as reasonaole as men gener- ALONE. ally'; but, when ho “heard tho hunag soul com- pared, oven distsutly, with a Mexicad's mule, Le indnlged in what would Lave been called a de- commence her ravings. Upon visiting TIE NENWE WALD, member in good standing ; tho Major was & man ircatment they receivo at cur hands; and ex- of high moral tone ; but Joo was noither moral, perience has proven thet the best treatmont is imney Corner, 1661.) (] Dylng alone! in fhe Grsuces sy glaska § simply kindnege. the differenco in this respect was very marked. Lo, . IX OTUER DATS. Among theso there was ouly one ‘whom it wag | Toligious, nor a church-member. He was £00d- | ¢idod spif bad tho Doacon been alady. But | Alone! in tils emyty, tids desolate room & The strocitics that wore practiced upon tho | found necessary to confine in any way. Ho hed | patured, generous, honorable, brave, Lealthy, | neisher insnliing comparisons, mor hetsrodox Waposl anaio e s G : ribeld fest, Infortanato mad men and women, up to the imo | on {he *mufl,” end was dancing about the room | sud bandsomo; bub his ideas of propriety wers. | loosonees a8 to tacans of grace, wero sullicientfo | T4 CUetanl oaihe, 0l e slarge, Ml et mako the Deacon &wervo from his clearly-com- prehended duty; 50 Lo exclaimed in s very de- cided tone: “Strait s tho path, aw’ narrer is tho way; an' nobody ain't got the right to make it any broader.” 41 don't want to mako it 50, eaid tho Major, rather testily; *but isn't it besier to walk ia any road than to wander carelessly about all the gatewaya of hell 3" The Descon did not daro answer in the aflirm- o ho had too much heart to sy Do; 80 UTTERLY AT VARIANCE with thoso possessed by his partners. He agreed Eflrfecuy with them on gencral principles ; but is ideas of the application of eaid principlea wers lamentalle "in the extremo. ~He do~ spised an indolent man 23 heartily as did either the Deacon, the Msjor, or the Professor; but Joo thought that poker-playing for forty hours on & strecch was indastry of the most admirable sort. Jooconsidered thoft an abominable vice; but to help himeelf to a horse which some other rowdy hLad _stolen somewhers was in it of uncontrollablo frenzy, altogather inde~ Alone! without shriving or prayer. ecribable. There wero others who approached, ravoral of whom asked if the viator had come to releaso them from false imprisonment; thoy were victims of s plot, they £aid, or entirely well, and deaired to bo sot ut liberty. A RELIGIOUS SPECTLATOR. One poor fellow, who seemed to Lo perfeetly rational, said in reply to the question of the at- _tendant: ““Yes. Iam buying wheat this moming; go- of Connolly's groat reform in 1839, is some- thing horriblo to look back upon. They wers then ckained in restraint cbairs, with handeufls tpon their wrists and leg-locks upon their enkles, whule the atraight-jacket bound the body lo a copstrained and unchangeable position. Not content with this, a strong chain was welded to each lock on tho ankle, and thenco was fast- ;:::d 1o & staplo 1 the wall of tho prison cham- But 1ho rain beats upon me aa helpleas 1 lie, 2y hiead on the damp, dusty noor : The rats in the room run statviug about,— Aye ! run over me, in thelr revel and rout ; And tho wind tangs the ricketty door. Like » lost epirit, Cain-like, coming more near, The storm, Banshee—dniven, howls diemally And drowns both my crica and my moan : The future 50 near, ihat 1 saudder to moet, Auc Death, that slready has crept to my feet, Frequent beatings and floggings varied the As Ile in the darkness—~—alone ! ative terrible monotony, sud when it is considered : that thia imprisonment, and certain black doses | ing to eend off a cargo to-morrow. I will give | & perfeclly legitimate occupstion. He | he compromised, and romained silent. ) that ths doctor in nitendance administered from | £1.20 for any smount, buyer Afarch. You will agreed with the Deacon, that murder “I think,” said the Professor, luring a trouble- | Back n‘:r:ugh the past roam my sad thoughts to-* night; scme fly auder » iumbler by mesus of a frag- ment of stewep dried-apple, and thon quickly dropping the tumbler, * that THE PERSUASITE METHOD wonld be — ah — by far the best. Show bim the delights of virtue, 2ud how great theyare in compazison with his_rinfvl pleasures, and then call his attention to the many Prccio\u promiscs that are contained in the CGoud Bavk " — *‘ And some of these which aren't in it, but which God has writton just a3 piaialy,” inter~ rupted the Major. “ Well, I wouldn't be — ah — too sure sbout that,” sald the Profossor abairactedly, putting his hand before his eyes. ¢ Nor I nuthor,” £aid the Deacon, closing his lips as tightly as 1f thoy were the doors to the uf: ‘{hmh' contained all the company's retined mata Tha Major aroso abruptly ; andeo did his part- ners. Instead of the three partners walking to- gether to tho claim, as was their usual custom, the Professor becamo absorbed in a book ; snd the Major consumed an unusual amount of time in lighting a cigar. After the Deacon had becn one long enough to proclude the nasuibilitr of Bia beiug overtaken, tbe Major started. The Professor lingered over his book a few moments longer, when ho also siarted, but was suddenly stopped by tho Gorman cock, who zen against was & most horrible crime; but the enmestness of his deprecation was rather modified by lus maintaining that to shoot & man for cheating at carda was not only an exousablo act, but & very Tnecesgary cne. Onco @ month the accounts of the Quickledge Claim wero setiled, and A DIVISION OF PROFITS wezs made. Three of tho partners deposited their gains in the Spurtip Notional Bank ; but Joe's wero always carried to Borrel's *Pride of Spurtip " saloon, where they disappearcd under the influences of cards and bottles. Daring the progrees of this funding o eration, which usually consumed {rom thres .fm toa week, Joe's place at the table remained unfilles £ znd the Deacon’s pious ears woro untortured by Joe's gooa-natnred misapplication of Seriptural languige; but when his money was zono, Joo wouid Tefurs, and lesd such an oxemplary life, that tle Descon could almost beliove that Jos bad met with a change. But atter several ropo. tations of Joo's peculiar mothod of spending the month, the Deacon determinod that a gonuiue changa of heart was what Joe needed. The Deacon epoke to the Professor aboutit; and tho F'rofessor agreed with him., ‘Tha Deacon epoke to the Major; and tho Major thought that REFORMATION WOULD WORK WoNDERS ™" Back ta my home and my childhood so bright; Back through these long-safiering years: O drecms of my youth | I ses the dear Lomestead, the garden, the los, Throngis the mist and the comfort of tears, Dim with the dust of the years rolled sway; Old memoriea crowd my fast into day, And bring Lack thoso innocent hours : Steal again o'cx miy seuses, like beavtiful dream, The murmur and ripple of that littie stream,— The scent of my own fragrant fowers, time o time, were tho only methods adopted for the cure of the patient, it is wonderfal that even one ont of ten should have recovered their reagon, as the statistics go.to show. THE REFORM. 4 About tho time mentioned, a reform was en- tered upon undor the auspices of some of the sdvaoced thinkers snd humanitarians of that day, smong whom were a number of noted au- thore, who pictured tho eceues of treatment in the asylomsin such vivid language ss to call * forth general popular indigoation, and a marked changa in the methods of practice was at once entered upon with exceedingly bencficisl re- sults. At the present time, the proportion of insano to the inLabitants is one in every 850 gouls, and of recoveries, one in three, while all the sheckles and chains and other imploments of torture have been diccarded and abandoned. IT 1S ¥OW TILE PRACTICE o confine what are known as dangerons cases in rooms with prdded walls, and in these, with their hands confined in a lezther muff of simple con- etruction, and only used to keep them from do- ing themselves an injury, they are 2llowed all the froedom that it is poesible to give consistent with their own safety. As thoy might hurt themseclves with any hard substance, they are not allowed to wear anythingon their feet. Hav- -ing thus secared them from personal danger, it Dave to put up your margins though if you trade vihme. L Popo Pius th Teath.” *Indced,” said the attendant, “how canhat be, when Pins the Ninth is still alivo 2 “Oh! Heisdcad. I saw it in the pupers. The way it happoned was this,” he went on} # The orders are issned to me in’ duplicats, an the duplicate that was sent to me was lost. The original i3 in the Vatican, and 1 cannot got it, butit’s ol right,” and, with this, ho wallied off quite triumphantly, sa If he had thoroughiy con- viced his hearers. This patient writes in- numerable checks for grain, always concluding with the signature Pins X., commerce aud Ci tholicism being his hobbics. ‘THEZ ARTIST. In gnother room, ono of ths petients enter- taived the visitor with somo very swoet musio pon the violn, playiog such dificnlt pieces ua tho “Elegie of Ernst” and the “Souvenir do Berlin® 1 perfect timo: nud- teste. Ho wlso howed o number of emell paintings of real merit, which were exceuted by Lis own hand. Ho asked that it bo made public thst they were for salo at Copelins gallery, on_ the West. Side, and, as bis family are supported in some dexren by his efforts, e hoped tat the peopls of Gli- cago would buy them. o THE VICTORY. Btill another inmate drew the visitor into one ‘Tiil I listened, snd trusted, and fell ! Dut my heart felt tho fires of 0 wo for the innocent, artless young girl, ‘With mouth 1{ko a rose-bud and hair all a~curl, ‘That waited for him at the gate! I breathe now agzin that soft summer-afr, And I weep it ho loitered so late. 1 have stood all alone, in dreary afiright, Houseless—homeless~—friendicss—at night, And longed for a morse) of bread : Been tho eavy of those who Now Ecoff at me 80, Yet I'vo wandored an ontcast, unfed. AndT've stood by tho river, in frenzied despatr, With {he storm becting is the daty of tbo nttendant to sucround them | corner and told the. dotails of the conspiracy, | in Joe. Then the Doacon, and the DProfessor, xclail H il it orors demion, and, by tho practics | which, ho esid, liad brovght hira o tho asy. | and tho Major discussed the matior fopeihat | L n Du eieazEdo + Prido of Sphurtip, Bk ihe BIELt ceiot bt o pons o HEon s st fo e Bvingy” IS ALL AFRsl” The Professor took a lively double-quick in the direction of the fire ; for the saloon was very near the claum, and the works of the claim were of wood enly. Fortunately, however, tha wind was in a favorablo direction; so the Professor stopped and gazed at the conflagration with con- siderable sattafaction; for, although {Lo Profes~ BOr was a very quiet man bls opinion of the liquor-trade was vory decided. As the saloon was of unpainted boards, and unplastored, the flames made rapid Erogmss: 80 that Jim Slipson, the proprietor, ad barely time to 8ave w0 or three armfuls of botties. With theso ho retired to tho opposite side of the street, where tho spectators stood ; ond he was mourn[ully contemplating the effect of caloric upon alcolio], when he suddsnly started, and exclaimed : Good God! INIIX MARY'S IN THE LOFT over the salaon 1*" Who's that #” asked the Deacon, who had Jjoined the crowd. “Sho'c—oll, not exac'ly ono of your king Dezc'n,” replied Jim. *Ste come las’ nigh with her young 'un, en’ wanted to slecp thar Gill over their comod beef and beans; and immedi- ately thore was discernable the first coolness that bad ever osisted between the owners of the Quickledge Claim. Why men need display their worst pagsions in defense of their purestideals is impossible to explain, Certain grave authorities lave declared that it is due to the uninvited preseuce of the Arch-Encmy of souls; while there have been shrewd observers who main- tained that an inherited essence, called ‘* Old Adam,” i8 the real cause. Be thatns it may, it it is certnin that the threo partners ended the digenssion barely in time to avoid bad feeling ; and that each one understood that, 1f Joe was to be turned from the arror of his ways, it muat be brought sbout by the understanding member lt.umseu, without apy aseistance from the other WO, On the next morning, a8 Joa sat devouring Emnkgn and molasses long after his partners 3d_ faished their breakfasts,—Joo was slways mrnm%hungry after his regular monthly spren, —the Descon lid lus heavy hand on Joo's shoulder, and solemnly nskeds . “Joseph, how do yon 'XPECT TO TScAPE " Joo hastily closed his mouth, dropped his fork of ingenuify, cast over their dark thoughts 23 much Of the light of cheorfulness a8 can be doze, and this practice is found by ex- *perieuce to be the only one that can minister to a mind discazed. Cheerfulnees is thus the anti- dote for tho dark despairof insanity. This practico shows 3 grest improvement_in the care and recovery of tho insane, and yet it is stated, on competent anthority that tho beginning of this new branch of pathology, which draws upon tuct for its multifarious mothods of expressing kindness, is ouly fu its infagcy, and that, whea opportuity, is given for moking it & distinctive ecience with all adequete expression, the numbar of recoveries may be raised to 50 or 60 per cent, or over one-Lalf. MINTAL DIVEBSION. s The importance of new scenes, diversity of in-- cidents, musical and socinl pleasures, can scarcely be estimated, snd in the same_proportion the -wont of facilitics and opporturities to express theeo mezns of cure consign many to hopeless acd irremediable insanity, it being the general rule thst, unless = patient is cured inside of eight or ica months the case is a hopeless one for rocovery, aithongh the most. violent are al- ways subject to relief under tho conditions lum, in such clear and coheront language and Gescription as almost to imprees belief unon bis besrer. It was found, however, that he was not ouly ineane, but was classed among the danger- ous ones. giving; And tho river cried, “ S to be dead I O mother} who died in that wild, wailing night, When my frauk, baby- Whoso dear lave £ caanot tell,— ‘Whose deep, earnest love, I, alss, nover knew,— A TERRIDLE CASE was that of a woman, who had formerly lived in Lemont, where ehe Lind bacn horridly treated by a broto of & husband who kept her insanicy secret for two yoars, daring nhich tims be bay her peuned up in 3 liltle den back of his house, ‘where he allowed Lier to fie in wretchedness tor ol this txmb.ggln‘mx: to ber dailyand throwing in to her 2 morsel of bread and meat, as if she were o wild aoimal - But it is not only in their demonstrations that insane people intercst thoso who are so fortu. nate a8 to retain their faculti The members of tho human family have always folt an eyen deeper interest and curiosity in THE CAUSES OF INEANTTY. It may bo that this sentiment is based npon tho instinctive desire to sce how we ourselves might ect, and to compare our condition with theirs, confessiug to ourrelves & hidden weak- ness, or the knowledge of a possibility that we feared to express. Indeed it could almost be To the child that you prayed for 50 well? 0 can {t ngt be that He will forgive? He saya of a tinner “ She surcly shall live That repenteth and siuncth 5o mare.” O mother! stretch {o me that welcoming hand, For my life’s bark was wrecked, and sirand, Apd I never ehall reach that far ehore, d T wandered in restless unrest, Starving, dylng, with wan, hungry eyes : Perchanco in the morning my freed £ ririt lies, Torgiven, on your sheltering breast. Bsel darker it grows, and bitter the slect, Dut I seo He standiny there, =t the door ] 0God! trembling, helplcss, foaring to die, I thiere hopo still for rac 7 O ke, 43il not T ‘Meet te mother that’s gone on before? uamed. Having thus looked over the gemeral ( said that there are fow who have not appronched { and the segmonts of cakea impale; o field, it is time the narrator draw his remarks to | near enough to the confines of lunacy, at one | looked hastily about him. Eops o men, ana m?‘rg:fia poor, depraved croature, I s'pose,” A WALL-STREET HYMW. t local application, and in order to do g0 itis his | time cr another during their lives, to bo ableto | * Not from a mortel cuemy, I don't mean,” | sighed the Deacon. : ' g 2 Iook over into the debatabls land with an awe that was half premonilion. It is found, however, that fow cases of settled insanity sarise from_the ordinary woss snd’ sorrows of mankind. In most instances there is an heredi- tary taint, or o natural mental weakness, that is the En?e'nn’.\ncing cause. When this is tho ease, a sudden aggravating incidont of a series of said the Deacon. “I think 'so much of ¥ou, Joseph, that T'd kmock such & one down in the Damo of tho Lord, *fore Isaid anythin' bout it, I mean tho Dovil,—Lhe enemy of yoar sonl.” . “On!™ mid Joo, looking relieved, and rasum- mg‘ Oggbmhnnuev‘;hkfifn and fork. “ *Tho wicked shall bo turned nto hell,’ the Good Book, Josoph,” 2o “Well,” eaid Jim, prudently massing on his front most of his cutlying Uottles, *'I reckon Injivs, in general, was Off Buntin' when rehigion was give out, Deac’n; an’ Mary ain't no baiter'n the rest. But any body's too good to Lo roast- ed,—loastways, in this world,” continued Jim Slipson,” remembering tho Deacon’s ground- works of belief, and treatlug it wita polite defer- Resire to carry the reader on a visit to TRE COUNTY ASTLUM 8f Cook County, which ia located at Jefferson, . sight miles out on the main line of the North- western Railway. This institution is one of “thoss which accommodate the insane of this pert cf the State, the others, 88 is well known, being located a Jacksonville and Elgin. Im: 1apd's Icy Mountzin " From Chagman’s Iron Mountaln, From Stockwell’s A, and P., From dividends amouting To nothing we can see From Jay Gould's Nor'wust common, Which weut g0 dreadful high, continned the Deacon. He called us to deliver roverents which bave just becn complated, | tronbles may Borve to swing the mind from its | ““ReckonTd koo moat of my ol ronese Eontiating of tho Ao o Reoti oy o R a region of perpetusl banisbment. | 1 went thar,” romurked do, quis uhfi?fi? Bl dod b TaiaaAito ik bt b asis st What we did Late to buy. the building, linve added considerably to tho 4 CASE IN TOINZ 85 ho poured the melasses on & fresh plato of | oxclaimed the Major &8 & dark figare - ' ; roomand conveniencesof hisasylum, which now | is that of one of the patients hers, tn old man | cakes, - = DASEED QUT OF TRE $eastes Bk : s pleasant quarters for 180 patients, but en- | who has becn thirty years ineane. From his ut- “ Their worm dioth not, and the fireis not ana, rolling on the ground to extinguish its fiam- Ax?d asi (o bave -q‘?zilirvzyu" i tertains 270, 2n excess of nincty over what the | terances sbout o camp-meeting or roligious re- [ quenched,” said the Dieacon. ing clothing, disclosed the coppery, dull, heavy SPrung on Us GDAWAICS, 1In vain we may petition “Tie Commororo each day, Tbo Heathen in bis blindncas Will do it his ovn way. From “ panics,” “ points,” and * corners,” From watored etocxanud o e, From sitting with the mournera (Instoad of haing rich), From Sige’s St. Paul common, From Dick Scheil's guarzntee— From ali theso Vall-sirest fancies,” Good Lord, deliver me, ‘*That refer to the worm they uss dlstilhn’ whisky, pardner?” inquired Joe, guahing blcki\‘:fl empty plate. The Deacan gromned. Stdtin? ‘“;-”nm":r :!‘J? TSE W yer powdar an' b: ardner,” i Jos, in tho best of femper Fhar 1 dows s wuth a gol-durp.” 06 put i moapdesed down e to Qaiz O e hat, and “Joe," said t] rofessor, hastily washing hi bands, “I want fo apeak with sog a mc‘;ganf vival, it is thonght that this subject was tho last that burdened his mind whilo in a eane condi- tion. But tho incidentsl csuco was a fright, which was received in tho following manner: being 2 plsin brick structure with a frontago of | At the'time mentioned he and his brother were 250 feet and four stories in height, surmonnted | living in Alichigan, and were in the woods sugar- bya cupols which adds some finish and grace to | making. < its otherwise sovero plainness. Standing sa it [ His brother, who was_ a carsless, roystering does in the open prairie, with the shabby Poor- | individual, fond of practical jokes, one day tied 0uso 88 its nearest neighbor,—it was a sense- | & Buffalo robe aronnd his head, and, making be- less thoucht to link poverty aad imsanity to- | lieve that he was a wild beast of soms kind, &tole impaseivo features of Indian Marr. *‘Hooray 1" ehouted the crowd. “Mary had been Boan very often at Spartip; but nover heforo Lad Spartip Telt itself called uyon to exhibit any re- spect for her., It was very evident that 3ary had been asleep or drunk, - or bothi; for she stood atupidly rub- bing her eyes for several moments, ‘* Didn’t you 83y ehe brought a child with her?" asked the P'rofessor of Jim Slipson. - Good God, yesl” exclaimed Jim, scizing | s should be pat into the limited warc TEE BUILDING is & creditatle but by no means fwposing one, Sencrintendent, Dr. Tope, this ited vards, " 0w ye coma Lack to mey |- 1 Ho came, with his winning and trescherous tongae, And the same olden song, aver new, that ho sung, Out T drifted & waif on ti:e world's troubled ses; Thers was no looking bick, no ropeaanca for mé, | And tho scent of tho roses, around overywhers, (J § vea firet oped to tne light, Hov: rough was the path to my ravel-soiled feet, £’ And T longed one Iind word of forgivencss 1o meet,, An And colder znd freoziag my hands and my foot; Mary by the shoulder, and shaking her violently. Yo7 by the shoulder, g y. Mary stopped rabbing her eyes, and stared en she uttersd a piercing scream, and attompted to enter the burning building again. The intense heat, how- ever, droye her beck ; and she stocd in front of the érowd with s fierce, hogeless glaroin hereyes, * A hundred dollars for whoeverll get that Nobody etirred. There were plenty of im- pecunicus wen gt Spurtip; but none seemed in- clined to eurn money in exactly this manner. “It'a a little at you a-yellin’ over yer loss, Jim?™ | into the ar-keeper *1t's Injin Mary : her baby'ain tho loft. O Lord, just listen to the poor devil!™ said Jim, Joe picked up a buciet of water, and poured FLAMES, and up the blazing ladder which led to the loft. it scomed that no’ one breatlicd for a moment. The Deacon clazed hin eyes; aud his lips wero acen to move rapidly; aud suny men, though unused to such exervise, Suddensy & mighty roac broks from the crowd 88 Joo Dacksey, hatless, hairless, beardless, and almost black, emerged from the burning baild- ing with o dirt; bundle in his arms. He “No go,” eaid Seventeoner, giving Joe's face Tkoow it by Lis lips an’ nose; he won't mover **Joo, Jocl” cried the Deacon, while big tears fell from l':'iu rugged face. ‘ God have mercy on From beneath tho cruelly-singed eyebrows and laehos, Joo's good-natured cyes open: - For some moments the crowd stood in Tespect- fal silence ; then Jit Slipson invited tho crowd to open Lis few remaining bottles, and drink deep to Jue's good luck in the mnext world. A siretcher was then iprovised ; and Jos was car-« yaickledge Company, There was 1o formal lying-in-state; there wasnot » single flower plnced on the rude catafalque; but men of il degrees crowded to soo what re- them, when they went awny, showed tho first indications of eoul that had ever been eeen in their faces. The three partnera gat down to supper, and gazed sadly at the cmpty chair. - The Major fi- “’°A Christian couldn't have died mors nobly,™ “The ublicans and harlots shall go into the kingdom ore you—sn' me!_ We only offercd our money; *Bloxscd be tho promises,” said the Profes. iven unto you." Rot “Ef burut off’rin's 'l make an stonement nowadays,” eaid tihe Deacon, “‘he's done bis The Deacon took upon hineell the monrnful duty and pleasure of making & hesdboard for his deceased partner, and of painting there- For Lours did Dut while it was drying, and the Deacon was absent for 3 forv mements, soms Leterodox per- won strolled iu, red the inecription, and, teizing Through the cracks in the rafters I see the18ueaky; Ayol though I've worn dlamonds, and laces ofuma, down on mv shoulder® =0 And God's thunder that rolled seemed to say * Dnfor- Why did nof some warnitg cometo me from JoU,— 3 driff on'the ‘The following seema to be the original of * Grean- ; Se THE LABOR QUESTIGN. Wrongs of the Workingmen. Ignorance of the Wealthy in Regard to the Poor. Some Hints to Clergymen. The guestion has many times been put to mo, “Why do you take such a deep iuterest in the labor question, and why aze your sympathies 8o fully in accord with the working classes " The motive which has sctuated ;e to trke this stand on the most sbzorbing question of the day is A LITTLE CHILD'S GRAVE. In the cemetory at Dixon, Leo County, TiL, Ties buried an infant, whose grave-stono bears this inscription: * Freddie J., son of Legrand and Maris Wynkoop, died Nov. 26, 1869, aged 5 months and 11 dayx.” That little boy was the angel of the house- hold. His disposition was naturally sweet ; 50 much so that I did not Jose an hour’s alecp on his account until the last three nights of his life. He never was sick until he canght the whoop- ing-cough, which scttled on his lungs and ter- minated his brief career. I possessed = mother'’s feelings, and & mother's love for her caild, and sorrowed for my babe with tho anguish that only » mother kuows; but, after I recovered from the first- shock of his death, and was calm enough to reason ¢ I WAS OLAD my little boy was forover at reet. His father has always been a hard-working mechanic, labor- ing ten hours a day at the becnch, besides work- ing on bis own house and garden earlyin tho morning and late in the evening,—doing every- thing within his power for the comfort of his family., Ho is s sober man, never indulging in intoxicating drinks of any kind. 'Thus has he lived, upright, temperate, and indastrious, ze- spected by all who know him ; and now wha has bo to show for his life of toil? Simply this: he ia master of his trade, iu ek in his depart- ment, and does first-class work. Thatis all, He has always been strictly economical, never wasting mouey in useless oxtravagance; yet, notwithstandiog his years of labor and com- pulsory celf-denial, he is now obliged to work just as bard - YoR A 1ERE LIvING agho did when ho was s young men; with the additional dissdvantage, that & yoang, inex- pericnced man is preferred to one who has grown gray in his businers, because be ia young, aad it 1 oxpected thzt haoan do Leavier and more laborioua work. The aged workingman, who bhaa_wasted his encrgics in trying to carn a livelhood by honest toil, has but littia before him except tho horrors of the County Poor-House. Roaiiziag this {act, and knowing thet, with the care of ¢ Little child, 1 could do but litcle towards bring nythiog into the family-exchequer, and therefore conld mot, out of my Lusbaud's' camminigs, oTord my bay the advantages I would liko to give Lim ; know- ing, too, that the mechiakic Wa8 cvery year sink- ing lower in the sealo of buman beiugs, and be- coming mors and moio the slave of Capital, 5o that every year Lis chance of makiog coas grew Joss, while his chancos of sraliing the rauks of degraded eriminals, mado 50 by tho want of nccessary comforts, grew larger; fully realizing all this, and looking forward into thy future, 1 could seo pothing for my boy bat & life of LABORIOUS, UXREQUITED TOIL. Lo ba sure, ho might bave worked bis way up ; buv 2t what an immense expenss, only those who bave mado their way {rom grinding poverty up to e286 2ad comfort, can evor know, T aorcly misacd wmy sweot Ltilo babe, and at fizst reftsod to bo comforted ; but, a8 reteon ro- =umcd Ler sway, I conld not but bo glad that ho wag at rest, and Wwas epared tho trizls of such an existenco. IMingled with this fecting was that of indignation. Mothers who are happy in their children ; who can look forward to their fatura prospects wich plessure; to whom their little ones aro o well-spring of joy,—just imagine, if you cap, the indignation’ that would swell a mother's Lioart whoa §no waa compelled to re- joice that her child was buried in the dark, cold ground; and thero ara K THEOUSANDS OF MOTRERS. who are constrained to feol au I did, compelled o mourn over the birth of a cLild as one mors human teing added to tho number who should spend their lives innever-ending toil, beightenod with none of earth’s pleasures,—and to whom ""fi death of a sweot littls babe is considercd a Teliof. 1 then rcsolved, if the Lord spared my life, it should bo devotod to the interesia of the working classes. I resclved that, what litile talent or intfuence I might posscss, it should be devoted to them; and, it anything I could do or say would help to lighten their burdens and mako their lives any easier or happier, I should be well-rowarded. BSuch was ~my mo- tive for entering upon this work. A little grave lies_over beiween meand Central ized Capital ; and, if I caa help to accomplish zuything, in any mauuer, for the amelioration of working men and women, my litilo Freddie's brief existence WILL XOT HAVE EEEX IX VAIN. It has often becn charged upoa tha working claxa that thoy remsin in ignorance beeause they do mot read; but that they do read when thoy bave suytbiog that intercsts them to read, bhas_ boen made apparent, and the euperficiality of cll our knowledgo Las beon but too well demonstrated. To be sure, the laborers are ignoraat of & great many things with which those with money at their command aro acquainted, but this kuovwledge is generally of very little consoquence, sud does not affect us at all in regard to onr real interosts as hu- man beings ; while the more favored portion of carth's population ars ignosant—lamentably ig- norant—of thoeo things which concern us most as social beins,—an~ ignorance, 100, which, in the prescat state of. things, is likely to prove gxud,u bas just boeu brought under my no- co. The poorer classes are eager to obtain knowl- edgo; thev aro hungering and thirsting after it, ‘and will make unheerd-of sacrifices to obtain if. TLast week s workingman maid to me: ¢ T want to thank you, in the name of worke ingmen, forwhat you have given us in TIE SUNDAY TRIBUNE, and to toll you how much wo appreciate it. Last Sanday thers was nothing for us ffom your pen, and & more disappointed set of mon than o were on ihat.day you morersaw. If the editor knew the sacritices we_ made to obtain that paper, I think Lo would give us a place in it, Wil you not aax him to do it 2" “ I will do go with ploasure,” I replied, * and am glad to_know that my work Las been ap- precizted. What shall I toll him 2" ¢ Tell bim,” bo eaid, ** that, when ths panic came, 1 had énough moncy owing me to carry ‘mo throngh the winter ; but I could not get it. My sister w3 working for 24 per week. and_for several weeks we both lived on hor $4 Then the time came when ske could not got her money, and we wero compalled, with -money due us'for Iabor, to apply to tho Reliof Sccicty ; but, badly as we wero provided fer, we never missed buying Tok Suxpay TRBUZE. Somo- times wo have GONZ WITHOUT A LOAF OF EREAD in order to get it. When I could obtain & little work, a8 I have sometimes, acd I bad ‘o go mles to my labor, I have walked home one day in the weak to eavo my 5 cents to buy tho peper. Hundreds of menin this city bave dono the eawe; and, if you will represent our caso to the editor of TRE TRIBUNE, 1think he will noc re- fuse to give us a place. Wil you thank him, in our name, for the hearing ho bhaa already given usz’ “Iwill certainly doro. Ireally think yon owe him 5 votoof thenks, ond L am much otrfl‘igmi toyou for selecting me to be the bearer of it.”" The pext day Imets wealthy gentleman, to whom I related this circomstance, who was very much surprised to hear that there could bo such extremo poverty. ‘'Y OANNOT REA such a stato of thinga,” he “A man so poor that ho cannot at any tims raiss 5 conts i entirely beyond my conception. Our worl men reduced to euch oxtremiiy, and we taliing and writing, and really making o ceraation among ourselves, about tho paumper-labor of Europe. How insulting it must ve 0 them to tell them they aro noteo badly off as tha Enrove- an laborers! " I never dreamed of sach a stato of things,—never imagined our peopis could bo reduced to such oxtromitics. I feel surs our legislators do not knorw it ; they canuotho of it, or we should have bad some legislation upon it before now.” _ 1f thia speech did not betray ignorance, I am at 2 loss to know what ignorancois; and I be- lievo he represented she maioriéy of wealthy men. They Lnow mothing of the miseries whish the Taboring rortion of our population are obliged to kuffer. They are ignorant of the causes wiich underlio the movements of the Toriingmon, Ther do not know that thoy are ced into these things, 1f pact of tho bitter auxietics, r Eniom 1o ety TIHE TORTURING FEARS, of the poor Iaboring maa, they would cease to bo astonisbed st any measura that might b ede vocated, Lut would retker wonder that they hod remained quiet so long; and, instend of goxd- ing them on to extrenies, would, for thair owny saies, and for the sako of their own country and its institntions, help them to amalioraty their condition. hiczo iy one class of men who ought to know, o Juty it is {0 bo ecquaitted with the con® dition, the necessities, the cties, the hopes und feare, of * God's poor;” and that class is our clergyen. Whea Joha tho Baptist sent his dieciples to ask Jesus if Io was indeed the Aessiah, Our Savior did not #ar, * Go and tell John Iam;" but he said, * Go and slow John again thoss things which ye do hearand sce s Tho blind receive their sight, aod the lame walk ; the lopers are cleansod, and the deaf lear ; thy dead tre raised up, and the poor Lave the Gos. pol preached to them.” One of the eigus by which the Measiah was to be known was, that tho Gospel should be ) PUEACHED TO TUE POOR. How far wo ate departed from the spirit of the Gospel, our ono churches but too weil attest,— in whose shadow aro living those who suifer for tho head that perisheth, whila they nover hear of the head of eternsl life. Did tho ministers of thio Gospel perform their duty and mantain tho cause of the strugglin; poor as did Clirist, our belosed country wonld Dot ba in tho condition it is to-dzy. Our O thodox charches tell nathac Christ vas God manifost in tho fesh ; now lot them tell us why He camo among the children of carth in the guise of & poor mechanic. 1t is our belief tha Qur Savior never did one thing, nor s3id one word, that had not & signifi- cant meaning,—a mezning that shonld inflaence all generations. Yet His coming in the garb of 3 workingman, and the meanizg of the words, * Come unta me, all yo that labor and are heavy- 1aden, ond I will give ou rost,” Liave never becn satisfactondly explained to tac world's industrial popalation.” 1f “ono of our mixisters will solve thiy problen, Le will ezrn tho grateful thanks of the sufferinz poor. Lat be will do well to re, E:lzfl_xer that the puor do not believe in a Gospel L i ONLYT FOX TEE RICH, and from which they ars excluded. I would like_ here to give a Lint to woll-disposed clergymen =* Many = man who cannot pey fora pew in church, and cannot dress hiy famuly in a smtable manner to attend Divine worship, muy nevercheloss be reached throuzh Tue SuSpAY TLICONE, 43 he will go bungryfor ona meal rathor than dispensa with it. This wurely is living uwp to the rula which ministers preach to their congregations ; it is “giving till tbey feel it;" and such men oughit certainly to ba cousidered as hopefal sub- jects for the minister's teachinga. Put, as a reparatory course, clergymen should visit tha aborer at his horue, attend the workingmen's Tcetings, bo on hand among striking mechaice, and lsarn'tho trae coucition of things, If they wero a8 active as reporters in searching out the true etats of things, and learning_the condition of Lumanity, they would know bettar how io reach tho lLearts of treir Learerz, and their labors would berawarded a hundred-fold. 2zs. 3. D. WysEooP. HUMOR. If » Bedouin should lcse his toeth, wonld ke talk gum Arabic? pul S s young Iady likea whale? TWhen ehe's pouting. - —Why is a peraon. who pever Iays a wager as bad as a regular gambler? Becuuse Lo is no better? —If a ealoon-keeper gets rich it is Lecanse he makes many gocd bec-gains. —A man waa bossting that he had been mar- ried for tweuty vears snd Lad nover givea hia wifo a cross word. Thoee who know him zs5 he didn’t dare to. —Are blacksmiths, who make a living by forgs ing, or carpentors, who do 2 littlo connter Htting, auy worse than men who sell iron and stecl fora living ? —What ia the differenco betweon a farmer and & bottle of whisky? One hu:lands the corp, and the other corns the husbands. —A fatber in Wisconsin offered his boy 95 to take & doso of castor-otl, and then got & cone terfeit bill off on the boy. —TWLat is a more exlilarating sight,” asks & Vermont paper, “than to eeo eightcen hand- some giriy sliding down Lill on an ox-gled “Nioeleon,” say# tha oxperienced cditor of ths Boston Post. —* Matrimony.” £1id 2 modern Beuedict, tha other other day, “ produces remarkabls revolu- tions. Heream I, for instouce,in ten shord months, cianged from a sighing lover to 8 lov- ing pire.” 2 Even with en octagoral watch, unless s man has a mouso-colored Loreo azd a yellow sleigh, he can only skirmish ou iho outskirts of good socioty.—ililwauiice Seatinel. —It's rather romarkabls that, while several thousand feet are required to make one rood, ¥ singo faot, praperly spplicd, is often suffcient to make one civil. —Somemen neverlose their presence of mind. in Milwaukeo last week a man thre7 his mother-ia-law out of a window in the fifth story of a bumning bnilding, &od carried a feather bed down stairs in his arma. —* What ould our wives say, if they knaw where we are ?” said the Captain of a schooner when they wers beating avout ins doep fog, feerful of rowng ashore. “ Humeh, I shouldn' mind that,” replied tho Mate, **if we only knew where we were ourcelvea,” ~—We are told that S00 years ago ladies comb- ed thoir Lair just a3 thoy do to-dsy. This won't 4o in 8 civilized land and among observiog peo- pie. Thrao hundred years ago Iadics used fo comb thieir bair on thciz beadv—now they bang it ovor the back of a chair to comb it. —Refincments of modern speech. Femals - Exqusito: * Quitea nico ball at Mrs. 3Mille- flour's, wasn'hit?” Mo dilto: * Yery quite, Indced, really most guite.” —What i Leaven's best gift to man?” asteda younglady on Essex strest, Sundny night, smiling wweetly oa 2 plsssnt-looking clerk. “ A hose,” replicd the young man, with great prudence.- Vews. —A. Titusvillo :**A man called at ono of our sfores and vainly essayed to get oo either numbers 11, 12, or 13 shoes, Tho store. keoper enggested that Lo abonld puton a thinnes pair of stockingsand try on th:e box.” —A femalo at confeseion aciuowledged thal sho msed rougo. * For what purposs 7" ssked the fathor. “To make me appear captivetivg,” way tho auswer. But does it make you mots beeuatifal ¢ At least, holy fathar, I think it does.” The priest tos he peuitent out of the confessional uto tho light, aud, lcoking in her face, observed, ** Mademe, You mav paint withe out offensc, for you are still vary ngly.” —A clerpyman 2t the examination of the youug scholars of kis Sunduy-school, put tha following questions: * Why did iho pesin o Tnreal sct up o golden calf?” “Decu.. ey hado’t moncy enougi Lo st up an ox,” vas the reply of liztle chup{ who took & dollar-and-centa view of the matter. ~Daring Col. Tom Scoft's recent visit to our city, ho was hailed on tho eisceb by alittle boot- blsck with: “ [oss, bavs yer Loots shined?” The Colonel plensabtly skovk b saying: "3y by, 1 s no L weif swnog his Doz over Lis shonlder, aud, eso- ing the great raiirvad king from liead to foot, re- plied: **Youw'rs boss 0f yor boots, ain't yer :"=— Si. Louis Givbe. —Au_English gentleman, the other day, who wes addiczed to the excecdingly reprehensible Labit of always asking his friends _to nartske of cesual stimi ts, Lad on several cccasions in- vited a teetotal fricad, who kad refusel, bab who wished torciurn tho comphmeat in some way. One day, thesefore, tho Goud Templar ed Lis coupa aImos post-ofiice, and. said, *Coms in 0y, and Lave six-psun’orth of pos 7 ~A policeman in Detroit Lieard that a ciuzen of Twolfth sireet had been baaly injuzed, aud he called ab tho Loaso to obiain particulsrz. Ho found the man lying on the lounge, Lis hesd bound up and his fzco ladly ccratched. Ha R aslze: Wisai's tho matter 7—did be got run Yo, nob cxact over o iall down: 3 to run the replicd bis wfe; “bat e wented bogee bLis way, sud I wented to ran is my v, — and thors ke 34" —On a broken ogpshell b :c2, ol whence, rompted the in this {ragile i that ges “Wlience, ok wlerce, e cama the marvell clud from the tho outw. vosld?" Choras of : Whence, ab 2 Masiof oh whence, indeet, 3 Tommy: “P:ruazs the little boggar was afraid trealed his juvenila paticnts for ** worms,” whaicver izt e to be thelr symptoma. One day, bewg ezlled tu a boy whoe was snffering kevescly, be fult tho looking at the mother, with the kead. said, ‘* Now, Doctor,” sal o worms at'all, Itell yo; that Loy 120 wood-pilo and broks hia Ieg, and I wax! yog, to stop crying ¢ worms ' and set it immediazely.” * Ah!" gaid the Doctor, dotermined not {0 be 1mc Gown, *Worma m tho wood, rmadaml worms 1n the wood I”