The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-10-27
An old LEGEND MOCerRized.

An VlO 1<tScUO MOCeEKEZCG.
1t is recorded in very old Egyptian
legerd that king named Pheron was
stricken with blindness, as a punishment
tor arrogance exhibited toward the sacred
cat or bull, or some other Egyptian deity
At the end of ten years, it was told him by
an oracle, that his sight would be restored
BY amounting his eyes with the spittle of a
virtuous woman Very naturally the
blinded monarch Immediately summoned
his affectionate wife, applied the prescribed
remedy, and-was not cured. He then
sent for the wives of his most intimate
friends, but EACH in turn, failed to afford
him relief; and it was only after long
and perseverng search that his labOrs
were rewarded and his sight restored by
finding virtuous woman. 1t is some
satisfaction to know that justice was duly
administered by chopping off the heads of
the non-curativc women and the giving of
their bodies to the crocodiles of the Nile.
1t is much to be feared that were a great
many very respectable gentlemen of the
present age to be suddenly stricken with
blindness, it would be tie spittle OF any
body else save that of their own wives
which would restore them to sight
Many one who would now freely wager
his future salvation upon the fidelity of
bis "better half would find that her spit
tie would afford him as little relief as do
quack nostrums confirmed case of
Flthsis ptlnaonahs Not a few danes
who arc shining lights in church and So
ciety, and whose virtue is above suspicion,
would find themselves powerless to cure
husbands blindness were they called up
on to supply the medicine as was the wife
of Pheron
While not wishing to alarm unnecessary
y married men by this sty ofremark, We
do wish to invite attention to the alarm
ing decentralization which society every
where in this country is undergoing
Here in Chicago, within as many weeks,
three unprovohed, cold blooded murders
have occurred, while our prisons hold one
half dozen men charged with or convicted
of homicide. Every rufiin on the street
carries revolver and slung- shot, and is
ready to use either upon the slightest oc-
casion, or, as some cases have shown, when
there Is no cause whatever, save that his
murderous instincts have been stimulated
by alcoholic poison to degree that de-
mand victim of the first object that was
presented.
When human life becomes so cheap.
everything else valuable in society depre-
ciates with it. In finance when gold as
ccnds or decends in valuation. other arti-
Z q of anil ha
manner: So with the principle of life, for
when that is of little value in community,
We may be sure that the virtues, morality.
friendship, and all that ennoble men, are
held at a like discount. If, therefore, we
find people among whom red handed
murder stalks with impunity at all hours
of the day and night, it is not necessary
to hunt for special proof that all other Vi
ces aud crimes follow in the train of this
hideous leader. The mere fact that this
demon i7 abroad is sufficient proof that
theitis more common that drunkenness has
increased, t. at prostitution adding largely
to It's fellows, that marital lnidelity is no
longer sporadic but an epidemic When
men see that assassination is rampant in
their neighborhood, they should look to
the morals of their wives and daughters
for the same influences that make murder
ers OF some men, penetrate all classes of So
ciety, making thief here, swindler
there, and deEaulters, prostitutes and
criminals everywhere.
To-day there are thousands of men in
this city, who, if reduced to the condition
of the Egyptian Pheron, would lnger in
darkness forever were the spitte Of their
cure limited to their own wives, and yet
20 or three years ago these same men
,ul, have found their remedy precisely
W. W they shouli have reason to expect
70 1T T"G !, to- to tn, politics, condition Of the
country that at We !, Just look to End the orig
in of all this la1ity o. : morals A1'i','o %e
ism is the Epmetheus wiz has ,0penet tIe
social Pandora's box and flooueG our coun-
try with all the evils that now al. CT IT,
-Four years more of this abolition ruiz. ana
blind men will have to seek much furthe-
even than did Pheron to find their cure;
1t Is even probable that the patients will so
far exceed in quantity the remedy that a
cure for vast majority of those thus al
flicted will be rendered impossible
Chicago Times.