The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-23

This morning during breakfast the usual assempIage OF
squalid humanity sat patiently Whout Inc cieo orce
of the Damn and waited such crumbs pity might be-
to non ber misery There were old and young, brown
skinned and yellow Some of the men were tall aud staWar
If soos nowhere such splendid looking here in
h Fact Int ali the women and children looked worn and
sad and distressed with hunger 1hey remnoed me much
of indians did people They had but little clothing
bu sch as they had ncifu In character and fantastic
in its arrangement Any little absurd gewgaw or limerick
thew had they disposed of in such to make 1t attract
attention most readily They sat IN silence and with treess
natience watched every motion with that ve
planning impoeness which is truly Indian and which
makes white nervous and uncomfortable and saw
age that he wants to exterminae the whole tribe.
These people about had other peculiarites, which
have noticed in the noble red too they carried
gers in their hair they infested with eas and the dirt
had caked on them till it amounted to bark.
The little children in pitiabe conditionthey all
had sore eyes, otherwise afflicted in various ways
They say that hardly native child in all the East is free
from sore eyes, and that thousands of them blind OF
eve or both every year. think this must be for see
plenty of blind people every day. and don't remember
seeing any children that hadn't sore eyes And would you
suppose that an American mother could sit for hour with
her child her arms and let thousand flies roost upon Its
eyes all that time undstured? see that every day, 1t
makes flesh eeg o We met eer nn
thought the child had goggles approached, and
wondered how its mother could afford much style. But
when we drew that the goggles nothing but
campmeeng of flies assembled around each of the childs
eyes, and the time there detachment prospect
ing its nose The flies happy the child contented
and so the mother did not interfere.
AS soon as the tribe found that had doctor in
crowd they began to flock in from all quarters Dr. B. in
the charity of his nature had taken child from
that and put sort of wash its diseased
eyes, That woman off and started the whole nation and
YOU ought to have them swam The lame, the halt
the blind the eprousa the distempers that are bred of
dirt and niquty represented in the congress in ten
minutes and still they camel Livery woman that had sick
baby brought along and every that hadn't borrowed
one What and what worhiping looks they bent
upon dread mysterious power the doctor They watched
him take his pitfalls OUT they watched him measure the
particles of white POWDER they watched him add drops of
one precious liquid and drops of another they lost not the
slightest movements their eyes ryeed upon him with
fascination that nothing could distract believe they
thought he gifted like god. When each individual
got his portion of medicine his eyes radiant with joy
Notwithstanding by they thankles and impassive
race-and upon his face written the unquesonng faith
that nothing earth could the patient from getting
well now.
Christ knew how to preach to these simple childish,
Ignorant superous diseaseortured vagabonds he healed
the SICK They focked poor human doctor this
ing when the fame of what he had done to the sick child
abroad in the land and they worshped him with their
eyes while they did know yet whether there virtue
in his smples The ancestors of thesepeope pre-
csey like them in color dress manners customs ignorance
smpcty-focked in vast mutudes after Christ and when
they saw him make the afflicted whole with word it is
wonder they worshiped him.