The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-16


nv experience that the free use Of these rem
edie> at this stage causes death by prevent
ing reaction, or bv causing loea, complica
tons should reaction appear.
"There is another canse of death vhicb i,
not generally understood but which Is no,
in the power OF all sufferers or attendants on
the sick 10 cheek or prevent. | allude to the
extreme danger OF assuming the erect poe
ture, or even Of sitting up in bed, during the
collapse, OF earlier stage Of the reaction.
have seen myself, and have heard Of MANY
cases where fatal syncope instantly followed
sitting up in bed or rising to 60 To stool"
Help Sstll UrEessly Needed.
The The Chicago Tribune Of the Sd inst,
mentions letter Of a country clergyman
whose psrishioners had demonstrated about
his efo,ts for the re ief Of Chicago on these
grounds
That the whole world has combined to send
money TO Chicago to the amount of mapy
mill oEs; that some Of il il spent in building
hous' :, about the ownership and rental of
which nobody knows except those who build
them; that vast stores Of provision and cloth.
ing have also lesn ,ent to Chicago, but how
To relieve the sufferers BY the fire, til. world
docs MT Know, and, Their. fore, the world,
including the parish aiore- laid. had b tier
stop a.'y further contributions; that, finally,
shfewd suspicions are aroused that a Fire
King il - b. en- established, which is doing
large aud profitable business on its own &C.
count, bot with money and goods, while
| the destitute, for whom all this generous aid
.n tnS uop,Ov,I.N a..
The Tribune cts r.h, in reply, the fol-
Living sadly exact state OF the case:
The actual money subscribed in all p,rts
of the world amounts, so lar a. is known, TO
| about 81, 0OJ, 900. OF this sum the relief
cJulm!iIe" has receive about one half. or.
say, 81, 5000 With this million and a
hall OF money they have carried ON the work
Of housing, feeding and clothing from thirty
tiic usa',d o.;y ,hOu and people since the
Sth October, aided by the contributions of
provisions and gGons, which hive also been
made. - But for much of this work, money,
and money only, is ind spen-able. Lumber,
stoves, furniture, crockery, -four, beef, pork,
sugar, coffee, tea, blankets, mattresses, coal,
nd various other articles absolutely
n. cessary u the comfort and
health Of this army of destitute people have
to he purchased with the ready cash. Take,
for example, the one article OF stoves, with
ont which the people would perish. Two or
three hundred were given, which would
warm and cook for les than 1000 of the
1900 or 40, 900 in want. There was moth
ing to do but 10 buy, aud buy with ready
money, and of the kinds and size of stoves
wanted there are not enough to be had from
the seaboard to the Mississippi. They have
all been bought up by the Committee ard
given away at cost to the fund Of more than |
100000. OF mattresses, the Committee,
iorseeing the coming necessity, ordered them
from everywhere in the States and in Canada |
where they could learn that such articles |
were manufactured. Orders went forward |
to St. Louis, Louisville, indianapolis, Gin
cinnati, Detroit, Buffalo, and Montreal, and |
they were gathered by thousands from all /
these points. In addition to this. the Com
mittee has set to work every establishment in
Chicago, and from 800 to 400 mattresses are
turned on, 10y them daily. And vet the de-
mand both for stoves and mattresses cannot
be met. But, of course, all this business has
to be lone with cash in hand. So too, of
houses. Between 5000 and 4, 600 have been
given away-given away absolutely to the
recipient unless he elects TO pay for il and
full 5000 are promised, while barracks have
been put up which shelter 900 families, or,
at least, 1000 persons. In every house and
in every family room in the barracks is put
stove and 4 mattrasS, and general, more
than one. a beadstead and croekery These
houses and barracks ar. built with ready
M ney, their furnishing costs ready
money, and with the most rigid economy
aided by the fact that the commit.
tee bought up at the price OF Il month ago all
the lumber that they could lay their hands
on-the cost Of this indispensable shelter
cannot be provided for at les than 81 ,OOO.-
600. Then comes food, Of which the staple
articles, notwithstanding the generous dona-
tons, have to he purchased, and for which :
The daily outlay is thousands of dollars. AMI
immense number has still to he fell, though
il decreases daily, as the honest get 10 work
Tor themselves and the dishonest are cut of
Is the system for their detection and the
udicioIs distribution of food becomes daily !.
more perfect and accurate. At the outset
here Was inevitably some waste in the dis. !,
ribution of both food and clothing. for all !
APPLICANTS were relieved, that none nigh, 90 i
hungry or naked, and there was neither the
line nor the force at hand to examine into
very case. But whatever waste there was. =
'e it observed, was on the side Of money
nd yet, now that the inevitable waste is
topped, and the abuses which arose, not on q,
he side of distribution, but on the side of
eceptiOn of bounty-which we think an +,
Important distinctiOn-the daily outlay of ::
money Tor food, for some sorts of clothing.
'ich as blankets, boots and shoes, and for
andling this enormous business, il yery
reat. 1t is very safe to say, and every man
{ ordinary reflection, We think, must see Is
nat it must be so, that the Relief Committee IL
lust be already looking with good deal o. "a "a
nxiety at the bottom OF their pile of three N
lilliOn dollars, already so largely diminish er
j in thirty days. and asking themselves FL
What Of the night ?" when We have as vet
OF only to the edge of cold weather, and III
isre are five months OF winter vet TO come, M
it'll its pennry, its hunger, is storms,
: enforced idleness, and its despair. III
nd is all this answer enough T. ali the -
wills and questionings of doubters and. T.
whether in town or out The
cor are fei and cl ,hed daily-nobody can aS
oubi it, the poor and hungry least Of all.
hey are being housed as rapidly as human a
dustrv and activity can bring it about-as
;erybody with eyes can see. These things
nnot be done without money; of money re-
ere was only about 81 500, o. Don hand, and hi
ut is where it has gone and il going to. les
ad it not been for the voluntary contr:ba. tn,
,ns Of food and clothing in kind, not dol
r Of 1t by this time would have been left; m.
ID the result would have been the came tic
ID not the work fallen into the hands of an
ganized association, accustomed, though pc
a smaller scale, to work of this sort, and 70
anaged by men who, If character and posi- me
m can ever count for anything, have
stake all that they are and all that they U.
ssess for a conscientious, and just, and wise po
scharge of the duties devolved upon them. thu
we may ever assume anything about hu- the
an conduct, We may assume that these gen. col
men would not, even if they could, do pr
y hing but precisely the right thing in the rol
ormous responsibility resting upon them;
d looking at it from merely a busin, - by
int of view, it is plain as it ever can be in the
man affairs that they could not, even If for
" would, carry on the work in their hand thu
IN the means at their command, except vh
III the most rigid economy and the exer.
e of u nusual ability.
wife. Missress, LsAy. the
Who marries for love takes a wife, who ISL
rries for fortune takes mistress, who cor
rries for position takes lady. You are anc
ed by your wife, regarded by your mis- the
As. tolerated by your lady. You have a par
e for yourself, q mistress for your house cap
friends, lady for the world and society. Az
ur wife will agree with you, your mistress ME
] rule you, your lady will manage you. tive