Litchfield enquirer., 1873-06-12

Wac SwArx LrR?-The struggle for coumfuxk. lnxnries. money, power, fame,
 was never naoxe intense than now. But the compekiEive struggle for life, of which
 hsnAawy eelfR us. is among men a far diff kersnE thing from what it was during the middle ageS. The struggle for life, in the strict sense of the word, has almost ceas- eI among the people of christendom. In <psts of the poverty of the poor, they are n1k ofsea starved to death in famines or impruxi1eace, as of old. Wretched as theSr condition Is, 1t is not negle8Eed by phi1@rEhroPy. The enormous charities of ehKisAnz1om reach, in one form or an- okhez, majority Of those who are in dam ger of staTving, and prOlo1g lives which ak the best are shotened by suffering. The natural Law or1ains that week organ ixmz skan perish in competition, and that the fEtsSt xhan in general survive them. This stern yef benefcent law still con- trols al the loser forms of life; but it te1is strongly to become inoperatiYe up- 0a the hEHAn species. Among a1Lmals, among plants. among savage men, the fit- tszt individuals still survive. But the care Of civilization is 10 preserve the un- Ette<A With us it is no longer a ques- tloa of intelligence. of strength, of health. LEfe Ss kel1 t0 be its own excuse for be- izw. thogrA that life be a noxious one. CSvIE1ed men are doing their utmost to pzt stop Co vital competition. The sen- tEEaemkalzsts cry out against the elimina- tso1 of a single vicious and forfeited life by c@pskal punishment. Nature strives to resle us. to purge out the dross or men t.y the action Of penal fires. Man labor so1<Sy ohS1Tucts her attempt: he picks up the rejected refuse, casts it back again in- to the cT1c1hAe, and calls the act philan- thrupy. If natural selection were pemit- ted to have Its own way, there would be Eore hope of human improvement. But the nOSt earnest work of cur day is to seSzre the survival of tke unfttest.- '% Tkc TNtRc gf Lyc," Ly Dr. CoCn, in GHaGEy Sor JsERe-
 THWrscoxsrSFr FEMALE PEosoSER txzxlf Mrs Charlotte Lamb, the Wiscon- sSa wAsAeSzle prisoner. was commenced days ago ll the circuit court of Ellsworth. SMe ss acczse1 of having caused the death ey P01sca of twO Of her own children, boy and gIr1. the former thirteen. and the GE.ssr tSz years of age, of Mrs. Ottman, a 2e-gA6o<, and Of one Royal Garland S@e ls also sad tO be responsible for the
 S@33ea taking oT of her husband, ySZzg woman who had been her rival in ess szEec&sOnx before marriage, the first AKS 1zZo and NE- Fuller, all of whom SsS3 between IS53 and 1871. She is shuoEt 8Oxsy years of age, and, according sz<AsS CqEzsoa of q rep0rter, who visited her n FEEsOz. has nOt the appearance of z19EaEes< {: R kSs slyeady come out in hes2 eu@zS1Esed tae possessOr of valua- kAe Specsc. and that those who had died s-n&5Ez1y Szk<S1e her own immediate fam dv hal Fzx<zAea freely Of it Garland w@x PaeEssa cf Szca week mind that he lad szrzse1 her Psty, and she was known ss have ExRezEedly me0ded his clothing, fral u11sZvSs cf pure charity. The dose s&zE E1Ae1 kE2 WAS administered at his sxz rxsTmE<z to cure him of stomach asAs- Wrz& OtfzAn wzs dosed to cure her 0f a tsn3e@rE tO faint at incOnvenient smH& The deEeEse. as a matter of suurse. E tkxA the woman IS insane, and the Pr0@rrzklzg e0zEsel are putting for yard qzIse an array of neGiicaI experts to Fre<s tAzG she Is al present, and was wAs1 the Pass1Gilg w%s done, of perfect Ev Samm1 Mfnsf