Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1884-07-18
CONCERNING CR.1NKS.


Observation-Disclosures :. Dependent
Upon the Mental Balance
Of Others.
[Prof. David Swing in Weekly Magasine.l
The fact that a druggist of this city has
just ended human life by putting up the
wrong medicine, awalsens much indignation.
He says many customers were in the store,
he was in hurry; he put up morphine in.
stead of some similar drug. The inquiry
arises whether clerk is able to fill an order
only when he has no customers in the shopa
How empty must the shop be in order to &c.
cure safetya Must the street in front of the
drug store also be empty2 What if fire en-.
gine goes bya What if q dog fight occurs
while the druggist is reaching for quinine7 Is
he Justified in taking down strychnial What
II his nother-in-law has come to visit him2
Such questions come up, and properly; but
there is another side to the fact of erring
druggists, and that is, that most persons are
crazy part Of the time. The exceptions are
rare. Each one is now and then fool of
the most complete order and species. All
the laws and penalties in the world will not
avail to make druggist or anybody else
have his full senses through all his life. Crazy
moments or seconds will come. A wise
man will step backwards off porch
or into a mud-puddle, great philos-
opher will hunt for the specs that are
In his hand or on his forehead, a hunter will
sometimes shoot himself or his dog, a barber
will often forget his job and slice of piece
of chin or an ear, or the nose. A girl at
work at Marshall Fields had been feeding
great cloth-knife for ten years. Last week
she watched the knife come down slowly
upon her hand. Too late she woke out of her
stupor with one hand gone For few Sec
onds her mind had failed, and she sat by her
machine temporary lunatic and had
watched the knife approach her own hand.
The man recently murdered on North Clark
street of this city, saw the enemy come up
with murder on his face, saw him draw
revolver, and instead Of making lightning
spring at the man, he stood bewildered and
thus fell dead. His reason left him in the
second Of his greatest need
One OF the distinguished professors In one
Of our colleges was teaching near q canal.
Walking along one evening In summer, he
walked as deliberately into the canal as he
had been walking along the path a second
before. He was brought to his senses by the
water and mud and ab6urdity Of the sitna-
ton BE had on new suit Of clothes and q
s4new silk hat, but though the damage was
thus great he still iaughs over the adventure.5
!. Our mail collectors find in the iron hnses
along the streets all sorts OF papers and
articles which have been put IN BY some hand
from whose motions the mind had become
detached for second. A glove, pair OF
spectacles. deed, mortgage, theatre
ticket goes in, and on goes the person holding
on to the regular letter which should have
been deposited. This is called absent.
nindedness, but that Is brief lunacy. a
lunatic is a person whose naind is habitually
out of balance.
Nothing is more common than for mind
of the highest order to become lost on the
cars or on steamer, and to feel for hours
that for some reason the train or the
boat Is going the wrong way. It is one of
the most unpleasant feelings that can befall
traveller. A good nights rest may perhaps
restore the mental rectitude and composure.
When one is lost in the woods all the objects
of nature seem false. The sun is felt to be
wrong, the streams unfamiliar. Instances
are on record Of the inability Of the mind
thus lost to recognize It's own home when it
= -ha come to its very gates.
II thus it is the custom of the human mind
TO become derailed, will there not..always be
instances in which druggist of the widest
knowledge, and of the most careful habits.
shall take down the wrong bottle and de.
liberately mix dose Of death7 The particu.
lars of this recent case are not yet known,
and there may be a special crimi.
nality in the case, but the fact re-
mains that we are all liable to make blum
der that will deeply injure some one, or We
are liable to be deeply injured by the wan
dering mind of the nearest and best friend,
Mothers have given the wrong medicine to
their children and have caused death in their
dreadful anxiety to save life. A physician
in this state recently mixed vial Of power
full medicine and while talking to friend,
his infant child reached the medicine drank
it and died
Thus, wonderful as the human mind is, it is.
not infinite. It has frail moments. The
wonder is that SO many minds Of the millions
perform so we'll their duties When a train
runs from Chicago to New York the passen
gers are dependent upon the mental balance,
of quite multitude Of men. Flagmen,
switchmen, telegraphers, engineers, track
men, bridgemen, strung along for
thousand miles, must forget moth.
Ing. The mind of each and all
must sit upon it's noble throne all the hours
of the twenty -four, and all the days of the
year. When we remember that these ex-
press trims will often run for years without
meeting with ruin from some bewildered
mind, we must conclude that, although not
infinite. the mind of man is an amazing piece
Of workmanship. Some will die by its
blunders or absence, but the millions will
live and sleep sweetly under its faithful and
loving care.
A Tip-Top Toney Restaurant.
New York Cor. Chicago Newsl
The daintiest restaurant in New York Ia n,
the top floor Of the giant Mills building. II
ts exclusive because the rabble doesn't know
much about it, and 1t is doubtful IL the ole
tYatOr conductor would allow n S,,S0.e,,ii