The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-07
Anour BROKEN nRAara.
lDoa rlasl, in laraessovn sanl

Tat paxe ef ear animal eeoaomy, sup. posed to he the seat of the aMecsionA !, considered @ elastic that tha ahovs pAzasa causes langAaes. And yea, as sass intervals. sensshang vital gtves way, in that paSt of us, and tAe man, CT welnan rshdess up sAe GAosa ss completely a q some well de&nea disease, recognised hy sAe @eAicaaea wceid. AAd sssuek its iahHl blow.
 A hroken Aears A nos euly laagAsd as but the seisnki6c genilemsn, wAo know All a0oaa lk insist tkAt the AeaFs b noaA. ing bas . penp, placsa within ios shs better control of the eirculatiou, and has DO more feeling ia k that the bose of the biz toe And O, In their wisdom, they transfer the affections sc the brain. WAat positive rot all such speculations are ] knew an officer in the late var, who was snst h the head, esd lived some months aiter. The bunes entered a, compassion, and was sappossd to have traversed benevoleace, 6rmness and lodged in self esteem. The man died, of course, but he went on dying. in abou, as sensible manner as he had lived We who aursed him. eoald not perceive any loss of intellectual power. The tes, vas scarcely tair, for yoeT average army officer is not one of those brilliant speci. mems, whose gaia or loss Of the thought. ful processes can be easily marked and recorded. We locate the intellect in the skull, be. cause we feel u is there. The late IeTe. miah $. Black was won't to say that q legal argument by William Evarts made his head ache. ln the same way we pu, the emotions in the heart. We feel them there.
 The poor fellow watching as the bed. side of . stricken wife. of tha moshes hanging over the cradle oi dying child, gauges the progress of the dread disease by . sinking sensation at the Aeart. which cloads the bra,n, aims the eye, and sends the breathing ap through sobs
 it is not the thought that kills, or sven tires it is the worry of the hears, and this writes wTinkles on the brow of care, and sicksns. if it does not shorten life.
 A great man to be successful" wrote French Bohemian, attribu.ing his axiom to Napoleoo, "muss have good digestion and bad heart"
 Fretsing over the affairs of life is like frictioa in machinery--it heats, weAys and retArds. The caf-wheel was made . success by an Invention that brought . soh, cold material that might melt, but coald not heat, in contact with the axle That the heart is the saat of smosioas is better psoven than phrenology although ws have ell dropped into that bumpsious theory. Ia phrsnology, that Is % generally accepted, the mind is broken into bumps or organA This ab- susdity prevails, although, when we come to investigate philosophically, we 6nd every organ a head h itself. What, foI example, is eomparisen, idsallsy, wishea. every other intellectual organ entering into It. will take any ons organ and run quite great man On it. Now nature is not only logical but economic, as well and above all strangely sscfetivs. While shs esansenance. played upon inees. sanity, remains something of mask. 1, is not likely that bumps would he em. bossed on the sknlls, telling to the 6ngszs of quack the inner secrets of . man' | char cteristics--charac unknown to the man himself.
 Astrology wAs better, pathology as good, while pedalogy, started by an in. genius faend of mins, is quite ss conclu. sive. Who sees fat foot, for example and is not sAtis6ed that the structure above Is lssy2 A high, well archsd tn. step indicates delicscy ol orgsnis ation, even if seen dangling under . gallows, This is all aSTant nonsense, but not more co than the %. called science at the other extremity.
 Well, the troubles of the heart have little to do with those of the head, nor are they much better understood. it is through s.ch ignorance that copsola' ton and condolence are 90 very exaspss. ating.
 The sympathy, for isstabes, ,hs: cemes in through funeral ceremonies is vssy trying. At the momeEt when one lengs to bs alone with ons's dead, ail onss friends and neighbors come h and gsse. The beast of an undsstaker arrange the remains tha' are lying upon ons's breast. for public inspection, and all the crowd, speaking in bssed breath of the weather, the markets, the health of the neighbos. hood. pull on long faces and pass by the coffin to take last look sf the departed they care nothing for. Poor hss,t, that wants to drive them all out and clasp, in agony, the cold form of the dead and fairly shriek into the ciossd ears fos : re- turn Of one who never, never more may come back to bless us-
 Why weepesi thou Thy tears are upAvail- ing.
 Therefore do | weep."
 lt was this shFinking from the under takss and the public on the part of . sensitive wife that gave rise to the cruel report that the great War Secretary Ssan- ton had committed suicide. The afflicted widow had, through accident, sssn aa un- dessAker psspasisg her deaA child ioT busisi The ksssaI manseS 10 which shs poor little corpse was bsisg tysassd so shocked her tAaa she vowed that thsssaltB nons but loving hands sheald prepare her dead fos the rrsve. Ths nsdsrsak@, therefore, sav the body of the smiaent statesman only in the cofis. and kis duty vas con6ned to sesewisg down the Id. This abrupt departure from common