The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-22


said was from a man who was deraneed and
knows perfectly well that he Is 30:
"a miracle my friends. come viewl
A man admit his own words true)
Who lives without soul;
No liver lungs, nor heart has he;
Yet sometimes a cheerful be-
As if he had the whole.
His head. (take his own words along,
Now hard as iron, yet ere long
Is soft any jelly;
All burnt his sinews and his lungs.
VI MS complaints not fifty tongues
Could find enough to tell We.
Yet he who paints his likeness here
Has just as much himself to fear
He's wrong from top to toe;
All! friends, pray help us If you can,
And make us each again nan
That we from hence may go"
he next read from young lady, melancholic
patient, since dead:
.sThere is something which dread
1t is dark and fearful thing;
It steals along with whitening tread
And sweeps on wild destructions wing.
That thought comes DER me In the hour
OF grief. OF sickness, or Of sadness;
Ills not the dread of death-'tis more
1t is the dread Of madness.
OH may these throbbing pulses pause
Forgetful Of their feverish course;
May this hot brain. which burning CLOVIS,
With all q fiery whirlpools force
BE cold, and motionless. and still,
A tenant Of it's lonely bed.
1.-The lines are unfinished.
He next read some prose from very old lady,
once person OF much intelligence and consider.
able literary attain ments, but whose ideas now
sadly lack coordination:
To Johni Miltoni to whom the great work of tear
ing down the phiisophie Of Kant, was given 20 Cath.
crime OF Russias noble King Hamlit Of Denmark
Georgcrois Washington was delayed by Richard the
safe in the hands Of 6hristopher Columbus, having
Julius Ceaser to appoint Louis Kossuth ard Elizabeth
Sadi Stantoni in place of Cardinal Woolsey. John
Wesley at tho hands OF the great partieo Domicraco
Amerocanum. Interperance being the base Of pol
tico. Albertus g. Parterus the head of the govern
ment Miss Landons poetry exces the Mary Queen Of
Sir Walter kanlugh. Angoli the home of the Saints
ferdinand and Ishea the great Pontifcal Church at
Rome Louis Kossuth tho revolution come back to.
After which he read another rhymed effort,
which, In spite OF themselves quite convulsed
the audience:
And oft, by frequent bleating, catch the itch,
Grow black and NANCY the irish seas,
10 gender whirlwinds for some northern witch.
I grant that drunken rainbows lulled to sleep,
Snort like Welch rabbits in fair maid eyes;
Because he laughed to see pudding creep,
For creeping puddings only, please the wise.
Not that hard.roed herring dare presume
To swing tithe-pg in a catskin purse;
Cause OF the great hail stones that fell at Rome
by lessening the fall might make 1t worse
The reasons plain, for Charons western barge,
Running tilt 'gainst the subjunctive mood
Beckoned to Beasley-wood, and gave the charge
To fatten padlocks antarctic food.
The Doctor said the treatment of the insane
should be precisely like that of the sane in all
that regards kindness, confidence and truthful
ness. Nothing is gained in deceiving an insane
man. Our law ought to prohibit the bringing Of
an insane person to the asylum under fraud.
They know the value of a truthful statement as
well as any person living He closed his lecture
with the following lines from Whittier:
"Gentle angels ministry
The guiding hand of love should be-
Which seeks again those chords to bind
Which human woe hath rent apart.
To heal again the wounded mind.
And bind anew the broken heart
The hand which tunes to harmony
The cunning harp whose strings are riven
Must move as light and quietly "
As that meek breath of summer heaven
Which woke of old its melody
And kindness TO the dim of soul
Whilst aught Of rude and stern control
The clouded heart deeply feel
Is welcome as the odors fan'd
From some unseen and iowerly land,
Around the weary seaman's keel"