The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-02-25

DAVIS MACKLEY.
Feb. Is, 1es6-tf.
A German named Alex Geyer at
tempted to throw himself from the
Brooklyn Bridge, New York, one day
last week. Arrested by the police and
placed in confinement, he told tale
filled with sadness. He is a halter,
an industrious man, but unable to OBJ
tain sufficient employment to support
his family. On the day in question
he knew that his children would be
hungry, and having failed to obtain
the means to supply their wants, he
had not the courage to go home and
meet them. A reporter called at the
residence of the poor fellow, and
found the family in extreme poverty,
but everything about the house per-
fectly clean, showing the poor woman
to be thoroughly industrious, and an
excellent housekeeper. Such cases as
this are becoming subjects Of serious
consideration throughout the entire
world. Large sums are being raised
for the aid of the unemployed, yet
such relief can only be temporary in
its working. The field of poverty and
want constitute the field for the mis-
sionary of the future. Already the
expense for ''outside relief" in every
County and State is a large item in
the public expenditures. Infrmaries
as rule are terrors to the poor, and
no matter how humanely they may
be conducted, or how generously the
inmates may be treated, the lea of the
"Poor House" is revolving to man
or woman who has made an honest
attempt to earn a livelihood, and
failed. There are always those in a
community who do not manifest a
consuming anxiety to work, but on
the other hand there are deserving
poor who should be assisted in every
possible way. We are not sure but
it would be as well to divert some of
the means sent abroad as Mission
ary fund into the pockets of the de-
serving poor at homo. And no where
will we find creatures in greater need
Of enlightment than in some of the
towns and cities Of the United States.
**
The war presented many horrible
pictures. The extent of the horror
can never be portrayed by mortal pen
But we would advise our young friend
Cooper, of the Portsmouth Free Lance
to take no stock in such miserable
bosh as the sketch he copied last week
from the Detroit Free Eress Doubt.
less the sketch was the result of the
lively Imagination of writer in the
Office of the Michigan paper. The
story pathetically decribes Clusters
men as standing picket in the Shen-
andoah Valley, when squad Of Rebel
Guerillas marched around the Videttt
posts, night after night, pretending
to be the Relief Guard An officer
would approach the picket, and, bend.
ing over as If to give the countersign
would stab the Union soldier to the
heart. In every case the knife went
home to the heart, with such sudden.
ness that no outery was made. Thus
the whole picket-line was swept, the
brave troopers standing up and being
slaughtered, without any resistance
Such stuff will cause smile wherever
read in the presence of an old soldier
Clusters troopers were not the kind oi
lambs to stand up and be slaughtered
The silence would have oeen consid,
erably disturbed about the time the
knitting process was begun, had such {
thing been attempted. We have beer
on picket guard in the enemy's
country, but we never saw the time
that the Relief Guard could have
scratched US with a knife, if he had SC
desired. Men do not lock in fonc
embrace when changing picket-guard
The man who wrote the stuff evident.
ly never stood picket, and knew moth
ing at all about army life.
***
Up near Bellfontaine, Ohio, they
diseoved, a few days ago, a wild man
He was sitting by fire in the woods
drying some old rags and pieces OF
paper. His voice was musical, bat h.
was filthy, and covered with hair
Considerable excitement prevailed
and posse was in pursuit Of the wild
creature. Of course nobody up that
way knew anything about the human
animal. If the excited citizens OF
Bellefontaine will take the trouble to
go downe to Cincinnati, however, they
will perhaps learn something about
the unfortunate creature. Two Oh
three men have disappeared from that
city, and it is supposed they are wan
dering toward Canada. The fact that
this wild man was trying to read
scraps of paper, leads to the conclu-
sion that he may be one Of the Ham