Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-18

and they all have laws of health. No, I
would sweep cities as cities, from the face
of the earth. Sword and food and flame
have been against cities from the first dawn
of history. Pestilence, the very hand of
God, has ever been turned against all great
cities. Children die in cities. men and
women are dwarfed in cities. No great man
has ever vet been born in great city. A
city is a sin and shame, crime against
the human race. Each man must have his
acre, his vine and fg tree, his place of re-
treat, his grove. his temple, his shrine where
he may pray, may mediate, may be all him.
self"
On returning to the hospital found the
good man of the moccasin there. Not to be
outdone, the Rev. DR.. Ward, OF the First
Episcopal Methodist Church, whom we lett
in the cornfeld, wearing a sandal and a
| moccasin, had brought bag OF green corn
In the cars, and from the station on his back.
for another convict.
This last named criminal was hard-shell
Baptist preacher, who had been guilty of
raising his voice in violent debate with the
Episcopal minister in favor o. some special
tenet of his creed, and for this had SEN
fenced himself to ten days in the hos
| pitsl."
In the cool of the evening we all took the
cars Tor the city.
Gas time goes BY" said nv good angel
on our descent to the city, Eve shall have
much less mental sickness. Take, for ex-
ample, this poor friend Of mine, who hap
| PLY is now about to be restored to us entirely
healed, had she and her ancestors as we'll,
been born and reared in these restful ways
no such sickness would ever have over
| taken her."
"As for bodily sickness, that is our own
fault But death, all know, is not to be
| avoided, and should not be undesirable.
| But surely think that mental sickness can
| be swept from the earth. You remember
| the poor, nude idiots who used to swim out
to us every few days as we sailed up the
Nile? They call these poor creatures Gods
people there, You remember, and they feed
them and care for them as best thev can.
| We, that is civilized Europe and America,
lock them upi But out here we hope to go
| back to first causes and help nature to make
the crooked straight.
Bodily Illness" she continued, "is not
to be wondered at when we consider what
man has done, and is still doing, in most of
the world to destroy himself. Look at
| France! Russia! Sixteen hours of toll in
| all sorts of weather, and such foodi Food
that is not fit or wild beastsl Still, man
must have exercise if he would have
healthy body. While in prison observed
| that all who were confEed esteemed few
hours OF exercise in the open air above their
| bread. Every man, as rule, who is shut
up in prison spends from to 10 hours
daily in pacing up and down. So it became
clear to me that mans body demanded at
least six hours exercise. Less than this
would be fatal to his health. A great ex-
cess of this would weary him, tax him too
heavily, and SO leave loophole by which
disease might enter"
Now, we find here that one hour of work
In the fields and gardens by each man will
more than feed US. This amazes you, 1
know. But We are actually compelledi to
| restrict each man to a certain number of
| hours in the weekp'
Then ne may do "a hours work in
month, or "a days of a European laborer's
work i'll a whole year, and so have anything
heart can desire and an equal right in all
| this property?" 1 asked.
"If he does that work daily, yes. But we
allow no crucif1ion of the body; no task
master herel A man goes forth each morn
ing after his coffee and chocolate, does his
one hour or more OF work under the direc-
| tion of foreman of his own election, and
| then back to his own house, where he may
spend hours among his bees, birds, roses.
| vines, with his children, and in all the
other delightful. things that 60 to refresh
mind and body and make interesting
the acre that has been set
apart by the community as his home.
! After that the bath and the great
public breakfast. Here the Commonwealth
claims him once more entirely. 1t now de-
mands his undivided attention and time for
the rest Of the dav. The breakfast hall is
the great schoolhouse. Our most eloquent
and most able men in turn, rise in their
places each morning and tor hours we are
instructed, educated, not in nonsense as in
so many schools, or bombast as at the break
fast table in Europe and America, but In
that which is good to hear and to know.
No forcing OF God upon our attention with
that effrontery which drives men from the
doors of the church; no foolish praise Of
this man or that; We are eating our own
bread which we have but that day earned,
we owe no man anything, and we would not
like to pay him with fulsome praise even if
We did. For truth is our good angel, and
we try to follow her as we follow God"