The Arizona champion., 1891-02-07
HUMAN NATURE,
As Seen by a Superintendent
 of the Poor.
AHOTRER'S LOVE FOR HER AFFLICTED BOY
Shipping Paupers From Burope.-A
 Female ShylOCk.

D. m. every week Qay, and Wnlle ne UalkS he is listening to complaints, appeals arguments and inquiries, and his hands are busy signing papers, making mem oranda, handing out bottles of cough mix ture, putting his name to vouchers, open ing letters and various other occupations By dint of doing three or four things al once when he is most rushed, he manages to get the average down to about nine things per minute that he gets through with all day long.
 While the reporter sat watching him and waiting to hear about his observa- tions upon human nature, the dull brown tatter-festooned chain of misery that moved it's human links along the front of his desk was suddenly broken by very charming variation upon it's mOnotony. An exceedingly pretty young woman, with pouting red lips, sparkling eyes and rose leaf compleXion; young woman prettily Sloved, wearing rich furs and costly jewelry, and 8 marvelously hand some hat-altogether quite a patrician- esque young wOman-stOpped before MT. Blake and said:
 We have a tenant; 8 widow with @ child, who cannot pay her rent. We have dispossessed her, or at least served her with a notice of dispossession, but we can't put her out because her child is very sick. So I want you to send an am bulance and take the child away to some hospital"
 "You want us to take the sick and per haps dying child away from its mother, so that you can throw the mother into the street and let your room to better paying tenantp'
 ''Yes, sir," replied the young woman, stiffly, but with little flush on her cheeks, as if she was just beginning to real ize that her attitude might not be admired by people weak enough to be humane.
 MT. Blake's eyes projected themselves, and he seemed making an effort to swal- low some words that would not have sounded prettily. After brief but i'm preSsive silence he answered sternly:
 "No, shall do nothing of the sort If the poor mother brings her sick child and asks us to care for it, we will do the best we can, but we have no right to do what you ask. We never interfere between landlord and tenant"
 The handsome young woman reddened angrily, and exclaimed argumentatively:
 But she can't pay her rent!''
 q have told you that I can do nothing for you,'' replied MT. Blake, in tone of disgust; "we do not interfere between landlord and tenant"
 The pretty female Shylock gave her head an indignant toss, flashed look of scorn upon the poor wretches surround ing her-who were listening and viewing her with expressions of loathing and sur prise-and quickly went out.
 4 ,1. 11D1 man, still bearing traces of beauty, came up to the desk, and said, with evident effort:
 My little boy is deaf and dumb, and paralyzed I can no longer keep him. I have come to see if you will put him in some institution where he will be warm and taken care of. :"
 'Are you a widow"
 ''No. sir. have a husband, but he can get little work to do. We are very poor, and have another child, which is all we can take care off
 q will send your child to Randall's is land, where he will be very well cared for, if you desire it. When will you be ready to have the ambulance take him away?'
 She seemed to hesitate, but nerving her self, replied:
 "Any time, sir"
 "Very well, the ambulance will call for him tomorrow morning.
 She turned very pale, her lips quivered, and her eyes filled with tears as she eX- claimed impulsively:
 "Oh! sir, make it Friday. Let me have him one more day"
 Mir Blake kindly told her how well her little afflicted boy would be cared for, which was the best consolation she could have had, and when she went away re- marked to the reporter: "There's more human nature for you. 1 wonder if that young ShylOck who was in here while ago will ever have in her breast mothers heart as tender as that of the woman who just went out"
 The clanking of the human chain that drags itself before Superintendent Blake's desk is almost wholly in a minor key. Now and then, however, there is 8 little relief to it's monotony.
 A young German stood confidently up, and in response to the question, asked in German, ''How long have you been in this country?' replied placidly: II arrived yesterday"
 My Godr' calculated Blake. And you've found this place already! We'll, I've known of their being pretty soon before, but he is the freshest thing I've seen yet.
 The recent arrival was sent back to Castle Garden. The state board of chari- ties and our municipal commissioners of charities and correction have plenty of business in shipping off paupers, the burden of whose support properly belongs upon other communities and even in other countries.
 "Ihe Swiss cantons," said Dr. Hoyt, ''openly and boldly ship us their paupers, even claiming 6 right to do so, and com placently invite us to reciprocate by send ing our paupers to them, if we can. But we cannot. Catch our paupers going to Switzerland! Not much. They know when they are well off We also get great numbers of the most undesirable class of immigrants from the Austro- Polish, Italian and German lowest classes; the greater numbers and the worst the AustrO Polish. They come here to live by begging and crime, and if we do not succeed in catching them and turning them back they are a burden practically from the day they land"
 A tall, thin man, erect, bronzed by eX- posture to the elements, and wearing a sailors hat, wanted to be sent to Boston.
 "I have been discharged from the Trenton," he said, land it seems pretty hard, for I've been in the service since 1861; but it was my own fault. want now to go back to where I have friends and take fresh start"
 Whatever his fault had been, the poor fellow looked as1f he had repented of it, and his manly way of accepting the situ- atiOn disarmed criticism and mOraliZing He got his transportation.
 "There," said Mir. Blake, q think you've got some samples of human na- ture as l see it every day, and if they are