Arizona republican., 1892-07-03
JACKS NOTION. A New Set of Ideas Late
 ly Promulgated. The Vagaries of an Asy-
 lum Patient.
Who Manufactures New Tech
 nicai Terms and Phrases.
He Wants the Term of Human Life Noticeably heightened by Le-
 gislatIve Enactment.

I 6 at the asylum is Jack Parry, an inmate of two or three years standing. Little is known of him except that he came here from Stockton Cal, and showed himself to be a candidate for asylum protection. He has never been violent, but worse, sort of dillitante in matters of philosophy.
 Of his past history almost nothing is known. Heis supposed to be either q native of Portugal or of the Island of Malta, and is by occupation sailor It is not at all likely that the name by which he is known is his real one, but an appellation which became attached to him while he was a Comstock miner after he had quilted the sea.
 Jack has no lucid intervals, but, his mental tumble is never SO hopeless that some definite information can not be gathered of hIs past life. Sc it is known that he has resided in every part of the civilized and uncivilized globe. His views of mundane affairs are interest ing if not quite correct and are based upon superficial basis and seen from
 
 and q person whose early education has | been neglected and whose discriminate ! ing abilities are exceedingly crude. Perhaps these are only reflex views of the persons with whom Jack associated in foreign parts and for that reason present peculiar interest by reason of the circumstance that such opinions have been barred from the reading world. Even in this instance readers I must be again disappointed because want of space precludes the possi bility of presenting Jack in the light of a 1 historian or descriptive writer. He is dealt with here only as an author and writer of philosophical homilies. For some months he has been en- gagged in the compilation of a volume setting fourth his ideas of social, relig- ious and legislative matters. The work has been completed and bound, and SO is ready for perusal by those who can understand it. It consists entirely of manuscript quite easily read but diff 6cult of mental digestion on account oi certain prevailing ineoherency Of ideas. The book has no title, but on the fpnt covers Is the inscription, "Please return this Insanity to J. F., the dunce and the dumb in the words that hasn't been said"
 On the back covers appears la colors the legend:
 Arizona Star. Full roller process. Family four; John Y. I. Smith, Phoe- nix, A. IT," which indicates that Jack had worked the asylum steward in pro- curing means and material for bring ing his book to the notice of the public.
 A more complete description of the mechanical work cannot now be given, but the rest of this article must be de- voted to the social notions which it em- bodies. The volume was completed last Monday, and since then Jack has made the life of Dr. Miller, the asylum superintendent, hardly worth living by reason of his desire to bring the thing to popular notice. He was anxious to get it into print. Accordingly the doctor brought him to the city accom- panied by the book, and asked him from which publishing office he would prefer that his ideas should be precipitated on an already overiladen world.
 Jack, with an instinct that proves him to be wiser than thousands who re- side outside of asylums, replied: "THE REPUBLICAN"
 While the book is almost as diversified and disconnected as the Koran, the pre- yailing idea which runs through it is that there is too much confinement and re- straint in this world, beside life is too short for the accomplishment of the pro rata amount ot good set for each in- dividual to accomplish. The writer suggests that legislation be effected to remedyithe social and physiological de- fects and desires that popular demons. tration be made at which memorial be prepared asking the territorial delegate to secure the enactment of law by which the term of human life shall be fixed at 500 years.
 The confinement of which he com plains relates to asylum incarceration, and the bug-a-boo is a mythical super intendent, not any one with whom he ever came into contact, for all attend ants and superintendents have been un- iformly kind to him.
 lack has coined several new words, such ss "hypomonogrsph," and others of good Greek extraction. They ap pear at first sight to be meaningless but other greater and more noted men | nave uOne tnls DeioTe. Ilo Hao, atS"' invented several cloudy expressions and has thrown them together m such q manner as to almost defy interpreta- tion, unless the reader can work him self into sort of condition of insanity and so become en rapport with Jacks ideas. But even this peculiarity gives Jack no ledge" on earlier scientists moralists and theologians. He usually refers to himself in tho third person as the "dunce" or the dumb"
 In this the old man shows that he I' less egotistic and more honest thar many other learned gentlemen whc have baptized the world with new and untried doctrines.
 He makes frequent allusion to 6 ! Terminal medical clement" "euperio' medical electricians" and other "su periors" and persons of "superiority' for whom he seems to have incurred vague fear and contempt in the course of his connection with medical gentle men and supsriors since 1883.
 subjoined are few quotations trou the book. which opens with the state meut that
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