The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1903-10-23

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poor unfortunate, who has cast herself
from the path of VIRTUE Force of Cir
cumstances has bereft her of the little
sense she had and in order to keep her
soul within it's wretched frame 81 9 is
forced to live by a method which
eventually brings misery and invari-
ably death. Vastly different is the
form OF insanity which exhibits the
savage side of man. We dread the
lunatic, who, in the endeavor to keen
pace with the rush Of progression and
commercial strife, finds himself trod-
den down, oppressed and broken. His
mind wanders into, first, a resentful
mood, next desire for revenge. He
joins the anarchists or if he cannot
join the society he at least carries in
his heart the firm conviction that he
must retaliate.
'Man's inhumanity to man, makes
countless thousands mourn, is proven
truth when we find the poor man de-
spised by his fellows. feared by some,
pltled by others, roaming around with
a dangerous weapon in hand aimed
first at one, then at another o: those
who have held their own in the
fight.
With these two forms of insanity in
mind it might be we'll to leave the
others to your imagination; but a few
of the cases of insanity which we loathe
might be mentioned for our NUT
ual benefit. The Bible gives to under
stand that the lunatic is possessed of
a devil. If we take the Bible inter-
probation Of insanity as literal there
are more lunatics in existence to-day
than could be pointed at. What more
dangerous devil can we harbor in our
hearts and communities than the man
who wilfully tries to rob us of our
characters and peace of mind by his
persistent lying? Is he not fit sub
ject for an asylum who would cater to
the lusts of his devilish nature by
the wholesale destruction of virtue
Should not the man, who, in the strife
for dollars and cents, pushes his fell
low beings into oblivion and destruc-
tion, be classed as a dangerous being
What can we say of the individual
who contrary to natures wishes viii
fully destroys his body by partaking of
devilish concoctions and damning infu
ences, to the disgrace Of his personal
relations and the sex to which he or
she belongs. els man an angel. BY
no means. Is man eyens natural9 Let
me quote from Dickens. care the
master vices which so inexorably rule
mankind unnatural characteristics ?
1t is worth while sometimes to inquire
what is, and how men work to change
here, and whether in the enforced dis
tortions so produced it is not natural
to be unnatural. Alas, there are 40
few things in the world about us, MOST
unnatural and yet most natural in be
ing SO. Hear the magistrate or judge
admonish the unnatural outcsats of
society: unnatural in brutal habits, in
want of decency, unnatural in losing
and confounding all distinctions be-
ween good and evil, unnatural in ig-
norance, in vice, in contumacy, in
recklessness, in mind, in looks, in
everything. Go down into their dens,
lying within reasonable distance of
homes of ease and luxury. Tell man
! kind the frightful scenes you witness
ed and dainty delicacy, living in the
next street stops her ears and lips "l
don't believe it, vainly attempt to
think of any simple plant, set in these
foebid beds, holding up its leaves to
the sun so God designed it, and these
and then call up some CHASTITY child
with stunted form and wicked face
! hold forth on it's unnatural sinful