The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-24

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 years ago and for a full forty years she has been immured in the gray walls of the asylum. She Is an old wo- man now, sixty years of age and with gray hair. But her face is bright and untroubled. even though she Is hope lessly insane. The doctor said she was the best dancer in the asylum.
 The Commissioners were very sym pathetic with the flady who had been bothered by the Kildee. She told them all about it. The Kildee was In her breast. Then it flew to her head. Of course when the Kildee got in her head she had to come to the asylum. It was her misfortune that the Kildee got in her head and she was quite reconciled to coming to the asylum. An old woman from the hill country, and plainly from some little Alabama farm, stood in the door smiling genial ly as the party passed
 What Is your name?" asked pr. Searcy. stopping a moment.
 What's your name?" the old woman asked him steadily.
 You see, I have no name" said pr. searcy.
 Same way here." said the old wo- man, breaking into a hearty laugh. In the @violent Wards" Tn one of the violent wards-and there are several of them-Dr. Searcy with the inspecting party stepped on a verandah where several of the wo- men patients were sitting in the cool of the afternoon.
 These are our worst patients" said Dr. Searcy quietly.
 But the remark was overheard by one of the patients, and her wrath arose until 1t exploded.
 We are the worst? Did you all hear him? The worst! Now that Is com pliment. What a compliment The
 worst. indeed? That certainly is compliment"
 The indignant woman's protest against "the compliment" was heard as long as the party stood on the veran- dah.
 F. Two of the patients who sat in corridor at the approach of the party, rushed swiftly down the hall to meet Representatives Gunter and Arnold, the | two best looking members of the party. The nurses overlook the two women
 before they reached their victims. It was explained to MT. Gunter and Mir. Arnold that the two women in- | tended them no harm. They only wanted to kiss them. And Messrs. | Gunter and Arnold were so ungallant as to be grateful to the nurses for stop | ping the ladies'.
 In one of the rooms a gentle, refined I woman made whispered complaint to | members of the party of wrongs, she
 said, which had been done in the
 asylum. Not for wrongs done her, for | she said she had been treated with con- | sideration--but she complained of things she said she had witnessed. She | had written a paper which she passed | to Representative Gunter H,H. -.1 AA . 1A rmA | suffering from "myoscopia," an excess | sive horror of dirt She herself told the Commissioners that she was abso- | lutely sane except for that one delu-
 sion which she herself recognized but | could not overcome.
 Like other patients she had full op- portunity to talk to tho Commissioners | and she availed herself of 1t. You will excuse me if don't shake l hands with you" she said, and in this she exemplified her delusion, You see, | I can't shake hands. Senator, will you please move your beard a little far ther." This latter to Senator Hayes who stood some five feet away Representative King has lived both at Huntsville and at Birmingham. Pa | tients from both cities recognized him. ! There were a number of patients from
 Montgomery and these recognized Rep | resentatiYe Gunter. It so happened then that Messrs. Gunter and King
 were more frequently pulled aside and
 talked to by the patients. pr. SeaPcy Talks.
 In beginning the inspection Dr. Searcy said:
 ''You can get many more complaints, bly get from the outside. You can hear, too, of many more horrible things that have happened and that will hap pen, on the inside than you could hear l from the inside than you could possi- | on the outside.
 pr. Searcey introduced the Commis- | sfoners to Mrs. Mackey, a refined pa | tient who was alleged to have been choked into insensibilIty by one of the | women nurses. Some minutes later he pointed out to the Commissioners, Miss Rutherford, who was alleged to have choked the women patients "She is one of the gentlest and most lady like nurses we have ever had, said Dr. Searaey T have never seen any, thing in her behavior that needed re- proof or correction"
 The party was guided through the Woman's Building by Miss Buck, the head nurse and the Supervisor of the Womans Building. Miss Buck was at- tackled by the testimony of Mrs. Cren- shaw. a former patient. in evidence giv- en at Montgomery. She has for thirty | years been an attache of the asylum.
 In the "Paranoiac Ward. which the | Commission found to be the most vio- lent ward of the department, one of the patients, in the midst of a torrent of words, denounced Miss Buck. God sent me here to free these peo- | ple." declared the unfortunate woman. | "I'll do 1t, too, wait until I get out Oh, when I get out won't I tell the truth. Won't I tell what has been done in these walls? I'll get justice" In the dining room a good-natured old woman was found: a woman whose smiling face never indicated that she had lost her reason from fearful ter TOT. In the horror or the storm of last September. in the blackness of that storm. when her home in Clarke Coun- ty had been blown away, her reason fled and 1t returned not with the sun.
 But she chaffed and exchanged jokes with the doctors The other patients those who have some use of their minds, call her Cyclone" and she laughs at the name.
 A Mobile Woman.
 In the epileptic ward there is a wo- man who murmurs three words: Judge Judge Price Williams" She was mur- muring the name as the party passed.
 Her last light of reason caught the significance of an insanity hearing be- fore Judge Price Williams. of her County of Mobile. She heard the name as the curtain was falling and she still murmurs 1t.
 Hard by is the tuberculosis ward, the