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Show cent desire; it may be desire for atrong drink, and one ia juat aa innocent aa the other, one is mre difficult to aubdue than the other. The world lccka charity and ia impatient with the ahorteom-inga ahorteom-inga of poor mortality. When the world ia perfected perfect-ed there will be no more criminals, because men who are holding any insatiable appetite will be treated aa sick people and their maladiea will be cured. The rule in this rity should be that a man who ia seen absolutely inebriated every day in the street should not be thrown into jail to be brought up and fined in the morning or sent for ten days to the lockup; such a man should be sent to the emergency hoeptal and treated there for his disease. HOW TO TREAT INEBRIATES; New Tork is about to found a hospital for the treatment of men found inebriated in the streets. Men may apply for admission, or an appeal may be made by outsiders to have a certain man arraigned, examined, and if found an inebriate, he may be sent there by force. It ahould be a good thing. The laws say drunk-eoLesa drunk-eoLesa is no excuse for crime. Tha. is reiterated in the courts every day, but that law ought to be changed to read this way: Drunkenness in itself ia no excuse for erime, but where drunkenness has become a disease and haa progressed until men are more or Jeaa irresponsible, then the disease ought t be treated like any other disease. There ia a man on theee streets every day that when he geta a quarter quar-ter of a dollar makes a atraight line for the nearest booxe ahop and spends his money, and this under present arrangementa will go on until some time he will be found dead, and the papers will glibly state ,that he died from acute alcoholism. That man ., ought to be arraigned and treated aa he would be if he were ill of some other disease, becsuse when a person is ill at all, one of two things haa happened to him; he either ia constitutionally wrong, or he haa violated some law of health and his sivkness is the penalty. When a man is in a dying state be-cause be-cause of excesaca in drinking, he should be treated in charity jid not be turned away with the remark; that he is a common drunk. Nobody knows what he haa suffered ; he may have inherited the desire for drink frou his parents or his grandparenta. We see men avery dsy who have a longing for something some-thing which is almost insatiable. No one seems to understand why it should be so. In nine eases nut of ten it is prenatal the man was born with that desire in his heart. It may be it is a lov'for flow- -. arm. or a lava for aavecial. fruits, or aome other inno |