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Show A COMMUNITY GRIEF. There aarc some calamities that can come Into human life so unaccountable and so complete as that all attempts at the expression of human sympathy seem to be unavailing. Such a visitation visita-tion Is that which has descended upon the parents of young Scott, the lad whose infirmity of mind has led him to commit an act of violence and has necessitated his going to a mental hospital. The Tribune gives tho feeling feel-ing of all men and women who know the splendid parents of tho young man, when It says that loving regard Is extended to them by the community in this hour of their aflllctiom Only those who have suffered under a misfortune mis-fortune like this can reallxe how worse than death some living afflictions may be. Mr. Scott and his wife arc pf most estimable character, and It Is through no fault of theirs, either In their mental or moral capacity or their training of their child, that this misfortune has occurred. God only knows the cause; and He alone can assuage the grief. |