For the Columbian Fountain.

CAPITOL HILL, January %, 1886
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CAPITOL HILL, January %, 1876.


Mr.. Editor: Be not astonished, dear sir,
that one Of 50 tender age should address you
upon subject which you have so much at
heart, and upon the prevalence Of which de-
pends so much the comfort, happiness, distress,
or misery OF human nature. 1t is generally sup
posed that infants have no mlnds--thal all
they can do is to --- litty and cry but let me
tell you, Mr.. Editor, this is all mistake. We
are, physically, weak and feeble, but as 10
mind-who can fathom the depths of even an
infants mind we have not the power ofloco-
motlon-but our thoughts--who shall bound
them; but Him who formed the mind, ndued
it with the llghtning's brightness and the light
nIng's swlttness---that incomprehenslble link
IN the chain which assimllates Us with the i'm
age OF Diety But enough OF this.


| am s months DID, and have already been a
sufferer from the effects Of alcohol. Well do |
remember the first dose that was administered
to me for the cIolic. 1t was made very weak.
(only drop the nurse said and sweetened-
but weak as il was, it came near strangling me,
and caused me, during an effort TO catch my
breath, to ---- --, which nurse said was
the cause of my suffering Since that period,
| have often taken it, in stronger doses, and
have become fond Of it. have the cholic now
much oftener than used to have it, so the
nurse says, who is remarkably fond Of hot toddy
so weak that it cant hurt baby, and there
fore cannot hurt her. Hst


One among the many ways in which am
made 10 suffer is the following:


When nurse wants her toddy, am made to
cry--various expedients are resorted to to ac-
complsh this-such as pinching, puncturing
with pin-&c. when am pronounced cho-