Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1899 — His Mental Condition. [ARTICLE]

His Mental Condition.

John Taylor deputy sheriff of Hendricks county, took an insane man to Indianapolis one day last week for treatment at the Central Hospital for the Insane. The deputy sheriff, with his oharge* stopped at the Union station for a time, and there met a deputy sheriff, from Brown county, who was also on his way to the hospital with an insane man. The two officers decided 'that they would go to the Hospital together. The two insane men were seated on a long bench, when the patient from Brown county said to the insane man from Hendricks county: “What did you go crazy about, any how”? “Well, you see outinouroountry there’s shoutin’ Methodists, Campbelliites, Presbyterians, hard-shell Baptists, Quakers and I don’t know how many other kinds of retf gion. “I’ve been tryin’ to decide whioh ohnroh I wanted to join, so I went crazy. What’s the matter with you ?” “I’ve been reading speeches on the money' question,” the Brown county patient answered, “and I have been trying to tell the people [in the hills of my oonnty what 16 to 1 means, and what the advantages are in the free coinage of silver over the gold standard.” ”H—l, man,” said the Hendricks county lnnatio, “you’re not orazy: you’re just a d—n fool,”