CHAPTER XLVII.     GRIEF is unreasonable. Pain is impatient. People maddened with woe and bereavement do not cultivate analytical and logical traits of mind. Let us not wonder, then, that the people of Johnstown ere long murmured and found fault with the very men who had come among them to bring relief and succor. Governor Beaver and his coadjutors were practical farseeing men of affairs, bent on distributing the vast sums confided to them in a way to do the greatest good to the greatest number of people. To do this they were compelled to pursue a course that often seemed harsh to those who did not look beyond the immediate satisfaction of their present needs. But the judgment of America commends the work of the almoners as eminently just and judicious.     As early as Jun 14th Governor Beaver issued a proclamation in which he said: “The pro- 496

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