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[page 808] did it was all right; because at that time I felt kindly of them. I might, perhaps, have had some suspicions, had an idea that they might be so. Mr. Baker: What year was that? Witness: I dont know, but I think it was 1877 or 1878. Mr. Lakin can tell. Mr. Lakin: 1878, at the time you said it was the best institution of the kind in the country Witness: Yes, so far as I knew; and I believed it. I have seen some others since. Since that time I have visited the hospital occasionally until this winter. I have been there until within a very few weeks until it has become so painful in coming and going away that I haven't been. I felt as though it was inuring myself and perhaps doing no good to anybody, and I haven't been there so frequently. But I have learned by my own observation that the attendants were neglectful, and I felt troubled about it. I remember when I used to be in the patients room that some times, at a certain time when she was sick