The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-10-13

Advice TO Consumpssvc Persons.
Ip some good advice to c0nsumptives, DR..
Hall says Stat all you can digest, and OK
ercise great deal in the open air, to convert
what you eat into pure, healthy blood. DO
not be afraid of out door air, day or night.
Do not be afraid Of sudden changes OF wealth
err; let no change, hot or cold, keep you in
doors. II it is rainy weather, the more need
of your going out, because you eat as much
on rainy day as upon clear day; and il
you exercise less, that much more remains In
the system Of what ought to be thrown OF by
exercise, and some i'll result, some conse.
quens symptom or i'll feeling, is the certain
issue. lit is cold out OF doors, do not
mufie your nose, eyes and mouth in furs.
wells, wooden comforters, and the like m.
ture has supplied you with the best muller,
with tho host inhaling regulator, that is, two
lips. shut them before you step out OF q
warm room into the cold air, and keep them
shut until you have walked briskly q few
rods, and quiekened the circulation little
walk fast enough to keep of u feeling oil
chlliness, and taking cold will be impossi-
BILE. What are the facts Of the case? Look
at railway conductor going out Of hot air
into the piercing cold Of winter, and in
again, every Eve or ten minutes, and ye,
they do not take cold oftener than others
you will scarcely find consumptive in a
thousand of them. 1t is wonderful how
afraid consumptiye people are Of cold air
the very thing that would cure them; the
only obstacle to cure being that they do
not get enough Of it, especially if it is cold
when it is known that the colder the purel
it must be; yet, il people cannot 60 to a
hotter climate, they will make an artificial
one. and imprison themselves whole winter
in q warm room, with a temperature not va
rying ten degrees in six months all such
people die, and yet we follow in their foot.
steps. Ill were seriously i'll Of consump.
ton would live out OF doors day and night
except it was raining or mid winter, then
would sleep in an upholstered log house. My
consumptive friends you want air, not phys
ic; you want pure air, not medicated air
you want nutrition, such as plenty Of breac
and meat will give, and they alone ; physit
has no nutriment; gasping for air canno
cure you: monkey capers in gymnasium
cannot cure and stimulants cannot curt
you. If you want to get well, 90 in for bee
and out door air, and not be deluded into
the grave by advertisements and unreliable
certitiers.o
Fighting Turk.
ssPierce Pungcnt,' ? in the New York News
tells the following good story:
"Dnring tho operations Of the allies in the
Crimea, it WAS resolved to carry the water
in from beautiful spring Of the finest Gro
son to the camp. Leather pipes or hose wer.
employed while the water was being sup
piled, the niinare; sounded to prayer, and one
of the Turkish soldiers Immediately went
flop on his knees TO praise Allah Unfortu,
nntely he went down right upon the hose
and his weight consequently stopped the cur.
rent OF that sirst OF elements,' as Pindal
calls water in his first Olympiad.
sect up,' cried an English soldier
"Vouies uols aroir la bonte, mon cher
Monsieur lie I,rgue," cried Frenchman,
with native roliteness, 'sto git up"
"rhat amt the way to make a Turk move,'
cried another, ssthis is the dodge" So say.
ing, he knocked his turban of. Still the ri.
Gus Mussleman went on with his devotions
''I'll make him stir his trumps," said an
other Englishman, giving him a remarkable
smart kick. To the wonder OF all, still the
unturbaned, well-kicked follower of the
prophet went praying on as though he Was 4
forty-horse parson.
SHOOT way, mon--l'll show you how VIZ
serve obstinate folk at auld Reekie,o quietly
observed Scotchman; he was, however
prevented, for the Turk, having finished hi.
".ilah us en- aliah," rose and began Il
take off his coat, then to roll up his sleeves
and then to bedew bis palms with saliva, ant
then to put himself in the most approved box
ing attitude, Ia Yankee Sullivan.
.'He then advanced in true Tom liver styl,
to the Englishman who had kicked him or
the lumbar region. ga ring ring !" shout
ed the soldiers and sailors, perfectly aston
ished to see Turk such an adept in the Est
ic art.
"The Englishman, nothing 10th to have
bit of fun with Turk Of such truly JohI
Ball state Of mind, set TO work, but founl
he had met his master--in five minutes h
had received his qudntum suf. As the Turl
coolly replaced his coat and turban, he turnc,
round and said to the admiring bystanders
in the pure brogue, 'sBad luck to ye, ye spal
poems when ye're afthcr kicking Turk, II,
advise ye the next time to jist be sure he''
not an Irishman.o
The mystery was solved-our Turk was I
Tipperary man ~