Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1861-06-21
CON MMUSiCATED.
THAT STRANGE DIsEAsEn

''Jth" like, drives furiously. we have deter.
mined for the SPECIAL benefit of our CONNER
c'nl interests and The social mnd intellectual sd
yantages Which have for the time been cut OF
by the above name!ess intruder and TO n GER
tam extent inposter to frrret out, "trip him of
his mask. and give hun such maine, and place
such distinctive marks upon him that he may
always he known hereafter not only by the
es'Yht of the eye bnt even the hearing of the
ca. This monster and enemy to pretty fac.s
ana ietiale beauty seems. to have originnt-d
Tar South OF Mason aid nixon's line-n ppint
from which We are the mast vulnerable, md
from which we lit,lo expected such p.oe,fu,
onslaught on grace and beauty. Ma, j. please
your honor the sleek eh"n faces of our ffnrkres
were n"tpro"f against the shafts Of this willy
foe. Th. first cheat thal he perperu,rd on
our faculty Of this place WINS Tint he was ,ru Y.
essentially aud t" all inten,s and pur,oses Chick
en- Por. Well. # he had confined his rnv,rcs
t" children in their minority we could hive
submitted ID and borne our misfortuncs u;,h
| some grace. But he intru,ed himself int, tLs
s""ctnns Of na'de"s just hlushiSg into full
grown w"man'""l lie with un paralelle,l
'iar'ng inhi his defaciug hand upon and dig
p"iicd many Of their mmtronly beauty. lust os
1t he had right TO r,se ur their fair hces with
r'ck ax's and slovels-intimating TO th. lords
! Of creation that their fortunes being mod,
that d-f"rInity and unsightly faces were n rich
md beautiful reward. But the remnrsclrss
scamp assailci the great grand moi hers and
rendered them disgusting to their prnndlinps
"y covering their faces with unsigL,ly splotch.
IS and bi"tehcs. No! contcpt he changed his
name little and was cal!e,, ,ty Ike faculty of
our place, --and hy the hy Sir. Editor, we hav.
got wonderful faculty for rames-I sav il
was called by :I,e faculty Of our place Vsriscl-
lar or Fari' selar. BY faculty we DO no, bv
any means l'u'ie to the faculty Of the Masonic,
te'nalH College. nor to the faculty of tl. Meth.
odist Conference Schq"l. but we mean uuccuiv
"c'liy the Doctor faculty. Well, when til. Doe.
tors give It, snch underground nnm"s rs Var.
seliar or Enrioselarswe did not wonder that
they nor any Other living or dead faculty
should not know the mama or na,ur. of tb,
disease. :" We thought them mighty SIN ,rt
'nen VIII" c"n!'i find out su"h names So yo,, see.
we did moi reqnrt hem tn know the dis"nses'
nj aH, after We heard what hard names they
had to max" to ind"ce people To believe tina,
they could smash diseases all &c pieces with n,
in""inrr"reusbie pnme. That il not all. WHY
should our Doct"r faculty be compelled to
know discusses and their nam-s that they no,
"nv faculty could mt pussil,ly know. Well
'hHk 1t had another name VnrolIett or Warm
l"'te. We called on Webster bu, he gave IA
II" l;:s!ll nn lhnsr 'inrkly my st"rous nam-s.-
Aa'" some or" sai 1t Ike small rnx in
P"r''. just "s if small pnx here had any rrsem
hlance t" small I''x in Paris. Why, Mr E.lItor
s'na'l rox here resembles small p"x in Paris
n'o"t as mnch ns II hen aud chickens r"sem-
bic an elrpArlt Th.. j. not all; If this ;s
small l'"x that covers one nj over mud leaves
him full of holes GnJ hollows. we would lik.
t" know whnt nur learned faculty would anll
large pox. WeII we'll. after we had heard all
The hsrd names an'l soft names md The doctors
had exam lined and cr"ss-rxaminel them
selves. We 10 not mean +" imply That thew
contradi cica themselves but that they learn
s'l like as they are use,l very different words
on different dsys OF the week
They are little like the preachers. If they
d" take the same text it. does not ilpp.y that
they preach the same s-r,n"n any more than
1t does that they preach n new srrmon when
they lake II new text Well abont The end of
seven d"y~or seven weeks We are not sur.
which it was thought best to call it small
i"x very small Pox, ns it was found impossible
feE our f,cul'y togive IL q new name unless
they were pern'i,te'l t" csfange the days of the
week 10 more ihnn seven.
Mr. Editor, when it was naserted that we
had small Fox in the place you will be aston
lshed to lsari thai it was fatty d-nied aud
stoutly contenIed That here had not been a |
case in the pince. The gift to gle w." To
our knowledge We know that there wns one
case which was said by our faculty TO be the
s"Ine as the others. Well, it was vet al paught
and pereoa not Of our Doctor faculty was
called in to ESTABLISH the fac, that our Doctors
did not know the disease when they saw it, !
We did MT learn his decision or what he call
ed the case; but if he did not know the dis |
ease, when he saw it, no man in tow had More |
right to know it, for If it did not give his fam
lily a close raking we. do not know what he
would call full dose Of it. We venture at
all hazards 10 say that he called it the same
disease.
That is not all, if oar Docto tors are not a
shrewd literary and scientific So. Of. men IL is
a pity that no one hns ever found !. ont yet.
10 long as our learned Doctor faculty waved,
the su'jert or calls'i it, Yariscilar or yarenseI
Mr. why every body cried nut. small poIi snalf
pox But 50 sson as our faculty y.vcn.ureis 10
whisper the Epphonous sounaE smsll. tpox. II E
Vas denied that case had been sssU. 9sWs
fet bound td write TINS aHuch "a: inform tho b
rsAple that there has not been a single case "A.
his "steange disease" or small PIX. OF vari
sjBaf8r yarioiette. (wonder our doctSss had
not frightened of the distass with shcl,> deaAt
What other region oqald lI,sy !
have eonsss iran' jn; the last four or ave !,
SO ttls slls wle. wisf can come ,,and buy
goods. craIss ean'yisit.' soeisiiy or Il, end Is
'.adIes Y any kind frsn a !Jsw.ba,p ;upi t,.af
aass Dtum, s~il.,, pssfsss simpuni.y. ; Mr. I'd.
tos.s q itst thoustt its.rifAtrshsi smsssse {
10ua giye fat b$,l rvr.f tj,;s tun