The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1865-10-28
THE CHOLERA.

D. 8 At this moment all Western Asia ant
Southern Europe are panic stricken by til,
terror of sudden DEATH That strange curse
5 which, as the Red Death, the Black Plague
: the Yellow Fever, has so often swept like
81 FIRE around the world, and in all its Protear
forms is still one Pestilence, has again ariser
as swift and strong as of old. The Cholers
has unexpectedly revealed itself in the East
and for the third time begins its terrible
westward march.
Egypt, the breeder of so many monsters, is
the mother of this. Centuries of dirt and
q degradation have rooted the plague so firmly
in Egypt, that its return every ten years is as
certain as the daily rising of the sun. Nile,
with his overlooking waters, cannot cleanse
the land. Even the religion of Mohammed
has become the protector of disease and this
year the Cholera first appeared among that
immense throng of Pilgrims which annually
journeys through Egypt to Mecca and Medina.
These poor people live in dirt, for though the
law of the Prophet requires frequent ablu-
lions, they seem no cleaner for its observ-
ance than the Arabs in the desert, who, for
want of water, perform the sacred washings
with sand. In three days the Cholera slew
| four to six thousand pilgrims in Mecca and
Medina. 1t pursued the survivors on their
homeward flight, and the stagnent canals,
the crowded roads, were strewn with The
dead. 1t caught the Egyptian Arabs in their
huts of mud and straw decimated the dirty
towns and villages, and finally entered Alex
andria and reigned there in triumph. In.
Cairo upwards of four hundred people per-
ished in one day. Thus it ravaged Egypt till
about the middle of July, when the mortali-
ty, though still great, seems to have decreas-
ed Of its course since we are not fully in
formed but it seems to be spreading along
the Mediterranean coast; it has penetrated
Sicily, establishe itself IN Constantin ople.
and is already as far west as Ancona, Italy.
Western Europe is alarmed and on the de
fensive. But it is hard for the police of an
Empire to arrest this invisible murderer.
which has all the poverty, crime fithiness
and recklessness of the world for it's accom-
plices. Eugene Sue, in his greatest novel,
refers forcibly to the apparent progress OF the
Cholera, at the rate of mans daily march
But it will travel faster in 1865 than it did in
1881. The Cholera is not blown about on
the winds. It passes from man to man the
ship sails with it over the sea 1.-the steam
cars speed with it over the land it crawls
along the sewerage, and creeps from street
TO street with the beggar. 1t is this mode Of
transmission that makes its progress so diff |
fcult to stop, yet because of this it is not
useless to try the effect of all sanitary pre-
cautions.
The above we take from the columns of the
N. Y. Tribune. In another article on the |
same subject, entitled "The Coming Dan
ger" the Tribune again urges action.
Death seems to be riding the Pale Horse
over desert, plain, sea and city--and we trace
his march from Asia and Africa to CONSTANT |
nople, thence through the countries of the
Danube and over the mountains to Spain
until his advance when last heard from was
in Manchester, England. Whether
be has had time to cross the Atlantic or not |
before the frosts come we cannot say, but
Manchester is not many days distant, and
Death seems to travel with the swiftness of
the morning. We should not be surprised
to see his grim majesty any day debarking at
Castle Garden and riding up Broadway. We
do notexpect the frosts for six or eight weeks.
and he might have busy time during that
period, with time to prepare for the coming
Summer, When we know that cholera is a
disease, and that the merest pru
dence on the part of citizens or State would
stay its progress, it seems almost madness
'or as to hesitate. Measures should at once
be taken to put the country in a condition ofl
sanitary defense. It might be done by the
SECULAR authorities, but they never do the
light thing at the right time. Somebody
should do it. Every man in his own sphere
IAN do much toward preventing this pesti-.
ence. All plaques, cholera and yellow fever +
specially, assail the incorporate and unwary
irst. If q man lives life of dissipation and
drinks vile liquors, allows his
system to become vitiated and debiltated by
disease, he will pass away before the conta-
zion like breath. Weinvite disease when
We wrong the laws of nature. We become
'asy victims to pestilence when we allow the
iver to become deranged, and the lungs to
ose power, and the brain to become heated
md oppressed by long hours of sloth and in
emperance. Every man, therefore, should
Mount guard over himself and his home to
esent the progress of the invader. a
TIE Dalles Mountaineer says it is in a po-
ItiOn to state that ARA nanoantc q ro po1,, ha