The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-06-07
CURING A COLD.

/ benefit OF our readers.
Its good thing, perhaps, to write
| for the amusemennt of the public, but it
is far higher and mob Ter thing to write
for their instruction, their profit, their ac-
tual and tangible benefit. The latter is
the sole object of this article. IfiL prove
the means OF restoring TO health one sol
ilary sufferer among my race. of lighting
up once more The fire OF hope and Joy IN
his faded eyes, OF bringing back to his
dead heart again the quick, generous i'm
pulses of other days, shall be amply
rewarded for my labor; my soul will be
permeaIed with the sacred delight 8
Christian feels when he has done good,
unseif-h deed.
Having led pure aud blamelsss life.
l am justified in believing that no man
who knows me Will reject the suggestions
l am about TO make, OUT of fear that l
am trying to deceive him. Let the pub
Inc do itself the honor to read my expert
ence in doctOriDg a cold, as herein set
forth, and then follow in my footsteps.
When the White House was burned in
Virginia, lost my home, my happiness,
my constitution and my trunk. The loss
VI NhU A"O Al6t udIllCu al kiOlc6s " AS q u dL
OF no great consequence, since home
without a mother or a sister, or a distant
young female relative in it to remind you,
by putting your soilded linen out Of sight,
anu taking your boots down off the man
tel-piece. that there are those who thin K
about you and care for you, is easily OBJ
tanned. And cared nothing for the loss
OF MY happiness. because. not being a
poet, 1t could not be possible that melan-
chOly would abide with me long.
But to lose good constitution and
better trunk were serious misfortuues.
On the day of the fire my constitution
suecumbed to a severe cold caused by
undue exerlion in getting ready to do
something. 1 suffered to no purpose,
TOO, because the plan l was figuring at
for the extinguishing of the fire was so
elaborate, that never got it completed
until the middle of the following week.
The first time l began 10 sneeze friend
Id me to 60 and baIhe my feet in hot
water and 60 10 bed. l did so. Shortly
afteFWard, another friend advised me to
get up and take cold shower bath. /
did that also. Within the hour another
friend assured me that it was policy to
''fsed q cold and starye fever" had
both. So thought it best to fill myself
up for a cold, and then keep dark and let
the fever starve awhile.
In case of this kind, seldom do
things by halves; L ale pretty heartily;
l conferred my custom upon stranger
who had just opened lis restaurant that
morning; he waited near me in respectful
silence until 1 had finished feeding my
cold. when be inquired if the people
about Virginia were much afflicted with
Guilds? l told him l Thought they were.
He then went out and took in his sign.
l started down toward the Office, and on
The way encountered another bosom
friend, who told me that quart of salt
water, taken warm, would come as near
curing cold as anything in The world
l hardly thought l bad room for it, but
tried il anyhow. The result was sur
prising. 1 believe through up my i'm
mortal soul.
Now, as 1 am giving my experience
only for the benefit OF those who are
troubled with the disttmper l am writing
about, l feel that they will seen the pro-
priety OF my cautionIng Them against fol-
lowing such portions OF it as proved in
tfficlent with me, and acting upon this
conviction, warn them against warm
salt water, 1t may be a good enough
remedy, but think it is too severe. If
had another cold in the head. and there
was no course left me but take either an
earthquake or quart of warm salt Wa
Ter, l would lake my chances on the
earthquake.
Alter the storm which had been rag
ing in my stomach had subsidized, and no
more good Samaritans happening along,
l wen. on borrowing haudkeicBiefs again
and blowing them to atomsi as had been
my custom in the early stages OF my
cold, until came across lady, who had
Just arrived from over the plains, and
who SAID she had lived 10 a par of the
country where doctors were scarce, and
had from necessity acquired considerable
skill in the treatment of simple "family
com plsiuts." l knew she must have had
much experience, for she appeared to be
one hundred and City years old.
She mixed q decOction composed OF
molssses, aqua lortis, turpentine and va
rIous other drugs, and instructed me TO
lake a wine-glass tail of it every fifteen
minutes. l never took but one dose; that
was enough; it robbed me of all moral
principle, and awoks every unworthy i'm
pulse Of my nature. Under It's malign
influence my brain conceived mericles of
meanness, but my hands werejtoo feeble
10 execute them; at that time, mad it not
been that my strength had surrendered
to a succession of assaults from infalli
bic remedies for my cold, am satisfied
that would have tried to rob the grave
yard F
Like most other people often feet mean
aud act. accordingly; but until I1ook that
medicine, had never revealed in eueh
supernatural depravity aud felt proud Of
IL. at the end of two days I was ready
to gosto doctering again. / took a few
more pufailing remedies, and finally drove
my cold from my head TO my luegs.
got TO coughing necessarily aud my
voice fell below zero; l converssd in
laundering bass, two octsves below my
naturaptone; 1 coufd only compass my
regular night repose by coughing myself
down TO state Of utter exhaustion and
hen the moment I began to talk in my
sleep, my dlscoTdant voice woke me up
! again. 1s - p 5-al s~- saz
/ Ny case grew more aud more serious
every day. Plain giu vas recommended: