The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-27


til they crn be boiled. If the acid is
not at hand use the zinc water alone.
Apartments, bedding and upholstery
that have been used by the sick with
cholera or diarrhea, should be fumiga-
ted by the burning of several pounds of
birthstone (sulphur) upon a defended
iron pan, with the place tightly closed
for several hours, under a physician's s
! directions.
PRINCIPLES AND DUTIES TO BE TAUGHT.
1. The thorough cleanliness, dOmes-
tic and civic, and an abundant supply
of pure water are essential means of
preventing cholera in any household
when the cholera is near.
2. That general cleansing, scaveng-
ing and disinfection should be attended
to in every city and town before cholera
makes its appearance and that wherev-
er it does appear, that house and the
exposed premesis should be kept con-
stantly disinfected.
g. That in the words of the chief
medical officer of Great Britain, cit
appears to be characteristic of cholera,
not only of the disease in its developed
and alarming form, but equally of the
slightest diarrhae which the epidemic
can produce that all matters which the
patient discharges from his stomach
and bowels are infective that the pa
TENTS power of injecting from other
persons is represented almost or quite
exclusively by those discharges: that
they are comparatively non-infective at
the moment they are discharged, but
afterwards, when undergoing decompo-
sition, acquire their maximum infective
power and that if they be cast away
without previous disinfectiOn, they i'm
part their own infective quality to the
excremental matters with which they
mingle in filth-sodden earth, or in de-
positOries and conduits of filth, and the
effluvia which those excrementaI mat
ters evolve that if the infective mate
rial, by leakage or soakage from drains
or cesspooIs, or otherwise gets access,
even in the smallest quantity, directly,
or through porous soil, to wells or other
sources of drinking water, it can infect,
in the most dangerous manner, very
large volumes of water the infective
influence of the chOleratic discharges
attaches to whatever bedding, clothing
and like things have been imbued with
them, and renders these things, if not
dis1nfected, capable of spreading the
disease"
f. Cleansing and purity, skiIlfuI dis
infection, temperate habits and whole
some diet with pure water and fresh air
are the trusted and sure means of health
and security in all places and for all
classes of people when exposed to the
causes of cholera. The watchwOrd
against this destructive enemy should
be, remove the local causes that favor
the propagation of cholera, and wherev-
er it appears, let its germs be quickly |
stamped out by powerful disinfectants
and instant cleansing.
From being the most feared and des-
tructive pestiIence, cholera now may be
controlled and distinguished more
quickly and completely than any other
epidemic disease. Believing, therefore,
that the people of the United States re-
quire the suggestions which are given !
in this memoran ium, this committee /
presents them for the purpose of hasten
ing and making sure the most extensive, /
thorough and speedy control of the des-
troyer.
The Possibilities of the Future.
If we are sure that the other life is
life, and not a slumbering hole in the
ground if death is but the opening of
the gate; if dying is translation if
passing from sentence here we reach a
higher sentence there, one can almost
bear anything in this life. Christ,
for the Joy that was set before him, en-
dured the cross, despising shame - |
and the Joy that is set before us, if full |
Iy revealed to us, would enable every |
man, methinks, to endure the cross and |
despise the shame. 1t IS the unknown |
to come that cheers and bIesses the I
known life that now is. For this is an |
orphaned life. Here We are helpless, or !
like stumblingI children, with little
strength and little experience, but we |
are living toward our manhood and |
every year that we leave behind rs is |
one station on the road over which we |
have passed and every day the very |
dust that annoys us, and the very Gin /
ders that vex our summer eyes, are |
so many witnesses of the speed with /
which we are crossing that territory
which separates between us and ours /
between our seeming life and our real
life between the life that now is and
the life that is to come. Every one Of us
will know each other in heaven. Every
one of us Will be nobler In heaven than
we are here. The sensibilities of TINS |
poor, dim earth are no Interpretation |
of the sensibilities of heaven. The !
great march of men through this life is /
scarcely a hint of the volume, the vast
ness, the magnitude, the grandeur, OF /
that march in procession, OF soul with 4
soul, through the eternal ages. What I
ever we do not know, one thing we do .
know, and that is this, that we shall go /
to heaven, not to shrink with age, to /
find poverty, and to find distortion, but /
to find riches, and symmetry, and to /
develop into all the glory Of everlasting
vontb. All that popuIates our fancy |
with ideal perfectness, and more, will |
be there. The noblest conception, the |
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