The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-08-07

that sometimes they say. Hold fast
theres you've got the last elinker
now set me frec.D f.aE.sza9II
80 Wait q minute." sia4Glk
But won't wait, IdsWear
Won's."E di#s ha51t aso4ila
q Can yoh help yourself?p au -e
5r HEel1, no, not much; but l am
tsmotheFing in hero. Can't you take
pity soiiaE poor fellow ?0 srsT god
h g Sit down onithe floor,D I said.
II heard him plump DOWNS as obedi.
ent as 4 schoolbOy. ts.39ur 8
What next ~ sih 54a 115
b ItuIned to the kitchen door to see
the lock was all right. Then turned
| the key with a sharp click that sOund-
ed to nae like the crack of pistol. 81
He came out of his prison swearing
like . trooper. f.i y .est,1x5 s-as
Ias 6 Sharp old SatanI She has locked
herself up somewhere" trying the
kitchen door as he spoke. Good
Right, madam DeRi-good night
You have got the best of me this
time. You have robbed me.53 Get
down end say yeur prayeFs.p .pag8i
ARa l did. What is more, Leried
like q baby over my money, thinking
what il would bring US. Ig laa 81
never saw the strange burglar
again, and in few weeks after Re-
beccag was comfortably settled at
school. No one ever knew where the
money came from. An uncle died
abolt this, time, and some, of my
friends shreWdly suspected that he
had left us something, bat J had MOTH
ing to say on the subject. -s 53a
About six months after my adven-
ture brother Joe came to me one day
and he said he haa been stopped
in the street by q strange man that
morning Who had begged him to say
to Madam Quimby that the fril of
her night-cap was just little too
wide ! So saying, he passed on.
[" What did he mean ?" asked Joe.
" Nothing, only he was crazy II
answered, but my face was as red as
blaze. --i1l st9l 80. ii}fiSoI 9atAf
CHOLERA AND ITS CAUs Es-NoT AIR
3aAA fss' BgT WATER ~
A correspondent of the Courier
Journal writes thus of the cholera
and its causes Trace the cholera
from the banks of the Ganges to the,
Equator, and you find it has never
prevailed as an epidemic in a granite
country, but in calcareous or limestone
districts, or where. the water contains
organic matter. will mention a few
facts which will show clearly that
cholera is developed by the character
of the water used as drink. In 1882
the beautiful and cleanly city of Lex
ington, situated in the bluegrass re-
giOn-the most fertile portion of Ken
tucky-was first visited by the Asiatie
cholera. It swept through that city
as a Whirlwind. The Angel of Death
seemed to hover over the doomed
city for days and weeks, claiming all
as its victims. But two families es-
capped the disease-Dr. Benjamin
Dudley's and DIR. James Busll's. These
were the only families in the city who
used cistern water as drink. Cis- |
terms were then almost unkno Wn.i
The quick perception of Dr. Dudley
had detected the fact that persons
using fFeestone or cistern water were
free from calcafeOus affections, Wig: |
stone and caleuli. 1t was to protect
and their families from /
these terrible seqnels of. limestone |
water that they had their cisterns con-
strueted, and not against cholera, for
they knew not of its coming. Now, if |
his be merely coihcident, that but |
TWO families of q population Of some
Twelve thousand should escape, and |
hose two only using cistern water,
hen it is coincidence strongly re-
;embIing q fact on fixed principles.
Again, there has neve. been epidemic |
,holera ON q single plantation upon
he Mississippi River, from Cairo to |
ts mouth, where zcistern water was
used, and there is scarcely |
! plantation on that river, where cis
ern water was not used, that the dis
.ase has not existed as an epidemic. |
a gam, every case of cholera which |
has occurred in Natchez, prior to and
Iince 1855, could be traced directly to
he use of water obtained from springs |
cushing out through cornelian pebbles /
:ieLs' as crystal and cold as ice, at the |
1ase of the bluff or river bank. In
855 the cisterns became exhausted
oy the drought, the citizens were
orced to use river or spring water,I
md cholera broke out in most ma
ignant form again. The town of
fhilbaonxVille, Situated on the bayou
in Louisiana, is divided
nearly equally by the small baYcu.
]ne portion of the town is occupied
~ Americans, who used exclusively
istern water; the other portion by a
french population who have no els
erns, but rely on the wells for water
o drink. In 1849 the French portion
# the town was nearly destroyed BY
hOlera, and yet not a dozen cases oc-
urred onthe American side of the
'ayou. s4a. + 4qzsF esff ff., is4..4a