Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-20
Protcplasm.

MIA. little sulphur & phosphorus thrown
in Henceforth, saving your soul only
means living so as to preserve in your
system due proportion of gases. In
fact we think the preachers of the press
ent day are rather too Old in their
style for the times. They are off the
track They have need of a more thor
ough knowledge than they can and in the
bible Their duty as the SOULS physician
(if soul be not an absolete term. usuroed
for while by protoplasm), is to point out
the exact amount Of nourishment neces
sary to produce it in proper proportions;
or if some modern Prince de Leon colld
only discover an elixir to renovate and
build up the old body when crumbling to
decay so that it may always serve as a
fit laboratory to generate these precious
gases, why, the problem of Immortality
is solved, and we can go on living for
ever !! But why should this be necessary.
unless for the paltry consideration of
looks Some electric machine might De
devised that would answer as well, and
we might be inflated like balloons, when>
ever we became conscious of want-of
gas; (;f we can be conscious Of this pills
and potions would be at discount. and
doctors a thing Of the past, unless they
have eisdofn to stand back and save their
reputation by leaving pill and potion for
a while .'tifl mankind sick ofliving for>
ever. fly to them as their greatest bene>
factors. Protoplasm! Let US think of t!
wv hat wonderful age we live in." In
this age of gas, how fitting is the dscov>
cry that soul is gas! We knew before
that those political and social philanthropy
lists who proclaim their desire TO benefit
| the world at large by feathering their
own nests. dealt largely in the article. but
we never fully realized before that it was
because they had more soul than these
common meaner spirits who are con-
| temptible enough to make living by
their industry. Bat an awful thought
strikes us; suppose that when being ;n>
t)ected-with gas, we should get an undue
proportion of some Of the constituent
parts, of soul, more in fact. than Of right
belongs to us. Now Mrs. Peter Shocks
is our antipathy. being, we are confident
made up Of more birthstone than enters
into oar composition. The reason we are
not always quarreiing is owing to the
p, culiar placidity Of our disposition. Now
an exchange of sulphur would result 10
making US part Mrs. Shocks; and i'm
agine the distress resulting from an
active hatred and contempt of oursclvelfl
Why a du | between the Samese twins
when living would have been nothing to
it. "Chang." said writer, "drinks; but
Eng, President of teetotal society never
heads procession but Chang ranges
along by his side. drunk as lord, and
poor Eng, an enemy to all liquors
through Changes misdoings drunk too"
But how much verse predicament we
would be in; why Mrs Shocks would Bio
ourself, and we Mrs Shocks! We would
never dare crafty ourself by any insinua>
tons against Mrs. Shocks moral qualities,
for fear they might damage ourself. and
therefore We should be compe He'd to love
our neighbour as oursclf, or hate ourself as
orr neighbor; terrible situation to be in!
If Mrs. Shocks should happen. to be a
high>church Episcopalian, we who are a
Methodist. would be compelled to ignore
what we ought to consider as the height of
heterodoxy; and only have the dubious
comfort of saving her through ourself; or
she might revenge herself and we be lost.
through her..