The Billings herald. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1882-1885, 1883-01-11
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my; a cold or sickness prostrated
them and in a few brief months
they were silent in the grave
: Whole families have fallen in q few
years whole generations !! !. DO We
lsce the same round about US in
/ Helena? Our deaths from all caus-
es the past year were less than s
per 1000, and Of these they percent.
Iage Of consumptives was less than
the statistics of any city or state by
far that we can find recorded.
| Moreover, the air we breathe in
the Rockies is dry air-a desert
air. The effect is, upon those pa
tients already chosen victims, that
while the forced breathing of the
light air increases the capacity Of
the lymph spaces, the dry air alb
serbs and carries off the accumula-
ting sccretions, and when the dam
age is not so great that their capac-
ity fails to hold the full quota of air
we expect good results. But it is
Unnecessary to dwell upon further
facts. We can insure a lease upon
the life Of persons in the lowlands
and humid atmosphere, with inner.
tied or incipient consumption, if
they will come to our climate. If
they take to the plains, the youth
to herd and to hunt and to harvest;
the maidens to riding, rowing and
romping, VIC assure them new
life, as we'll as an extended one. If
they come to our city to work or
to play, only so they climb Mount
Helena, breathe our air, and tighten
their burden of cares and troubles
with the atmospheric pressure light
ened for them, they surely will
live.
1t is a free country-too free; SO
long as one does to Others as others
do to him he is law-abiding. In
street brawl to-day if one Of the
principals draws his revolver, the
other does likewise, and Providence
is apt to smile upon the one quick
ast to shoot. Thieving Indians on
l horse-stealing raid will pick Off q
aerder in their way, if they can do
30 slyly, and the herdcn will return
he good will by making a "good
indian" of the prowling thief when
10 one is by to tell the tale. But
We are g hale, hearty, rugged race.
We do not grow old, dry up and
'low away; we wear out as does 8
'lece Of machinery. It ispecuiiar
o the climate that we be rustlers.
Dur blood circulates more free
:; our nerves arc more highly
trung; besides the first settlers
we're rustlers, and we must all be
uch to keep even. The business
f the country tends to fast living.
man with cattle on q thousand
ills brcathes free until, perchancc,
he SHOWS of long winter pile inch
pon inch, and foot upon foot, until
he whole herd is threatened and he,
he cattle king, stars at pauperism.
silvers his crown and cuts off
ears from his life. The miner
[imbing the mountain side, dig
ing down the rocks, living on
can't food and constant exposure,
nds his joints crceking in early
He, too, lives in sus-
cnse; his quartz may. pinch out in
day, or its pay become too low.
'ade, and in such luck, fallen from
is bonanza's loft, he discovers him
If in the winter Of life. We saw
4 ingenious apparatus at q lnedi-
i institution in the States to feed
patient, having emphyema of the
ngs, xith compressed air (heavy
r.) I'never knew a patient with
at disease coming from the low
titudes but that he improved his
in light air-thc air We
'cathe in Montana. Thvs one
ust foreswear old advisers, old
eories, and old ways and means
business, and the old standard
his walk and conversation.
If you have no faith in the sim
e virtue of our high, dry air,
nle here and run wild. We saw
aude Indian in the middle Of the
river taking a bath dur
9 our cold winter weather. Sucn
durance will not come from gloves
rowing or racing. Il family of
III Flatheads trailcd into town on
ar ponies. Selling one poney the
l buck took up behind him the
seated young brave; selling
other he provided a biding place
: the tawny daughter of the for