The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-07-26
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 : Thers. keep your seats Ss down. es- erycedy' WhAs's sAe use of iumpinr up and faihng over each oth<r ia 5ssz;c AAs- cause somebody said cholerays Tkese is 10 danger. Is isnt hers yes, and prob ably IL woat be unless yon all get scared out of your hootA Cholera is all rishs enough If you let a Alcne. and dont in- vite II home with you Choiesa never goes anywhere unless is receives special invitation. ff people are clean, sober. leve'-headed, and go about their business, and are 10, surrounded by dirty streets, aiieys, sewers. and decaying vegetable matter. cholera wil 10, become on speak ing terms with them. IL wilt stick up it's nose at the disgusting cleanliness. aad @ eE somewhere where it can smell something rank. and then Il will come to a point like hunting dog. Aad stay as long as there is any game there. Chol- era IS misnnderssood as much as any dis- ease that is knosn. It is a coward and is more apt 10 attack those whc are frixhs. ened than anybody else, and should you take your sAtchel and xsArt tor the depot, to get out of town. though you might act Just as though you wefe going lsssurely 10 picnic, the cholera would know tha; you were scared, and would catch you before you got on the train. lt would head you of and sit oa the cuFhstone waiting for you. and all of a sudden something would double you up as though you had been hit in the bread. basket by a buek. and suhseauent proceedings would interest you 10 more. Scientific men say that the only way to be exempt from cholera Is no, 10 be afraid of Ii, The rules lAid do~n for oonquefing wild beast CT vicious dog 1. by looking the animal s,eAdfAs,ly ia the eye. IS a pretty good rule to adop, with cholera. or course, mea have tried that rule on dogs, and had the polonaise oi thelr pants che~ed off, but u wAs because they thought they had the dog parAlysed and turned their backs looking Tor another dog to conquer. That won't de. You have got to keep your eye on the animal Cholera is the most fatal disease there Is, unless Il is consumption, though cholera does not keep victim in suspense year or two, but goes 10 work and makes a job for the coroner. while consumption braces its victim up and makes him ihink he is getting better till the day of has death, and sends him 10 Colorado for his health . week or ten days before il Is ready to bury him. Consumption is a 'egulaf flin, while cholera means business from the send of. With many diseases a man has 10 go and be examined by fe~ doc tors, and the chances arc the doctors will all disagree but with cholera, when q man gets il he knows he has got Il, Sick. ness is good deal like fishing. You feel something pulling on the line, and you don't know whether ii is a weed. a pike. or premonltory symptoms of spinal meningitis. But if black bass or a case Of cholera gets on the hook, either Of them will eauy the news. and you don, have to look over an almanac for symp- toms to discover what kind of bite you have got.
 Cholera can be cured, they say, fl a man does mol die the frs, hour os tso, bu, he usually dies. But there ough, 10 be stop put to people advertising d medicine that will cure cholera. when i, wouldn't cure plain case of cucumber cohe. There IS vast difference bet seen plain. every day cholera mofbus and
 
 hold of fellows department of the n- terror, and yanks, and makes neckiies, tied in double bow and square knots. of those portions of his patent inside that arc usually affected by such diseases, but i, does not break him ap entirely A man with cholera morbus has been known to use proi2ne and disrepuiable language between the heats. and lie to his family about wha, he has been eating and drinking, and he will be cross a, the doctor, and wonder ~hy he does not give him something to untangle himself in side, and unravel the knots that seem 70 have tied themselves in his sarcophagus, and when he gets over II he will want to go and shoot the green grocer that sold him the cucumbers or watefmeIons, AS the case may be but when the cholera tunes up for an overture, and begins ,o finger the strings of mans banjo, there is music by the entire band, and the man aoes no, swear. He says his "now | lay me- goes into collapse, and fl he has any visions at all they are Of coroneu, undertskers, heaIses, and the cold and silent tomb. He wants to send for his parents, and haxn', strength enough to say ouss word |. he wanted to. He d.,es DO, believe thAt there is any medicine on earth that can cure him.. ard f he had a revolver handy he would kill himself You sill sec tha, cholera is dangerous when Il gets hold of you, but the way to do is no, 10 let it make the irs, payment. The best say IS to laugh and Joke just the same when cholera IS around as you did before. II cholera sees long face, and fright enec look, i, laughs and says. That is my meat" Of oourse. fl cholera gets too thick ID your neighboshood, and you can slip oif unbeknown 10 anybody, and make tracks for some relative al a dis- tance just slow tracks, as though you were intending to go all the time. and were not in . hurry. h might be veil enough to pull out, but doa't go in q panic. This article is written to sort of A- II