Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1884-08-14
The Cholera.
BY george w. Peck.

BY george W. Peck. !,
There, keep your seats Sit down,
everybody! What's the use of jump
ng up and falling over each other In
panic because somebody said
'cholera?" There is no danger. It
sn't here yet, and probably won't be
unless you all get scared out Of your
boots. Cholera is all right enough II
you let it alone and don't invite it
home with you. Cholera never goes
anywhere unless it receives special
invitation. II people are clean,
sober, level-headed, and 60 about |
their business, and are not surround
ed by dirty streets, alleys, sewers
and decaying vegetable matter, chol-
era will not become on speaking
terms with them. It will stick up its
nose at the disgusting cleanliness and
60 off somewhere where it can smell
something rank, and then it will come
to a point like . hunting dog and
stay as long as there Is any game
there. Cholera is misunderstood as
much as any disease known. 1t is a
coward and is more apt to attack
those who are frightened than any
body else, and should you take your
satehel and start for the depot to get
out of tswn, though you might act as
though you were going leisurely to q
picnic, the cholera would know that
you were scared and would catch you
before you got on the train. It
would head you off and sit on the
curbstone waiting for you, and all Of
a sudden something would doable
you up as though you had been hit
in the bread-basket by brick, and
subsequent proceedings would inter-
est you no more. Scientific men say
that the only way to be exempt from
cholerais not to be afraid of it. The
rules laid down for conquering wild
beast or vicious dog, by looking the
animal steadfastly in tie eye, is a
pretty good rule to adopt with chol-
era. OF course men have tried that
rule on dogs, and had the polonaise
Of their pants ehewed off, but it was
because they thought they had the
dog paralyzed and turned their backs
looking for another dog to conquer.
That won't do. You have got to
keep your eye on the animal. Chol.
era is the most fatal disease there is,
unless it is consumption, though
cholera does not keep victim in sus.
pense year or two but goes to work
and makes job for the coroner,
while consumption braces its victim
up and makes him think he is getting
better till the day Of his death, and
sends him to Colorado for his health
a week or ten deys before it is ready
to bury him. Consumption is reg
ular firt, while cholera means bust
ness from the send-off. With manJ
diseases a man has to go and be ex,
amined by q few doctors, and the
chances are the doctors will all diss.
gree; but with cholera. when mar
gets it he knows he has got it. Sicl;
ness is good deal like fishing. Yor
feel something pulling on the line ani
you don't know whether it is weed
a pike, or premonitory symptoms o
spinal meningitis. But if a blacl
bass or case Of cholera gets on th'
hook either Of them will carry th,
news, and you don't have TO lool
over an almanac for symptoms t.
discover what kind of bite you hav
got.
| Cholera can be cured. they say, i
the man does not die the first hour o
two, but he usually dies. But ther
ought to be stop put to people sd
vertising a medicine that will cur
cholera, when it wouldn't cure
plain case Of cucumber collie. Their
lis a vast difference between PLAIN
every day cholera morbus and Asiati
cholera. Cholera morbus takes boil
of fellows department Of the In
terror and yanks, and makes neckties
tiled In double bow and square knots
of those portions Of his patent insi6
that are usually affected by sac
diseases, but it does not break hil
up entirely. A man with choler
morbus has been known to use pre-
fame and disreputable language bt
tween the heats, and lie to his farnil
, about what he has been eating al
drinking, and he will be cross at IL
doctor, and wonder -hy he does NJ
give him something to untargle hin
self inside, and unrayeE the kno
that seem to have tied themselves
his sarcophagus, and wien he &c
, over it he will want to go and sho
the green grocer that sold him Il
, cucumbers or watermelons, as Il
case may be; but when the chDle
;, tunes up for an overture snd begi'
to finger the strings Of a mans bsnj
there is music by the entire band, al
the man does not swear. He 60
his s'now / lay me-" goes into O. ce