Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1884-08-15
The Cholera!

ing up ana 1dlllng ONcT each OtneI III IL
panic because somebody said "Chol-
era?" There is no danger. 1t isn't
here yet, and probably it won't be un-
less you all get scared out of your
boots. Cholera is all right enough if
you let it alone, and don't invite ii
home with you. Cholera never goes
anywhere unless it receives n special
invitation. If people are clean, sober,
level headed, and 90 about their busi-
ness, and are not surrounded by dirty
streets, alleys, sewers, and decaying
vegetable matter, cholera will not be-
come on speaking terms with them.
1t will stick up it's nose at the disgust
ing cleanliness, and 60 off somewhere
where it can smell something rank,
and then it will come to point like
hunting dog, and stay as long as there
is any game there. Cholera is mis-
understood as much as any disease that
is known. 1t is coward, and is more
apt to attack those who are frightened
than anybody else, and should you
take your satchel and start for the de-
pot, to get out of town, though you
might act just as though you were 60
ing leisurely to a picnic, the cholera
would know that you were scared, and
would catch you before you got on
the train. 1t would head you off and
sit on the curbstone waiting for you,
and all of a sudden something would
double you up as though you had been
hit in the bread basket by brick, and
subsequent proceedings would interest
you no more. Scientific men say that
the only way to be exempt from cholera
is not to be afraid of it. The rules laid
down for conquering wild beast or
vicious dog, by looking the animal
steadfastly in the eye. is pretty good
rule to adopt with cholera. OF course
men have tried that rule on dogs, and
had the polonaise of their pants chewed
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.
Cholera is the most fatal disease that
there is. unless it is consumption,
though cholera does not keep a victim
in suspense year or two, but goes to
work and makes a 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
week or ten days before it is ready to
bury him. Consumption is regular
tlirt, while cholera means business
from the send-off. With many diseases
man has to 90 and be examined by
few doctors, and the chances are the
doctors will all disagree; but with
cholera, when man gets it he knows
he has got it. Sickness is good deal
like fishing. You feel something pull
ing on the line, and you don't know
whether it is weed, pike, or pre-
monitory symptoms of spinal menin-
gifts. But if a black bass or a case of
cholera gets on the hook, either of
them will carry the news, and YOU
don't have to look over an almanac for
symptoms to discover what kind of a
bite you have got.
Cholera can be cured, they say, If
man does not die the first hour or two,
but he usually dies. But there ought
to be stop put to people advertising
a medicine that will cure cholera,
when it wouldn't cure plain case of
cucumber collie. There is a vast diff
ference between plain, every day chol-
era morbus and Asiatic cholera. Chol-
era morbus takes hold of q fellows
of the interior, and yanks,
and makes neckties, tied in double
bow and square knots, of those portions
of his patent inside that are usually
affected by such diseases, but it does
not break him up entirely. A man
with cholera morbus has been known
to use profane and disreputablo lam
guage between the heats, and lie TO
his family about what he has been eat