Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-02
LAWYERS.
Origin Of tho Popular Prejudice Against
Useful Profession.
CAMILLE.

Useful Profession.
Lawyers have been the subject Of
satire and reproach in both pagan and
Christian times. Jack Cade's rebellion
in 1850 was aimed against all con-
cerned with the profession OF the law.
Since that time there has grown up .
popular prejudice. eliminating in the
belief that strict sense of moral
obligation is inconsistent with the legal
profession.
This charge Of moral obliquity.
though untrue in general, is not with
out foundation. The court house is
too often used as play house where
the INSCRIPTIONS may personate any
character without being accountable
for words or actions.
But the writings of eminent men
have exerted a still greater influence
on the popular mind. While admiring
the beauty of language or the keenness
of satire, ideas are imbibed which are
false and uncharitable. History and
literature are deluged with misrepre-
sensations, Of which only a few need be
mentioned.
The death of Justice Randall caused
sorrow to all the poor people at Sur
rey. Ben johnson knew this fact, and
yet furnished food for the Scoffer by
writing:
God works wonders now and thon,
Here lies lawyer, an honest man.
1t is sad that Sam Butler lost for
tune through the incompetcncy or ras-
cality of his lawyer. Perhaps that is
the reason the "IIudibras" is so full OF
scathing sarcasms on the law.
Sir Thomas More makes the absence
Of lawyers one of the characteristic
features of his "Utopa." He saws
trous to health and life. With all tn.
efforts to resist these influences, the
disease may come and art can not on
tirely remove its severity, but may
greatly mitigate it. One means of do.
ing so is to largely diminish the amount
OF moisture in the soil on which they
live. Dwellings should be placed on
high and well drained lands. The
drains should be so deep as to re-
move moisture from the subsoil.
Drainage contributes not only to early
and remunerative crops, but TO health
and comfort. Houses should be
SO placed that the prevailing
winds may not drive malarial infln.
ences into them, or into their vi.
cinity The more distant they are
from malarial sources of disease, the
surer they are to be free from this
source of disease and suffering. Avoid
then, slowly moving and muddy rivers
whose shores are widely covered with
watery and decomposing vegetable and
animal materials. If houses must be
built in malarial localities, encirclc
them with growing trees that naturally
absorb large quantities of moisture
and so remove one cause of generating
malaria, The location of a dwelling
then, should be well drained. 1t should
be encircled, but not densely shaded
by rank growing plants or trees. Ever
in the temperate zones we perceive bac
odors rising from cesspools and sewer.
in the early morning and late evening
hours.
Those, then, who reside in malaria
districts should guard against exposure,
to malaria whilst the sunny rays ar,
absent. Experience shows that very
little, if any, danger is incurred, if ex
posed during the warm parts of thu
day. As malaria is heavier than air i
creeps upon the surface and rises as tn,
expanded air lifts it up. And we fine
it safer in malarious districts to enteI
the outer air at midday than in tn,
early morning hours. And then agar
as malaria sinks in the evening anC
keeps near the surface of the earth. i
rarely is found above four feet abov,
the surface. We may inhale it if W,
sleep near the level of the ground. Up
per rooms are always safer, freer from
malaria than the lower ones. Gu
readers must see the use of keeping tn,
house warm and dry, and the adjacen
lands free from decaying materials.
In many localities in our prairie land
the water used for drinking is impure
especially when it is drawn from we'll
that are near cesspools and sewers anC
, other collections of dirt and filth. |
such water must be drank, let it be wei
boiled so as to remove all impurities.
e. Il, IN Western Rural.