Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-05
A Letter From Bellcviexv.

There is very high authority for saving
there is time for silence and and time IA
speak. The time to keep silence in regard
70 the Corners has come. Between Deacon
bedoft, DIR. Dowling's school and the Union
sabbath School, it is enjoying rabbits rest.
This opportunity is taken to thank Hon,
Martin l.. Clardy for very valuable book,
treating largely on diseases of domestic ami
mais This book is doubly valuable on ac-
count of the rising fear of cholera 1t is ad-
mitted that this terrific scourge will most
probably visit our country this coming
season. If it does come our show will he
| bad, for among us the so called regular
practice of medicine has got down SO low
| that it has been compelled to retreat behind
| breastwork of penal statutes, which make
1t an indictable offense for II man who is not
armed with the half of a dried sheepskin, to
| save tie life of a neighbor.
The writer's barred by statute from the
practice of medicine, and is glad of the fact /;
his pathway through life has not been strew-
ed with roses, and the existing law affords
an admirable opportunity to get even with
his enemies. If a mans life is worth saving
it can be done gratuitously, or the attending
physician can be lifted on.
The writer has seen the cholera every time
1t has been epidemic in the United States,
1882 included, and has had it in his own
family, and has read a great deal of what
has been written on the subject, and fifty
years experience and observation have forced
on his mind the conviction that nineteen
twentieths of the danger of cholera arise
from thp fact that nh ri ;rnor,ot ~
the chemistry of physiology. DR.. Mood in
his admirable treatise on the Theory and
Practice of Medicine, strikes the true key
note in the case.
Every disease has u moral nature. Now
suppose that whilst Boards of Health are
dealing i'm chloride of lime, the clergy get
up corner OH birthstone, and then give
the talOw chardlers a boom on soap. Mental,
moral and physical cleanliness is not only
next to godliness but is godliness itself.
One thing has been observable, and that is
that the course of treatment which con-
trolled cholera at one visit, did not reach it
the next time it came. The practice of
medicine is Il deduction from the habits of
the people. AS they change the practice
must change. Judged by this rule the cholera
will handle us roughly the next time it
comes.
Your very pleasant correspondent at Good
water, tells of young lady out there who
took dime chance in lottery, and drew
dollar. If the prize had been the young lady
herself ticket would have been cheap at a
thousand dollars.
In respect to the School of Mines, instead
of peddling it about let the Legislature with
hold appropriations from it. It is State
Asylum for dudes, who are too shiftless and
lazy to educate themselves. The State is not
obliged to educate above the Common
School. All else should be left to private
enterprise. Our greatest and most success
full enterprises are developed as a rule by
those who have never attended IA State High
School.
Let the State limit its educational enter
prises to the Common School System, and
let that be limited to reading, writing, arith-
metic and grammar, thoroughly taught, and
in respect to education the State will have
done its whole duty to its citizens in fur
nishing them an excellent education at u
reasonable expense and in reasonable time.
Jan. GOTH THOMAS CALLAHAN.