The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-10-17

you go and come. Do not put down per-
sonalities that may give YOU trouble after
you have departed this life. A diary is
apt TO be legacy of hornets nests to sur
vivors. Let Mayor Chaplin put down in
private book what he knows about the
politicians of Brooklyn, and President
Cleveland in private book what he
thinks about the public men of the day,
and then let some one, twenty years from
now, publish these books and
there will be- lively times
about the beginning OF the next
century. Burn your diaries except so far
as they may be needed to settle the ques-
ton OF dates and the question OF where
abouts. BY the time your diary comes
under the manipulation of others, all the
circumstances may have changed. The
conduct of others, which at the time you
wrote may have seemed strange or nefari-
GUS, may have been explained and iustl-
fed. Differences that ought TO be forgotten
may be perpetuated. One old diary has
been known TO break will, to separate
lifelong friends and to roll the apple OF
discord far down the corridor of the
future. We will have all we can do to
meet complacently the record OF our lives
when We come to judgment-a record
that will include all that we ever thought
or said, or did during all our lifetime
But also for the common habit
Of putting in diary that which a man
dare not say 10 the public during his
lifetime, and then, after death, hiding
himself behind barricade of tombstones
10 let others fight out the controversies he
instigated. But turning TO our country, |
think the most lamentable news of the
week is connected with the continued raw
ages of pestilential sickness at the South
Three great diseases have had an especial
grudge against the human race. Their
playground has been the graveyard
Their banqueting hall has been the sepul-
cher. The Asiatic cholera has been known
for centuries, but in 1917 it started from
the banks of the Ganges to swelter and
cramp the nations all around the world
1t swept off 10000 people in Upper Hin
dOstan and 10000 in Bombay, FRUSTRATED
Central Asia, and following the line of
the rivers. crossed into Russia and down
into Central Europe, marching on year by
year, It's path one great field of skulls
until, IN 1881, 1t appeared III England
and, taking ship for our own country,
this monstrous sickness landed at
Quebec June g. 1892, and June 81
OF that year IL arrived in
New York and all the cities shivered with
the horror and Death had hardly barns
large enough to contain his harvests.
Medical science had done much to allevi-
ate the power of this great pestilence, but
still 1t Is unslain and every summer stands
looking east, west, north and south to see
which nation is most unable TO resist its
ravages. Another giant terror of the
world was the plague 1t formerly
years. In the fourteenth century il
did its worst. The carbuncled and
swollen victims died until One-third of the
entire population of London persisted.
The most frightful cry that any city ever
heard was the cry: "a plagued At
midnight the dead carts ratified through
the city on the way TO the cemeteries, the
driver ringing bell and crying: "Bring
out your dead. bring out your dead!'
And then, without waiting for q shroud
the lifeless started on their last journey,
going out OF sight under the lantern of the
grave-diggers-no hat lifted. or psalm
sung, or prayer offered. To make trinity
of horrors yellow fever comes in. With
narrow geographical limits it has always
done its work OF devastation, but done it
thoroughly. The southern cities OF the
United States seem to have been marked
for its special havoc. 1t is fifty-six years
pinee il struck New York and sent its popH-
Nation flying in panic. Not fguratively,
| but literally grass grew in Broadway. One
pf my ancestors was a victim OF the
courge. 1t is an awful mystery. The
ings explained in regard to it are few
ppared with the lnexplicable. That it
lld affect the southern cities of the
Ted States and portion of Africa and
entire stranger 10 China and India,
let insoluble. The medical profession
for long years been in constant
sion about its contagiousness.
of the vessels in the British
Indian squadron have -reeled
{, and others, under the
anne influences, have foated
is found out to come from a mi
lat floats in the air. But that dis
loes not help to stop the ailment,
knows how to catch and kill the