The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-10
A Rise for Info,mntion.

To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 I rise for information which I trust you will promptly impart to me, and
 hereby quiet the unrest which is mak- .ng life burden to me and I doubt not to others also who may be in a similar state of blank ignorance I have been reading of late various re- ports of the ravages of the Christian Scientists" in various parts of our be- loved country and want to know what
 t all means?
 Do please tell me what this varmint is that is getting away with people in this dreadful manner? Or is it a var mint or reptile at all, and does it go on all fours or stand on it's hind feet man-fashion? May be 1t Is molscule or a germ or perhaps a bacteria or a bacillus, or is it the progenitor or the progeny of Barnums What-is-it? Will my dear old friend, The Old Sani- tartan, turn his search light upon it and make 1t so plain that the way faring man and the fool shall be able to know it when he sees 1t and escape from it's deadly clutches Is it any thing like the wild man of Winsted and is it heading this way with full
 cad of steam on like old Mons. Par leyvoo's Comet that is said to be steer ing for us and loaded for ba'ar? Has it horns and tail that is barbed and feet that are eleven and does it bite or sting or scratch it's unfortunate vic tims, and about how deadly fatal are its attacks?
 Is 1t foreign "devil'' like Mons. La Grippe and does it do like lightning and strike only once in one place and 50 quickly that the victim never knows what hurt him?
 | know that I am asking a good many Iquestions and some of them may be wis | or otherwise; but with the cholera from Owhyhee knocking at our back doors and this new pest going to and fro
 and like Jobs adversary walking UT | and down in the earth, and Grover still a fishing away into the melan- cholfc days of autumn, I have a right to be greatly tumbled up and down in
 mind as good old John Bunyan hath it How does the law of percentages ap- | ply to these victims? That Is to say | do more recover than die or vice versa and do those that die step out because 1 their time has come, and do those re- cover that were foreordained to live ! and that you couldn't kill with club
 so to speak?
 And now that I am asking questions
 may I at the risk of being called ar | unbeliever and a ba-ad man humbly | inquire how many little children, young people, middle-aged men and womer
 and even persons of advanced year:
 have gone out of the world while be ing treated by the best medical skill that money and credit could procure l Does the last census which is said tC
 have cost eleven millions of dollars tel
 us how many died without medical ait
 and how many were ticketed through
 by the profession during the last de cade?
 If not, why not? A certain old lady | is said to have witnessed the death O.
 six or seven of her family in success
 sion, all duly attended by the best med
 tcal skill she could procure. but wher | the last one was stricken down sht said she proposed to let the doctor: l severely alone and stand still and set
 the salvation of the Lord. Wasn't il
 the fair thing to do to give the Lorj
 one chance after the dead failures oi
 the doctors? LAYMAN.