The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-09-14
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"I. too. am not at all clever, and /
can assure you that it makes no differ
ence in life"
The Doctors view was naturally dlf-
ferent. That gentleman never wearied
of the sound of his own voice, which
was, to say the truth, agreeable enough
to hear. He now had listener, who
was not so cynically Indifferent as An
astasie, and who sometimes put him
on his Hettle by the most relevant OBJ
jections. Besides, was he not educat-
ing the boy? And education, philoso-
pliers are agreed, is the most philosoph-
ical of duties. What can be more
heavenly to poor mankind than to have
ones hobby grow into duty to the
State? Then, indeed, do the ways Of
life become ways Of pleasantness. New
er had the Doctor seen reason to be
more content with his endowments.
Philosophy flowed smoothly from his
lips. He was SO agile dialectician
that he could trace his nonsense, when
challenged, back to some root in
sense, and prove it to be sort Of flower
upon his system. He slipped out of an
timonies like fish, and left his disci-
pie marveling at the rabbits depth
Moreover, deep down in his heart the
Doctor was disappointed with the i'll
success of his more formal education.
A boy, chosen by so acute an observer
for his aptitude, and guided along the
path Of learning by so philosophic an
instructor, was bound, by the nature
of the universe, to make more obvious
and lasting advance. Now Jean-Marie
was slow in all things, impenetrable in
others; and his power of forgetting
was fully on level with his power to
learn. Therefore the Doctor cherished
his peripatetic lectures, to which the
boy attended, which he generally ap-
peared to enjoy, and ny which he often
profted.
81 lead YOU" he would say, "by the
green pastures. My system, my beliefs,
my medicines, are resumed in one
phrase-to avoid excess. Blessed ma
ture, healthy, temperate nature, abhors
and exterminates excess. Human law,
in this matter, initiates at a great dis
lance her provisions; and we must
strive to supplement the efforts of the
law. Yes, boy, we must be a law TO
a'cS aa.o rur our ne1ghb0rS-lex
armata-armed, emphatic, tyrannous
law. II you see a crapulous human
ruin snuffing, dash him from his box!
The judge, though in way an admis-
sion of disease, is less offensive to me
than either the doctor or the priest
Above all the doc.or-the doctor and
the purulent trash and garbage of his
pharmacopOeia! Pure air-from the
neighborhood of a pinetum for the
sake Of the Observation-Disclosures
wine, and the reflections Of an unso-
phisticated spirit in the presence of
the works of nature these my boy, are
the best medical appliances and the
best religious comforts. Devote your
self to these. Hark! there are bells of
Bourron (the VT I'd is in the north, it
will be fair. How clear and airy is the
sound! The nerves are harmonized
and quieted; the mind attuned to 81
lence; and observe how easily and reg
ularly beats the heart! Your unen-
lightened doctor would sec nothing In
these sensations; ant yet you yourself
perceive they are a part of health
Did you remember your cinchona this
morning? Good. Cinchona also Is a
work Of nature; it is, after all, only
the bark Of tree which we might
gather for ourselves IL we live In the
world is this!
Though a professed atheist, delight to
bear my testimony to the world. Look
at the gratuitous remedies and pleas
ures that surround our path! The river
runs by the garden end, our bath, our
fiShpond, our natural system of drain
age. There is we'll in the court which
sends up sparkling water from the
earth's very heart, clean, cool, and,
with a little wine, most wholesome.
The district is notorious for salubrity;
rheumatism is the only prevalent COM
plant, and / myself have never had a
touch Of it. / tell you-and my opinion
is based upon the coolest, clearest proc
esses Of reason-if /, IL you, desired to
leave this home of pleasures, it would
be the duty, it would be the privilege,
of our best friend to prevent us with a
pistol bullet"