The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-12
TAKES JAB AT EDGEC0MBE
Prods Or. r. II. Lewis Because of Long
Range Diagnosis.
mo "fRoG AND LICE + EST" FROM WILSON
Not Dtcsyirg Old Hulk Painted For Show
Neither a Spifre or Traducer Of
Coed Name Of Her
keighbors"


Editor News and Observer: Wilson
county has somewhat of reputation
both for good and for evil. but her repu-
tation is the outcome of youth, energy
and strength.
she is not a decaying old hulk, painted
up for show. neither is she spitiire nor
a traducer of the good name of her neigh
bors
She owns up to enormous sins BETTING
Lucifer but the small vices OF sub
devils and wriggling imps she regulates
with scorn II you wish to run amuck
and cry kill, kill! Wilson is a good place
10 smoke the pipe of CANA. Even If you
wish to be killed yourself our county Will
accommodate you. Human life is small
item when it gets in the way OF our pro-
ssress. our talent and our code OF honor
but we deny most emphatically the petty
neannesses of which we are accused.
If we held in our laboratories the
germs Of yellow fever. Asiatic cholera,
+, bubonic plague or smallpox We might in
wife our neighbors to come and partake
of the feast or, we might be liberal
enough 10 send out few basketfuls IN
token of our hospitality, but to be ac-
cused OF distributing pest Of frogs and
rce." which neither kill nor mar. is
e.aIunny against our good name.
Edgecombe, aroused from her torpor by
the irritation OF the prevailing scourge
and encouraged by hearsay, and the dicta
of expert dfagnosticians, is endeavofing
10 foment a casus belli in Nash county
with intent to force Wilson TO do her
duty.
Hear the good old grandmother scold!
"It having come to our knowledge that
vo,,N county (Nash) as well as ours is suf-
ferine from the failure of the Wilson
county committee to properly manage
the numerous cases Of smallpox within
said county, and it having been sug-
.yested to us by DR. r. H. Lewis, secre-
tarv Of the state Board of Health. we
wish YOU to join with us in forcing said
county TO do it's duty. or else join IN
quarantine against said county.
Poor sleepy old Edgecombe! Have
vou Just walked up from your long nap?
Would it not be better for you 10
quietly wait for facts. as the tattered
RIP Van Wrinkle did before declaring
war? War is Shell,' and force creates
a counter-force. Duty is not under
stood by all alike, and strenuous effort
is not always a success. Phafaoh trleo
10 force the Isrealites; Bonaparte tried
10 force Russia, and England has been
trying TO force a handful of Beers for
the last two years. Diplomacy is better
than war and facts are of more value
than theories Go to, neighbor, and get
in a good humor, but if you are deter
mined to be cross, build Chinese wall
on the county line. If you are frighten-
ed. get a buck eye and put in YOUR
pocket or tie an eel skin around your
ankle
"Cunjur work" beats medical science
all hollow in many cases, and is MOTH
ing like so expensive.
Our first case cost Wilson county
81 ,566.S3 1T was in a Niger and he
wasn't worth twenty cents. Some
said he came from Edgecombe. That
was near three years ago. We got scared
and called in the experts, and they
pronounced it genuine. One of the
Oldest most experienced and most in
relligent physicians North Carolina
ever produced. told me out of his mouth
that it was case of genuine continent
smallpox of the most malignant type.
Al pest house was built, the case iso-
lated, and wholesale vaccination insti-
tuted. The pest went on unchecked.
This negro got we'll; his wife who
nursed him and who had never been
vaccinated did not take it, and the man
today HAS NOT A POCK MARK ON
HIM.