The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1903-02-06
"a beast Of burden; the
.ttle thing that gets barely

In his gaudy blanket, as Still ana solemn
as if the very silence of the desert had
struck into his soul. His body IS dwarf
ed and drawn and his mind runs into a
very narrow channel. He is but the
stunted growth Of his poor surroundings.
Some day the lands around him may be
irrig ted and when the green fields
stretch away before his eyes and the flow
ers bloom in his path and birds come to
mate in the trees that will grow, it will
freshen him and his children will have a
better place among the sons Of men.
1t is customary for couple to live
together and get married wherever they
have enough cash to pay the fee. The
year and marries all who are ready. If
times are hard the ceremony may have
to be postponed for several years aud
sometimes it is never performed. If a
native goes distance of from fifteen to
twenty miles away from home he is look
ed upon IS Il foreigner, man who has
come from afar off The hot country
people, that portion of Mexico lying on
the coast and southern part OF Mexico,
are allied better off than the other desert
natives. They have plenty of WAGER and
plenty to eat, their surroundings and al!
being more pleasant, consequently they
can muster to nishsr standard They
are not very found OF work, however,
and get out OF it whenever the oppor-
tunity affords. The average salary paid
for mans work is about 25 cents a day
in Mexican money and the Mexican's
entire cost for clothing throughout the
entire year would amount to only about
81 cents, all they need to wear being
cotton blouse and duck or cotton trous-
ers and sandals home made of sole leath-
er. They eat wtlenis mostly done by two
bricks or stones set up edgeways and
piece of sheet iron across the top heated
by charcoal fire. They bake and Try
their meats on these with the utmost
skill.
The Mexican as a rule does not live to
an old age. They are subject to disease
and when once disease or plague attacks
then, they die quite rapidly.
DIR. w. D. Rea. in his recent work on
the prevalent diseases in Mexico, states
that great majority of the Mexican
children die before they are twelve yeats
old. In the city of Mexico there are
three hundred deaths a day. These
deaths are caused principally from neg
let and the non attendance of ply
sician. The principal diseases arise from
filth and neglect. 1t is common sight
in the Mexican cities to see Mexican
with coffin containing corpse on his
shoulder, carrying it down the middle Of
the street and the mourners following.
In the city of Mexico, which has popu-
lation Of 500, 600 people. the government
has provided special funeral street cars
which add greatly to the convenience of
their burials. .aDr. Rea has perhaps stud
led the habits of the Mexlc IN more thor
oughly than any other American physic-
ian. He has travelled among the plain
people, practiced among the rich, stud
led their; habits, studied the action of
medicines on ditfent individuals, and
has formulated plans and, prescriptions
from his long experience that rarely fail
to cure disease.
His practice in the last fifteen years
has extended in great measure all over
Mexico and the United States. 1t has
however, been largest in Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa aud the two Dakotas
Thousands of people have consulted him
and thousands nave been cured. His
laboratories are the largest of any known
PHYSICIANS outside Of Chicago, Buffalo
or New York. His ability to diagnose
disease is, without question, one of the
best of any living physicians. Knowing
quickly what is the matter with one he
is not liable 10 doctor them for the
wrong ailment nor is he liable to give
them such treatment that would be OF no
value to them. 1t is claimed by DR.. Rea's
friends that he can diagnose any disease
without asking a question. He treats
those diseases that have principally been
neglected or that have been doctored by
other physicians and have failed 10 have
been cured by them.
Hedoes not attempt to cure lncurable
diseases and ifthere are certain cases that
he thinks are useless to treat and that
nothing but death can cure, he will not
promise to cure them. In palpitation of
the hear, nervousness, confusion of ideas
and loss Of memory and the many dlseas-
81 which Affect mankind Dr.. Rea has per.
haps had more experience in treating
them than any ot.ier living physician.
The medical profession seems powerless
/ 70 understand why il IS that III Rea per-
forms such wonderful cures, especially
soHhenS they SO often iail. His chargss
sare reasonable and no one need be de-
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