The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-09
IT'S WITH US YET.
This vagabOnd Desease
We Call Smallpox.
Or. Herring Does Not So Designate 1t.
He Says Time Will at Last Lay
Low This Stink Weed Of
Pathological Controversy.

TdtnOIUyiCdI OOntTOVeTSf.
shadrack Paddle was disciple OF
Gallo. Like his master, when Paul
was accused of persuadIng men to wor-
ship God contrary to the law, he would
be no judge of such matters. Vcrsed
in the law, ecclesiastical and secular,
he paid homage to that shrine where
deeds, not words were the graVamen OF
the charge. He upheld freedom
of speech and censored no publica-
ton. He advocated the greatest liber-
ty OF thought, and opposed persecu-
ton. In a matter of wrong or immor-
ality he was ready to judge and pass
sentence, but having no belief himself
he required none of others. For these
and other heterodox views, when ne
died, Shadrach Paddle went to hell.
The devil finding his sins more venial
than deadly, gave him a good deal of
liberty and finally granted him fur
| Tough to revisit the earth.
Elder "Triptolemus' Tllbb sat in his
study one bitter cold night before 4
| roaring log fire. He had spent the
day Git beng the Sabbath) in listen
ing to four long, birthstone sermons
in an uncomfortable. Highland Presby-
terrain kirk. He was now, at a late
hour breeding over the lost condition
of unregenerate souls, and solacing
himself for having served the Lord so
well that day-not only before COM
Portable fire-but with the aid of that
usquebaugh which inspired the Scot
fish Bard to sing:
Thou art the life o. public haunts:
But thee. what were our fairs and
rants?
Evn godly meetings O. the saunts,
BY thee inspird.
When gaping they besiege the tents,
Are doubly tir'd.
'Leeze me on the John BarIeycorn. .
was The elders happy thought when
casting his eye on the red-hot Goals
he saw, sitting on the back log a grim
ming skeleton. This was Shadrach
Paddle. The elders hair rose on end
and his eye balls nearly popped out Of
their sockets. Right sair astonish d .
Triptolemus Tubb was speeches.
but:
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn!
What dangers thou canst make US
scorn
Wi tippenny we fear no evil;
Wi usquebaugh Wen face the devilv
The devil. indeed was there but the
Elder was fortified with both religion
and Scotch drink.
Shadrach was on a peaceful mission
and therefore harmless. He informed
the Elder that the devil had been
slandered and the geography of hell
misunderstood. "A little warm at
first he said; "a body soon gets used
to it, and the worst of it is, you never
can stand the cold any more-please
put on some more wood"
This is enough of the story to illus
trate my meaning! Getting used to it
IS the main thing. We are getting
used to many things, and amongst
others the so-called small pox, with its
this country as it did in 1880. will the
medical savants felicitate themselves
on having stamped it out at last, and
take horn of Elder Tubb's booze? Or
will they Shiver in the cold and call
for more fuel as Shadrach Paddle did
Breathing the hot, sulphury atmos-
phere of few wears ago. when shekels
rolled in with every fungoid breath,
the cater wauling of science made
inroads on every county treasury and
promised many things not yet fulfilled
The disease is here yet and it's stamp
ers-out have gone off on furlough
County commissioners in many parts
have granted them leave of absence.
Notably is this the case in Beaufort
and Wilson counties.
Vaccination, that shibboleth of ig-
Walking
with bistered feet over the red hot
pavements of good intentions. is shiv-
ering on the back log and loudly call
ing for more fuel. REORGANIZATION is
the open Sesame" now. The hail
of the dog being good for the bite ali
we lack is plenty of the hair.
Prussia is living example of the
stupidity of the aphorism, similia a
similibuS curanter If, by introducing
int Io
out another poison, or so modify the
other poison as to render it harmless.
surely, all we have to do is to intro
duce enough of the first. Re-vaccina-
ton is advocated on this principle. ut
has been more or less the law in
Prussia since 1885, and re-Vaccination
of school pupils at the age of twelve is
an integral part of the vaccination
law Notwithstanding the fact that
Prussia was the best re-vaccinated
country in Europe. it's mortality from
smallpox in the epidemic of 1871 was
higher than in any other northern
state, 69,839 of it's population died in
that epidemic. The total death-rate
from smallpox in modern times is al
most the same it was in the 18th CEN
fury; large aggregates collected by
Jurin and others in pre-vaccination
times show a mortality of 1873 per
-Gill., anu corresponding aggregates IN
English and American hospitals, most
ly since 1870 show a mortality of 1876
per cent"
Looking through fourteen numbers
Of the Medical Record from August
1904, to April 1905, l find over one
thousand cases of smallpox reported
n different parts of the United States /
without a death. In the same numbers
has 125 cases, with 20 deaths |
st. Louis go cases with % deaths. and |
New Orleans 81 cases with 80 deaths
Here is q death-rate in these cities Of |
nearly II per cent. How is this ac-
for? The Record says many
IF these cases were imported-the /
genuine article. 1t reports from for
sign countries as follows: Rio de /
Janeiro, /. 467 cases, with $50 deaths: |
Panama, 10 cases, deaths; Palermo. |
italy, liza cases, with SO deaths; City |
IF Mexico. u cases, II deaths: Mos |
COW. 80 cases, IA deaths. Here is a
ieath rate of over so per cent. and / /
nave not the least doubt that a correct |
t natural also that / should try tc i
'peak to him as his dead father would /
nave done, and make him understand |
hat h II ~.