Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-26
GREELEY GREETING.

The reaperS sweet song hOatS the
valleys along.
Thos. Adair was the loser of their
old family horse Friday.
Mr.. Brown of near Nelson was in
Greeley Thursday buying stock.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Anciaux spent
Sunday with her folks in Melville.
John Reed, our cream hauler, con-
templates relinquishing the cream
route that he may give his attention
to the erection of big barn.
The Misses Eva and Essie Goochey's
trip to Minnesota terminated in u
pleasant visit with MIR. and Mrs.
VIM. Shields, after which they re-
turned home.
There goes a squad of men to
the field to make hay on Sunday
There goes another squad to a pas
ture field to play base ball. Which
one should the authorities head of?
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
Truly there are traces Of ludicrous
consistency between the rules requir-
ing a medical student to do certain
amount Of dissecting and the laws
that make it so difficult for him to
secure material for the diSsecting
| tables. 1t is an inconsistency that
breeds disobedience to laws. When a
couple of "Medics" with spade and
pick, steal away into. the night and
return with the CHASTITY contents of u
| new-made grave it is nothing more
nor less than a desperate effort to
comply with the requirements neceS-
sary to make them competent physi-
| clans and surgeons. So far as heath
enism Is concerned we see more of it
cropping out during the ostentatious
services connected with decent
burial than is visible in the dissecting
rooms of medical college. Long,
| long ago it was a heathenish custom
to carry a dead body feet foremost
to the grave and then pile stones upon
the grave that the corpse might not
get out and find its way back. Today,
even today it would be disturbing
| breach of custom to bear a corpse
from the house head first; and still do
we place stone on the grave. Yes,
it is from different motives; but never
theless, the gilded grave stones Of to.
day are those ancient heaps of stones
modified by enlightenment and civil.
izatiOn. II is the experience of the
| diSseCting rooms that gives a doctor
the knowledge and nerve to plunge the
lance into the VenOmOuS abSceSs, carve
out the deadly cancer, amputate the
gangPenOus limb, and snatch human
beings from the clutches of Death. O.
course there are quackS and charla-
tans in every profession: but the true
doctor, who is be? 1t is he who il
battling with the ills of humanity
hand to hand. 1t is he who cry OF
pain rOuses from his midnight sleep
He pushes back the warm cOverletS
hurriedly dons his furS, plunges into
the mad winter night, and ~gallops
away through the storm to the bed
side of a suffering brother. We Sc,
little christianity in a communit
sometimes because we have q miscon
ceptiOn Of what it takes to cOnstitut
= christianity. t is the writer's homes
opinion that it WOuld be of create
benefit to the human race and of ne
cesSity more consistent with christina
ity, were We to build school house
out OF the grave stones and turn GU
cemeteries into corn fields; then es
tablish an adequate number of ere
mating plants and cremate all corpse
; except those consigned by inspector
to the medical colleges for educationa
purposes. 1t matters little what be
comes Of your body after you ar
through with it. 1t is nothing but
piece of sansless clay, and may be {
more general benefit in the hands {
the "mediGs" in the capacity of
stiff than it has been as an instrt
ment to your selfish desires and ma
appetiteS.