The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-04-02
The C~onsumptive's Holy Grail

AZ a matter Of fact, the sick consump.
tive IL not wanted; he IL feared, and
very properly 10, In the average ease,
for he makes no pretense OF following
wen the simplest Of sanitary rules.
And why should any n be compelled
even by charity 10 take him inf Such
a person should remember that he makes
extra work and extra trouble; and es.
pecially, that where he goes well people
will not 70. lie has n sorrowfui time
Of IL, certainly, but he has no right to
inflict his sorrow on those about him.
lie should bear these things in mind,
and consider that he makes misery
enough NJ II Is; above all, be should be
cheerful and not a crank. still have
n vivid recollection Of the hopeless,
gloomy days that followed one another
In my own ease, aud how hard IL was 10
keep n brave face. But I tried hard 10
fight like a man should fight, and on one
Of the gioomiest days ! copied this from
the Last Days Of Pompeii' (Which I
reading), on the fly.leaf Of my
memo book:
There IN but one Philosophy, though
there are n thousand schools-and lie
name il Fortitude.' And I wrote, after
the passage l marked, lest I should for.
get: 'Lungers Rememberl'
No Employment 70 be Pound
I cannot refrain from speaking of the
persons who came TO this country In
search Of work. The thing 10 DO said
il; Let no one expecting work, be.
cause he cHn I work aud get we'll AT the
same time--hnd because there IL no
work 20 do. II he could rope steers, OF
weld . pick and shovel ~ a miner, he
might get employment. hut this h 4
land Of d few industries. For years II
has been flooded with health seekers
looking for light work, and they have
already gotten all there IL 10 do. But
l can hear some q protest, IL Il .
case Of necessity, and work ia the only
alternative. N.a, theni Well, nothing
lie can't get work, 90 let him face the
matter calmly. He In better of In his
country without money than In this
strange land.
I have said very little of the ranch,
but | have done so purposely, for there
ia very little to be said. II IL enough TO
say that q ranch Is an impossible place
for q subercular invalid. The Western
ranch 10 an elastic term. II may be
the barren land aroung a 'squatters'
shack, or IL may be a tract a. large as
an eastern county, or II may he anything
between the two. But, whatever u In,
II In no place for q eonaumptivs. IL Il
n place of hard work and ~privation,
with, indeed, hardly enough Of lifs's ne.
cessities for the average we'll man, and a
sick man In a, much out of place there
~ he would be in q coal mine. II IL
hard indeed 10 understand, FOR one who
has been In this country and known
what conditions really are, how the idea
ever got abroad that 'roughing IL would
cure tuberculosis; IL has killed thousands
and II the foolish belief continues 10
persist II will kill thousands more
After reading these statements made
by II man who underwent the h~ardshipr
Of the fight for health, and who kept
his eyes open while the battle vas GO
ing On, we are able TO hold this out
to the d~ishesrtened afflicted whose
courage begins 10 fall.
The author makes the public ~acquaint.
cd with a well recognized experience
Of the Medical MN.
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