Show Desert Dust U Johnstonn n 1 By Johnston I We read that the Mellon Institute has produced a new preparation of qUinine They call it U If this to take than neW brand is any worse the old fashioned quinine we wc would not be interested Down in the Indian territory when they was plowing up the best grazing country on earth in older to make a fourth rate agricultural agricultural tural country every one took quinine qumine by the spoOl spoonful ul before eating three times per day they was lucky enough to eat that often QUinine was the only medIcine they had You knew that your YOUl mother would see to it that you got your quinine before you ate and you knew if Sou OU had a chill at ten 0 clock tOday that day after tomorrow v at ten o 0 clock you could have another one If that steadY d pt of quinine eves evel done any good I was not able to notice It Of course it could be that if we ve had not taken it we might have chilled every everyday everyday day But anyway the quinine qumine bottle Ras as ays ah on the table We was often out of sugar and coffee but the theold theold old man n was never short on quinine Those quack doctors they had m in those days advised to take whiskey wIth quinine me and the whiskey had to be beat m at 1 If it dId not improve it They er er had a real doctor there until they struck oil That was when the doctors commenced to send bills and could expect to collect on part of them They tell you that quinine is the only remedy fox fOI malaria But I can tell you the only way to cure CUle that IndIan territory malaria was to catch a day when hen you was not having a chill and leave the country Those old dudes that sta stayed ed there are chilly yet and they are arc still sUll eating quinine by the theton theton ton In that country m in those days people did not figure they was as sick unless they had a chill So there was no need for a doctor as quinine was the only cure for malaria and anyone any one could eat lt it without the advice of a doctor If you got a bone broke your mother with the aid ald of an Indian squaw could set it Suppose they did didget didget get It a bit tWIsted What difference did it make You was not going to tobe tobe be anything but another breed Indian or a breed white anyway When y ou got a pain anywhere here near the middle of your carcass it was called just plaIn bellyache The cure for that was to take a stove lid and heat It until It was cherry red then hold it exactly m in the middle of your tummie until you If the pain was any any- anywhere anywhere where else in your body they called It growing pains The knockout for that 1 was as simple They put you on half feed and doubled the quinine When you was snake bitten by any kind except a rattler or copperhead they put n a amud I mud poultice on It and added a little tobacco no particular kinds or brands Just mud and tobacco But if a rattler or copperhead struck you they made you drink aU all the whiskey v m in the neIghborhood When you woke up you was either eUhel cured or dead There was seldom a season that the loss run I over fifty per cent from all causes I It has been stated that truth at the present tune LS is about the most precIOUS I thing on earth No doubt the scarcity of it is w hat causes it If Ife we e was as allowed to recommend tte e would recommend Herbert Hoo Hooter er erand and Al AI Sooth Smith for president and VIce presIdent of the Liberty League |