Show AN OLD PLAGUE HERE HEBE AGAIN the beholder of spooks and the im aciner of vain tain things la is going up and down the earth walling wailing about strange influences subtle suggestions suggestion and mysterious node winks and signs being introduced into utah pol itice this epidemic recurs with more or less lees regularity just juet prior to every election while not as a frequent as ai the shaken and fever federm 19 1 it is infinitely more serious for it is an affection of the mind rather than of the body physicians iciano are by no means agreed as an to the best beat treatment for a patient thus taken but on general principles it is ie advised that a strong mental tonic be administered the habit of looking straight at tangible things be encouraged and the mouth be ordered closed at least long enough to give the larynx a rest As there is doubtless doubt lesa some force in the theory of taking a part to strengthen a part a conservative diet of gnats or sheep sheeba Is or other delicate and fine textured brains Is ia earnestly to be recommend ed two or three bright intellects intel leoto whose hallucinations are beginning grievously to distress their friends are in need of immediate treatment they should be seen to without delay the symptoms already detected are a mortal fear of and a wandering imbecility concerning certain insidious insidious secret insinuating influences that are getting in their political work the poor victim bears whispers behind the scene he sees seca specters of somebody or something in authority in his bis ecstasy of terror he shrieks for the open exhibition of the ghosts he flees from and straightway lie he rushes to the nearest newspaper to exhibit his bis own sad lunacy he jib bore bers about the simpleminded simple minded and the unreflecting ng about coward ice and false hoogand hood hoo dand and in the next breath be shudders before old weapons re sharpened 1 1 and dreadful Ilac tactics tice two wo years old the di dibase disi ease ase of which these are sure evi evidences dencer for want of a better name may be called oum cremens tremens tr emens A fortune awaits the man who can discover a permanent cure for it for while it Is in some degree contagious the chief danger lies in the fact that it is not only fatal to the usefulness of him whom it touches but that the very whimsicalities that his ailment develops make everybody sick mick who comes near him |