Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — Another wordfrom Lookeron. [ARTICLE]

Another wordfrom Lookeron.

J Editor Republican: It was the advice of a wise man to “Answer a fool according to his folly.” I dotibe i'h your last issue an article headed “More aboui,that pd3s mortem,” in weieh the greal headlight of littleness seeks to glorify himself by silly attempts at smart writing. When this effulgent luminary asserts that certain opinions would not have been expressed if a post mortem had been anticipated, he merely’ asserts a plain falsehood, for the opinions of which he speaks were the product of his highly chimerical brain, and never had any other”authorship, and proves that as a mind reader he will never be a success. There was no question as to the existence of a cancer of the pylorus at the time of death, but when Be attempts to convey the impression that this condition had existed for two .’years without implicating any of the adj icent organs, he only asserts his profound ignorance of the natural history of this disease. The reference t 6 a change of physicians is iiltimed, fir it was not a happy change, as shown byrthe rapid result. There< was not the first attempt made to utilize rectal feeding as a means of conserving and prolonging life, and it is well known that this method is understood and practiced by everyone worthy the title of physician. By such treatment the horrible distress of starvation should have been averted until nature, worn by disease. Would have blunted the nervous sensibility and soothed the way 1° a comparatively painless death. Now when this self constituted glorifier of himself in all, his elongated pomposity talks ajioul egotism and bigotry in others, it certainly provokes a broad smile among the old settlers, attenuations of coarse wit are as harmless as his little pills and as insipid as histen - millionthdilutb Jis of Mlluteff' nothingness. The profound depth of his anatomical ignorance is fittingly displayed by his lucid description of some adhesions he found between the “it” and the “it,” wherever that may be. So far as bis officious solicitude for the interests of.this community is .concerned, I wbulcTsay th at he could ha v e manifested the same more appropriately’ last summer, by nosing about cesspools of filth, arid correcting the same, for which he is employed, and for which he accepts Day without having given value received. But our people managed to enjoy a fair degree- of health previous to his happy advent here, and and do yet, notwithstanding this officious neglect, and will continue to do so long after he is mingled with his infinitessimals, and his memory is lost in the sea of sweet forgetfulness. Now my advice' to this to this exponent of humbuggery is, that w hen next in his infinitessimal potency he leadeth out his Pegassus and rushes into print, he sees that bis steed be well groomed; and 1 would suggest that he borrow of some school boy, And carefully read, some one of the elementary treatises on anatomy’ and physiology, so that ivhen he “lake eyasliawk npmutints unto the skies, "ITfsniewly buatleit'piniotis to assay,” he first do scan the winds and see that the reports of his “R eporter” be not the mere mutterings of t he 'navy bean.

LOOKERON.