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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: !! Palo Alto Reporter; Nov 4, 1898
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:49:08 -0500


Palo Alto Reporter
Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa
Friday, November 4, 1898

Private Citizens Again.
The Fifty-Second Iowa Infantry Volunteers, is no more, and the boys of
Company K, in common with the boys of the eleven other Companies of the
regiment, are now private citizens again.
The work of mustering out is a very simple process, and consists of simply
making out the discharge papers and mustering out roll, and handing the former
to each volunteer, after he has been paid the stipend that is due him.
The work of paying off the regiment commenced Sunday morning at 9 o'clock,
and it took until that hour that night before each man had received his pay, and
had his discharge paper in his pocket. The greater share of the boys were glad
to become private citizens once more, and as soon as a fellow got his pay in his
pocket and his discharge in his fist, he struck out on his own hook, just to see
how it would seem to go somewhere without first asking permission. Some took the
Sunday evening train for home, but the great majority staid over until Monday
and some as late as Tuesday before they left Des Moines. The clothing stores, of
Des Moines, were opened all afternoon Sunday and until late in the evening. They
did a big business for a big share of the boys were anxious to get clothed up
for the winter, and from experience knew that money did not last long. The
clothing stores did not get all the business, for the saloons came in for their
share, and we are sorry to say that quite a number disgraced themselves and the
blue they wore, by getting beastly drunk and creating a disturbance. These,
however, were the exception, yet all soldiers must suffer in reputation by the
misdemeanors of a few who were toughs, to say the least, in civil life.
Most of the boys of Company K came on the Rock Island, arriving here at 5:40
o'clock, Monday evening. They were all glad to get back and are now busy in all
the avocations of civil life. They will not soon forget their summers
experience, and in after years will not regret the part they took in the war
with Spain. They did not do much, but they only lacked opportunity, and their
willingness will count for something.

TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
Innoculation to Make the Human Race Proof Against Alcoholism
The following from the St. Paul Dispatch, of a recent date, is almost too
good to be true, but if true will be a powerful factor in counteracting the evil
of strong drink.
It is now proposed to make the human race proof against alcohol by
inoculation. Dr. Frederick W. D'Evelyn, of St. Luke's hospital , San Francisco,
advocates a plan to arm all children against intemperance in later life about as
they are armed against smallpox.
"Degeneration," Doctor Evelyn said, "is hydration."
This, he said, meant that the ordinary symptoms of degeneracy are traceable
to hereditary or acquired alcoholism is due to the effect of alcohol upon water
in the blood.
To cure the inebriate, or to fortify a child forever against drink, Doctor
D'Evelyn proposes to administer-says, indeed, he has already administered with
marked success-what he calls equisine, or a preparation from the blood of a
horse, which has been fed upon alcohol until it has become a regular toper.
I believe, he said, "that inoculation against inebriety is a duty to
children, whether there is a hereditary taint or not.
"Ordinary cases of alcoholism can be treated successfully. I don't believe
every case can be cured. But the greatest idea is to treat children until
generation after generation shall be purer, until not only there is no
predisposition to drink, but the evils due to drink will be removed.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Palo Alto Co, IA USGenWeb Project
http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/index.htm
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/


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