Within the hour, another friend assured me that it was policy to "feed a cold and starve a fever." I had both. Shortly afterward, another friend advised me to get up and take a cold shower-bath. The first time I began to sneeze, a friend told me to go and bathe my feet in hot water and go to bed. I suffered to no purpose, too, because the plan I was figuring at for the extinguishing of the fire was so elaborate that I never got it completed until the middle of the following week. On the day of the fire my constitution succumbed to a severe cold, caused by undue exertion in getting ready to do something. But to lose a good constitution and a better trunk were serious misfortunes. And I cared nothing for the loss of my happiness, because, not being a poet, it could not be possible that melancholy would abide with me long. The loss of the two first named articles was a matter of no great consequence, since a home without a mother, or a sister, or a distant young female relative in it, to remind you, by putting your soiled linen out of sight and taking your boots down off the mantelpiece, that there are those who think about you and care for you, is easily obtained. When the White House was burned in Virginia City, I lost my home, my happiness, my constitution, and my trunk. Let the public do itself the honor to read my experience in doctoring a cold, as herein set forth, and then follow in my footsteps. Having led a pure and blameless life, I am justified in believing that no man who knows me will reject the suggestions I am about to make, out of fear that I am trying to deceive him. feels when he has done a good, unselfish deed. If it prove the means of restoring to health one solitary sufferer among my race, of lighting up once more the fire of hope and joy in his faded eyes, or bringing back to his dead heart again the quick, generous impulses of other days, I shall be amply rewarded for my labor my soul will be permeated with the sacred delight a Christian.
The latter is the sole object of this article. It is a good thing, perhaps, to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.
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