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THE FEVER IN CUBA.
How AMERICANS WILL ROOT our
THE DISEASE. \
Calculation That the
“Yellow Jack” Would Fight Wholly on
the Side of Spain is Not \Vithout Points
of interest.
When the Spanish butcher, General
Weyler heard that the United States
were concentrating troops for the in-
vasion of Cuba, he ’cooly remarked—-
“The yellow fever will kill half of
them and we shall dispose of the other
Weyler in threatening our
armies with this scourge seems to for-
get that he really furnishes this gov-
ernment with an excellent and most
cogent reason for ridding ourselves
once for all of the proximity of a pest
house on our borders, and the bringing
of Cuba under the same sanitary con-
ditions that have practically extirpated
the yellow fever from the Southern
ports. Had the United States no high-
er grounds for interference in the af-
fairs of. an adjacent island, the filthy
and unhealthy conditions under which
the Weylers have perpetuated them-
selves in Cuba would have been alone
amply sufiicient. For until the Span-
iard is driven out the yellow fever will
remain to be a menace to the health
and happiness of the_people of this na-
tion despite every effort of Congress
to bar it out.
The United States will not neglect
cleanliness, vaccination, and the pre-
curing of wholesome drinking water
for the Cubans, and least of all need
there be any apprehensions that our
people will encourage the Spanish idea,
that epidemics are specially sent by
God,» and that only in his own good
time will they disappear. The benev-
olent butcher-general need not rely
too much either on the decimation of
our troops by yellow fever which will
eventually be driven out with the pious
despotism of Spain at the point of the
laucet. For meantime we shall burn
enough of sulphur to not only kill all
murderous microbes through
which Weyler with characteristic cow-
ardice hopes to overcome the valor of
our army, but to keep the name and
prowess of the great republic, ringing
around‘the ears of the'dying dynasty
of Spain for the balance of Mr. Wey-
ler’s natural life.
Don Weyler’s calculation was that
the “Yellow Jack” would fight wholly
on the side of Spain. This is not with-
out interest. Upon what is this hope
based? Is it upon the belief that the
microbes love the Spaniards and hate
the Yankees? It is difficult to see how
Americans wOuld be more amenable to
the disease than have been these sol-
diers which Spain has already sent to
Cuba. That the Spanish, howevei',
rely as much on yellow fever as upon
the boasted tenacity oftheir aims to
play havoc with the troops of the
United States seems plain enough;
and the dread of the epidemic may
have some influence in causing the
country to give such attention to yel-
low fever as it never previously con-
sidered necessary. ’ -
About ten years ago a movement was
before Congress to establish'a commis-
sion to check the ravages of yellow
fever by inoculation. The proposed
bill which was backed by the Louisi-
ana State Board of Health was report-
ed favorably to the Senate but no
proper action was taken on the sub-
ject then, though the investigations
had the effect of increasing informa-
tion on the nature of this disease that
is far ahead of any in the possession
of Spanish doctors. '
Yellow fever is a heritage of the‘era
of slavery. Had we never imported
Africans we might never have known
what yellow fever was. The virus of
yellow fever comes originally in the
last resort from the discharge of the
sick negro and from the scourings of
slave ships that .had been thrown out
at the ports of debarkation and which
carried back and forward with the flow
and ebb of the tide fermented under
the heat of a tropical sun and so taint-
ed the shores of the surrounding at-
mosphere.
The poison first generated in quar-
ters where the negro lived from
which it spread along the shores
of the Gulf of Mexico and fructified
particularly in the mangrove swamps
of Cuba and the West Indies. For
twenty years after the termination of
the Civil War—slavery being continued
in Cuba—Lt raged in Memphis, Mobile
and other Southern cities. With us,
however, it has long since yielded to
science and sanitation though occa-
sionally the taint has periodically
reached us from Havana,—-where the
'virus has fermented and multiplied;
being carried into harbors in trading
ships through various vapors on in-
fected crews. r-‘When extirpated from
Havana it will be finally eradicated
from its favorite habitat in the breed-
ing nest provided for it by Spain and
from which repeated quarantines, fum-
igations and disinfections have been
powerless to abate its virulence, prin-
cipally on account of the dimculty of
divorcing the Spaniard from his filthjb.
environments.
Yellow fever' like typhoid requires
certain conditions for its development.
It arises from noxious exhalations or
miasmata, and flourishes in stagnant
water or under a. hot sun. Badly aired
vessels, impregnated with a fetid hu-
midity, generate it, and these condi-
tions can be mitigated if it takes an
entire regiment of doctors to accom-
pany our sailors. With competent
medical oflicers, good nursing, proper
ventilation of ships and of tents while
on bivouac, with the atmospheric dis-
turbance. due to the discharge of can-
non and the consequent burning of ,
' gun powder, the American troops will.
suffer much less from yellow fever
than is generally supposed‘while en-'
gaged in reducing Havana. _ It is the
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universal testimony of all sanitarians .
that yellow fever has its starting point
lin the lowest and filthiest quarters of
seaDOrt towns, and that when DTODel'
conditions are observed it has ceased
to be the devastating pestilence whiCh
it used to be in other years. It is also
allowed that the worst possible condi-
tion in which to “ieet the disease is
one of “funk” and it is probably either
in order to inspire our troops with fear
01‘ to make voluntary enlistment diffi-
cult, that Spain’s ex-Captain-General
dwells on the terrors of this mUCh
talked of disease.
-A good, deal, too, depends on the
habits and condition of health as in
tl’Dhoid fever at the time of attack;
and as the disease 'is rapid much de-
Dends Upon prompt treatment and ac-
curate diagnosis. The symptoms are
usually an instantaneous shock at the
base of the brain, fOllowed by uncon-
sciousness and a state of fever. In
most cases the stomach is effected and
in some cases the gums and nostrils
bleed. The immediate cause as Stated
by a specialist is that termed the bac-
illus icteroides wnich collect in great
force in the spleen from which after
six or seven days they pass into the
circulation. Here they begin to repro-
duce and kill by poisoning the b100d
causing rapid fatty degeneration with
other anatomical injuries which give
rise to the ictus or yellow color from
which the disease takes its name. This
special fever has many other points in
common with typhoid fever. The live
er loses all functional activity and the
patient during the most dangerous per-
kidneys are inflamed. Unlike typhOld
fever, however, temperance is no safe-
guard against attack nor is intempel"
ance except in so far as it lowers the
system, necessarily fatal.
chances of recovery are sometimes in
favor of the bibulist rather than the
prohibitionist ' ' ‘ ‘_
An officer who has served in the
West Indies relates that in one case the
led following the first stage of the
fever, violated every prescription and
order of the attending physician, but
was cured. "' One peculiarity of this
disease to which the old saw “preven-
tion is better than cure applies” is that
it never attacks a pure-blooded negro.
If the yellow fever should ravage our
troops to the extent hoped for by Spilln
the United States have fortunately still
in its 8,000,000 citizens of Afro-Ameri-
can origin, enough of fighting valor to
subdue the dons in Cuba.
~ To Cure Human Diseases.
The French have a. system of curing
human diseases by encasing the body
in a freshly-slaughtered bullock’s
skin. The system—known as math-
erapeutics—has been in use in France
for many years with great success, and
is gradually spreading throughout
Europe. Your own doctor may even
orderyou such a bath one of these
days. This is how the operation is
performed.
The patient is put into a freshly-
killed. bullock-skin, and the hide is
quickly sewn up, so as not to allow
the heat of the'blood to escape. The
head of the patient is the only part of
the body which is not encased in the
skin. After remaining a variable
length of time in this unique bath, ac-
cording to the state of health of each
individual, the patient is taken out
and plunged into hot water.
These baths are most expensive lux-
uries, for a skin can be used but once,
as artificial heating of the blood does
not suffice for the natural life-giving
warmth of the freshly-killed animal.
Only the rich can'afford to indulge in
them, and the Paris physician numbers
among his patients some of the wealth-
iest and most distinguished persons in
France.
Very Hard to Kill. ,
To shoot a human being in the head
causes instant death; but this is not
the case with animals. A headless fowl
will run about for some twenty min-
utes, and a bear with a. bullet in his
brain has still life enough to 'kill its
murderer if it can reach him within
a few minutes. The only vulnerable
point in many reptiles is the spine,
and a snake with half an ounce of lead
in its cranium will live for many years.
The star-fish, jelly-fish and other crea-
tures of the protoplasmic genus, if
chopped into many small pieces, do not
die, but each separate particle becomes
a living star-fish, etc.
But the most peculiar instance is
that 'of the common English “death-
'moth,” as it is called. If you cut its
head, legs and wings off it still lays
its eggs before dying: If you throw it
into scalding water, crush it under a
hammer until it is a mere pulp, it does
not breathe its last before it has pro-
duced some twenty eggs, which are in-
variably fertile. . ‘
A Critical Moment.
“Miss Laura,” began the youth, with
a flushed face and a tremor in his
voice, “I came this evening to ask
you—”
“One moment, please, Mr. Hankison.
Willie, you are making too much noise
with those toys. You’d better take
them into the other room.”
“To ask you,” resumed the young
man, mopping his brow with a trem-
bling hand, “if you—e”
“Willie, take those toys instantly
and go.” ‘ '
“If you have tried that new head-
ache remedy you said the other even-
ing you were going to take, and if it
~did you any good. I am nearly wild
with a headache to-night."
“I have forgotten the circumstance.
to which you allude, Mr, Hankison,”
said Miss Kajones, coldly. “Willie, you
may remain if you wish."
It is said that in‘ London there are
no fewer than 10,000 professional musl-‘
clans of various grades, and. that more
than halfof them are women.
Indeed the p
- children.
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JOE AND SUSIE. 3
There were rumors to the effect that
.Joe Beardsley was in love ,with Susie
Moore, but they passed as "rumors un-p
tii a spelling-school was held in the
little school-house at the cross-roads.
Then it so happened that Joe and Susie
were appointed to “choose sides,” and
it so happened again that they were
the last two on their feet. Everybody
else had gone down on the hard words,
and of the two Joe was accounted the
better speller. The chances were
seven to three that he would spell
Susie down and take the prize, but he
sadly disappointed his friends. When
the teacher gave out the word “tre-
men-dous,” Joe hesitated, colored up.
and glanced at Susie. Then his adher-
ents saw resolve in his face. No
young man would lose the prize at a
spelling-school to a young woman un-
less he loved'her. His resolve was to
lose it. All knew it before he spelled
the word “tre-men-dio-us” and then sat
down and left her victorious. That
settled it~ with everybody. Susie was
J oe’s, best girl, and it was certain to be
a match. .
Joe Beardsley was a young farmer
twenty-two years old, and Susie Moore
was two years younger and the daugh-
ter of a farmer. Their families lived
a mile apart, and both wereonly
When there is a case of
love in the country it is a case for
gossip. The Beardsleys had no objec-
tions to a marriage, and the Moores
came to the conclusion that Susie
couldn’t have done better. For four or
five months the course of true love
ran smooth. On each Sunday and
Wednesday evening the parlor at
Moore’s was given up to Joe and-
Susie, and the three or four other
young farmers who had been spook-
ing about for a year or more gradually
hauled foff and left the field to Joe.
There Was an engagement, and Joe's
father had begun to talk about divid—
ing the farm and giving the boy a
start, and Susie’s mother had decided
on the feather bed and the quantity
of dishes and carpet rags she could
spare, when the patent-churn man put.
in an appearance. From time imme-
morial the Beardsleys and the Moores
had used a crock with a wooden
dasher in it, and the women folks had
handled the dashcr. The very idea of
change had been looked upon as sacri-
lege. This patent-churn man would
have been as coldly greeted as the
sc0re before him had he not been a
student of human nature. Before he
could be rebuffed he said,—
“I ain’t trying to sell patent churns
this week; I’rh just riding around on
a vacation. Seems to me them Moores
are putting on a heap of style for these
hard times. I heard they’d bought a
twenty-five dollar music-box.”
“You don’t say!” gasped Mrs.
Beardsley. “Why, they ain’t no rich-
er’n we be, and we can’t afiord no sic-h
jimcracks.”
“Some folks are‘bound. to fling on
style whether they can pay for: it or
not,” said the agent, and it wasn’t
half an hour before he had sold one
of his patent churns.
“If they kin buy a music-box we kin
buy a churn,” said Mrs. Beardsley,
with a toss of her head. “I ain’t a
person as cares fur style, but nobody
in this nayburhood is goin’ to crows
over me!”
That was the beginning. As a mat-
ter-of-fact, the music-box had only
been left on trial, but as soon as Mrs.
Moore heard what Mrs. Beardsley had
said she set her jaw and replied,—
“We don’t need a music-box any
more’n a dog needs two tails, but if‘
some folks kin buy patent churns and
hold their heads in the air, other folks
can buy music-boxes and hold their
heads still higher!”
It wasn’t a week before the Moores
and Beardsleys were passing each
other’s farms with their eyes looking
straight ahead and their faces set, and
the farmers up and down the road
for five miles were taking si'd The
news of the rupture spread pidly,
and it wasn’t long before the wind-
mill man, the sewing-machine agent,
and various agents for various other
things were taking advantage of it.
The Beai'd'sleys ught a Windmill,
and the Moores bought a sewing-ma-
chine as an ofiset. The Beardsleys
bought a mile of wire fencing, and the
Moores painted their horse-barn a
bright red. ,Mrs. Beardsley got a new
ingrain carpet for her parlor, and Mrs.
Moore bought four cane-seat chairs
and two china vases for hers. The
Beardsleys had a lightning-rod. put on
their barn, and the Moores bought a
sky-blue pump for the family well.
. Both Joe and Susie protested
against the rivalry when it started,
and both solemnly vowed they would
not be drawn into it, ‘and it should
make no difference with their feel-
. ings; but it wasn’t a month before the
break came. They felt they had to
quarrel, and yet both regretted it.
.When Joe’s mother heard of the break
she said,—
“I’m jest glad of it! I’ve knowed
Susie Moore, ever 'since she could
squall, and she ain’t no catch fur any-
body. She’s that shiftless that she
leaves grease on the dishes when she
washes ’em, and she couldn’t dye a lot
.of carpet rags if it was to save her
neck!”
I 'Joe didn't rejoice at the words, but
he felt he must be loyal to his fam‘-
ily. Susie’s mother also had some-
thing to say. When Joe ceased his
'visits and Susit went about looking
troubled the mother oXclaimed,—
1 “And who is Joe Beardsley, I’d like
to know! IVhy, there’s more’n forty
different young _ men around here
,who’d crawl on their hands and knees
to git you! Don’t you go an’ be silly,
Susan Moore! Jest hold your head
up, same as pa and I do, and let them
Beardsleys know-that we ain’t goin’
to take any "or their sass. They
startedthis hull thing. and 11110138
they’ll-git ’nu'fl’ of it; before it's ended.”
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‘The quarrel hadlasted the summer
through and autt on had come. If
the Moores and" the Beardsleysahdd
been willing to make up, the friends hf
pened for years to create italkwand
1 every one was anxious :to :make the
most of it. The farmers “Wives {of
one faction called on Mrs. .‘Moolre ind
advised her to keep her chin inthe
air and “show them B'eardsleys what
was What,” and the wives of the other
faction called on Mrs. Beardsley and
advised her to “stick it out and let
them Mooressee they didn’t own the
earth.” , ”"T‘;
The quarrel would have continued,
and the enmity might have entei‘od
into church and politics, as’wveai ‘ns
social life, but for :1 spotted hog. llt
was a spotted hog longing to ‘E'Tthe
Beardsleys. He had been penned up
with other hogs to be fattened for the
- pork market, but ne October day, as
Joe was digging potatoes in the field,
with his father away to town,“ he
heard his mother blowing the dinner;
horn. It was mid-afternoon? and “was
a signal of distress. When he reached
the house it was to find that the Spot-
tedihog had leaped out of the pen ‘and
gone trotting down the road. It Was
Joe’s duty to follow on and turn-mien
back. There was the hog forty mods
ahead of him, and as soon “as the ani-
mal knew‘hepwgs pumped the started
off to make a racer of it. W*Wt
It wasn’t at all probable that that
spotted hog knew of the quarrel be-
tween the Beardsl' vs and the Moores,
or had any plans as to an armistice
and reconciliation; but when he left
the’pen he headed for the Moore home-
stead. Joe pursued him without a
thought of where the race might end.
The hog covered the mile between. the
two farms without losing much
ground, but the open gate of the
Moores was a temptation lie could not
resist. He swerved and entered, and
then dodged about the house and was
lost to view among the cabbages. The
pursuer halted at the gate, and hung
there undecided. It wasn’t likely
that the Moores would come out and
forbid him from reclaiming his runa-
way hog, but if he went nearer the
house he might come face to face with
Susie.
He hadn’t settled the point when he
heard the sound of singing. It was a.
rough, coarse voice, and a rough,
coarse song, and Joe was. puzzled.
When three other 'oices joined in the
chorus he advanceu up the path and
walked around the side of the house
"till he came to the kitchen door. Then
all was made plain. A gang of tramps
had taken possession and were hav-
ing a good time.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore had gone to
town that day, leaving Susie alone.
An hour after their departure four
tramps had come along and boldly en-
tered the house. When the girl or-
dered them out they refused to go;
when she would have fled they men-
aced and detained her.._;and ordered
her to prepare a meal Of the best in
the house. They guarded the doors
so that escape was impossible, and as
site cooked at the stove the fellows
sang songs, drank from the jug of
current wine one of them had brought
from the cellar, and boasted of what
fortune had in store for them.
Joe stood on the door-step for five
minutes before be ‘fully realized the
situation inside. It was not until one
of the rascals vowed that he was go-
ing to bestow a kiss-on the check of
the frightened girl that his presence
among them was known. Then the
music-box, the patent churn, the wind-
mill, the wire-fencing, the spotted hog
-all were forgotten in an instant, and
Joe lifted the latch' and walked in.
There was business to be transacted.
The odds were four to one, but Susie
had just time to cry out, “Oh, Joe,
I’m so glad!” when the tramps began
to tumble. It is due the profession in
general to say that none of the four
ran away, but they fought a losing
fight. Those words from Susie gave
the young farmer the strength of a
lion, and inside of ten minutes three
of the tramps were,. lying on the
ground outside with their hands and
feet lashed, and the fourth was limp-
ing across the fields and wondering at
the sudden change of program.
When Joe’s work had been finished,
and Susie-had wiped his bleedin nose
with a. wet towel and bandag‘ his
skinned knuckles with a soft cloth he
looked up at her and said,—
“I—I came after our spotted ho’g.”
. “Well, you can have him,” she re
plied as her nose went up.
False pride makes fools of men and
women. Joe might have moved away
had iiot one of the tramps, who seemed
to divine the situation intuitively,
called out,—"
“Sayyou! ’Tain’t none of my biz-
ness, but you two had better kiss and
make up!” '
“riguess we had,” said Joe to Susie
as he looked into her laughing eyes.-
“Why, of course,” she replied.
That evening, as Joe and .Susie had
' the parloragain or the first time for
! months, Farmer .Ioore came in from
looking up the barn and said to his
wife,—
“Ma, I’ll be gosh-darned if I ain’t
g d on it!” - , g»
wSo’m I, but you musn’t swear,” she
replied. ‘ '
“Say’n
he continued, “ain’t there
a little child shall lead ’em?”
“I guess there is, but that hain’t
nuthin’ to do with this casef’ ‘
“Why ha-in’t it?”
“Because nobody but Joe Beardsley
was led, and it was a spotted hog in-
stead of a little child which led him.”
“That’s so, ma—that’s so, and
. though I expect the plaguey critter has
rooted up everything in the garden
by 7this time I 'won’t even yell ‘sho’ at
him. Knd‘the lion shall lie down With
the lamb and a spotted‘liog' shall lead
tempo 4' ‘
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each family would" have prevented. ~
It was the only event that ihadahapo .
sunthin’ in the Bible which reads that e
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