Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1847-06-24
Mr.. Nightshade.

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said Mr.. Nightshade, with troubled look and
anxious voice, as he stood with his wife beside
the bed on which their little boy lay sick He
had been quite well in the morning, but after
dinner dropped about, and fell asleep towards
he middle of the afternoon. When Mr. Night.
shade came home at dusk, Harry was moaning
IN his sleep, that had been prolonged TO an un-
usual period, and had considerable fever
! There was good deal of Soarelina about, and
several children had died with ii IN the imme-
diale neighborhood This was enough TO fill
the hearl of the nervous Mr.. Nightshade with
alarm.
lis scarlet fever, Jane There is no doubt
of it Have you sent for the docror!
No, yet. [ thought would wait until you
came home. | didnt feel al all alarmed
Children, you know, are often attacked with
slight fevers like this, which 60 off in few
hours
This is no slight fever, returned Mr. Night
shade, the shadows gathering still more deeply
over his face. | will 60 al once for the doc
tor
| Hadn't you better wait until after lea 2
oh. no | don't want any lea. Ii would
srangIe me
You really give yourself unnecessary alarm,
Mr.. Nighrshade. don't think it any thing
serious
Isn't scarlet fever something serious, ha =
But we're not sure il is scarlet fever
am just as sure of il as ever was of any,
thing in my life Isn't ii all around us and the
air full of III How could he help contracting
the diseaser
And Mr.. Nightshade hurried off for the doc
tor. When this individual, so welcome in sick
ness, bu. greeted with cold shouldershness
when health bounds lightly through the veins
came after an hours delay, which seemed a
week to the anxious Mr.. Nighishade. the father
watched every expression of his face, and every
motion, while he examined the symptoms of lit
lie Harry.
Well, DOCTOR said Mr. Nightshade, breath
ing thicky, what do you think Of him 2
He has some fever replied Esculapius.
DO you think ii scarlet fever anxiously
inquired The father.
/ hope not
But hasn't he every symptom 2
! : In ephemeral as well as more serious iebrlle
affections, the first symptoms very nearly resem-
bic each other Ii is always impossible TO tell
in It's incipiency what the course of fever is
going 10 be. | hope this will not prove at all
alarming. | will call around in the morning,
v hen trust shall find your little boy better.
The doctor gave light prescription, more for
the purpose OF satisfying the parents than any.
thing else, and then went away.
Mr. Nightshade walked the floor until twelve
o'clock, and i, was not until long after li.e
/ Harry's skin was cool and moist, lha. he would
lake off his clothes and retire 10 rest.
When the doctor came on the next morning
Harry was playing about and singing TO him
self, as lively as cricket
Il was sure it was nothing serious, said Mrs
! Nighlshade 10 her husband But you are sc
easily frightened
Better be scared than hurt returned Mr.
INightshade, little put out with himself for hav
ing made another exhibition of his weak side
sd rather be frightened fifty times al scarlet fe
yer, than have il in The house once
Yes, sir, there will be war with Englang
before three months. lis inevitable
Il hope not, Mr.. Nighishade. think better
of the good sense of both countries
$ It's more than do, then. Yes, sir, there
will be war! Look al the articles IN the Times
Look at sir Robert PeePs emphatic language
and then look at the articles in The Government
organ al Washington Neither country viii
yield an inch, sir | saw that from the frs,
We shall be overwhelmed wiihruin shouldn'
be surprised if there were half dozen wal
steamers on our coast in ten days from this
The Presidents Message has done the business
for US completely. In less than three months
from this lime, you will hear of more failures
than have occurred since thrly-fve and six
LIS just what | expected
Bu, the commercial interests OF the two
countries are so intimately blended. There Is
too much al stake Oh both sides.
What do politicians care abou! mercantile
or manufacturing interests? Not the snap o
finger! They have no stake in the business
No, no, sir. All they care about is plungng
the country into war, and, in the elementary
disorder and ebulitions that must follow, secure
Their own selfish and ambitious ends
Il won't believe it Mr.. Nightshade will
sill look upon the bright side, and hope for The
best
Yes, that is just The way, mu,,ered Mr.
| Niphtshade 10 himself, as he walked along with
his eyes cast gloomy upon the pavement
Jus, the way-nobody is alraid-nobody ex
Iuects ary e,ll--all look upon the bright side