The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-03-28
An Ounce of Prevention Worth o Pound Of
Curn.

There is farmhouse about two miles from
Arnold Station, Clay County, over which sad
ness and surrow and terror gre brooding, for In
one of the rooms of the house are two strong
men heavily ironed and chained to the floor.
They are waiting there for a most terrible NAL
ady to take possession of them, and after put
ting them to torture thousand times worse
than that of the inquisiton, to destroy their
lives. When a mad dog killed by Campbell at
Liberty, several days ago, was on its destroy
ing mission throughout the country, these two
men crossed its path and received its terrible
bite. The maidstone was applied, but fearing
and doubling its efficacy they prepared TOR the
fearful ordeal of an attack of hydrophobla.
Not knowing at what hour the fell disorder
might make its appearance, and fearing for the
safety of their wives, little ones and friends,
they had heavy irons made for the purpose, and
bound themselves so securely that 1T would re-
uure almost the strength of Sampson to
break their fastenings. Their hands are Sc.
curey manacled, a strong iron band is locked
around their waists, and to this band is welded
a heavy CHAIN one end of which is fastened to
heavy ring-bolt in the foor-and there they
stand. waiting; waiting for the dread approach
of the awful maddening stupor that announces
the flow of the poison through the blood and
the brain waiting for the stupor from which
they will revive by the quick and sudden
twitching of the muscles, deadly pains in the
head and through the body, and burning eye
balls, while poisonous froth will gather at the
mouth They will be seized with an uncon-
trolable longing to bite, to tear, to destroy.
The stupor gone, they will be wrlthlng, snap,
ping, snaring, growing, bowling. tortured
demons-pressing hard upon their fastenlngs,
glaring savagely upon all around them, the tics
oF b,,,p it1,p tp6 frOO
their understanding into horrible con-
yulsions of rage ard pain, clanking and rat
tlinr their chains in order to free'thcmselves
from restraint and with but one thought, one
desire-to kill and destroy-to rend with teeth
and nails every living thing, and after this,
with hot, scorching eyes strained and twisted
back in their sockets, and blood and foam
streaming from their parched and burned lips,
to die-to die amid the convulsivc agonics and
tortures Of hydrophobia, worse even, it is said,
than the pains of hell itself This is what
these unfortunate men are waiting for, and
there is terror in every breath they draw. Lit
tic children with saddcncd faces fondlc and
carcss them with increased love, for the dread
cd fate of their fathers have been whispered IN
their ears. Fond wives and mothers, with
fearful eyes and faltering hearts, tenderly care
for them, and sec that every want Is supplied
and the bandage made rs light as love ana
sympathy can dender it. These loved ones are
also waiting, watching, not knowing what hour
they will be drawn away out OF the reach OF
the two men whose very touch may soon be
almost sudden DEATH Up to this time no indi-
cation of madness has been manifested, and as
the time has already passed in which the dis
order attacks its victims after the poison has
been infused into the blood, the friends are
very hopeful that the maidstone has proved ef-
fective, bnt the men declare they will wear
their irons several days yet, so fearful are they
that the poison is still lurking within them
Kansas City (1fo) Times.