The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-02-09

who had come running up stairs hall
frightened at the PHYSICIANS per
emptory recall.
"How far down stairs had you gotP'
he said.
"Only Gown tho first flight. sir
was the quiet answer.
Had 50 en- mono Of the childrenP"
"No, SIR
That Is we'll, my dear. Now &c
and sit by the window. ! want to talk
with your father and mother . mo-
ment."
Somewhat puzzled, the child did q
she was hidden, and the doctor turned
TO her parents.
"Of course you have been vaccinated
and your childrenP'
The face OF his listeners turned pale.
"noctor-you--don't' mean to say
that Margaret"
Mrs. Camp broke down utterly.
That Margaret has varioloidP Yes.
Nothing worse. You had better know
It 1t once, that you may take prec au-
tior accordingly. For you two, and
poor little Ada, yonder, there Is nothing
to be done beyond taking proper care
OF yourselves, rs you have already been
exposed to the injection. But the little
ones must be sent away. Twill attend to
that for you. Mind, now, that you are not
to be worried. l will take Miss Ada
home with me, and with the precau.
tons shall take trust she may es-
cape 1t yet. But can not tell. will
send q nurse here for Margaret, and IL
you both will follow my directions
closely, / think l can prevent very Sc
rious attack, II you should take it. OF
course 1t is possible you may not have
it at all. But il you should, there is
nothing so terrible. should dread ty-
phoid or scarlet fever much more. But
you have not told me If you have been
vaccinatedps
Eyes, we have all been vaccinated,
children and all,' said Mrs. Camp.
''But don't understand where Mar.
garet could have been exposed to the
disease. She has been out very little
this winter, and am sure nowhere
where she could have been exposed to
the smallpox"
|" 1t is puzzle to me also. hadn't
heard OF case In the town. But the
contagion can be carried in the air, in
secondhand clothes, or in many other
ways"
In secondhand clothes! Somehow
the words struck Mrs. Camp unpleasant
~. Surely those blankets-but no, what
nonsense was she thinkingp II it was
nonsense, her husbands mind was full
Of It, too. for as she looked up his eyes
met hers, and he spoke his thoughts.
"Those blankets we bought the 9TH
Or day at Bruce's!"
1--WE" bought. How grateful his wife
was for the tenderness Of heart that
shrank from according to her, in such
time as this, the blame she really de-
served.
The Doctors quick ears caught the
words. " Blankets-at Br- ce'sP That's
he way the infection came. Ishould
have thought any sane man would have
been wiser. Why, the fellow would
buy the shirt of a man who had
lied Of fever, II he thought
he could make any thing on it. Here,
Iii leave some medicine for Margaret,
hen 1 must zee to this. That rascal
will have an epidemic Of smallpox in
own il he isn't stopped. As Il Is, no
body knows how far the mischief has
yone." And the old physician hurried
away.
None Of Mrs. Camps children took
The terrible disease. The precautions
taken for their safety was quite success
hui, and she and her husband escaped
with but light attacks.
Neither did the disease spread
throughout the town to any extent. Old
DR.. Gleason looked out for that, and,
thanks to his energetic efforts, Bruce's
cheap store became thing Of the paste
Margaret recovered, at last, though
her illness was longer and more severe
than varioIoid generally causes.
Not many months ago Mrs. Camp
look up her parlor carpet for the spring
and found in it, in the posi-
ion whcreon her two carefully priced
sasy-chairs had sat, . vast quantity OF
tiny holes. Her housewifely knowledge
odd her what had caused them. Moths
Ind the easy-chairs were swarming
With them! They were given to the
lanes. And think IL Mrs. Camp had
not been 50 thoroughly cured before Of
her bargaining propensity, this last
stroke Of fate would have done the
work.