Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1878-09-25

ly Sau urlLLle, Is though Iuc heavens
themselves were touched to tears at the
sight Of so much human misery. The
rattle Of an occasional vehicle along
the silent street tells that the member
Of some benevolent society is hastening
to minister to the sick or dying. All
else is silence, deathly and awful, with
naught but the rattle ofthe water from
the roof into the tin gutter, and that has
the om;nous gurgle Of a death rattle in
the human throat.
Seventy dead and at least one hum
dred and twenty-five new cases. God
help US
If hope were not worn to skeleton;
if she had not taken herself to prayer,
we might find a spark TO kindle weak
glow Of light in this impenetrable dark
ness and expect that the heavy shower
Of to-day would wash from air, from
gutter and from bayou a part ofthe foul
pestilental air which is preceding
death.
The horrors of the hour cannot be
told. even if the heart did not sicken at
the task. They are horrors such as
make a hellon earth: such as make lite
almost burden. Elsewhere it will be
seen that a noble band Of physicians
have come to our aid. We need them
all. and more. and when we think into
what a tornado Of death they throw
their frail bodies, we cannot but be amaz-
ed that strangers should care so much
for strangers. Their reward is found
in a higher sphere than that in which
our full hearts beat in gratitude.
The Towards need men to supply the
places oftheir sick. Their inability to
visit all the stricken yesterday caused
much distress if not deaths. The ranks
of the clergy, as brave a company OF
Christian soldiers as ever faced mar
tyrdom without a fear, have been IN
vaded.
But why write more: Why try to add
words when the dark list below speaks
50 MAINLY Of our Unprecedented calami-
ty? Where it all will end God only
knows.
TRUE AND BRAVE WOMEN.
There are women of pluck and unsur'
passable devotion IN Memphis who are
daring everything for those they love
The iaithless are OF the other sex, o
those whom the world IN one ofits grea
test mlsnomers has dubbed 1.-THE strong
er SEX" While John Donovan for
sakcs his wife aud leaves his children L
die in strangers hands; while a sol
flies to Arkansas Springs and leaves hi
mother and two brothers TO be borne By
other hands to the grave, in contras
shines out the faithfulHess Of woman, az
devoted mother, as patient, attentive
wife. as life-risking daughter, sister
friend. BY the bedside of the burnn!
body, inhaling the poison of the sicl
room, foul with that odor which tell
the nature OF the dreadful disease, per
forming service which none other vii
do. wearing a smile while the heart
breaking and lifting up the head wheI
in,the last agony, herperson IS beioule'
by the most repulslve. and horrible 0
all substance-black vomit, she sit
and watches, and nurses and cares 70
her loved one till he lives again Or pa SIS
es beyond her aid. The penalty OF hel
service of love is generally death.
Inst ances come TO the writer's mln
faster than he can record them, instan
ces which are but few Of the man
which have become like part OF heay
en- in so much of earth's hell.
A citizens relief committee man walk
ed into an humble cottage in the south
ern portion of the city. There he ioun
two children i'll, one week aud hstles
but evidently conyalescing, the othc
tossing in burning fever. y little VIC
man in black sat between the two an
was in the act of kissing the brow OF til
: little fevered one.
Cant l send sou nurse, madam:
asked the visitor.
: mo, sir" (thc pale little woma
.miled), 4 have brought one chill
= shrough and | shall bring the other"
But you are worn cut
,.Oh, no, sir. \ kind Italian ~oma
: near by GENES in aud helps me ssm'
times" She would not yield; no oth'
+, hand but hers could minister 10 her Iii
tie ones.
An cid grandmother told Rev. N
> Parsons not only Of having nursed h
o randson to hls death, but in want
some one else to DO it had with her o.
hands prepared him for the grave.
A child was stricken with fever c
Alabama street. Go" said the mot
= er to the father, 81 shall never leave Il
4 boy, but you must not be endangered
=. The coward complied, and saw fro
>, over the way a short coffin born out
~ his home. The mother is paying t
NJ price Of her, devotion, and By to-moT'
NJ will herself pass TO her last home in
l. city.
.. A sick mans lady friend wro
m "please let me ceme." And when
~ friends thought the die was cast, I'll
consente to his summening her. Bo