The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1878-09-24
THE PALE HORSE.
The Yellow Fever in New Orleans.
Scenes ana Sights in the Crescent
City.

VItys
Special Correspondence Sedslis Bazoo.
New ORLEANS. Sept. u.
The Offices Of the Young Mem. Christian
Association and the Peabody Association
are crowded, and the scene at the latter l.
one Of intense sction. Such . jostlinR
elbowing, clamorous crowd is seldom seen
. Every nationality, age, and condition Ii
represented in that constantly swelling. i'm
patient ,hrune. Within. the hustle is oe
wiidering. The rapidly with which rstions
are served can be Judged when in ore day
-23.338 we're ,asu d! Here, ton,
swrSpLERs RESORT.
One old lady, with mild, benevolent look,
presented an order ''raised" from eever
raiions to seventy. With many tears she
confessed the alteration, giving az a reason
that she co uld not come often, and wished
TO get enough to last Was she taken to
Jail, Missed BY the crowd? Not bit Of it.
Sine got her seventy raiions and departed
happy. Several, however, who had mani
fest intentions to reap a profit, were sum-
marty dealt with on being detected. How
ever, the rule is TO give to all, even at The
risk Of being IMPOSED upo" by few.
These are times in which heroism and
cow~rdice each stand revealed in strongest
light aud every human trait can he de-
tected. The braggxn that six weeks ago
Was ridiculing the timidi,v of women. and
jesting e"sr-eiy ut the expense Of the first
lev seized by the fever, is now piIifuily IN
manned, and with
AsHY CHEEK AND HOLLOW EYE
il self-pilloried "a rd-while those
who were justly Alarmed at the threatening
are now Drawing the danger with perfect
calm and seif-posession.
Minisier:ng angels are no longer in dis
guise. They are watching by every bed
side, they are reason to the deliriOus,
strength TO the exhausted, soothing pillows
60 the dying, and friends 10 the unknown
dead. The vigil il inceSssnt. there il not a
sigh CT despair or gronn Of anguish passes
unnOticed not a pang uncontrolled; not a
change in the Pickering torch unseen.
Mansion or hOvel-it II the same rich and
poor, black and white. all are equal in the
balance. "Paa da Morse G1a, puisat pede
pasperum tabernas Begumque lures
This il realized on every side and SO.
too, are charity aud mercy united in COM
mon cause. Irrespective Of race or condition.
the attendants upon the sick are often I'M
acclimated persons, to whom the ri-k Is
nothing weighed against the appeal to com
passion. Your correspondent saw
YOUNG GIRL,
yesterday, nursing fri~ntless woman who
vac in the last stages Of the disease. He
asked, a. a commonplace: "Y"u have had
the fever?" ''Oh no." was the reply. but
do not fear it. 1 might a. we'll take il here
o. II home" She had been up all night, |
and was pale from fatigue. There wm no
tie Of blood there no 6iixl instinct ; no in |
terest no motive save that pure, sISDntane- !
Gus love for doing good which is making |
more heroes and heroines here in one day |
tn an does martial ambition in = hundred |
battles. She had simply heard that the
poor woman Was stricken, and Mt once had |
flown to the rescue, regardless of the sense
Of self preservation. This is merely cited
~ an example of what occurs on every |
side
But IL noble traits are brought forward
into luminous prominence, 40 also are the
most degraded and despic.ble instincts
shown in the great ehiaro oscuro. and
DEEDS OF sELFIsHNEss
are wrought for which there ia not the
slightest pali,ation, and from which even
the cslious mind turns with di-gust and re-
voting. Husbands deserving their wives,
and wives their husbands; parents leaving
their stricken children To the ministralions
of stranger attendants stealing the money
left for the destitute sick and worse yet.
holding carousals IN the very pres nee OF
the victim, usine the champagne given him
to stay the black vomIt Fortunately
these csaes are not frequent, and the bright
deeds OF aelf sacrificing mercy are more
than sufficient to counter-bal.nce them.
The rooms of the Howard Association
CURIOUS sPECTACLES. Il
Men, women, children, wffiaes, negroes.
Spaniard-, French. Dagoes, iramps, doctors.
grocera, journalists; every race, color. trade
and profession il represented in thst chat
lerinS, restless. eager crowd. The od"r oil
filth, and not nnfreqnently If bad whisky.
fiila the air. Behind the barricade. nj the
End Of long table, sits Mr.. SOuthnayd.
opening telegrams and letters with one
hand The 10 an arm in the war; and Civ
Ing money here and instructions there, with
, cool method and rsPidity that shows
practice. At another desk IL the entry
clerk, noting the new applications Tor re.
lief
A DAPPER LITTLE IRISH WOMAN,
Nth beery nose and inaamed eve. elbows
her way up and c"nrtesies and winks in
,apid succession. I'm . isrner nurse.
cnrsesv); dye want me nos, Twink J; lux u
me ricominday shins. (courtesy) J; from Sister
Mary double sink) an Father
O'Suiliv.n, me con6-sor; glory be to God.
extra low curtesy )iuk ut that now don't
rant me! An veil take the dirty thsvin'
n.yRara haythen ivery van, an the loike
O. me ye don't Uonf! know ye! l said to
Father O'SuIllvan the other day, eez !,
Father aes I, and aes Ne TO me. seq he,
Norah,' ses heat ,his juncture the beery
nose and inf .med eye are loet tn view la
The background.
A FAT NEGREs
waddles up Her Recommendation is siRn
ed BY eleven physicians, under whom she
has nuned yellow fever for twenty years
She holds il out in silence. The entry
clerk passes il To Mr.. Souihmayd, who re
IN rms il 10 her, gives her money; hurried
instruction. and dispatches her at once I"
scene Of suffering. TIE visiting members
are constantly going and coming, remain
ing but a brief moment To obtain more
money or hotties Of the liquors needed by
their sick, and then are off again. The
professional mendicant abounds, but the
practiced eye of Mr.. Southmayd ia never
deceived. and they are generally disaP-
pointed.
Within the past week the increase has
been 20 great that not one fourth Of the
caaes are reported through lack OF time on !
the part of the attending physician. Houses
in the First, Second. Third and Fourth
Di~tricta, which have been exempt 10 far,
are very few indeed, lesa frequent than
thoae in which the entire family has been
stricken. Passing up the fashionable
etreete late at night, one aees the dim sick !,