Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-03
aSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1878.

sion is that I am condemned to whirl, in the
same manner as a water-wheel, over meas
ureless chasm, for Just 1,000, 900 years. Phan-
tasmagoria, in the form of endless professions,
of men, women and beasts, each looking and
leering at me, and mocking my su1erings,
pass along in endless array. I know it is the
result of opium given to deaden the terrible
torture in my abdomen, but the drug does
not succeed in mitigating it to any great ex.
tent. Next day, so my nurse informs me, l
asked her, more than thousand times,
"What have I done to be thus punished 2"
The pains, which in the first stages had been
somewhat obtuse, now became acute, and
shout aloud in intolerable agony. The pain
in my head feels as though there was an iron
frame on it, which was crushing in the bones,
till my tortured eyes seem bound to jump out
of their sockets. The bloody discharge from
my mouth and nose continues, and glance
at mirror on chair at my bedside, shows
that my features have acquired striking
resemblance to an enraged gorilla.
"Ifye get the bloody sweat yer gone" says
Mrs. Delaney, with charming sympathy.
learn from her that fatal symptom of
yellow jack is a universal bleeding from the
pores of the skin, and that when this makes ts
appearance, the patient might as we'll throw
up the sponge. tell her boastfully it or the
black vomit has no terrors for mel would
Just as soon have both of them together. She
says "Shut upw but says it softly, and en-
deavors to arrange the sheets in which my
tortured form is partially enwrapped. The
contact of this mere cloth upon my abdomen
makes me shrek with agony. rise from
the bed, frantically approach the window, and
my burning eyes are saluted by funeral pro-
cession, preceded by hearse with nodding
plumes. Shocked, in spite of recklessness
born of fierce pain, I lie down again, but no
position gives comfort. The fiery heat which
consumes my abdomen is supplemented with
horrible pains in my loins, thighs, calves,
knees, ankles and even toes, which feel as
though scraped by razor and then gnawed
by dogs sharp teeth.
The pain in my head has grown more in
tense, and so does the agony in every part of
my body. No position gives ease. My stom'
ach and bowels have burning heat as
though scalded by boiling water or scorched
by Goals OF fire, and shrek, and blaspheme,
and curse my nurse and landlady for not ade-
quately assuaging my thirst. I lie on my
back or side, with knees drawn up and ohjur-
gate God and men.
Then there slowly comes change. My
skin, which during the first three days was
hot and dry, and afterwards on the fourth
day, slightly moist, now perspires freely.
Worn out, I lie gasping and groaning, and
still afflicted with pain and thirst The doc.
tor is summoned and comes with his brown,
genteel assistant, and says he rather thinks l
will be all right in few days. He looks
pleased and so does his assistant. Mrs. De-
ianey ia cool and unmoved. As night ap.
proaches, she lights the gas (the light does
not hurt my eyes at alp and lets down the
window curtain, and seeing that am toler-
ably quiet, asks if she can leave the room for
half an hour groan assent, while my heart
jumps with expectation. Her toilet is easily
made, and she is gone.
A NOCTURNAL EXCURSION.
Now or never I rise with difficulty and
peer round for the water pitcher. Curses on
her, she has taken it away I fall back in
profound despair. In the silence of the night
I hear the noisy EXPLANATIONS of card.play-
ers in the little coffee house on the corner
across the way. A wild idea crosses my
brain, and deliberately slide out of bed and
lie prone on the carpet. Then I roll slowly
toward the door, tacking round the table
and my nurses chair 80 as to save exertion.
Then turn the handle, and the door opens
toward me. No fear of being discovered
l and my nurse are the only occupants and
she is out!
am attired in simple costume consisting
of only one linen garment and around my
neck is cloth stained with blood from my
mouth. l descend the stairs which lead to
the side door, in the primitive manner of a
child of ten months, and unlock the door lead
ing into the side Of the house.
Across the narrow street-it is hardly
twelve feet in WIDTHS the one-story cof-
fee house. The saloons of New Orleans are
generally called coffee.houses, and many of
them keep the fragrant decoction of the bean
of Yemen always on hand. The coAee.house
is simply tenth-rate bar.room, frequented
principally by "dagos," which generic title
takes in all men of Spanish extraction engaged
in fishing or bringing fruit or vegetables to
market from points on the river. The land
lord, villainous looking "dago," with dark,
pallid face like a Lascar, ia playing cards
with three of bis customers with all the heat
and noise peculiar to gamblers Of the Latin
race. / see them through stationary wood
en- blind, which partially conceals the shabby
bar and array of bottles and decanters refec-
ted in cheap dirty mirror. l make my way
over the pavement on my hands and knees.
I pause unobserved under The veranda of the
groggery, and gaze with feverish desire on
something which stands on the counter. My
head burns 6ercely with my unwonted exer-
ton. Finally, with supreme effort, stag
ger across the room to the bar, lift up the
battered pewter pitcher, and commence drink
ing. To my dying day l will declare that
draught the sweetest ever drank by man.
The next moment there was hurried move
ment. Two Of the men ran out with howl Of
horror. The landlord snstched the pitcher
from my lips, and bis companion seized me in
his arm. These "dagos" are not afraid of
yellow fever. l caught sight of a yellow
faced demon in the mirror at the same time,
and then all was dark.
Il don't care, doctor; I won't do anything
for him. He can die"
"Well, think you had better stay. You
had no right to leave him."
"What could I do? Sure, Johnny had
been arrested for batin' an Englisbman, an
l only slipped down to see him and give him
money to pay his fne."
I had a relapse Ninety-nine doctors out
of hundred will fell Won that relapse means