The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-20
The ssBlark Dceth."

"THE black DEATH" as it has been
christensd, is just now exciting no lit
tie alaxtR among European Govern
of the active measures taken by Russia
and Germany to stay the disease and
confine 1t to the borders where it has
shown its fatal symptoms. In all his
tory, no disease has Carried with 1t such
widespread terror as this, which is
known under the various names of
"the pest,,n' "sblack DEATH and the
plagueI". Its first appearance in Eu-
rope was at Constantinople A. d. 544,
From that time its seeds seem never to
have died out, and have only required
congenial soil. and conditions to ger
inmate. 1t has proved an obstacle in
the way of many Nations, crushing out
the life and energy of a people in a
few weaka VIA 'cpmmitfnE. ravages
which it required generations to re-
place. In the interests of peace and
opposed to war, the advocates of peace
can clslimtit has always DEVELOPED its
most malignant features after a bloody
conflict. And the dispersion Of troops
hak in the .pa1t been the means of
spreading the disease, and injecting
districts where1Ah3asshefore unknown.
1t may solve the Afghan War now, and
the Eastern question may be settled, if
at all, by other means than the march
ing squadrons, of'Great Britain. Ger
The greet plague Of London, in 1865,
was imported from Holland, and was
not checked until goyer 10000 persons
persisted; in fact, It was thought its
rayages would have continued, had not
the great fire of the following year
burned. it out. In the seventeenth
century there are on record accounts
Fits lppearaa,e dusfortyss &herapt
1ssa3it|Si ,,,! Rssl9g e =! sisstssa.s
at Copenhagen in 1912, at Marseilles in
1870. at Moscow, in 1771, at Malta in
1813. at Silesia in 1879, in the Russian
ARM IN BULGARIA il 1899. It's last
arpeArance in Europe was in '1841. It
visited Egypt in 1874. In 1857 it broke
out audongI the Arabs in Africa ana
Mesopotamia. A writer. giving a his,
f0ry Of the scourge at Alexandria and
Constantinopls in 642s Says.
In 512. Alexandria IL said 10 have lost tOOWO Of
ker people ~ this scoprge. and for miles around
IL city the kelds verb covered with unburleG
corpses. For three months from 6.UUg TO lvUN
deaths daily = and Ctes died o"s
remain SSSSnt iSi many yea eadl1t 70 haye psrsSes
in the three Continents. ,.
In no country has it been more fatal
than in China. The pestilence broke
/ out there. about 1888. followed by grea
earthquakes and foods, with their usu
i al attendants, failure of crops and fam
i ine.,- Ere lie reached Europe. this pes
/ tilence Is said tbl have destroyed 10,
Il twica IL mAny' IN Eastefh Asia ant
Northern Africa. In Italy it wa
scarcely less fatal, and il is said one 8
|;GSd us psople afsdifem t.. Hundred
Of thousands of the weather. classe
! left their wealth and took to the sea i
ships. where the disease followed them
;; and their ships, filed with the dea
:, and dyikR wefsEas< hfm breign an
healthful shores, and thus the conts
gion spread. In the. early history
the ravages of the plague, it was note
that, the Mohaqmedap people, WI
!; / were clearly In their habits, suHere
I least of all the Nations. 1t has ais
! been noted that convicts, where III
4 Twas even; and ill tia attendants
health wore gua .T snnns as aS Se%RRs 3
] atively LITTLE. but when the WHO'S q