, 1881-10-16
dreaded and terrible disansp-tha Ari,+;,

The disease gradually. or' mn,
!; say, rapidly spread, mil on the 1st lay W q
:nnIghst the number OF deaths reached thirty
!. Which was the highest number tor ai,y mi,
aay l think the death Of AIr. Bentley. i1s ti,s
;; lstucr OF Cyrus Bentley, snou followed tin
! OF Deacon jackson. l.. NJ Bnyce. Il Dron,i
4eht druggist, died i'll his house atone, hi:
n aan'1y has'ng l'lst !eit fer the Country, Del.
Lhur:t, died very suddenly. The Rev. III
II. hlee, pastor Of tile SAINT. church. wa. ut
! saekets While returning from the bedside oi
~ :A!lt'S: 1t WAS Sunday morning, and he
was intending to preach, ami was Mastering
1oE that PURPOSE ! happened to be at te tltn,t
u il1s noar&tlnS-place when he arrived. ant!
assisfet! him into the house The house was
nat i.t ot Mr. pi'lsbury. On Dearborn street. a
1ii,,;n'e eM ;,oofs south nf wheEe 1nE TRIBUNE
sailea and attended him. a1r. Eice steadily
iHiicd Until about! :! o'cluct1, wien we gave
mn up. lle then gave directions about his
affairs ai1d made l1is will. Among other
remedies: By Smiths direction, VIC tried cleo
trieity, first insulating tie palit,lt by stand
| ny Tic bedstead on glAss. Whether from
tn's or other treatment. Mr.. Kicc fingered
alnns, ;tld l staid with him Till midnight,
n: mhc.1 letared to another roofu to sleep,
tuliy expecting to flnd him dead il, tile muri,-
inG. It't, to ms surprise, found him still
llSlns: alld apparently improving. lie con-
| tlnuea 1nus thrnuEt, the Gay, when he again
3e:aii Mr t,,d't to fall and Suon died. When
/
| the weather wills, very Warin, and so cuutjn-
tet tfll Monday afternoon when there CAME
one ol our Lake Michigan chilling breezrs.
II was tn this that I attributed A[r. fsices
| relapse. for liah noticed that deaths we're
more numerous after these sudden changes
! from hot to cOul. :. =.
| There was ut this time IN Engljsl,man
na1netl Morrell. blacksmith, who WAS just
from England and but RECENTLY married, who
was working fur me- One Saturday night
lie came to me- and said lie wanted I'LL tho
1i1oncy tiiat WAS due him. and that he would
not be 1T work till the following Tuesday, MS
| ne had bought i lot from Mr. E!ston, and lle
wanted on Monday to get lumber on llle
little house which he had determined to
bnild. Late Saturday night / saw hin,
Oh ms way home, appearing unusually cheer
tut. On Sunday morning following went
not return till after the evening church serv-
ICE, whel. was met with the information
TINT A1orreil was dead and buried. was
t!uNderstruck. Mrs Morreil came to Inc in
turned the money which had been paid on
tue lot, AMI that she was going back to her
old home III Eng!a1su; anu before night Of
that Monday she was OH her sad and lonely
journey tliithcr.
Another Enslisllman named Conn, /:
hniternaker, was also at work, and with
him. MN was q boy Of Il, who was ut
OF Keeping the boy, with him. The boy
!was attacked with cholera, We min
mote circulation for two or three hours. We
rubbed till the skin was broken. When we
found that all our efforts were i'll vain, Conn
quietly arose from working over hun, and
stopping to look down on the diving boy.
Soon, however, he began to curse and swear, |
and to llaif-soiIioauizc and haif-reIate, us he
continued his walk. ,Sncll, oaths and i'm
precations ! have seldom heard. Here"
nome, and | promised his mother that | |
would return him safely to her. And |
now, in this far-away country, the |
boy is dying. 1Vhat am gong
was IL speech and manner. he was kindly, |
ami t;ithfut, and true; that is. as he under |
stood his obligations.
in 1a batass sens5 S SeaFded sa wta ny @ @Dar1asT sv
me. to 90 into another room and look at one |
Of her daughters, a girl of II, who had Just !
begun to complain and had lain down.
saw at a glance that it was cholera She
died in about. seven, hours Another
daughter w:.s taken while returning from
tue funeral the following day. and died be-
fore morning.
Late in the season I resolved to go
into the country and visit friends and recl-
pe1ate. Travel then to Wisconsin, where ( t
lake. On landing ut kenoslla, met 4 great
uncle, who invited ine to Ills house. 4 few
minutes after our arrival there, word came
that gFeat-auDt, living but 4 few rotis away,
lad been suddenly taken sick. We went
here and found it to be cholera. She
lied during the night. I went over in the
morning again, AMI found the undertaken
flcrc. but not another man about to help
lin place the. corpse in the coffin. l took
lold with him, and. us she was heavy
q r,f III I
:n!t, that we ACCOMPLISHED the task. /
hen vent Immediately into the coun-
rs, a. few miles away. to my fathers, |
t. !H1 before : n1st we heard that the unc!e'
tas also dead. Such were cholera scenes
throughout the country. On MY return to |
lineage tne first acuuaintance | met was
beacon Elisha Clark, of the First t'rcsby-
iatet, aud the first word he said was: "The
lloicr:t has left 1ls.'' This shows how de-
ressing was its presence. and what relief
;As its departure.
Whatever may cause cholera, I think that
ourage. with watchfulness and attention,
egi1ls with Il painless disturbance OF the
owels, which, unless allayed, runs into Il
iarrlle;t, with cvacuatlofso Of the appearance |
I sa1 the h's fouaEai,S Eaes seems ef fe
tfcngth fails, the eNtrcuitics become GELD, |
le lips contract and become purple, the eyes I
nix, and death soon follows. None that [
tw suffered pain. liz cholera times nearly !:
}wel disturbances. anu some had at time
+linary s!larrllea which did not run into Z
.oier;. Prudent people, therefore. avoided
eui1 and such food rs induced laxity Of the :.
'wels. and whenever there were such sylnp :,
ms they at once resorted to It remedy; \ y
his disturbance was sometimes caused =
hearing Of the sudden death Of 4
friend. At such times: the cheek I