St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1889-08-17
It all the harder for the BOYS. who

It all the harder for the boys who
were taking turns in the Gnaran.
tino. and before my wife was bet.
ter. the eldest boy got sick. lie die
not have as bad an attack as had, and
| was able to be ont almost as soon as
was. Then the two boys who were or
at night, which was of course the most
unhealthy part of the time, were taken
ill together. And what with the worry
| and the nursing of them. my eldest
daughter and my second daughter also
became ill. IL. fact, all that summer
there Wee some of Us sick. Not one
escaped. And l resolved that If we
all got well for one week together We
would try and break through the line:
and get to the North. The last one to
be taken i'll was my youngest daugh-
ter. She is rather frail little thing
anyhow. and the malady was very hard
on her. We all did The best we cou.3
for her, but she became steadily worse.
And az last We saw that il we were &c
save her we would have TO get the
services Of a physician. 1t was no,
easy that summer to get doctor. Ali
that wanted to get away had gone.
And OF those that were not away
most of them had gone to jacksonville.
OF course il was out of the question
that we should send to Jacksonville
for a physician, because in the
first place, the chances were that the
physician could not get away. and then.
i'm the second place. we would run the
danger Of bringing infection to our
home and undoing all the work that
we had done during the summer. But
one day | took my horse and went in
search of a physician. l started out
in the morning and it was nearly night
before l returned with the neares,
doctor that l could find. 1t was more
by luck than good management that !
got this one. He had been in Jack.
sonville during the first of the epidemic
and had done heroic work there. But
finally he took the yellow fever him.
self and had recovered, but not feeling
able to undertake his work again in
he had came up the St
Johns river for "a period of rest. while
he was recovering from the effects of
the terrible disease. begged him not
to tell my wife that he had had the
fever or that he had been in Jackson
vile. and explained to him how ter
riiied she was about the disease. He
promised me that he would say moth
ing that would alarm her. When he
saw our little girl he looked very
serious. II was evident that she was
ill. However, he said he
thought We could pull her through
with good nursing and atten dance. He
advised me to keep up the quarantine,
if possible, more rigidly than before
and TO have no communication what
ever with any one outside. This tend
ed to confirm me in the wisdom of tho
l had taken during the
whole summer, and we now made our
quarantine stricter than ever, because
il was well on TO September and the
lever was abating at jacksonville, or
II least il seemed TO be at that time.
although they had quite siege of it
The case Of my little girl
was so serious that the doctor stayed
right with her night and day. At last.
when she was well again. he spoke to
me as We sat together on the porch
overlooking the river.
Look here" he said, "are you Ger.
tain that all of you have had just the
same trouble as this little girl?'
Yes | answered, I'VE have al
lad it, but not any of us as badly rs
she has"
.Well. them" he said. 'if I were you
should cali in my quarantine"
Why" said, ''why would l do
such thing as that? The fever is as
,ad as ever i'm Jacksonville and we are |
till in the same danger"
MY DEAR SIR" he said. s'each one OF |
-ou has had the yellow fever and didn't |
know it, so you see you needn't keep |
I'D your quarantine unless you have |
rot habituated to ii and want 10 do 1t |
or the fun of the thing. You have
lad regular yellow-fever camp here
III summer. and the chances are that.
YOU had known what il was. some of |
'ou would have been dead by this
ime."
/ was aghast at this and concluded
lot to tell my wife and family any
hing about it until We got North
gain. And 10 tell you the truth,
laven't had the courage to tell her yet,
n suppose l could not have got her
own this winter to FlOrida-Luke
Sharp, in Detroit Free Press.