The Arizona sentinel., 1889-07-06

1t all the harder for tho boys, who
 were taking turns in the quaran-
 tine, and before my wife was bet
 ter, the eldest boy got sick. He did
 not have as bad an attack as had, and
 was able to be out almost as soon as 1
 was. Then the two boys who were on
 unhealthy part of the time, were taken
 i'll together. And what with the worry
 and the nursing of them. my eldest
 daughter and my second daughter also
 became ill. In fact, all that summer
 there were some of us sick. Not one
 escaped. And 1 resolved that if we
 all got well for one week together we
 would try and break through the lines
 and get to the North. The last one to
 be taken ill was my youngest daugh-
 ter She is rather a frail little thing
 anyhow. and the malady was very hard
 on her. We all did the best we could
 fSr her, but she became steadily worse.
 And at last we saw that if we were to
 save her we would have to get the
 services of a physician. It was not
 easy that summer to get doctor. All
 that wanted to get away had gone. | And of those that were not away most of them had gone to Jacksonville. | Of course it 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, in 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. 1 started out in the morning and it was nearly night before I returned with the nearest doctor that 1 could find. It was more by luck than good management that l 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 Jacksonville he had came up the St. Johns river for a period of rest, while he was recovering from the effects of the terrible disease. 1 begged him not to tell my wife that he had had the fever or that he had been in Jackson vile, and l explained to him how ter ritied she was about the disease. He promised me that he would say noth- ing that would alarm her. When he saw our little girl he looked very serious It was evident that she was extremely 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 the precautions l had taken during tho whole summer, and we now made our quarantine stricter than ever, because it was well on to September and the fever was abating at Jacksonville, or at least it seemed to be at that time, they had quite a 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 cer- tain that all of you have had just the same trouble as this little girls"
 "Yes," 1 answered, "we have all had it, but not any of us as badly as she has,"
 "Well, then" he said, "if were you l should call in my quarantine.
 Why" I said, "why would I do such a thing as that? The fever is as bad as ever in Jacksonville and we are still in the same danger"
 My dear, sir" he said, leach one of you has had the yellow fever and didn't know it, so you see you needn't keep up your quarantine unless you have got habituated to it and want to do it for the fun of the thing. You have had regular yellow-fever camp here all summer, and the chances are that, if you had known what it was, some of you would have been dead by this time"
 I was aghast at this and concluded not to tell my wife and family any thing about it until we got North again. And to tell you the truth, haven't had the courage to tell her yet, or I suppose 1 could not have got her down this winter to Florida. Luke Sharp, in Detroit Free Press.
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