The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-07-26

course as III passed. lie leapl
the Allegheny chain, ran through the
mountain valleys. fell upon the
people as with choice and distinctions;
one was taken and another left. And
now the dread mortality that had al
ready smitten all hearts with fear was
in Cincinnati, Queen City of the
West"
The story of the stricken city is not
for these pages. But some of the chap
tiers of that fatal history belong also
to this.
When old Nlolier had gone out into
the stricScn city to learn public senti-
ment, he found the people panic
stricken. lie caught the popular tone
despite his self-control. Going home,
he said to Adolf; 81 have planned an
excursion for you and Vivette to Gray
Sulphur Springs; be readyin the morn
ing" He said to Vivette; "YOu and
Adolf wished to see Gray Sulphur
! Springs; Adolf has decided to take you
there; be ready in the morning" They
also had caught the panic while he was
in the city listening to the cry:
"Cholcra!-Twenty cases last night,
and spreading"
! Adolf made ready with alacrity. lie
tremblcd as he made hurried prepare
ton.
Vivctte declined TO abandon her
father at first; but he would hear no
/ protests. They were over the ferry
and off for Gray sulphur Springs by
s o'clock next morning. travelling in a
! carriage with ia thful team and expert
enced driver. They feared to GO by
steamer via Maysvillc: cholera was on
the river; and they travelled overland.
Three days later cholera fell upon
the father in the city. His hired nurses
forsooll him. lie was alone in his
agony.
At meeting of volunteer nurses n
! hundred young men of the best classes
were present; each ready to go wher-
ever help was needed
"Old Charley Molier is dying: his
nurses have fed; who will go to Lower
| Market and look after Old Charlcy?'
! inquired the chairman.
Il, for one" said Joseph Gust the
younger.
Il, for another" said a second young
man-lsaac Wright by name.
Here are your badges" said the
chairman. "lIe will recognize you as
authorized and official nurses, if he can
recognize anything; if not, it will make
no difference"
When the volunteer nurses reached
the store of Molier they found the
valuablcs locked up in the vault, the
door closed and a special policeman on
guard. Money. which could not buy
life, could pay for its own guards.
The officer told them Molier was
alone and dying; but that "steam
doctor" that was now attending him
had promised TO be back in an hour.
Gust knew the house, and entering
the hall with his companion, passed
up the stairs and into Molier's room.
The first thing they observed on
entering was that which they after
ward came to know as 1.-THE cholera
odor.' All was disorder in the room;
no woman had been there; the bed was
stripped of all but blanket; and roll
ing in agony was man. Gust would
not have known him elsewhere. His
eyes were sunken and shone like hot
glass. They were sunk into the sock
ets-now cup-shaped and purple-and
wandered from side to side, and out
on vacancy. The cheek bones looked
like projecting knots, and the lately
full and rounded cheeks were cavities.
The lips were drawn in and puckered,
and their color livid purple. The whole
face was cadaverous, with an express
sion of despairing agony indescribable.
The skin of the body and especially of
the hands was shriveled, wrinkled and
deadly cold. 1t was covered every
where with perspiration also icy cold.
At the wrist was slight thready
twinge, but no distinct pulsation.
dim, blue strealSs showed the lines of
the shriveled veins The solid flesh
had disappeared, and the skin was
haccid, like half empty bag. His
breath was cold, and he moaned in
helpless and peculiar tone of agonized
despair, which they afterward learned
| to know as peculiar TO cholera.
The poor sufferer had no cramps:
they had passed away. But his hands
constantly sought the abdomen as if
their pressure might bring some relief.
Between his frequent retchings and
vomiting he cried continually for
water, water, water! more water"
And as he threw it up almost half a
minute after, he again begged for
water. His physical strength was lit
tie affected, and he threw himself from
side To- SIDE, or rose TO drink with
wonderful visor. His mind was scarcely
or not at all disturbed, and he knew
Mr. Gust at a glance. But he only
said: water, Joe, for Gods salSe!"
In few minutes the ''steam-doctor"
came in. He had sent the request for
nurses.
"How is he, doctor?" inquired Gust,
after the doctor had examined the pa
tent.
The doctor made no answer.