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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
THE YELLOW FEVER.

elapsed, originating from the town
of Ocean Springs, the entire gulf
coast has unnecessarily been
alarmed to high pitch, and while
unnecessary, yet it must be adj
mitted the cause in reality is
not at all agreeable or for one to
feel comfortable.
After six weeks of a prevailing
type of fever at Ocean Springs,
numbering its victims TO over six
hundred during that time, medi-
cal authority finally on Monday
last took case to pronounce the
affiietion as that labeled yellow
fever, it being first necessary for
the respective boards of health of
three states-Louisiana, Mississip-
pi, Alabama-and several deaths
to first occur before this conclu-
sion was reached. This state of
affairs indeed appears quite stu
,pid, to say nothing if not crimi--
nal. Whether ignorance or poll
cy, it matters to no avail for in
any event from right-thinking
standpoint the action is denounc-
ed by the public and press in un-
mitigated terms.
Fortunately this form of yell
low fever at Ocean Springs in a
general sense is of a mild type and
it is for this reason that in the
course Of SIX weeks it was not more
devastating in its wake. Hun
dreds Of people have been com
municating by visits with the
town, and these could have been
the agency of much fatality on the
outside. 1t is due to the lightness
of the fever that New Orleans, a
city of 300, 900 souls, escaped with
only one case, and due to this
same cause that central Mississip-
pi experienced q similar narrow
escape. OF course the health Of
fetal have practiced precautionary
measures.
The authorities along the coast
acting so promptly acted wisely
in establishing strict quarantine
and the railroad management has
been most attentive in assisting
the quarantine act. There is nc
earthly use for fear Of further
danger, as the spread at Ocean
Springs is we'll under control, and
as yet along the coast not one case
as been found. In fact the coast
Of Hancock and Harrison counties
is enjoying the usual healthful
climate belonging to the entire
coast. The fever did not origi-
nate in Ocean Springs, but was
imported by refugee Cubans.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
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The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
HISTORY OF THE YELLOW FEVER,
Facts of the Mild Epidemic at Ocean
Springs Which Was at first Pro-
nounced Dengue.

For five weeks past an epidemic of
fever has prevailed at Ocean Springs,
and local physicians at that place
united in pronouncing it depgue fe
yer. Day by day the number of sick
increased, and finally there were
more than five hundred sick people
out of normal population Of TWO
thousand.
New Orleans doctors were called
on for help, as the huge proportions
Of the epidemic had grown entirely
beyond the control Of the Ocean
City doctors
DR.. Bemiss went there and in q
few days was taken sick, and within
seventy-owo hours died with black
vomit. His death was given cut as
having been caused by congestion OF
the stomach, and his body was con-
veyed TO New Orleans for burial.
The death of so prominent a ply
sician under such suspicious circum-
stances opened the eyes Of everybody
that there was something terrible
concealed behind the thinly woven
stories Of ''denguo fever"
The Mobile authorities sent mem
bers Of the Alabama State Board oi
Health to Ocean Springs and these
were joined by Mississippi and
Louisiana state health officers. The
presence Of medical representatives
from three states at Ocean Springs
raised anxiety to fever heat. Aftel
a session lasting twenty-four hours
the Alabama doctors went home anC
reported the disease at Ocean Springs
to be yellow fever, and Mobile in
stantly quarantined against the in
fected place.
The Louisiana and Mississippi
doctors withheld their opinion unit
Monday, but after holding an autop
| sy on three persons who died of th
prevailing fever, they also pronounc
ed it yellow fever.
The greatest apprehension haI
arisen in consequence of this off
cial declaration that after six week
dillyiallying and criminal or igno
rant concealment of facts, the dread
ed sconrge, yellow fever, has beer
raging at Ocean Springs-whlle hun
dreds Of people from various sec
tions Of the country have been goinI
to and coming from the plague strick
eL spot.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
NOTICE on EXAMINATION.

Notice is hereby given that examination
for public school teachers will be held at
the following places and dates, towit;
Bay st. Louis, for whites, September
II and IS.
Bay s.. 10 uis, for colored, September
24 and 25.
Nicholson, for whites, October % and
Nicholson, for colored, October 20 and
no. A. G. STEVENSON,
County Supt. of Public Education.
Nicholson, Miss, August 26, 1897.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
Ship Island tiarbor.

of the port at Gulfport, Missis-
sippi, said in a recent interview
that $4,000, 900 feet of lumber
were shipped through Ship Is
land harbor alone during the last
fiscal year and that the shipment
from the entire Pearl river dis
trict was over 1870, 100000 feet.
The shipment through Ship Is
land harbor was almost double
the preceding years busi-
ness. Mr.. Dahlgren is sanguine
that the lumber business at this
port will soon grow so fast as to
force congress to take action
looking to the establishment of
harbor'at Ship Island, which he
says means simply the deepening
of the pass between Cat Island
and Ship Island. The harbor it.
self is deep enough, once this
channel is cut through, to acc om-
modate the largest vessel afoat.
The making of this harbor IS
work that ought to be made fix
ed state policy. 1t ought to be
constantly hammered on by our
congressman and senator's, our
governor and legislatures, put in
to the platforms of our state con-
ventions, made into a hymn and
sung by the people, printed in the
prayer books, and prayed for by
the preachers.
In short, it ought to be worked
on daily ard hourly until it be-
comes an accomplished fact.
Hundreds of thousands Of dol
lars are annually wasted by gov
ernment appropriations to clear
sticks out of little shallow creeks,
and what not. while one Of the
the finest natural harbors any
where on earth lies helpless on
the southern border Of our great
state and roars like a giant in
chains.
The cost of dredging Ship Is
land pass would be mere baga-
telle in comparison with the won
derful mines of natural wealth
which would be opened up to the
markets Of the world.
Speaking of its inexhaustiye-
ness and feasibility Mr.. Dahlgren
says:
"There seems to be a popular
idea that the bottom at this point
is'of sand. That's erroneous. 1t
is a soft blue clay bottom, exceed
ingly tenacious of its position,
and little affected by the wash Of
the sea. For instance, there IS a
place where a piece of heavy ma
chinery was sunk in the water a
number of years ago at this place,
and taken out again, any one can
see today the displacement il
made at the bottom. 1t is cer-
tainly one of the coming ports OF
the south. Once this channel is
cut through the bar there will be
plenty of water for any ship, fol
there is ample water in the harbol
for any ship. jackson News.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

The murder Of "Rufus Sanders
whose real name was Lloyd, from
the st. Louis Globe--Democrat
it appears there is woman at the
bottom of the case. Gafford is
supposed to have killed Lloyd in
a quarrel about the formers sis
ter, a grass widow to whom
Lloyd, who was a married man,
was said to be paying attentions.
Politics, too, in a great measure
due to the trouble.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

Louisiana is to have a constitu.
.tional convention. Its people
are aware that the existing con :
ditions are such as to demand
that as proposed, but they care
naught to entertain the Mississip
pi plan on the grounds that the
understanding or educational
clause in years will level the negro
with the whites and conflict for
supremacy would eventually
ensue.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
Demas Appointment.

The able New Orleans States is
bitter at the appointment of Demas.
1t says IN part:
The appointment of Henry Demas
by the President of the United States
10 be Naval Officer at this port has
excited great deal of Indignation
throughout the country. But the
Indignation is not as that which SO
disgraceful an appointment should
have evoked.
No such scandaIous and infamous
appointment has been made since the
darkest days Of reconstruction. De-
mas is an insolent. oyerbearing buck
negro, whose wholecourse in politics
has been infamous and corrupt in the
extreme, He has been at various
times brought up by every faction
that has figured in our political af-
fairs, and as, by his forcefulness and
insolence he generally has consid-
cradle negro following, as purchase
Die comAodlty,he possesses a certain
value.
God Of our Fathers! to what have
We Gomez TO what q vile and abom-
Unable depth has this Republic sunk
when the presidency is at the dlspo-
sal Of the negroes and is bought by 8
bribe by the man that holds il? A
Roman bought The Roman throne
AZ pubhc auction, and after q
thousand years history continues
degounce and men to express
8 y st The crime. William Nc.
has been guilty of foulei
" iainst honor and liberty be
4 Sthe presidency by foul and
Al iy dicker with dIsreputable
niggef politician.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
Jefferson Military College
SIX MILES EAST OF NATCmEz-

An English, classical, scientific, nd
business school, with literary, and athlet-
ic training, laboratories, library and well
equipped gymnasium, Three complete
courses and excellent preparatory depart
ment. $3.50 for nine calendar months,
including board, tuition, room, washing
and lights.
dent, J. s. RAYMOND,
Washington. Miss.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

Gen. Fitzhugb Lee returned from
Cuba Wednesday,, landing at New
York. He spoke very little on the
war situation on the island, but said
the case of Miss Clsneros had been
much exaggerated. -
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

The state of Wisconsin will be
asked to remove the static of Pele
Marquette from the statdafy hall at
Washington to prevent II from fur
ther DETACHMENT by the sprejudiced.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

The Jacksonville (Fla.) Times
Union says: "McLaurin of South
Carolina goes to the senate, but
the McLaurins of Mississippi
don't care. They hold pretty near
all the Offices in their state except
that of the senate.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

The first number of the Scran-
ton Chronicle, by the Chronicle
Publishing Co., has reached our
desk and is a creditable publica-
tion. 1t has our best wishes.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
MARY CEM1N AIRY,
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FOR YOUNG LADIES,
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Write for catalogue.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

The Sea Coast Echo would re-
spectfully eall the attention Of
its readers and the purchasing
public to the advertisements of its
patrons. None but reliable firms
are allowed in its advertising coli
nmns. This is guarantee.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

Mrs. Richard Milliken, of New
Orleans, has given the charity hos
pital of that city $751;
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
Library Notice.

The Kings Daughters Library, at the
public school, is opened every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, from 10 q. M, to
u m. Patrons will be charged 10 cents
per month, JossIE r. DnLARD.
Librarian.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

The author of the book elbow
to Get Rich was imprisoned for
debt in New York last week.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

A statue in bronze of Charles
Darwin has been set up in his pa-
tive town.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
CLINTON, LA

The best equipped training school for
boys In the Southwest. Prepares thor
oughly for college, the government aca-
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military discipline, physical culture and
social influences are so combined as to
develop the best best there is IN a
boy. Next session opens Sept. %, 1897
Illustrated catalogue on application.
Maj, II, III. Gilmore, supt.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11

An enterprising publisher Of Ma
drd prints bis Journal on linen with
composition which is easily remov-
able BY water. The subscriber, af-
icl reading the news, sends his paper
.io his @as. rwom IL aud comes uatk
" AandksFe, ief.
The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1897-09-11
LIVE OAK DAIRY,

bRoarg gaos. strictly pure Iersoy milk.
veam cheese. butter, hnttgrmtk. DeHv
sfytfee, Inspection Of premises Invited
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THE SEA COAST ECHO
For all and every kind of job printin g
Front street.
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OPPOSITION BAKERY

Landrien Bros, proprietors, The only
malt yeast bread on the coast made by us,
Corner Goodchiidrer and Hancock SITS.
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BAY ST. LOUIS
B USiNES DIRECTORY.

JOYCE 81 osoINACH,
General Merchandise, Front between
Bookter avenue and Goodchildren street.
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L. NJ. GEX, AGr.,
General merchandise, fancy and staple
groceries, country produce, corner Han
cock and Washington streets.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
HUMOR IN TIE ARMY.

THE ARMY MULE AND OTHER STORIES
BY Captain Henry A. Castle The Bowen Mer-
rill [ company, indianapolis Ind. Price 81 rs.
Captain Castles memory had goue gayIy
back 10 the period that produced the many
Tons of printed memoirs and recollections of
4ae rebe lIion which We trust VIII be offered
f. evidence against their writer's in the day Of
judgment. and from his knowledge of that ILL.,
starred e3och he has created again The Army
Mule, The SutleT, The Shelter Tent and The
Dress Parade. 1t is not given.to many men to
see unaided the fun that the favored few
discover on every hand; fewer yet find it in
the stress OF war. But TO one OF Captain Cas-
ties spirit it would seem that a campaign was
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
FOR AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS.

sUNLIGHT AND sHADOW-By W. I. Lincoln
Adams. The Baker & Taylor Company, New
York. Price s. so.
The authors little book entitled Amateur
Photography was designed. as It's subtitle
suggested, TO be q practical guide for the be-
ginner." The present volume seeks to aid the
more advanced photographer 1t is assumed
that the reader has mastered the technicAli-
ties OF photography and now desires 10 make
better pictures. The author has collected
from the Photographic Times the American
Annual OF Photography and other sources
articles and illustrations by the best authori-
ties on Photographic landscape and studio art,
including also some papers and illus,rati
OF his own. in the hope that they may help, by
precept and example, the photographer who
desires to advance in pictorial Photography
The book contains one hundred exquisite half
tone engravlngs illustrating the following
topics: The Choice of Subject, Ian dscape With
out Figures, Landscape With Figures. Fore
grounds, the Sky, Gu door Portraits and
Groups, The Hand Camera, Instantaneous.
Photography, Winter Photography, Marines,
Photography at Night. Lighting in Portrai-
ture, Photo graphing Children. Art in Group
ing.
The writers are j. Wells Champney, Alfred
Stleglitz. II. P. Robinson, Walter f. Woodbury,
Aanthus Smith, DR.. J. W. Bemis W. A. Fraser,
Dr.. Hemingway and others
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

what large field there is in this State for
original research into the mysteries OF so
interesting a subject. Through the pages
OF their book there is an essentially ainty
touch that could come only from lovers Of
the naturally beautiful. affording an ad-
ditional source OF inspiration TO the
reader. Who other than the most ardent
student of plant life could present an
argument so succinctly, so definitely and
with such entire truth as it is put forward
in the following sentences extracted from
the preface?
"Mr. Burroughs, that devout lover of
nature, says: Most young people find
botany a dull study. So it is, as taught
from the textbook in the schools, but
study it yourself in the fields and woods
and you Will find II a source of perennial
delight. Find your flower, and then name
it by the aid of the botany. There is SO
much in q name. To find out what a
thing is called is a great help. 1t is the
beginning of knowledge; it is the first
step. When we see q new person no IN
terests us we wish 10 know his or her
name. A bird, flower, n place-the first
thing We wish 10 know about it is its
name. lis name helps US to classify it..
1t gives US the handle to grasp 1T BY 1t
sheds ray of light where all before was
darkness. AS soon as we know the name
of thing we seem to have established
some sort of relation with it
Having learned the name OF flower
or plant, or having been formally intro
duced to il, as it were, ou7 acquaintance
has Just begun. Instead of being our end
and aim, as il was with students of botany
in the olden times, this is but the begin
ming. If this were our ultimate aim, all
our pleasure would be at an end as soon
as we had learned the names OF all the
plants within our reach. But the point
of view h as changed and broadened. The
plant is now recognizeG as a living organ
ism, not Il cad, unchanging thing. 1t is
vial; it grows; it is amenable TO the great
laws Of the universe, and we see it daily
complying with those laws, ada pting it.
self TO it's surroundings, or perishing. 1t
becomes a thing of absorbing interest
waen we trace the cps by which 1t has
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12

the features of the December number of scrib-
ner's. The frontispiece is a charming picture
Oy FROST showing the immortal Pickwick at
the Side story by Dr. Henry Van Dyke
entitled "a Christmas Loss is full of religious
feeilngI and is beautifully told; in "a Run of
Lucy Joel Chandl ler Harris tells a tale Of DAYS
Iong before the war. and Southern romance
DF Mrs Elicit is well worth reading. Kip
nng poem, "Ihe Feet Of The Young Men," al
thouGh slng-songy, is not bad, and another by
J. Russell Taylor, "The Posing OF Vivette" is
Doth Original and daintily illustrated James
Nhltcomo Riley's sonnet to Robert Louis
stevenson Is accompanied by a hitherto un-
punished portrait of the late author taken
in the early seventies
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
The Century.

The opening article in the Century is "Merry
Christmas in the Tenements," by jacob A.
Riis, author of "How the Other Half Lives !"
Clarence Cook contributes a sketch OF the
author Of the familiar poem Twas the Night
Before Christmas" aud portrait is given Of
the author, Dr. Clement G. Moore. The late
General Francis A Walker is represented by a
paper on The Causes of Poverty" w Lewis
Fraser writes a critical sketch on "A keli gious
Painter" Fritz Won Uhde. One of the most
iut2Festing papers in the magazine is en-
lit IA "Tennyson and His Friends at Fresh
wa f." bv V. c. Scott O'Connor. People in
teret ed in the Orent viii enjoy Mrs scid-
morn article on "The Wonderful Morning
glories OF Japan" and for lovers of lighter
literature there are six short stories by WELL
known writers. The entire magazine is full
NJ the Christmas spirit and is admirably illus
trated throughout.
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-12
A SPELLING TEST.

II you can spell every word correctly in the
following rhymes-au legitimate expires
may consider yourself qualified tC
enter spelling bee:
stand up, ye spoilers, now and SPELL
Spell phenakistocope aud knen;
Or take some simple word as chilly
or gauger or the garden lily.
To spell such words as syllogism,
And lachrymose or synchronism,
Aud PentateucA and saccharine,
Apocrypha and celadine
Jepnine and homeopathy,
Paralysis and chloroform. asrsnss
Rhinoceros and pachyderm,
Metemp chosis, ghe-kins, BASQUE.
Is certainly no easy task;
Kaleidoscope and Tennessee.
kamtchatka and erysipelas.
And etiquette and ssssafras,
InfallIble and ptyaism,
AIlopathy and rheumatism,
Aud cataclysm ana beleaguer.
IWelfth, eighteenth. re1d. zvous, intriguer
And hosts OF other words all found
On English and on class ground.
Thus, Bchring Straits and Michaelmas,
ThermoDylae, jalsp, Havana,
Cinquefoil and ipecacuaiha,
And Rappahannock, Shenandoah.
And SchuyIkill and a thousand mora
Are woris some prime good spellers miss
IN dictionary lands like this.
Nor need one think himself a scrovle
II some OF these his efforts fol.
Nor deem himself undone forever
To miss the name OF either river.
The Dnieper, Seine or Guadalouiyer.
Louisville Courier-JournaI