The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-09-22
A TOY EPIDEMIC.

e abroad one feels as though he Were
r breathing a pestileutial air In fever
I blasted Town. When we road the en-
D tire truthful and full reports of the
board of health aud the comments OF
! most of our newspapers, one feels Ms
. though he were boing refreshed with
: balmy breezos laden wi the periuulr
= OF the rose and the orange, surround
ed by life-giviDg Influences.
If we have yellow fever in our
y midst, it is really in the mlldest form
in which the dreal disease has rl er
appeared on earth. After all The mis-.
) cradle fright snG the miserable rumors
and lies thai have been set aGOal there
saS not been single death from the
alleged pestilence. The one death re-
ported that of the Gelpi boy, was
not death from yellow fever. The
child had been III oil the fever, was
convalescent, came TO Canal street and
consumed large quantity of ice
cream and soda water, went home and
Of course died. This was not death
from yellow fever, but from an over.
dose of ice cream and soda water
taken al all unreasonable time
This pestilenoe, if it is q pestilence,
is a toy peslilence, sort of a doll
baby affair If the little girls of soday
could realize what yellow fever pes
thence is; if they could look back and
see the march OF the yellow death |
IN all preceding epidemics, moving as
consuming wind heated with tho
fires Of hell, carrying death and terror
and tears and misery and woe into
nearly every house hold, with the ten.
denoy OF child hood to imitation, they
would make ofthe present little squirt
plaything' They would play there
is a yellow fever epidemic:
little Dolly Buttons would play that
her doll was very i'll with the fever,
indeed not expected to live; little Sal.
lie Towhead would whimperingly tell
that hers had the black vomit and
could scarcely be expected to live
through the next twenty-four hours I
and little Mollie Redcheek would play
that her doll had suppression of urine |
aud that her case was hopeless, and
then the man dolls would be intro.
duced as doctors and would direct
hat the premises be disinfected and
cologne bottle would be ex- II
lausted i'll disinfeoting the doll houses o
md papa would be kept busy making o
dashboard cOtfins for the dead dolls. P
lead of the yellow fever, while all the q
'ther dolls would be robed in black U
Aud this Is just the sort OF yellow y
ever visitation we have in New Or %
'ans now, not a whit more dead IL
and not whit more dangerous, y
nd yet thousands of usually sensible "
eople have lost their heads, made ~
lark fools of themselves and acted "
lore like herd of wild Texas cattle y
.ampeded on the prairie than like "
snslble people who have homes TO o
rotect and business interests 10 care W
)r, al
The spectacle of a whole country =,
nitten to wildness, to actual crazi- :,
ess by phrsse--"yellow fever' is pit. a.
bile and cOntsmptible beyond des- n
Upton. A yellow fever epidemic is IN,
terrible and when once n.
arted it moves like prairie fire. It =.
'rries death and woe upon ITS bias .r
ng wings. In the whole history of -
'Dow fever epidemics nothing Of the p,
ter harmIessnessness of this vista.
On can be found, or ifthey may be,
ell 1t must be conceded that the vel
W fever can come to us in the guise
a comparatively bsneficient and be- "A
VIOLENT visitor. Carlyle once said that tsU
,ndOn was city of one million in hs'
bitants, mostly fools. Witnessing do'
9 wild, miserable and contemplate DO
ght that this little harmless burst vol
fever has produced, we are almost
nPted 10 paraphrase Carlysle's re- cas-
'rk about London and say New Or
ns is a city Of 100000 people, most 50"
fools.-N. o. States.