Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1897-11-09
THE YELLOW SCOURGE.
Humor and Pathos in tho Fever
Stricken Region.
"enes and Incidents Described By
One Who Was Connected with the
Relief Service in
Georgia.

Since l have been mixed up with tho
yellow fever panic l have gone through
many variegated experiences. When
was pressed into service by Dr. McRae
as a train inspector at East Point |
felt more like | should be taken for a
train robber, and passing through the
crowded sleeping cars with the dark
eyes of those damsels from the far south
turned upon us in listless languor, my
sympathies went out to the refugees
from the proud city curving like shin
ing crescent along the shores of that
mighty river which rolls in resistless
majesty toward the slumbering sea-
l fancied how they must miss the
dreamful quietude of that ancient city
where old world ways so obstinately
resist the onrush of modern innova-
tons, and how homesick they must feel
amid the resistless hustle of Georgias
capital where the crackeriZed Yankee
and the Yankeeized cracker are strug-
Cling for supremacy, generous rivalry
and unenvious emulation, to be fore
most in the march of progress. Ever
and anon caught the soft responses of
the travellers to the questions put to
them by the inspecting physician, de-
livered in that tongue whose musical
lntonations partake of the songs of the
sea winds among the quivering lime
trees far down beside the sounding
shores of the Gulf of Mexico.
It seemed so cruel and callous to chal
lenge them thus, and yet it was neces-
sary, and the disagreeable task was
robbed of all its harsher features
through the kindly courtesy of the
young physician, whose disagreeable
duty it was to see that they were al!
sound and well. And knew that when
they reached Atlanta they wculG be
greeted with a generous welcome, and
.no armed guard would lie in wait to
keep them away from safe and hos
ritable refuge. Atlanta never appears
10 better advantage than when an APP.
peal is made to the generosity of her
people, which is never found lacking
in any emergency.
Among the pathetic incidents there
have been some ridiculous episodes rs
well connected with the distressing
state of affairs. One day paid Il visit
to the office of my friend, DR.. Corrupt.
ana found him working away for dear
life issuing health certificates. a lady
took her seat in front of him and gave
her name and an account of where she
had been within the last 20 days. She
didn't look to be very old.
What is.your age, please?" asked the
physician.
"Ninety-eight."
"Your age, maam; what is your
age?"
"Ninety-eight, said" she answered,
snappishly.
pardon me, ma'am," said the ply
stefan, with a critical look at her youth
full face, 81 asked you how old you
are?"
9Oh, I thought you asked my weight.
which is % pounds
.But your age-how old are you?'
"Th>t is none of your business. Put
it 16: that will DO as wei as any other
age;" and she received the certificate.
Another lady of robust figure and
with determined expression doomed
up in the doorway.
81 want a certificate"
"All right, ma'am; anybody to iden-
tify your"
Don't have to be identified, sir.
Guess I've been around enough to be
able to identify myself, and to take
care of myself, too
I ~ hn
ure of knowing you, [ cant give you
certificate until you are Identified
"Then you refuse to give me certiti-
cate. eh?"
Cant do it, ma'am. Would like to
oblige you, but the regu-'
ooh, don't trouble yourself. If you
don't want to give me certificate, it is
all right. l can go anywhere I want to
go ANYHOW, even if | never see you
again." and she aounced away like a
high-born lady true.
Just then the sky was overcast, and
deluge of darlies entered under the
chaperonage of Jackson McHenry.
81 wants a s'tikit TO- dis ere lady,
an dis ere gemmen', an desc ere"
eyes, but who are you?" asked the
physician, for it CHANGED that he, among
all Atlanta's multitude, had never
stood face to face with the puissant pol
itician before.
use Jackson McHenry, sab; ex-
oap'n-"
"That may be true enough, but you
will have to bring up somebody who
can identify you"
sGreat Lawd! I fought ev'ybody
knowed Jackson McHenry. rs gittin'
10 this ere squarshun to Chattynoogy,
~ desc folks is bought tickets
"He's all right" said an acquaintance
standing near, "I'll vouch for Jack
and then the irrepressible leader OF
forlorn hope proceeded in turn to iden-
Hfv the rest of the crowd, whose indig-
ration was already beginning to rise
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