The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-10-20
BISHOP THOMPSON ON THE QUARAN.
TINE.

Aut Wuuho htht blNiuuht moi osii
running" presumably for Nova Scotia
aud that others have been heard Of IL
the north end Of Minnesota, heading
presumably for Manitoba. Thore is
of course, great exaggeration Ia suci
representations 1t is true they brokt
aud run; those that could afford it by
rail TO the far Northwest; those whC
could not afford such transportation
by OK or mule team to the woods o
Simpson or Rankin counties. Oul
two respected contemporaries" the
"PalladlR of our Liberties" promptly
shut up shop and fed The pSulteu
tlary announced itself closed, and the
institution is in charge Of young
/ gentleman under life sentence, who
is running It admirably, the warder
and the inmates having wisely left fol
Rankin. The Governor is not allow.
ed to como home, being considered
chockful Of germs" The only repre-.
sentative of the executive department
is Col, Power, Secretary Of State, who
lie busy reorganizing the Howard AS
ISOLATION, in case anybody should be
sick. There is no business. Most OF
the houses and nearly all tho shops are
closed, aud the city is nearly as quiet
as the cemetery.
There is a "scare train" of ten cars
at the Illinois Central depot waiting
to carry out the rest of The frightened,
If necessary. The arrangement first
was that the alarm bell should strike
six taps on the first appearance of a
suspicious CASE so that the people
could begin to pack, and strike five
next hour, and so OH down to one,
when the train would have a good
head ofsleam up and packed with the
rest of the refugees, would tear up
the road to Chicago! This was chang
ed aftcrward. 1t was considered that
the awful alarm bell might scare peo-
pie who could not get away or who
were sick, banging out in the middle
of The night, say, and 40 it is compro-
missed that those who are TO go on fhe
''scsre train" leave their names some
where, and when the "irst case" is de-
clared they are to be warned quietly
by telephone TO run. = The knell will
not knoll.
And yet there is no, now, nor hos
there been q single suggestion of sick
ness infectious in Jackson, and the
mayor and Board of Health officially
declare that the city i'll twenty years
was never as healthy!
IT would be all udicrous-ipdeed
it is ludicrous-were 1t not such
tragic wreck of the city's and coun-
try's promise, prosperity and hope
The people who poured out for
forty-eight hours in { steady stream
on every road, are enduring hardships
manifold. Want of necessaries, want |
of water fit to drink, or any water at |
all, exposure to malaria 1--WE have
drouth on hand and malarial weather. |
penniless long before they can return,
are sure to come back and, from
anxiety and depression aud exposure,
bring the ordinary fall fevers home
Intensified.
1t may be comfort to man dy-
ng to know that "experts" declare nc
s only dying of swamp fever, not Of
lellow. | don't myself quite see
where the comfort comes in. But it
S pretty certain that there will be
much sickness and many deaths from
haematuric" and such fevers among
be refugees on their return. 1t was
o. | am told, in 1888.
There was some kind of sickness at
Edwards, twenty-five miles from here
t was very mild; is very mild yet
seventeen negroes on one place had
t. All are up and at work, and never
aW doctor.
Our own physicians, even our own
'oard of Health diagnosed it "dengue."
tut they were not content A gentle
ian with IN. S, expert" on one coat
all and "M. D." on the other came
rom Washington for look and q
nell, and said "yellow feverl" He has l
grip full Of microbes apparently and c
,und "yellow fever"at Cairo the other ,
ay. Indeed, he finds it everywhere! c
here is no creature more dangerous
ian an expert; none more unreliable.
Now what was the modest State
oard of Health to do? State rights =
a dead issue. When Washington v
nder Republican administrator t.
eclares that Mississippi must have n
GLOW postmaster in Jackson or q vel
w fever IN Edwards, we must humbly F
oey. h
We obeyed, therefore. There is .
ldoubtedly yellow fever in Edwards a
the expert says so--112 cases, and
ur or five people have died! 81
So our Board of Health telegraphed
Jackson to have the people scatter! In
ur energetic mayor The deserves all
aise) and our local Board of Health D
conded the advice. We:had been lie
daily communication with Edwards o.
r weeks. We were so then. What p,
&c was to be done? The order was "
catter~ aud the good people of ar
ckson waited no second command m
icy locked their doors and proceed 70
bv al L--FG methods of convey fri
ce, except the balloon, to.disseminate
emselYes over the face of North N
nerica Meanwhile what logical 10
Inclusion could the rest of the world vi
me to save that jackson was knee ~ ~
ep in microbes and the active occu an
ton of the people left was burying &C
, dead? m,
II is dreadfully lonesome, and one ]
caught in a trap, as It were, and the co
Y is knocked in the head for
lille. But we have the best shotgun ne
arsntine ever invented. | think
crobe pleddiDg his way on any dirt O1
ID into town would be blown to T..
all pieces without mercy. We are Z