The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-07-19
An Increase III Sickness
TAR HEELS HAD RATHER FALL BY
MAUSER RIFLES THAN VEL
LOW FEVER.
Work of Catholics Among the Sick--No Ordnance Stores
Tar Heel Troops Need Better Guns--Rewards tor
Arrest OF Deserters--Gen. Lee in Camp.
by Our Special Correspondent

by Our Special Correspondent
Camp Cuba Lilre, Near Jacksonville
Fla, July l..
The second pay day for Camp Cuba
Librc has come and gone. The pay
masters finished their work tonight. lhe
North Carolina troops were among the
last paid. This was due to certain cor
rectionS that had to be made III the pay
roll in regard to back pay. 1t took nearly
TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars to pay oil
the Tar Heels. Each man got eighteen
dollars and twenty cents, or two dollars
and sixty cents back pay.
Major Hayes is here. He came up
from Tampa to spend a few days with
General Lee. lie returns tomorrow
night. He will 90 to Porto Rico with
General Miles.
General Lee today reviewed the entire
second division. The troops made Il
most satisfactory showing. After the
review General Lee called at the North
Carolina headquarters and spoke in most
fiattering terms of the North Carolina
troops. Major Hayes was present at
the review and was delighted with the
change that has been wrought in the
soldiers since they left Raleigh.
With the rain has come an alarming
increase of sickness among the soldiers
i'll Camp Cuba Libre. There are now
over q patients i'll the division hos
pital. to say nothing of Il still larger
number sick i'll quarters. OF these i'll
the hospital Il score or more are dan
gerousIy i'll.
The typhoid and malarial fevers here
are often Of Il most malignant and fatal
type. A case of this kind came under
my observation the other day. y sol
der of the Fourth Virginia regiment
was taken to the hospital, showing Symp
toms of typhoid fever. At dinner he was
bright and had Il pretty good appetite.
That night he was Il corpse. An autopsy
showed sixteen alterations on his bowels.
One company-Company +. of the
Second Illinois rogiment-has lost four
men by death out of seventeen sent to
the hospital. The sickness Of all these
seventeen men dates some two weeks
back when they were made sick by eat
ing spoiled beans.
The North Carolina regiment congratU-
lates itself on the fact that it has not
yet lost Il man by disease.
HOSPITAL PHARMACIST MUNDS
RETURNS.
II. II. Mcknight, chief steward ut the
division hospital, has been relieved of
that duty and ordered to report back
to the First North Caroline regiment.
\. B.. Dcering, Of the Forty-ninth Iowa,
succeeds him as chief hospital steward.
The statement that he has been pro
NOTED is Il mistake.
\. J.. Munds has returned to the hos
pital AM given himself up. 1t will he
remembered he disappeared the day
after he arrived here, returning to his
home in Wilmington. He says he had
no idea he was doing wrong i'll going
back: that he enlisted in North Caro-
lima. but he thought he had to enlist
here also and unless he choose to do that
he was free. He enlisted III North Caro-
lima as Il pharmacist: arriving here he
found he WAS to he only Il ''chambcr-
maid" and not liking the job he took
French leave. When he saw in the
News and Observer that he would be
arrested and tried for desertion at the
expiration of ten days. he decided to
return. Not having been absent ten
DAYS he will be tried for being absent
without leave. As he was ignorant of
the law. the punishment imposed upon
him will be very light, if indeed he be
punished at I'LL.
SOLDIERS AFRAID OF YELLOY
FEVER.
The announcement NJ a yellow fever
epidemic at Santiago has about remove
from the Seventh Army Corps all de
sire to go to that place. 1t has not
robbed them of the war spirit. however.
and they are again building their hopes
on Porto Rico. 1t is believed here that
as soon as Santiago falls the invasion
of Porto Rico will begin and Cuba will
he abandoned until after the yellow fever
season. Porto Rico has Il most delight
tUi climate and is healthy all the year
round.
Tar Heels, perhaps, are no drawer than
oth"r people. but they had rather face
MauS"r rifles and dynamite guns than
h&h' yellow fever. One bullet in five
hundred Is fatal. while one victim in
nv" succumhs To- yellow fever. No breast
work Is strong enough to stop the raw
ages of the dread disease, once il gets
a hold III such n climate. Its casualties
III one short week have often been great
or than have been registered since the
beginning of this war with Spain.
Already, if reports be true. yellow
jack has broken out in this State as well
as III Cuba. 1t is to be hoped there is
some mistake, but parties from Tampa
declare positively that the fever has
broken out there among the troops.
Located as it is. in what was once Il
swamp, Camp Cuba Iibre furnishes Il
most inviting spot for all manner of
fCvers.
The North Carolina members of the
hospital corps are arranging to establish
" mess to themselves.
Nr@Sr@. Staples, Schenck and Bogart,
y, ,''ohShoro, and Smith and Troy. of
i''io>Nlle' have arrived here. They en-
il9ieo Tor the hospital corps. but NOT lik-
ing the work they are trying to get a
transfer to the First North Carolina
regiment They nave not yet reported
for duty at the hospital.
'eorge Nottingham has been sick ever
since ne mas been here. His sickness is
not serious. "
WORK OF CATHOLICS AMONG
THE SICK.