The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-08-18
1MMUNE MEANS PURITY

Yellow Fever Uruell COOKS OlpeF bAA-H'S
Gsrn,s Out % the system.
Philadelphia Times: The United.
States army claims the strangest and
most remarkable regiment in the world
the regiment Of yellow fever immunes
stationed at Camp caftrcy, near Cow
lngton; KY, and destined for service at
Santiago de Cuba. There is nothing ex-
actly like II. in any of the armies OF the
world. So II stands alone and distinct
I've In military ranks. II 10 not the only
remarkable organization In the United
States army, but certainly is one OF the
most interesting. 1850
Tho regiment is composed OF LUIS men
all of whom have passed through yeiI
tow fever, that most terrible OF al
scourges, and have come out OF e awe
Having been bitten by this horrible ca
iamity OF the south, they could never
feel 1t again, and they are therefore pre-
pared to go to Cuba and Its tungles, and
live there forever.
The regiment is headed by Colonel
Duncan Norbert Hood, West Pointer
and one OF the most gallant young SOL
dlers In the United States army. Colo
mel Hood is the son OF General John Bell
Hood, the Confederate leader, whose
memory IS tender to the entire south.
When the war broke out and II be-
came certain that our troops must 80 10
Cuba, q thrill went along the line, for
the men knew that they must face that
which Is more awful than powder and
smoke, than cannon ball and dynamite
shell. They knew they must fight foe
unseen and InsldIous, horrld, hateful,
devastating, a foe which works in Sc
cret and spares few.
During the rnIny season. which COM
mences in Cuba in the spring and lasts
until September, the germs Of yellow te-
yer are born and grown. They have
their being in the swampy lands, ana
they feed upon the green thick mists.
No African jungle has anything more
deadly than the yellow fever of Cuba.
Colonel Hood in his long service along
the gulf and southern states once had
yellow fever How he came out Of It
alive not even he could tell, for the rec
ords show that only one man out Of
hundred escapes, but escape he did, and
when the war fever took him he felt
that he could 90 10 Cuba without fear
of taking the Cuban disease.
And then the idea suggested Itself to
him that he form regiment Of yellow
fever immunes. He knew that In short
time, should the war be over, 1t would
be necessary to- keep an army garri-
soneti at Cuba, and for this work no one
could be as well adapted as the yellow
fever immune.
He at once paid visit TO Washing
ton and there saw President Mckinley
and Secretary Alger. In few days
bill was passed In Congress authorizing
the raising OF an immune regiment"
The bill was introduced by the house
military committee and provided for
the enllsting OF sufficient number OF
Immune volunteers to make ten regl-
ments. The membership Of each regi-
ment was limited to LOSS men.
| Colonel Hood set to work to form the
! first regiment. The difficulty Of It was
\ that they must all be volunteers, and
all OF the volunteers must have been
I through siege OF yellow fever. At last
he got It together, the whole l,0SS men.
These he gathered at Camp caffrcy.
| Yellow fever has the striking pecu-
/ llarity that those who have come out
I of 1t are singularly Tranquil all the rest
I OF their lives. Every mnlarial germ and
every latent poison in the body seems
| to have been driven out by the fever
or killed in the high temperature. so
/ that when the invalid RECEIVERS. II re-
cover he does, he is free from every de-
| feet of blood or bone All the evils
! which he has accumulated In a lifetime
/ are cooked out OF him by the deadly
| heat, and his flesh Is us pink and his
| body as pure as that OF n healthy new
! born child. With this renewal Of
| strength the yellow fever immune COM
mences to enjoy himself He takes life
happily and never knows what II is to
| he angry. Blues are as far away from
| his temperament as rosy hues are far
away from the moonlight gleams He
is sunny. contented. more or less indus
| trious. and certainly happy.
| The immunes are generally men from
! fine families. Many OF them, like Colo
mel Hood, are born aristocrats, and
/ most Of them are patriclans; and they
/ came to the camp bound only by one
/ tle-namely that OF fearful fever
! through which they have passed safely.
| The false opinion prevailed for long
| time that the immunes were very low
class who had been through yellow fe-
I yer in the tenements Of the large cities,
| in which they live but this Is mistake.
II would be hard to find any regiment
/ in the war which is composed Of men
OF better families than these Temarka-
BILE yellow fever immunes.
| In the war department this regiment
| Is known as the Second United States
1 volunteer infantry, but at home they
are known as the most remarkable regl-
ment In the world.