The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-10-27

YOU hear me? say. didn't yell2 Didn't
bluff EN-? They wanted 10 dose me. they
said ] was dying Pshaw, | wasn't dy.
Ing. / amt dying. and | amt going "a
die Gods on my side and TIL fight FOR
my life
and that corporal lived-pullcd
through by clean grit; that's my opln-
ion
Then "Auntie" told about coming home
on the transport THAT was bad" she
said. that was bad. Sick men packed
everywhere So close you could hardly
get about. dying men on the upper deck,
dying men on the lower deck. and where
ever went In hear pitiful cries Nurse,
can I see the doctor? Nurse, can have
some quinine? Nurse. I fee so bad,
Use got such a pain laughed and tried
To cheer them up. bit my heart was
most broken all the time
There was one boy who died at sea
RI wasn't over sixteen. He came from
Ohio. HIS first name was George; 7
didn't know any other name. There
We're plenty like him. and ] used to tell
'em they ought a-been at school. and so
they had. This hoy George used 10 keep
crying out. not loud. but just plaintive-
like: "Oh. nurse: # my mother was only
here" ! guess he said that hundred
times ! guess that was about the last
thing he did say. Ask that girl what
she thinks about Cuba; she was down
at Siboney"
"Auntie" pointed 10 a thin. white.
faced girl with close-croppcd hair who
was sitting on q cot I'm the tent. She
was Miss Rosa Dickmann. OF New or
leans. another immune" nurse. as was
thought. vet she had come down with
the fever herself al Siboney. This she
explained with smile Of sadness and
sweetness strangely blended.
1T was enough 10 make you die she
said Just TO be at Siboney; it was Ike
a valley OF death There we We're. deep
between two high hills with the boom
ing Caribbean Sea Just before US. and an
awful solitude all around. At night
there was a flashing OF lanterns among
the tents as the doctors moved about,
and the moaning Of men: I'm dying.
I'm dying. / used 10 Die awake plan
ming how ! could escape; that was when
the fever was coming on.
"And what fever IT IS I have had
yellow fever and typhoid fever. but this
IS worse than anything. After the chills
comes a hoadache-such n headache that
you might think you had earache or
tOOthache AN over your head. your eyes
anu NNNA jaws anu s'Al fNAN A.NrA' NAAAt
pain: even your hair aches. but there
is no pain below your neck-only eX-
IRENE feebleness. Your body seems 10
be dead, you can keep nothing ~ your
stomach. and the worst thing 81 all IS
that you know you are losing your mind
you are drifting into helpless strpor.
Just think Of H., There was nothing
TO cheer one. only death and suffering
all about YOU There was nothing 10
read. no one TO talk 20. There We're no
Sunday services. and orders were given
that no one should talk religion 10 the
men. II YOU wanted religious hop you
must send for chaplain. and th6y we're
kept busy hurying the dead. And yet
in an this misery one OF the nurses man
aged TO fall i'm love with one Of the doc
tors-its queer how love goes on through
she used 10 get me 10
read the cards for her every morning;
she managed to get time for that and
IL amused me. ! found out afterwards
that the doctor was q married man from
"-Clcveland Mofett IN Les
lies Weekly.