The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-27

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| mcd.dtely pronounced il yellow fever.
/ The pros pective fee was really no consid-
! Grafton bat the glory of having a yellow
| fever patient on his list was no small
! feather In his cap at that early stage, and
in a ST -prisingly short time the Board of
! Health had received his report, and sent
a guard up with a yellow flag TO quaran-
tine the house. AS 1t happened, none OF
! the boarders were in at the time, but they
began to appear about lunch time, only
to be informed that the house was quar-
! antined and all admission denied. The
| consequence was an angry crowd around
| the door, and a narrowly averted riot
But the agent of the Board of Health
stood his ground, and no one went in.
In the meantime the young lady's fever
| had steadily diminished, and by the next
morning she was feeling so well that she
| determined TO 90 to work-she was a type
| writer in a railroad office. At the door
| she was met by the man in charge of the
| yellow flag, who informed her that there
| was yellow fever in the house, and re-
| fused to let her out.
why, l know of no one with yellow
fever in the house" said the young lady
| DO you know the Nance"
IT'S Miss Clark" replied the officer.
II am Miss Clark" replied the victim,
land l have no yellow fever. Take your
flag away, and let me go about my work -
But the officer was inhexible, and the
victim compromised the matter by leaving
him in possession of the front door and
making her escape by the rear. Her days
work finished, she returned and applied
for admission at the front door The Off
| Ger denied it. on the ground that there was
lady in the house with yellow fever
Seeing that he did not recognize her, she
asked the name of the patient.
Miss Clark" replied the officer
Il think you must be mistaken about
that" she remarked. II am Miss Clark,
| and / have never felt better in my life.
have been at work all day, and 1 think
you might as well let me in
There was no further opposition, and a
few minutes later the yellow-flag man
took his flag and went away of his own ac-
| cord, to the unutterable relief of the
household
One night, when the scare was we'll on,
a well-known Cotton Exchange man went
out TO spend the evening with some friends
They had a very pleasant time, and wound
up with a supper at Moreau's, where the
wines are good. His wife had never seen
him when the wines had been so entlcing,
and in his desperation he decided to plead
yellow fever. The effect was electrical
The household, awaknede at 2 q. M, was
Immediately thrown into panic, and from
that hour until morning no one slept ex-
cept the sick man. Every one dreaded
the quarantine then, and by daylight the
deluded wife had determined, at any cost,
not to let the matter reach the ears of the
health officers. The family physician had
assured her than on no account would he
report any cases of the disease in her
house, and she felt confident that she could
| arrange to have her husband treated with
out publicity But She had reckoned
without her cook. 1t was absolutely nee
essary to take that good person into her
confidence when she came. The imme-
date result was q panic in the kitchen, a
hurried flight, and a cold breakfast. But
the cook was not satisfied with thus basely
deserving her post. Ten minutes after she
left the house the policeman on the beat
was notified that 1t contained yellow fever
Meanwhile the patient rose, feeling re-
freshed, and began dressing. He recol-
| lected his experiences of the night in a
! vague sort of way, but had entirely for
gotten the yellow fever episode. His sur
| prise may be imagined, therefore, when in
| the act of shaving himself he looked out
of the window just in time to see a man
mailing yellow flag over his door.
what the devil are you doing with that
fisg?" he cried, lifting the window
yellow fever in the house." replied the
! health officer
denied that he had ever had yellow fever
and the health officer advised him, with a
| grin, not TO exert himself The man de-
manded to be lei out, and the health off,
| Ger barred the way, with the assistance OF
a policeman. About this time the wife be-
| gan to understand things, and, with a view
| 10 getting even, pleaded with the officers
not to let her husband expose himself
| They were more than willing to .oblige her
/ q nd fOr he off
zen was forced to resort to a step-ladder
and an alley belonging to the house in the
rear to reach his office in the mornings
returning the same way at night The
wife claims that the fun she had during
that time compensates for the detention
! she endured.
An Italian whose wealth consisted of a
| barrel-organ and a monkey concluded tc
| refugee. He really knew very little about
yellow fever beyond the fact that it was
certain death, and he determined to join
some countrymen on a sugar plantation
| across the river. There was no trouble
| about crossing the river, and no one inter.
| Tered with his passing through the towr
of Gretna on the other side. He had MOI
gone far in the country however before
a man came out into the road with Q
shotgun and asked where he was going
The organ-grinder replied, as best ht
tOulu, tlldl he was SoluS 10 JOIN ms
friends on the plantation; and, as he wa.
in something of a hurry. started to pusf
on. The man with the shotgun had other
views, however. and induced him to stop
Now We" said he, will take you anc
fumigate you"
"Noa noav' said the organ grinder. "NC
wanta fumigator Wanta go ter di planta
shun. Yellow fever killa me-" But tn,
guard had the drop" and the unfortunat,
dago followed to the quarantine station
There, in a dark room, they fumigateC
him with sulphur until there was very lit
tie life left in him. Then they fumigate(
the barrel-organ. and then the monkey
Ii didn't hurt the barre.-organ, which wa!
practically worthless to begin with; but /
killed the monkey, and when last seen ii
owner was carrying it away in his arms
There were many strange things abou
the spread of the epidemic One that |
is hard to make people believe, is that OF
streets where there are open canals an,
reeking cutters IL rarely ever appeared
while in the best drained and most care
fully cleaned parts of the city the yellow
flag was no uncommon sight. More thar
this, there are streets through which larg,
drainage canals run, which have recent,
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