The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-26

meek commenced to ache, followed by an
| intense aching in every bone OF my oody
| Had been beat numerically with with
| a stick all over or run through a cane
mill and no bones broken, imagine that
| l could have felt no worse For three
| days and nights this aching and headache
continued. My external appearance was
that of a person burning up with fever:
| internally, that of a fellow half frozen
| | had so many blankets piled on one
I night that | could not turn over and yet
f, could not get perfectly warm internally.
The fourth day all pains and aches had
| left and Richard was himself again.
dressed for breakfast feeling as our
| friend. Major W would say Like
the breakfast table several small bumps
like flea bites on my face and we deem
ed it best to stay in doors and await de-
yelopments. The next day the pustules
of the fourth day had become larger and
been Joined by over hundred more of
the flea-bitc kind. They had no regard
for my person but settled all over the
body and limbs Two kept guard just
inside the lobe of the left ear one on my
left eye-lid and two had the audacity to
next attacked my skull; finding it a little
soft, a fairly good army quickly encamp-
cd on my head. They seemed to have
particular spite against the left side of
my person and actually attacked the
middle of my left palm. The sixth day
!, still no pain, although the bumps, like
I poverty were very inconvcnient." The
seventh, eighth and ninth day the whole
army had waxed strong and mighty They
! had found fruitful soil. / thought of
what plutarch said about thistes, THAT
though noxious things in themselves, they
! are usually signs of an excellent ground
wherein they grow" There were some
giants among them, but no dwarfs They
had grown to be about the size of the
head of a tack, were perfectly round
with red surface around them. They
commenced then to turn white on the
tops with the exception of a little spot in
the centre of each, amber colored, about
the size of pin head.
Then the fun 90 commenced.
Prometheus was painted stealing fire
from heaven His punishment may be
likened unto the individual who like my
self is covered with these terrible
bumps" No vulture at the liver but
an hundred bumps itching at the same
time. To scratch them would be only
TO create ulcerous sores. To grin and
hope the part of reason for is not hope
the antidotc which keeps our hearts from
bursting under the pressure of evil 1t
is the mamma from Heaven that comforts
us in all cXtremities
with thee sweet Hope resides the heav-
emily light
bat an no
sight;
Thine is the charm of lifes bewildered
That calls each slumbering passion into
play.
Walked by thy touch, l see the sister
On tip-toe watching, start at thy com
| mand
And fly wher-er thy thy mandate bids
them steer rHt
To pleasures path or Glory's bright
| career" 81
! 'Tis said that a certain Rhodian, for
| his freedom of speech, was cast by
! tyrant into a cage and there kept as
| wild beast. His hands were cut off. his
| nostrils slit and face terribly deformed
| by wounds made upon it. He was adj
vised by his friends to shorten his life
| by abstenance from food but he replied
with great Indignation: when man is
alive, all things are to be hoped for him. "
| Gentle reader, did you ever have
| boil? If you can think of what it would
| be to have goo boils or more on you at
the same time, you can form an idea of
what this eruptive disease is
! Some authorities say it is the small
pox, others the chcken-poX. others the
camp itch, others call it by names of for
| egn extraction unpronouncabe My wife
/; says it is my meanness cropping out on
me. Whatever its name may be, 1T Is
| III. If vaccnating will do any good,
f, by all means vaccinate. | have never
been vaccinated. Mine is said to be
, light case. Heaven pity the poor wretch
with a bad case. The disease may be
to some a blessing in disguise. 1t is
sure cure for idleness. If you ever have
! it and like myself able to sit up with it,
| | will guarantee that you will not after
the ninth day occupy any place in the
room but a few moments. You will be
a very busy person, so busy in fact that
| for several days you will not take time
to sleep. but your whole body will be in
a continual work day and night.
| Mr.. Smallpox with a-question- mark
| and his army, is hope preparing to de-
| camp from my house. All the children
have had it. but as the breaking out was
! light Ca case of God tempering the winds
F., to the shorn lambs) they suffered but
| little after the fever wore off though
! terrible for three or four days at it's
commencement. | shall wish Mr.. Small
| Pox-with- "a question mark not au revor
: but goodbye forever hoping that like
lightning he will never strike twice in
/ the same place.
r. w MCFARLAND.