The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-08-18
City haiLa New Orleans.

of hearses over cObbleStOneS some
times drowned our conversation. FITS
bic would suddenly burst into tears
at the sight of coffin.
He could not get away, for all ave-
nues of escape had been closed. All
he could do was to remain and suner
spend sleepless nights in anticipa-
ton of an attack. One day Bob was
missing. Inquiry told that he had the
fever. He took care of himself, and
in a fortnight was out on the streets
again.
The three of us were standing IN
Bayonne street near Canal, one after
noon when of sudden Frisbie turned
pale. In moment more he was shiv-
ering. Bob escorted him to seat in
a drug store and called cab. But be-
fore he could reach his rooms his
sightless eyes we're far apart and his
lips were pulseless. He had died in
twenty minutes from sheer fright.
This is just an instance Of what ter
ror will do.
New Orleans is quarantined by all
the Southern States now. One cannot
20 in or come out by rail on this side
of the river without passing through
Mississippi. That state, as is usual
in yellow fever panics, loses its sanity.
People go wild. All traffic is suspend.
ed: railroads cannot haul passengers
for local points out of New Orleans;
dirt roads are guarded by armed con-
stables; the feeble and sick are left to
take care of themselves the best they
can.
In such epidemics the percentage OF
deaths due OF other causes than yell
low fever is infinitely greater than ii
every door in New Orleans were
thrown open and every yellow fever
suspect invited to walk inside and sit
awhile.
The fever itself, to be sure, is not
harmless. But it may be rendered
nearly so by clean surroundings. lr
Sagua la Grande, Cuba, ? supertntend
ent of a sugar plantation by the name
of Hueentabler told NE that in six
teen years he had never lost case o
yellow fever. The remedy was hal
tumbler Of castor oil and the juice o
two lemons drunk down the instan
, one felt the chill coming. Then TIT
patient was kept in clean beds and fe'
on drinks containing no astrlngents
In forty-eight hours the danger wa
g passed.
In the infected district of New Oh
leans, around the French market, tn
suns rays go straight into the nit
niles. The Italian quarters are prov
erbially unclean. Arabians, Turks
S the moor French, negroes and Arca'
l. ians live together in rags and seer
Y to grow fat. The streets are marrow
the houses old, vegetation rank, waite
ia stagnant everywhere, the sewer
are above ground, cisterns are ope'
fruits are permitted to rot in the SUI
u MOSQUITOES swarm in all directions
And vet that part Of New Orleans
=. the most historic and heroic OF ii
- many quaint and interesting corne
- of that remarkable city. The arcf
~ lecture, the thoroughfares, the ga
dens the language the food, all
French. The people live among thei
.. selves. They are as foreign TO u
10 American part of New Orleans
~ Rrockton, Mass, is. None o. the
~ gets beyond the Canal street Line
". the English-speaking sections. In
,ic live in Creole fashions, die in the II
IL yersal way. They do not know new
III will know, it seems, that cIeanline
av is next to godliness.
I'd The stricken district is in the hes
w
Ia Ancient Friendly Society.
40 Tn old Montpelier there still flo
~ -, ishes a mutual benefit friendly
VI cietv under the title of st. Fal
- which has an unbroken history q
D., ing back to about 1920. Statute boo
l ~, dating to 1902 are still preserV
:, and they are believed to be but
~. nroductions of statutes in force
III ~ century or two earlier, which w