Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-21
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creatures. whom my movements rouspt
from uneasy slumber upon the grounG.
Passing these ON my way 90 the
light I found 70 came from a paper
funnel shade, such as Is used b. street
vendors of apples and peanuE ana
which. flaming and guttering away IN
the bleak air Oh the water, shons
nickrrIugly on the emaciated features
of man in the last stage Of bilious
rtmittent fever. They had done their
best for him over his head was
something Ike tent, made of a sheet
or two, and hr rested on a partially
ripped open old straw mattress, with
"a hair sofa cushion under his head
for "a pillow. His gaping saw ana
gldrIug eye told how short a time ne
would monop0iize these Inquiries:
though q seemingly bewildered and exc
cited person. VINO might have been his
wife. seemed 90 ind hope IN OCCASION
| ally forcing him % swallow awkwardly
sips ~ the tepid river water, from a
burned and battered, Understanding
iln coffee pot Those who knew bet
tor had furnished the apothecary he
needed, tolthless old bald-head,
/ whose manner had the repulsIve dull
/ ness Of a man familiar with death
/ scenes he, 30 long as ] remained,
/ mumbled in his patients ear mo-
/ notouous and melancholy prayer. be-
/ tween the pauses of which ] heard the
hicu0ugh and sohbng 81 two little
I girls who were sitting upon a piece OF
dnttwood outside.
Dreadful. indeed. was the suffering
az these forsaken beings bowed and
camped by cold and sunburn. alter
mating as each day and night dragged
CO.. They were, almost all Of them.
the crippled victims Of disease. They
were there because they had no
homes. nor hospital, nor poor house,
nor friends 90 offer them any They
could not satisfy the feeble craving u
their sick, they had not bread 20
quiet the fractions hunger-cries u
heir children Mothers and babes,
daughters and grandparents. all 81
them alike. were byouacked tu tat
tors. wanting even covering 20 COM
fort those whom the sick shivcr II
fever was searching 90 the marrow.
These were Mormous in Lee county.
Iowa. In the fourth week of the month
of September. bon the year Of our Lord
1916. The city was Nauyo0, llli-
uuls The Mormous were the owners
of that city. ana the smiling country
around And those VINO had stopped
their pl1Ns Wn1 had s.lenced their
hammers their axes their shuitles,
and ,Aeir workshop wheels those who
had pat out their fires who had eaten
their food. spoiled their orchards and
tmmuitd under foot their thousands
Of acres of unharyested bread-thess
were the Keepers ~ their dwellings,
a. I.. hHHA
drunken riot iusultcl ihe ears % tho
dyug
/ think % uas as Z turned from The
wrCtcbtl night watch ot which ] have
spoken Chat FIRST listened Go ne
sounds of rcyei of party NJ the guart
within the c.ir Above thc distant
hum off thc voices of many, OCCASION
a'I, rose distinctly thc loud oatn-tainici
exclamation. aud The falsely .Hiono'ei
scrap Of vulgar song hu. lest This re-
II..n should go uuaeelCd. every now
and then. when 'n... l..sirrnus orgies
,irnFe to auaiH 3D. SORT oi ecsiatic
climax o. cruel spirit no insulting irouc
carried some af iIrn rr into the high
leItr, me- 'he ftmrI. efetpIc and there,
WItl fH. wicked .lHd.sErs,s of in-
lUu.fO. .U.. HH..r.I. and sluckcd,
ana beat tha drum ,Hat D had seem
urd rang BON .I.ItUs.t unison. tAcr
lou1-'..lI.I steamboat ugI
There ..r.. "a. told. uot more cham
ftI a.-s.. n.. Hs.r 'gu- lying upon
tr. |N. H1f. hlr iHe NU.mous ID
N.lt.. ..I i.- ..r. ".Its hH1 been
numbered ... E... H.f.u. 90 over -t.-
uI Wh.-l uel lye ThCy had
H.. ...r soon. carrying Ir m0uriial
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