The Oregon scout., November 06, 1886, Image 8

10VE STRONGER THAN DEATH.
Cholera," says Zicrasscn, In his
Cyclopedia of Medical Practice," "is
t old as tho human raco in India."
From its birthplace at tho mouth of the
Ganges and Brahmaputra 1$ has march
id forth with giant strides to tho four
luarlcrs of tho habitablo globe, leaving
lcsolation and Borrow in its track.
Tho first world-wide opidemic started
aa Jcssora, India, in 1817, and having
lain over COO.000 victims in tliat coun
sry alone, it marched slowly through
China, Persia and Arabia, through
Russia, Prussia and Germany, gaining
now territory cacli year, until 1831 it
trossed to England and overleaping
tho sea appeared Juno. 1832, in Mon
ireal and Quebec. Before tho end of
the summer it was claiming its victims
DV hundreds in all the principal cities
f tiie eastern and middlo states.
During tho prevalence of the opidem
te in Boston occurred the incidents
tm about to rolate, all or winch an
n-ell known to persons now living, tho
She only change being in the names of
She principal actors, tho circumstances
jcinir personally known to mo. James
Ammerman was junior partner in
vcll-known Boston dry-goods firm
He was 28, with a wife but no children.
Each of his partners had families of
;hrco children, and when, in the first
few weeks of tho epidemic, all who
possessed tho means lied from the
plaimc-strickcn city, ho felt it was but
ais duty to urge ids partners to lcavo
n'itli their families, whilo ho remained
i week or two to attend to tho closing
ap of business.
lie tried to induce his wifo to accom
pany mem, or go to her homo away
among tho Now Hampshire- hills, but
iho persistently refused to go.
"Wiicn you can go, James, I am
ready," was her firm answer to all his
Persuasions, "but not until then." So
'hoy romaincd a week or more after
heir friends had loft.
Tho death-rate increased rapidly,
tnd on tho tenth day tho cliolora flag
vuved its dread signal from the house
tpposito James Ammerman s.
"I'acic everything necessary for our
tournoj'," ho said to his wifo tho morn
ing after tho Hag appcarod. "I will
tloso tip business to-day, and to-morrow
morning wo will take tho first train
lor Now Hampshire"
AH of Mrs. Ammorinan s sorvants,
txeept her chambor girl, had lied at
tho first approach of tho dread disease,
out faithful Katy Sullivan was bound
Jo her mistress by strong ties of afioo
lion and would only leave when tho
lainily did.
An' 6uro its mosoir. she said, "as
will stay with yo until yo're out o' the
iJty sure."
By night everything was packed, tho
ipholstered furuitiuo covered and all
ni readiness for tho journey In tho
aiiy morning.
i Mr. Ammerman roturnod atC o'clock
is usual, but tho quick eye of his wifo
lot acted a change in his appearance
"I have not boou feeling well all
flay," lie admitted, in- answer to her
inxloiiB questioning. "Someway I fool
Nenk and stupid and a little chilly. It's
nothing serious," ho ndded reassuring.
ty. I'll llo down for awliiio and I
prosumu I shall soon feel better."
.furs. Ammerman hastened him to
bed, made hot applications and admin
istered warm stimulants, but tho chill-
doss increased and soon sharp, agoniz
ing cramps solzod him.
Katie was hastily dispatched for tho
tamlly physician, who was soon by tho
uck man's bedsido.
He made his examination with
grave iace, mil ono mat uotravod no
emotion of hopo or fears to the anxious
wife.
"Is it cliolora?" sho askod at last,
pronouncing ino ureau word Willi a
ihudder and waiting in an agony of sus
pense for tho doctor's roply.
'It may bo only cholerine," was tho
guarded answer, as Dr. Tyler dealt out
bis medicine. "Give him this every
half hour and I will call again In an
hour or two."
When ho mado his next visit at 10
o'clock thero remained no longor a
doubt of thojiaturo of tho disease.
Tho wifo needed only the evidence of
ber own senses to convince her that
tho dreaded foe had entered hcr-houso-bold.
All through tho long hours of that
tad night she watched boildo lior lms
baud, lighting tho advance of tho do
itroyer with every menus at her com
mand; Katie, in her faithful dovotiou,
standing ready to second her every
wish.
But notwithstanding tholr united of
forts tho work of death went on slow
ly. As tho morning began to dawn his
hands grow icy cold, the pulse boeamo
weak, thready and hardly porcoptlblo
it times, his breath short, confluod and
incompleto, the respirations increased
to ovor thirty a minute
Occasionally, when sho could ralso
him for an instant from Ills seml-cou-icious
condition, ho answered her in
quiries iu a voice so weak and hoarse
that sho hardly recognized it.
Tho Icy ohlll spread gradually over the
face, body and liinbs.and when Dr. Tyler
came at 7 o'clock ho found li s patient
lying with collapsed features, hollow
cheeks, deeply sunken and closed eyes,
giving no evidence of consciousness
lava u groan from tlmo to time as the
iharp spasms solzod him. Tho doctor's
tukk eyes detected tho signs of speedy
dissolution and ho gently broke tho
dread intelligence to tho anxious wife.
"But I will never givo him up until
death Is really here," she said resolute
ly, though Iter heart grew heavy with
tho tcrrlblo fear that all her efforts
would be useless.
With renewed energy sho chaffed tho
ice-cold limbs, applied anew hot water
bottles to sides and feet, but nil In vain;
tho limbs grew colder, tho features, tho
whole body, more collapsed and tho
eyes mora sunken; tho weak pulse
crept slowly up the arm to tho vitals;
tho heart beats grew fainter and
fainter, tho breath shorter and moro
labored, until at eleven o'clock it
stopped, and the devoted wifo was alono
Villi her dead.
As tho sad truth was forced upon her
sho sank upon her knees by the bedside,
her head resting upon tho cold, lifeless
hand of her husband which was clasped
between her own. For a few minutes
she lost sight of everything savo tho
sense of utter desolation which filled
her heart. At last through tho open
window was borno to her cars tho
rumbling of a cart down the deserted
street, and the call of the dead-bearers
Bring out your dead!"
Tho sound roused all her dormant
energies, and a wild hopo sprang up
in lior heart tiiat lifo might not be quito
extinct in her husband. Springing to
lior feet the rang tho bell for Katie,
who responded to her summons.
"Do not let tlicm in,
cltedly. "Tell them ho
is not dead.
I know ho is still alive, and they shall
not take him. I can revive him if they
will only givo mo time."
Katio looked from tho cold, rigid
body of tho husband to tho white,
agonized faco of tho wife, and feared
that grief had driven lior mistress
insane, but sho obeyed tho request and
tho death cart passed on its rounds.
Mrs. Ammorman had by this timo bc-
oomo thoroughly possessed of tho idea
that life still Imgored iu tho apparently
dead body of her husband, and the
thought of having him taken away for
burial was too terrible to contemplate.
If sho could only gain timo she felt sure
she could revive him, though why sho
should so strongly hold to such a belief
sho could not havo explained; but hopo
sho did, and proceeded to renew all
lior efforts which had previously provod
in vam.
With the onorgy of despair sho worked
on, and again tho dead boarors entered
tho room.
"Wo must lako tho body now, Mad
am," tho man said who appeared to bo
in authority. "Wo can only hopo to stay
tho epidemic by the prompt removal of
tho dead and a thorough disinfection of
tho houses."
"But ho is not doad," sir. sho persist
ed, "Seel" holding a hand mirror ovor
his lips, "there is a little moisture."
Tho man looked closely and .shook
his head.
"lour hopos deceive you, ' ho said,
kindly; "ho is surely dead and wo must
take his body."
itff.i tti
nun a wiki cry oi agony suo lull on
lior knees, beseeching tlioin with tears
to givo lior just ono half hour more.
Tho mon gently put lior aside, trying
to reason w.tii her on tho necessity of
their own course, but sho only pleaded
tho more earnestly. At last, finding
reasoning iu vain, tlioy attempted to
ay hands upon tho body, but tlirustin
them aside sho throw herself down be
side hot husband, and clasping him in
her arms declared with
an agonizing
vehemence that awed tiiu men:
"if you take him you shall bury
mo
with him. I will not lot him go."
As the mon stepped back she
ronow-
cd her pleadings.
Give mo only ono half hour. If
there aro no signs of lifo then I will
ask no more."
Boluotantly the men yielded, and
left her alono once moro to her hope
less task.
This timo sho saturated flannels
with hot mustard water, and enveloped
both body and limbs; then commencing
with the purple nails sho rubbod each
linger vigorously downward to start the
congni'od blood. Every fow minutes she
put a drop of brandy in his mouth,
and raisiug his head applied strong
hartshorn to his nostrils. Fivo ton
llftoun twonty minutes passed. Only.
ton mnutes more of that precious half
hour which meant lifo' or death to her.
She redoubled her efforts. Another
five minutes passed still no chango,
tho faco seomod even moro death-like,
the lev limbs nioio rigid. Sho raised
his head upon her arm and administer
ed moro brandy, then applied tho bottlo
of hartshorn to his nostrils. She glanc-
d anxiously at tho clockonly two
minutes moro, and far down tho street
came thu rumble of tho death-cart, aud
liko a death knoll rang out tho solemn
cry, "Bring out your doad," Sho
ulsod her pallid faco to Heaven with
an agonized cry.
"O, my God I my God! Savo him! I
cannot give him up."
Jho head resting on hor nrm fell
backward tho bottle shook I hor
trembling hand, and a quantity of the
hartshorn was spilled on tho doadly
faco; a portion of the ilery liquid pene
trated tho nostrils, lhoro was a sud
den sharp, convulsive movemontof the
dead man's llinlw, a cry of pain, aud as
the dead bearers eutored tho room ho
rnng to a bitting posflire, "asping for
breath.
Tho wifo turned to them a face trans
figured with joy. "Soo!" sho cried ox-
ultantly, stretehiugout hor hand to-
'ward her husband. "I have conquered
death!" and fell unconsious across tho
bed."
J. no reaction in the sick man s case
was complete; a specdv convalescence
followed and a week later, with his de
J voted wife, ho was safe among tho
New Hampshire hills saved by a love
stronger than death. Jennie Porter
Arnold.
Autumn Leaves and Ferns.
Well, dear lady friends, shall you
press any autumn leaves? You doubt
less know of many ways with which to
beautify your homes with them, but
perhaps I can tell you of one that you
have not thought of.
Now, fair readers, you who arc sur
rounded by indulgent husbands and
fathers, and havo everything to make
jour homes cosy and delightful, who
can gratify your love of tho beautiful to
our heart's content, who have your
pictures, and your bay windows with
their wealth of graceful vines and pet
ted plants please don't stay and listen
to our confidential talk with your less
favored sisters. And you, whoso very
souls hunger for tho beautiful, aro your
homes humble, your rooms small, and
your ceilings low? Do you look at your
stinted windows with their stiff rolled
shades, and wisli they wcro largo and
draped with something airy and grace
ful? Let mo help vou plan a little.
By some honest strategy (if need bo)
secure a full set of muslin, or even
cheap lace curtains very beautiful
patterns can bo bought for a fow dol
lars, any light wliito drapery around a
window is so delightfully graceful, and
the bcautv of trees against tho sky is
heightened by being seen even through
olican lace. Then measure your win
dow frames if tho windows aro very
small, allow two or three inches more
and have some pieces of board mado ,
like a shelf, with a back pieco under
noath to nail it up by. This shelf should
bo from five to six inches deep in tho
coHtro, and gradually rounded off to
tho ends, as though it were clipped off
from tho edge of a circle. Nail it to
tho top of your casement, gather your
curtains two breadths, so thoy will
part in the middlo and bo very full
and tack them around tho edge of your
shelf or whatever you call it. Have
ready some stiff pasted strips mado of
paper and old cloth, two or throo in
ches wide, and tho length of tho edge
of your sholf or cornice. Make a mark
for tho center, and have ready a stout
nccdlo and thread, and somo pasto to
which somo gluo lias been added.
Now, begin at tiio ends and work up to
tho centre with vour ferns, autumn
leaves, etc. If you havo pressed wholo
sprays, it will bo still moro beautiful.
Theso will havo to be tacked on with
uecdlo and thread, whilo tho single
loaves can bo put on with pasto ono
little patch near the stem is sufficient.
Do not crowd them down in a stiff.
etraight lino, but lot them bo arranged
as daintily and as naturally as you
would a boqnot of flowers. Begin at
tho ends, and tho tips will keen cover
ing the stems where they aro fastened.
Then put on your beautiful wreath for a
heading to your curtains, smuggling
tho tack under the leaves at tho ends.
After tho ccntro ono is dnvon, tako a
showy mottled leaf, or a spray of scar
let sumach, or fern, and stick it over
the tack with paste. If tho wreaths aro
long enough so that in putting up thoy
aro a little loose, so as to hang iu slight
festoons, all tho better. Then part
your curtains and loop them back
loosely in graceful festoons, with small
er bands mado liko tho other. Now
your windows appoar greatly enlarged,
and you need never tiro of their beauty.
lhcso leaves aro also boautiful among
boquets of grasses and ovorlasting llow-
ors. And thus wo can havo a glimpso
of "Indian summer" through all the
dreary winter das. Sylva U'tUlinn in
at. Louis Magazine.
Smith's Legs Out of Journalism.
My young friend, John Smith, who was
graduated by n university a few weeks
ago, and who rushed into journalism,"
as ho called it, canio into my room yos-
tordny afternoon, fanned himself vigor
ously with his hat and remarked:
"1 shall quit tills business, t"
"You mean you will leavo tho news
paper bus ness?" 1 asked.
lev ho replied; "tho truth is,
newspapers pay more for legs than they
ilo for brains."
Do you mean that you havo moro
brains than legs?",! asked, with affect
ed surprise.
I moan that I havo walked four
miles in the hot sun trying to run down
a rumor, and it won't pan out livo
lines."
So Smith is going to quit tho nowspa-
per business becauso he has brains to
toll whon tho newspapers want nothing
but legs. Of course Smith's placo will
havo to bo filled. That is, a man will
have to bo put on when Smith vacates.
Tho man who stays on will havo legs,
but he will have brains also, lie will
know, first, what nows is. That will re
quire brains. Knowing what nows Is,
Smith's successor will get that nows,
aud he will get it quickly. That will
require not only logs, but it will require
a persoveraneo and persistence that re
gard neither distaueo. diflioulties nor
circumstances. Journalism Is ono thing,
but the newspaper business is altogeth
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