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Show A Great Soul- In Popular Science, Major Walter' D. McCaw pays his tribute to the-memory of Dr. Walter Reed, who drove yellow fever out of Havana', and taught the way to keep it out. There has not been a case of fever there for the past three years;; not a case, though prior to that time it had been a terror and scourge for scores" of" years and it mighty menace to our Southern Coast cities. Indeed, Major -McCaw says there has been ninety invasions of our country by the disease, city after city has been swept by it; in 1S53 in Xew Orleans eight thousand people died of the disease and the epidemic of 1S7S cost the country, besides its death roll,. $15,000,000. . One man went to Cuba, braved the pestilence, found the cause of it' and stamped it out. When Cuba reflects upon what the United States did for her. among the things which ought to awake the warmest gratitude, the services of Br. Reed should take first place. Cuba should rear a great monument monu-ment to his memory, and in gratitude and pride our own country should duplicate it. The work of our fleet and army there has gone into . history, making an altogether bright page and adding largely to the prestige of our country, but the work of Dr. Reed was, after all, of- a higher type of glory. It has saved to Cuba and our Southern cities in the last three years more lives- than were lost in the war, and has given a guarantee of immunity im-munity against its future which no army or fleet could. It is said that yellow fever originated in the slave ships that brought the wretched Africans to Cuba. Was it not strange that with the breaking of the chains from the souls of that distressed people, peo-ple, the remedy for the pestilence should bo found? And the honor was and always will be due to the science and devotion of Dr. Walter Reed. -Goodwin's Weekly. ' --. A : |