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Show That Bubonic Plague. Some Mississippi negroes wero discussing dis-cussing yellow fever days In Havana. Unclo Marcus, who was ono of the group, roso to his feet, and with many gesticulations thus harangued tho crowd: "Yo kin talk about do fever, olo Yellow Jack. When dat gits a holt on you-all It's mighty rough; but yo' kin' most allers glnorally git cured. An' do smallpox am bad; It sho' gives yo' do misery In ebery particular par-ticular ob yo' frame; but yo' kin git ober dat, 'copt its track. But dis yoro now misery ketches yo' obory tlmo. Dore ain't no hope fo' yo, chlllum, won yo' git took by do bonny blue flag!" |