Logan Republican | 1903-01-23 | Page 4 | That Bubonic Plague

That Bubonic Plague. Somo Mississippi negroes wero discussing dis-cussing yellow fever days In Havana. Uncle Marcus, who was one of tho group, rose 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 curod. An' do smallpox am bad; It sho' gives yo do misery In obery particular par-ticular ob yo frame; but yo' kin git ober dot, 'cept its track. Dut dls yero now misery ketches yo' obory tlrao. Dore ain't no hope fo' yo, chlllum, wen yo' git took by do bonny bluo flag!"