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Show j TERRIBLEDiSEASE ; Elack Small-Pox Victim ; Tells His Own Story to Group of People in ' The Pyramid Office ; A traveling salesman told a 1 most interesting, yet gruesom ! story, of his experience with the black-smallpox, recently contracted while in Salt Lake ; City, to a group of people i'i ' the Pyramid office today. I ' According to his story, and ! also to his appearance, this ; ', ciisease must be a most terrible one. He was taken ill with ; a high fever and the other pro- ; ;! drinal symptoms of smallpox. ' However, the fever became so ! high that for several days he ', j was uncousious and delirious ! ! Soon after the onset, the ei'Up- ; ;!; tions began coming in so thick ; that there was not an area oi; ; il his body the size of a pinheaU i that was not a pustular mass. ! 1 1 Soon these masses ran together ! Ijl and his whole body was practi- ; ) cally one terrible scab. In $ j' fact it was possible, by taking j!; hold of the scab under the jaw. j! to lift almost a perfect mask of this dead scab off his face. ;i This man feels most for- . tunate that he is even alive, t as the death rate from the black small-pox that i3 now j!; present in Salt Lake City is 5 about 90 per cent, according to the report of this man. ,"'hose ! who escape 'death carry the ;' unVightly scars forever, and 1 ;! these scars that are left fiom ; this type of Small-Pox are in- ' deed terrible ones. The other i complications of this disease s are many, and sarious, and particularly when they affect. the heart, kidneys, or eye-i. i i The man who told the above i I story is now a thoroughly con- i I verted believer in vaccination. lie himself, was never vacci- S ) nated, and at one time listened to the silly tales circulated a- bout small-pox vaccination. S He emphasized the fact strong- I ) ly that from now on his one l I ambition was to forewarn the people whom he came in con- tact with about the horrors of I the disease, and to a'uVise its j only prevention, Vaccination. |