The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-13

proceeding whereby candidate for onice
becomes tho ercuser, judge and jury, and
may within few hours summarily punish
his critic by Imprisonment. The result OF
such doctrine Ia that all unfavorable criti-
/ cis,n OF sitting judges past official con-
duct can be at once stopped by the Judge
himself, or. II not stopped. can be punished
by immediate Imprisonment"
| And In this judgment both the bar and
the country generally will concur.
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Tho local board or health at Its meet
| Ing last night refused to accept the ver-
| diet Of Drs. Guiteras and swcaringen.
| that there is yellow fever In Houston.
and. while not positively taking issue with
| the experts decided to make an official
examination OF the cases reported by them,
This will be done today and the Judgment
of tho board pronounced later. One com
mendable feature of the local situation is
that there is nothing In the shape of a
panic here, but on the contrary the people
are acting with great deal OF common
sense Tho truth is. a. large majority do
not believe the prevailing disease to be
yellow fever, and all agree In the con-
clusion that II 1t Is. II is quite harmless.
as no deaths from 1t have occurred. An
other view very generally entertained
mere, SHARED in almost unanimously by
the local physicians. Is that 81 we have
yellow fever here 1t prevails pretty gem
orally over tho southern half or nearly ali
OF the State. A few days will determine
matters, one way or the other and In the
mea-tlmc let everybody keep cool and hone
for the best
The Austin Statesman ventures tho
opinion that "the most skll'fnl phys,c,au
Is very likely to mistake case OF den,y,,e
lor yellow fever, The only certainty that
u ~ yellow FEVER during the prevalence
Oh hengue W the actual illustration of
the Dlaek vomit. But dengue and yell
low fever differ orly In the mortality cf
the latter Yellow fever KILLS. densue
Kills but rarely. Perhaps IT liz Just as well
to mistake dedigne for yellow fever for
there ds n6 telling during the prevalence
OF dtngue when yellow fever viii de-
velop."
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III annexing Cuba Will result in Gradient
ing yellow fever and quarantine by all
means let US annex it at once.
The Erath county trade edition ~ tha
Stephenvile Journal IN one of the hand
soonest special editions gotten out by thu
Interior press OF Texas. 1t has an nlm.
iQntpI a "a tot,
good trade write up OF Its section. .lux.
'ratiohs Of the leadina professional and
business men, with half tone pictures of
public buildings and private residences. 1t
Is an edition well worth preserving. The
hve merchants showed their appreciati,,
by liberal amount of advertisements
which are attractlvely displayed and we'll
printed,
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Physicians should establish court of
appeals, Doctors might then save their
patients on tachnicaiirtes OF diagnoses
The Galveston News and several of the
Galveston physieans still insist there Is
no yellow fever In the island city. DR.
Gulteras 10 the contrary notwi,ihstandtne
The News adds "One thing would seem
certain. II the four cases designated by
DR. Guteras are yellow fever there have
peen many cases of yellow fever In Gal
weston during the past sixty DAYS. with
no fatalities. The people should keep cool
and await results"
III Hawaii IL annexed, McI<inley win
probahiy have enough offices left to dis
charge Mark Hannas campaign promises
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An anxious inquirer writes to the phi,a
delphla Cali that he wants to write a
comic opera and asks that the editor aur
gest subject. The editor gives II IN
fhe hest subject for n comic opera no,,
would he "rhe Dude Yellow Fever Germ ;, |
DR.. Gulteras might assume the title role |
acting the hero In hts escape from Texas
on board OF a warship rs soon as he dis
covered a regiment Of the dude germs.
II ~ said that Tammany Is now withou,
an official organ but all the same Il ~
its share of the music In the
campaign,
Switzerland appears TO have gotten
up from the popuhsts of the Initial
states She proposes to go into the
Nilroad business on her own account
and oners TO pay s2oaoooo 900 as a starter
Tor five OF the main lines now in opera.
lon. II stump Ashby. Harry Tracy or
jack Elstn learns this fact they VIII fairly
shell the woods" with efreyescent ora
torich cxnltation.
aenerai Weyler sails for Spain on the
"'h instant. provided a stray bullet Of
some cuban patriot does not In the mean.