The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1905-08-24
The Mosquito Theory.


civilized government which has made
skillful investigation of the question.
1t is the view accepted by Doctors j.
D. Dabney and J. r. Tackett, former
| ly from Holmes County, both of whom
have had the yellow fever and have had
extensive experience with it in cur
State and in other countries, Those
who reject or doubt this theory have
not been near a case of yellow fever
since the mosquito doctrine has been
tested, and could not be brought near
enough to case to test their doubt
or to settle anything. For l40 years
Havana has been one of the homes of
yellow fever, it never having been
free from that disease from 1852 to
Sept. 1901. Within eight months af-
ter the fight had been made against
the yellow fever, on the mosquito line
the last case disappeared; and there
are now over 60, 900 people in Havana
who have never had that fever.
Quarantine is maintained against all
infected places by disinfecting freight
and holding person in detention for
five days. If ships come in with yell
low fever patients aboard, the yellow
fever patients are taken through the
main streets of the city, under mos
quito bars, and put into large hos
pital, with other patients, the building
being mosquito proof, and no one else
has ever been infected, when the mos
quito was excluded. The daughter of
President Palma, who was born, and
spent much Of her life in the United
States, is one of those who visit the
yellow fever hospital regularly, going
into the wards where the patients are,
and has never had the fever; and the
same thing is done regularly by many
other non-immunes, The yellow fever
excites no terror at all now, as it is
! knownh how it IL carried from one per
, son to another, and how it can be
avoided, by excluding the mosquitoes
from sick persons, just as was done
at Lumberton and Sumrall, in this
state; and as will be done at every
other place in Mississippi which the
yellow fever may reach. There is no
disease known in the South which will
bring less suffering and death than
yellow fever, if it's treatment be placed
, in the hands of our best physicians
! and people will follow their instruct.
$ ions. The unruly, lawless Italian ele-
+, ment is what spread the disease il
Louisiana.
: The Houston, Texas, Post man, un
able to get a vacation raises the cry
of sour grapes in this wise: "What
leave my Office? Go away and seel
the fields of yesterday, the meadows
e where used to play? well | guess
e not. Go leave my fan and easy chair
: and lazy Office, and go where was ;
n boy with tousled hair? Well, I'll b.
o shot! Me, Me? go back to that fa
: day, and slop the pigs, and throw
h down hay to all the horses every day
e No, sir, not mel Let some one els
n 90 chase the chicks; let some one els
G go split the sticks, and take the sun
e dry cuffs and kicks; I'd like to Sc,
1t myself give up this slothful ease an
n wade through barnyards to my knees
n give up this just go as you please t
e 90 and be a boy again as was the
Y. and trot the same old gaits again an
G go and find the speckled hen, and tos
IS the hay, and salt the sheep and fee
p the COW, and go out into the field an
IS plow until perspiration wet my broV
rs ere | could play. No, thank you,
n don't pine to roll into a tepid swim
70 ming hole; I've gone that road an
al paid that toll, and now I'll loll dar
ii yesterday! Loll back and take th
is rest I've earned! | don't think "
Is ever yearned for overworked, sa
he and sunburned youth; if did TAX
a. it back, I'm happy here, | want n
ly days of yesterday, ! leave them for
I'd with all their cheer-some other kid
y Tom Travis, another old land mar
shook off his earthly vestmants ye
10 terday at the age of seventy-six yea
and crossed over to where we hoI
he will be surrounded by the compal
IS ions of his youth. He was buried t
day in the Stuart place grave var
Tom Travis had a kind an sympathe
is i, heart and his neighbors never Al