Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1905-02-09
Smallpox! Smallpox!

The very name makes us shudder,
and we'll it should. If not for our
own, we fear it for the sake of our
loved ones, and long to see it stamped
out, and our community safely forti-
fed against it. Our "city fathers
have wisely exercised, during the past
two weeks, every preventative meas
ure, guarding our city against the
dread disease we have all learned to
fear. Some may criticise; no doubt
they will. But off goes my hat in
honor to them for what they have
done. ALI our citizens have been al.
armed. Alarmed at what? Smallpox
What is smallpox?
Well, to be plain about it, it is sim
ply an eruption, attended with burn
ing fever. The blisters are simply an
famed base containing pus. But it is
very contagious, and in many cases
dangerous, and we all do we'll to heed
the, warning, Beware OF smallpox
And if you should contract the dis
should advise you to pay no attention
to it, simply because it is all over the
country and others have been exposed,
and even had it, advise you, friend,
to do the wise thing and do it speed
ily-employ competent physician.
Don't delay, as delays are dangerous.
It means death to you. and exposure
to your friends and neighbors.
Care should be exercised. then, to
stamp out the disease, as it will de-
stroy your life, rob your home of its
happiness, and steal your loved ones
from you one by one. Yes, the small
pox, if you let it have it's own way,
will kill you. But it can only kill the
body, and yet all the citizens of For
syth have been alarmed. Alarmed at
what? Why, because the smallpox ex'
lists in town some hundred miles
away, for which our "city fathers
have wisely taken every precaution te
guard against.
Now, my dear reader. if the small
pox to you seems so dreadful, wha1
about sin, and the vices of life in oul
city? ''Sin," you say, "what is sin?'
Why, it is that dreadful disease know
as the leprosy of the soul. You hav'
been exposed to it's effects. 1t cause
deep sorrow to invade your homes
darken your life, embitter your heart
it causes drunkenness and theft, mur
der and suicides Sin is also an erup
tion, not Of the skin as much as of tn
soul, although it leaves it's mark upol
the face, as we'll, and disfigures it ia
worse than smallpox. 1t is also &C
companied with fever, creating lusts
passions, unholy ambitions and unclea
appetites that can never be satisfied /
this world or in the next. 1t destroy
manhood and womanhood, is an enem
of virtue and murderer of character
It preys upon the innocent, and Ell
they are aware it has them securel
bound and enslaved, while in sad dc
spair we wiring our hands and pu
our hair. You have heard that mOtl
er groan, that fathers piteous CRY
You have witnessed it's results in til
drunkard's home. You know the sa
results of sin, and you know it is lurl
ing now at your door your loved on'
to destroy. Why, then. not do I'll
\ wise thing, and exercise every etfo
to prevent it's spread in our CROWN
little city?
For no community is higher in cha
acter than the character OF its cit
zens; no higher in morals than tt
morals of it's citizens; no higher
virtue than the virtue Of it's citizen
no higher in religious life than the r
ligious life Of it's citizens. The mo
ster cobra, sin, is in our midst, yO1
father, mother. son, daughter, hu
band, wife or neighbOr to strike h
poisonous fangs into and ruin for lif
You will do we'll, then. to heed tt
| warning, Beware of SIM Utili
! every precautionary measure to pr
vent it's spread, and the destruction
= virtue. manhood. WOmanhOCd al