Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-05-05
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CHESTER

Within and About the county.
CHESTER.
Lantern, May |: Mrs. Pet Butler and
her little son Chalmers, who have been
spending some time in Lancaster with
the family of her sister, the late Mrs.
II. G. Hicks, were in the city yeSter-
day afternoon enrOute from Yorkville
To WinnSbOrO on a short visit To her
father. Mr.. j. c. Mackorell. From
there she will go to HartSville, where
she will keep house for her cousin,
Mr. Robert P. Mackorell. Rev. Oil
yer Johnson and family passed through
Wednesday afternoon on their way to-
Lewisville on a visit to Mr.. l. n.
Whiteside's family. They returned
this morning and Mr.. Johnson went
back to Lesslie to get ready to move,
and Mrs. Johnson and the children
went to Leesville to spend a while
with relatives. ...A final effort by
Attorney NewbOld before the supreme
court to secure a new trial for Gus
Lee, on the plea of after discovered
evidence, failed. and it remains for the
sentence of the court to be executed
next Friday, the Sth... Mr.. w. l..
Walker, one of the most prominent cit
izens of the EdgmOor neighborhood
suffered a severe stroke of paralysis
Tuesday afternoon. His right side is
affected and he is in very critical
condition. He is conscious only at in
tervals. He was a little better early
so well. 49,. Don't let mosquitoes bite
you. Most of all, don't let them bite
the children. These pests sail around
laden with malaria and equipped with
hypodermic syringes. When one lights
upon q human being ii Immediately
goes To work. 1t inserts its syringe
and discharges Il jet Of the malaria
poison into the small blood vessels,
heart. where it is poured into the foun-
tain of life and sent out to all parts
of the body. BY the way, it will be
noticed that the mosquito nearly al
ways S6lSClS d SpOl VII lllC DOuy "iISIS
the little blood vessels are near the
surface and very numerous. 1t is
blood that the villian(e (ess) is after, but
why she must exchange for it a fluid
that is not only useless but deadly we
are unable to explain any more than
We can tell why she does not carry
along a little sac of cocaine to apply
before she begins her probing. The
not know, how many injections are
sufficient to induce a chill, but we
suppose that the poison from single
bite does it's part toward impregnating
and it seems that once there is sufti-
cient infusion of the poison to upset
the vital organs in the discharge of
their functions it reproduces itself,
possibly degenerating in some degree.
Quinine and such remedies admins
tered at the right time kill off one crop
of the little internal enemies but an
other is always coming on. A physi-
CldU WHO was dl llIS llCSlu VI lllS PAO
fession, in another state, once told us
that he could warrant any persons
contracting a case Of malarial fever
by simply crossing a certain stream,
at night. But he thought that the
poison was inhaled with the air that
was breathed. forgetting that it was
the same air which fioated over the
neighboring hills in the salubrious
breezes that murmured among the
pines. and never dreaming that the
pesky insects which Swarmed around
him were infiicting any greater injury
than making him miserable for the
time Now, thanks to the progress of
medical science, We knOw-at least the
doctors tell us we knOw-that mala-
ria cannot enter the system through
the lungs, that it is introduced only
through the slender proboscis of the
mosquito. a certain kind Of mosquito
at that, and-with apologies to her
sex-the female only. 1t is safest,
however. to assume that all the HARM
less mosquitoes are the dead ones.
Having determined definitely then
how alone malaria is introduced into
the system, we have made great prog
ress in preparation for fighting the
plague successfully, and the advice to
be given is reduced to this simple in
junction: Don't let mosquitoes bite
you. Do you ask, how shall we obey
this? We answer, first, eXterminate the
mosquito; second, in the meantime,
avoid them or ward them off. The
ways and means for accomplishing this
belong to another chapter, which we
wish others would help us to write.