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THE WEEKLY MESSENGER, Oficil .Journatl of the Towna of . Martinville. JUSTICE TO ALL. $ .r pio , oo per year in wrAvane% o. ST. ARTIVILLE LA., AUGUST 19th, 19 --o. 2& o. . )lOVLLE, LB., AUGUST 19th, 1905. N.o 28s I~ ~ II I _ I I / - WOOD - When you buy a Mowing Machin( Buy The "Wood" Simple, strongly built, light on your teams and does not get clogged. T. J. LABBE, J. J. BURDIN & BRO., o . ....Manum acturers of.... RED CYPRESS LUMBER, . . SHINGLES, CISTERNS, SYRUP BARRELS & BRICKS, 4 SAd carry a large stock of SLug Leaf Yellow Pin Limber Floorlng, Siding ud Deat eatbs. OUR PRICES VERY LOW. ak CALL AND SEE US AND SAVE SO)E hONEY. FIRE INSURANCE. I have opened a Fire Insurance Agency, with office at the Bank of St. Martinville building. If you need Fire Insurance a phone message or a postal card will bring me to your place. Give me a chance to talk Fire Insurance to you, P. A. BIENVENU. Art, s id leation o J l om forma u omtadn trouble, biliousneis or a bad liver. Malaria will next overtak you. Don't rik it ad abo .1l, HERBINE bas ad their vlrtfes-m-s o thei doedly eAeota. HERBIE take reguary win forestall headahesupu liver lia, haep yo in good health. IBolcR - - - - - T. J. LZabbe. Yellow Fever Discussed. Bditor Meesenger: There is etit widespread apprehension that the fever will get here, for the peo pie thiok that those whese duty It is to move in taking precautlonary measures do net realise the danger that confronts as nor comprehend the respoensibility resting upon them. The situation de mands vigilance, caution, determina tion and a strict performance of duty as autherised by law and justified by the perits that surround us. irrespective of individual optuion. Public approbation will always reward with approval the conscientious and unselfish performance of duty by a public ofier; this hi as much an asoured fact as disapproval and condemnation will surely overtakehim for failure to do what is expected of him. Those who compose the Board of Health should not feel that they are holding sinecure office when one of Deaths reapers is waiting a chance to begin its deadly work. ie The ofice of Mayor of a small town is often regarded as one of little or no im portance; it is more than a clerical posi. tMon at all times, but when so insidious disease has already begun its march up on the highways the resposibilitiees are as great, it not greater than those at tached to the same office n a large city. He should advise, consult, and formulate I reforms and means of protection within the law and where he has no law for guidance he should make precedents if . - they redound to the public welfare; he 4 l should posnese energy,. moral, courage. - and pride to excel in the performance of his duty. We should net lose eight of Sthe fact that we hare an enemy to fight that never sleeps, and that the contest is not fora day, a week or a month, but for months; that if we relax our watch. fuloes and leave unguarded the bar riers to his entrance an hour he may en kt r and bring a train of unnumbered evils such as the imagination cannot piture. We can better endure the pri Svaions and annoyances attendant upon a rigid quarantine than we the paine of sickuel and death and the lot friends and kindred. A few years ago the Sasarelli theory, it is stated, was a new one and was accepted as a correct one; a few years more the mosquito dogma may be pronounced faulty. It is Swell known that the American people are prone to accept without question new scientific theories. This Ia due in part to a desire to give encouragement to progressive searchers for truth. There are many valuable facts that lie con cealed in nature's laws awaiting the pIa tient research of man's inquiring mind to uncover and doubtless new and Im- .1 " portant truths will from time to time be unveiled, and there are many efects which his paient investigation has not amcounted for. but I am not willing to accept hasty conclusions when they de troy preconceived accepted oplnions based upon soientifie investigation also. Annoyances attendant upon a rigid quarantine than we can the pains of sickness and death and the loss of friends and kindred. Many seem inclin ed to gather some consolation from the new theory that yellow fever man be communecated only by the mosquito. I do ne see bow that even if it be true, lee sees the danger of communication, but on the contrary it seems to be Increased as many time as the number of mc quiloes that feed upon a patient out Suhmbered the surcesof communication that mlnight exist under the old theory. ) It may seem presumptuous in an snpro feslonal mind to caution any one against accepting as unquestionably * true that yellow fever an be communal eated by the mosqalto only. A tyro In the knowlee of physiology a edslly uderstand how the fever may be com rmnlieted by the mosqulto, knowing as he does the sneceptlbility of the blood to the efects of deletrloas and beneicial agets, but it require a little more ere dulity than I posses to believe the ex periments I have read as infallible proofs that yellow fever on be commuo nleated only by the mosquito. III Mr. Louis eVoorbies was re-ap pointed Cadet by the Police Jur at the last meeting. We have al ways understood the intention of the law and the appointment of a Cadet to be until his graduation, and not for one term or one see. 8 sion. IL. C DUCHAMVIP, iE -I*a tN-. I Hardware, Furniture, a Crockery, A MERIe W N PAINTS, A Oils, Widow-glasses, 1 Drugs and Perfumeries, - latting and Window-shades, a Wagons, Buggies, Saddlery, Wheel ; wright laterials Etc. r f f Age t fo tho rhe ndf .w rob" Jobe Deere I n ts, MARTIN J. VOORHIES, -" DDEAbD IN A W IARRIAGES, SADDLERY, FUENITflE. WHEELWRIGHT MATERIAL, TIN*WAIE .... PLOWS, AND PLANTATION SUPPLIES. Phone 45. i1~Look Neat and Attractive by Dress- .. .. ing Nicely and Elegantly . when you go out visiting. Your Printed Stationery is a Repre .R .sentative of yourself, visit 1 ing Commercial houses on O business, Use Nicely Printed Stationery, the _ kind turned out by this of- .. Sfice if you want to create aDY. good mprsion. Do naot use stationery that look like . a tramp. . * 3~ ...