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Show REIGN OF JE HEARSE. The Preourser of Grinning Contagion Es-ports Es-ports Regularly for Its P nlseless Cargo and Departs, THE LANDSCAPES OF DEATH. Filth and Squalor Came Forward as Its Faitbtul Aid-de-Damps The Board Must Act. A little white hearse, a tiny woodon shell within its glassy confines and a mother whoso heartfound balm in the bitter miserie that she wept, again betrayed be-trayed the presence of the dread foe-man foe-man that is desolating the squalid homes that lie dirty and dingy upon and back of Commercial avenue. Homes that float in a veritable setting of death, aud which are haunted by night and day by its ugly allies, filth Bnd fever. At present it is dogged diphtheria that is robbing those nests of their new born occupants. Age has the vitality and the pluck with which to light it, but youth falls without a struggle. strug-gle. This is one of the results of the reign of tilth against which Tun Timks has so frequently lifted its voice. It is safe to say that in the miasmatic mias-matic cloud that awakened to the warm suns of the past few hours there lurks disease enough to depopulate a city of thousands. It will not take long to sweep a single locality lo-cality into tho grave. Within the narrow nar-row passage ways where tho snows have formed a temporary mark for pestilence is impurity enough to corrupt cor-rupt a mound of cleauliuess, The nasty compound that heaps itself into a minature range of ti 1th has been accumulating ac-cumulating there for months, if not for years. Putrefaction, has gone aloug iu slow but steady process pro-cess every day shedding vapors that were moro vicious and deadly. The denizens themselves arc responsible for its presence thero, aud tho scavenger with his well seasoned olfactories is responsible re-sponsible to the citizens. Perhaps his own home Is in a locality that isreaehed by the sunshine of light and health. This may account for his indifference in-difference towards the squalor of this locality. There is an ordinance ordi-nance that provides a remedy. The authorities should possess energy enough the brew it and stop contagion where it is. Tho carcass of a poisoned watch dog, of a mouser that got in range of an iron boot jack, tho feathered feath-ered coat of a spring chicken that died a martyr to cruel neglect, the wrinkled remnants of a boot that died game in the service of its un-gateful un-gateful wearer, decayed fruit, slops in endless species are some of the ingredients of this sea of reeking hash upon which the messengers messen-gers of death are fattening. Can the scavenger realize it? He evideutly does if he has got his nose within range of the district. The allluvium on a warm day is powerful enough to drive su avalanche from its eoure. The fitful frosts are all that have delayedthe reign of contagion that mu.tt soon burst its feeble fetters and come forth in all its grinning grin-ning grandeur. The city pays for a train of teams and a troop of missionaries mission-aries whose duty it is to prevent such a hideous condition of affairs as now exist ex-ist upon tho block now in question. It is a festering canker that must reap an awful harvest. The little white hearse must make moro than one trip to its precincts ere long. It will be followed fol-lowed by the big black hearse ton. Diplheria is not all that lurks within this sinister mass of rotting tilth. Disease of every variety lies ; beneath the slimy mantle of these I heaps of garbage waiting with feverish I anxiety the arrival of a warmer sun. I And this warm sun that brings with it ! the venom of death as well as the elixir of life is fast approaching. So is infec-j infec-j tious disease. Its ulcers aro planted I everywhere that filth exists. The j outer garments ' aro apparently clean. it is those beneath that j cry for soap and water. Tho board of , health cannot begin its campaign too soon. Coutaeiou is way in the lead ! and it will require stubborn and uure-j uure-j milling work to overtake it. It will succumb to no homeopathic measures. There is plenty of talent to bo recruited re-cruited from the dives and resorts that could be and should bo made to pay j tribute to the fair city that has toler-j toler-j ated their presence. All the police department wants is the order to advance and in a detour they can collect enough sinew to soon rid the alleys and recesses of every vestige of the filth that now gives out its desolating desolat-ing breath. The board of health should be prompt and aggressive in its movements. move-ments. The work can be accomplished at a nominal outlay, and contagion averted. l et the scavenger get a hump on him-, him-, self. I ,., , |