Show WATEIION THE BRAIN Discourses the Necessity Having > Hav-ing Aqua Pura j j SVSPETE June 2518S5 To the Editor ol THE HEEALD I Rumor says that the fearful disease the spqtted fever has againinvaded the City of Mount Pleasant once a desolation deso-lation and a scourge to that city and Spring City this county Unable to enter en-ter into the cause why and wherefore there are nevertheless some apparent causes chiefly the water courses the main supply of drinking and for culinary I culin-ary purposes The extent and area of farms now upon all the streams leading to the cities named cause impurities to flow from corrals etc to the city The water courses within the city pass through and by corrals and stables situated immediately the sidewalks emitting not only a stench effluvia and Sowings but rendering the water doubly impure There exists an ordinance in one of the cities that no corral etc shall be near or on a stream or water course say twenty feet Yet strange to say that in nearly every instance the corrals and stack yards are on the sidewalks and in close proximity to the wafer course The back part of many lots lie idle useless while to the front comes these disagreeable features near to your nose and frightfully nesfr to the occupants of a goodlooking house I have pants in my travels seen the barn and its adjunct ad-junct the corral overshadow the otherwise pretty surroundings I have in my mind places the owners of which are preachers of beautifying Zion boasting of her health and wealth of fresh air yet outrage all those glowing pictures by the protruding of a disgust Ing l filthy pile of manure andy discoloring the coloring the water and causing pedestrian to tiptoe it through the muck past his corral Is it any wonder f b of fever breaks out when the source health pure water is rendered thus impure im-pure Is it not impiety to ask God for health by any means prescribed when we pollute the fountain In the eager grasp of land in this great area of country that cannot be watered w have lacked the provision say forty acresfor a burying ground On the public pub-lic highways these in man instances are located The men of acres crowd into the narrowest space these citie of the dead and irrigates the blossoms of your hopes there deposited In many instances they are not cities of the dead there are no streets alleys al-leys or easements one heterogenous mass of humanity piledout doors to be trodden un ler foot of man and beast on tne range In some instances they are located ill the heart of the city and the percolations percola-tions are dangerous to the near occupants occu-pants of homes In Spring City as you come from the north you pas by one of those clear bubbling springs secured to rrian and beast and you thank the city fathers for the care of this refreshment It would seem that some appliances of public wells properly located is within the purview of a citys power to provide pro-vide forthe peace good order cleanliness cleanli-ness etc of the city The amend mentto city charters once lacking this boon have now the power An adjunct to pure wateris Gods blessed sun which i should be permitted to gaze into our nouses particularly our bedrooms once a day In this particular we again violate the laws of health Our beds are too readily made up in the morn ingthus this natures best andcheapest disinfectant is obsolete Cleanliness Is next to Godliness nay is a means 01 grace Fresh air pure water plenty of sunshine and some perfumed soap are wonderfully efficacious with the > e auxiliaries Should fell disease iiivade mv home mv body I have a clear conscience con-science to ask aid from above There is a mania now fql lDlproeu stock seemingly at the expense of fanuily pome slid comforts I quote Dio Lewis of a sale of cowi and calves of improved Shorthorn breed at York Mills New York One cov sold for JOiOO a heifer calf seven months old lor 27000 and li cows and calves l 2j 000 It makes one dizzy to try dud imagine the results of an experiment to I improve ourselves our homes and our would adornments Why this world have its millennial If we cannot all have these we can feast our eyes on thos who have them and thus gratify our love of the beautiful YTFrOS THC TIRUS |