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Show sizes, and the most of them have hog-pens and typhoid fever, saye an Eastern ' exchange. The connection con-nection ia uniform and direct. The hog-pen suppliea the cause, and the fever or soma disease closely clo-sely allied to it, is the effect. It has taken a long while to con-! con-! vince even the moat intelligent settlements set-tlements of the value of scientific sanitation, and in large cities it is a constant fight to abate nuisances and compel people to observe ordinary or-dinary laws of cleanliness. But in the villages it is much worse. The populations cannot see the necessity of the new fangled notions, not-ions, as they call them, and auy interference of a board of health is an outrage and au irapertinance. We know of villages where the doctors have been laboring iu vain for years to eliminate the hog-pen. Their efforts are ridiculed, and the hog-pens and the fevers, which would never exist but for the uu-cleanliness, uu-cleanliness, remain. After awhile the people of those small places will see the importance import-ance of a different policy. When they realize that the existence of hog-pens in a community will keep away all settlers whose presence would be desirable, and when they see their property depreciating in value because no one wants to live in villages where no attempt is made to prevent disease, but everything every-thing id done to encourage it, they may find it to their advantage to send the hogs to the country, and then the health and welfare of the whole nation will be improved. Independent. WE HAVE THEM HERE. Hog-Pens and Typhoid Fever Always Near Neighbors. It is really remarkable what a part the hog-pen plays in the well-being well-being and prosperity of the county. There are in the United States 30,-000 30,-000 or 40,000 villages of different 4 |