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Show BURY THE DEAD. <br><br> Editor Leader: Owing to the long unremitting and very trying winter, with a partial failure of the grass crop last year, numbers of stock have died; and the carcasses of these animals, in many places are scattered about in disgusting profusion.<br><br Is it not a duty, due to themselves and the public, that those who owned these animals when living should bury their dead carcasses? For, besides the unseemliness of the sight and the offense to the smell, there is great reason to fear that the pestilential vapor which will arise therefrom, as the heat of the season increases, may introduce disease and death into our community. <br><br> Let us not court the plagues of yellow fever, cholera, and other dreaded scourges of a like class; but rather by an observance of the common law of decency, of self preservation and of the Golden Rule seek to promote the general welfare in assisting to maintain the public health. Therefore I repeat, "Bury the Dead." <br><br> I will suggest, however, that a ???? advantage may be gained by depositing these animal remains in the soil of our farms, gardens, and orchards. Such fertilizers are deemed the very best we have for grape vines and fruit tress generally. <br><br> With our thorough church organization, no doubt this matter can be easily regulated by that means; but where parties ignore both their individual good, the rights of humanity, and their ecclesiastical obligation - that higher law; perhaps on application of the lower law may be advisable. <br><br> Respectfully, Bro. Hung? Pudiico?. |