Show IN A BLAZE OF GLORY tie the A C a beautiful and impressive affair wednesdays exercises were perfect students meetings banquets BaB tieta aria ani grand brand ball outline of the Vari meetings and other matters the corn commencement men cemen t exercises ot of t the h e A agricultural g r i c u I 1 t u r a 1 C college 0 I 1 I 1 e g e on lve wednesday d os n e s d a y m morning 0 r n i n g s surpassed u r p a e d a all 1 1 previous affairs of the kind in our local history there was a very impressive meeting on sunday at which the speech of rev mr clemenson Cleme neon on liberty and the baccalaureate address delivered before the graduates by president paul were ample compensation for the disappointment caused by the unavoidable absence of lion ilon W H king i who was to deliver the baccalaureate sermon the rendering of murmuring sea by alex lewis and mrs cowley the bridge by rs hyde farrell ballam and hansen was excellent but the most moat taking piece was parting friends written by stephens and exquisite id rendered by mr J phillips phillipa and miss mamie Nl arnie kimball it followed the eloquent and affecting oration of president paul and brought tears to the ayee of many students the exercises of the longfelt longfellow low 4 p 4 society on pig b td drew ew out crowded condition of the hall ball the large number of small email boys present the warm night and the difficulty of hearing the speeches of the students tB all combined to mar and for many of the audience to spoil the fine program that was presented the beautiful singing of mr hansen and greaves in ia the duet 1 I live and love thee was an important feature as was also the baritone solo of mr P L the officers of the society were greatly disappointed and chagrined that the meeting was so far below their expectations on wednesday morning the following program of the third annual commencement was rendered at 11 a m in the college chapel overture poet and peasant li harris orchestra prayer lion ilon jos kimball piano fantasia andante multo bulto allegretto allegro nias miss vendla berntson paper purification of the water supply W W mclaughlin ablin golin duet lifes dream is oer mr frank baugh mrs etta mer hays violin fantasia souvenir de bd bade hilda hida fogelberg gelberg Po address louis pasteur Pa amot amos merrill spanish serenade la paloma harris orchestra address and valedictory importance of the en engineer i neeri J L duet by the brooklet mr R C easton miss bessie morehead presenting certificates Certificate a and conferring degrees dr ohn bohn R park overture Un undine dinell harris orchestra benediction ilon hon orson smith A large select and appreciative ludi enca was present every number dumber on the program was a per act success the orchestral belec ions eions were excellent the spanish serenade being especially well en dered the piano fantasia by altas berntson Bernt Bon and the violin fantasia antasia by miss mi as fogelberg pupils f prof fogelberg Fogel herg were high class productions redactions rod actions brilliantly executed mr mclaughlins ins on water supply iq ii an important contribution to the literature of thi this subject j e et and will appear in full in these columns the same may be said of the papers of mr A merrill and ur mr these papers are very different from the usual style of commencement orations filled with glittering glit fering generalities and covered with foaming phrases phrase these essays are composed of solid and interesting facts with a bearing dg upon every day life and give evidence of research ability and a good sense of the practical and worthy interests of mankind the duet lifes dream is oer by mr baugh and mrs summer hays was a beautiful piece of music which received received the highest praise while that rendered by mr easton and miss morehead by the brooklet Dro oklet captivated all the lovers of music that heard it dr park in iu some impressive and well chosen words conferred the def degrees jeffrees frees and the certificates on the members of the graduating class following is a list of the graduates with the degree of bachelor of science agriculture christian larsen lareen logan utah amos newlove merrill richmond utah lorin loria asa merrill richmond utah biology willard simuel samuel S lang ton logan utah civil engineering walter wesley mclaughlin blin salt lake city utah joseph lewis coal ville utah mechanical engineering joseph richard thompson richmond utah with certificates certificated iu in short commercial course jewis aenry carver plain city utah william wesley gibson smithfield utah in the evening a grand ball in honor of the graduates radu ates was given and perhaps no io more brilliant brillia nt affair of the kind has ever occurred in this locality an immense throng was present representing the youth beauty and brains of our community and it is whispered that the festivities continued antil an early hour all the students of the college had a banquet on tuesday afternoon which was a quiet enjoyable affair followed by sentiments responses peni ses speeches and singing on wednesday afternoon occurred the alumni banquet an affair of much ela platani tani magnificence the dignified behavior and courteous demeanor of the students at the college have become matters of public comment this year while the good feeling and enthusiasm manifested ty ly them in the closing exercises exercise far surpass what has hitherto been usual we do not remember to have seen anywhere a finer looking body of students than have attended the college this year the college has this year achieved a prestige and success that augur well for its future purification OF 01 THE DOMESTIC WATER 17 W LAU OnLIN human life depends upon the utilization of the potential energy stored up in a variety of mineral and vegetable substances which are consumed as food I 1 water which belongs to the former class is the common food substance of both the highest and lowest forms of life it comprises thirds of the food of man and no doubt if we were able to observe the quantities consumed by the lower animals we would find a similar consumption prom from this it is ia safe to say pure wholesome water is the prime essential of health hence the prime esen es en bial of happiness which in turn is the foremost object in human progress thus we see eee that the value of wholesome water is almost beyond the human conception or as bacon has said till taught by pain men lien know know not what good water is 13 woith our water supply for domestic vur purposes poses is derived from one of the following sources rivers canals and the like springs surface and artesian wells rain water stored in reservoirs M mr r thomas edison says every atom seems filled with life this is certainly so of our water supplies there is hardly a source of supply that does not contain animal or r plant life or both this being 0 the case we see how impossible it is to obtain water the quality of which is beyond suspicion running surface water is open to contamination from four sources wind water earth and animals the wind blows objects either visible or invisible directly into the water or to such points as render it liable to be carried there by the melted snows or by the rains water from the melted snows or from the rains as it winds its way to the river carries organic or inorganic matter with it the water of the stream as it follows the river bed dice dissolves olves and carries in in suspension many substances which are injurious to the human system animals including man in a variety of ways render the water unfit for use man by cultivating the soil by allowing the refuse of his house factory mine anti and the like to enter the water many of the other animals wade or wallow in the streams or drink from them and thus they cause the water to become charged with their excreta wells veils and springs are most apt to become polluted from seepage at the same time being open to the above sour sources cej while the surface water is the more apt to become polluted it is the better adapted to self purification running water in falling over rocks causes the water to come com 6 in contact with the air which causes the oxidation of a good many impurities and the eddies cause the larger particles held in suspension to bo be deposited at the bottoni bottom it is different with the well the water has no chance of coming coming in contact with the air and so th the e oxidizing 0 process is not called into use some one has said drinking well water is like drinking out of one hole what we pour in at the other this may be taken to signify that we drink out of a hole in the yard the stuff we see in our own or our neighbors yard stable or pigpen pig pen prof chandler says unless your cess pool is as tight as a bottle the sewage will find it its way into some ones well As very few people have a cess pool at all it seems that they draw water from the well merely to pour it back again perhaps the most dangerous impurity in water is esthe the disease germs or microbes mic robes which lire are small invisible organism of the plant family these organisms with long latin names do harm iu in three ways ways by clogging the blood veins b by changing the composition of the t e blood and by general ins ing poisons it II is estimated that the microbe nai croba causes two thirds of all the diseased of mankind and has bas caused more suffering irin than any war since the fall of rome the diseased bodies of human beings or 01 decaying organic matter is is as es sentill to the virus of infect infector ou diseases as the mother to the child and since all matter tends to bs be carried off by water we see eee that tha impure water is ia one of the greater causes of sickness if i f not the great est most of our foods undergo bucl preparation as would tend to des troy any life lifa which it contains ye we all ail know that by properly cooking pork containing trichina the life af this worm is destroyed water V ter is ie in too many cases take n unprepared into the human tem and as the stomach is ia a suitable place for developing disease germs we see why water is more liable to cause ilis diseases eases than all other foods and drinks drink combined when the subject of purifying water for domestic purposes is mentioned to the people they cry taxes taxes down with the taxes Is it cheaper to maintain hospitals lay out and beautify fir cemeteries support doctors and ana undertakers lose time be confined to the sick bed and at last loe those whom they hold bold dearer than life many answer 1 I have not been attacked yet and I 1 guess I 1 will get along all right abat a man roweta floweth that shall he also reap people habitually using edg unwholesome water become became as accustomed to its taste as the chewer does to that of tobacco many say of their well water it i is 3 cool sparkling and refreshing are they suie suie the cool and re fres bing effect is ia not dot due to some chemical substances and is the sparkling not due to carbonic acid gass gags A derangement of any of the vital functions of the body in which their natural action is in or disturbed or causes or threatens pain or weakens is called a disease A preventable disease is one which can be kept out of the hu human man system by proper measures it has bag been proved that hat of the preventable diseases have their own peculiar disease germ which can be and is often transmitted by water and that impure water is one of the greatest menaces to health by practical tests it has been found bund that these germs can and do develop into water that they can remain in a block of ice for weeks at a time and then under favorable conditions awaken into the greatest activity As water is a favorable medium for transmitting and developing chefe germs and as they need food to develop it fol lows aws that the water must contain the he food the food of these germs erms is a organic orphic matter and sio cioce ce organic matter is subject to decay we must admit that such water contains disease germs and their excreta and the decomposed decomposing and the posed refuse of both the animal and vegetable kingdoms still people say let our water alone li it will take care of itself As a le example take the three canals running through our city these canals run through streets lots door yards barnyards manufacturing establish establishments and the like domestic animals animals are allowed to wade and wallow in the water buggies a are washed in them kep tub buckets milk cans anif and even clothes are allowed to be in them some people are so sa uncivilized as to throw their slops into the canals and thus use uee them more as a sewer than ai the means of supplying families with water any one who had looked into the logan and alyde park canal during part of april and may and had bad seen the living things in the water could hardly imagine himself drinking them along with their food and ex excreta ereta and could hardly have the assurance to say that this so called pure water was good enough for himself and bis big family if during a rain storm last fall he had had occasion to walk alon along g one of these canals into which the water from the surrounding neighborhood was running be would have seen sticks mud refuse frona from the house bowe Stil stable ble animals and the like entering the canal thus the impurities that might baase disease find their way int the water the water from our city water works is very muddy during the weather and carrias t i great umber number of living animals and plants and a large amount of sediment which could be materially reduced by the expenditure of a few hundred dollars for ft a to lorage reservoir with this addition to our present estem logan could say with pride look at our water supply and say eay where is a supply better adapted to promote be health alth wealth and prosperity if our present sai lern of water 1 pipe ipe lines were extended and more pe peaple pie used water them hem and the use uee of the old oaken bucket were abandoned the death rate tom preventable diseases would be much decreased there are plenty of instances to te show that water hae been the direct mean of causing thousands of deaths the epidemic of typhoid fever a few years since at plymouth pa is an example that will be remembered the disease originated in a family residing upon the bank of the stream that supplies plymouth th with witter water the disease wai wag conveyed to the consumers at plymouth and contracted by 1800 per toils that the height of the ground water has hag an effect upon the thae number of cases of typhoid has been noticed by bv prof Patten kofer at munich lia bavaria varia lie ile found that as tha ground water rose the number of eases cases increased and as the water lowered the number of cases decreased the same thing has bas been noticed at r kaneas city F mo alo middleton Middie ton dayton and hamilton ohio perhaps the most noted instance of water as the cause of an epidemic a preventable dis esse was the cholera epidemic at hamburg germany w in 1692 the city of altoona is situated but a short distance below hamburg ham burp and as far as natural surroundings ai d clime are concer concerned qed are as ae near alike as two peas but in the their ir water supply they are not to be 0 compared O t 0 pared hamburg took water directly from the river elb and furnished furm sned it to the people while altoona filtered the water which wai taken from the same source there were cases sea at hamburg of which proved fatal and altoona had bad but cases of which 28 were fatal this shows that pure water saved altoona many lives this is also alao one of the beet bea examples to how show s the effect of filtering water as the elb receives the sewage of hamburg before it reaches the head bead of if the altoona supply the imperial board of health came to the conclusion that impure water wai the cause of all the suffering in 1892 ff amburg was the only |