Show THE EPIDEMIC STILL SPREADING THE influenza epidemic con tadues to spread with phenomenal rapidity it sweeps over extensive divisions of the world like the passage of a soft wind it spares no age sex nor condition seizing high and low rich and poor p senator ingalls is one of the prostrated but no doubt is entertained regarding his recovery how true are goldsmiths remarks about the popular solicitation exhibited for the sufferings rings of the rich every spasm that seizes them causes the world to be struck with a sympathetic vibration while the poor surrounded by squalor and pinched by starvation suffer in silence every epidemic which fails to make distinction of classes brings out the comments of the poet in striking prominence they have many immediate illustrations in the present inroad being made by a peculiar malady upon the general health humanity is now suffering from this general disease it is more than probable however that it will next seize upon and play fearful havoc among horses and cattle this is the ordinary course of the malady it first takes hold of the people and subsequently domestic animals which are highly susceptible to it among the latter it is generally attended with great fatality we remember well when a similar epidemic spread over a wide area in this country extending even to this Teni Teril tory it must have been from twelve to sixteen years ago after it struck the horses the street car service in some of the large cities n notably new york was practically suspended for a considerable time and great inconvenience and hardship resulted thousands of horses and cattle died from the disease the threatening appearance of the affliction suggested to the late apostle orson pratt to quote in a discourse delivered by him a prediction that occurs in the book of mormon which points to a time when in this nation the horses will be cut off by disease the weather most favorable for the spread of influenza is unseasonably warm and wet or raw cold and foggy the present storm which is in excellent season will probably have a healthful effect in this region news received concern concerning ing the spread of influenza and its fatality continues to reach us the situation in paris is specially alarming and a panicky feeling is becoming prevalent |