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Show THE WESTERN [From the “business end”| || tHE WESTERN WEEKLY. Fea es Excemts From PUBLISHING COMPANY, Criry. O78, t the Postoffice, Salt Lake City, Utah, Heerene as Second Class Matter. Subscription One YEAR, Six Montss, THREE Montns, Add ae M -WrESTERN - - - confiding public with tender our dying Milton H. Hardy's Lectures on Sanitation. we here- wail, not a Strictly speaking, contagious diseases TARAS and likewise their amplitude. “wail of tears” by any means for are inféctious; infectious diseases are first to encourage the cause of public The notion of pleasure without pain, and their greatest meed of communicable; communicable diseases health; we could not shed them if we are preventable; prey ntable diseases praise is not in bringing the dying back and vice versa, is illustrated in the once would and would not if we could, plainly come within the legitmate scope to life, but in so arming the living in the popular theory of heaven and_ hell. panoply of health as to make them im- Considered strictly from a terrestrial for we have certainly given the of the sanitarian. point of view, this superstition contains pregnable to the assaults of disease. Price: - Doctor 3 = they may fulerum at one of the extremities as a mold the public health and morals, in- heart insensible to pain. It is the ancrease individual and national wealth | tithesis in the physical world, which we and assist in determining the standiag call equalibrium, and the antithesis in of our nation with the nations of the the human mind, which we call judgworld.” ment that gives to them their stability The history of the accredited physi- and power; it is the antithesis in the cians shows them always ready and the feelings that gives them their existence important in our government; wae: | a ae oe all communications to the Box 1129, WEEKLY; P. : “Salt Lake City, Utah. - Remittances may be made by express, money order or registered letter, at-our tisk, the sender giving his full address. As with cell-life so with the virus of a '|public the worth of their money contagious disease. In every case a conduring the few months of our con-, tagious disease has an antecedent case. ception, incubation and assassina.|tion, and we die gracefully without Bvéty possible effort will be made to have the WrsterN WEEKLY delivered promptly to subscribers; and persons having any cause of complaint will The relation of filth to Diphtheria and Typhoid fever is well established; indeed these are called the “filth diseases.” Not that filth alone without the presence of a somewhat <-> under The Sonsibities a on the Amuitade absurdity manipulation which may be evolved into a very modest paradox. We have for example two candidates for eternity; Thoughts startiing little ne Saur Lake and Aphorisms. SQUASHED. PUBLISHED Every SATURDAY BY THE WerstERN WEEKLY. of the Feelings, one -is docketed for eternal torment and the other has his passport for eternal rapture. They swing out upon opposite lines; but like the two pilgrims to the celestial city, one journeying east anc the other west, they are amurmur against the non-paying Antitheses in Mature. : the distinctive virus originates a contaor hard-to-collect-from subscribers, gious disease, but once the virus has been whose daily watchword is call introduced, filth favors in an unlimited ‘Sensibility would be .a good portress if she oblige by notifying the office. but one hand; with her right she opens the Changes of address will be made when- again (in the indefinite future) or degree its propagation and stands as the had certain to meet eventually at a common door to pleasure, with her left to pain.” ever desired, but the postoffice FROM as destiny. well as the postoffice To which any the sweet bye-and-bye-——same thing, great barrier against successful treatThe sentiment of the foregoing is change is made must be given in every to them at any rate. As already inferred, the existence of But says the ment, and extermination; so that the probably more familiar as expressed in instance. its most numerous Vicemotion implies necessarily a change of old saw, “the more you live the contagion finds Advertising Rates Furnished on Application. tims, (the question of individual recep- the old saw, “To be an idiot is to be state. The notion, therfore, of eternal longer you finc out, don’t it.” tivity for the present excluded) where truly happy.’ There are many things joy or eternal sorrow is “eternal nonEditors: i When we embarked in this ven- there is filth to favor its spread, and an said concerning man’s felicities, which sense.” Indeed eternal anything with G. Q. CORAY, J. M. ROMNEY. ture we thought that we had a soft indifference to, and. a lack of, hygienic though decidedly pernicious and unlaw- respect to the feelings is under the laws ful to utter, have nevertheless a measure of nature no more nor less than eternal snap; now the snap has got us, and precepts and sanitary regulations and March 2, 1889. it is pretty cold, too, but then ah he Sea Saturday, are not going to snap head off for all that,-we in a : PIE ST, OBITUARY. get os f With the current Ra pe OEE WerstTERN WEEKLY number the completes. the first six months of its publication. Whatever have been its imperfecthey are no. doubt tions, and age numerous enough, its promoters can say with honest and grateful pride that the recognition their effort has received from ing public has far the read- exceeded their ahead we any one’s will soon again and, perhaps, in place of a Weak-ly Western we may be able to give the confiding public a journal that will meet the wants and wishes of all; one that will be read with equal interest by the Mugwump as by the Wumpmug. And then we will pay every‘body to take it, which, of course, will give it “the largest circulation” —something that we all claim. Right here we wish-to remark that those who had confidence eno7gh in usto pay the year in advance most sanguine hopes. _ Occasional will have the half years: pay restatements have appeared in the funded as soon as our matters are columns concerning the circulation. adjusted. ~~ W ith many thanks to These were not exaggerations. The those who loved us we bid en all subscription list of the WEErKLy is ta ta! We were a little paper, today all that has ever been claimed As everyone did know, ® for it. But the income from subBut we cuta pretty caper And all said: “I told. you so.” scriptions alone, under the most faverable conditions possible to With many a squawk and giggle, “The Editors” will say, ~ this lecality, could mot be adequate The Weekly doesn’t wiggle to the wants of a competent jourFor they couldn’t make it pay. nal. Thatis the kind of a periodical the proprietors have under—_ += taken to put before its readers. éarrying out this design the In Thoughts , |..Snterprise, with the three leading -members of the concern working without recompense, but has eaten from Lamartine / at wea. six months’ run just past has not only| | Ing absorbed the entire proceeds of the >—<+ SUFFERING. For me there has ever been. as for all mankind, a sublime and heroic harmony between us and sovereign glory, sovereign genisovereign misfortune. There we behold a note of destiny which never loses its power, its sad and sonorous. Vi- surroundings. has fever Typhoid called been “type of filth diseases,” and yet the its virus is constantly allowed to percolate into the crystal depths of the neighbor's, and the children’s wells. “The fundamental principle of our govsecure to is ernment to citizens, life, liberty, and the prusuit of happiness. Life can not be enjoyed without health, and liberty is only desirable as it permits one to employ life in the pursuit of happiness.” The self-evident truth that sanitary regulations shculd be thoroughly enforced then or during the very time there seems to be least need for them strikes at the very root of the matter in that it (1) prevents the endemicity the dreadful, and at the same time that most con- dition for which in this locality we wouid be justly culpable; (2) lessens gradually but surely the individual receptivity the very basis and ultimatum of sanitary science; and (8) offers the only means of successfully combating the foe with Teference to its epidemicity or conditions | and phenomena by which a large number are affected simultaneously. The old idea was that Scarlet. fever, Measles, and other diseases supposed to be peculiar to infancy and childhood, must be had by infants and children, and attendent upon such a decision, are constrained to announce current issue as the last for an definite period. Those who are still owing 3 “a we the ing for the six months ended will address as usual: WESTERN WEEKLY, Box 1129, Salt Lake City. The overpayment in cases where afull ee year vance, we GOR date. has hope been to paid refund tinct murmuriug of swallows upona mountain twittering when the sun risesover grows very rapidly up to this time at- taining nearly itsadult size. This epoch also marks second dentition and im- Effective sanitary operations can be carried on before the epidemic sweeps over the land, or the endemic shall have become established; while in the presence of the relenzless foe active and sys- which repeats it like an echo, reflects it like a mirror, and renders it perceptible in two ways, to sense by imagery, to thought by thought. Thisisthe infinite tematic poetry of the double creation! Men call in ad- ism which God alone understands at of which He permits a few men to learn something, From Voyage en -.Orient, translated by M. M. Richardson. an diseases. a wheat-field. - There are harmonies between all elements, as there are between material and spiritual nature. Every thought has an image in a visible object it comparison. Comparison is genius. Creation is one thought under a thousand forms. To compare is to possess the gift of discovering afew more words in that divine language of universal symbol- but affords There is no joy.in | the idea that a person to be happy half has lavished all the rarest and |} his natural life must live the other half him she choicest of nately her her possessions. bounties have Unfortu- flowed with prodigality too generous for or happiness; she once a paragonof has made mental a his comfort of him at excellence and the most forlorn and miserable of carnal beings. Through his sensibilities she has unfojded all the beauty and sublimity of earth and at the same time exposed him, without recourse, to the galling tortures of its degradation and wretchedness I shall not that in proportion to their sensibilities all men are miserable. There are no doubt persons in the world—some of the great poets for instance—whose responsive faculties are of reasoning the highest order reached by the human mind, and because of that very gift of appreciation they are the happiest of living beings. But this re- markable copartnership of the sensual and the divine, the inteilectual and material isa freak of reciprocity which providence rarely indulges in. The world has seen one, perhaps two, Walter Scotts; but has it not seen and shared the anguish of as many scores of Byrons? Where it: has had one Longfellow has it ‘in wretchedness. It is far more desir- able to live. in the hope that kind Nature will some day in the infinite future be good enough to reconsider her scheme, and fashion her methods more in accommodation with our pleasures. A hope in the future, though it bea little sickly and half-hearted, 1s certainly more pleasing to the contemplations than the bitterness of the past or the mockery of the present. If life’s ness and there is any code recompense for froth and dregs, it is the consciousof a possible restoration of reason motive totheir legitimate estate. Man in his anxiety to impress posterity with the fact that he is an animal has almost forgotten’ that he is a man. Thcugh indeed a physical and sensual being he has likewise a moral accounta- bility to man and to his maker that dis- tinguishs him creation, from the lower and which should dominate his Life. Returning briefly to the text,—what scheme of existence could be conceived more desirable than one wherein our mentaland physical pains are suspended, and the mind permitted to enjoy without restraint the pleasures even now that the sooner they had them and (ap- not had a hundred Poes and Petrarzhs? available? Consider, for example, a parently) recovered the better. Nothing What better example of mental wretchstate of consciousness in which that could be wider from the. truth. These edness could be cited than the immortal wonderful instrument of ecstasy and diseases are not a necessity with infants trio, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Moliere? madness, the human soul, which is now and children, and it is our plain and im- Rapture, indeed, they may have enjoyed exposed to every convulsion of this rugperative duty to protect our children but mark the companion miseries that from them as we would from any other poisoned the hidden moments of their ged world, is responsive only to life’s sweeter and gentler inspirations! form of accident. lives. Witness Hamlet, Faust, and the Then indeed might Sensibility be soul-erushed hero of Le Misanthrope! A child should not”attend the public hailed asthe “good portress.” She is or national schools until\about its eighth Where else can be found such monuments now but a soulless automaton that year, unless the New Education be of human suffering? Such streams of greets all comers alike,—whether they adopted, for the reason that the brain bitterness flow only from minds that have approach enormously into the invested cap- bration in the human heart. In fact, pertant dietetic changes that naturally atal. The venture was in every glory is not sympathetic,nor virtue com- supervene. plete without. ingratitude, persecution sense an experiment, and the con- and death. Christ was the divine examContrary to a common notion excess of clusion reached by its movers is ple, and his life and doctrine explain the ammoniacal gases from foul stables, dark enigma of the doom of great men yards, and other enclosures induces a that another half year’s publica- by the fate of the God-man. low form of fever more dreadful really tion would simply be adding to the than several of the acute contagious disPOETRY. unrewarded labor and expense at- The waves, caressing softly the thick eases, because insidious, undefined, and tending to reduce and keep the system tending the enterprise, while the rounded sides of our vessel, warble pleas antly under my narrow window, to which below the comparative health-level. problem of eventual success would Our beautiful mountain country is not the foam sometimes rises in light, white be no nearersolution thanitis today wreaths. It was like the changing, indis- the habitat of contagious and ae aig With these facts before us,and with deep regret for the disappointment of truth, and I am at times inclined to quiescence. regard this as one of them. But this sort of Man as Creation’s favorite child is un-/meagre satisfaction. doubtediy without a competitor. Upon operations are everywhere em- barrassed. To secure the benefits of sanitary measures, they must be adopted permanently; they must be thorough. They must be continuous. Spasmodic efforts are not sufficient; but cleanliness once secured tained. must be unceasingly - main- There can be no more important practical branch of education than knowledge of the sonal, and public. lawe nor the of health, per- drunk despondency to its very dregs? There have been men who were so magnanimous in their woe that it be- came to them a sort of exaltation, an expansion of soul which was rather ecstasy than sorrow. Such was the blind | Milton. Laan Mortals of his type are of this world should not therefore than be into ac- count. In general, he who can gaze upon the abnormities of life withouta shudder will with the same stolid and frozen vision stare at the beautiful and sublime as at vacancy. If affliction bears to ‘his soul no- pang, felicity will bring no dehg¢ht. He is indeed wanting in the es- sences of heart and brain called human sympathy; he has not the gift of divine interpretation which is the natural birthright of his race; in short, he is a brute—a unique specimen, perhaps, but a brute in every essential part. A man, really and truly so, feels as well as veasons; and itis through his feelings. that he canceives and knows himself and his fellow beings. They are che beacon-lights that guide him safely through the secret labyrinths of Nature at whose very threshold reason falters; and according to their fidelity is he a man of the ideal type. We cannot conceive a one-sided Nature,no more with respect to the feelings than with reason. We might as easily: “Officer s of sanitary boards are ‘the most. picture to the mind a balance with with gifts or for alms, with with scourging-rods, with inwith pestilence, they are we}- comed with open hospitality. the Bee A maxim may ee 6, as a con- Maxims. be defined densed statement of an important tical truth, Poultry says the prac- World . The following maxims are worth their weight in gold to any poultry man who will make application of them in the management of his fowls: Practice scrupulous cleanliness, Lime is cheaper than roup,; and fumigation more profitable than lice. Underfeeding is expensive. Overfeeding is false liberality. Sunlight is as necessary as corn. Carbolic acid is cheaper than cholera. Exercise is cheaper than medicine. Fresh water is abundant and cheap. Disinfectants are better than disease. The hen is a scratching bird; let her scratch. The best stock is the cheapest; there. fore never sellthe best anything but the best. and never buy Now,is the most important word inthe dictionary. Do now the thing that’. now needs to be done. Nail up these maxims and then live up to them and you will find pouitry keeping robbed of ‘ts terrors,and its pleasures and profits multiplied. rads, G07 a rather citizens, and taken smiles or cense or | A |