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Show CLEAN UP. The conclusion is safe that spring has come this time to stay. Growing weather is at hand. A few days of genial sunshine and the live earth will begin to put forth its vitality. And in appreciating the immeasurable joy that attends the opening of the season of growth, it is profitable to bear in mind that the universal companion of life is death; that the same sun which makes the grasses shoot and the or-Ji or-Ji chards and cardens clothe themselves in their luxurious colors, and fills the air with nature's sweetest harmonies, also sets at work the germs of decay, and calls from the warm bosom of earth odors putrid as well as sweet. It is not a pleasant thought, but the consummation con-summation of pleasure will bo very much more secure and therefore appreciated ap-preciated if the thought, however disagreeable, dis-agreeable, is indulged and its promptings prompt-ings heeded. The accumulation of a long, close winter are sure to be loaded with germs of disease and matter which is ready with the first warmth to begi'.i a death breeding decomposition. decomposi-tion. Thoughtful people will lose no time in disposing of all such where it will not result in evil to themselves and their neighbors. As a rule bad odors are poison as well as d isagree-able; isagree-able; but all poisons are not odorous, and the only security against infectious infecti-ous decay is absolute cleanliness. The city has a sanitary ordinance which makes it au offense to be unclean un-clean to the xtent of endangering the public health. People who hae ot . ouungti oi respect aua liuman decency ito attend promptly to such requirements require-ments should be made to do so or suffer suf-fer for their neglect in a way that will not cause others to suffer with them. This law should be enforced with the utmost vigor by wise and vigilant officials. of-ficials. If we would enjoy good health we must be clean. Filth is death. |