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Show DEAD D0(i B HOT II. A Cholera Bridling llot-hrd Itroken up By Our Marblml. A few days ago, Marshal Bees was notified of the existence of a nuisance on the south-western outskirts out-skirts of the city. He went down to investigate. In a dirty, rickety uld shanty lie found the author of the nuisance. He wasa grizzly old fellow, a clog-maker by trade. In the rear of the shack the Marshal was met by a whiff of bad odor which nearly knocked him over. Ha had found the nuisance. There, sunk in the earth on a level with the ground, stood half a dozen large barrels. Each was full to the brim with a stinking, putrid mass of old watdr mixed up with the decomposing decom-posing floah of dead animals. There were several whole dogs, which had been knocked in the -head, skinned and chucked into these filthy bar-iels. bar-iels. The rotting body of one dog had, by its protracted stay in the feverish vat, swollen to an enor- . nious Hize; its abdomen had finally burst and its entrails were hanging .out to lend their enchantment to t e Appetizing prospect. The fumes which issued from these barrels were something dreadful. The hot rays of the sun fell unchecked into the round, gaping mouths of the barrels. The water was thus soon heated and decomposition came quickly. When interrogated for his reasons for maintaining such a hatchery for deadly disease germs, the old man was somewhat astonished. aston-ished. He said he used the broth (?) from the barrels for fertilizing. He poured it over his garden truck and it made them grow with surprising rapidity! Think of such a filthy mess being poured over radishes, lettuce and rhubarb! Our horrified Marshal Boon regained his equilibrium. equilib-rium. He had been completely knocked off his legs by the sickening sicken-ing fumes, the fight of the bloated dogs and the thoughts of eating early vegetables which had received receiv-ed a bath at this vile place perhaps but & few hours before. He gave Btern commands for the annihilation of the dreadful place. The old man could only plead: "That's the way they done it in the old country." The Marshal showed great leniency in not arresting the man on the spot. If such things can be maintained main-tained for weeks right under the noses of citizen, why for heaven's sake give us a Sanitary Inspector whose business it is to ferret out All such deadly holes. |