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Show Nil lure Pursues it Li nr. "The forces of the universe Rre In league against a lie," says Emerson, and what his terse, penetrating pen would find to say where the lying involves in-volves perhaps mortal danger to human hu-man beings, we will pot presume to say, but will illustrate our meaning as follows: In December, 1887, a child that had died in Connecticut of diphtheria diph-theria was brought to l'ittstield, Mass., for burial. The parents came with the body to a house in Pittsileld and a public pub-lic funeral was held. Within a week and while the parents of the child still remained as visitors in the house, a child who lived in the house was taken ill with diphtheria und died. Then came a humiliating confession from the Connecticut parents. They said that the symptoms of the second child were just lilt; those of theirown, and finally acknowledged that arrangements had been made with the physician In attendance at-tendance upon the case to write a certificate cer-tificate of death by bronchitis instead of diphtheria. Other cases followed in the same house. - |
