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Show NOW -IT IS CHOLERA. There is cholera in Manila and in Prussia, but there is slight danger of the disease reaching the United States. The German imperial health office says that in spite of the heavy emigration by way of Hamburg and Bremen, Americans need not be alarmed. The German officials promise to take every precaution,, and no doubt they will They are intelligent and conscientious. The American officials of-ficials also will exert themselves. It is enough to have yellow fe'er cases at Xcav Orleans, says the Chicago Tribune. The cholera undoubtedly reached Prussia from Russia, although the Russian health department says the empire is free from the disease. Early in the year the Russian physicians were greatly disturbed dis-turbed by the likelihood of a cholera empidemic in provinces where there had been crop failures and j the peasants were on the verge of starvation. The fears may have been excessive, for little has been said about the disease up to this time. - The Russian Rus-sian government is not so prompt, however, about giving publicity- to matters of that kind or about adopting sanitary precautions as the German government gov-ernment is. Apparently the cholera crept along from Caucases to Prussia Avithotit attracting the attention of the Russian authorities. The outbreak at Manila indicates that the disease, dis-ease, which raged in Luzon a few years ago, Avas not thoroughly stamped out. The sanitary officials in the island are better prepared to deal with tho epidemic than they Avere when they first had to deal with it. They may be able to prevent its spread in Luzon. HoAveA-er that may be, the disease eertainly will not reach this country from that quarter. - . |