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Show If HEALTH LAWS IN ENGLAND. r H Physician 8ntls(led They Have Been B "s Productive of Good. H Everybody by this tlmo la f.mlllar m ' ; with Uio pronouncement ' of science Hg that spitting Is a habit, wlilch, npnrt M from Its unplcnsant until ro, Is fraught, K ' In tho enso of consuiuptlvo persons, Hjl with great danger to tho nation at H: : large. Something must havo been ac- H ', compllshed In tho way of lessening H , . tho practice from tho advlco to refrain H ( ' from It legibly displayed In public H j "places," from tramenrs to postoniccs. Il'i Local lnws firo also In operation for HI'' tho punlflhmunt of thoso who offend. HI ! A Liverpool Investigation showed that Hi' of 105 "samples" of expectoration ex- Jf .; nmlned five contained virulent, that Is, nctlvc bacilli of tuberculosis. I am HI i at least glad to see tho condition of Hfji rallwny carrlogos Is beginning to ro-HIS; ro-HIS; celvo attention. They nro "plnccs" HJE much requiring attention In this re- 1 spect. A fino of 15s. each was inflict-HJ inflict-HJ n cd on two men at l'orth tho other day H Jj "' for spitting In a railway carriage Tho HI prosecution was uudortnlcn by tho HI county council of Glamorgan. All H 1 ' such leglblatlon Is not only needed, J but Its beneficial effect will not bo HJ limited to suppressing a nuisance Hi Through tho operation of tho law tho H 1 ' thoughts of tho nation will bo direct-H direct-H V cd townrd tho prevention of dlscaso, H'f and this nlono must bo regarded as un H'If eminently dcslrnblo result. Or. An-Hi An-Hi drew Wilson In tho London Chronlclo. H t Ono of Ochlltreo'o Stories. H I !' Col. Jnmcs K. Jones considers thnt H,i , tlio Into Thomas V. Oclilltreo was ono H l of tho bravest men that ever trod In B ' f shoo leather. "Why," said Col. Jones. B "I remember that in ono battlo tho H , colonel's cavalry regiment wus direct- HJ ' cd to nssnult n battery that was cans- H dig much trnublo. Oclilltreo ordered un H advance, and whon ho found himself H! : at tlio mouth of tho bristling cannon H ' no looked around and saw his men Hf wero not following. Ho galloped bacl HJ, and denounced them. H' '"Wero you not nfrald?' ho was HJf- asked. Hli "'Afraid? Thunder! No,' was his HfJ reply, 'but fifteen minutes after I re-Hlfr re-Hlfr ' turned to our camp my horse dropped Hf!f dead of heart disease.'" New York H'fn Times. |