.1 ‘TEE EVENING ' e A 2 ET T E “Truth above all things.’ Entered in ’the Post 03i1e as a Newspaper MONDAY, JANUARY 25, l897. THE WEATHER—Today? clear and much colder, with severe cold wave by to-night. To-morrow fair and cold, and on Wednesday fair to partly cloudy and continued cold. The Indian Plaque. It may be too much to say that the extension of the Asiatic plague into: Western Europe is impossible, but it certainly is in a high degree improb- able. Yet this is substantialy the same plague tnat1n the middle ages swept again and again across Europe and so lately as the séventeenth century _de- vasited London. The distance is still the sum, the differences of climate are still the same, communication is quick- er and more constrnt. But civilization has at an increasing rate destroyed the conditions necessary for t e existence of the plague. TheSe conditions—crowding, filth, malnutrition—are still general in the East and there the plague rages, from time to time, as fiercely as a thousand yeats‘ago. Just in proportion as people have become better fed, better housed and more cleanly, and their general sanitary conditions have-improved, the . plague has lost its Aterrors. In this present epidemic in India very few Europeans have been attacked. They are well fed, they live cleanly, they avoid contamination, and the disease that is destroying the dirty, starving natives by tens of thousands has no ter- rors for them. The advance of such an epidemic is naturally westward. along the lines of travel, but as we come west the condi- tions of life gradually improve. In the Levant, along the shore of the Medi- terranean, in parts of Erstern and Southern Europe, the prevailing sani- trry conditions are about what they were in England two hundred years ago and there the plague may still find lodgment. 01mins: north and west, the towns are cleaner, the Water supply and the food supply are better. people have more room to breathe and a better chance to live, and the higher the ad- vancement, the less danger from a dis- ease that feeds upon povertyand filth. We scarcely realize how great has been the sanitary advance of the world even within our own memory. The older medical text books all give promi- nence to typhus fever, ship or jlll fever, as something that a physician might expectto meet with freq'rently; but if anybody found a case of typhus in a prison or almshouse no w, or even on shipboard, except 'under extraordi- n try circumstances, he would be aston- ished at the criminal neglect that made it possible. It is a very few years since yellow fever, once not uncommon in Philadelphia, was supposed to be a necessary institution in our Southern c1t1es;already it is little thought of, evenin New ()cleans, simply beeruae ordinary s1nrtation has destroyed the nest. We shall eventually get rid of typhoid fiver as we have substantially got rid of typhus, and of small-pox, except where ignorance combats the known :neaus of prevention, and of cholera, except where here and there the conta- ~zion comes upon a community that has tagged behind in the general advance of civilization. No doubt even tuber; culosis and other scourges now thought 1.1cu‘rable will yield to hygienic science ‘ in time, and we shall look back upon our presnet bills of mortality as we now ink back on the records of the me ' ' diaeval plagues. Ending 3 Labor Conflict. CLEVELAND, Jan. 25. —There is prospect ofn. settlement between the Brown Hoist- ing works company and its err-employees, whose strike last summer caused bloodshed and rioting. None of the strikers have been taken back, and the boycott of the union has remained in force. During the last-h few days the agent of the union has been in conference with Manager Leeds of the company, and he says the latter is willing to make concessions. The unions will vote on the matter. A Baines Law Sentence. LOCKPORT, N. Y., Jan. 25.—Charles Bedell, steward of the Bridge club, has been sentenced to six nionths’ imprison- ment and to pay a fine of $1,650 for illegal selling of liquor. The club was a new one, incor poratcd under the Raines. law. An 1ppeal has been entered. Snowed Under. KANSAS CITY, unusual severity' rs raging tonight through- out Kansas and northwestern Missouri. The indications are that the railway traific in Kansas will be badly delayed if not sus- pended. . . The Columbia Sails. NEW 'YORK, Jan. 25.—-The , Columbia has. sailed-from here for‘Fortress Monroel ’ m-join the northAtlanticsquad'rd ~— ~ estimates:- When the bucolic gentleman with goatesquc whiskers and a hat of the accordion pattern stepped Ibriskly into the elevator and announced a desire just to make :1 couple of trips while he was taking a “noonin’, ” the youthful conductor of the lift was tickled to the soles of his feet. The people- of the br-ilding w ere out for lunch and he had a clear field for sport. “Are you all 1eady?” shouted the boy, as though the slightest neglect in being ready meant serious disaster. Let ’er go sonny,” responded the man from the country, while he chewed slippery elm bark with the same. in- dustry that a. rabbit chews cabbage. That “sonny” touched Young Ameri- ca in a sensitive spot, and they wont to the roof with a whiff that sent dust and papers whirling through the corri- dors. The boy turned to see his pas- senger with one leg hanging loosely over the other, his jaws working with- out :1. change in time, and his appear- ance as calm as though he were sit- ting on a stake-and-rider fence, watch- ing things grow. Down they went with a bang, and the old man only asked if there wasn't some way in which “th’ morshcen could be made to hump along a leetlo faster.” Then the desperate lad pulled the throttle wide open, and before he could check the terrific speed the up- per end of the course was reached, the cables snapped, the car dropped like a bullet to the air cushions bounded half a. story and finally ect- tied with the boy screaming from fright. ‘ Can t we make another trip ()1 lw 1‘7 ' asked the unmoved grungm ‘ ’l‘lmr' s suthin’ in that kind of motion. 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BATES’ 42 warts STREET, You can find as fine an assortment of State. Look it over and get prices before going elsewhere, I K ~ . 1' Piano Lessons. 8. GEORGE W. BRADLEY dau hte of the late Wm. .1 . Nash.) ni'voss diagram: 1' Mrs. MEAD’SE. ‘ m SOHO 0h REOPENED' suntan 29, 1896. ALL ‘ APPLICATIONS ' and satisfactory instructions on the Piano at . . h N reenl- ‘
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