The Republican journal., 1881-10-13

And above all, don't dispose of, by
| throwing away" any sort of dangerous
or mischievous thing. If you have been
using Paris green for the doryphora, or
corrosive sublimate for the lectularius, or
| arsenic or strychnine OF tartar emetic for
rats, or any sort of poison for flies, don't
'throw away" what you have left, but
| destroy it altogether, out of human reach
| and knowledge. Don't leave any of these
| things in your house when you move
| away; it is cowardly way of getting rid
of rubbish. A silly man in Philadelphia,
moving his family into lately vacated
| house, found on a cellar shelf bottle of
white powder which he decided to be
cream of tartar baking powder. He de-
lightedly exhibited the lucky find to his
wife, and suggested that she use it for the
! supper biscuit. She of course, had been
instructed as to the duty Of obedience,
and she Obeyed. The consequence was,
a row of dead children before morning
and two grown persons as sick as they had
been silly the day previously. The bottle
| contained white arsenic.
When YOU move out OF a house, take
| your rubbish with you, or destroy it utter
| ly. The people who are to move i'll after
| you do not hold YOU sufficiently dear to
make them value your broken dishes, pa
| per-rags, leaky tinWarc and old shoes as
desirable mementoes. AS every heart has
its own SORROWS with which stranger has
no right to meddle. so every family has
its own rubbish, which a stranger is under
no bonds to dispose Of or be numbered by.
You would not ask a stranger to spade
your garden or kindle your fires without
pay and you have no better right to de
mand that he shall pick up yOur broken
dishes and cart Oft your cOal-ashes for
nothing. The fact that he and his wife
happen to occupy a house next after YOU
does not make it right that they should
bear your burdens and clean up after your
slovenliness. Beside such tiagrant inius-
tice is likely to hurt your reputation, be-
cause in such case the new tenant will
walk mile to find out who was his un-
tidy predecessor, and it is fair punish
ment for you when the affair is ventilated
all over the neighborhoOd, and you are
coldly spoken of 10y local householders, and
looked upon with distavor by landlords.
Again don't put into your ash barrel or
dust bin or rash-boN. any poisonous
package or dangerous explosive. Not
long ago, some children iii Brooklyn
found at 4 dumping place a package Of
poisoned food which had been prepared
for rats. OF course they ate it-chldren
will eat anything, away from the table
and died in agony. Ifyou have occasion
to use dynamite or giant powder or full
inmate Of any dangerous type, don't throw
away the residue, OF put or leave it where
1t VIII be found 10y personsignorant of its
power. y short time ago three little girls
were playing with what they supposed to
be small biacking-boX on a vacant lot
in New York, when the box exploded
burning them badly about the face and
hands. The box contained small GUAM
tity OF the material Of which railroad per
cussiOn-caps are made, and had been
dumped ON the lot with a load of refuse.
Three or four such cases have happen
ed within a short time. In one case sew
cral children were killed, in another, two
were blinded and distgured for life.
Leave clean track. How sincerely
soeyer YOU may believe the fallacv that
the world owes you a. living, do not for a
moment he battered into believing that
the world is under bonds to be your
| scavenger and general cleanup. Almost
all useless rubbish can either be burned
or buried it is a wise provision OF nature
Let everybody, like the old residents of
Jerusalem, each keep his own door clean,
and so the whole city, county and State
Will be clean. Consume or destroy your
own smoke-tale care of your own rub
bsh, and don't dispose of anything by the
too common but highly improper method
Of ''throwing away" So shall your por-
tails shine with neatness the aroma of
your tidiness 60 up like a sweet odor to
the nostrils of the health commissioners
when we get them and ambitious and
appreciatiVe tenants bid high for the
privilege of occupying the premises which
have been sweetened and sanctitied by
your occupancy. Selah.