Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-04

lightning express across continent The
old rags of commerce may be the astoti
clothing Of its dead It has even been
thought that the familiar housetiy, which
walks over our daily bread may have
brought his feet poisoned with it from
some sick.room or hospital The wa'er
from the wells, and springs, and streams
cannot tell us wha' suspicious pools OF
pestiIence it has had drained into it from
above or below ground.
Some have coujcctured that the disease
is not contagious but that it is due to a,-
mospheric defects or electrical disturban-
ces There is said to be observed lack
of ozone-whatever that is--in the air.
But the animals breathe it and do not die
of cholera. SO of water--we do not re.
member to have heard of horses dying of
the disease, though they commonly drink
out of the same wells from which their
human masters are often believed to drink
| their death.
But this may not be singular Many of
lHt ulSthe'o hHu plap uts u'e .'N'luolNtly
| human. We do not now recall an instance
of hog or hen catching the smallpox
| And chickens, we believe, are not subject
to the chickenpoX. There is hog
cholera, to be sure, but it is not Asiatc.
| The fact is. there are several things that
are not yet known about cholera, as about
some other diseases The theory that it is
due to sort of internal yeast-fungus
| called a microbe is not yet verified The
experiments made in microbiHy for chol.
era-that is attempting to tortiiy people
against choleraic contagion by dosing
them with cultivated land refined mi
crobes aud thus giving them what might
be called choleroid-were failures it
Spain. The microbated exempts dice
faster than the outsiders
But there is one great prophylactit
against cholera aud that is cleanness--
cesnness of person, inside and outside
and cleanness of surroundings. Choer'
} originates in filth-pagan Glth-and prop
agates BIZ hith-Christian or heather
; The beastly zealots who bring it from it
foul breeding-places in Hindostan ar
, cleaner when they are dead with it thai
they ever were when alive In its caree
over the world, it ALWAYS selects the dirt
lest places and the dirtiest people for it
sttacking.pointR, though It often spread
from them among the cleanest. NJ ma
can escape the penalty of his neiChbor
uncleanness. Publication must be b
communities.
Hence, moral: Most intelligent phys
clans and hygeists are OF the opinion tina
we are not likely to keep cholera of ou
; shores another summer 1t is believe
that it will jump the Atlantic next seaso
in spite OF all the quarantining We ca
bring to bear. Therefore it is meet tina
we be prepared for its advent Every cit
and town in this country ought to put i
self in order for its conf ng, and do it thi
winter. Cold weather is the time to III
cover the municipal and domestic plagu,
: spots and wipe them from the earth. I
: expose them in the spring or early summs
is to invite the pestlence rather than
S fight against it Let Springfield TAX
$ warning There will be idle hands in
r. pl0ring for work this winter. Let II
/ council see to it that as many ofthese as al
necessary be emp eyed in turning out II
r. city to the spring sun as sweet as a rose,