The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-24
CLEAN UP THE CITY.
Rev. Myron w. Reed Gives the Denver People
Advice Good for Any Locality.

sermon freacneu SUNDAY. MAY IL.
TEXT Corinthians, xii, 20: And whether one mem
Der suffers all members suffer with it. mem
Der be honored all the members rejoice with it.
The health question is one that cannot be safe
ly turned over to an official board or to citi-
zens committee. When they have done all they
can there still remains work that can only be
done by citizens in committee of the whole The
ancient Hebrews had custom. which perhaps
still exists. Once year house was visited by
the neighbors. Being received, they were
furnished candles and the house was explored
from attic to cellar-all the dark corners looked
into If there was skeleton in the closet, he
was on exhibition. There is value in the Gus
tom.
The rush of people to cities is increasing The
city is more and more-the city attracts. Peo-
pie, as a rule, like the company and the sights
and sounds of city. The poor like the city,
every day and evening there is a free show,
something going on-something to take ones
thoughts away from himself A city gives a
great deal to the comfort of living; it also de-
mands great deal One must pay to live in
city. Living lonely in the country, you can do
as you please and hurt only yourself. But do as
you please in the city, and you may hurt your
neishbor. There has grown up the law of the
neighborhood for the protection of the citizen,
but there can be no statute that will make a
neighbor good There is statute against MUIR
der, but there is against a hundred ways
OF being disagreeable and a thousand ways of being
careless Intelligence and good will are re-
quisite to the making of good neighbor.
The health of city requires high degree
of intelligence and intelligence devoted
to that special thing. There is a town in Penn
sylvania which for the last few months has been
the victim of pestlence that probably might
have been averted. No intelligence can cure
death. but intelligence can hold it off until the
due time. Crowding people together makes new
conditions. The wisdom of Moses was none too
much for Israel on the march, and especially in
the camp.
Here are these new diseases among cattle, un-
known until the herds are large. When ask
man why he does not raise more chickens, he
informs me that large number together invite
disease unknown to the solitary brood. 1t is
not otherwise with men, women and children.
In the old days. when the plains were crossed
by wagon, o man might die of accident, or hard
Ship or hunger and cold, but do not suppose
from Atchison to Carson-typhoid fever be-
longs to old camps In all things used
there is something that you are tempted to
throw away. like the skin of banana, and when
10000 people all eat bananas and throw away
the skins, soon there is trouble People may be
divided into tn ose who throw the skin of q ba-
mana anywhere dangerous class-and those
who do not, and who take care of the banana
skins thrown anywhere by the other class 1t
would simplify matters if every man would take
war against dirt, during the war the city would
be clean. writer says: "All the powers seem
to be calling for more dirt and they get it," The
snakes slough their skins. people clip their
hair and pare their nails Whenever man
makes anything then he leaves a pile of
chips. The Roman of to- day we are told is
walking in streets thirty feet higher than
those Romulus travelled. Rome has strug-
gled to rise high enough to sit upon her own
pile of dirt. Old Nineveh, and Troy, and Jeru-
dust-bouquets, at which beauty has shifted,
glossy curls which have adorned the heads of
fair women, skins of radiant fruits, scraps of
love.letters. leaves that have fluttered, and, in
brief, every good thing separated from its
proper connections becomes filth as soon as it
falls on the lawn"
There is a conspiracy to dam up running
water with litter that ought to have tried to put
out the fire. The same writer says: Il am re-
minded Of the great battle that goes on against
dirt l see women bending over wash tubs,
STOPPING over pals to wiring mops see soap and
brush makers, makers of brooms l see much
land devoted to the raising of broom corn, and
conclude that the war with dirt is progressing
favorably" and 1 think it is. The condition of
the Pennsylvania town SO scourged for care
lessness is probably exceptional There will
never be another plague of London Everybody
is waking up to the fact that much of what has
been charged to the providence of God was due
plainly to the improvidence of man. l have not
heard of ship fever lately, and will not until
scientific goodness falls asleep and avarice gets
chance to overcrowd people between decks. Prob
ably Denver needs less lecture than most cit
les. The school commissioners of Indiana recon-
mended so many cubic feet of air to the pupil.
Our school houses furnish three times the guam
THY stated The faces of the children, as seen
at their study or play, give no indication that
they are poisoned. And still nature has done so
much for Denver that we ought not to be salts
fled with better health report than that of a
malarious Eastern city. Much more can be
done to invite the best people of the East
to came here and stay. One case
of typhoid fever is not necessary 1 do
not know that cholera can climb so
high. but if it can it is possible to make all the
conditions of home and street inhospitable to the
plague. Health is thing which people are anx-
Ious to keep and more anxious to find and city
that has it will have folks in it, plenty of them,
and of the best, for when an invalid gets we'll he
is the best man, has sympathy for those toiling
up the slope, has experience, is not careless
know town in Michigan that offered premium
for native three-year- old child There were
no excursions to that town. 1t was well situated
for business, but too we'll adapted for death to
draw. The unhappy citizens did 20 intelligent
ly to work, and now the pr emium is withdrawn.
Incessant fault-fnding with city officials is
hardly an effective way of reform Suppose
we try praise awhile Honor to whom honor is
due. Praiseis good for dogs, horses. children, and
might do for the mayor, council and police-and
CO operation is good work. Let everybody
attend well to his own affair in this matter
Much can be done without talking. .sRoaring
Camp was rough, hard, black mining place.
One night baby arrived. It must be clothed
"a collection was taken. The contributions
were characteristic. A silver tobacco box a
gold specimen, diamond breast pin. a spur a
change. This was handed to the treasurer and
he handed it to the expressman-with charge to
buy in Sacramento 1.-THE best that can be got
lace you know and fligree work, and frils" The
outfit arrived-a rosewood cradle with the rest
packed eighty miles by mule-of which cradle
Stampy remarked that ut sorter killed the rest
of the furniture" The presence of the baby
mada il necessary to whitewash the cab