Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-11-24
CORRESPONDENCE.
HOGS Us. HEALTH.

To the MINING JOURNAL.
Now, after the election is over, the
people can give attention to their
special home affairs, which they
should do, one of the first items should
be finding out the condition of the
town, our home-its health. public
improvements and moral conduct of
its citizens-comparing the same with
other towns of Its size and mixed pop
ulation, think the result would be
very favorable. The republican dem
onstration of last Tuesday bears evil
dence enough that we live among civ
iized people. There was not a word
uttered to insult ANYBODY; not a
drunken or staggering individual
could be seen IN the large crowd. Con
slider the enormous amount of money
sent away from home to the treasures
of life insurance companies, of lodges
which are very numerous here, for
the entertainments at our churches,
public halls, public streets and schools,
police and fire department, water
works and gaslighting- still people
are located comfortably, clothed well
and fashionably, and old and young
live harmonious and agreeable. We
have the credit for all that outside of
our corporation limits.
But we should not stop at that. We
should improve still more. What is
contemplated, viz: bank or banks,
electric lights, railroad depot or de-
pots, &C., should be made established
facts. The cowbell question should
have due consideration, and hog rails
ing and fattening should be one of the
most important questions to deal
with, because the sanitary condition
of our town is interested in it. No
matter how straight and wide your
streets and pavements are no matter
how nicely dressed you are when 60
ing to your churches and theatres no
matter how you can boast Of having
the prettiest girls of any town of its
size in the State and probably in the
States-if you have your parlor win
dows hoisted in warm weather and
your smelling apparatus gets dose of
your neighbor's or your own hogpen,
YOU forget all your comfort and pride
in your town. Your city fathers may
do as they please, and engage the
skill of your Board of Health, under
the present ordinances they cannot
suppress the nuisance sufficiently. The
air is impregnated with deadly odors.
and it is a sin to defy Gods good will
in giving us such pure air, such a
healthy climate and such brilliant sur
roundings. Can you, with good con-
science, advise anybody to walk
through any of our alleys, and even
through some of our streets in mid
summer? While our citizens are
proud of raising and fattening heavy
hogs, they don't know that they are
working against their own interests.
While they have from their kitchen
offal (waste) hardly enough to keep
one of those fragrant animals they
add one or more in order to stimulate
its appetite. They eat better,n they
say, not knowing, perhaps, that every
pound of meat they may get adds to
their pecuniary loss. While pork can
be bought at 6 or cents per pound,
that appetite-making process costs the
stockraiser double the money. Some
economist answers-''l know that, but
| can get my pork that way without
laying out so much money at once"
Well, If that holds good, certainly we
need not apply for a bank in Frost
burg, and it would not be ont of the
way to employ brass bands or add
Claret wine to stimulate the appetite
Of Mr.. Porker The more appetite
you give your Berkshire and Chester
the more you are out of pocket, out of
health and pleasant surroundings ::
your good-looking daughter invites a
friend to look at your comfortable
home, but after making a few steps
she has to command u halt and has to
get first a bouquet Of ''Old Man and
Peppermint"
Concluding: let our city council
pass an ordinance prohibiting house
holders keeping more than ono hog on
premise within the corporate limits.
Action ought to be taken now, as our
citizens expect already to substitute
new slop-eaters for those to be butch
cred within couple of weeks.
CITIZEN.