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bly, the most difficult and dangerous peri cerned. Heat hastens decomposition and the decay of vegetable or of animal mat ter produces germs of disease which may be taken into the system with food, or from the atmosphere, or in water. The effects of heat itself upon the human physiology are such as to invite disord- CTS of the bodily functions. Every house. hold should be on guard to insure health. Kitchen waste should be carefully dis posed of; water for drinking should be kept with care sink drains and all places of filth should be disinfected with fresh soil, earbolic acid, or slaked lime, or, per haps what is better, thoroughly cleaned.
 As one result of the strikes in various parts of our country, whatever else may come of them, every law abiding citizen ought to be thoroughly convinced of the need of some available and reliable re- serve of power behind the government, if not in the government. We don't want a standing army and perhaps we are lit tie too much averse to military culture. We believe in peace; but we must not forget that certain conditions are neces- sary to it. First pure, then peaceable,' ,'' is the order of Nature. People who are good enough and wise enough to govern themselves need no governing; but the lawless must be controlled. When the violent mob assumes to govern the city and control the business of the corpora tions whose employ they have deserted, the question of the adequate power to govern becomes of immense significance to the safety and welfare of all.
 Military power is hateful and unrelent- ing and war is cruel. And yet, when, as last resort, the sword is taken, it's re- suits are, in the Divine Providence, the most beneficent possible, where God mak- eth even the wrath of man to praise Him. War is the scourge of God-the grim sur geon of government-the reserve power which must regulate society when it is so disordered that it no longer regulates it. self by civil and peaceable modes. Gov ernment implies power in reserve, to govern. Law without penalty would not be law and could give no sense of se- curity to the citizen. Military necessity has no sentiment, nor sympathy, nor re- gard for private personal rights and, in the nature of the case, cannot have, ex- cept in the grand abstract. Government is impersonal and the individual is merg- ed and lost, to great extent, in the ma chinery which must be made to work out certain results. War is the surgeon who amputates the members and mutilates the body polite, that the wounded or diseased man may live. The cutting of the sinews and saving of the bones and sewing up the flesh are cruel processes, but the end is merciful. The affair at Homestead will teach the people of this country some good lessons, if they will be wise enough to look on all sides of it and learn it's significance. Shall we have civil government, or shall this fair and prosperous land be laid waste by the merciless rule of mobs? The case of pri- vate Iams of the National Guard is the very heart of the whole question. A man who represented the reserve power of the State, whose personal feelings and private opinions were sunk in the service of the government, sent there to protect, with his life, if need be-. the person and property endangered, proposed, in the presence of his commanding officer, three cheers for the assassin of the very man he was sacredly bound to protect from all harm. It was, in fact, not only insubord- ination to rightful authority, but dis covery of the basest treachery against society and treason against all good gov ernment. The whole question of any government, even that of military neces- sity. was at stake and, in this point of view, the punishment he received was less than he deserved, cruel and barbar- ous as it seems. And yet many good people will express great sympathy for the imprudent traitor and forget the vic tim of the foul assassin and lose sight of the fact that, without authority to pun ish and exact implicit obidience, military necessity, which is the last means of the public safety and the only hope of civil order and peace, has been stabbed to the heart.-[O. o. Wright.
 TAUNTON.
 Tanntan school district held a meeting.