The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-08
oRRs OBSERVATIONS
what He Sees and Hears During His
Travels,

what He Sees and Hears During His
Travels
At its last meeting the Borough Council
discussed more matters of direct interest to
the borough than have received its attention
at any one meeting for some time past. The
complaints about bad streets and defective
sanitary arrangements burst upon them rs o
| flood. They were almost too numerous to
/ be followed by the committees who must
look after them. 1t is quite apparent that
the people want clean and well regulated
town this year, and it is also evident that
Council proposes giving it to them, for all the
complaints made were promptly acted upon.
The School Board will meet to electteachers
for the 1898 term next Wednesday evening.
The election will also include the selection Of
principal to succeed Prof. William N.
Ehrhart, resigned,
1t is hoped President Betteridge will lame
the members Of the Board Of Health at the
next meeting of Council so that they may get
down TO work. Their services are badly need
ed. Many OF the residents Of this town have
not been aware of the fact that they have
been using adulterated milk for considerable
time. The use of such milk if prolonged,
may be the cause of producing an epidemic
of sickness and for this reason the
Board Of Health will be asked to
sake some steps to punish the parties who are
responsible for putting it on sale. Several par
ties having complained that the milk they
have purchased from farmers coming over
from the Catawissa Valley has turned out to
be worst kind Of adulterated mixture, not
withstanding the farmers warranted it as the
very next grade to cream. Another thing the
Board viii be expected to turn its attention to
is the sale of decaying fruit. This is one OF
the greatest evils Of the summer season and as
soon as they are appointed the health officers
should give it their attention.
There is one advantage the Chinese have
over the white man, AID that is that they
can keep their mouths shut. What "Johu" is
going to do or not going to do you mover can
find out from him. This reticence is assumed
probably lor self protection, but il peryades
the Chinaman in America from the laundry
man to the highest official You may pull
johns" queue you may swear at him, you
may smash his wash house windows In, yet
never a word he answers back. He stretches
his lips tight across his mouth and enduIes ia
wooden silence He may mediate revenge!
he probably does; but it viii be taken in
way and time chat his tormentors are not ex-
pectiue. He broods and bides his time Even
if YOU try to converse with him in his laun-
dry on Msin street, he will pretend not to
understand, and his language is confined to
Che vocabulary of shirts and the price you
pay. That he knows perfectly. He is a
watehfal, suspicious Sphinx carved in ivory.
Even Chem She Lem, accused of being
government envoy commissioned by the Em-
peror to study the status Of his eountrymen
in America aud report on American public
opinion toward them, answers nothing when
asked il this is the case.
The reporter who wrote up the accident |
that happened to our worthy townsman, F. J.
Portz, on the Fourth Of July, made a slight
mistake. Mr. PoFtz's hand was not burned
.y FIRE crackers, but by am unusual explosion