The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-10
SECTION Two
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Colon Panama.
HEsE arc hopeful days for Colon. and. if cheer
can raise its head in this rest Of misery. then
we Of the north are strangers to wretched-
ness. The wonder OF every American when
he this reeking little place Tor the first time is
that there anyone left alive It spraws in the
mire of the marsh with reckiessness that is aban-
don itself Under the houses arc stagnant pools Of
black water floating with filth, while between them
are scum covered ponds. which offend the very sky
with their fearful stenches. Decay is monarch ana
with autOcratic lie who would live here
cannot escape being neighbor 10 rottenness- You
meet dog and il viii likely have the mango; If a
duck vaddles your path its feathers VIII be
dshevelled and its feet viii be sore the pony that
staggers at the task Of pulling the riekety cab in
which you ride. poor and weak that you feel II
would be mercy 10 shoot il, and an the While the
procession of dead men and women hes soieInnly on
&c that gruesome spot, the world-famed burying
ground Monkey Hill
BAD FOR NAN AND BEAST.
she is a brave housewife who can sing in Colon,
and the children 90 not shout 50 Justify in their play
their rugged northern cousins An llNlsiOe men
ace hangs over all The native under the eli
mate and the newcomer, man or beast falls easy
prey to it A merchant bought some Jersey COWS
IN the states and shipped them to the isthmus The
poor beasts waded around in the mtre for rev
days, then stood in the damp barn lowing ana pin
iag until they died Another resident imported some
Barred Plymouth Rock chickens When let out 81
their coops they shook out their ruted feathers ana
Legan scratching braveIy enough But it was only
for short time They became weak. Their
legs were not strong enough To sustain their bodies,
Some thoroughbred dogs were sent to another man
living here They scampered about in lively man
ner at first chasing the lizards and disturbing the
peace of the buzzards but the blight soon touched
them. and they went the way Of the cows and the
chickens. It's bad place for any kind of thorough
bred
FACTS ABOUT YELLOW FEVER
It is understood that two years residence in
staopicaI climate renders immune from yell
low fever. but this does always hold good as
shown in the case Of the three sisters of Colonel
shaler. president Of the Panama railroad. These Ia
had their home in Colon for several years
Yet last May they the disease and all Of
hem died within fourteen days. A travelling man
may be taken down with it the second day after his
arrival. accepted by most medical authori-
ties that mosquito distributing agent of the
The way escape having it is to sleep under
net-the idea prevailing that this particular kind
Of insect travels only at nght-aEd to preserve regu-
lar habits. Men who the tropics and abuse
themselves by drinking too much. and keeping late
hours weaken their systems. and more likely to
teCOme infected. although this is not saying that a
man who taxes absolute Of himself viii escape
the disease It operates strangely, sometimes avoid
ing those who would appear TO b. immune. Careful
living if it is not sure preventative at least