Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-24
From The Battle-Ground of Thought.

is not the most dihicult height 10
climb. Straight. tall chimneys are
the hardest of all. There a man has
To- work with might and main, 10 lift
himself inch by inch from the ground
To- the top. Sometimes the top Is
three hundred feet high. When IL Is
reached hook is placed over the
edge. a pulley Is made fast. the swing
ing chair Is hauled up and work be-
gins When the chair is near the top
e Ia easier 10 work. because the ropes
are short. but when they lengthen. as
the ground Is approached, there is a
tendency 10 swing: and the wind gives
impetus. The steeple Jacks safety de-
ponds upon the hook. and until ne has
raised himself almost 20 the top II Is
impossible for him 10 see whether or
not the hook has been properly adj
iusted. More than once n steeple-
climber has seen. when within ten feet
of the top. that corroslon OF the iron
and the collection 81 SCOT have so
thickened the walt that the hook Is
merely balancing on the top. so that
the slightest pull I'm the wrong direc-
ton would drag II on. Again, the
bricks are often loose at the top. and
the hook is likely TO tear them away
one Of the natural difficulties 10 con-
quer Is the swaying Of all high steeples
and chimneys. In gale a steeple
point will sway n foot and a half,
Usually n sways from seven 10 nine
inches Painting II means reaching
for a spot on the right side and finding
IL on the left. and when making
back TO the right Yet In spite OF the
constant danger a born steeple- jack
exults in his work. and Is at home
like the ironworker on the sky
scraper. only when high above the
world. He can stand triumphantly
at any height. ~ he can have two and
one-half square inches TO bear his
weisht.--Harper's Weekly.
4 Mighty The relation OF superst-
Ally of ton to the spread of dis
Disease ease is made plain by the
reports that come from
Russia OF the encounters between the
sanitary forces and the peasants In
the reinoter rural regions A physician
has fallen a victim to the rural resist
ance TO dislnfcctiOn, and soldiers and
police are required TO support and pro
tect the government experts who are
seeking to stay the progress Of cholera
The Russian peasant strenuOusly OBJ
jects 10 disinfection as an enforced de-
parture from his habits and customs,
and his fatalism doubles the stubborn
ness with which he fights preventive
measures The most ignorant OF the
class also appear to be possessed with
the Idea that there Is something In the
governments intention more than Is
avowed. very like witchcraft. The
Russian peasant has no bad eminenoe
I'm hts antagonism TO science and his
struggle against being protected. When
the italian government undertook TO
clean up Naples and let light, air and
disinfection into quarters where dseas ,
had always lurkcd the conservatism OF
ignorance was up In arms and became
riotous I'm defence OF the sacred right
of exposure 10 conta gion. The military
suppressed the rioters, and the 5ood
ton OF bayonets. A few years ago
when the plague was raging IN Bon-
bay. many lives were lost before the
British authorities succeeded IN over
coming the resistance OF the natives 10
the application OF the most elementary
sanitary regulations In our own coun-
try there are hooks and corners Where
fatalism raises at least the PASSIVE re-
sistance OF Indifference against the SAM
tartan. In the blacklist quarters or the
black belts OF the south. some negroes
see hostile magic In dislnfecting agen-
cies some OF the cities have out
grown this superstition by 1910. but
when SOME forty years ago. choiega
alarm being In the air. the health au-
,horitias az Norfolk. Va, sprinklcd
chloride OF lime throughout the negro
sections 81 the city, the negroes re-
% riding A as white mems magic
swept II away. and were only prevailed
upon TO stop by show OF foree.-bos-
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