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them , or to ndhoro to their enemies , giv
ing them nid and comfort.
"Those who combine to use force , to
assail , or resist the constituted authori
ties of the United States , civil or mili
tary , should bo warned of the magnitude
of their offense , and those who earn
honest bread by honest toil can do noth
ing more detrimental to their interest
than to show them any sort of main
tenance iu their lawless course.
"The action of the president and his
administration has the full sympathy
and support of the law-abiding masses
of people of the United States , and he
will be supported by all departments of
the government and by the power and
resources of the entire nation. "
( Passed July 11 , 1894. )
"ANN AIUIOK , Midi. , July 15 , 1894.
"PllKSlDKNT GllOVKK CLEVELAND ,
"Honored Sir : Now that the irreat
strike in which your official intervention
became so necessary has been clearly
shown to be a failure , I beg to bo al
lowed to express my unqualified satis
faction with every step you have taken
in vindication of the national authority ,
and with the restoration of law and
order , which has followed or is now in
progress.
"The caution and deliberation with
which you have pr ceeded are , I think ,
worthy , like the accompany ing firmness ,
of highest praise , and I am specially
gratified that : i great and valuable lesson
in constitutional construction has been
settled for all time with remorkably lit
tle bloodshed.
"You and the attorney general also
have won the gratitude of the country ,
not for this generation only , but for nil
time , and that God may bless you for it
is the sincere prayer of
Your obedient servant ,
THOMAS M. COOLCY. "
"Resolved , That the house of repre
sentatives endorses the prompt atid vigor
ous efforts of the president and his ad
ministration to suppress lawlessness ,
restore order , and prevent improper in
terference with the enforcement of the
laws of the United States , and with the
transportation of the mails of the Unitec
States , and with inter-state commerce
and pledges the president hearty sup
port , and deems that the success which
has already attended his efforts is cause
for public and general congratulation. '
( Passed July 16 , 1894. )
Reference has
ouit NASTY b d olse.
FATIIEUS. . , , . ,
where to the defective
fectivo sanitary arrangements of the city
of Havana. That town is however
probably in a better state than was Lon
don until the great plague of 1(505 ( con
vinced the English that their neighbors
private affairs were , to a certain extent
theirs as well.
The scholar Erasmus , writing in the
10th century to Cardinal Wolsey's phy
sician , says of the ordinary English
Iwolling-houso ( leaving out some details -
tails ) that the floors were sometimes of
jaro clay , sometimes strewn with
rushes , which were occasionally covered
with fresh ones , so that the bottom
might lie undisturbed for twenty years.
Hero then , ho says , would be a ferment
ing mess of spit , vomit , leavings of dogs
and human beings , spilled beer , fish re
fuse , "aliosquo sordes nonnominandos. "
So predicted trouble from this source a
inndred years before the plague broke
out in force ; though England had hardly
over been free from it in some form.
Henry VIII , the father of the great
Elizabeth , found things at such a pass
in his own kitchen in the year 1520 that
he allotted a sum of money to furnish
liis "scolyons" with clothing , to the end
that "shall not naked in
they gee or gar
ments of such vilenesse as they now cloo ,
nor Ho in the nights and do-yes in the
kitchens or ground by the fireside ; but
that they may be found with honest and
whole garments , without such unclean-
iiesso as may be the annoyance of those
by whom they shall passe. "
Of some bearing also on the latter
point was Cardinal "Wolsey's custom ,
when he was to go into any popular as
sembly , of carrying a "very fair
orange , " within which was cunningly
contrived a sponge containing vinegar ,
or "other confections against the pesti
lent airs ; " which disinfectant he "most
commonly smelt unto , passing among
the press. "
It is not so wonderful that Havana
has no sewerage system , when we recall
what a comparatively recent thing is
modern sanitary science. The practice
in the great city of London was not ma
terially different oven in the lost century
from that which now prevails in Ha
vana , as anyone may perceive who will
go to the pictures of Hogarth and the
writings of Snmllott , two very able men
who , wisely or unwisely , told in every
case that which they saw.
The British -
gov-
VACCINATION. , . ,
ernment issued on
December 13 , a report ( by Sir Richard
Thorne Thorue ) on this subject , which
indicates that the people of the United
Kingdom have fallen into the same con
dition of indifference , or fancied secur
ity , in regard to danger from smallpox
in which wo found ourselves last fall
when the matter was brought forcibly
to the attention of the citizens of our
town , and of many others as well. Ai
impression , grounded in long years o
immunity from any epidemic , had
grown up among us , that the smallpox
was no more than an outgrown and exploded
ploded bogy. This , as it turned out
was an erroneous idea.
The London papers nearly all thiul
the report worthy of comment. The
Standard says : "The neglect of the
one trustworthy precaution agaius
smallpox has been steadily increasing
luring the last fifteen years. It seems
that about one-third of the children
n England audyvWales have , hi one
way or another , rapped vaccination.
Clio country , wo are told/ / has thusH / ' -
) een prepared for a widespread epidemic , * 4 '
such as has been unknown to the pres ' rVjf
out generation. " * . / ! >
Vaccination was at one time univer
sally compulsory throughout Great Brit
ain , but recent legislation permits one
who has "conscientious scruples" to be
exempted. The objector must , however ,
give his reasons , and these it seems rune
: o the effect that "matter from a calf
must be bad matter , " or that "as man
is higher than the boasts , it must bo
wrong to insert matter from a calf into
a human being ; " an argument mainly ,
if at all , good against the eating of veal.
"The operation of the notorious section
two of the vaccination act is becoming a
grave scandal , as we anticipated it
would be , " says The Post , and The
Gazette speaks thus : "The only pos
sible result of the innumerable exemp
tions which have already been granted
must be that , in a very few years' time ,
we shall have to cope with a most ser
ious epidemic of smallpox. "
One must be
j , ,
. mther S0rrv for
OF HACK.
the Cubans , think
ing of the shaking-up their ideas of what
is decent are sure to get , as the so-called
Anglo-Saxon establishes his rules and
regulations over them. They must like
the way they have been living , in which
their fathers lived before them ; and if
foreigners got yellow fever from it , why ,
that could bo laid to the will of God.
But a man who can live happily in a
house where the garbage-barrel , stable
and all other out-houses are kept in or
under the kitchen , and where , when
they are periodically cleaned out , the
material is carried through the house to
its final resting-place in the street in
front , must have a different nose from
ours , to say the least.
Though we are not much to boast of ,
we can truthfully say that the Latin
races have certain twists of fiber which
we have not. The easiest swear-word
iu Spanish and Italian is an expression
with whose English equivalent the
loosest talker among us would hardly
consent to befoul his tongue. And the
writer recalls , from the only Portuguese
novel he over read , how one man , walk
ing in the lobbies of a theatre between
the acts , handed another a lead-pencil ,
as on act of ordinary courtesy , inviting
him to write "an obscenity" upon the
wall ; and how the other , because ho
wrote a moral maxim instead , was
looked upon as a very odd character.
For $1,000 you can get a very good
horseless carriage which will run two
miles for a cent.
