Show 1 THE POISONED HOUSE HOUSEIn In southern Indiana on the tho out outskirts outskirt outskirts skirts skirt of a small smal city stands a haunt haunted ed cd house It I was built bui In 1830 One of 01 ho children of the tiu the original occupants occupants pants became consumptive The Tho fain fam family ily i moved moed away awa in 1846 taking tho patient with wIb them and nn the family of or Mr C moed moved in Tho The Cs were from western New York a strong sturdy stock hardly knowing what sickness was wan Slowly very ery r slowly for the he tub tuberculosis specter S is a patient wraith they tho died two sons two two daughters father and mother One son escaped alive alve but hopeless It look took 33 years to wipe out but that family In 1880 tho the thoNs Ns NB moved Into the house There was no previous record of serious illness in their annals annais annal but it would woul seem that they tho were softer sorer grained than ian their predecessors for in seven years the spirit of ot the house hail had claimed seven of or them leaving four Cout survivors of or whom two to are already alread marked for fi I I I death The house is now vacant tho neighbors say Ray it la is unlucky If H tho the poisonous East Bast Est SIde tenement and the Indiana house were W re rare exceptions they thio would be he of ot little importance Thor They aro are not ox ex exceptions they thoy aro are types Tho tone tene tenement meat ment mentIs Is one of many hundreds h In Now York city cl alone alono It has Its twin broth brothers brot ers In Boston and nd Pittsburg anti and Its Ia cousins of varying degrees In Phila Philadelphia delphia Chicago Cleveland SL St Louis Cincinnati and even In tho the lesser cities cItes such as a Albany Alban Hartford and Yonkers The Tho Th country house houe has boa Its Is duplicates by the thousands In part par ot or those United States where Ig Ignorance IJ ignorance norance leads lead people to live lve In tight closed rooms roms for Cor nil all al the tho good goo air and ad sunlight In the world will wi not save savo the tho thoman thenan man nan who at a night fills his lungs with wih the tho tainted atmosphere of a a close sleeping apartment But In any an case cao the tho th authorities should no more permit permIt now non tenants to move Into an apart apartment mont ment which Is presumably Infected by bytho b bythe the tho former forer occupancy of a consumptive tive than thun they thoy tho should allow alow to the tho Inhabiting inhabIting of a a building which Is obviously on tho the verge of collapse c lapse or the en on entrance entrance trance of an nn audience Into a l theater without fire escapes Hopkins Adams M lI i D In McClures Magazine |