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Show The Old Oaken Bucket Indicted. Tho president's country life commission commis-sion has Indicted the "old oaken buck-ot." buck-ot." Yes, It has. It has doclared that typhoid fever Is essentially a-rural dis- tM.',i lf '"''liSII fnfmhnilSH wells. The brimming moes-oovmed vessol hoisted from the glimmering deep with Its contents sparkling and crystal Is filled with germs. What a pity, when we have always envied tho agriculturist In that' ha did not draw his refreshment from n faucet, whenco It comes usually lukewarm and Insip id, only to be made palatable by n chunk of artificial Ice, which too often creosotes it In a manner that makes It taste like a newly payed boulevard smells. How we havo dollghted ourselves our-selves and lingered over country MMM ' ' . 1 ... I Just eool enough, where It seemed as If your throat were an Arizona gorge after tho first cloudburst In 11 years. The Joy of that descending deluge Is a sweet memory In all ntter years; all full ot typhoid mid we didn't knu.y It St. Louis aiobe Democrat. |