Show DRINKING WATER J In a marn morning contemporary y the Ilie theother other day Were statements apparently coming fr from m Dr Beatty the city's sanitary man mai ma whom our city fathers fat ke keep p to tell them theiu wonderful things about what is 18 good or bad for health just as if nobody else elle and especially the City Council knew a single thing about the matter having lived all aU their lives and reared up families in blissful ignorance of such Important things It is represented in said satu article that it r rIt has bas been demonstrated that tnt the waters from flowing wells hereabouts lee less thin tb n three hundred feet deep are to health and consequently that people ought to be punished for tor drinking water wate from flowing wells of less 1888 depths The principal things that appear to tome tome me mein in that representation are ale a desire desue to boom Dr Beatty BeaUy and a desire pos pos- possibly possibly sibly albAy a conspiracy to increase the burdens of the people Which bleb burdens of course are never neer heavy enough by compelling everybody t to use ule the nasty city pipe water Why nasty nasty Be- Be BI Be Because cause it often olten tastes pool Is sometimes as muddy as the muddy Missouri sometimes looks like whitewash h is ie so 80 hard bard that it scratches ones one's innards as it goe goes i down dOWD and after it gets there and i is the likely cause of much kidney and urinary tto trouble bl I la is seldom of a proper temperature tor for drinking and aDd I is never nice None of these faults except perhaps per per- perhaps hap haps a little hardness are found In good flowing well well well water while the temperature is 8 mostly just JURt right for tor drinking all the year round which makes the water very pleasant to the taste an and pleasant when down dOWD It If we come right down to it all the water we usually drink runs through dirt and therefore on that process of reasoning is II unfit to drink The The Creek reek Water ter re receives elve the washings from the hills Including the debris of at the camp camp- campers campers ers ere and other an animals mals and therefore is Ie unfit to drink Even rain water the g germs rm in the air and gets mixed with the dirt on 00 the house boule tops tope Boiling Bolling the water kills the life in It but we have bave to drink the dead remains remain while the mineral mineraI constituents remain much the same Even distilled water ater is il nut not perfectly pure Whisky is a of the still lUll and although the Irishman's m n C conclusion was that bread is 18 the staff of life but whisky is 18 life Itself yet Jet It ba has been demonstrated that there are deadly deady elements even eveD In 10 whisky Now Tow as ti to the e of ot the water from good flowing wells DO not three hundred bundred feet teet deep I know a man maD who has bas as good health as u Dr BeaUy Beatty or the n next man and yet who would rather drink drink good flowing well water tt teak tea times time ov over over r than t objectionable objectionable city pipe water and who often goes out of at his bis way to get a good lood drink of 01 flowing well water In the same lame two three other men who house live or do not go after the flowing well water but who content content t themselves though rat with city eUy pipe water and aDd they are re often sick or r out of some aorta as sis 0 o he health health Taking data then we should abolish city pipe water f for r those tl two two wo or three men meD be- be believe be believe lieve their r caused largely by their drinking it IF It we fa were ere were to believe beleve all aU that cranky do doctors ors and other cranky scientists tell tellus UI net we should be compelled to the con con- conclusion conclusion that there there Is is II nothing in 10 the world fit to eat or drink DObo nobody y lit fit to associate with nowhere fi fit io to live or ordie ordie ordie die and aDd no DO suitable method or place of 01 buria burial and acid that all aU the tbt known facts facts of We life and death are enormously and out out- outrageously outrageously and fundamentally wrong The only wonder Is is that there is soy auy life Ufe at all aU on this miserable planet or ever was wal any Perhaps it could could be demonstrated that somebody alter avine visited v the health officer bad been afflicted by typhoid fever and that therefore Dr Beatty eatty ought to be abolished unless uDlea lie be was s turee hundred feet leet deep COMMON Soon BB |