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Show D.illnr h vh. Life. The dark-age idea that water i. works will lessen our water supply and thereby deprive our orchards ; anil gardens is the purest nonsense. non-sense. It will, instead, save thousands thou-sands of gallons which are now lost every week from seepage. Evcrv drop of water which enters the mams floes not necessarily have to be drunk or wasted oh. i dear no but it can be turned on j vour bodies, your gardens and go j to water your trees, the same as if ! it had conn slowly down the creeks to lose a goodly portion of itself j in the dry ground over which it passes. The only plausible objee-I objee-I tion most kickers against the water I works system can ofler is that it is ' too glorious a step for our City now j to take. Shall we save our dolhirs I or our lives, is the long and short j of the matter. |