Death In A Well

A farmor and several of his childrcn were sick with typhoid fever. Their physician was unable to account for tho inalady until his attention was called to the water from the well adjoining tho house oí' death. It had a poculiarly pleasant, sweetish flavor, but the idea that there was anythiiig wrong there was held to bo absurd by the surviving merabers of the family. ■ Ilowever, the suspiciona of the physioian were aroused and thefact that the privy of the farmhouse was within fifteon feet of the well, and had existed there for raany years seemed to point to a possiblo dofilenient. On testing the water it was found to be highly charged with tho products oí decoinposing animal matter of poisonous character, and tho sufficient cause of tho sicknoss waa apparent. The well was abandoned, and the farmer recovered, but his children wero sacrificed. Typhoid and similar diseascs are the farmers' bane They are peeuliarly the diseases of the rural district, and ccss-pool and barn yards exist too oí'ten in close proximity to wells from which water for doinestic uso is drawn. No more active fermout or blood-jjoison can be tuken into the system than putrid animal refuse, and no more deadly maladíes exist than those thus originated. Fevcrs, cholera, dysentery, diarrhea, and man y eruptions of a painful nature are of this class, and childrcn are the first victims. Duluth has a phantom " FlyingDutchman " sliding around over the icy fastliesBes of hor harbor.