Caution To Water-drinkers

While traveling recently, our attention was inconveniently called one morning to empty water tanks. But there were otbers, children especially, who on crawl ing out of the sleeping bunks were in want of water more than we were - to drink. It was not long however before the cara halfced, and the tanks were filled froin a roadside stream. Of this the thirsty drank. We ventured to suggest to the porter that possibly this water was not wholesome. But the suggestion that " water as olear as that" was not clean, to hitn was absurd. The same suggestion to the conductor was equally incomprehensible. It is just such water that collects and hold in solution the poison of typhoid fever, which summer travelers so often take home with them. Let it never be forgotten that very few rivers, small ones and rivulets especially, or wells, are safe sources of water supply, and that many are more dangerous and deadly than loaded fire-arms. The shallow wells of vülages and some watering placeB and other health resorts (?) are among the pests of the country. It is indeed shookingly disguating in many country places to observe the uniformity with which the cesspool and well are made to stand side by side, as though each was necessary to the other ; and to think of the foul, sewerage reeking soil through which the water percolates to ita fetid bed ! The practico should not only engage the attention of every health oflïcer in the land, but every person of ordinary intelligence. It is always practicable to provide cities and large towns with good water ; but in small villages and country neighborhoods, where houses are few, money acaree, and intelligence scarcer, it is a matter of aome difflculty, but it should nevertheless be overeóme. Meanwhile, country sojournera and travelers, be wary. -