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number, the streams run dry, or nearly so, not only in the heat of 

 summer but in the winter months also, and everywhere " there is 

 death in the pot." Nor is the craze to make money by manufac- 

 turing tile, having no other purpose than to hurry off the waters 

 as fast as possible, in any degree greater, than that of the farmer 

 who seizes upon it, paying his money for a curse rather than a 

 blessing, and digging trenches regardless alike of expense and 

 philosophy, begetting water famines as surely to come in time as 

 death and the undertaker. 



There is no reason why the river at Plymouth should have been 

 dry in March, nor, indeed, during any month of any year. All the 

 springs, brooks, rivulets and rivers of our land can be made, 

 should be made, those of perpetual flow. Their waters should be 

 pure and undefiled, bringing life, joy, health and happiness to the 

 people, instead of being denied by decay and bearing death to 

 animal and vegetable creations. 



Should the doctors continue on with the work they have under- 

 taken, which they will surely do, they will succeed in curing nearly 

 everybody hitherto sick, and preventing disease in the future. 

 They have but to convince mankind that pure water is the source 

 of health, and its opposite an equal fountain from which flows dis- 

 ease and death, and the world will not be long finding out 

 that passing the waters through soils purifies them completely. 



Among all who came to look over our grounds during the sea- 

 sons of 1883 and '84, no one made so careful an examination into 

 the principle of our system, as the Hon. Charles R. Earley, who has 

 a divided residence between Philadelphia and his model hillside 

 home at Bidgway, Elk County, Pennsylvania. We say model home, 

 since such it cannot fail to become, should the Doctor carry out his 

 present intentions of making application of our system to his 

 place, demonstrating the utmost of its possibilities. To do this, 



