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purified. The water question is the most 

 serious of the present day. Impure water 

 is killing thousands of people every hour. 

 Nine cases of illness out of every ten are 

 caused by disease - germed drinking- 

 water. ' ' 



" I never suffered from it," said 

 Corbin. 



" Of course not," replied his brother 

 physician; " you never drank any, but, 

 for a man who does drink common water 

 to say he never suffered from it is about 

 like saying you know of a man who went 

 to war and was n't shot. There are 

 others. Consuming promiscuous drink- 

 ing-water is quite as dangerous as going 

 to war. Nearly every case I might say 

 every case of typhoid fever comes from 

 drinking impure water, and there are 

 typhoid victims all over the world, and 

 many, very many, right here in New 

 York. Seth's friend Haerther says there 

 are fully forty thousand fatal cases yearly 

 in the United States. Pure water and the 



