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THE INVISIBLE WOKLD 



In Fig. 113 is seen another country graveyard 

 situated near a country church. A is the highway 



leading past the 

 church; b is the 

 graveyard ; d, the 

 well; e, a house in 

 which lives a family. 

 The well is situated 

 no more than ten feet 

 from the graveyard, 

 and the surface of the 

 ground at the well is 

 lower than that of 

 the graveyard. The 

 family uses water 

 from the well. 



Many bodies of persons, dying of contagious and 

 infectious diseases, lie buried in the graveyard. 

 The germs easily find their way into the well. 



As the natural result, of the three children in 

 the family, one at six years old died of scarlet 

 fever; another at twelve of diphtheria; the other 

 at seventeen of tuberculosis. Soon after, the 

 mother died also of tuberculosis. 



The widowed father married a second wife, who 

 ere long died of cancer. Finally the father died of 

 typhoid fever. 



There cannot be a shadow of doubt that this 

 family was wiped out by germs communicated to 

 the well from the graveyard. 



Besides, the pulpit of that church during wor- 



