House and Garden 
houses in the old town are made out of 
the ruins of Roman houses; modern 
windows break out in solid Roman walls, 
left to end where ruin left them to end; 
Roman fountains are in the squares, 
Roman tombstones are built into the 
walls of the Archbishop’s palace, frag¬ 
ments of triumphal arches are set into 
the walls about Roman gateways, the 
“Tower of Charles V.” comes up from 
the tiled roof of the arsenal, and “Pilate’s 
Tower,” once part of the Palace of 
Augustus, is a prison. And out of all 
these ruins of great things there has 
come, for the most part, only something 
itself dilapidated, to which the ruins lend 
no splendor .—Saturday Review. 
ONE DAY’S USE OF AN OLD WELL AND 
WHAT HAPPENED 
A S illustrating the danger of the 
^ ^ contamination of wells by sew¬ 
age, even in sparsely settled districts. 
Dr. Stokes told a striking incident 
at a recent meeting of the Maryland 
Board of Health. Recently the water¬ 
works machinery of a Maryland town 
of 300 people broke down, and for 
one day water from an old well was 
used. Ten days later there was an 
outbreak of inflammatory intestinal dis¬ 
orders and three cases of typhoid fever 
resulted. The water was tested and 
found to contain 4,100 bacilli in a cubic 
centimetre—about fifteen drops. The 
regular water-supply contained eighty 
bacilli in a centimetre. Dr. Charles L. 
Mattfeldt, a member of the board, and 
also a health officer, expressed the belief 
that 90 per cent of all water taken from 
dug wells is contaminated by sewage 
more or less. “The construction of such 
wells, if not prohibited, should be regu¬ 
lated by law,” he said. “No one will 
doubt that every town ought to provide 
water from a reliable source for its 
inhabitants, in every respect fit for do¬ 
mestic use, and should in everyway dis¬ 
courage the use of shallow wells, which 
we know to be the most fruitful source 
of disease.”— Isf. Y. Evening Post. 
Owing to an oversight we failed to 
give credit in the August issue for the 
remarkably fine photographs of the 
Benjamin Franklin Jones residence used 
for illustrating the article “A Summer 
Home at Sewickley, Pa.” These photo¬ 
graphs were from the R. W. Johnston 
studio of Pittsburgh. 
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