Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-07-05
DRINKING WATER.
Scientists Insists That Distilled Is the Only
Perfect Kind.

DRINKING WATER.
Scientists Insists That Distilled Is the Only
Perfect Kind.
Old age, or ossifcation, is the penalty
Of ignorance in regard to drinking
water. Undistilled drinking water is
to the pure what raw pork is to the
cooked. Lean pork, thoroughly cooked,
rarely proves injurious to the health,
except in the depositing of calcareous,
Or old-age, matter. Raw or half-cooked
pork is loaded with dangers to every
function of life. Raw water is equally
so. There are three kinds of food
which enter the system daily: solids,
distilled liquids, and raw liquids. All
solids contain calcareous, or old-age,
material The distilled liquids of
juicy fruits are not only free from old
age matter, but dissolve and draw off
as much calcareous substance as the
solid food deposits. Fruits and solid
foods, therefore, would draw off de-
crepitude and age We're it not for the
raw water which we take. AS nature
distiIls her water in her fruits, so man
should take lesson and drink only dis
titled water. The latter is not only
free from calcareous, or old-age, mat
ter, but, like juicy fruits, will dissolve
and carry off all such matter contained
in solid food. Nature sets us great
examples, and the time is not far dis
tant when raw water will be thing of
the barbaric past.
Now do not make the mistake of
thinking that boiled water is purified
water. 1t is, in one respect, better
than the raw water-the germs of dis
ease are partly killed; but the bones
and decay-the carcasses-remain; oc-
cupying the human system as one vast
graveyard from which many awake to
gnaw at our vitals. OF course, the
microscope reveals a menagerie of life
in a drop of the purest rain water, and,
of course, the medical expert tells us
these ordinary germs are not harm
full; yet the same medical expert ad-
mits that, were the water free from
such matter, old age or the breaking
down of the organs of the body could
not occur. Millions of calcareous car
cases are deposited in the blood every
hour; they cause the blood vessels,
nerves, tissues, fibers, brain and Or
gans to ossify, harden, refuse to act,
break down and thus limit human life.
There is not one living scientist or
physician OF repute who will deny this
/ j
mind of the thinking world-thanks to
Ralston.
What does boiling of the water ac-
complish? The worlds greatest dis
tilleries are the rivers, lakes and
oceans. The suns rays draw up
the pure in form of vapor, leaving
| the sediment below. Man cannot
drink the water of the ocean, but
when it rises to the clouds and falls in
rain or snow it is pure, because it is
distilled. A kettle of boiling water is
a similar example. The steam is pure,
! the residue is the calcareOus. When
| we drink boiled water we lose the pure
and drink the graveyard. We know
several families who, under the advice
| of physicians. have drunk boiled water
for many years, every one of them is
aged far beyond the time, with wrinl1led
features, stiff joints and organic dis
ease, caused by the stoppage of the
veins and tissues by calcareous depos-
its. On the other hand, we know fam
lilies who distil their water, whose
faces are smooth and young, fair and
rosy-cheeked, bearing no trace of age
or decrepitude.
In the cure and prevention of disease
the great problem of the civilized world
is the best means for the distillation of
drinking water. Any apparatus which
will catch and condense the steam is
sufficient. Private stills for the use of
topers exist all through Europe, and to
some extent in America. Is it so very
hard to make them for the use of water
drinkers? We know of several clumsy
water stills now in use, but vast for
tune awaits some inventor who will
produce a simple, cheap and effective
still for every family in America
SALISBURY Magazine.