The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-30

each side of the Arkansas valley and ii
is a well known fact that all decaying
vegetable and animal matter is always
lighter than water, so it would be i'm
possible 10 penetrate even into an inch
of this underground stream. When We
were boring for oil or gas on Thirteenth
street. the citizens of Wichita will re-
member, that the engineer suggested
wooden castings for the first hundred
feet, and after the well had been bored
some thirty-five feet this underground
current was so strong that it swept the
wooden casing out of perpendicular. so
| that it had to be removed.
In reasoning from this if there were
a thousand dead animals laying around
our wells. or the island that supplies
! our water. not one particle of the i'm
purity could reach one foot into the water
/ 10 contamiRate it, but it is not alone
! filtered through IS feet through the sur
! face Of the earth, but filtered through so
! miles from the base Of the Rocky Noun
tains. Distilled water has it's sphere of
4 usefulness as a solvent in pharmacy:
There is no more universal or greater
( solvent known tnan distilled water; it
will dissolve all metals, even to pure gold
/ and platinum. with the exception of
! block tin. Engineers are aware that a
/ boiler using distilled water for the max
/ ing of steam viii only last about one
! sixth of the time as the same boiler
would using hard water.
Professor Fairchild. of the University
/ of Massachusetts,. delivered a scientific
/ lecture in Chicago twenty years ago, the
4 subject of his lecture being, The Water
/ That We Drink" He asserted that the
/ fact of the water of Lake Michigan being
! hard was all that made Chicago posi-
! bic. showing; clearly by such Illustrations
! that the two metals then used for plumb
/ ing houses was iron and lead pipe He
asserted that a lead pipe twelve feet long.
the lumen of the pipe being one-half inch
/ as generally used. containing distilled
water for twelve hours, would poison
any person who drank a glass of it. When
we reason on the works of nature, we
are not surprised that the ancient patri-
arch should eXclaim: Lord, Lord, what
is man that thou art so mindful OF
him He realized no doubt in his I'M
couth way Of the dark ages in the past
OF the great kindness that God had shown
man, after the spurn whale became ex
tinct to furnish oil for the lamps. Cod
with his finger of knowledge, pointed into
the bowels of the earth. indicating TO
man that he could find supply there.
when their forests had burned and tim
Der became scarce for fuel. God again
pointed down into the earth. indicating
to man that he could find his fuel already
prepared. When commerce required more
rapid communication he put into the
minds of man the electrical telegraph and
telephone. These are nothing new; the
principles have always existed.
When a soldier boy crossing the great
plains of Kansas, in the spring Of 1866,
/ saw thousands of buffalo wallows or
little holes dug in the ground by the buff
faloes. An old guide then with the army,
informed me that they were dug by the
buffalo for the purpose of rubbing off
the shedding coat. 1t seemed to me rea-
sonable, but l have discovered since that
such was not the case. and noticed after
wards that these holes. were always dug
on hard clay soil in a very fat place,
or what you might term aIkali land, and
if you viii go to some of these wallows
south of the Garfield university after
heavy rain and, when the water is all
evaporated. you will find in the bottom a
little round place whittier than the sur
rounding earth Taste it and you will
find that it contains salt where the buff
falo might come at any time and get the
required lime salts so much needed for
the replenishing of his muscles his bones,
his hoofs and his hair.
I'VE can only imagine that this is the
work of the Divine Creator and that
he has endowed this noble animal with
more than instinct We can easily imag-
inc why the human race seek for pure
food and pure drink. for under the name
Of purity. we expect something better
and healthier that what we have but we
must conclude that water robbed of its
essential natural properties is not pure,
and if we occasionally have water that
we are supposed to drink that is strongly
impregnated with a sUpera bundance of
these mineral salts or some of them at
least. we need not fear gravel or any
other bad effects. only in the taste of tn
water because our system will take up
just what it needs and no more; for in
stance one may take A teaspoOnful Of
tncture of iron three times a day and
the system will only appropriate a part
of a grain of the iron. while the balance
viii be eliminated.
Il only wish TO refer to one case where
a lack of this has taken place in Wich-
TIA. Six months ago a son Of Mr.. F. P.
Martin. our art merchant. brought TO me
his little son and on examination. l
found that he had a slight curvature Of
the spine His chest vas what we term
a pigeon breast. and the bones being 50
soft that they could be dinted like a
pressure on a piece Of TIN. He informed
me that the boy seldom drank any water.
I explained that he was deficient in the
lime salts that prevented a hardening of
the bones He was Immediately put on
Fellows Hypo PhosphaJes Of lime and
soda The history Of RE phenomenal
results that followed can be obtained
from HIS father
The young OF the human race require
more Of the tissue-building salts than
the aged. for the reason that the animal
matter predominates IN the Young and in
tho aged the mineral. \ boy OF ten
breaking "A bone Of any Of his limbs the
repair viii take place within a few weeks
while in the aged il VIII require many
months To prove that these animal salts
are designed for our goo1 and that ma
ture hasmade no mistakes He put the
blubber Of the whale and the fats and
Varbonsceous food in the frigid zone for
the benefit II the native Eskimo 10 keeo
him warm. and at the same time he