The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-03-18
HOW ABOUT The WELL.
What Sort of Water Are You
Drinking This Year.
Is It Pure, Use Plenty Of 1t Inside
and Out and You VIII Feel anG
Look Better.

and Out and You VIA Feei anG
Look Better.
What sort Of water are We golnc
to drink this year. is 8 question that
concerns every reader Of this paper
for upon the water We are going It.
drink depend the health and even
the lives of very many Of US. We
commend the following extracts from
letter written 70 the Progressive
Farmer by Dr.. H. F. Freeman on the
subject Of drinking water:
The water we drink goes to make
more than two-thirds Of the blood
which flows through our veins. The
blood has about four functions tc
perform. This stream OF blood is
the medium which receives from the
outer world the different matters
which go to make US well or sick.
AS it passes through every part o.:
the body, the various tissues of tn
body take out of this rudy strean
the materials necessary for thei:
nutrition and health. It is the med
ium which takes up or asorbs tn
dead OF refuse matters from the var
ions tissues and carries this poison
Gus OF dead matter to the various or
gans whose business 1t IS to throw
OF and out OF the body this dead ma
terial. It warns, moistons and il
vigorates the whole body wbe!
healthy.
Now you see the need Of pure
water, for the water you drink i;
making two-thirds CT the blood from,
which so many fever and ague germs
come. How about your dTinkins
water. Is it pure? Many hundred:
Of cases Of sickness and death have
been traced directly to contaminated
water. Are you concerned about it
Do you know that this water yo'
drink is carrying into your bloo'
the germs which it contains? Tha
Is just what is being done. And i
it were not for natures forces Will
strong and vigorous, you would sooi
be sick. But let some Of these nat
ural forces get wrong, screw loos'
or q tap OF, and you are sick a;
once and the doctor has to come anc
tighten things up and set these forces
to going again. This costs more.
though, than It does for you to clean
out your well.
"The time to clean out vel! is
not when the water IS lowest, bu;
when the well is full to overfowine
When the water Is low in the well il
then should be the purest. as 1t ali
comes from deep down in the ground
But when the well is full Of water il
has run in from all the little water
drains and especially through those
nearest the top of the ground, and
many times it gets in from the top
of the ground. Now this rush OF
water from the top and through the
earth's pores carries along with i;
all the impurities in reach. Many
times the death germ is taken into
the well this way. Now when YOU
draw all this water from the well
when 1t is full, you bring out the
germs carried in by this rush of wat
er. We drew all ours out few
days ago and left pure stream OF
water rushing in near the bottom
Clean up about your well and raise
the earth around it SO the water will
run of. Don't have pig holes anc
chicken holes about the well.
'tI know Of an incident or two
which happened not so far from here,
A tenant had nice horse when he
moved to g place where the well
water was bad. This horse soon af-
ter began to look bad and to gel
in bad condition generally. This
continued during the year, and the
man moved to place where the wat
er was wholesome and good. The
horse soon got back. to his old self
and remained so afterwards. This
was true also Of the family.
my friends, when your COW
horse, pigs, or chickens are not doing
well, examine your water supply, and
make sure that Is IS all right. l was
called to see a sick member Of q
large family. I at once advised the
man to clean up around his home
and fiji up the puddle holes. He paid
no attention to this advise. Several
Of the family were sick and one died
during that summer ard fall
eff you feel bad and look bad. ask
yourself what kind Of water you are
drinking. Have you done anything
for the last three or five years to
supply your family and stock with
pure, sweet water? There are a
great many families who look pale
and bad all the time. Much of this
is caused by bad, germ-laden drink
ing water All Of you readers who
have not been in the best Of health
now for sometime, just look into the
condition OF your drinking water.
Then after you know it is pure, use
a plenty OF it inside and out and you
will feel and look better
ONE GIRL SHOT ANOTHER.