Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-18
Robert M. McWado.
Bismarck Tribune WASHINGTON Bure'

Robert M. MeWade.
Bismarck Tribune WASHINGTON Bureau.
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 49,
This is the typhoidal season, and that
dread disease makes no distinction OF
youth, age or sex. Washington's IA
NOUS physicians are uniting In timely
and solemn warnings not only about
| its ravages, but also about It's onset;
and they are giving lots of wholesome
suggestions in the line of preventative
. advice. The drinking water, the milk
the flies and the ubiquitous mosqu1'
toes are all among the subjects noted
as things to be safeguarded against
| That the deadly typhoid fever turks
! in our favorite wells is now an estao'
, lished fact. The rural sections, long
| considered ideal so far as concerns
the health of their inhabitants, have
been dealt a blow by doctors, patient
and tireless investigators, who main
tain that two-thirds of the typholo
cases in the cities owe their origin
to insanitary conditions in the coun'
try, and to polluted water supplies.
Farms, which are generally remote
from towns, cities or other areas OF
congested population, would seem to
be ideally situated for obtaining pure
and wholesome water, but in reality,
polluted water is exceedingly common
| on them, and typhoid fever rates are
| usually greater in country districts
than in cities.
Typhoid fever is now almost univer-
sally believed to be transmitted sole.
ly through drink or food taken into
the stomach, and is especially liable
to be communicated by polluted wa
ters obtained from shallow wells near
spots where the discharges of typhoid
patients have been thrown upon the
ground, and subsequently carried down
through the soil and to the wells; and
it is doubtless principally this fact
that accounts for the disease being
so common in farming regions.
On q great many farms the we'll is
located at point that may be con-
venient to the dwelling, without any
regard for the possibility of the pollu'
ton of the we'll water through seep'
age from Darn, or cesspool, or through
the circulation of water underground.
information relating to the under
ground movement of water is partic-
ularly valuable, and on this account
the u S. Geological Survey is about
to distribute report on the subject.
1t is styled Underground Waters
for Farm Use." and is known as
Water Supply Paper 255. The demand
for this publication has necessitated
| a third reprint ANY Of our readers
may secure copy Of it by writing to
the Hon. George Otis Smith, director,
U. S. Geological Survey, Washington,
D. G.
Denominational Union.
Presbyterians adhere steadfastly to
their purpose to bring about union
of the denominations belonging to
their own ecclesiastical household.
Some of them here say that they re,
| fuse to permit their enthusiasm for
| this great and righteous cause to be
chilled by those unlovely things which
attend their Union with the Cumber'
land Presbyterian church. Negotia-
tons with the Reformed Church In
the United States (the German Re.
| formed Church, are going forward
with good promise of the coveted re-
suit. This fine body of German
American Christians numbers up
wards of 10000 communicate mem
bers, and with a Sunday school en-
rollment which, exceeds that of the
church members by about 10000.
The friends of organic union with
this and other churches of similar or
der exhibited great holiness in de-
claring their convictions in the recent
General Assembly at Louisville. "And
we'll they may do so," says a veneer
able member of the clergy, for these
convictions are finding crystalization
in definite policy" While there was
no formal discussion Of the question
of union between the Northern and
the Southern churches, the men who
made up this General Assembly did
not hesitate to express in private
their ardent desire of their hearts
for such a contamination. The frater-
nifty between them and their South.
ern brethren who were largely repre-
sented in Louisville, was delightful
and highly promotive of what appears
to be manifest ecclesiastical destiny.
huOCuC1 CudpICl VI SAA0 o1AAS WI y
will be written next year at Atlanta"
Japan's Merchant Marine.
According to semi-ofhcial advices,
Japan is setting the pace for our
American merchant marine in the
wonderful and commercially ambi-
tious strides which that enterprising
nation Is making in building up the
fleets of ocean-going steamships OF
rapid speed and high tonnage. The
Mikado and his progressive advisers
recognizing that the proper way in
which a country can build up Its
merchant marine is by proper subsi.
dies, generously supplied to 60 ahead
commercial and other business firms
and corporations, are not only help
ing Japan's railroad and steamship
lines in that manner, but are also urg-
ing their shipbuilders to redouble
their exertions in turning out war
ships as well as big vessels for freight
! and passenger traffic.
These semi-official advices state
that there is at present the greatest
kind of activity in Japanese shipping,
and, compared with last year, the
number of vessels under charter has
nearly doubled, with the supply OF
ships to handle tonnage being made