MAGIC SPRING IN THE PHILIPPINES.
As there is another outbreak of cholera in Manila, wonder is expressed by those familiar with the Philippines, if another magic spring is the cause of it. Several years ago the health authorities of Manila were having hard work trying to convince the natives they had not been wronged cruelly by the closing up of a marvelous spring that had bubbled up, clear as crystal, on the beach below high-water mark, when the tide was out. The natives used to fill bottles and jars with the water, which they drank in the fixed belief that it not only would cure various diseases, but would assist the drinkers in getting into heaven. The miraculous spring, however, was the mouth of a sewer that had become overlaid with beach sand and mud, up through which the sewage strained it self.
As there is another outbreak of cholera in Manila, wonder is expressed by those familiar with the Philippines, if another magic spring is the cause of it. Several years ago the health authorities of Manila were having hard work trying to convince the natives they had not been wronged cruelly by the closing up of a marvelous spring that had bubbled up, clear as crystal, on the beach below high-water mark, when the tide was out. The natives used to fill bottles and jars with the water, which they drank in the fixed belief that it not only would cure various diseases, but would assist the drinkers in getting into heaven. The miraculous spring, however, was the mouth of a sewer that had become overlaid with beach sand and mud, up through which the sewage strained it self.
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