Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1891 — Page 6

BUBBLES TO CURE ALL.

THE HEALING WATER OF ARKANSAS HOT SPRINGS. America's Fountain of Life, with Many Drawbacks In tbo Wav <>r Dishonest Treatment, Visited by Thousands ol Fallen ts in Search of Health.

mankind is a mattur of conjecture, for Ponce de Leon’s idea of the “fountain of youth” was undoubtedly gained from Indian stories. Although it was before the days of Cutler’s Guide and before the Diamond Jo line had bean established. the old discoverer was headed in in the right direction, and would undoubtedly have come upon the object of 'hissearch had not death put him past the influence of any fountain of youth. This group of springs, which has proved such a valuable ally to medical science, comprises seventy-one distinct outlets,

■tketotal daily output of which is 482,•000 gallons having a temperature ranging from 92 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit.

IT WAS NOT DOWN ON PONCE'S MAP.

' These outlets issue from the west side of Hot Springs Mountain from twenty-live •to seveuty-hve feet above the level of the valley, and form a beautiful, clear ; stream of water twenty or thirty feet in ’width. A peculiarity in regard to the grouping of these springs is the fact that all flowing fiom the mountain on the east side of the creek, with one exception, are hot, while ; the group flowing from the valley on the west side and only a few feet away are cold, with one exception. This exception sends fortli water which, besides having other mineral qualities, is highly impregnated with alum, and is •extremely efficacious in catarrhal troubles and for sore eyes. The only requisites to a course of bathing arc a pair of course heavy town's and a bath prescription, which is given the patient after a thorough examination of the heart and lungs. It is considered dangerous for persons afflicted in these organs to use the waters for bathing purposes. Plain and vapor baths, most

SPRINGS AND WATER PIPES.

io rogue there, are administered much ■fa the same manner as in ail ordinary 'hatlilug establishments, the Vapor used

X a low, rocky spur of the 'O/ark Mountains, fiftynine miles southwest of Little I’ock, and at an altitude of 700 feet above .the sea, bubble the famous Lot springs of Ar--1 ansas. liow long their curative propei ties have been .known to .r

HOTEL EASTMAN AND HOT SPRINGS CREEK, THE STREAM FORMED BY THE FLOW FROM THE SPRINGS.

being that from tho hot spring wato* which Bows under the slab floor of the vapor -room. After going

through the tub and vapor the patient is put into the sweat-room and made to gorge himself with hot water.

A remarkable fact in regard to the water is that during a single bath a person can drink from six to nine pints without any unpleasant effect. The fa'luro of the water to act as an emetic when taken in such quantifies and at such a high temperature isjsaid to be due to the great • uantity of; free carbonic acid with which tho ’ ’ater is charged. After the patient has partaken freely of the fyot water and the heat of the room ha» causod he a* y | orspiration, lie is passed through a system of cooling rooms in order to tho •oughly but slowly stop tho

ARMY AND NAVY HOSPITAL, HOT SPRINGS MOUNTAIN IN THE DISTANCE.

How of perspiration before ho dresses and passes out into tlie open air. During ail this time the operation, usua ly requiring from one to three hours, the

THE RESERVATION SUPERINTENDENT.

wants of the patient are carefully looked after by an attendant, who, by a recent act of Congress, is allowed $1 per week for his services. Although he receives no other income he manages to earn, in perquisites,'from $35 to SSO a week daring the busjr>eason. The government reservation, a tract of 800 aerqs. occupying all of Hot Springs Mountain and adi&cent territory, upon which are variable springs, wps created by an act of Congress in order to prevent the monopolization of the spririgs by prii vate individuals and the pooling of bath- | housb owners. A law is enforced placing an auaual rental of $35 ou each tub. lim-

king the number of tubs » forty foi each bath-house, and fixing the maximum rate per bath at thirty Cents. For th* successful enforcement of thb law's provisions the government ha 9 placed an officer in charge. He is known as tht reservation superintendent. l r o is s mild-mannered Individual, smokos bud cigars, wears a d a rk ; blue'braid-bedecked uniform, and is a terror to bath-Lous* managers. ■> Besides the licspita!', the 'government recently completed an institution whieffi is accomplishing a greater good It i{ the free bath house fof’iho’poor. Bhforc its comp etiun tho lattar wore compcljed to bathe in a barnliko structure, which was as forlprn, in,aspect as tho.-b'Vhc frequented it. The bath tub. which was common to all, was a water-tight box constructed of rough pine boards. For chairs thero was a single bench, constructed of the same coarse material. The regulation Arkansas stove was there to drive out the cold, which came in gusts through great cracks in the walls and floor. Clothes hooks were not known. The oujy other piece of furniture in the male department was a large twine string, passing from one side of tho room to the other, upon which to hang towels. In the woman’s department the cracks in the wall were stopped up, and in addition to the towel string the room was further embellished with screens and a looking glass, through half of which the back was plainly visible. In the new bath house, a solidly constructed building of brick and stone, the

poor can enjoy as much comfort in bathing. as their more fortunate brethren. Projecting rocks upon the sunny sides of the mountains and wrecked cooling tanks in the rear of the bath-houses furnish shelter to many who are not so fortunate as to have a place to work for lodging. For meals they depend upon scraps which are furnished them by hotels and charitable boarding-house keepers. The beggars of Paris are wealthy in comparison with tho cripp;ed beggars of Hot Springs. Their schemes for locomotion are only equaled by tho maiiuei

of their solicitations for charity. A great many persons arrive in Hot Springs with money enough to last them only a few days. From this state of things there is developed a very ob noxious class of persons. Doctors who such perfection that the patient is left with hardly anything after the “doctor” has collected his fee, which is invariably in advance. Of all Hot Springs “pluggers,” the one who travels for a boarding house is the most zealous in his search for"victims He travels as far as Little Rock and are unable to hold any sort of practice legitimately employ them to drum up custom. They are banded together so comp etely and work their schemes with Texarkana to meet incoming trains, in order to tind persons who have made on previous airangcmonts. Fortunately for visitors, only a few of the 501) hotels and boarding houses employ .them, With all its drawbacks thousands of sufferers continue to go to the greatest health resort of this country.

Familiarity Breads Contempt.

“Why didn’t you return that gentleman’s bow?” asked a wife of her husband, as a gentleman passed them on Fifth avenue. “It never does to be familiar with that fellow, or he will presume on it. Give him an inch ana he will take an ell. If lam at all familiar with him, he will be hinting for me to pay a little bill I have been owing him for the last six months. He is ■ a presuming scoundrel.” —Texan Siftings. Prince Eadziwill, a Berlin dispatch says, wants to compound his enormous gambling debts at 10 cents on the dollar, and is reported to be using his influence with the Britisn Embassy it that city to force the resignation of one of its clerks who refuses to accept the offer. He is exhibiting the most favored nation’s claws.

THE BRAKEMAN'S YELL

To B« ward No J*or» on Grand Trunk Trains. The Grand Trunk Kailway Company has jnst introduced an innovation on its system that cannot but commend itself to the traveling public as an improvement long in lequest—one that will be a great convenience to passengers and make traveling decidedly more comfortable for those who do not know the various places through which their trains run, and who are unable to interpret the often unintelligible announcements of the brakeman. It is a railroad station indicator, an apparatus that recoids the names of the different stations, and which has just been introduced at the headquarters in Montreal. Seemingly, the machine is a very simple contrivance. A nicely finished frame of polished wood, placed in prominent view at both ends of the car, contains a number of thin iron or tin plates, each plate painted with the name of the station in characters legible in any part of the car. The names of the stations are placed in the order in which the train passes through them. As each station is passed the conductor pushes a lever on the indicator, a gong sounds and the previous plate drops, expressing the words, ‘’The next station is —whatever the coming pla?e may be. This is repeated after every station, so that a passenger has only to look at the indicator to discover at any time the name of a town or city which the train is approaching. The convenience and advantages of such an invention are too obvious to need enu nle.ation.

The continual cry from the traveling public for some method of making known the names of the stations, other than by the admittedly unsuccessful wav of having the brakeman call them out, has led 1o many attempts to invent such an apparatus, but none has given satisfaction up to the present time. The railway station indicator of the Allison Company, however, apparently meets all requirements, aud it had no sooner been brought before the notice of the Grand Trunk officials than they considered it necessary to their road, with tho result that Mr. Allison has received a contract to fit up every passenger car on the Grand Trunk system, both in Cauada and the United States, with these instruments. Besides being used to denote the name of the stations, the company is also ingeniously using it as an advertising medium, for on the back of each plate is painted the name and business of a promii:ont firm. Then as the plate falls this advertisement is displayed, remaining until another card falls, when a different name comes in view, aud so on. This indicator is the most prominent furnishing in the car, catching the eye immediately on one’s entrance, and the sounding of the goDg ns each card is changed hat the invariable effect of attracting the attention of those in the car. —Hamilton Spectator.

FUNNY MEN JOIN FORCES.

The public—at least that very large portion of it which reads newspapers—

BILL NYE.

therefore, that Mr. Nve has concluded to return to the field from which he has been missed for some time. Mr. Nye is a prominent figure in the public eye. He is a native of Maine, about 40 years old, and has been a

farmer, a lawyer, and bas bad a fling at numerous other avocations. He finally fell into the journalistic swim in the West, and his humorous writings soon made him a wide-spread reputation. This has endured so long that the public now accepts him as one of the few funny

men who do not wear themselves out or their admirers. After severing his connection with the poet James Whitcomb Kilev, Mr. Nye joined forces with A. P. Burbank, the well-known mimic and elocutionist. In his specialty, which is, perhaps, the delineation of character sketches, Mr. Burbank has few superiors. His mobile features, especially adapted to the expression of *he varyiug emotions of the mind, his harmonious and flexible voice, aud his dramatic ability equip him admirably for the work in hand.

About Umbrellas.

In connection with the tea, milk and chocolate rooms now being extensively established over Paris, a depot for umbrellas will be connected with each. In the case of a sudden change of weather, one will have only to enter the nearest tea room, etc.*, select a Sally Gamp, more or new, in silk, alpaca, or cotton, deposit the estimated value of the umbrella, which will at the same time include the sum for hire —6 to 30 bous — for every twenty-four hours. A receipt will be given for the deposit, and the latter will be refunded at any of the tea rooms in the city. Formerly a company existed for lending out umbrellas and parasols by the hour. It had a capital of 200,000* umbrellas. .It failed because the depots for hiring the umbrellas, etc., were the tobacco shops; into which ladies—the best customers—of course declined to enter. The next error was basing the society on new, instead of secondhand and hack umbrellas. During rains, etc., no one overscans your overhead protector, unless it displays rents, or sieve interstices. Only philosophers and individuals suffering in mind, body or estate, disregard holes in umbrellas. Kow next to securing an umbrella when

lias been amused in all degrees by the humorous es- , says of Edgar W. Nye, better known • as Bill Nve. Many of them have heard this very i successful humorist tell his quaint stories on the lecture platform. It is a matter of considerable interest,

A. P. BURBANK.

needed nothing is moic pleasurable than the getting rid of it when no longer required. To be able to part company with it at the nearest branch tea room will prove the successful keynote of the revived scheme. When umbrellas were first introduced into France, toward the close of the reventeenth century, they were exclusively reserved for the use of ladies. A gentleman would have blushed if discovered carrying snch a symbol of effeminacy. It was the parasol which gave birth to the umbrella, and a parasol two centuries ago was as much a family heirloom as lace and jewelry. It was embioidered by the owner, became a thing of beauty, and so a jo v forever. French ladies in the sixteenth century, who as spectators followed deer hunts, carried parasols fringed with gold and ornamented with costly pearls. Waiters at cases and restaurants once supplied clients with •umbrellas, counting upon a gratuity in exchange, but negligence in returning umbrellas ruined the convenience. For a short time in France, when private undertakers existed, it was—as it is at present—considered evidence of greater respect for the deceased to follow on foot instead of ridiDg in a carriage. The undertaker kept a supply of black umbrellas, familiarly called “mortuaries,” that he presented to foot mourners did rain set in. A mute collected as many of the umbrellas as ho could as the recipients passed through the cemetery gate. But the item for compensation for unretumed umbrellas in the undertaker’s bill became so tfce.t funeral Bmbielias had to be abandoned becan e of its extravagance. It was a fact then that funerals on wet days were always the best attended. Perhaps if the fashion had existed when Mozart died the composer’s friends would not have failed to attend his funeral, despite the rain, and posterity would thus have known the whereabouts of the resting place of the celebrity. As “Anthony and Cleopatra” is the popular drama of the day, it tuay be apropos to state that excepting Anthony’s leputation a parasol which he presented to the siren queen was cherished as the most precious of her gifts to her. There is in the Cluny museum an umbrella presented by the Portuguese to Louis XIV. which weighs six pounds. It had to be carried by a valet, similarly as seigueurs had foot boys to carry their turnip w atches. Louis XV. had quite a collection of parasols, so that he might have been called, like his “cousin,” the “King of Burmali,” “Lord of the twenty-four parasols.”

Enjoy Being Cheated.

When a sensible young man, who bad given a dinner to three of his friends in a private room of a fashionable resfiaurant, received a bill for the repast amounting to a hundred dollars, ho paid it, says the New York Sun, with the remark that he did not belong to that order of young snobs that enjoyed being cheated, and should take good care to go elsewhere for his banquets iu the future. Speaking of the matter to some of his friends later, the young man said :' ‘‘Although that restaurant is firstclass in its equipment, and serves its patrons in the most perfect style, yet it is not for that reason it is a favorite with the very swell young men of the town. Cadley and his friends haunt the place because they are charged enormous prices there for what they are served. Theie is actually a large element'of rich and vulgar men in New York of the Cadley stamp, and if they are not allowed to pay absurdly high prices for things, they imagine they are getting second-class goods. Y’ou will hear a young dude boast of how he pays $1 apiece for his cigars, and $2 for a bit of duck. But it is in those private dinners that the swell snob revels. He goes and gives an order for a dinner for four, six, or eight people, as the case may be. observes carelessly to the manager that of course he is to have carte blanche in getting up the repast in handsome style, and thinks no more about it. The dinner is delicious, you raav be sure, aud all the guests are delighted. Now. if the restaurant-keeper were to hand in an anywhere near reasonable bill the snob would rather doubt the quality of that dimer; so it is necessary to charge him three or four times what it is really worth. He is offensively rich, and be pays the excessive bill with a great deal of pride. He has disposed of S2OO or S3OO in one meal, and that is his idea of splendid living. These are the men that fix the prices at the ultra-fashionable restauiants, and if a chap comes along who isn’t made of money, but might afford to be just a little bit cheated, he is barred from doing the elegant in a modest way because there are any number of snobs ready to engage the rooms at a much higher rate of robbery.”

English Spelling.

Some compositor, disgusted with the inconsistencies of English orthography, has been at the pains to construct the following elaborate travesty, which appears in the Printer's A’bum. The ingenious reader can lengthen it at his own pleasure. Know won knead weight two bee tolled thee weigh too dew sew. A rite suite little buoy, thee sun of a with a rough atound his neck, flue up thee rode as quick as a dear. After a thyme he stopped at a gnu house and wrUDg the belle His tow hurt hymn, and he kneaded wrest. He was two tired to raze bis fare, pail face. A feint mown of pane lows from his lips. The made who herd the belle was about to pair a pare, but she through it down and ran with awl her mite, for fear her guessed wood kuofc weight. Butt when she saw the little won, tiers stood in her ayes at the site. “Ewe poor deer! Why dew you lye hear? Are yew dyeing?”

“Know,” he am feint." She boar hvmn her alms, as she aught, two a rheum where he mite bee quiet, gave him bred and meet, held a cent liottle under his knows, untide Ilia choler, rapped him up warmly, gave hymn a suite drachm from a viol, till at last he wtat fourth as hail as a young hoarse.

Syrup of Figs,

P .-odaced from the-laxativo and nutrition jnlce us California figs, combined with th«’ medicinal virtues of* plants known to b$ most beneficial to the hufoan system, r.itd gently on the kidneys, liver and bowels, effectually cleansing the system, dispelling eolds and headaches, and curing habitual constipation.

Can’t Stand Bells.

Some Michigan sheep-raisers claim to have proved to their entire satisfaction that bells on sheep protect them from marauding dogs. Flocks which had no bells, they say, were annoyed every week, while those with them wore scarcely ever disturbed. The clang of the bells is more than the dogs can stand.

It’s sometimes said patent medicines are for the ignorant. The doctors foster this idea. “ The people,” we’re told, “are mostly ignorant when it comes to medical science.” Suppose they are! What a sick man needs is not knowledge, but a cure, and the medicine that cures is the medicine for the sick. . Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures the “do believes*” and the “don’t believes.” There’s no hesitance about it, no “if” nor “possibly.” ** 4-,<] It says—“ I can cure you, only do as I direct.” Perhaps it fails occasionally.; The makers hear of it when it does, because they never keep the moaey when the medicine fails to do good. , Suppose the doctors went on that principle. (We beg the doctors’ pardon. It wouldn’t do!) Choking, sneezing and every other form of catarrh in the head, is radically cured by Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. Fifty cents. By druggists.

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The Soap that Cleans Most is Lenox.