The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-07-22

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tackle him"
SO l Just trundled myself down TO Con
gress Spring. l found Col. johnson pour
Ing Congress water on the back Of yell
low dog that seemed 10 have been pretty
badly scalded, and muttering to himself
"Beg pardon for interrupting you, Col
johnson" said, removing my hat ant
sitting down In q bucket OF Congress wat
er which happened TO be convenient
"but came away without any books o.
reference, and l just came over to ask IL
"These springs have been losing
strength for q few years back I" he broke
In; "that's what eVerybody's running In
ior ever since Hathorn discovered that
salt mackerel mine Of his; no no CON
found it, no III Prof. Chandler says" and
no bent his head to his task again, and
went on muttering about bicarbonates
and bromides and iodides and sulphates
and phosphates and bibarates and
Guorides and suicides and the cubic inches
Of gas that he or given quantity of his
water contained-I couldn't distinctly
make out which.
"What ails that dog 2" asked, by way
Of showing my friendly interest and ap-
preaching my real business gently and
deXterously.
"Well some folks say he's scalded,
and some say he amt; some think some
one threw hot water on him and some
don't. Think Hathorn flung some of that
conlounded water Of his own on him;
that's what think about it But here's
what'll bring him around again all right"
and he went to rubbing the yellow dogs
back with Congress water, and the yell
low dog bowling and yelling all the while
as though he were being skinned alive.
"Then 1t Is good for burnsH" l asked.
"Good for burns?" no exclaimed,
turning round on me and dropping the
dog, I" Ishould say so; why, one thimble'
full Of It will put out more fire than q
hogshead Of common water will. What
do you think saved Saratoga from being
clean burned down last Summer! They
tried that HRthorn, water on the fire, and
1t lust set 1t going like kerosene would;
there's nothing 20 cooling as Congress wa
ter; chap from your city, where they
don't get much good milk, drove out 70
q farm the other day and drank 30 much
cow.juice that he felt uncomfortable, 80
lie Just walked down to our spring and
took glass Of water; well, they held u post
mortem next day, and I'm blest II there
wasn't nigh upon gallon and a half Of
Ice.cream found In his potato cellar; no
man could stand that, you know; you see
the milk wouldn't have hurt him by itself,
though 1t Is uncommon rich, the milk we
raise round here, and the water wouldn't
have hurt him either II he hadn't packed
it square on top OF The milk; il he'd just
slipped q griddle.cake or something be-
tween he'd be caVOrting around now as
gay as a speckled steer"
"But isn't there q good deal Of HathUIn
water drunk Z" asked. ....
"Of course there is; every one that
stops at his hotel has 10 drink il; you see,
it's mighty profitable to him, that spring;
If man goes down and takes q glass Of
It before breakfast, he don't want break.
last much, and when dinner time comes
round he amt amazing hungry either,
and 9 little toast and tea Is about his best
gait all the while Why, that spring
saves Hathorn a million spring chickens
q year. He won't let his folks drink our
water. A man is stopping there now
from out West; got the gravel; doctors
sent him here to drink Congress water;
Hathorn won't let him; keeps him pump.
ing away at that spring Of his; what's the
consequence The poor fellows getting
more gravelly every day he'll DO over
here to get Us 10 roll him down with tho
garden roller one Of these fine mornings;
dathorn's guests don't get no flesh on
them; look at HathOrn himself; you can
see clean through him Of q clear day; why,
when / came here first / was Just as thin
as Hathorn Is, and now" The Colonel
cast satisfied eye over bis roIund pro-
portions. : ~ q
"But Is there not danger Of the waters
making one too plethoric 7" l asked.
"Oh, shut of on 1t twenty years ago.
Jerry, over there at the Grand Union,
fixes me up something once In q while In.
stead. don't like Il so well as do Con.
gresS water, but man doesn't want to
g9t 100 fat, you know. 49,
as there really much difference In the
substances contained In these spFings2"
/ asked. "setting prejudice wholly SidG
are not the mineral salts and the propor-
tons in which they exist nearly iden.
teal p - -sFR
Identical? Well, l neverp shouted
the Colonel, rushing into back room and
dragging in huge glass jar. "Here is
the sediment from 70 gallon; of the
Hathorn water, which I evapOrated my.
self; no one else had access TO II; just hear
thisW and he ratified and shock the Jar,
ave had the result Of 'ttA evaporation
analysed carefully, BY the best chemist In
Ballston, and hsra IsRhat he says about
It," -
l took the sCfip 81 paper and read:
Common .llt... ? ss,gsi Pa!E .. .Aoe.@ ieSS 10
Carpet tAeEs.~ Paif q f5eeeSs sroee
Old slippers -. A trace Nitro RlyceIine. 80 99S
Old Tom Gin. None. n.N -
Total solid eoutOnts. .,..s..,..
Here was a foot.note saying that they
had not been able 10 foot them up, % the
OILY "WGbb's Adding Machine In the
village was kept in such constant use
they couldn't get q chance att. p But Il
was comforting 10 me to find out wharG
the boots, shoes and slippers lost at Con-
gress Hall, ell went In the cause OIL
science l am willing 10 sacrifice any
amount oil wearing Apparel)
"And the substances contained In your
spEing do they differ materially from
those above enumerated, ColonelPh
"Well should say soi" and be began
again:
lHRFomida Of eodipm. 1850 .Rluotds Of"
| Iodide Of Sodium. Ass r-
HWhOt Is flourids r. / asked.
"Oh, bother, don't interrupt me at my
! morning deVoiono; take down the die.