The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-08-25
Two Dollars a Year.

a ghost factory here ia New York tina
would beat the Eddy Brothers, he tool
up his bat and left me and my boil t,
the next tormentor, who was not long il
putting in an appearance.
The nextw was Turkish bath man, who
assured me he had very bile-ous turn
a year ago, and had sweat them out OF
himself by taking six baths.
You see, he said, "a boil must be
kept moist and warm, and that being a
known fact, why the Turkish bath was
an Intervention of Providence for all
.Iobites the world over"
l promised AT once 10 call ou my friend
DIR. Miller, in Twenty-sixth street, and
let him put me through a course of
+ sprouts, but was deferred from doing So
+ by friend in the ice business, who told
me that one If his neighbors had tried
/ the baths, and instead of curing him.
boils came out all over him worse than
ever.
And now" said he, "if YOU will
come down TO our ice-house and Just walk
leisurely around in it, keeping your blood
cool for a couple of days, YOU will find
your blood, which is evidenced hy the
boil ON your hip, will gradually pass
away, your boil will 90 down. and You
won't have another till you get red hot
again
This looked rs reasonable rs the bath
cure, certainly, and | promised to be on
hand bright and early next morning and
try to freeze out my boil.
Just as | was starting out in the morn
ing-hadn't limped ten yards from my
house, was hailed by friend, who,
when informed of my ailment and inten-
tons, suddenly wheeled me about in the
direction of my house, saying:
lice be blamed I'll cure you :"
Going right into our dining room, he
asked for brown sugar and brown soap;
then helping me TO hobble up stairs, he
made poultice of the soap and sugar,
and insisted on my wearing it on my boil
all day
l promised faithfully to do so, but
after he had gone, and it began to ache
pretty loud, | could not help mentioning
my feelings i'll the old-fashioncd way,
and the noise | made being heard bv
lady caller on my wife, she at once said
at the same time, and sending out for
raw onion, she said all | had to do was
to slice it up and lay it on my boil, and
its cooling properties would relieve the
pain, while its we'll known healing pow
ers would effect certain cure. This
seemed very reasonable, and worth try
ing, and we tried it; but before its
Cooling properties" had got fully under
way happened to remember an Impor-
tant business engagement which must be
attended to, and so | shook of my doe
tor and onion at the same time.
Returning home, two hours later, a
young lady friend came to the door with
five cents worth of faxseed poultice, |
which her uncle always used, and he |
never was without boiIs. She felt sure |
that job used tlaXseed poultice. / said |
| guessed not. | was posted on job. |
All he did was to scrape himself with a |
piece of broken pie-plate dob ii, y, and |
even when boils had evoluted up to |
Isaiah's time all they knew was to make |
plaster of figs for them. But the man
who knew the boil business by heart was
near by, and he gave me the surest cure
of all-coId water before breakfast.
''Drink it freely, and its action on the |
liver and blood is such that it would cure |
me just as sure rs twice seven is four
teen"
And he could cure anything. He was
the only man he had ever heard OF who |
had set broken ribs. lie once fell eight |
feet across a board and broke two ribs, |
and had just strength enough to crawl |
into tavern, and ordered a pan full of
pudding and milk, and ate the whole Of |
it-ate so much that it actually over
flowed from his mouth And what was
the result? Why, by straining he dis
tended his bowels, and with the utmost |
ease got his ribs into place.
But broken ribs are not bOils. / now |
to make an inventory Of all |
my boil cures and mix them together, |
and put on one big plaster which would |
surely cure it at once. But when / came |
to mix cold water and hot water, ice and |
steam, haxseed and cedar berries, shoe
makers wax and honey, onions and ONT |
ment, Indian meal and razors, they |
wouldn't mix. And there was no neces-
sity for it, for just then ! ran against
chair back, and, with a moderate sized
yell, | found that my boil had wiped
itself out.