The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1881-10-06
FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

In private letter to q friend in
Charlotte, lady, formerly resident
here, writes from Fay esteville, Ark,
the celebrated Eureka Springs 81
muss give you an account of my
Eureka Springs trip. 1 bad been
one fthe doubling Thomases be-
fore going there, but seeing is believ>
ing one week made me q firm be-
lever in this truly wonderful place.
| had been suffering continually from
headache all Spring and Summer,
grown thin aud pale, had no apPe-
tite, and WAS also disligured. with
poison over my face. Though
headache had been my most intimate
foe, after one week escaped so ems
tirely as to forget my head, except
in the relationship to my mouth,
my appetite grew SO insati
ate. Bathing 10 this water boiled
down, cured me of my poison oak
nalady in three or four days. q
Eureka certainly is q magical
city. Utterly unknown two years
ago, il now contains 1000 inhabi~
tants and about the same number OF
visitors.
They have street cars, tbirty~one
hotels, many finely kept One in
course OF construction is to cost for
tv thousand dollars. The builder
was offered eleven thousand tor the
site alone. 1t is blasted out OF y
mountain side of solid rock.
The principal hotel has about
thirty feet Of steps to ascend before
reaching the front door, and the rear
rests on the ground. So all the
houses are located on the bill sides,
with props in front.
Eureka water cures every disease
except consumption. Several well
authenticated cases of cancer have
been cured there. The blind re-
ceive their sight. One woman, who
had been blind elk months with ery>
sipelas, suddenly received her sight
at the spring and shouted like one
at camp meeting
met people from every part OF
the United States. A young girl
from Nebraska, who stayed at the
same hotel | was at, having been
most repuIsive to look at with scrof-
ula of the face, after two months
was cured and became really pretty.
A woman afflicted With tumor of
the stomach (said to be one of the
most difficult of diseases to cure)
was recovering. She boiled the
water down until it was of the con-
sistency and appearance of oil, drank
it warm, and said it had the most
soothing effect imaginable.
They have at Eureka VIVA. they
cell an Experience Mee,ing."-
Every one who is cured attends the
Meeting and gives in their expert
once. The doctors attend these
meetings, examine their cases, have
reliable witnesses, take notes of
these remarkable cures, which are
published, and pamphlets are sent
all over the United States. re-
GREETED not being able to attend one
of these meetings, but was too uu'
well. However, ladies from my no
tel were present, good Presbyteri-
ans, too, whom | knew would not tell
lies, and they told me they saw and
heard man who entirely recovered
of the worst form of cancer. He
had it removed twice before going
to Eureke, and it returned and bad
eaten away part of his forehead,
most of his nose, and pat of bis jaw
and mouth. In this meeting the
doctor who attended him related his
case, not knowing he was present.
Some persons grew wild with excite>
ment and asked him to show bis
man, as they did not believe him.
The cancer man came for ward scar
red all over, but perfectly healed,
and said: "Here am all he says
is true; can't talk much as | have
lost part of my gum and many
teeth" The excitement was in"
tense. This man was there eight
months.
| wish to remain longer than | did
as my improvement was SO great.
The recovery of flesh and color
made an old woman remark elf |
stayed long enough | would get reN
al pretty" / intend returning
there in the Fall, not for beauty,
but to obtain strength to endure our