The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-27
Correspondence.
EUREKA SPRINGS, Arkansas, /
January 16. 1882.

| COrrespOndenCes
! EUREKA SPRINGS, Arkansas,
January 16, 1882. {
Editor lola Register 1T may be of
interest to some of the readers of your
paper to say word as to the discovery
of these wonderful springs and the
medical virtue of their waters. Thirty
five years ago a man by the name of
Jackson, while out hunting in the
mountains started a catamOunt and
ran the animal in crevice of the
rocks. His dog, in endeavOring to
reach the catamOgnt, became inextri-
cab1y fastened. Being favorite dog
he sent his son home for a hoe and be-
gan the work of releasing the dog
The son, / will here state, was suffer-
ing with an aggravated case of sore
eyes of many years standing. The
boy, while working, perspired freely
which filling his eyes added greatly to
the pain. Every few minutes he
would go to the cool, pure spring and
battle his eyes. For many days there
after he visited the spring and con-
tinued bathing, not dreaming, how
ever that the water possessed any ex-
traordinary merit. Each day his eyes
improved and after applying this
! water for perhaps week he was en-
tirely well; his eyesight was perfect
and father and son consequently hap
py; it was indeed "eureka to this al
most blind boy. Old man Jackson
procured quantity of the water and
recommended it to persons with sore
eyes and in every instance they were
cured or materially benefited. Jack
son kept secret the whereabouts of the
spring and sold the water as genuine
eye water. The secret was in his and
his sons bosom alone for thirty years,
and at his death he revealed the whole
secret; there is no doubt that this is a
fact.
At the foot of the mountain, where
the water flows, is most perfect basin
or bowl, from which the basin spring
derived its name. 1t may be the In
dams had dug it out. The water is
as clear as glass, very pure and soft.
At the death OF jackson people began
to flock to the springs, hoping to find
relief from all and every disease. So
great were the healing powers CT the
water, so many cures did this spriug
effect that though the city of
Eureka Springs is but little over two
years old her population how is $1,000.
There IS no doubt in the world but
this water does possess some hidden
virtue end will cure diseases thai no
medicine will or can remove. 4 great
many cancers have been cured, as well
as every other ailment. save, perhaps,
consumption which receives no benefit
whatever. 1t is indeed sight worth |
seeing to visit the spring on a beauti-
ful evening or morning and watch the |
trusting isvalids waiting their turn for |
a drink from the world renowned |
spring. Here are men and women |
from the four corners of the earth !; |
some the victims of dreadful cancers,
with their nose and eyes eat out, |
others deformed, twisted with rheu-
matism, and some weary and tired of
life from a conviction OF bodily afiac-
tons; in sact, here every disease is
represented.
Men are here from every state IN the |
Union. Last summer European
duke, in quest of health, visited this |.
great resort. Persons are frequently
called by the name of the state they
come from for instance, if from Cali
fornia, "Old Californy," if from Ken
lucky, "Old Kentuck." Board may
be obtained here all the way from
S2.75 to $1,000 per week.
If the people had kept the monster
alcoholic drink out, this would have
been millennium spot, an oasis in
the desert. But evil soon crept in.
The first place the devil crept into
with his agent rum was the Rock
House he was rather ingeniously sly
with his arrangements. A knock or
two was given, q drawer slid cut and
the money deposited in it and the
drawer would reappear with the de-
sired fire water, without word spoken
and nobody saw it. They .called this
the blind tiger. But soon the tiger
received its sight, though 1 do not
think by using Basin water. While
this tiger is under the law it is blind
or docile; it hides and sneaks for its
prey; but license it, uphold it by the
law, and then see how grand it is, see
what bold face it puts on, sucking
the very life blood of Eureka.
SAMUEL MALCOM.
A Good Point.