The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-06-28
Eureka Springs.

Eureka, city of sights, sounds and
smells! Built as the eagles eyrie;
built as the home of the beaver
Hewn out from the great boulders
that seemingly hang from the noun
tain side; with here and there a tall,
solitary pine looking down like a
lone sentinel with a shiUer upon the
streams of suffering people;-blind,
deaf, lame, noseless, with holes in
their faces, with features drawn in
frightful shapes-from all parts of
the continent, vending their way in
the early dawn, at noon and at twi-
light, down the steep circuitous
paths, roads, and streets from cot
tage, villa and hotel, upon crutches
and staffs, to drink greedily of the
balm of life!
"Waiting for health and strength,
Counting each Pickering pulse, each
passing hCur"-
with impotence the good results
which they hope may come.
There must be great efficiency in
the waters that flow so abundantly
from these mountains, else the seven
plaques would take possession of
the place and people! There is no
city under the sun that resembles it.
We read that Petrea was hewn from
the solid rocks; but here we see
homes inhabited under the rocks,
and odors coming and going as if
from unseen jars Of pot pourri ~
and the inmates looking healthy
Remarkable tales are told in every
house and upon every corner of the
strange cures of frightful maladies.
Old eating ulcers-that drew the at
tention of the eagles { p of the air,
and caused mankind to fly from the
presence of his kind-being healed
by the magnetic waters. Only the
other day we heard the proprietor
of a mountain hotel say to a poor
sufferer, II must ask you to change
your place of abode or 1 shall loose
all my boarders." While we felt
the deepest sympathy for the poor
sufferer we felt it was just to the
other invahds of the house, for ii
was next to the impossible to
breathe the same atmosphere and
live! Large as this place is, it is
most difficult to keep from stun
bling upon the very sights, and
sounds, and smells one wishes most
to avoid.
We write under great difficulties,
with thermometer standing in the
shade at LOG; but this being the
shortest way to fulfill many promises
left behind we trust it will prove as
satisfactory as a separate letter ad-
dressed to each.
There are a great many springs
here, ten of which are in constant
demand for the various diseases be-
ing treated. We have drank of the
waters of many of the springs and
find they vary more in temperature
than taste. We believe them all
good for any and every disease cur
able, but prefer the Basin-Spring
Ii is the one that gave fame to the
place and brought invalids by the
thousands to be healed by its mar
velous waters. The atmosphere is
fine on the mountain top and the
scenery is wild and grand. Good
quarters can be had at much less
than down in the city. But the
best physician will tell you that the
water contains a gas that we do not
get unless drank at the SPRING
And then the risk of breaking your
neck getting down the almost per-
pendicular paths is something to
take into consideration, as well as
the rates of board. We are located
at the Silver Hotel, midway between
the Basin-Spring and the Harden.
1t is kept by Kentuckians, and is
the cleanest and best kept house in
the city; and some of the best peo-
pie of the south are now its guests.
Persons coming here to be healed
by the waters must shake the dust
of dependency from their souls
learn to be patient and hopeful.
Determine to be cheerful under the
trials and fluctuations that try ones
soul. Leave the drug shop behind,
eat moderately, not drinking too
much of the water, and Lazarus
might be brought to life!-the heart
peat to music again, and the pulses
dance to it through all the myriad
thronoed halls in the house of life.
EsTELLE VEHsE.
WILL YOU SUFFER with dyspep-
- I;,-or ConnpIaint2 Shiloh's VII