Asheville daily citizen., 1892-12-03

was alive ana well formed, ana the physlclSh
all say this beats the record.
1t Is not so common at the age 0
eighty or ninety to be able to read fin
print in the mountains, because som
have neglected to read coarse print Will
young, but health and long life and t
pleasing mixture of children and grand
children are features of this most won
derful air.
But l hardly feel like engaging hel
here that is troubled with hip disease
for half Of these cripples recover so 500;
that they run away before can suppl!
their places. got good man to he'll
me with light work las he had formcrl
worked in a lighthouse He had clever
hemorrhages on the way here and wa
brought on a mattress to the house, bu
the following morning he quarrele
with the man who brought his trunk
and breaking the poor baggage man
jaw with q single blow declared h
would not live in such - lawleS
country and rode back to East Hamp
ton, Mass, on my bicycle.
We only ask that people who are bene
fited by our climate will give it prope,
credit. 1t grieves us like everything t.
have friends come here breathing will
anything they can get hold of and thel
go away with large, nice, new red lung
and claim that it was Bears soap tina
did it. That makes us irritated anC
choleric.
Come freely with your abcesses an'
faraway looks, your little-Eva-goodby
Uncle-Tom air, your tallyhoes ant
tubercles. Bring them all. Come an
cough up with the country. But whe
the glow of health as you ride horsebacI
comes to your we'll rounded cheeks, an
also to the place under the saddle wher
the hair is worn off the back Of the de
jected horse, do not 60 back home an
say that you owe it entirely to a pre-
tective tariff.
The item in the Atlanta Constitutio
is true, but not complete. 1t shoul
have added that while Mrs. Smith VII
celebrating her seventieth birthday MI
Smith, her husband, was working alon
on my justly celebrated we'll, which
102 feet deep, and bringing up the grant
fragments in bushel basket held in hi
teeth, running up and down the rop
hand over hand like a cat, and cleauin
out the we'll preparatory to putting i
the plumbing. Mrs. Smith is his secon
wife, and they have lived together a
man and wife for fifty years.
During the war they lived on ban
of edible clay and distant relatiy,
Mr.. Smith regards his present health a
result entirely Of the ozone and Ill
restrained ballot of this state.
He has been mistaken several tinC
for another William E. Smith, of Lowe
Fork township, who is one of the pro
foundest liars in the state, barring non,
This has given Mr.. Smith cause for muc
sorrow, and he has often wished that i
was dead, but that is out of the que
tion in this climate.
Asheville has large and prosperou
cemetery filled entirely with people frol
the north who waited five or ten mil
utes too late before coming here. Healt
here Is so good and one feels so perfect
vigorous that the monotonous longevit
drives some to drink. The pale, whit
juice of the Early Dent corn is used fC
this purpose, and yields a gratefl
warmth, followed by healthy GLOW
and afterwarl by coma, stertoror
breathing, incoherent lnutterings m
other signs of the third party.
A valued friend writes from Chicag
"We certainly not only rival New Yorl
but far exceed her in one thing-viz., Il
impudence ard worthlessness of ser
ants Continuing, she says: 81 hay
lived in Chicago for nearly forty yea
and never yet have seen such utt'
horror in the outlook for emp.oye'
of servants. We get as many gree
servants as New York, or more, and wit
arrogance and impudence added fC
every mile they come by rail. Can yo