Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-05-13
Erudite Negro Who Told About ;
Prisoners Proving an Alabama"
Southern Sentiment Is That President McKinIey's
Great Deal Better Than Grover CIeVe-
land---Praise For Judge KohIer.


The waters of the Hot Springs have
received great and sometimes extrava-
CANT praise for their curative proper
ties. For my own part l think that
as to their makeup they are pretty
near inert. 1t is not, however, to be
inferred from this that valuable re-
suits are not to be expected from their
systematic use. They are almost alb
solutely free from organic matter, they
are charged with free carbonic acid gas,
and beyond all question they are hot
red hot, as compared with other social
ed hot springs, and they are manlpu
lated by most expert and experienced
corps Of attendants, who know just
what to do, and, which is more to the
point, just what NOT to do, in the case
of each individual bather. These prime
essentials of purity, high thermal quail
ities, and safe manipulation, 60 good
way toward making up for any lack
OF active therapeutic agencies. And
they operate chiefly, l think, by laying
omen the pores and other excretory
channels of the body, for the expulsion
of matter, which by long inatteii-
tion, has become injurious to health,
they arouse sluggish habits Of secre-
ton to activity, they stimulate clrcuia-
ton. and so generally repair and reno
vate the system.
This immediate nclghborhood Is also,
rich In non-thermal springs of various
kinds, such as alum, arsenic, potash
sulphur and magnesia, tho waters oil
which are extremely palatable, ana
nave, no uoupii many VI e'S '"
qualities claimed for them. Some OF
them are on the reservation, and hence
are free, and others are supplied at the
springs Mt n nominal price; n jugfull
IA day will be delivered each morning
ut the door Of ones room for 30 cents
a week
This place has the repute OF being the
paradise OF "grafters," and undoubt
edly they can be found here by those
who come for the purpose of inspect
ing tho pachyderm, or Of terminating
the municipality, but to people who
are here to take the benefit of the wa
ters simply, they are neither especially
dangerous or troublesome, The "South'
ern Club House" Is harmless look
ing affair, but no doubt IL sees much
gambling, and the races are n fruitful
subject oistalll at the hotel tables. The
"boosters" for the hotels and doctors
mostly put in their work on tho trains
before the pilgrim gets here. 1t Is
the medical brotherhood against whom
one hears the most frequent complaints
in this respect. They are accused
whether rlghtfully or not 1 don't
know, of exacting from the druggist
a commission Of 10 cents for each pre-
scrlption written, and OF steering pa
TENTS to particular lighthouses, on
even TO particular attendants in the lat,
ter, and all for an Inferred quid Pre-
quo. It should be said, however that
some of the practitioners are OF sc
high repute as 10 be exempt from the
charges even Of the uncharltable and
the enyious.
The attendants at the lighthouses
or rubbers as they are called here, are
entitled to n passing word, for upon
their intelligence and fidelity many a
poor ones life depends, They are
universally, l believe, of African de
scent. Their work both requires and
produces vigorous condition of health
and, since by far the larger number
of their patrons are sent to them with
the written prescription of physician
stating the exact temperature which
viii he safe for the bather, II will bC
seen that they must not only be able
to read, but must have sufficient judg
ment and iirmness to resist the whimf
Of their customers who are constantly
appealing TO them TO deviate from thu
doctors instructions, and who abus,
them without limit If they are no
gratiiled In their demands. Long ex
perlence too, enables them TO diagnos
sick mans case, probably with
lgood deal of accuracy, and their natly,