The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-09
GiIded AffIuenCe and Wretched Pow
erty Alike Seek the Healing
Waters of the Fa-
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of there being any eyebrows-and asked.
in a tone Of real surprise: why, amt
you got no towei?"' 's-s-..1
"All the hotels ever stopped in have
furnished towels" I replied.
He meditated deeply for a moment;
then, as if he suddenly remembered an
obscure spot, where hcAcetlld get a towel
without being SEEN he said, in friendly
confidence: II can get one boss
And he did it. When I was dressed I
handed out some change for a tip-I had
already paid so, ceRts,efor the "baff''-and
was on my way to breakfast when the
Ipyrmidon came after, in hot pursuit.
Say, boss" ne said, 'I nave to charge
you for dat towel. You member YOU
didn't bring no towel. Have to get Is
cents for towel, SO long as you didn't
bring one"
Baths in EIct Springs come high At
least, in some not springs And the
darby was not the only one of his kind.
Oh, no; there are others.
HEATED BY INTERNAL FIRES.
The springs are heated by the internal
fires of the earth, a long way down, and
they emerge on the slopes of one of the
Ozarks. The distance from this Ozark
to the one across the street can be COW
cred by a walker, Without rheumatism,
in four minutes. A lot of other OZarks
lie around, and it is a fine thing, if you
have enough left next morning for
cigar, to go up On one or two of them
and smoke it. Government applies the
income from the rental of hot water
20 the improvement of the reservation,
and there are really beautiful walks
roundabout, over hills clothed with ever
greens and commanding wide. if not in
spring views across the lonely wilder
ness. There is long hiatus of this will
derness %nlch you appreciate if you come
down from Kansas C,itY-a place where
they bring on frommidge debris after
you have hadsp pie ana give you ice water
in a blue glass bowl when you are
through dinner-a strange town. You go
through rolling limestone country
where there is room for all the farms
that European arrivals will call for in
years, and, except at Joplin, where the
zinc discoveries have created the same
sort of joy and confusion and the same
sort of hardscrabble appearance as the
discovery Of gold in the Rockies, there
Is heartily a place that is not fertile.
Looking back on this country you have
passed through, you find green covered
Mills thousand feet above the plain,
Where there is one, and the plain is a
thousand feet above the sea-, belize. The
valleys that divide the hills are narrow
and winding, this one at our feet. into
squeezed itself, being as [ said, only
four minutes wide, and that includes
waiting for the trofley~ears to pass
The foundation rock appears to be the
form Of quartz known as noYacuIite-a
snowy close grained stone that you have
seen in the hardware shops, where they
sell 1t for knife sbarpeners. In cracks
IN the rock there are millions of crystals
and occasionally on exposed faces there
is often sparkle as fine and piercing
as the play of light on diamonds Back
IN some of the coXes, as they. cali the
pockets in the hills, crystals of water
whiteness are found that weigh several
pounds, and agriculturalists who plow
them up bring them to town in little
carts and sell them to strangers Here
abouts they also find nodular forms of
tin and masses of magnetic >NIneralogi-
cal cTanks enjoy themselves at Hot
Springs. ,a
There, appears to be nothing in the min
erals and the soil TO induce high tenn
perature in the water that flows through
Them hence il is easiest and no doubt
truest to say that they are heated by
the volcanic fires that sizz1e and threaten
at unknown depths, threatening to blow
holes in the crust of the earth so that
we may thank our lucky stars that we
are not wandering about space at this
moment trying to clutch at passing plan
cts and get somethfTfg@to eat. The tenn
perature of the water varies from sc to
ISL degrees, though trere are several
springs that are refreshingly cool and
that come out of the same hills as the hot
springs 1t is odd to find water in your
room in the tavern that is of a summer
temperature even after it has stood for
several hours. and odd when you go to
drink from what looks like the ice tank
TO find that the water steams Warm
water is slckenipg. but persistent people
who drink this fluid say that you can
just pickle your stomach with it and it
Will have no nauseating effect Maybe;
still what is the matter with, the cock