Idaho Springs siftings., 1902-07-19

not as our woolly western galoots usually
translate it, Jewel of the mountains, but
'jeweled mountains
In either translation Tor in BOTH the
i word fits Idaho Springs perfectly-it is
the scenic jewel of the Colorado noun
tains-the bright particular jewel-also
is a jewel set in ieweled mountains, for
in gold this vicinity is called the richest
spot on earth
The unofficial name ofthe territory of
Colorado was first Jefferson, and then
| Idaho, naturally enough since it pos
sessed the jeweled me untaln) J, and it was
while the pioneer population were in a
wrrugle over those two early names, one
party insisting on the first, the other on
the second that the place was named
Idaho Springs. The other faction, of
course, would have named it Jefferson
| Springs; but when Congress officially or
ganized the territory it gave the name OF
Colorado.
The magnificent hot springs of the
place and their magical cures made it ia
nous among the pioneers Immediately as
health resort. But it was already
world famous placer gold camp under
the name of JAcksons Bar, and subse-
quently (meaning abo ut sixty days IN
the rapid times OF the period as Spanish
Bar-the bar meaning a point where al
luvial gold is deposited in a stream, not
bar room, as temperance people will
! please take notice.
The springs are magical in their a.
terative and curative effects, but the
place after all is only incidentally health
resort. Primarily it is happiness sup
port. But people who are happy are al
ways well, or i they are i'll, they soon re-
cover.
at was noted from the first that people
who came here Immediately fell in love
all of them with the noble mountain
scenery of the place, its forest clad hills,
its green and lovely mountain valleys
where the shy and watchful deer timidly
broused the luscious natural grasses; Its
far-off, snow-capped mountain peaks that
receive the first kiss of the morning sun
on their crystalline cheeks and reflect it
in rosy hues down through the sweet,
fragrant valleys and the dark, deep
canons-all fell in love with the scene,
of course. But the singular taat, soon
discovered, was that most everybody fell
in love with somebody else after slipping
the magical water and taking the rejuvi-
mating baths few davs.
"Now people in love are happy, and
people who are happy are well or soon
become well. Love is the great Alternative.
1t changes the character of the nervous
currents of life-the emotional currents
and change of the emotional currents
is all that is needed to relieve most
chronic complaints and restore health.
"Monotony of the emotions kills more
people than positive disease.
"Monotony of the emotions induces an
acidic condition of the vital fluids of the
human system.
ANY doctor who knows enough to
pour sand down a rat hole can tell you
this.
"In such a condition whal you need is
an Notwithstanding that will pro-
duce distinct alteration in the nervous
currents of the system, or in the mental
conditions which govern these currents.
"You can cure lat least, temporarily, }
the most crippled victim of gout or rheu-
matism in two jerks of lambs tail by
the simple Alternative expedient of drop
ing a coal of fire into his shoe
THE Alternative action of the water at
Idaho Springs is not so swift as that, but
it is just as sure.
"The chemical reaction, strange as it
may seem, to an unenlightened or unre-
fecting mind, is, as an actual scientific
fact, in both cases identical-changes the
nerve-currents from an acidic to an aka
line condition. Any doctor will confirm
this if he knows enough to get in out of
the rain. He may object to coal of fire
in the shoe as too rapid in its Alternative
effect for the best and most permanent
results, but he cannot deny that its alter
ative action on the sensory nerves and
the emotional currents is precisely as
stated.
GAS remedy forexcruiating monotony
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