The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1908-06-26


the government itself maintains exceedingly aIli az
i've health resort the famous geysers ohE' az
New zealand is about far south of the equdIor 90
Italy is north of the equator its seasons are precse
the reverse of ours with Christmas set in mldsuinh
Inat turns the calendar of health resort ike
upside down; but health comes, all the same ana 'o
Wearled makers of Newest England go back 10 town
reShened and braced up for another year OF puseSn'
politics and sport
Oriental people take to the occult ducks to water
1t not surprising to find lowercass Chinese and Japan
resortng to Woodworking ceners of sort ana
another to drive sickness The degree OF educa-
ton reached by the individual makes great dlHerence
there just as it does here. AS the whole world Knows
Japanese surgeons and trained second to
none in the whole world in their practiced familiarity
with all the best modern methods of work On the other
hand, large constituency of common people cling to
curious supersons of their In the garden of the
Shino Temple of Kitano Tenjin at Kyoto, there is a
certain favorite image of bronze BULL which many be-
ieve will all sorts of aches and pains if person
bs strokes the part of it's body corresponding to the
where they ailng The treatment has at least
the merit of being simple and cheap and there are
plenty of old in Kyoo ready to testify that it is
eficacious. too
If you are inclined to think conemptuously of
granny in Japan, remember how many people your
self have known who wood whenever they mention
that they haven't had bad cold all winter We do not
average so far ahead of the east after ALL
The very oldest of the worlds resorts for marvellous
is in India Benares. Compared with the prestige
spot left bank of the Ganges the most
tme-honored resort in Europe or America is a mere
years the study of oriental thought de-
clared When Babylon upstart contending with
ordy Nineveh and the early Jewish heroes and kings
were welding Israelitish tribes into nation, while
Athens hardly than name, and Rome not yet
thought of, hher toed streams of wistful pilgrims
And Benares they still toiling, in this year
grace, 1908 India is considerably bigger than the
United States that the distances to be traversed
are often hundreds of miles, but at the very time when
this article is being written sick folk from every part OF
the land making Slow painful journeys foot to
gods have cured many aing Swarms of pilgrims
constantly fill the riverside temples and line the CHATS
where bathers unress and dress again Rich and poor
ostle each other the bank. Clean and filthy stand
side by side waist deep in the smelng water, taking
it up their hands, snung it up their nostrils, In sub
lime Indifference the fact that only ten feet away
soaking in the holy water preparatory for
the funeral pyre and that NANCY dogs wading into
the same fetd BATH ndescribable errandS OF their
own British authorities say that while great numbers
of are claimed be worked at Benares the place
is actually the distributing ceners of
diseases in the whole empire.
The newest American resort for the healing or man
kinds ills is people have recently heard Protest
ant Episcopal church Boston, until lately regarded
stronghold conservatism. The work is Intentionally
limited to certain lines, especially to functional troubles
like nervous prostration and hySterla
The treatment is combination of spiritual inspiration
and announcement with upto-date notwithstanding
medical science and therefore differs fundamentally from
Christian Science which puts taboo the educated
nhyscian 1t announced that the work begun in Bos
ton is to be taken up developed by certain churches
in New York. where the still higher tension at which
Maybe we have here the establishment of new shrines
of healing farreaching in their influence than
those already famous, Time will tell.
'nSSS e. s. MERRIAM