The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-07-21
CONGRESSMAN
TAKING THE HOME CURE
(Claude L'Engle in Dixie)

Many years ago, when / was
younger and more charming. l knew
man who had a million dollars.
Don't laugh at this, because this was
time when /, myself. was on the
outer fringe of the plute class, be-
fore the gum bunch had beaten me
over the head so many times with the
full pOcketbook. Well, this man with |
the million dollars also had rheuma- |
tism. All of his ''jints" were swell
ed up so he could not use them, and /
he refrigerated from a stick TO
crutches and from crutches to a roll
ing chair. He travelled two years all !
over the world and spent that mill
| ion dollars trying different spe-
| cialists, different remedies and drink
| ing different waters. When he had
spent all but the last hundred of his
million, he had to go back home.
When he got there he went out in
the back yard, ran the old bucket
down the we'll and drank we'll water,
and just because there was not any
! thing else to drink and nowhere
else to go for man who had spent
his last dollar. he kept on drinking
that we'll water, and in one month he
was walking all around the yard, and
in two he was just as good as he ever
was.
Somehow, [ feel like that man who
had million dollars. 1t is true |
never had the million, but | have had
the rheumatism, and for a year |
have spent all the money l could get
hold of, imposed upon my creditors
and tried all the doctors that | could
; reach, including those in Baltimore,
) and wound up with the bacterioi-
ogists in the government health bu-
; reau in Washington. l still have the
rheumatism, but l also have bunch.
after trying everything else, that [
; am going to get we'll in about two
. months and in three | will be walk
ing all around just as good as ever,
: for | have come home, and as this is
. written l am headed for Hampton
Springs. in Taylor county. and viii
! be there drinking the water when
I. this is read.
. There is not thing the matter
with me, except the pain in my
. 'jints" that keeps me from walking
!, without the aid of sticks. If l have
got to be cured with a home remedy
. and by drinking the healing waters
that the good Lord provides for the
: cure of those who get careless about
. keeping the simple rules He provides
: for bodily being, I am glad that Tay-
: lor county provides the water, be.
: cause that is sure one anarchist
: county, and a four months residence
in official life in Washington is apt &c
rub the rough corners off mans
anarchy. So it will be good for me
!, to get into Taylor county atmosphere
Z wherefore it is me for Hampton
!; Springs for a month, until | get so
|: can walk
/: This is not a particular interest,"
: ing piece of news, but | mention i
t: because some people might hear thai
!! l am away from Washington AMI
: wonder why it is that Whats Wha
!: in Washington" continues to appear
{! in Dixie. I have said all this in order
8 to lead up to the statement that
+ have absorbed dope enough anG
!: figures enough and statistics enough
and information enough to keep the
Washington part of Dixie going dur
sy,r- :
b should be twice as long as the time
II | have laid off for the cure.
Il If there should be one man whC
might possibly suspect that some
thing bad might happen while 1 an
not on the job, it perhaps might b.
4 we'll to say that there will be nothing
doing in the congressional line TO
| six weeks or two months. The oni,
thing for which the special session
was called was to fix the tariff anC
the currency. The House has passet
the tariff bill and the Senate has it
I and it will take two months to dis
/ pose of the oratory in the Senate 5;
the bill can pass the Senate. Tn
currency bill is in the hands of tn
\ House committee on banking an,
l currency, and as every man on tn
I committee disagrees with ever,
I other man on it about practically CIV
cry provision in the bill, the bill VII
I stay in the committee until the mid
die of August. Then it will take wv
| weeks to get it through the caucus
and l will be back on the job befor
the bill gets in the caucus.
Ill DESIRABLE HnISEs EnR RENT