The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-09-16
Why I am here.
Editor News:


eS that grew on the sleeps on either
side, still cast their refreshing shad-
ows on this wonderful e.giving
fountain below. / sit here alone, ST.
lently dreaming of the misty past,
sadly considering the many friends of
= the long ago with whom have visit
ed this place. Most of them have
crossed over, and am left swinging to
the willows. The same babling brook
flows merrily by, reminding me of the
lines from Tennyson, that
Men may come and men may go,
But 60 onforever
The gray squirrel scoldS on the hick-
DRY tree near by, as he takes his morn
ing meal, lineal descendent of the
one in the old reader of which we
read: .....
Woodman spare that tree
Touch not a single bough,
In youth it has protected me
And I'll protect it now.
Famed by fragrant breezes that
play in Happy Hollow, hear inspir-
ing strains like those sung by sweet
SoEgsters when l came here a de-
spondent invalid, enfeebled by dyspep-
STA, and so emaciated that it was with
difficulty that | obtained boarding,
but finally Uncle Thannie Morgan, ev-
er ready to Suecor the weak and as
Sist the needy, agreed to take me for a
short time. had run the gauntlet of
the many bOasted panaceas for that
dread disease, yet my stomach would
not tolerate the most healthful diet
10 my JOY and great surprise, three
weeks use Of this wonderful water en-
ableG me to eat ordinary diet without
the least discomfort.
The names of many who have been
healed here are left inscribed upon
trees near by. l see the name Of DR..
I. q. Order, 1861. One bath each
cured him and his brother, j. Mack
Order, Of aggravated cases of poison
oak. r. Tate in beautiful letters was
cut on large beech about 80 feet
above the spring, dated 1886 He
was related to my mother, and would
stop at her fathers near Montpelier,
on his way from his home near Green
river bridge, to Sand Lick. Although
considered confirmed consumptive
1t cured him, and he reached a green
old age. Some time during the six.
ties James Montgomery, an uncle of
Attorney James Montgomery, suffer
ed with a chronic sore leg, and after
having it treated for years, his broth
er, Dr. w. b. Montgomery, advised
him to try the Sand Lick spring. He
remained there some time, and stop
ped with Us coming home, but with
what result l do not remember.
Mr.. VIM. Hadley, a reliable friend
of mine, who was reared in that vic;n-
ity, informed me that he once heard
hIs uncle Bob Blakey say: that when
he was young man, a stranger en-
ployed him TO assist in building a cab
IN Just above this spring for himself
and two sons, who we're afflicted with
what was thought to be an iucurable
disease Of the scalp, but we're soon
cured by the water. Mr.. H.. thinks
this was nearly century ago. There
are unnistakable signs of it having
been treQuened by race of indians.
My wife found large stone battle AK
there that required a giant to WELD.
Had [ time and space, l could give
correct accounts of many being cured
here CT divers diseases, which proves
that the dear old divines erred in say.
ing while diScoursing from the text,
lie healed them of divers diseases -
Now brethering, the doctor might
cure the grippe or the fever, but if
you take the divers you're gone
This water equals old DR.. Jalsp's
Alecampane Compound Selfacting
four horse power BalSam. He said it
might not cure the breast complaint,
but was sure shot for a case of the
chronic. That il IS powerful germ
destroying agent there can be no
doubt. 1t will kill a minnoW three or
four inches long in less than minutes.
1t destroys poisonous germs, thereby
giving nature chance to heal all
kinds of sores, eruptions etc
Be it the itch or poison oak
You should the outer surface soak:
But if the trouble is within,
IT'S there the soaking should begin.
The world-famed waters of Europe
abort no such healing properties as
Sand Lick water. DR. Godfrey Hun
Yer suffered with a rheumatic pain
in his arm, and instead of needing the
Divine injunction; physician heal
myself" he hied himself away to
Carlsbad, in Germany, for cure.
This is warm sulphur water, and King
Charles discovered it when out hunt
ing. read in the Courier-JournaI
that there were 10000 there recently.
taking the cure-many without means
70 take them home Some .27 years