The Ocala evening star., 1915-02-05
SPICY DESCRIPTION
OF HOT SPRINGS

OF HUI SPRINGS
A few days ago, the Star received
from Congressman L'Engle proof
sheets of his writeup of Hot Springs,
at which place he in common with
many other Florida citizens has been
| a visitor. He sent them to US for
perusal and review, but last night,
being too busy or too tired or too lazy
to do any writing, we handed the
proofsheets to the night linotype op-
orator, expecting him to set column
or so Of it as a sample. Returning to
the office from our regular nocturnal
tour of the hotels, and other places,
we found the operator, tho past his
bedtime, digging away. He had set
the story nearly all up, and was pull
ing to finish. "It's the interestingest
stuff | ever set" he said, "and so well
doped out it is fun to handle it, so
when | got into the swing of it, seem
ed like | couldn't stop"
We don't know whether Mr.. Len
gle will prosecute. US for infringe
| ment of copyright or not, but we
can't throw away so much typeset-
| ting, and his story must go in in full.
| Everybody who reads it will find it
we'll worth the while. Claude L'Engle
is undoubtedly one of the best writer's
in Florida, and hasn't many superiors
in the United States. He has all of
Brann's brilliancy with none of
Brann's venom, and even tho i'll
health may keep him out of active
life, as long as he can WELD a pen he
has high place to fill in the public
! affairs of our state.
The story follows:
Hitting the Hot and Healing Waters
If, perchance, you are looking fo1
a place where the doctors cease from
troubling and the microbes are al
rest-go to Hot Springs, Arkansas
Here both are under government reg
ulation developed to the Nth power
of salutory efficiency.
If you have stretched your nerve:
and your bank roll to the limit, so thai
both are screaming for help-gathel
the fragments of both together, hi
the iron trail for the Ozark mountain!
and tell the conductor to put you of
; at the little town just the other sid,
of Little Rock, where spring watel
registers 135 degrees fahrenheit
spring chickens are quoted at 30c
head and spring beds rent for 81 ;
week. Here you will find all thing
| conducive to rest and recuperatiol
and set back game, quarter up ano
, down, easy to beat if your luck hold
. out.
When good old fernando DeSot,
! led his force of ironclads across fou
or five states to open navigation ol
the Mississippi river-thereby furn
ishing Champ Clark theme for a hal
century course of campaign speeche
in and out of Congress (see Congress
sional Record or write Champ) ant
a grand excuse for the annual roll
ing of the pork barrel-most of ou
modern diseases had not been invent
ed by our thrifty up-to-date gaso
ne-propelled doctors; but Hernand'
had the prophetic vision which en-
abled him to see the need of futur
generations for relief from tn
expensive activities of the America
Medical Association; so he pushed o.
, further west and discovered Ho
!, Springs, Ark. 1t is true that he ha
t to take them away from the Indian
. in order to discover them but tn
French had to take them away fror
$ the Spaniards in order to sell ther
:. with other odds and ends of territor
t to the u. S. for $3,000,000, and tn
: u. S. had to take them away from tn
e doctors in order to give them bac
e to the people who had dug up til
|: three million-whether Japan WI
# take them away from US if we don
d spend all our money on battleship
% as Capt. Hobson says, is not for n
h, to say-we have them now and (
" long as we can hold on to 'em we ca
he keep just a little ahead of the p