The Ocala evening star., 1915-02-05

business on which the government
has monopoly, every other business
is indirectly under the eye of the
government. Thus the government
charges five dollars per tub per
month for the use of the hot water
1t plays no favorites, giving big users
no advantage over small users
which our captains of industry tell
US cannot be done without ruin-but
the government sees to it that the
rate it fixes for baths at each public
bath house are not exceeded and that
are not violated. Bath rates are fix
ed according to the quality and guam
tity of the accessories and the ser
vice. You can bathe aseptically ev-
cry day for three weeks for So and
you can pay SIS for the same. If you
declare yourself financially finished,
the free baths-just as good as any
are ready to receive you, unless you
happen to belong to the army or the
navy of the United States-then the
Army and Navy Hospital receives
you, where everything is free.
There's no choice for a bath house
man to put out a line of bunk about
the water he uses coming from one
particular spring Of higher medical
analysis than the other forty-six,
and charging you accordingly. Some
tried that some years ago, but the
government queered the game by run
ming all the waters together before
delivery. Taking all things tcgcthc-,
all the bunk and bacteria you meet
| in Hot Springs is harmless.
/ You have often wondered what be-
came of those deep sea-going cabs
with elbow springs sticking out be-
hind, that opened out at the top as
the pond lilies do and closed up like
clans. which used to skim along the
surface of the ground in your town
of nights seeking prey like the bull
bats or lying in wait for you around
the corner. You knew that they had
! ceased to decorate your local land
vailing vehicle of nocturnal adven-
! ture and that you only met them at
funerals or when the delegations from
the board of trade, city council and
the carpenters union escorted the dis
tinguished. visitor through the prin-
cipal streets out to the water works
plant and back to the banquet hall.
You knew they had gone but you did
not know where. Well, here they are
in Hot Springs-all of them. 1t gives
you real old-fashioned honey feel
ing to see them drawn up at the
! station platform to meet you and af-
ter the second or third day, if you
keep your eyes open, you pick out the
very one that used to roll away in the
darkness with half of your hard
earned after taking you and your girl
to the dance and home again on rainy
Friday nights. DR.. Garnett, the old
est living practitioner on the active
list, who believes in the invincibility
!, of castor oil and the Confederate
army and who will convince you that
the Merrimac, on which he was sur
!, geon would have licked the Monitor
to frayed and fiuttering frazzle if
, the old cheese box had come out and
, fought the second day, makes his
professional calls in one of these old
busses with linen lambrequins on the
seats and the coachman-and no mo-
: | -. IF fIe h G
anything on the old Doc for style
: range of territory or rapid concen-
: tration on the point of attack. When
| a man has lived 35 or 40 years in g
town ard has spent every day of them
i going about helping people without
? thinking much about helping himself
he ceases to be a mamie becomes
{ an institution That's DR.. Garnett
{ late of Westmoreland county, Va, c.
: S. A, now of Hot Springs, Ark, u
S. A. When you run into a bunch OF
fellow-sufferers, each one roofing fol
: the doctor somebody has wished or
5 him and somebody asks you ''Who's
t your DOCTOR" and you say Garnet,
II d
4 further suggestions along the medi-
t cal line. Which is going some fol-
5 three score years and ten.
1 Hot Springs water is the only water
J known in history that will not mix
{ with whiskey, but this need not dis
5 courage you-you can take'er1 one al
5 a time, a three weeks course of each
alternate and repeat. The discovery
\ of this disagreeable popularity of the
: hot and healing waters early in the
t nineteenth century led to the discov-
e cry of the cold springs of Hot Springs
\ If you have mentally visualized the
e aqueous activity of the Ozarks a:
? confined to high thermal attitudes, yol
: must reconstruct your Ozarkan lin'
G of thinking-that's all. There are colo