The Green Forest tribune., 1916-05-05
EAZHA HAll[I R0W.

tAf LCCLW s-s-s' withal to pay the modest fes
 feet at the private bathing
 Uncle Sam bids them welcon. ID bathing house on the hill. Ayes formality of certifying that tt ' no property, and are possessed way than twentv.fve dol1ars in "o ould government bathhouse is uA- | them. Here S,690 persons wer. .ncl for last year, taking a total n0 9SS baths at Uncle Sam's .Ms.. N The majority of these persons ., medical attention whatever, eN s
 ordinary advice given by the ", :. ment employees. Yet Doctor states that 90 per cent of these ,.. left Hot Springs cured of tts sJ flictions, which in the maiuf.s, cases were rheumatism in its V4,. forms. ..3
 It naturally is to be suppOs, ,<n out of this large number of K. there were a few who were SS titled to partake of Uncle ei1 bounty. It should be expecte4S 4SSj among t.e 100000 annual visit X the resort there would be man Il the saying instinct. The enl of the batinouse, tOlrz insrata9 they never could have kelieves ke were so many people in the Is with only $24 if they had not pel the statements made under oath lat
 Uncle Sam, however, is jeat this water, and while he gives tms ly, he hates to have it taken VI from him under false pretenses
 any time a case looks susplGNen thinks nothing of shipping an M tor half way across the cont1m secure the facts. Only last winllO conversation of a man at his IW boarding house did not chlm3yt moniously with his appearance = water line" at the government ln house. An inspector was sent st Michigan, and visited the little h' from which the man had regsA. When he returned he announca s' the "indigent" owned four fal9. 3. his home county, and had mOss on most of the others. It cos e man nearly one thousand dolaN N the baths he had taken, and on old soldier record saved him i. having a trip to federal Fs tiary in addition.
 The record of Hot Springs fountain of youth is a long anaI1 orable one, yet the strange " it all is that no one has ever bee, to discover what is the propa' the waters that effects the cures
 Old Traditions of the sprIns
 Away back in the early days Fl ing to traditions, which are co1 ed with all places of this XII. Indians ascribed the power to 6 tou, the Great Father. They SSN < when the war chief of a gfeat lay wounded in the shadow %4 Ozark hills, the Great Father toN on him, opened up the mouhtaps poured the healing waters ~ wounds. Since that time the sI have worked similar wonders V
 A somewhat similar story IS U
 Hot Springs, Va, though thaI l of discovery and not of nllraci0
 ing. According to this yarn \ dian pursued by his foemeh I' IT hausted into the springs. v there for a while, and the Wa'sl revived him that he scrambled T up the side of a perpendicula and thus eluded his foes. p'j these are pretty tales, yet DIV. carry a lower percentage of tru's the story of "horse sense aIup to Mount Clemens, Mich.-~ broken-down, swollen-kneed, rh'' ic old plug was turned out Ill r ture to find for himself, imme' immersed himself to his Wl'p' warm bog and in a week grs' new legs.
 Now there is a plan, backed % 7, ern capital, to erect at Hot 'i the largest sanitarium in the Already options have been sec" ten acres Of property lying in tA'
 of the city nearly opposite the
 vation. The option price IS 7 900 and the project is said " : $S,000,000 of capital behind IL