The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1919-08-30
Dr.. Brown at Tate

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of Bethesda, around whose moving
waters are gathered the halt, the
naimed and the complainers of all
| kinds This will include almost all
classes of human beings, for it really
seems there is no one who does not
have to lie up for repairs sometimes,
and No one who has not to complain
tabout some one of %his bodily organs
n gl1ieh is not performing its functions
fpfoperly. They are all here-about
1850 now-and all are testing the
| merits of the healing waters. The
! well come &c accompany The sick, the
/ young 20 take care OF The Old and
thus al classes CT tnen and women
/ are TO be met with. The women Who
parade about in the evening in their
V-shape gowns-that is V-shaped
nearly to the waist in the rear, and
tU-shaped nearly to the waist in front
these women may conceal in their
Ibodies some mortal malady, but it is
never referred to or confessed. The
younger ones are out in search or
| what they may find in the way of
consort, and the older ones-the mar
tried charme mers-they dress thus be-
cause Of long habit and as a tribute
TO the memory OF the days when they
were younger and had an open eye
for what might turn up. enc portly
sister OF about a70 pounds has surely
mot come to drink the healing water,
but 10 display three diamond rings
which she wears on one finger
whether she wears them at home or
cooks when there, we have no way OF
finding out. She is a South Carolin-
ian, and am strongly tempted to In
yestigate her. case, as know some
folks whol live near to her. Still, cui
Ebono? Do we not live in a world
that is largely artificial, and do not
most of us carry another person with
in us, which is the real person,
while the one we keep for display is
altogether a different article? 90
Lord" as the Widow Bedotte used
TO say. I'VE are all poor kritters!" .
Some folks come to Tate Suprings
simply because they have formed the
/ habit OF coming, and have not the
kcourase to try another watering
fpIace. It really has never occurred
to their minds to go elsewhere. Some
! who have been greatly helped here,
| feel that there is no other place to
go. Not even Abana and Pharpar
/ and all the waters of Damascus are
equal to the water here. This class
/ wiH keep on coming to -life's end.
They get well here in the summer
and go back home to get sick again,
and so be ready for return to the
spring next year. So life passes, until
forsooth, they shuttle off this mortal
voif'' and come, by Heavens gracious
| help, to the land where no inhabi-
itant ever says, '.I ana SICK
| The water here contains iron and
4 magnesia and a, whole lot Of minor
Ingredients with which T am not ac-
qua1nted. In some cases, it works
| marvellous cures, while in others no
benefit seems to result, and the visi-
tor goes away without any good word
i for the spring The drinking Of il
I must be mixed with faith in it. In
! this way almost any water can. be
made helpful. At home, drank a
glass of water about twice or thrice
daily; here I drink a brimming glass
every hour from morning till bed
time, and after drinking 1 sit off one
side and watch myself in a great en-
deavor to perceive how rapily an
improving. At home, I had an idea
that must eat very little breakfast
Just cup of coffee and a slice OF
two of bread and butter. But after
two or three days at Tate's, this il
fusion has passed, and this morning
had for breakfast cherries, calf
liver, grits. eggs. biscuits, corn muf-
Ens and flannel cakes with syrup.
4 am now wondering how long it viii
be before this thing will cause my in
ternai improvements to go out on a
strike and make me sick as a result
When some one has fathomed at last
the secret mystery of the effect of the
4 mind on the body, we are going to be
in possession of facts concerning
which we are now ignorant, and at
which the wisest writer's are simply
making random guesses According
10 to yoer fathe;-, SO be il unto you
contains . deep unfalhomed truth. q
| truth which we can feel, but which
i we do not always recognize, and
which we never fully understand. "A
lady said to me secretly that God and
castor oil are the best healers of a
bad cold. She had fully forgotten
hold of the doctrine referred to above
and was sort of faith cure disciple.
All persons who are sick and get well
are probably disciples of this order.
There are sceptics who laugh at faith
Of any kind and yet live by faith ev-
cry day. These poor creatures are
robbing themselves ignorantly of
one of the chief luxuries of life. I
had rather be a disciple Of Mrs. Eddy
and make faith omnipotent than be
a disciple of the teacher who avows
that he believes nothing.
But I have gotten away from the
!, spring in my writing. Let it be so.
When the epistolary spirit cores
upon me again, I'll have something
left to write about. To write about!
! There is a tradition which says that
a proposition is not a proper word
with which to end a sentence; but DIR.