The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-09-30

nothing did him my good until he got
Il horse chestnut and carried it around
in his pocket. Then the rheumatism
disappeared, and hasn't played q re-
turn engagement since. l have talked
with Jasper often, trying to point out
the folly of his claim, but he refuses
to yield an inch. 4 used to have all
kinds OF rheumatics before l got that
horse chestnut he says, and now l
haven't a single one Who would ask
better proof than thatT
"And echo answers who. my dear
Mrs. Jiggers. 1t may be that n horse
chestnut in the hip pocket is a specific
for rheumatism. 1t isn't safe to de-
nounce any theory as a false alar1a.
IRA Grifway used to be always
grooming about his diseases. until it
became unpleasant to meet him. He
couldn't talk about anything else. He
ignored the crops and regarded the
weather with contempt, and devoted
all his great energy and talents to a
hurting him. Then all of a sudden he
began boasting of how hale and
hearty he was. He explained that the
road to health was absurdly easy, and
there was no excuse for sickness any
where. All Il MAJ had to do, he said,
was to get up early in the morning,
before sunrise. and draw in q hundred
long breaths Of the crisp morning air.
"He made the discovery himself, and
1t was more important than any mod
ern invention. His sincerity is shown
by the fact that there was no possible
graft connected with it. a man can't
sell the morning atmosphere at SO
much per breath. Ira's great discov-
cry vas free to everybody. II were
going to invent a cure for anything
I'd compound something that could be
put up in bottles and sold at n dollar
a throw. The man who invents q
fresh air cure is running ~benevolcnce
into the ground.
ellis cure was so cheap that I de-
cided to try it. as I was suffering
from n broken heart and a sluggish
liver at that period. l set my alarm
clock for an hour before sunrise, and
got up in the pale, bleak dawn, anC
put my head out Of the window to in
hale the prescribed hundred breaths
I had reached the twenty-seventl
breath when a disSipated bee or wasp
on it's way home from a night of rev
elry, stung me on the nose, and l wa:
in such haste to put a porous plas
ter on that organ that l didn't finisl
the treatment, and never tried !
again.
"But J knew many people VIII
claimed they were cured of everything
from the humps, hOof and mouth dis
ease, by the hundred-breaths treat
nlent.
"There was a spring on my father
farm, and doped it with snlphuri
acid and a few other wholesome in
gradients, and then began selling tn
water to the afflicted for ten cents
jug. Some marvellous cures were ef
fected. Men hobbled there 0
crutches to buy the healing fluid, an
when they left they threw thief
crutches away.
!, "For n brief session ] had NOR
. small change thar any boy In tn
county, but my father returned HON
from q visit, and when he found on
what I had been doing, he inter
viewed me with a hickory pole. and 70
a year or two I was busy paying bac'
the money I had collected from sui
ferers. The people who had bee
healed suffered a relapse as soon a
they heard the water was faxed
0 which goes to show, Mrs. Jiggers. tina
we are entitled to a better quality o
!. butter on this table"