The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-12-10

nothing did him any good until he got
horse chestnut and carried it around
in his pocket. Then the rheumatism
disappeared, and hasn't played re-
turn engagement since. have talked
with Jasper often, trying to point out
the folly of his claim, but he refuses
to yield an inch. Z used to have all
kinds of rhenmatics before got that
horse chestnut he says, 'and now !
haven't a single one. Who would ask
better proof than that:'
sand echo answers who, my dear
Mrs. Jiggers. 1t may he that horse
chestnut in the hip pocket is specific
for rheumatism. 1t isn't safe to de-
nounce any theory as q false alarm.
SRA Grffway used to be always
groanins about his diseases, until 1t
became. unpleasant to meet him. BE
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
discussion Of the things that were
hurting him. Then all OF sudden he
began Boosting 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 a man had to do, he said,
was to get up early in the morning,
before sunrise, and draw in hundred
long breaths of the crisp morning air.
..He made the discovery himself, and
It was more important than any mod
ern invention. His sincerity is shown
by the fact that there was no possible
graft connected with 1t. A man can't
sell the morning atmosphere at SO
much per breath. Ira's great discov-
cry was free to everybody. If were
going to- invent cure for anything
I'd compound something that could be
! put up in bottles and sold at a dollar
q throw. The man who. invents a
fresh air cure is running benevolenee
into the ground.
aHis cure was SO cheap that ! de-
etded to try IT, as I was suffering
from broken heart and a sluggish
liver at that period. I set my alarm
clock for an hour before sunrise, and
got up in the pale, bleak dawn, and
put my head out Of the window TO- IN
hale the prescribed hundred breaths,
LIZ had reached the twenty-seventh
breath when q dissipated bee or wasp,
on its way home from night of rev
elry, stung me on the nose, and was
in such haste to put a porous plas'
ter on that organ that I didn't finish
the treatment, and never tried 1t
again.
"But / knew many people who
claimed they were cured Of everything
from the numps, i1oof and mouth dis.
ease. by the hundred-breaths treat
ment.
.There was a spring on my fathers
farm, and I doped It with sulphurit
acid ana a few other wholesome in
gradients, and then began selling the
water. to the afflicted for ten cents 8
Jug. Some marvellous cures were er
fectea. :. Men hobbled there OF
crutches to buy the healing fluid, ane
when they left they threw thefl
| crutches away.
aFor q brief session had more
small change than any boy in tn.
county, but my father returned home
from q visit, and when he found ou'
| what Il had been doing, he inter
viewed me with hickory pole, and TO
year or two I was busy paying bact
| the money I had collected from sun
| ferers. The people who had beer
! healed suffered a relapse as soon al
! they heard the water was faxed
which goes to show, Mrs. Jiggers, ina
we are entitled to better quality O
butter on this table"