The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-02-18

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 n re-
furn engagement since. have talked
7sssasii Jasper often trying 10 point oht
the folly of his claim. hut he refuses
20 yield an Inch. I used Ia have MI
kinds OF rheumatlcs before got that
horse chestnut he says. and now
haven't single one Who would ask
better proof than that?'
~And echo answers who my dear
Mrs. Jiggers. 1t may be that horse
chestnut in the hip pocket is Il specific
for rheumatism. II isn't safe to de,
nonnce any theory as false alarm,
IRA Grifway used to he always
groaning about his diseases, until i
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 10
discussion of the things that were
hurting him. Then all OF sudden ne
began Boosting of how hale ami
hearty he was He explained thar the
road to health was ahSurdly easy. ana
there was no excuse for sickness any
where. All man had TO do. ne said
was to get up early in the morning
before sunrise, and draw in hundred
aong breaths OF the crisp morning air.
-He made the discovery himself. and
81 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
sen the morning atmosphere at so
much per breath Ira's great disrov-
cry was free TO everybody. If We're
going to invent a cure for anything
I'd compound something that could be
pnt up in bottles and sold nj dollar
n throw. The man who invents q
fresh air cure Is running benevolence
into the ground.
"fiis cure was so cheap that de.
cided to try it. as was suffering
from a broken heart and a sluggish
liver at that period. set my alarm
FLOCK 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.
] had reached the twenty-seventh
breath when a dissipated boe or wasp,
on its way home from a night of rev.
elry, stung me on the nose, and was
in such haste to put a porous pIas-
Ter on that organ that ] didn't finish
the treatment, and never tried 1t
again.
'But | knew many people who
claimed they were cured of everything
from the humps, hoof and mouth dis.
ease, by the hundred-breaths treat
ment.
There was spring on my fathers
firm, and | doped it with sulphuric
ncid and a few other wholesome IN
gradients, and then began selling the
water to the afflicted for ten cents
jug. Some marvellous cures were ef-
fected. Men hobbled there on
Afutcheb 10 DuS tue meaning Hulu, anu
when they left they threw their |
rrutches away.
For a brief session had more /
small change than any boy in the
county, but my father returned home !
from visit, and when he found out
what | had been doing. he inter
viewed me with hickory pole, and for |
a year or two was busy paying back
The money! had collected from suf-
ferers. The people who had beer
healed suffered relapse as soon as
they heard the water was faxed
which goes to show, Mrs. Tigers, that
we are entitled to a better quality of
butter on this table,"