Licking Valley courier., 1921-06-09

nothing did him any good until he got
II morse chestnut and carried it around
IN his pocket. Then the rheuma tism
disappeared, and hasn't played 81 re-
turn engagement since. ! have tanlied
win Jasper often, tryhag to point out
me folly Of his claim. but he refuses
10 yield an inch. 4 used to have all
K'lldS Of rhrumatics before | got that
morse chestnut he Says, 'and now
haven't a single one. Who would ask
better proof than tha'iY
And echo answer, who, my dear
Mrs. Jiggers. 1t may be that Il horse
chestnut in the hip pocket is a specific
Tor rheumatism. 1t isn't safe to de-
nounce any theory as a false alarm.
era Grfway used to be always
groaninE 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
discussion of the things that were
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 albsurdly easy, and
there wu9 no excuse for sickness any
where. All man ha to do he said
was TO get up early in the morning.
before sunrise and draw in hundred
long breaths of the cliisp 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 II. A man can't
sell the morning atmosphere at so
much per breath. Irals great discOv-
cry was free ITO everytOdy. If | were
going to lnvt mt cure for anything
I'd compound something that could be
put up in bO tiles and sold at a dollar
Il throw. he man who invents a
fresh air cure is running benevolence
into the grUdnd.
"Glis curV, was so cheap that I de-
cided to try it, as | was suffering
from a hr)ken heart and a sluggish
liver at that period. | set my alarm
clock for han hour before sunrise. and
got up I'M 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 wis n a disSipated bee or wasp,
on its way home from night OF rev.
elry, Stung me on the nose. and I was
in such haste to put porous plas-
ter on tina organ that | didn't finish
the treatment, and never tried 1t
again.
'But I knew many people who
claiRed they were cured of everything
from the mumps, hOOf and mouth dis
ease, by the hundred-breaths treat
ment
"There was a spring on my fathers
farm, and l dOped it with sulphuric
acid and few other wholesome in
gradients, and then began selling the
water to the afflicted for ten cents Il
/ jug. Some marvellous cures were eff
fected. Men hobbled there OH
crutches to buy the healing fluid, and
when they left they threw their
crutches away.
"For brief session | had more
small change than any hoy in the
county but my father returned home
from a visit. and when he found out
what had been doing, he inter
viewed me with hickory pole and for
year or two was busy paying back
the money l had collected from suf-
rcrcrs. The people who had been
healed suffered u relapse as soon as
they heard the water was faxed (;
which goes so show Mrs. Jiggers, that
we are entitled to better quality OF
butter on this table"