The Wrangell sentinel., 1922-10-12

tiN anu nothing did him any good until he got a horse chestnut and carried 1t around In his pocket. Then the rheumatism disappeared, and hasn't played a re- turn engagement since. I have talked with Jasper often. trying to point out the folly of his claim, but he refuses to yield an inch. I used to have all kinds of rheumatics before I 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. It may be that a horse chestnut In the hip pocket is a specific for rheumatism. It isn't safe to de- nounce any theory as false alarm.
 ''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 discussion of the things that were hurting him. Then all of a 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 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. HIJo yno1a tho dicnoyory him 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 was free to everybody. If were going to invent a cure for anything I'd compound something that could be put up in bottles and sold at a dollar throw. The man who invents a fresh air cure Is running benevolence into the ground.
 His cure was so cheap that I de clded 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. I had reached the twenty-Seventh breath when 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 that organ that I didn't finish the treatment, and never tried 1t again.
 "But I 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 farm, and I doped 1t with sulphuric acid and few other wholesome in- ] gredients, and then began selling the water to the afflicted for ten cents a | jug. Some marvellous cures were ef- fected. Men hobbled there on crutches to buy the healing fluid, and when they left they threw thefr crutches away.
 "FOr brief session I had more small change than any boy in the county, but my father returned home from a visit. and when he found out what I had been doing, he inter- viewed me with hickory pole. and for a year or two was busy paying back the money I had collected from suf- ferers. The people who had been healed suffered relapse as soon as they heard the water was faxed which goes to show. Mrs. Jiggers. that we are entitled to better quality of butter on this table,"