The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-12-27
How Q Terrible Scare Cured q Para.
lytic.

In letter received q few days since
from person in New Hampshire Oc-
ours this sentence: "Old Simon Love
stopped here yesterday on his way
home. He is almost ninety-two, and is
hale and hearty"
And that brought to mind an incident
which happened Internationally years
ago-yes-twenty-nine years agO-it
was in the autumn of 1848. The same
Simon Love, then sixty-three years of
age, and living with a son-in-law on the
Grand Intervale road under Mote
Mountain, had been laid up for more
than q year with what the doctors
called a species of lumbago. He could
not arise from his chair without assist
ance, nor could he move from chair to
bed without the help of a strong man,
for he was himself very heavy. There
seemed to be sort of paralysis of all
the muscles of the lumbar regions, and
when the pain came it came furiously.
Idon't know how many bottles of lini-
ments and patent unguents had been
rubbed upon the outside, or how many
barrels of swash he poured down his
throat. He seemed to grow worse in
stead of better, and with the prospect
of another hard, long winter before him,
he didn't think he should survive it.
Well, one day in early October, while
the pigeons were very plenty, Mr..
Hammond, Loves son-in-law, was fix
ing his double-barrel gun for shot at
them. He had just cut piece of India
wheat, not far away, and there the pig
cons would be sure to gather, and he
meant to be ready for them. He had
loaded both barrels heavily, and put on
the percussion caps; but as the caps
were slightly small for the tubes he had
to press them on, which he was wont
to do by easing the hammer down upon
them.
Old Simon sat by the fireplace, Dol
stored up in his great easy chair, with
padding of pillows and blankets for his
back and cushions for his feet.
"Look out, Nathanr' he cried, as he
saw the double muzzle pointed uncOm-
fOrtably near to him.
"Pooh, Their amt no danger, dad,"
returned Nathan, pressing the hammer
down upon the cap.
But the cap was very sensitive
one. and he pressed little too hard,
Mercy! what a crash! and what a
howl! The right barrel of the gun
was. discharged with q report that shook
the house from ridgc-pole to founda-
ton, and few of the shot grazed ST.
mon Loves leg. He, poor man, be-
lieved he was shot dead. He sent forth
howl, loud and long, and leaped to
his feet.
Murder! Murder! Murder! I'm
Observation-Disclosures all to pieces. o! o.!
o! Murderr'
And away he leaped out of doors
out into the yard-where he danced up
and down, yelling like mad all the
while, until Nathan and his wife and
a hired man came to his assistance.
They got him into the house, and got
him down into his chair, and after criti-
cal examination they found two or three
livid lines upon the calf of his right
leg, where a stray shot had just grazed
the skin.
"Ain't 1 shot?''
mo. Get up and see.''
He was up in a moment, standing
first upon one leg and then upon the
other, and presently the thought &C.
CURED to him that he had really risen
and unaided. He started off upon a
brisk walk, without pain and without
hindrance. He could hardly credit the
evidence of his own senses. He leaped
and he danced; he ran to the well and
back again.
"Glory, hallelujah! Nathan, I'm a
well man!'
And he spoke truly. The terrific
shock. CONFUSING every nerve and
straining every muscle, had healed
him, and from that time he had not an
other touch of the old trouble.-Iroy
IN. ~ Times.