Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-22
A HUNTER,SS ,T 81, /, II

a HUNTER'SSTORY
How he was Overcome and tho Way
by Which ne was Finally Saved.
Correspond nce Spirit Of the Tunes.
An unusual adventure which recently
occurred to your correspond ent while
hunting at Brookmere in this state is 80
timely and contains so much that can be
made valuable to all readers, that I ven
lure to reproduce 1t entries 5..
The day was most Indictment one and
The snow quite deep. Rabbit tracks
were plentiful, but they principally led
n the direction OF large swamp, in
which the rabbits could run without diff
iculty, but where the hunter constantly
broke through the thin ice, sinking into
the half frozen mire to his knees. Not
withstanding these difficulties, the writ
or had preserved, although very small
bag of game was the result. While
tramping about through q particularly
malarial portion of the swamp, q middle
aged man suddenly came into view, car
rying muzzle loading shot gun and COM
pletely loaded down with game of the
finest description. Natural curiosity,
aside from the involuntary envy that
instinctively arose, prompted the writer
TO enter into CONVEX sation with the man,
with the following result:
You've bad fne success, where did
you get all that gamer"
Right here, in the swamp"
"Its pretty rough hunting in these
parts, especially when man goes up to
his waist every other STEP"
Eyes, it's not very pleasant. but am
used to it and don't mind it."
"How long have YOU hunted here
abouts."
"Why, bless you, have lived mere
most of my life and hunted up to ten
years ago every year." ..
"How does it happen YOU omitted the
last ten years?"
because was scarcely able to move,
,nuch less hunt"
II don't understand you?"
SWELL, you see, about ten years ago,
in this same swamp, felt quite pain in
my ankle. didn't mind it very much,
but it kept troubling me for day or two,
and could see it kept increasing. The
next thing knew, felt the same kind
III pain in my shoulder ami I found il
panied me to move my arm. This thing
kept going on and increasing, and though
tried to shake off the feeling and make
myself think it was only little temper
airy trouble, found that it did not 60.
lBhortly after this my joints began to ache
CT the knees and finally became SO bad
that I had to re main in the house most
Of the time"
"And did you trace all this to the fact
that you had hunted SO much in this
swamp"
mo, I didn't know what to lay it to.
out | knew that l was in misery. NV
Joints swelled until it seemed az though
all the flesh had left was punched at
the joints; my fingers crooked in every
Way and some Of them became double.
jointed. In tact, every joint i'll my body
| seemed to vie with the others to see
| which could become the largest and
cause mo the greatest suffering. In this
| way several years passed on, during
which time | was pretty nearly helpless.
l became so nervous and sensitive that
would sit bolstered up in the chair
and call people that entered the room
| not to come near me- or even touch my
| chair. While all this was going on, I
ielt an awful burning heat and fever,
with occasional chills running all over
say body, but especially along my back
| uny blood seemed to be boiling and my
brain to be ON fire.
Didn't you try to prevent all this
agony?"
Try, should think did try. tried
every doctor that came within my reach
| and all the proprietary medicines could
bear of. I used washes and liniments
| enough 70 last me- for all time, but the
only relief received was by injections
of morphine.'
"Weil, you talk in very strange man.
ner for man, who has tramped around
on day like this and in a swamp like
this. How in the world do you dare do
it?"
"Because I am completely we'll and
sound as dollar. It may seem strange.
! but it is true that was entirely cured;
the rheumatism all driven out of my
| blood; my joint reduced to their nat
ural size and my strength made rs great
AS evei before, by means of that great
and simple remedy, Warmers Safe Rheu.
matte Cure, which / believe saved my
lie"
and 50 you now have 20 fear Of rheu.
m.>sism?'
"Why, no. Even if it should come on
can easily get rid of it by using the same
remedy"
The writer turned to leave. as it was
growing dark, but before had reached
the city precisely the same symptoms
'ad just heard described came upon me
with great violence. Impressed with the
nnnt"rs' story, l tried the same remedy
and within twenty-four hours all pair
and inflammation had disappeared. If any
reader is suffering from any manner o
rheumatic or neuralgia troubles and de
sires relief let him by al means try thi.
same great remedy. And if any reader
Goubtth truth of the above incidents OF
its statements let them write to A. A
Coates, Brookmore, N. Y, who was tn,
man with whom the writer CONVEX seS
and convince themselves of its truth O.
falsity. J.R. G..
Punch denies that there have bee,
any strange sunsets, asserting that in thu
British empire the sun never sets.
John W. Garrett, of Baltimore, ha
sent his check fer $4,000 as Christina