Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-02-21
A HUNTEH,S STORY.
How He was Overcome aud the Way by
which He was Finally Saved.

Correspondence Spirit Of the 7Snaes.)
An uSusual adventure which recently
occurred to your correspondent while hunt
ing at Brookmere in this State is SO timely
and contains SO much that can be made
valuable to all readers, that I venture to
reproduce it entire:
The day was most Indictment one and
the snow quite deep. Rabbit tracks were
plentiful, but they principally led in the
rabbits could run without difficulty, but
where the hunter constantly broke through
the thin ice, sinking into the half-frozen
mirs to his knees. Notwithss andins these
difficulties, the writer had persevered, al
though very small bag of game was the
result. While tramping about through a
particularly ,nalariaI portion o. the swamp,
a niddle aged man suddenly came INTO
view carrying nuzzle loading shotgun
and completely loaded down with game of
aside from the involuntary envy that in
stnetively arose, prompted the writer to
enter into conversation with the man, with
the following result:
You've had fine success, where did you
get all that gamer'
hight Lere, in the swamp"
It's pref y rough hunting in these parts,
especially when man goes up to his waist
every other STEP"
eyes, it's not very pleasant, but I am
used to i. and dom. mind it."
'Hew long have you hunte hereabouts?"
"Wly, bless you, have lived here most
of my life and hunted up to ten years ago
every year."
"How does it happen you omitted the
last ten yearsW
Because was scarcely able to move,
much LESS hunt"
Il don't understand your"
Well, you see, about ten years ago. aft
er had been tramping around all day in
this same swamp, felt quite pain in my
ankle. didn't mind it very much, but it
LepI troubling me for day or two. and I
could see that it kept increasing. The next
thing knew, / felE the same kind of pain
in my shoulder and found it panied me
to move my arm. This thing kept going
OH and Increasing, and though l tried to
shake of the feeling and make myself think
found that it did not 90. Shortly after this
my joints began to ache a. tie knees and
finally became SO bad that lad to remain
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"
~Eo, didn't know what to lay it to, but
knew thai I was in misery. Ny joints
swelled until it seemed as though all the
flesh had left was punched at the joins;
my fingers crooked in every way and some
of them became double ointed. In fact,
every joint in my body seemed to vie with
the others to see which could become the
largest and cause me the greatest suffer
ing. In this way several years passed on,
during which time 1 was pretty nearly
helpless. became so nervous and sensi-
tive that would lit bolstered up in the
chair and call to people that entered the
room not to come near me, or even touch
my chair. While all this was going on,
felt an awful burning heat and fever, with
occasional chills running all over my body,
but especially along my back and through
my shoulders. Then aga in my blood seemed
to be boiling and my brain to be on fire."
Didn't you try to prevent all this
agony:"
"Try, should think I did try. tried
every doctor that came with my reach
and all the proprietary medicines could
hear OF. used washes and Hniments
enough to last me for all time, but the only
reNef received was by injections Of NOR
phine."