The Dickinson press., 1884-02-23
A STORY.
How he was Overcome and tho Way
by Which he WAS Finally Saved.

s0 Jan WY
by Which he was Finally Saved. {
Correspondence Spirit Of the Times.
An unusual adventure which recently s
occurred to your correspondent while !
hunting at Brookmere in this state is so
timely and contains so much that can be
made valuable to oil readers, that I ven
lure to reproduce 1t entire: |,
The day was a most hclement one and
the snow quite deep. Rabbit tracks
were plentiful, but they principally led
n the direction of a 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
er had preserved, although a very small
bag Of game vas the result. While
tramping about through u particularly
aged man suddenly came into view, car
rying a 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 onyer sation with the man,
with the following result:
you've had fine success, where did
you get all that game?"
"Right here, in the swamp"
"It's pretty rough hunting in these
parts, especially when a man goes up to
his waist every other STEP"
eyes, it's not very pleasant. but l am
used to it and don't mind it,"
GLOW long have You hunted here.
abouts."
"Why, bless you, I have lived mere
years ago every year."
"How d oes il happen you omitted the
last ten years?"
because l was scarcely able to move,
rauch less hunt"
81 don't understand you?"
"Well, you see, about ten years ago,
after l had been tramping around all day
in this same swamp, l felt quite a pain in
thy ankle. didn't mind it very much,
but it kept troubling me for a day or two,
and I could see it kept increasing. The
next thing l knew, I felt the same kind
Of a pain in my shoulder and l 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 a little temper.
airy trouble, I found that it did not 90.
Shortly after this my joints began to ache
Ut the knees and l finally became 80 bad
that 1 had to enain 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"
"No, I didn't know what to lay it to,
out l knew that l was in misery. My
Joints swelled until it seemed as though
all the flesh l had left was punched ut
the joints; my fingers crooked in every
Way and some OF them became double
jointed. 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 suffering. In this
which time 1 was pretty nearly helpless
| became so nervous and seneitive that
I would sit bolstered up in the chair
and call people that entered the room
not to ccme neal me. or eve touch my
chair. While all this was going ON, [
felt an awful burning he.t and fever,
with occasional chills running all ovel
ny body, but especially along my back
and through my shoulders. Then again
my blood seemed to be boiling and my
brain 10 be on fire"
"Didn't you try to prevent all this
agony?"
LEY, 1 snOulQ tDlnK 1 dlu Try. 1 CrleO
, every doctor that came within my rea,l
and all the proprietary medicines I could
hear of. l used washes and liniments
q enough to last me for all time, but the
only relief l received was by injection!
of morphine"
"Well. you talk in q very strange man
ner for q man, who has tramped arount
on a day like this and in a swamp like
this. How in the world do you dare de
it,"
"Because 1 am completely we'll anc
sound as a dollar. 1t may seem strange
bat it is true that l was entirely cured
the rheumatism all driven out of m,
blood; my joint reduced to their nat
ural size and my strength made as grea
as I've before, by means of that grea
and simple remedy, Warner'sS Safe Rheu
matte Cure, which 1 belle ve saved m,
B. Il g."
"And SO you now have 10 fear ofrheu
mstism?'
y "Why no. Even if it should come on
I car easily get rid of it by using the sam
remedy"
The writer turned to leave, as it WE
growing dark, but before l had reache'
the city precisely the same symptoms
,ad just heard described came upon m
With greatviolence. Impressed with tn
hunters story, l tried the same remedy
and within twenty-four hours all pal
and inflammation had disappeared. If fan
feader is suffering from any manner {
rheumatic or neuralgia troubles and dc
sires relief let him by all means try thi
same great remedy. And if any reader
doubtthe truth of the above incidents Q
its statements let them write to A. 1
Coates, Brookmore, N. Y, who was th
man with whom the writer converse
and convince themselves of its truth {
falsity. J.. r. C.
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