Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-02-21
A HUNTERS STORY.
How lie was Overcome and the Way by
which lie was Finally
Saved.

occurred 10 your correspondent whilt
hunting at Brookmere in this state is sc
timely and contains SO much that car
be made valuable to all readers, that
venture 10 reproduce il entire:
The day was most inclement one
and the snow quite deep. Rabbit tracks
we've plentiful, but they principally led
in the direction OF II large swamp, in
which the rabbits could run without diff.
| ticulty, 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 persevered, although very
small bag of game was the result.
| While tramping about through a par
| ticularly malarial portion of the swamp,
| q middle aged man suddenly came into
view, carrying n muzzle loading shotgun
and completely loaded down with game
of the finest description. Natural curl
osity, aside from the involuntary envy
that iDstinctively 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 gameP'
Right here, in the swamp
ats pretty ~ough hunting in these
parts, especially when man goes up
TO his waist every other step"
Yes, it's not very pleasant. but
am used 10 1t and don't mind it.
"How long have you hunted here
aboutsp"
why, bless you, have lived here
the most of my life and hunted up to
ten years ago every year"
"How does il happen You omitted the
last ten years?'
Because was scarcely able to move
much less hunt"
Il don't understand yOugn
well, you see. about ten years ago,
after had been tramping around all
day in this same swamp, felt quite a
pain IN my ankle. l didn't mind it
very much. but il kept troubling me
for day or two, and could see that it
kept increasing. The next thing l knew,
1 felt the same kind of 4 pain in my
shoulder and found il panied me TO
move my arm. This thing kept going
vi anu lnOuBn lllCtl
to shake off the feeling and make my
self think it was only a little temporary
trouble, found that it did not 60
Shortly after this my joints began to
ache at the knees and l finally became
so bad that / had 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"
mo, 1 didn't know what To lay it to,
but / knew that | was in misery. My
Joints swelled until it seemed as though
all the flesh 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 ire the greatest suffering. In this
way 81 ,eral years passed on, during
which lime was pretty nearly helpless.
! becal." so nervous and sensitive that
| would sit bolstered up in the chair
ard cal 20 people that entered the room
not TO me 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 again
my bl, I'd seemed to be boiling and my
brain to be on fire.
Didn't you try TO prevent all this
agony?"
Try. ! should llink ! did try.
tried every doctor tina, came within my
reach. and all the proprietary medicines
| could hear of. | used washes and lin
iments enough to last me for all time.
but the only relief received was by in
jections of morphine.
"Well, you talk in very strange
manner for man who has trampcd
around on day like this and in n
swamp like this. How in the world do
YOU dare to do ii?'
Because am completely well and
as sound ~ Il dollar. IL may seem
strange, but it is true that was entire
" cured, the rheumatism all driven
out of my blood; my joints reduced to
their natural size and my strength made
as great as ever before, by means of
that great and simple remedy, War
ner's Safe Rheumatic Cure. which
believe saved my life.
And so YOU now have no fear of
rheumatism"
"Wiy, no. Even if it should come
on, l can easilyg rid OF t by using the
same remedy"
The writer turned 10 leave as it was
growing dark. but before / had reached
the city precisely the same symptoms |
had just heard described came upon me
with great violence. Impressed with
the hunters story, tried the same
remedy. and within twenty-four hours
all pain apd Inflammation had disap-
peared. Ii any reader is suffering from
any manner of rheumatic or neuralgia
troubles and desires relief, let him by
all means try the same great remedy.
And if any reader doubt the truth OF
the above incident or its statements lei
them write to A. A. Coates, Brookmeie @,
n. Y, who was the man with whom
the writer conversed and colvinca them.
selves OF its truth or falsity. j. X. {.