Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-02-21
A HUNTERS STORY.
How lie Was overcome and the Way
by Which He was Finally
saved.

Correspondence Spirit Of tie 7gmes.
An unusual adventure which recently
occurred to your correspondent while
hunting at Brookmere, in tbiss state is so
timely and contains so much that can be
made valuable 10 all readers, that | ven
tire toreproduee it entire:
The day was a most Indictment one
and the snow quite deep. Rabbi. tracks
were plentiful, but they principally led
in the direction of a large swamp, in
which tha rabbits could run without
difficulty. but where the hunter con-
family broke through the thin ice. sink
ing to the half-frozen mire TO MS
ne Notwithstanding these difficult
les a writer had persevered, although
b very small bag of game was the re-
suit While trampng about through
parucU'arly malarial portion of the
wamp middle aged man suddenly
ra .le nto view, carrying muzzle load
~ shotgun and completely loaded
lown with game of the finest descrip-
ION. Natural curiosity, aside from the
Involuntary envy that ihStinctlvely
ltose. prompted the writer to enter into
O .L.Niog result:
you've had fine success; where did
OF get al that game
Right heIe, in The swamp.
Its pretty rough hunting i'm these
arts especially when a man gets up 70
his waist every other step
Yes, it's not very pleasant, but
an used to it AMI don't mind it,.
How have you hunted herSa
bouts
why, bless .ou. have lived here
most efmy life and hunted up to ten
Years ago every year.
How does it happen you omitted the
last ten years.
because l was scarcely "hle to move.
much less hunt"
Il don't understand your
"Well. you see, about ten years ago.
after | had been tramping around all
.aV in this same swamp, ! felt quite Il
pin in my ankle. | didn't mind IL very
much, but it kept troubling me for day
or two and / could see that it kept in
creasing. The next thing / knew, | felt
the same kind of a pain in my shoulder
and | found it panied me to move my
arm. This thing kept going on and in
creasing, and though | tried To shake Oh
the feeling and make myself think II
was only little temporary trouble,
| found that it did not go. Shortly after
this my joints began to ache at the knees
and 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, | didn't know what to lay it to.
| but | knew that | was in misery. My
| joints swelled until it SCENE! as 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 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 way
several years passed on, during which
/ time / was pretty nearly helpless. !
| became so nervous and sensitive that |
would sit bolstered up in the chair and
| call 70 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 again
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 did try Tried
every doctor that came within my reach
and all the proprietary medicines ]
\ could hear of. | used washes and lini-
ments enough TO last me for all time,
but the only relief l received was by in
iections of morphine
'Well, you talk in avery strange man
ner for mar, who has tramped around
on day like this and in a swamp like
this How in the world do you dare TO
do it,"
Because J am completely well and
as soand as n dollar. 1t may seem
strange, but it is true that was entirely
cured; the rheumatism all driven out of
my blood; my Joints reduced to their ny
tural size and my strength male rs great
AS ever before, by means of that great
and simple remedy, Warmers Safe Rheu-
matte Cure, which | believe saved my
life. +"
and 50 you now have no fear OF
rheumatism
"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 |
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
and inflammation had disappeared If
any RAIDER is suffering from any
manner of rheumatic or neuralgia
troubles and desires relief let him
By all means try this same great
remedy. And if any readers doubt the
trath Of the above incident or its state
ments Jet them write to A. A. Coates,
Rraokmere, y. y, who was the man
with whom the writer conversed and
falsity. j. r. G.