Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-04-03
PETER GHMLEr.
A Kcntuckian's Adventure with n
Bruad UhiSel,
What Came of u Hot Temper and
an IngrOwing Toe Naii-Bn ck
Woods Surgery and its Result.

Napoleon Bonaparte Bonton is the high
sounding name OF a huge Kentuckian OF
the Blue Grass country. Bouton is a car
penter and first.rate one, but his name is
too elaborate for the ways Of the primitive
people among whom lie lives. They shor'
tened it formerly to "Nappy" and some
times to "Buny," but of late, owing to his
occupation he has been. and is, universally
known as "Peter Gimlet," and half the
people round there don't know he has any
other name.
Peter has an awful temper. When he
gets mad he begins to talk gently, for the
purpose of keeping his temper down, but
AS lie talks, his temper rises, and when he
gets full head of steam on, his voice is
like half Il dozen hurricanes and is dis
tinctly heard, SO report says, III the adjpin-
ing counties.
He has been troubled for several years
with an ingrowing toe nail on the great
toe OF the right foot. It's an uncomfort,
able ailrnent and Peters temper, never
very good, was always at its worst when
| the toe gave him an extra turn. Early
last year, while he was chopping in the
woods his toe nail was particularly aggra-
vating. "Gosh durn ye. III fix ye," said
Peter. He took off his boot and stocking,
| put his foot mp on stump, and with a
broad chisle and mallet, at one blow
took off the offending member.
A little branch OF the fenioral artery
supplies that portion of the human anato
my, and Peter came near bleeding TO
death, but he used what rough surgery he
could, or rather what rough dressings he
could apply-goodness knows The surgery
was rough enomgh-and with temper
cosiderabiy cooled by loss Of blood and toe,
late in the afternoon Peter crawled, pale
and exhausted, to his cabin, and his wife
| ",,ut out" as she said for the doctor.
As IN good many cases, "physicians
were in vane." Between poor docloring
aud the shock to his system, poor Peter
began to sink. What remained of the toe
sloughed off, bood'poi4oning set in and
every enc of the neighbors expected that
before summer Peter would fill six feet or
lhereabouts Of Kentucky soil.
One day last fall neighbor who had
been out west looking at new land, riding
along, discovered Peter splitting fence
rails, as tall and muscular as ever. why,
Peter" said he, dismOunting, ''1'm glad To
see you. Didn't peg ont after all, ell F?
Look out yen don't take another toe OF
| TWO OH. Why,t never expec. Ell 10 see
you again. The DOCTORS said AS how you
was blood poisoned, and was bound 10 CO."
doctors be blowed," said Peter, (only
he didn't say bowed) "They'd never
have cured me-" One day my wife WAS a
spellin' out to me some readin' about II
man who had had slow ulcer and was
cured by Peruna, kind OF medicine made
over in Ohio, and we sent to the Green
| Bowling Green,) and got a couple OF
bolllea, and sure AS you live begin to
mend by the time had finished the first
bottle, and began TO eat. Ii took several
bottles 10 streighten me out, but what l
paid Tor them six bottles wouldn't begin
to pay the freight or what them other fel'
lows sent me 10 take, and we keep 1t in the
house all the time, A good many OF our
neighbors found out il was good for other
things, nenralgy and rheumatism and
liver and kidney troubles, and there aiu'l
a family round here but what keeps it in
the house, and old man Blemmons what
used to come and feel my pulse every day,
I'm blamed il lie don't give il himself 10
some Of his patienls," and Peter slashed
into the fence rails again with gusto, as
! the neighbor rode on musingly.