Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-11-04

Hoz the Iusgc. Cared Very Bad Case
Of Rheumatism.

Of Reformation
i see they're fal .nZ about the virus
Of r certain Mexican spider being
sure cure or preventive %. ETBLus.7
said 9 well-suow1 railway passenger
age0r 10 y. l. sun man. some
people maF doubt "a. but knowing
what I do about the curative proper
tees NJ another cheerful creature that
makes Mexico its home, ia Be willing
SO back thai spider to knock ont The
tvphus or anything else. The insect
that dOct0red me is an interesting
specimen Of the wasp family. for
zs what the Mexican name for it 2.
bal translated it means tarantuia
hawk, aud ii is called that because il
bias "a way OF sw1opi1g down ON the
tarautUIa and disDosiBE Of il rs easily
a. chicken hawk can do up a Dul.et
This wasp is the only thing that
big hairy spider Is afraid Of. The Ia
rautuls viii tackle q rattle-Eake Or
bear without a moments hesitation,
bat il turns tail and digs for home If
there is q tarau,u.a hawk buzziBg any
where 10 its vicinity. The wasp
doesn't eat the taraau.a. H. simply
drops down on il aud socks its Stiu-er
iu the spider wuereapgn the spider
turns up its toes The wasp lay,
couple II eggs To the iie-hy pa-r of The
tarantuIa's big body and then buries
IFS victim. The curious part Of il is
the spider isn't dead III only para
lyzed on em1almei. 50 - sg IT'S, with
all IFS vita. juices intact. The wasp's
eggs hatch oul --1b- lu tile course Of
time. and the -ruys 20 g-lt 10 work
dining on the tsrautula's preserved
meat.
-When they have eaten it all they
bore CUl 1i the spiders shell. dig their
way TO the surface, and become Wasps
themselves, and start out for business
on their own account.
This interesting wasp is something
like a couple OF inches long when Il is
of age. and mas : stinEer with close on
to an inch ~ plunge. This singer is
what YOU might call nontorteitable
singer. for L doesn't yield itself up at
q single plunge Ike 3 honey bee does
lis singer uuJ is good Tor an all days
job. The Mexican wasp is The color Of
a 0ay horse. and they saw down there
thetit will 20 ten miles ont Of its way
20 sting 4 man. The natives get fat
on ceutipear stings and scorpion
sliUz,. but they viii dive for cover
when the wasp oil that favored cline
heayes TO- ! had the honor, to my
everlasting JOY. of being tasted once
By one OF these blessings in disguise.
Why to my everlasting py? | viii
tell you.
For fifteen years | had becu big
favorite with the rheumatism. Il
seemed willing, even anXiOus, to put
all it aad on me at any time. l had
tried pills, and liniments. and batter
les and springs, and every other un-
failing remedy for rheumatism, but
sti1l il chung 10 me closer and closer.
A couple of years ago q friend OF mine
told me to 60 down into Mexico and
try the climate there, because, he
said. he knew man who had gone
there almost tied in a knot by rheum-
aLism, and he got well.
so I went down into Mexico, and
promptly and steadily got worse every
day was getting ready to come
back home and die, If / could, when
enc day a Mexican wasp plying me, |
suppose. came slong and socked his
singer into me. lie sampled me on
the cheek, and, although / had been q
passenger agent for twenty years, my
cheek was feazed bv that wasp. At
first felt as if the whole Of one side
Of my head was asleep. | had heard
all about the way these Wasps treated
tsrsntulas, and | said:
Great Scott Is this wasp going
TO EN- balm mo, fill me full Of eggs, and
serve me as free lunch 10 its incipient
progeuyg
MY face kept on getting cold and l
couldn't make it hurt by pinching it
or pricking it with pin. In the nor
ror Of what supposed was nav inn
pending fate 7 lost all recollection Of
tHe rheumatic pains that had been
turning me almost inside out only a
minute or so before. The cheering
numbness and ( nssG ia my face
and head didn't last long. They quit
as suddenly as they came, and were
succeeded by a paRg such ss imagine
-
to sensitive part Of your body, and
then having il gradually heated until
it stood at white heat ! clawed my
jaw and pulled my hair and praHced
around and howled Five minutes be-
fore it was all ] could do to hobble
around with q cane.
a sympathetic native told me that
/ would keep on feeling that WAY for
couple of hours. l did. for nobody
would lend me a pistol. I could have
laid down and died with willingness,
and moaned and moaned when they
told me that the sting Of the Me&ican
wasp never kjled anybody. The two
hours that kept company with the
aftermath Of that wasp's plunger were
two hours Of mortal agony. But the
pain went away after that SO suddenly
that | went to sleep and had delight
ful dreams. When | awoke felt ike