Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-12-09

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the squire kicked his way outSof the
back door and brought up In the garden,
where he yelled for some one to come
and tie him down, or else turn him into
a ten-acre lot where he could have room.
y sand that's the way that most unac-
countable. kicking fever started along
the Sinnemahone. In less than week
it had taken whack at almost every
man, woman and child in that baili-
wick. The kicking was only the pre-
monitory symptom Of the fever. After
tie victim had kicked high and kicked
low, and to the windward and to the
leeward, for half an hour or SO. the At
would pass away, but it would come
back again after awhile. The kicking
stage of the epidemic lasted two days,
and then the second stage came on.
This was scorching fever. Sam Belts,
when he got over his attack, declared
that his fever was so hot that his wife
had to keep the sheets wet to prevent
their catching fire, but Sam wasn't a
native of the Sinnemahoning country.
He was from this side Of the mountain
somewhere, and folks didn't believe
him. The fever lasted day, and left
behind it o consuming longing for
something to drink-not water nor
coffee nor tea nor milk. but rum, rye,
apple Juice, any hing that had tooth
and edge to it. This strange symptom
of the malady was discovered in start
ling way. Dominic Dibble was the first
victim that it developed in. One even
ing while half a dozen of his flock were
mingling their sorrow with the domin-
les over his aff1iction he suddenly
shouted: .....-:tS b.
"'Give me rum! Fetch me. some
scorching rye or biting gin!'@@; 49,: ",
"The brethren and sisters were
shocked, but Dominic Dibble kept on
ho1lering for rum. No one made move
to get him any, and at last he sprang out
of his chair, rushed out Of the house,
and maaf straight for the tavern like .
man running to fire: BY and by he
came back singing: ;:
"'Home again, home again. =,
- From foreign shore No..
j, HE had a bottle Of rum under his
arm, and the brethren and sisters hur-
rfed home, feeling that the end Of all
things couldn't be fa1 away: When it
got tut, though, that The ccm:1ls Vas
simply suffering from the third stage Of
the kicking fever, they excused him and
But the dominic always de-
clared that he never had such pleasing
antidote for pain. Then it began to be
noticed that this last peculiar stage Of
the. ailment seemed to have no regular
period ofsexistence, andit is notedlas a
fact thatthe afflicted district wasn't
entirely able TO- be out*and around as
usual L. until the tavern keeper gave.
notice that there wasp'ta drop Of any,
thing left that the. last stage Of the
lsicking fever called for A-E+ss5a>5s IL, a
During the time the fever lasted
three leading citizens$of the Sinnema-
hone were carried off in their bloom by
it, not one of whom even had the con-
ISOLATION Of enjoying the treatment for
the last stage. First, there was Adrian
Hinkle. When the kicking fever first
struck the district, the doctor said that
the harder the victims had to kick the
better it would be for them, for if they
couldn't kick hard it would strike in
and that would be the end of 'em. The
kicking always came in the right leg.
Now Abiram Hinkle didn't have any
right leg, it having been taken off clean
in the saw mill. When the attack seized
him he couldn't kick. 1t struck in and
away he went. y q
Next was Simon Shelly. Simon
swore by Elijah Pink, the horse doctor,
who could cure anything, according to
Simon's belief. Elijah had cured kick
ing horse for Simon one time by rigging
him to some sort of a continuance
that threw him every time the horse
kicked. Simon made up his mind that
he was just as apt to have the kicking
fever as his neighbors were, so he sent
for Elijah to provide against it. He had
Elijah fit him with rigging some
thing like the one that cured the kick
ing horse. The very next day the all
ment seized him. Simon was standing
by window in his house, He gave 6ne
tremendous kick. The rigging Worked.
II threw Simon. It threw him Out bf the
window. and head first into Barrel of
rain water that stood beneathft. They
didn't discover Simon in tiaae, and that
made two fellow citizens the epidemic
carried away.
"Its third victim was Erastus Sleeper.
Erastus went out to milk his cow one
evening, and Just as he began the kick.
ing fever took hold of him. He shot out
a kick. 1t hit the cow in the shin. The