The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-11-07

|S&z1SI he gave a slightly nervous
Ng start when he saw me again.
Il forgot to MENTION" said I. that
l shall also take absolute rest and ex-
ercise."
After this consultation l felt much
better. The re-establishing in my
mind of the fact that l vas hopelessly
Ill gave ME so much satisfaction that
l almost became gloomy again. There
is nothing more alarming to a neuras.
thenic than to feel himself growing
we'll and cheerful.
John looked after me carefully. Aft.
er l had evinced so much interest III
his White Orpington chicken he tried
his best to divert my mind and was
particular to lock his henhouse of
nights. Gradually the tonic mountain
air. the wholesome food and the daily
walks among the hills so alleviated
my malady that I became utterly
wretched and Respondent. l heard of
a country doctor who lived in the
mountains near by. I went to see him
and told him the whole story. He
was a gray bearded man with clear,
blue. wrinkled eyes, in a homemade
suit of gray jeans.
In order to save time I diagnosed my
case. touched my nose with my right
forefnger, struck myself below the
knee to make my foot kick, sounded
asked him the price Of cemetery lots
In Pineville.
He lit his pipe and looked at me
about three minutes. Brother" he
said after awhile. you are in a mighty
bad way. There's a chance for you to
pull through, but its a mighty slim
one"
What can it be?" l asked eagerly.
II have taken arsenic and gold, phos-
phorus. exercise, nux vomica, hydro
therapeutic baths, rest, excitement,
codein and aromatic. spirits Of ammo
MIA. Is there anything left in the
pharmacopoeia?"
Somewhere in these mountains"
said the doctor, there's a plant grow
ing-a Towering plant that'll cure you
-anC it's about the only thing that
will. It's Of a kind that's as old as the
world, but Of late it's powerful scarce
and hard to find. You and I will have
to hunt it up. I'm not engaged in &C.
tive practice now. an getting along
in years, but I'll take your case. You'll
have to come every day in the after
noon and help me hunt for this plant
till we ind it. The city doctors may
know a lot about new scientific things,
but they don't know much about the
cures that nature carries around in her
saddlebags."
So every day the old doctor and I
hunted the cur all plant among the
mountains and valleys OF the Blue
Ridge. Together we toiled up steep
heights so slippery with fallen autumn
leaves that we had to catch every sap
ling and branch within our reach to
save us from falling. We waded
through gorges and chasms breast
deep with laurel and ferns; we follow.
ed the banks of mountain streams for
miles; we wound our way like Indians
through brakes Of pine-road side, hill
o1OCs AANCA SluC. 1AOuIltdlu sue, we En-
plored in our search for the miraculous
plant
AS the old doctor said, it must have
grown scarce and hard to find. But
we followed our quest. Day by day
we plumhed the valleys, scaled the
heights and tramped the plateaus ir
search Of the miraculous plant. Noun
tain bred. he never seemed to tire.
often reached home too fatigued to dc
anything except fall into bed and sleer
until morning. This we kept UP for &
month.
One evening after | had returned
from a six mile tramp with the ole
doctor A%maryllis arhAJa took a little
walk under the treeshnear the road
We looked ut the mountains drawing
their royal purple robes around then
for their nights rp1,ose.
I'm glad you're well again." she
said. when youfhrst came you fright
ened me. l thought YOU were really
ILL.,"
wei again." I almost shrieked. I'D
you know that l have only one. chance
In a thousand to live"