Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1885 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Where the Earth Cure Failed. Some years ago a man in Trinity County called Doc. Somethinganothei wrote for the Weaverville Journal a short sketch of what befell a man with tke scurvy. He got his friends to dig a deep hole, put him standing in it, and coyer him up tightly with earth ‘to his chifi. They left him to pass.the night, hoping to dig him out cured in the morning. It is not known how the plan would have worked, for the coyotes came came along during the hours of darkness knd ate his head ofil Joaquin Mil* ler stole the story and amplified it. A somewhat similar yam now oomes from Mlnneeota, It is to the effect that* man wasparalyzed by a stroke of light* ding at Highwater. Some of his Mends reasoned that If the earth received eleo> tricity from the buried end of a light. Stag rod, it would in the same marniAy traw cat the charge with which they supposed him to be filled. Therefore, they dug a hole and covered him up to ftDfhlE. Baited in that |nhkisii Jhn Fransisoo Aiks