. Jasper Douthit's story; the autobiography of a pioneer. CABIN BUILT IN 1830 BY MR. DOUTHIts GREAT-GRANDFATHER. OLD LOG CHURCH, BUILT ABOUT SIXTY YEARS AGO The hevm logs are now covered with boards JASPER DOUTHITS STORY myself and mj family five dollars for treatmentwith drugs, and not a dollar that I can remem-ber for patent medicines. My diet for over fiftyyears has been mostly fruits, cereals and vege-tables. I am convinced that there is nothing that willstrengthen a feeble constitution and so conduceto health and long life as to be at peace withthe good God and to seek to bless ones neigh
. Jasper Douthit's story; the autobiography of a pioneer. CABIN BUILT IN 1830 BY MR. DOUTHIts GREAT-GRANDFATHER. OLD LOG CHURCH, BUILT ABOUT SIXTY YEARS AGO The hevm logs are now covered with boards JASPER DOUTHITS STORY myself and mj family five dollars for treatmentwith drugs, and not a dollar that I can remem-ber for patent medicines. My diet for over fiftyyears has been mostly fruits, cereals and vege-tables. I am convinced that there is nothing that willstrengthen a feeble constitution and so conduceto health and long life as to be at peace withthe good God and to seek to bless ones neigh-bors. Alas! the graveyards around me arepopulous with those of much stronger naturalconstitutions than I. They died prematurelyfor lack of knowledge and for want of morevital religion. They became slaves to bad hab-its in eating, drinking and living.^ The first dollar I earned was by pulling movers wagons out of the mud holes with ayoke of oxen. The state road along which emi-grants moved passed by my fathers home, andin the rainy season the wagons often stuck inthe mud. I spent that first dollar for a yea
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