Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-23
A Story OF Superstition and Ignorant
Credulity.

communicated to the New York WsrclrYs
London correspondent from dollhouse, a
small town in Cleveland, Yorkshire, En-
gland:
Since she attained wOmanhood, three
years since, Miss Sallie Booth had been
reckoned the belle of the small town and
had been much courted and hattered by
young men OF her rank in life. She was
the daughter Of poor farmer and had re-
ceived very primitive education. She
had gypsy looking black eyes, aquiline
nose, brilliant white teeth and small hands
but there were two moles on her upper
| lip from which coarse black hairs con-
stantly sprung. Many of her admirers
affected to see no end of beauty in these
moles, but spiteful girls spoke of Sallie
Booths mustache, and the irritated beauty
tried all sorts of quack depilatories to
eradicate what she thought were facial
| bemishes. Meanwhile Miss Booth cap.
tured an aristocratic lover He was the
son of Capt. Wharton, of Shelton Castle,
and had acquired an unenviable reputa-
| ton at Harrow public school for irreg-
ularities of a dissolute type. Farmer Booth
held his farm under Capt. Wharton, and
the dissolute young man therefore had
easy access to the girl While the girls of
saw Sallie Booth walking forth with the
gentleman lover" older people pre-
dcted that no good would come out of
it. Capt Wharton unavailingly remon-
strated with his son and then warned
Farmer Booth of his INSCRIPTIONS char
acter. But the farmer was as proud of
the connection as his daughter, and open
| ly boosted of his future son-in-law in the
ale-houses OF the place. On being i'm
portuned by Salie to fulfill his marriage
engagement, the young man informed her
that he had no objection to marry her if
those horrid moles" were removed from
her lip. In the spring and heyday of
their acquaintance he had pronounced
them pretty; now their removal was a
sine qua non to matrlmony.
| Five-and-twenty miles from dollhouse,
at small village named Seamer, there
| resides an old woman reputed to possess
supernatural powers-always exercised,
however, for beneficial ends. To old
! Nanny Hunter Miss Booth proceeded and
submitted her case. After retiring for
prayer and meditation" the sybil in
formed her that there was but one way to
obiterate the molcs, and that was by
touching them with dead mans hand at
midni ght, in a dark room-the hand to
be held in contact with the lip until ii
grew warm. Ii was IA crucial operation,
yet, revolving as it was, Sallie resolved to
go through it, the first opportunity
1t was some weeks before dead man
turned up to be experimental on by Miss
Booth. But on the last night of June the
/ body of u seaman was washed ashore oil
the alum works and the corpse was con-
veyed to the stable Of "A neighboring pub
| lie house and locked up until the inquest.
Sallie at once proceeded to the inn and
acquainted the old hostler with the story of
her moles and the Seamer wise woman's
prescriptions, offering HIM half a SOW
eregn to aid and abet her in applying
the swollen. flabby hands of the unknown
corpse to her face when midnight came.
She was rs bold as a she-lion," said Bob
Suggctt, the hostler, in telling the story
atterward she went right into the deep
darkness of the stable, and / heard her
rustllng among the straw rs she CROPPED
for the dead mans hand, while | stood, |
feeling queer-like, outside the door. 1t
mi CHIT have been five, or it might have
been ten minutes, when she guy such IA
screech rs might ha' Weakened the dead,
Then she yell, veil, yelled like locomo-
tive whistle, and TUX to my heels and ran"
Landlord CoulSon and his patrons list
ened with awe and amazement to the host
ler's story, and proceeded to the stable
with lantern. The corpse sat bolt up
right, white and jelly-like as new-scald-
ed pig; ana Salie Booth held on to its
shoulders, giggling and grinning and
laughing The spectators were pierced
with horror. But as they stood motion
less and silent, and saw the girl embrace
the clammy corpse and cry: Kiss me,
Harry, darling the moles is gone, they be-
came satisfied that they saw before them a
gigantic misfortune that had merged into
madness When the landlord approached
TO take her away she dropped down with
piercing shrek and swooned away. She
was carried home by four men ON The
Sahle-door, and was subsequently removed
To York Asylum, hopelessly insane. Yet
nothing has been done toward Furnishing
the Scamer sibyl, or the ignorant accom-
pliCc, Bob Nugrett.
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