Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-05-14

stumps. IL was covered by hllchlnS
woke of oxen to the butt end OF small
tree, with the branches left hanging
thereto. The oxen drew this to and iroo
over the fallow among the stumps ana
thus covered the wheat. This was
called bushing in and was the first har-
row used by our forefathers among the
stumps. However, the fallow upon
which tho wheat was so bushed in pro-
duced as fine crop of fall wheat as
ever grew, falling not much below
thirty bushels per acre. Now thiS
wheat could be exchanged for store
goods at will, but not for money. Lew
Annis, however, took the first load OF
it to Bowmanvillc, and was told by his
father that he must get s. 80 on ac-
count of the whole crop to pay his
taxes, for he must have the money to
nav his taxes, but the rest he would
take store pay for. The merchant
with whom he dealt actually refused
to advance the So 80, saying he could
get all the wheat he wanted for goods.
The Young man had to drive to an
other merchant and state his deplor-
able case to him and his urgent need
of So so, and that il he would advance
him tho money he should have the
whole crop of thirty-One acres.
Finally, the second merchant took pity
upon the young man in his dilelnma
and advanced the money. Thus
it was with the utmost difficulty
that he could get So 80 in cash
out of the thirty-one acres Of wheat.
This shows us to-day how difficult it
was for our forefathers to get money
Since the early American colonists
burnt witches at Salem, their descend
ants. who came to upper Canada as u.
Z. loyalists, brought the belief OF
witchcraft with them, and many OF
them who came here about 1900 aud
before really did believe in witches.
have heard my forefathers relate q
witch story in all seriousness which |
think worth repeating, as showing tn
us that the New England people who
burned witches were really sincere in
the belief About 1900 settler in the
spring OF the year did not enjoy very
good health. Nothing serious seemed
to be the matter with him, only Il gcn-
cral want OF inertia or general seed
mess. There was no medical man tC
consult, so he did the next best thing
by consulting his nearest neiGhbor
The ncighbor upon being told his sym
toms, at once pronounced him be
witched. An old woman in the local
ity was at once picked out as the be
witchcr. Now for the remedy to breal
the spell of the witchery. A ball mus
. be made of silver. and they melted
silver coin and made rifle ball of it
An image of dough must be made t.
as closely resemble the supposed witcl
! as possible, and it was made. Just a
the sun rose the bcwitched must fire a
{ it with his rifle and the silver ball, an,
| the dough image was set upon t0l
rail of the fence, and rs the sun ros
= he fired and just grazed the shoulde
= of the dough image. In about a
r hour the old witch came to the hous
4 in great haste, and wanted to borr0'
some article. Were they to lend he
@ the article desired the spell woul
o come on again, but refusing, the spe
t was broken; Of course, like sensibl
o men, they did not lend the article
# Even they went on to say further thi
e the witch was hit and wounded Sligh
70 " ON the shoulder, where the doug
image was struck by the silver bal
II However, he that as it may, the
r asserted that the sick man Specdil
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