The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-28
NO MYSTERY ABOUT IT.
A Savannah Man Exposes the Jacobs
Styptic Power

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Styptic Power.
''I1l tell you how it is done" The speaker
was a collector for big business house il
Savannah. He held in his hand a copy O.
the MORNING NEWS containing an accoun
OF the occult styptic power Of J. W. Jacobs
grand reporter Of the Knights of Honor
OF Jacksonville, Ind. The talker drew
crowd around him and he proceeded Il
expose, as he said, the great farce.
! Mr.. Jacobs claims that he can stop the
! flow OF blood, the bill collector began. IF
1t Is for a second or a minute, or a few
minutes, anybody might do the same thing.
IL Is no feat. There is nothing strange
about it," AID he went on to explain what
he meant. IF am looked upon" he said,
as possessing the power Of stopping
hemorFhages, or making blood from a
wound cease to fiow there is an eagerness on
the part of him that suffers to
see the result OF my command,
when | tell the blood to cease
to flow. When | take man off into a
room alone and in a solemn manner repeat
these words: 81 command this blood to
stop, and that quick, in the name of the
Father, Son and Holy Trinity" he looks at
the wound, although be may not believe in
my power; he is excited aud quick to dis
cover any change in the flow of the blood.
The very fact that he is excited, in a mea-
sure diverts the course of the blood, and
when he discovers the slightest perceptible
change, the excitement increases and con-
sequently the few of blood is more diverted
to the head or the heart and temporarily
the nemorrhage may be checked. That is
all there is to it. There is 40 other explana-
ton and nothing wonderful or unusual in
tnlS exposition.
The collector said that he was initiated
into the so-called styptic mystery during
the " ar He was lying i'll IL a town in
south Carolina, and in the same house was
daShlng young widow She manifested a
deep sympathy for him and was good nurse
during his entire illness. One day
he said the yOung widow came into the
room and sat down by his bedside. She
seemed to be on the moment of telling
him something, but she vent out without
doing 50. One day his nose began to bleed
and kept bleeding for quite long time
The widow entered the room and seeing the
sick man suffering from hemorrhages, she
requested everybody to retire from the
room that she might stop the bleeding.
When the two were alone III the room she
affected as much soemuity as possible, and
repeating the formula commanding the
blood to stop, asked the sick man if he felt
better.
81 was then, as am now,' said the col
lector, IAN unbellever, but L began to look
about to see if l really experienced any
change, when 1 discovered a slight inter
ruption in the hemorrhage. The change
almost frightened me, and in moment the
hemorrhage was checked. / did not Then
reason as l now do. l did not know to
what the unusual procedure was attributa-
BILE, but | always believed that it was not
caused by the invocation, or that it was the
result of the formula. Upon the same prin-
ciple are the hiccoughs stopped by frighten-
ing them off,
The collector said that he has always con-
sidered the stoppage of the blood a blasphe-
nous act, and no right-thinking person will
be given Up to such an effort. Since the
widow taught him the formula, he said
that ne has became member of the church
and discredits tho occult styptlc pc wer moro
than ever. With ignorant people, he sald,
the so-called science might become pop
ular, and in some instances it has
but 1T is among only the ignorant classes
who are not able to solve it or find any SEN
sible reason for it. Among the highly su-
perstitious classes it has got considerable
foothold. "But so far as its effectiveness is
concerned" he added, "Ihave told you all
there is about it,"