The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1889-08-08

"The best cure on earth for wart,
said Capt. Mercer few days ago, ''is
one that an old negro woman told me
about long time ago.
'How's that?"
.'She told me to remember some
morning early, when | was gathering
beans IN the swamp. and take bean
Leaf and rub the wart smartly with
the rough side of the leaf. / was to
| rub the wart just as long as | could
stand it, and in week from that time,
if | hadn't told anybody about it, the
wart would go away"
did you try it?''
Yes, sir, and that wart went away,
too.n
Il never found but one remedy fo1
a wart,h said Mr. Oscar Halt. IAN
old negro woman gave me the recipe
when | was little boy, and it's the
only cure | ever found.
''She told me to go to the cornfield
some evening during the full of the
moon and find an ear of red corn.
You know the cob is red when the
grain is red. | was to shock and
she'll the ear of corn and then rub the
wart with the cob. Twas to look at the
moon, not at the wart or the cob, and
rub just as hard and long as / could
stand it. If | took my eyes away
from the moon it would spoil the
remedy. When the wart became sore
and singing | was to throw down the
cob, and in five days from that time
the wart would be gonen
How did it workp'
Inside of five days the wart was
gone. | had tried fifty remedies to
get rid of that wart, and nothing else
had ever done any good
Il never found but one thing that
could do any good fora wart or corn"
said Patrolman w. G. Cooper.
whats that?"
"a snail, said the patrolman, SOL
EMMY.
There was an embarrassing silence
for little while, and then the police
man continued:
"Hore one time l was digging po-
tatoes in my garden. My corn kept
hurting until ! just took off my shoe
and lay down on my back in grassy
place in the shade. The corn kept
hurting and | was getting desperate
| about 1t, when | noticed a snail crawl
ing along near me. | remembered
what an old negro told me years be-
fore, and caught the snail and began
rubbing the corn with it. | broke the
shell and continued the rubbing until
the pain stopped. | have never been
troubled with that corn from that day
to this, and before that it troubled me
night and day for months. It's the
only cure for corns, and it's mighty
good remedy for warts, too"
There's only one cure for wart,"
said Patrolman Frank Christophine.
What is itP"
"a darkv told me about it. He
said to remember some night when the
moon was full and to go directly west.
Then | was to stop, looking at the
moon all the time, and stoop down
and pick up whatever my hand hap
pened to touch first. remembered it
one night when | was going out
Marietta street. [ stopped down, look
ing up at the moon all the time, aud
picked up small stone. Then l
rubbed the wart until 1t began to
bleed and then threw down the stone.
All the time | was rubbing the wart
was still looking at the moon. In less
than a week from that night the Wart
was gone. That was regular old
seed wart and l had been trying to
get rid of it for a long time. That's
the only remedy | have ever found
for warts.
"One time in Americus,n said Station
house Keeper John Joiner. Il saw a
| strange wart cure tried"
How did il Workp"
at cured warts. My son Charley
was Little fellow then, and both
hands were covered with warts. One
day he was standing in front of the
store when a darky noticed the warts
and called Charley aside. Do you
| want n cure?' asked the darky. Yes
| said Charley. The negro gave him a
| chew of plug tobacco. Take that,
| said he, and run down the street just
as hard as you can go until you meet
negro. Hand him the chew of to-
bacco. If he chews it, you needn't
think anything about it. The warts
will be gone inside a week. If the
! darky won't take it. or won't chew it,
| you must try it again. Take new
| chew of tobacco and run down the
| street until YOU meet a negro. Don't
tell anybody what Eve told you until
the warts are gone My boy tried it..
| saw him run down the street and
suddenly stop and hand something to
! a negro. | asked him about it, but he
| couldn't tell. Five or six days after
ward l happened to notice that the
warts were all gone from his hands,
and called his attention to it. i had
nearly forgotten that said he, and he
told me about that wart cure"
The best thing for warts" said
Call Officer George Hamilton, ''is to
| cut the wart with a borrowed knife.
Let drop or two of blood fall on a
white piece of paper and then fold ur
the paper like note and drop it in
the road where somebody is almost
certain to see itand pick it up. In less
than a week from the time the note is
picked up your wart will be gone"
"Did you ever try it?"
Yes, sir, and it cured the warts."-