The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-08-17
wARr AND CORN CURES.
Superstitlous Notions That Pre-;
vail In the Sunny South.

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superstitlous Notions That Pre-
vail In the Sunny South.
1.-THE best cure on earth for wart, +"
said Captain Mercer few days ago to
an Atlanta Constitution reporter, lis
one that an old negro woman told me
about long time ago."
Flows that?"
''She told mo TO remember some
morning early when l 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 l 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?"
Eyes, sir, and that wart went away,
too.n
never found but ono remedy for a
| wart," said Mr.. Oscar Hall. "An old
negro woman gave me the recipe
when was a little boy, and its the
| only cure | ever found.
''She told me to go to the corn field
some evening during the full of the
moon and find an oar of red corn. You
know the cob is red when the grain is
red. was TO shuck and shell the ear
of corn and then rub the wart with the
cob. was to look at the moon, and
not at the wart or the cob, and rub
just as hard and as long as | could
stand it. Ii took my eyes away from
, the moon 1t would spoil the remedy.
When the wart became sore and sting
ing was to throw down the cob, and
in five days from that time the wart
would be gone
"How did it work."
"Inside of FIVE days the wart was
gone. l had tried fifty remedies to got
rid of that wart, and nothing else had
ever done any good"
81 never found but one thing that
could do any good for wart or a
corn," said patrolman w. G. Cooper.
Whats that?"
IA SNAIL" said the patrolman. SOL
EMMY. There was an embarrassing
silence for little while, and then the
policeman continued:
"Here one time | was digging pota-
soes in my garden. My corn kept
hurting until l just took off my shoe
and lay down on my back in a grassy
place in the shade. The corn kept
hurting and was getting desperate
about it, when l noticed 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. l have never been
troubled with that corn from that day
to this, and before that it had troubled
me night and day for months. It's the
only cure for corns, and it's a mighty
good remedy for warts too"
There's only one cure for wart,"
said Patrolman Frank Christophine.
What is it?''
"A darby told me about il. He said
to remember some night when the
moon was full and to 60 directly west.
Then | was to stop, looking at the
moon ali the time, and stoop down and
pick up whatever my hand happened
to touch first. | remembered It one
night when l was going out Marietta
street. stopped down, looking up at
the moon all the time, and picked up
a small stone. Then I rubbed the
wart until it began to bleed and then
threw down the stone. All the time
was rubbing the wart l was still look
ing at the moon. In less than a week
from that night the wart was gone.
That was a regular old seed wart and
| had been trying to get rid of it for a
long time. That's the only remedy
ever found for warts"
| Zone time in Americus," said Sta
tionhouse Keeper John Joiner, 81 saw
a strange wart cure tried"
dow did it work."
! ut cured the warts. My son Char
ley was little fellow then, and both
hands were covered with warts. One
day he was standing in front OF the
store when darkey noticed the warts
and called Charley aside. ''Do you
want cure?" asked the darkey. Yes
replied Charley, The negro gave
him q chew of plug tobacco. Take
that said he, and run down the street
just as hard as you can go until you
meet a negro. Hand him the chew oil
tobacco. If he chews it. you needn't
think anymore about it. The wart
will be gone inside of week. II the
darkey won't take it or wont chew it.
you must try it again. Take new
chew of tobacco and run down the
street until you meet negro. DOM
tell anybody what I've told you until
after the warts are gone My boy
tried it. l saw him run down the
street and suddenly stop and hand
something to a negro. l asked hin
about it but he said he couldn't tell
| Five or six days afterward l happened
to notice that the warts were all gon'
from his hands and called his attention
to it. L had nearly forgotten tina
said he and he told me about thu
wart cure"
| The best thing for warts, said Cal
Officer George Hamilton, lis TO Gu
the wart with borrowed knife" LIE
a drop or two of blood fall on a whit
piece of paper, and then fold the pa
per up like note and drop it in tn,
road where somebody is almost Ger
tain to see it and pick it up. In Less
than week from the time the note il
picked up your warts will be gone"
"Did you ever try it."
| s.Yes sir and III cIred tho warta ~