The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1893-11-25
A vOODoO PRIESTS VICTIM.

A Tragic Story About the Death oil
Moore's ''The Rose OF the Isles.''
We were putting our after dinner cigars
and, strangely enough for a dinner party,
we had somehow drifted into talk upon
the supernatural. Perhaps it was the
dreamy air Of Bermuda or tbs fairylike
scenery from the hills at st. George, but
whatever was the exciting cause" as my
friend the doctor would say, he himself
was all skepticism on the subject. When
one Of the majors guests seemed to take
the power of voodooism seriously, the doctor
laughed outright, whereupon several pairs
of ewes were turned toward our host and
there was an awkward pause, which the
major presently relieved by saying:
LET me tell you bit Of family history.
It was in the old Bermuda days and the
characters in the tragedy were, first, my
uncle, an officer, then stationed here with
his regiment; second, u beautiful young
Bermudian. whom Tom Moore celebrated
in his poem, The Rose of the Isles;' the
third, a pretty and accomplished quadroon
maid, and the fourth was voodoo priest.
my uncle won the love Of the fair Ber-
mudian and their engagement was an
nounced. Not many days afterward
strange illness seized the intended bride.
She dropped. She avoided the sight of all
had been tenderly attached. As for her
lover, she pinned for him when he was away
and when he was near her she ant with
downcast eyes and In silence. Both body
and mind seemed gone when the baffled
medical skill Of Bermuda suggested q
change Of scene and climate. In England
she became perfectly we'll. Her health
and spirits were fully restored. Back she
came to Bermuda and her lovers heart.
"What happenedi She became i'll with
the same sympto,ns a. before The we'd
ding was postponed. To England she
went again. Her health was restored.
Back she came to Bermuda and her lovers
heart again, and this time she was happily
married in Pembroke church. But now
for the third time the illness seized her
and in q few months she was dead. Let
me say here that the Quadroon maid have
; mentioned did not accompany her young
mistress ON either Of the voyages to Eng
{ land.
( twelve years ago was here on mil
: itary commission. One morning l re
|. ceived q request from friend at Hamilton
\ to call at my earliest convenience. went
at once. An old servant Of his, who wa
> dying, wished to see me. When l wa
alone with her she confessed that she HAD
q been the cause of the illness and death o
y The Rose of the Isles
8 ''She said that she had been madly II
It love with my uncle aid had gone to a voc
n doc priest for a charm. The priest directe'
"a her to bring him three garments that wer
- in the habit of being worn nearest the ski
!. Of the rival to whom the lover had give
~ his affections. This the quadroon was ea'
u lily able to do by reason Of her position q
D. maid She told me that her mistress, Will
D. she wore the garments over which the spe
n had been cast. was affected by the SYM
" toms have mentioned, but when she wa
4 away from the spell Of the voodoo her Low
!. and health returned. When she became
bride the quadroon got the priest to wor
Z much stronger charm, which he did, an
+ by means Of the garments, as before, AL
with the same results, except that tt
charm ended fatally. What have you
say to that, doctor!"
81 ''Oh," said the doctor, waking up from
A. reverie, "the garments were poisoned.
s- COURSE. New York Herald.