The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-29

who have merely written him are narrated
by the hundreds.
or one case the writer has personal
knowledge
In the summer. an S-months-old child
fell "a victim 10 boils until their was not
a speck of sound skin on his little body
terly failed to reach. A friend who had
observed some curious cases in connec-
ton with "Old Lishe." was very anxious
that the parents should try the famous
witch doctor. The suggestion was al
ways received with derision; but, rs time
passed and the child's suuerings tncreas-
ed. they yielded, and, blushing at their
own weakness. wrote 10 Old Lishc at the
friends dictatiOn. After describing the
symptoms In simple. accurate terms, the
ages and full names of child and parents
We're given. The friend was eXultant.
Armed with the letter, he looked on the
old Lishe will get his mail tomorrow
at 1920. Give him an hour to reach this
letter, and you'I see the baby beginning
to improve" They did not give the thing
a moments credence; but, at the hour
mentioned. the child was better, and af-
ter that. we could fairly see the great,
purple boils disappear. In week there
We're only some dark blotches on the skin
TO show where they had been. Science
can, no doubt. explain this, and take all
the witchcraft out of it. l wish IL would.
In all his healings and dealings the oc-
cult and the genty-diabolical are strong
" IN evidence. lie processes 10 Know your you,
errand as soon as he catches sight OF you,
and If you appear incredulous, VIII tell
you the very hour you left home and re-
late any occurrence on the journey.
Especially he delights in mystifying
stranger. Seated eternaily on his piazza,
he overlooks the village and country
roads, marking and sizing up the visitor
long before he has reached the gate.
Should the stranger show the least hest
fancy or shamefacedness, something like
this may be heard.
Yes. Sir. this is the place. Right here's
where YOU started. Lfghtn come in.
Hitch your horse TO that there tree,
Perhaps the caller does not give IN at
Il didn't say I was coming here"
"Wen, you had sev'ral dinrunt minds
about it, that's a fact You started here,
M at the creek you stopped your horse
m studied awhile whether you'd go back
or not man overtuck you. m you rld
ON with him to the forks of the road. Then
you rid straight on TO my house, ohiy you
want quite shore about comm, IN
He hits the mark so often that mind
reading and second sight are the smallest
arts with which ne Is accredited. Indeed,
the country people and negroes beileNe
that this old man is as great a magician
as Satan, if not greater.
Seeming an unusually stout skeptic, ne
bewildcrs him by forestalling him IN the
statement of his Grand even to the mlnul
est particular. You lelt your W.. a., We, ~
her foyer. Them onion drafts never done
That was a bad fan your son had often
the cotton gin. lie amt moved hissen
sence. You've sot up with him eleven
nights" etc.
Satnraily the skeptic is COMPOUNDED. and
stammers a request Tor the services ol
this marvellous witch doctor. 49,.
Il dunno nothin' bout med cine, am l
no doctor" he will reply, with a hypo-
critical humility worthy Of Uriah Heep.
You do something. / suppose. We
heard a great deal about your cures.
Il don't do nothin'. Sometimes l THINK
"9 Then he asks the news and airs his sim
pie politics until the applicant rises, dis
couraged and more ashamed than ever
of having applied to so transparent
ssThen YOU cannot treat my daughter?
your daughters all right. she don I
need nobody to do nothln TOT neri ,.,-t,,.
The man goes home, mentally hlcklns
himself all the way for his sinful waste
..rbat asa of a wizard-but, then I'm
bigger" he begins, when, to his utter
amazement he finds the child he had lett
in the most serious condition. already con-
valescing. - -,
'I,ishe listens with quiet Interest rubbing
the rheumatic limb, counting the warts,
touching the cancer and ends with some
| commonplace directions well calculated 70
/ MI the unbeliever with scorn.
Don't look at them warts no more.
4 you kin help, n they'll be gone by sun,
| day" Keep that cancer wet with cold
| water Hitil drap off In a few days.
Rub some more rattlesnake's lie, n the
rheumatism'l II leave you"
] n
"You go home. Your son'-has been
/ bed-ridden a year, perhaps-"will be on
| his feet in a week. That mis- ~ IN ms
/ back is plumb gone, m he's calling this
! minute for bait OF backbone m turnips
! Tomorrow he'll set up" etc.
All of which the delighted and awe
stricken parents will observe to come
strictly true. AT least, so n great many
very good people say. 1t Is Wash, have
faith and be whole" repeated in full, al
the end of this century.
81 Of ia
the fun powers OF the wizard, and stories
/ Of his achievements in that inc SOUND
like "A reading of the lngoldsby Legends
Before the advent of the railroad in tina
! part OF the state Oliver Drew Of Putnam
| county was riding by one afternoon OF
his way from Jacksonville. Old 'Lish'
| stopped him to get the news, and pressed
| him 20 "stay all night according to thu
| custom i'm those hospitable days Th'
| traveller was anxious 10 reach home, but
| upon a promise from his host to aWakei
| him In time 20 resume his hOmeWart
! Journey by "chicken-crow," he was In
| duced to stay. When he awoke mex
| morning the sun had risen and break
fast was on the table
"You promised to call me so / coul'
start home by chicken-crow, uncl
We'll have you heard airy CHECKER
crow"
He had not. though, as he had slep
soundly, It proved nothing. He hurries
through the meal, mounted his horse ant
turned her head for home. At that in
slant all the roosters in the yard set M
such a tremendous growing that poo
Doll was frightened and dashed off as J
every throat were that Of an exultan
devil
'Lishe's wife was very jealous and dis
inclined to permit professional privac!
with female patients. Not that he sough
privacy, but IL sometimes happened tina
the lady would not speak out so freely II
the presence of a third person. Then, b,
hypnotic power did old 'Lishe add to tn
lustre of his reputation. If it were melOl
time he would tell his wife to go AM
thump a certain watermelon and see !
II was ready to be pulled. She dared no
disobey Once at tho melon, he kept he
humping until the patient had finishes
her story. However. he Is a beneficen
wizard for he never puts on harmful
spell, though he takes many or. Tn
cracker is peculiarly subject to tn
wicked wiles of witches and 1t is fortunat
that one exists capable Of exercising tn
evil spirits.
A person filled with contradictory pain
that no herb or patent medicine will re
lieVe Is "bewitched" and he appeals L
old 'Lishe to take off the spell. Or hi
wife has an inexplicable malady that cal
have no other origin than the unholy IN
carnations of the settlement witch. Oh
'Lishe has only to say, Lay down n
go to sleep, m you'l wake up all right,
or eco home to you Wife she's up now
tendin to the younguns." And we hav
failed to hear of a case in which the oil
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