The morning news., 1899-05-12
From the New York Sun.


To the Editor of the Sun: Sir-I have Just
read "Inqulrer's" article with the above
heading in to-day's Sun, and 1 also read
with interest the article in Sundays sun
on the expiration of warts by conj.lration,
and il reminded me of what actually hap
pened to me when l was years old. had
ifty-two warts at one Time on my right
the others in all directions over the foot.
and the worry and bother of those warts
have fingered in my memory ever since
One day a servant of our nearest neigh
Dor 1--WE lived in the country them noticed
my warty foot and said that she could
cure me. She got piece of pine board
about foot Gong and Whitfield out a three
| cornered stick in which she cut fifty-two
notches making a sort of saw, and. she
sawed these notches over my warts, and
then took the stick and put ii over the lin
tel of the door and as she did so she said:
Now, the first person that takes that stick
down will have your warts and your warts
will so away in a short time" and. strange
TO say. my warts disappeared in four or
five weeks as the stick was taken down
the following Sunday by a caller.
Whether this was done by the mind cure
or Christian science, then unknown, or by
| some spook from Spookvile, deponent saith
not; but il is a fact however, which
would be willing TO give in the form of an
| affidavit IL 1t was necessary.
May 4. Inqurendo
To the Editor of the Sun-Sir: As ann
the originator of The Thirteen Club
you cannot accuse me of harboring super
stition. Notwithstanding, l believe and
know that there is something very mystic
rious about the coming and going of warts
The old lady who cures warts has an eye
to business when she tells of the many
| articles necessary TO the removal of the
| eXcrescence. for If she told of only one
universal cure she would have no need of
longer hanging out her shingle Yet
am confident that any one of the remedies
she has mentioned will effect the cure, as
il does not stand to reason that the virtue
lies in any one of the articles mentioned
but must be looked for in some other di-
rection
When a boy of ten years l had great
wart upon my left hand between the
thumb and first finger. How il got there
| cannot say. l tried everything recon-
mended for its removal, acid a horse hair,
knife and black thread among the num-
| Der, and all without avail. One day my
grandmother who was something of an
herb doctress, for the first time noticed
the wart, told me to go to the butcher 5
shop, steal a little piece of meat, rub 1t on
! the wart secretly and as secretly bury it
in the ground, and that when the meat
lrotted away the wart would disappear.
| We then lived on Hubert street. and the
butcher from whom l stole the meat had
a shop in Greenwich street, between HUI
! bert and Lalght streets. | did as my
| grandmother advised me-God forgive the
act--I watched the wart for several days
and q few days after ! had given up all
| hope if lis disappearance / looked for 1t
aud il was gone, leaving no trace behind
| it, either soreness, a hoe IN the cuticle or
mark of any kind, and it never reappear-
| ed. l searched for the wart but could
not find 1t, and now what l want to know
| is, what caused the wart to disappear? If
! | wnow of anybody having wart on any
| part sof his body 1 will recommend the
meat cure and feel sure Ii will be effec-
tive, but | will never believe tnat the meat
! does the work any more than | will credit
the assertions of the old lady about the
pebbles and other things for various parts
| Of the body. Here is a chance for the
faith curists, divine healers and others of
that kind. Marvin r. Clark.