The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-08

scORNs HooDoo IDEAs.
Delos Walker Takes a Hot Shot at
Maidstone Theory.

maGSloRS neory.
Mr.. Delos Walker. Of Oklahoma City.
does not believe in hco-doos or other so
called superstitious things. Like that
man in Dickens he believes in facts
hard facts. In a communication to the
Eagle he goes after the maidstone as
follows:
Dear Eagle: Your issue Of the srd
inst records the glad news that Okla
homa is not alarmed by the menace of
the No. Is. This is well. It is high time
TO sit down on that wretched supersti-
tion. Many more unwelcome intrusions
Of like character should cease to alarm.
David B. Hill did a good work for be-
nighted mankind when he knocked the
hoo-doo out Of Friday by hanging a man
on Tuesday. He said that was all he
wanted to be governor for. HTTs was
worthy ambition. The most important
work of Intelligence is the unloading
of hoo-doos and mascots-it's the road
out and up Oklahoma sort of does.
Tt not only turned its back on the scare
Of thirteen. but the decision to do with
out intoxicants at the inaugural banquet
is equally as brave, as civilized and as
reformator9.
But, on the fifth page Of the same
Eagle. the very acme of superstitious rot
is almost written into respectabiblity.
The maidstone write-up is referred to.
The maidstone has the power Of the
cupping- -glass-as it has no power. It
is volcanic rock. cup-coval, or other rock,
cuplike on one side, ground into conven-
lent form; then II porous entirely
through. the oval surface is rendered inn
pervious to air; or, il is a piece OF porous
bone. fashioned as described. Now, It
has the suctioned force Of the cupping-
glass and nothing more. Indeed. it has
less, without the victim Is especially
built for the superstitious, the occult.
the mysterious. In this case a plain
glass owned and operated by an educated
physician would have no charm.
The thing desired is a maidstone which
is expected to come from the head of
a crocodile. the hurricane deck Of a
levithian. or the stomach OF a she
wolf 1t must be exploited by some one
strangely begot. mysteriously born; he
may be Zahoo. a Digger Indian, or a
hunchback Hottentot with his eyes in
the back of his head-and grossly ignor-
ant withal This monstrosity Will ten
weird tales Of the origin and accom-
plishments of the maidstone.
The writer once looked at the most
respectable maidstone in Kansas. II is
better known and has done more busi-
ness than any other. The owner was in
terviewed, and stated that when miners
cd IN hot milk the maidstone would
fasten itself TO a mad dog bite; that Il
would. with fidelity. suck at the wound
so long as any poison remained; that il
would then stop Of its own accord and
could not be induced 10 stick fast again.
although twas Eve dollars a stick; and
the story was that it could not be hribed
70 suck az any bite not made BY rab-
bid animal
The owner related that the stone had
been in the same FAMILY for two hundred
years: that it was taken from barren
deer's head and that a barren deer was
a female deer which had never borne
young.
1t was not exeplsined why a mad
stone could not be found in the head OF
q female deer which was the mother of
a large and respectable family Here
YOU have ii. Ard the world is fui OF the
like. They. come at Us in an forms, in
an colors. and IN an smells. Less OF
this nonsense VIII do. Time and the
Dave HnIs iGea VIII prevail in '-the
beautiful golden sometime. in the
meantime. while We ere waiting for hoo
doc and mascot DAYS and numbers and
practices and evssions &c subside. If
some are believers IN thirteen and seven
and seventh sons, and Christian Science
and new moons. others can just as vel
believe in mad-ssones and things
DELOS WALKER