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New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
Returns TO Plains Full of Con.
tempt for Newfa ngled
Methods of Cure.

The appearance OF '.Fecos BIZ at the camp OF
the Y I T outfit down in Randall County. Texas. the
other day produced a stir. The cowboy clans were
gathering the regular fan roundup but it was
not expected that William Hollingwood, better
known as "Pecos BIZ would join the outfit When
he rode away from the branding camp last spring
-'Pecos BIZ had declared that he was done with
the COW business for good and all and thai he
going down to san Antonio 20 try his hand at
some other kind Of work
His reappearance was therefore a surprise to his
old croniss. he received the rough greetings in a
friendly spirit and made himself very much
home the moment b. altghted from his cayuse.
TIE camp cook announced that supper ready.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

and 'Pecos BIZ led the way to the boiling pots in
the rear OF the chuck wagon The hungry band Of
bronzed men pushed their ong-pronged forks into
The steaming chunks of meat and bursting po-
tatoes pi!ing their tin plates high with the savory
food.
''Pecos BIZ was the last TO finish. He drew the
sleeve OF his shirt across his mouth, walked over
TO the wafer bucket and took long draft Of
the crystal fluid He then down in the centre
Of the group by the evening campfire
That's the first good tasting meal I've been UP
against since / pulled my freight away from this
ranch last spring 4e said.
II always thought there plenty of good eatin
down ct san Antonio" spoke up Curley Hall.
so there is. but I was off my feed "Pecos BIZ
replied. After I left here was sick in San An
tonio quite a spell. one day I at the Crystal
Palace when Billie Simms. the chief mogul of the
place hooked his eyes on me. He that I was
Inopn' round. [ acted like a what has been
locoed-just plum worthless Well. Billie saw that
] was below STANDARD weight. an he comes over
and asks what's the matter.
i don't know what's ailin' Of me- I says I
cat Ike n two-year-old. but nothin seems do me
any good. I'm worse off than a COW IN fly time
Billie SImms Is Of them smart, boo6-arned
felers even if he does make a business Of handlin'
the cases. He knows heap more about some
things than them boasts Of being bridle-wise.
Well as ] was goiu' say. Billie looks me over
for minute. an then up and says plain and
pro-nUt-
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
WORST OF ALL.

You'll have to change your diet the doctor
said to me when he read the biscuit 'ralysis
My what? 1 asked.
g You must eat different foods from what you've
been eatin'. says he"
Pecos Bill silent a moment. smile played
around his mouth
You boys couldn't guess IN thousand years
what he told me TO eat"
The men around the campfire mado all kinds of
guesses from ice cream chile con carne. One
man suggested bear meat and another jarked ven
ison.
You're all wrong"' Pecos Bill said. 'I to
10 eat nuts-tust nuts; think Of that!'
Ihe cowboys yelled in Inerriment.
-, GU must not eat any meat-not even bte,'
the doctor told me-" continued Pecos Bill. Meat
ed 70 be eaten by human bein'
but, doc, I've just got to eat meat. told him.
Whenever You feel the meat eatin' desire
comm over you Just think OF the kind look in the
eyes or the p; patient OK says he.
=. The patient dope don't go with me- saws I
n you had rode the range as long as I have
thought OF fat sleek wild steer would give voII
an appetite for a hunk of fresh meat as big as a
camp kettle What do you 'spose we're raisn them
hllions th or head Of cattle down in Texas for If
Il told the sawbunes that he cOrd nIav tho M
tlent OK racket them white blooded nut -ea tars
but II dion go with A nut eatn' COW plInch.
er; Now, wouldn't l be a freak? l would be
come down to that" ~
Pecos Bill refed and lighted his pipe The
sumo his story They wanted to hear ali of the
wonderful tale ~ NV
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

bet I'll tame her down. yelled the boss or the
outfit
IF that wild buckn thing had been sure
enough outlaw cayuse I'd a busted her OF oI0he
my neck a-tryin'. But what was TO 90 Win that
piece of furniture. | made several more trials TO
tame her down but she bucked me on every time.
an finally gave UP in plum disgust
Il reckon you glad to get away? questioned
Alpine Ike.
Glad! yelled Pecos Bill THAT word don
begin to express my feelins when stampeded
and got clear the sanitarium corral. Say! that
herd of folks there beat ! come across.
Three-fourths of them would draw big wages as
freaks in most any museum Something the mat
ter with all of them. All they talked about was
their troubles 1t fine collection OF cranks
my old range and I amt nut eater, either
I'm plumb disgusted with these new tangled
scientific ways of curing man that takes about
three years time to try out before you know
whether they're going to do you any good or not
Next time get an attack of Indigestion I'm going
to old Pete Robinson. the horse doctor, and get
four hours, without interfering with my grub any
in the time
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
BUCKING FURNITURE

I went through a whole lot things before
settled down to a regular course Of treatment
An the treatment. Why ii was something Naroo
Ialk about bronco Dustin, Why, there are ma
chlnes IN that nstitushon that are worse than III.
widest outlaw ever straddled. Them ar, 80
give what is called mechanical exercise TIE TIE
are run by lectricty, and make the felIar ,hoyy
ITles 10 ride them do all sorts Of funny stpnte
Inere Is vibratin stool there that reminded ne
or mat outlaw cayuse which tried to bust ota1 @
a Lubbock last spring. You all remen1ber boo, -
dumped 9ri, eyery one who tried to ride it, That VI
bratln stool was as vicious any untanoad bro,no
as ever run loose, 1t shook itself at the rate o2
ABOUT d million vibrations a second and st tive.
would jump clean of OF the floor and on n.oS,S
IaI @ me rider 1t was the untarnedest thing eVer
saw on the range. I'll admit l was teSds-]oe. Soe.
when rdin' It. I amt AFRAID Of
that wears hair but that shskin' piece Of .urngs
ture is different matter. - 4ufhl-
Jest set on it an let Il loosen I'd vopr ,.-,,.
Gems BIT says the old Eesabes who Sad chsree
or that end Of the ranch. N SHsI se
,arlahats lIhats easy enough said, but s'pose the can
'ankeIous thing bucks me on? Gays ~ NAi'-
! hsd cold leet proper am a-tellin ,,o, hr. r
managed at last to muster up courage =. 49,
Ile cTltler My! but YOU ought a-seen her h'Ii
STAYED with her for about three rounds bar nj
OF sudden she rose straight up into the ai- a. a..
mad ~ -' -i'at made me
Fut rops on this blanksty. blank cr.ttsr and
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TEXAS COWBOYS EXPERIENCE IN NORTHERN SANATORIUM

were already in a bag ready for me to carry
home. when the proprietor came hurrying up.
"Thems measly lemons he said, breathlessiy'
"and two on 'em s failn." AS compromise l
parted with the faiin and took the measly
at half price. that my friend could sleep
easy that night. He wont to regard his
stock with unobscured, impartial vision. Don't
take it," he would warn customer Tatnt
any good 1 didn't cal'Iate 'twould hang so
long. There'll be some fresh in tomorrow.
81 can't tend to you children now" he sometimes
called out from the rear of the store. I'm
drorin' m'lasses. Help yourselves to the pep
mints and drop the penny in the jar" Perhaps
the ncxt customer would then have occasion to
remark later: Il jist looked in, Jeb, to leave
you some loose change shovelled up by mistake
IN the candy took this morning"
Jeb never so much as looked around Them
children left it there. Jest drop it in the drawer
will ye?"
few days later he said to my wife: mo,
ma am. you don't want them peas Excuse me
for sayn so. They look good. but they amt
They're all shell and mighty little pea 1 don't
want no money for them. If you'll set down
here (hospitably turning over a butter keg) I'll
go ana PICK some peas as is peas" While she
here. Mis- Ryerson? Well would YOU lest as
soon tell him that Gid Baldwin sent me UP 10
say that that COW he sold him yistiddy that he
givin but ten? Don't ferget Gid felt bad
bout it."
Uncle Jeb" said my wife, obedientIy repeat
ing her message as Jeb reappeared with the
peas. that cow
oh, yes. ma'am-thats all right | calIated
Gidd FIX that all right / that he was
mite off"
Uncle Jeb had no monopoly OF honesty. The
other storekeepers We're straightforward
S he.
Liza the milliner, went far 70 prove that
woman in business is the equal of any man.
Ihat is to say. Liza equal to any village
man. She dealt in the concrete, and made no
generalizations, and perhaps her humble chroni-
cler would do we'll to initiate her moderation
Liza provided everybody's hats for miles
around. She sold straws and derbies and
SO weSters and caps She made with her own
hands every hat worn by the women and girls
To be sure, they all looked more or less alike
and all cost exactly the NO, Myra
Louise, she said firmly, Il won't put no extra
bows on it, l don't care if you can afford 'em
and what's more you can't You are only
clerkin to Jones's bakery, andL know what they
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
NO NEED OF A LANTERN
Il To7cn of Unmitigated Honesty
FeelingIy Described.
BY Grace Duff1eld Goodwin.

There are places, in America. in this year
of disgrace 1905. it has been feelingly called,
that are so far behind the times to be abso-
lutely overburdened with what is pathetically
known as "old fashioned honesty
With rejoicing and refreshment of spirit let
this fact be chroniced. ! know a town where
every one is honest, and that is better than to
say of the younger financial magnates
of New York was heard to remark, Il know q
bank wherein wild time grows"
The people of this honest town trust one an
other, and you and themselves. Shall I put
that wood under cover and lock it for the win
ter?" inquired in the days of my ignorance of
the man who had cut and stacked several cords
of spruce on the wood lot of my summer home
What fur he asked. with surprise Who'd
tech it?"
After that I learned 70 lessen my suspicion
Of the towns high reputation
At the village store I wanted lemons. They
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

how I felt a-settin' there fifteen hundred miles
from Texas with some feller a-waitin for me in
another room pump out Ike was water
tank? What the of eatin' that biscuit If 1t
was TO be pumped out of me again? That's what
worried during them few minutes was MUNICH
IN the hardtack. How was that stomach pumping
business 10 be done? wondered. 1 finished with
the breakfast and went into the chemical room at
the pointed time. Another doctor feller came at
with a long rubber tube in his hands. The
thing about big around my finger, but
just then it looked the size Of a reata.
- Just swallow this tube and we will pump out
your stomach he said to in busnesslike
way He must "a thought I regular circus
actor.
II bucked good and strong. I told the docto- that
! warn't worm eatin' sand crane that I couldn t
possibly get the thing down The eller kept tellin
me that It wouldn't hurt; and finally agreed to
try. That tube a-been four feet long, nut
l swallowed It somehow. The biscuit was removed
and
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
SIGNS AND OMENS.

tell accurately what is going 10 happen n btr,
BY this means he will be able to avoid manv d.
gers. For instance. If his wife happens n d~o,
the dlshrag II is good thing to so out and visit
relative for few hours. because before the do.
Is out he will be afflicted by hungry visitor
Dropping knife brings good luck II IL sticks I'M
Should a butterfly light you catch II outc, -
you are a dead ono In few weeks II Won arr.
lucky enough TO avoid calamity by R.t,,rs a. :
evil oInened insect. just bite OFF its head II ,,o
caught 1t on the wing you will soon have a nan,
dress OF the color of the butterhy-if Won sba,,,,
be Helrs Kitchen or San Juan Hill bean ,,o,
will probably receive from the gods a new 80.
coat or pair of trousers of that hue
When dog howls at night 1t is either n s,,
that the house is going TO catch nre or that +bnr
VIII soon be death in the family.
One OF the most widely circulated bsliefs Z. - =.
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

.Report in NV office tomorrow morning for a
test breakfast said the chief boss when the ex-
animation over.
THAT sounded all right. was on hand early
next morning and expecting n good layout IN
the matter of grub. I had hunch that test
breakfast meant tryout of my eating capacity l
was as hungry as coyote and was ready to put
down a big meal young feller entered the room
an handed little square biscuit and small
bottle OF water
bread first an then drink the water
This ain all l get for breakfast is it?'
asked.
after you've finished eatin and then go to the
chemical department and have your stomach
pumped out
lie turned and walked out afore l could say
another word. Now. listen to what he had told mei
Stomach pumped out! Can you fellers imagine
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
Queer Superstitions That Still
SWAY Ignorant Citizens.

, Thousands of persons in this city believe as
firmly in spells and witchcraft did the old Puri
tans of witch burning days. Policemen, school
thorities. physicians and settlement workers who
have worked the East and West Sides have
even gone far to assert that if certain
communities in the city isolated from the
rest of the population and relieved from the re-
straining influences of modern life it would not
be many years before more disgraceful scenes than
were witnessed in the old Pilgrim colonies
would be enacted
In proof of this they point 10 the recent riots
on the East Side. started by the idea that ply
sCians In the public schools cutting the
throats of children. Thousands of mothers and
fathers surrounded the schoolhouses and cried for
their children and shrieked for vengeance the
cruel and inhuman teachers and physicians It
was thought by many Of the most ignorant-and
they invariably lead the wiser into scenes of
this kind-that the slayers of the children were
making some sort Of religious sacrifice. A simple
operation on the throat had been performed on one
of the children. and fellow pupil had taken home
an elaborate and imaginative account of it.
But these riots are unusual. Most of the super
sttions OF New York's ignorant Deople take forms
which are more peaceabe and amusing-to those
who do not believe In them. While school authori-
ties and police regarded with almost super
stious awe by the ignorant foreigners of the East
Side, they are looked upon by the denizens of the
lower East Side. especially IN the Negro quar-
ter. chances to show how smart one can be
in circumventing them. But physicians find great
difficulty in many cases in carrying their
work among the Negroes And where the reputa-
BILE physician finds his hardest work to persuade
the patient TO do what is best for him the quack
and charm worker has his richest field.
Hospitals particularly are objects of supersti-
tious fear. A physician in the New York Post
Graduate Hospital told a Tribune reporter that
a Negro has been known to turn several shades
lighter while answering the usual questions prior
10 admission for treatment-this through abiect
fear that something was going to happen to him
which would whisk his soul off. the property OF
the devil
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
INSULT AT THE START

You sufferin' from auto-ntoxicat,o, ,o
said me "
NOW III swear TO you feIlers that hadn't
had e drink OF liquor since 1 left San Antonto
and for that sawbones TO say that was dr,,rL
was more than could stand for Then for ,i,,
20 say that ] laborin' under an euto,nobiIa
oIuhk-3ust think Of what my feelir's was ,,oD
fellers II didn't set up Bit TO be accused
OF aufo-intoxication when I knew badn,t -
drink for four days and had never rode IN on
auto In my life. thought TO myself that NAV, he
@ I-I1t oocIof TOOK me for one Of the tenderfoot
Willie boys from down East who se. dr,,nl, or
autoInoDle gasoene. reckon I did look uttIe
dignthed a-settin' there In one OF then, bt5a sats
cHalTs. Nlen the doctor said that 1 had a load
YOU re q llar; ! amt touched a drop tn seyero,
the Ige9id 9d LIB vas in pocket and if
Sf re- @TeSqE 70 oack II up The teller reddened up a
stand y ihe eo2a aeaae n % se m says o 10 me- You
is a poisinous condi1iSn of 9toXication
S6out So 3y TOO slow digestion ana improper assina
r,,,19 listen ten to them jaw-breakers. inter
r.,i.! a a[tei.ln this just as II happened" Pecos
cowboys as they gathered closer around tbe can me
~PecOs Bnl" rsondled the fire in his nine sno oon
wheH the doctor had told me all about auto
sSl InssGS1l5esaoh tet ashamed Of myself for HAHN,
osc Soas q. @ fs Sntt whst Sid poogzed Tor il This
OF fence rider. It seems-for treatment T8Is S3fs
SsS-goss asked me lot more questions
says hs '''' '-'1' examination
All right, l says cheertully like which -.
course wasn't the way I felt I feIt eboT, ss &c
heipless as yesrlin' in brandin' lot and 7 naSs
" ny nalno 70 take what a-conin' u,ttbon9
&c akahg; Isg had to strip down to the aIl-tosether
80 lay Gown on table while them sanstort,,n.
ranch feliers with their lily-white hands norSa
me ~ over You know the time was shot m Nv
tslat oIutLAeh Sreaser over at Amarillo2 We'll ,bsa
i Psi.st isIt a Dig hole here in my right side That
.e n sure interested them doctors. They asked me
e. spoe. ~, ano strung them good and stronS q
WIZ story OF me hghtin single handed a do2sS
oofeer humans aud cow thieves: how killed $50,
IaeIn with nay trusty gun and traiIed The othar
ass three hundred miles across the cacti-covsrsd
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
HIS DIGESTION FAULTY.

" Old pand. you've got TO go a sanatorium and
get regular course Of treatment: there's something
the matter with your digestin' apparatus
- mats q sanatorium-not a place where they
take bughouse folkse' I asked.
You see explained 'Pecos Bnl' 10 the attentive
listeners who were grouped around the campfire in
the chill OF the October evening I'd a-bucked right
there II Billie had intended sending me TO one OF
them crazy houses. 1 knew my cocoanut was
sound II my innards did feel like they was locoed
But billie told me all about what kind of sana-
tui4ufa III meant. he said II a place where I'd
~ oeoStA ana stalled and my diGestin fxfns nut
"a So 'iutl- was a-iSelln pretty blue, an as |
Ll4 d Iltg package OF bucks which | wanted TO
SFappHale ] thought sanatOrium WOuld h4 q goOd
< lLaCe IS . chop joint 20 spend a few weeks
oGgS' never mad done uothlu' to Billie Sinus.
T 70 ms Gay that he had II for me; but
m mere 70 say now that II he had been within
-l.Lt q. li4e me frSi week that Northern
S SSSli@LoI!uIa Ihered a-been trouble for him a.
Put the brandin irons on YOU. did ,be,,9o
lauEilIlGlg Questioned 'Buckskin Jack"
80 pm ile1ltaJNely picked a live coal our
% Le siIloeS OF the campfire and placed il in the
was eorralIed, roped, tied down and do,oes+f-
cated III the three weeks that 7 VS. =, 81, -
1orium" he continued. In the nrst iSo e%' a. taila
new %und of range for me I don't know, a. Y aS 70 d
tNeI seen more IN TWO or three real live docfors
DeIofS landed IN that outfit My idea wss tba >
ueE put me IN room an give me rne1iciHa
STUN OF some kind other TO bring NV ir,sr-44g
round straight Wei. I made an ontray to he
pace IN Style-ToGe right up TO tie front door Of
first ia struck hotel. instead Of \ rIsog ao
they patch up sick people. 7 had fc mn my, 49,,
on sSS OF Ilem register books and was f,,-en -
bWel room Then brass bttOre6 1-o,,r - -.
me Gown stairs to tie main doctor,S 9,So. 'O1u
was boss Of the whole outfit He aeke u e NJ
5eTSc.0i1S anu lhen wrote nttIe on a slip Of
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
MIGHT DOCTORS" SCARE MANY

The West Side Negro colony, between Seventh
and Tenth avenues and around the Fifties is re-
cruited from all parts of the country and is a
clearing house for all OF curious beliefs
Might Doctors are according to current belief
in the district. abroad IN the streets after dark
ready to pounce upon the innocent and unpro-
tected Negro and whirl him away to the dissect-
ing room to be cut to pieces. AS a result of this
belief about the only way they ever get into
the hospitals at all is as emergency cases.
in the orthopedic ward of the New York Post
Graduate Hospital Negro babies are occasionally
treated for bow legs crooked backs and similar
Ills. But the parents with difficulty persuaded
to trust the pickannnies to treatment.
Indeed. the practice of surgery and all things
pertaining to it seem to partake in the average
Negroes mind especially of the supernatural and
the uncanny Many OF them still cling to curious
beliefs in miraculous remedies for ali sorts Of bod
ily ills
If gains the confidence Of some old nanny
summing herself the steps OF a West 10Th street
tenement house, he will find that she has a cure
for anything that may be the with him
These are some OF them
Should you have wart. for instance just prick
it with needle. draw some blood on piece of
the wart will disappear The same result NAV NAV
be obtained by putting drop OF blood on a grain
Chickens do not run about much in Eighth avenue
but the butcher around the corner may be able 10
Ap unpleasant bu; sure cure" for a tootbache
is TO place a snail or slug on the gum To- eleF rcs
rid of a headache. tie a frog against each temple
Be sure, however, TO remove the frogs before they
die, or you will be afflicted with brain fever
Have you bone feon? Get rid of it right
seven years old held mole by the left hind loot
until Il died Take hold OF the finger he used ana
hoId Ii for half an hour Many careful Negro
mother. with wise forethought for her cffspring's
future income has provided him with this ability
to cure the painful felon ~ ""''''S
To cure boils you must walk out into the conn
Try ana PICK up the first white flint YOU see in 4b
road road Nv Rub the boil With the sharp edget may
ground III exactly the place and position Won fonrJ
It, Leave the spot Immediately, walking backYa-d
few feet from the stone "'''"
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28

IHE VUUDUU UUCIUh MAGIC.
The voodoo doctor is the master of all such
charms and cures. He is mysterious person, who
Danish disease and furnish any sort of a
"cunjer" or spell. Although the New York Negroes
believe in the power of the voodoo. they do not
give him the implicit confidence that many Negroes
in the South do.
Most Of the patrons and practitioners of the
voodoo art among the New York Negroes were
born in the South in the West Indies There is
old Negro butler in this city who was a slave
''befo' de wa" He is as black as the ace of
spades and voOdoo of the highest order. He
is usually content to confne himself TO his duties
a butler. hut occasionally he effects cures for
his friends
the other day. She ushered into his sanctum
where among a weird assortment Of dried toads.
stuffed snakes. owl two and a lot of dusty
bottles, the misery exercised. The old man
compounded mixture from the bottles while his
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
INDIGNITY FOLLOWS.

plains of Texas. made myself regular yesiow low
back here, don't mind tellin' you ALL was s3Ilo
pumpkins when | got off of that examination table
New-York tribune., 1906-10-28
THE vOODOO DOCTORS MAGIC.

and placed somewhere in the house or on th
premises of enemy never fails to work injury