The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-20

| Of course l am not sCDerstitious but ' each succeeding spring I look to see if
 the sage is budding
 On another occasion my little daugh-
 ter, who had been spending the day
 with school friend on nearby farm, 1 told me that while there one of the
 hens had crowed and that the fowl had forthwith been killed the reason being l that a death in the immediate family would result if the hen continued alive.
 Mentioning this occurance to lady. she informed me that this was only what she would have done under like circumstances and told me her mother
 had had little sister who was the
 proud possessor of a pet hen. One day, while the child was seated in a rock ing chair the fowl hopped in her lap and crowed. Owing to the fondness of the child for the hen it's life was spar ed, but the little girl herself died with
 in six months. This would indicate a specific reason for the adage that
 "crowing hens should have their heads Numberless are the signs of Ill omen
 and of death. A beet seed sown m the spring and running to seed that sea-
 son, the blossoming of fruit tree the
 second life in the summer, the voice of the plaintive whip-poor- beside
 your door the unison of two or more
 are few of the signs betokening the church bells chiming-all of these
 coming of the grim destroyer To move parsley Is bad luck; some persons go | further and say that to plant the seed even is Abad luck. To avoid this you can place your seed on a pot and let the wind SOW it for you or you can steal one of your neighbor's parsley plants. Stolen parsely is harmless-I have tried lit,
 A small egg called bullets egg, and | by some "a bad luck egg must be ta
 ken and thrown over the housetop,
 this will break the egg if not the bad luck.
 Here is a cure for fits I have never | tried 1t, but I know of person who
 knows positively of its having beeen
 tried. There are two ways of prepar- ling this cure. First take live chicken land plunge 1t, feathers protestations land all, into pot of boiling water; | boil several hours and give cup of l the water thus obtained to the pa tent, The second way is external, and Ito my mind preferablefi also it is more mysterious from the fact that only an lentirely black chicken will do. Split the ehihcken down the back and bind lit on the breast of the afflicted person. Not the least remarkable is the fol- flowing. A woman told me that many wears ago her husbands parents were lgoing to Hagerstown by turnpike, talk ling with them mare and colt to sell. the colt in some way tore it's hoof bad lily and severe bleeding ensued. Stop ping at a farmhouse on the way for lhelp, the mistress thereof informed the travellers that she could stop the bleeding and getting her bible she Tread d certain verse over the colts lhead and the hemorrhage ceased. While speaking of this to a Hagers- town lady visiting one of my neigh Ibors she told me her husbabnd had l precisely the same experience with a cold only in the last case the accident and occurred in field and it was the doctor whom they called on who in this case read the verse.
 | From a Hancock Md. paper is clip Iped the following: We recently ran | across a man right in our town who be- lneved in witches and the man rushed flor medicine to take. a spell off his wife. One man near Millstone quarrel He'd with his neighbor He filled a four ounce bottle with water and buried it lremarlzing: When the bottle is empty
 my neighhor will be dead" The neigh | Dor died in four months. The bottle was dug up and there was not drop of water in it.