The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-28

I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the ' lo wings Of q! 3 Riss herds.
The rustling of the trees,
among the singing of the birds,
The humming of the bees.
The foolish fears of what may happen
I cast them all away
Among the elover-scented grass.
among the husking of the corn
Where i'll thoughts die and good are born
Out in the fields with God.
Was a Hoodoo Healer.
For practicing medieval medicine and
obtaining money from him for failing
to cast out devils from his sick wife.
Enoch Muller has obtained a warrant
for the arrest of Mrs George Wunder-
Itch. The warrant specifies that Mrs.
Wunderlich practiced medicine withou.
license and obtained $40 under false
pretenses.
Muller, who is now angry at what he
says was an imposition upon a man
who was desperate at the serious ILL
ness OF his wife, says he will have his
money back or prosecute Mrs. Wunder-
Itch.
II don't know how I could have been
such a fool as to have swallowed all
N-S oNoiA SAG lOAa iiiC VI oCCn AOoASa
by her monkey-shines. But 1 was like
the man whose wife was at the bottom
OF we'll and was doing everything /
could to save her," he said.
my wife is still suffering, and after
I had fourteen doctors I was in despair.
Finally my sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Ber-
mel, said Mrs. Wunderlich knew of
some herb which might cure her. We
sent for Mrs. Wunderlich. She came to
see my wife and said there was nothing
the matter with her except that she
had been hoodooed by three women
and that she would cast the hoodoo out
in nine days.
1.-THE next day she brought an egg to
the house, and the day following eight
more. With strange words and passes
with her hands over the eggs she told
us to give them to my wife and they
would put new life into her.
Every day when she came she would
make passes with her hands over my
wife and throw something behind her.
This she said was drawing the devils
out and casting them away.
"At the end Of nine days my wife
was no better and complained about
it. She then said that the hoodoo was
very stubborn and would not leave I'M
less we took desperate measures.
She brought a piece of meat which
she said was from a live dog. The dogs
spirit would enter into her and fight
the devils.
Then she hid a piece Of meat under
corner Of the carpet. Then she asked
me for money, saying it was necessary
to go out to a cemetery.
II had given her $110 in all up to this
time. and was just beginning to get
wise to the fact that 1 was being
fooled. went to the board of health
and told the doctors there what I had
done and they helped me swear out a
warrant against Mrs. Wunderlich."-
.oY1ie pncf-n{cnotnh
Mummies Yield Secrets.
Valuable anatomical studies on num-
government school of medicine at Cairo
Of recent years, under the auspices of
Prof Elliot Smith. In the course of
these studies w, A. Schmidt has in
vestigated mummif1ed material of diff
ferent epochs from the chemical and
biological point of view. experimenting
on mummies 5000 years old, dating
practiced in later times, was known
In the Nile valley. Says w. D. Hall
burton in a notice of this work in Ma
ture:
1T is remarkable that in spite of
this lapse of time organic materials,
which Of all others are liable to decay.
should still manifest in the test tube
their characteristic reactions. The
presence of solid and volatile fatty
acids, proteins, and cholesterin, with
traces Of intact fat. was demonstrated.
The high percentage Of fatty acids
leads the author to the conclusion that
they originate, not wholly from fat, but
mainly from the body proteins. At the
present time, however. the doctrine OF
the metabolic change Of protein into
fat is regarded with skepticism by
most PSYCHOLOGISTS, in spite Of the large
amount of fatty acids radicals in the
protein molecule.
1.-The mummy proteid, although it re-
tains the general character of albumin
GUS material, has lost those specific
properties which enable us to distin-
guish that of human origin from that
which is found In other parts of the
animal kingdom; in other words, it no
longer gives what is termed the 'biolog-
ical reaction This is disappointing, al
though it was doubtless expected. Mr..
Schmidt also found that he could no
longer detect hemoglobin, and the sub
stance regarded as blood by previous
observers was doubtless composed of
colored gum and seSin employed In en-
balming, in reference to the process of
embalming itself, he was unable to find
any soda; the so-called natrium bath
really consisted of solution Of COM
mon salt.''-New York Herald.
Unnerred When Lights Went Out.
superstition nad mucn TO 90 last nlsnt
with preventing the escape of muir
derer after he had killed another man
with jealousy on account of wo-
man as the motive-during a quarrel
in the house at 1910 Taylor alley Just
as Henry Adams had left his enemy,
Grant Royce, lying nfeless in the hall
way and was preparing to escape, all
the street lights in the neighborhood
suddenly were extinguished because OF
some trouble at the electric light plant,
and the dogs in the alley set uD a
mournful and forlorn bowling. Every
colored man, woman, and child in the
street took cover like rabbits to their
warrens, closed and barred the doors,
and put out their lights, thinking some
farrihlat chi a nifty hefallinR that