The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-14
WORKED THE WRONG WAY
Absent Treatment Effected Cure That Wasn't Desired

" hankerfn' and longin' 10 bercF-
Won can sometimes effect reus~r-..t-'
cures. In the middle ages tre- --.7
TO work this absent treatment f.+r--
end to. Their fav0rite way WAS
make a doll OF a little figure like tr--
and in their minds, this figure was +
stand for the person they was 7-rs-
They would beat IL, or stab it. rrabr.
stick pins in il and leave EN- t-z~s
They used 20 claim that so long as I'M.
pin was I'm there. the fellow would +.
sick. A few years back they .aughs-
at all this and talked about what f1r-s
them middle ages fellers was To- be-
lieve such passed. of truck. Now
DAYS there is fellers who say thar
tbinkin' so hard about a man ike v--
do when YOU stick a knife iu a al
that's representa- of him, harmiu tr.
figure physically. your concentrate
mind acts on tine Teller, mebbe GOD -r-
very spot you stab, and harms him
The IN -ddle age people carried ON ths-
works in a gang, usually. a whole LIZ
Of EN- stdbbin' generally. ana you SEE
the action of their united minds was a
pile stronger than if one Teller done =
alone Now" says Stacks slmms7
boarder, why don't you check the a.
uvities Of this enemy Of society jest
like you would any other dangerous
animil?"
Suppose we should happen TO km
him2" said Henry DOrr kinder ann.
ious.
whats the hurt to the commmt.
ty?" says Stacks summer b0srIer.
stroilin' away.
well" says I, hes sick. and if he
should die we'd never know but he'd
died anyway. and there be Ho suit
attachin' to us. and If we jest pushed
HIM along. and as a natural result %
some Of his meanness comm back
home to him and strikin' in, his con-
stitution got weakened and c0nss-
oUently he couldn't resist sickness very
well after awhile. and so kicked ths
bucket. that amt hardly our fault
We argued awhile, and finally Henry
DOrT says.
More TO crafty scientific curiosity
! I'll vote TO try it,
'sNigbt discover something Of bens-
/ mt 10 humanity" said George Go@
experimental with that miserable
| critter."
We didn't have no doll, ana couldn't
make a small figure like that very
/ easy, so we jest stuffed some hay m
some old clothes and made a sort ai
| scarecrow out in Stacks barn and GIT
d pig stickin' knife.
Better ali stab i'm the same Spot
/ said GOss. $50 not to lutte our Thought
/ and prevent concentration of mind by
I havin' the iabs spread all over"
So we stabbed away, one after aH-
other. hard and determined. Ike us
/ was stiCkin' pigs Then we went
/ home.
Didn't hear no news from CurIews
/ folks durim' the next two weeks. Hay
I in time and we couldn't stop 10 iH-
/ quira. and didn't hardly have time 70
/ think of MIN. Seemed a foolish bus
/ ness. TOO. when we reflected ON o.
/ though Stacks summer bOarder DID
/ seem considerable smart.
| Well. sir. one moruin' Bill CurleE
/ drove by and stopped to speak
never. see such a change. He was wei
as a trivet Std Of bein' kinder pasU
lookin' and generally measly, he mad a
fine color, and the crafty, rat-llke way
he used to have Of lookin' at you was
now bold frsolence. Strong and vel
ike he was. what wouldn't he DO o.
| serve the neighbOrhOOd out and you
| could see he was thinkn' OF the ol-
| portunities that would come from bis
new ability.
BY gosh" said he, there was q
! queer thing happened to me-kinde-
/ miracle, you might say. There 7 was
anin' with that cussed appendix and
one afternoon ] gifts a terrible lot Of
sharp. sudden pains like the nlamel
| thing was be.n' cut out. And DO amt
bothered me since. Seemed like 10 vas
cut out and jest slOughed away
BILL Curtis. you allus used TO be 100
peaked to lick, but you amt now
So I snagged him out Of the buggy
and licked him. Then I telepnone4 %
Henry Door and George Goss. Pretty
soon Bill drove by again, lookin more
licked than when 7 had finished win
him. He had turned back without
going to town. Wasn't gO.n. 10 pass
Goss' place. So / telephOned up me
road. this time to Joel Breed. Henry
Moore and Frank Brown. and they
, licked him along the way home. Grs3.
thing. the rural telephone. Does mlcA
to make the farmers life pleasantel.