New-York tribune., 1909-04-04
EFFECTED CURE THAT
WASN'T DESIRED.
Still 1t Had Its ompensations, 4c-
cording to a Nezc Hampshire
Farmers Narration.

BIZ CurIew Is a mean. low-dOvn cuss. If he doe.
live tolerable high hill. He's worried and ns-
secuted the whole neighborhood for twenty Years
| Bill has trouble with his eyeslght Can't tel ,,.
I side OF fence from t'other He got over on Ss-,
/ cases and chaWped down twenty-five cords OF oax
one winter She sent him notes BY her bow 1st
ters through the mail. MESA ges and hnaI1- ~.
10 see him herself. but Bill he kent r,rb- -
chawpin'. Then she had him arrested Some folk.
thought that was going far. Mrs Cases bar,
+ burned down three days after she got judgment
against Willy, KILN zen COWS and three bo-sAs
Henry Dorr got 20 missin' feed out OF his graf,
, room and bought big dog He heard rba H.
start yeilin IN the night and skaIiyhooun-
( out over WHY'S land Couple o days later V-iIlv
sent in a complaint that Do-rs Cog had bit bt,,
Something had bit MIN all right. The dog ~
nobody couldn't testify as to under ubat ci-cr7,
stances the bitn' was done the dog had to be
shot.
Mrs Curlew was on the school committee Of tn.
town and took special charge OF our deest-ic+
She had family and professional pride in the rec
ord Of her four kids. Her proud nature sirnpIv
couldn't aoear TO see them children outdone
Browns girl. Maud. was year ahead o. Eddie
CuTlew. same age Mrs Curlew ordered Maud
showed back. Ito make Il interestfn' for Fd5fe
who was ali alone. school beIn' small Mrs
Brown she raised a hoIler ana went to the scbooY
committee members OF the rest o. the town and
Maud wasn't put back Then Browns doz vas
poisoned Mrs. CurleW she ordered SAMMY Cav
put back with Kitty Curlew. and Mrs Graz made
a row. and it warn't done The Grays didn't have
no dog. but a likely little heirer found dead
IN the pasture few days later When Mrs cur
lew tried put Jennie Morrison back with TizziA
Clrlew. the Morrisons might have stood for il II
they had been suDerstftious: but they warn't and
they didn't have dogs and no cattle. But their
old tom cat never come home more and some
: thing must have got lone Old goose they had
+ and Eddie Curlew. kinder or his guard Ike said
he thought goose meat was the best they Is Well
George Goss he insisted upon keepin' his boy jim
where he was. Std OF goin back with Annie Cur
lay- and 4Nrea Of Noa-=
, Queer lot Of condolences
Out urcivilized state Ike Indiana thew TAX.
Ike Bill Curlew and fog him OF notify
him TO either git or take the consequences OF
stayin'. But in New England were too law-abIdin'
to do anything 70 folks that amt lav-abiii1- OF
course, neighbOrs sometimes talked over these
things and that is how Slack's summer boarde- got
into Il First OF he suggested the Indiany plan q
neighborhOod Improvement and village beauIidea-
ton. but we said ne lived IN New Hampshire sorter
, livi.' death. sometimes but the Old Thirteen has
/ traditions that has TO be kept up
/ Who's keepln' Up OF EN-" says sIack's sum-
mer boarder. you men or Bill Curiewc-
Well, thing about 1t is said Henry Do--.
/ ''CurIew is Of rneasy Teller. not regular
sickly. perhaps, but sOrter picked II possible
/ that X Il warnt for that mebbe I'd far forSt
my self-respect 10 lick him Bur ne amt hard
ly robust enough Fact is they say the critte- IS
sick right He thinks he's got appendicitis
Give him absent treatment said slack-s sum
Her boardeF. and he told interestin things
{ Il.
him scker He's a kind OF wolf dangerous an
imn. him and his family There's really no teiIin'
when chap handy with p'izen may take Il
into his head 20 feed it out 70 your children std
of a dog Now this mental treatment can ss
worked in TWO ways By wantin' 20 folks
thnkin' about nteutIy and jest naturally hank
erin and Iongin' benefit EN-. you can sometimes
effect remarkable cures In the Middle Ages they
used 20 work this absent treatment t'other end
Their favorite way 70 make a dO-i little
I fR1lra ike IN min
TO stand for the person they after They
would beat il. stab 1t. mebbe stick pins n it
and leave EN- there They used to claim that 50
long the pin was in there the feller would o
sick few years back they laughed az all this
and talked about what fools them Middle Ages
feTers vas 10 believe such passel OF truck
Nowadays there IS felers VINO that thinkin 50
hard about like YOU do when you sJick a
knife In doll that's representa- Of him. harInin
the figure physically. your concentrated mind acts
the feIler. mebtc in the very spot you stab aHd
harms him. The Middle Age people carried on thelF
works in gang usually a whole lot Il EN- stab
bin generally. and yCu the action q theh
united minds a pile stronger than one fe4sR
done II alone Now says Slack's summer boaro-
er. why don't you check the activities OF tnAs
enemy Of society Jest like you would any other
dangerous animil?
Suppose We should happen TO Kill him said
Henry Dorr. kinder anxious
What's the hurt to the community sdSS 2
Slack's summer boarder. strOlIin' away
Well says I. hes sick and II n sil'--u -
we'd never know but he'd died anyway. ana theleu
be no guilt attachin' To and II ne jest pusnet
him along and a natural result OF some o. -.
meanness comm back home to him and S'1AIH
In his constitution got weakened and conselueH.I'
he couldn't resist sickness very well after aNhie'
and so kicked the bucket. that amt hardly ON
fault
We argued awhile and finally Henry Dorr say
More to crafty scientific curiosity I'll vote 70
try tt
Might discover something Of benefit 10 human
ity' said George GOss. "experimen'in Win
miserable critter."
We didn't have no doll and couldn't maAs
small figure like that very easy. SO We jest stun
some hay IN some old clothes and made sol, -
scurecrow out in Stacks barn and got PIG Su'A
knife.
Better all stab in the same spot. said cess
dilute our thought and prevent cons.
tion OF mind by havin' the jabs spread al -, nd
So We stabbed away. after another a Ia =
determined. Ike stickin pigs 1N
went home lin.
Didn't hear no news from Curlew's IoLAs -.
the next two weeks. Hayin' time and We 49,. .,
stop TO inquire. and didn't hardly have 'N-
think of him Seemed foolish business, oe s,,ier
We reflected il. though Slack's sumner o
did considerable smart ,-s
Well sir one uornin'. Bill Curew drove y -
stopped to speak. l never see such d elaNs
was well as trivet Std Of beIn' kinder P'sS
lookin' and generally measly he had a me 'of
and the crafty, ratlike way he used % INK
lookin' as you was bold insolence N
and well like he was what wouldn't ne -
s@rva the neighborhood out. and you coula sue
was thinkin' Of the opportunities that "ouA
from his new ability sing
by goshr' said he. there was queer %
happened TO me-kinder miracle. you m sist -
There was ain' with that cussed apperuA-,
one afternoon L gifts a terrible lot OF shArp' p,
den pains like the blamed thing was hein eTr ,..