The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-05-05 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LABOUR DAY.  HIGHLAND SUPERSTITIONS.  Even among the intelligent and comparatively • li.educated Highlanders the superstitions which have teen handed down from remote ages have Ti my ardent believers. Surinstition regarding the tr,attnent of dise,ve always dies hard. This re, ote-s s. rung corroboration in the ancient belief he., 'feting king's 'Vit. In connection with this Ira lob,n the seventh son's seventh son was also ci lite,' with miraculous powers, and the following ey•raet from letter, written apparently by a 1,r-or, of seine intelligence, which appetred in 1.0 /1,,0/J, illustrates the tenacity of point, it t• r. Tb .. writer says: With us, in Scotland, it is o .1 know.' and wily-really believed in, but wito o ..i.Verence. The last of seven sons born—no ght,.r intervening—is considered a natu and should not be brought up to any other 1..1 si.n, but has never, to my knowledge at I t, Mitt credited with the possession of extra.. inary I. tiling power; they were clever and nu,r rut dortors, but nailing beyond. It is tie s s. nth eon of a severth son who is gifted wit.. .• ii arvelloes power of healing by touch. Tom h. leg tor evil by kings is a mere superstition, but t a leafing power is actually uossessed by 'thous Sept im. 'is an assured fact, and there serieey or reservation whatever observed here • ...Twit to its application. I had a servant one., - '.l.,ry lather, being a seventh. •• e•-ii, ..osse.sed this gift. Numbers of peeple ti lino, and animigst many' other things e,.e t ..• in.' of a woman via brought her child—a t.-r. rutty ilisea,ed little bny—entreating her father to core him, and Mr. Keogh consented. He made a sliAt cut on the inside of his own leg, just deli e oegli to draw blood; this blood he applied to tlie :our's, whether once or °Heuer I cannot say, said t 0,0.1 recovered. -Siol you nifty see him, mein, a y day you please, as foie a young man as walks Areets a Dublin!" It is well known and gener.illy believed in the west of Ireland that the blot ef il,ree Irish families—the Welches, Keoylas, and (laills—is the finest fhb:gin life for the cure of any c disea-,s—rose (i.e., erysipelas), wil,lti‘e, ;and I imagine that it may have been to 1041 as a Kreeh the woman raine, and with no refere .re to his birthright, of which it is not only tit:m-.0,1e but probable, she may never have heard. Either way, the child was cured. I visited this pr-in several times, intending to question him,but f' mid him so ill that I did not like to do so, and he died on January 17th, 1888. He had 10 daughteis. but only one son, and has left no inheritor of his marvellous gift.  The death is announced. in his 86th year, of General Thunas Hook. Pearson, CB., at The !lasells, Sandy, DeLlfordshire. Ile was the owner of the famous horse Lord Lyon. A case or determined suicide occurred on Blankfriars Bridge on Sunday night. Walter Spiuk, 28, of Dridgewater-street, Somers Town, was walking Immeeanl in the company of Ilia wife, when sou.a,dy. and without a word of warning, he the railings about the centre of the bridge, and precipitated himself into the river below. Ilk body was at once borne away by the tide and immediately lost to sight. Dragging Operations were commenced without loes of time, but without success. The wife is unable to assign any reason for the rash act. • •  Mr. W illium Watsaic,, compiled an anthology of English love 'Amery for publication in the Golden Treasury Series. ilia title, borrowed from Browning, is "Lyric Love." ;... IT TIIIN AN I) ennui —Sorenesa and ‘i q...! and irritation, inducing cough sift- the the c.,ice. For there eyniptoins nee E Cho T.e a. In conistet with the vln',l, at th, m mem they aro excited by the act of sintkit the Glycerine in these agreeable con. j• n tto netwly. healintr. Sold only in 7!,0 tin.. 11.1. labelled "Janne EPPS and Co.. H Inapt hi,. Chetnirts. London." Dr, Mono, i.. hi- am it on the "Noe and Throat : "The Glycerine Jujubes pt.toned t.y Jam, P Epp.. and Co. are of undoubted I or, she as a ciirative or palliative agent," while Dr Gordon Minter, Senior Physician to the Municipal Throat and Ear Infirmary, writes: "After an • xtrn,led trial, I have found your Glycerine Jujubes of considerable benefit in most all forms of throat disease." evening.