The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1908 Page: 7 of 8
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SEE "WITCH'S FOOT" r
SUPERSTITIOUS PEOPLE BELIEVE
CURSE FULFILLED.
Woman Executed as Witch in Coloniai
Day6 Threatened Her Judge and
Is Believed to Have Kept
Her Word.
F.XPERT
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Close by the road, on the outskirts
uf lh<> old seaport town of Hucknport. I r
Me., on tho Penobscot river, Is a
small family cemetery. Within Its In j-.
closure sleep the Mucks, the blue-
blooded folk who first settlor! ihc town
anil bequeathed it their name and aj
legend.
The largest and most conspicuous
monument in the cemetery is a tall
granite shaft. On one side Is Ihe
Inscription: "Col. Jonathan Hack, the
founder of Hucksport, A. I). 17G2. Uorn
In Haverhill, Mass., 1T1S, Died March
18. 1795."
On the other side Is the single
word "Buck," and also something not
wrought by the marble worker. On | Nothing Would Help Him—Mother At
His Lucid Answers.
They were asking the mlnent law-
yer why he took such a luu;n fee from
the trust.
"I think It was its lurp ness that
made it easy to take," I." smilingly
answered.
Then the state's attorneys
ferrod.
"And didn't you stop t > < .insider ibat
the money was tainted"
him.
"Mo," he Ingeniously
only stopped to count it"
This closed the proccodi\«> for the
day.—Cleveland PIaln-D<
There h more f'nt.irrh In this rof tr-.r country
thun nil «itIk r tllM-fUMM put tojietliu • m the '
rem-
lor
they asked
replied, "I
Best in r.xistence.
"I sincerely believe, sill things con-
sidered, limit's I.I -htnlng Oil is the j
most useful and valuable household I
remedy in cxlstenn For Cuts. Hums.
Sprains and Insect liltes. It has no J
equal, so far as my experience goes j
(J. E Huntington,
Kufaln, Ala j
A protest Iia3 been raised in Ham (
burg against the new method of teach- j
log drawing in C•• riuun schools by ns
ing dead birds as models. Great dam- |
age has already been clone, the most j
beautiful birds—also butterflies—b<
ing killed fur that purpose.
Doc Ahem—You seem to cough
(.Itli considerable dlflleulty this morn-
ing
Patluut—That's very strange. I've
been practicing all night!
BABY'S ITCHING HUMOR.
few year* wan mipixwwd to lx> inc
in.wiy vcar* doctor* pronounced it .
ptTnerlbo.l local n-medlm. und b\
to fun* v. Ith local treatment. pro:,i
Bcienrc Iihs proven c^urrli to !>•
cn.«*\ and I here fort requlri* conn!
II ill m t'aturrh cure, taanufaclur*
Co., Toledo, Ohio. Is the only c«
t i" market. It It tukon Internaih
droprt to ;i te;u<l>oonful- It ucta dir.
and nineoin Hurf c<ft of the #y*tr:
hundred dollars for any ease It l i
f ir circulars and tcjitlmonlnl*.
Addrcw: l J. CHICS i;Y A CO
Sold hy Dncnrifit*. ;v.
Take Haifa Family Pills for con. i
I or M K'r at
' -Im and
tuiitiy fmlints
" I ii InccruMe
■ m tifuUo al "lu-
ll treatment
I J C.ienry
not tonal eure on
' I llOM'M ftom 10
11\ o.j the bkMid
They off< r « ne
• u, inn- h'ct.tl
'"'••do, O.'.io
It costs more to get out of trouble j
than it does to ke< ]i out.
■MMl l Ml uaMMKMHKMft'VIU4V«M
SI00 SEWARD
For any case of Chills or
Fever, Swamp Fever, Dumb
Ai;ue or any ailment due
to Malaria that
SCHAAP'S LAXATIVE
CHILL CURE
fails to cure if taken accord-
ing to the Directions. For
sale by all druggists. Price
50 cents. Prepared only by
John Schonp & Sons, Ft. Snilili, Arfc.
Thompson's Eye Wafer
W N, U.. DALLAS, NO. 44, 1903.
the smooth surface of the pedestal is
a curious outline, which can be ensily
imagined to be a foot of normal size.
The people who say that It is a foot
most in Despair—Owes Quick
Cure to Cuticura.
"Several months ago. my little boy
believe in the legend which has oft I /cgan to break out with itching sores,
been told in Hucksport. 1 doctored him, but as soon as I got
The story is that Col. Jonathan (beni healed up in one place they
Hack was n very harsh man and the would break out in another. I was
leading spirit In his day and genera-
tion. He was an out-and-out l'urltau,
and to him witchcraft was the incar-
nation of blasphemy. Thus, so the
nlmost in despair. 1 could not get
anything that would help him. Then
I began to use Cuticura Soap and Cuti-
cura Ointment, and after using them
story goes, when a certain woman was j three times, Ihe sores comiuenred to
accused of witchcraft, at the first 1
elamorings of Ihe populace Col. Buck
ordered that she be Imprisoned, and
later she was sentenced to be exe-
cuted us a witch.
All was ready, and the hangman
was about to perform his duty, when
the woman turned to Col. Buck, and,
raising one hand toward heaven, she
said:
"Jonathan Buck, listen (o these
words, the last my tongue shall utter.
You will soon die, and over your gravo
they will erect a stone, that all may
know tho spot where your bones lay
and crumble to dust.
"Upon that stone the Imprint of my
foot shall appear, and for ail time,
after your accursed race has vanished
from tho face of tho earth, will the
people from far and near know that
you murdered a woman."
She then turned to her executioners,
and another uct transpired to make
a purt of American colonial history.
The "witch curse", hail been almost
forgotten, until tho monument was
erected to the founder of Buckport.
it had been in position hardly a month
when a faint outllue was discovered
on It. It grew more and more distinct,
until some person made the discov-
ery that it was the outline of a foot.
The old legend was revived.
They said that the "witch's curse"
had been fulfilled. An attempt was
made to remove the stain, but every
efTort only tended to make it plainer.
The iftiprlnt of the foot is there to-
c^y, as plain as ever.
The Stuttering Wit.
They aro reviving the old anecdote
about W. R. Travers, the stuttering
broker, concerning his discovery that
Henry Clews was proud of tho fact
that ho was a self-made man. Next
time he met the banker, Mr. Travers
eyed him Intently.
"Well," Inquired Mr. Clews, impa-
tiently, "what Is ihe matter?"
"Ib it t-true that you are u self-made
rn-man?"
"Certainly,"replied Mr. Clews,
"-Wwell, while you were about It,
w-why didn't you put more hair to
lop of your head?"
Mr. Clews, who had been invited to
a famous fancy dress ball, met Mr.
Travers and asked for a suggestion
as lo Ihe character he could best rep-
resent.
"S-say, Clews," stammered his
friend, "why d-don't you sugar coat
your head and go as a p-plll?"
Only One Reason.
"Papa, Georgo wants lo break our
engagement."
"What reason does he advance?"
''Ho says he has a lot of reasons,
but ho mentions only one."
"And what's that?"
"He says bo has seen somebody 1 a
loves much better than he loves ui«."
"And that's the only reason no
gives?"
"Yes."
"Don't bother him about the others."
heal. He is now well, and not a scar
Is left on his body. They have never
returned nor left Mm with bad blood,
as one would think. Cuticura Reme-
dies arc the best I have ever tried,
and 1 shall highly recommend thom to
any one who is suffering likewise.
Mrs. William Geedlng, 102 Washing-
ton St., Attica, Ind., July 22, 1907."
Where Willie Was.
There is a humorous story of Mark
Twain's "absent-mindedness," but it
doesn't match Ihe following:
The Professor (at the dinner table)
—Oh, by the way, Mrs Chopsticks,
have you seen your little boy, Willie,
lately
Mrs. Chopsticks—No, professor, I
have not seen him slnct len o'clock,
and I can't imagine what has become
i)f him. In fact, 1 am very much wor-
ried about hint.
Professor—Well, seeing Martha pour
me out that glass of water just now
reminds me of something that I had
3n my mind to tell you some time ago,
but which unfortunately escaped my
memory. II was just about ten
o'clock, 1 think, that I saw little Wil-
lie fall down the well.
Nature Conquers Man.
Man can gel along without his cities
And his clothes and his complicated
tools nnd treasures; but all Ills
vaunted wisdom and skill aro set ut-
terly at naught by the simple failure
of the clouds lo drop rain. Tho only
actual necessities of life are those be-
stowals of nature which were necessi-
ties to aboriginal man.—Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Little Bright Eyes Again.
Not the Spirit Medium this time, but
t medium of far greater wonder, one
that brings back the brightness nnd
vigor to poor sore Inflamed eyes with
but a few external applications. Who
Is so lgnornnt not to know of Dr.
Mitchell's famous eye salve? Sold
everywhere. Price 25 cents.
Candid Retrospection.
"So," Bald the young woman, "you
advise me to keep a diary?"
"By all means," answored Miss Cay-
enne. "It's good discipline, and yet
soothing to self-esteem. There's noth-
ing like a diary lo convinco you that
you ureu't near «is silly this year as
you were last."
An Easy Way.
"Why do yon call lhat lawyer friend
of yours such an authority? I can't
tind any book in tho legal library of
which he Is Ihe author."
"Of course not. He's an authority
on tbc uawrltten law."
Real Meaning of "Aftermath."
"Aftermath" Is a persistently Ill-
used word. Karly July Is the time of
the "math;" lhat Is, the first mowing
of tho meadows. The short grass—
with a sufficiency of rain—will grow
again, nnd later will come the "second
mow" or "aftermath."
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
Infanta and children, and sec that It
Bears tho
Signature of<_
In Use For Ovor ;{<> Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
All the Difference.
NInl—Ocnrgo says Hint iny beauty
/nioxlcates him.
EIslo—1 heard that be said you wore
enough lo drive a man to drluk.—
Journal Amusant,
Fujiyama Modernized.
The beautiful mountain peak of Fu-
jiyama, which is regarded by the Jap-
anese as little short of is to
be modernized by electricity For the
benefit of tourists the mountain top
and the trail to it will be Illuminated
by electric ligbt3. Hotels and refresh-
ments houses will be erected o:i tho
mountain slope, as well as telephone
and telegraph stations.
Where Others Failed.
"Each spring for five or nix years
I broke out with a kind of Kczeina
which nothing seemed to relieve per
uianently. Finally I tried a box of
Hunt's Cure, which promptly cured
inc. Two years have passed by, but
the trouble lias not returned "
Mrs. Kale Howard,
Little Rock, Ark.
Uncle Eben.
"A heap o' men," said I'ncle IChen,
"gits a reputation fob great wisdom
by pertendin' to know mo' dan dey
does an* de* persuadin' you to blaino
yob own ig'nunce foh not comprehend-
in' dclr explanations."—Washington
Star,
Don't Do It.
Should you have a cough, cold or
sore chest, do not rely on lime and
nature to cure. They may do so—they
may not. Use Simmons' Cough Syrup.
It is a balm for sore lung.-, and will
cure you at once.
Seek Advancement Always.
Endeavor always to bo content in
that stnle of life In which your lot has
fallen, nnd think it a great fairlt not
to employ your time for the improve
ment of your understanding, health, ot
estate.—Lady Fanshawo.
kicks' Capudine Cures Women.
Periodic pains, Im.kuclio, nervousness
nnd headache relieved Immediately and
nsst.MiH nature. I'rescrllie.l by physicians
' Willi bent roNUlU'.. Trial tmttlfl 10c. lteisular
3lj;e und B0l- ut all drugglBts.
What He'd Seer..
"No," said the eminent scientist, "I
have never seen a Plymouth rock hen
: lay a corner-stone, but I have fre-
quently seen a pine apple layer cakc."
Pettlt's Eye Salve Restores.
No matter bow badly the eyes mnv be
diseased or injured. All IruggisU or How-
ard Bros., Buffalo, N. V.
Every time the owner or a pocket
knife sees a grindstone ho thinks it
Is up to l'-lni to get busy.
Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar
nin.le of rich, mellow t• .1 mcco. Your dcul-
er or Lewis' Factory, Pwria, 111.
Even in fishing for compliments it's
the big ones that generally get away.
Get your size in a pair of dainty ,
White House Shoes. &
Slip your feet in. You'I! find the "
shoes snug — pliable — smooth —
graceful.
They are built over foot-form
lasts. That's why they fit.
If you want pretty, snug, easy-fitting new shcea,
get a pair of White House Shoes.
WHITE HOUSE SHOES.
FOR MEN. $3.50. 4.00. 5.00 and 6.00. FOR WOMEN. 53.50. 4.00. 5.00.
busier Broun B'ue Ribbon Shoes for yoaagster?. Ask year dealer for (hem. Wgjjjptf
THE BROWN SHOE CO.. Makers, ST. LOUIS. JWfM
V - -
| MRS. WASHINOTON
Old Virginia Cheroots
"pggr- A % A
You
Save
Mrs. Wlnelow'N Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, «ftens tho iruni«, renacea In*
Uummbtion, allays pain, curcit wind colic. '2Stcaboulo-
Your use of leisure throws a light
on tho whole of your life.
If Your Foot. ,lt'li« or Hum
K«'t ft 26o p.-tckntfo of Allen s Knot-Base. H glret
quick relief. Two million lucli.moii sold >early
Thore isn't much meat on tho bone
of contention.
1
on
three
useless heads,
You
Pay
for
three good smokes
OLD
VIRGIN9A
CHEROOTS
Are 5c Cigars
Without the
Head
Therefore
3 for 5s
It's the useless head you throw away that
makes three cigars cost you 15 cents. Old Vir-
ginia Cheroots are all cigar—no waste. You pay
only for what you smoke. 5 cents for three—in-
stead of 15c.
Sold Everywhere
PROTECT YOUR LUNGS
If ereiy cough you catch settles on your lungs, you have weak lungs.
Don't let ihe cuugh hang on. A " hang-on " cough is dangeioui lo
strong lung!—doubly so lo weak ones. Get rid of it in tho beginning
with Piso's Cure, ft acts promptly and effectively; allays the irritation,
reduces the congestion, Itees the throat of phlegm, clears the clogged air
passages and stops the rough. For nearly half a century the unsurpassed
remedy for the wot it forms of coughs, colds and chest complaints has been
PISO'S CURE
Pi -'
Pale Delicate Women and Girls
The Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS CHILL TONIC, drives out Malnria nnd builda up the
system. You know what you are taking. The formula is plainly printed ou every bottle, showing it
is simply Quinine and Iron in a tasteless, and the most effectual form. For adults and children. 50c.
Lady's
Words
B 33
It's not so much what we nay, but what other ladies say, about Cardtii, as a cure for female ail-
ments, that we ask you to believe.
C'ardui hits benefited so many ladies, that it should surely help yon. Bring prepared from harm-
less, vegetable ingredients, it is a safe, natural medicine, that can always be relied on.
Take Cardui
Mrs. Vcrna Wallace, of Sanger, Tex., writes: "Cardui has done more for mc than I
cun describe. Last spring I was taken wilh female inflammation und consulted a
doctor, but to no avail, so I took Cardui, and inside of three days, I was able to do my
housework. Since then my trouble has never returned." Try it.
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McClure & McClure. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, October 30, 1908, newspaper, October 30, 1908; Alto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth214024/m1/7/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.