Shepherdstown register. [volume], February 16, 1922, Image 6

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HEALING IN THE CONGO.
Two interesting letters have come
from Rev. C. C. Bush, a Jefferson
c$nty man doing missionary work in
th? Belgian Congo in Africa. Both
t?41 of the curious customs sbserved
strong the natives in treating diseases
afld injuries. Charms and evil spirits
stil hold swav in the deeo forests alnm?
the Congo. We append portions of
txyh letters:
The faint gleams of the crescent appdhr
on the western horison and ere
the gloaming enshrouds this Congo
land, every Batetela village is astir
w^th drums beating, gongs clanging,
?ded-baskets rattling, nude women
dancing, leaders gutturally yelling, otheO
weirdly chanting, and the fefi4b-maker
mastering the ceremonies
Bcinc devoid of "undav. exitnt m *
market-day, ind with religion largely
ccfltrollcd by the moon, their worship
is more lunatic than Sal/oarie
The fetish-maker, by the help cf the
the moon, concocts panaceas for tveiy
inlhginable ill or misfortune. Some
pdople must rub white earth around
th? eyes, others down each arm, others
otijpf the whole body. Some people
wiflst use red instead cf white earth,
ofj&prs must offer to the spirits of
ancestors, others must wrap one
of their hands with a poultice made
of leaves and a vine-pod of fine nettles
which torture the flesh, while others
are doomed to do equally silly and
disagreeable acts ft>r the sak- of luck
anj long life for them and their relatives.
Some twelve miles westward from
Lufcefu and we came into a village
wtych seemed to be having a religious
holiday. Sixty-two water jars, each
containing a bit of water, had been
placed in a circle around a tall mcdicirfb
pole, and judging by the brush
\ oluptercd around the pole at least cver&'
family in the village had made
an bfTering of a branch of a tree. A
stl&k from every one's bed was also
ptfed nearby. We were assured that
the very best of good fortune would
he parried hack to each home with the
wa]cr jars and bcdsticks after the
moon worship finished. Nb dread
di^ase and naught of harm would
da$ come nigh.
Then 200 souls eagerly heard of,
Christ the true liberator.
"The Hair of the Hog Is Good Fori
The Bite" is an old adage which apperfts
to be of African origin When
a State Official was paying us a visit
his big shepherd dhg was pleased to
sit^ his teeth into the flesh of Atanicka,
a young woman of our Mission
viljjge who has made commendable
prdpress in her school studies. After
Mrf. Bush had bound up hci eight
setTfre wounds she returned with several
of her friends requesting a recompcrtfce
for the injuries. It was r.ot
mofley that she craved, although some
of that was given to her by the owner
df the dog, but some hairs of the
dog. "When asked as to the use she
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tobacco quality
We state it as our honest
belief that the tobaccos used
in Chesterfield are of finer
quality (and hence of better
taste) than in any other
cigarette at the price.
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would make of them she assured us that
unless some hair from the dog which
did the biting was placed in the wound
infection would set In and it would
never heaf.
We were informed that this had been
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me tusivmi wi 11 or mcir mccsiorB.
Observing that our lecture on the relation
of cause to effect was falling upon
deaf ears we complied with her request
! in hrder to solace her mind for en- (
' during the pain. It goes without say-1
ing that within a few days those sores
doctored with dog-hair, afforded an opportunity
for that mean epithet "I told
you so." An application of a disinfectant
soon gave the young woman
cause to rejoice that the "people of
God in America are sending real medicines
to the Congo.
Drumming away evil spirits is
common practice among the Congolese.
The rdnts of this superstition,
like many such beliefs in America
about Fridays, unlucky numbers, etc.,
arc embedded among ancestors and are
therefore very difficult to eradicate.
On rcturaing from an extended itinerary
we found out that Owanga, n
woman of splendid moral conduct, had
suffered with a gathered breast and not
having access to any Mission remedies
had consented for her friends to call
I in some native doctors to try to relieve
the intense agony. The doctors used
a strong application which was probably
efficacious because it certainly had
blistering qualities. But the "fly in the
ointment" was their diagnosis that the
jealous spirit of a dead wife of one of
Owanga's former husbands was troubling
her, and that the cure would be
the driving away of this indwelling
spirit. Consequently Owanga mutely
folowed at the heels t)f the doctor who
beat upon a piece of metal, a "kokoloka,"
until they came to the former
home of the dead woman. The spirit
was 9upp?sed to be charmed back to
its rightful owner and Owanga to
become well immediately. It is needless
to state that the gathering continued
a fortnight longer because the
charm was as futile as the proverbial j
"good-luck horse shoe." When Owan- ,
ga was called before the church officials
she said that she did not employ
a doctor who practiced divination
with a gourd full of charms, a ,
"diwulu," but she admitted that a
chicken was given to one of the doctors
who sacrificed to his fetish before
he undertook to charm away the evil
spirit. She was willing to make a
public confession and reunuciation of
the superstitious practice and be suspended
from one communion service.
A few days ago when Maquaya, our
faithful guard of Lubefu Station, was
critically ill with pulmonary trouble,
his friends in distress came to me
asking that a spirt charmer might be
permitted to come and beat upon the '
roof of his houie and cure him. One
of them said that he had been cured j
by a woman who uttered some mysterous
words while striking upon his
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roof and calling to him to know if he
were wc'l, 'he pain leaving him immediately.
I told them that I would f
give a prize of a thousand francs to (
any one who would cure Maquaya at
once, assuring them that the medicine ,
being used had relieved one of their (
fellow workmen who had suffered |
with a similar maaldy. Maquaya has
returned to work without the aid of a
spirit charmer. C. C. BUSH.
Democrats Meet In Huntington.
Thf mf'ffino of M/nct Viroinia Harr?_ I
ocrats at Huntington last week was
called early with the view of avoiding
the embarrassment that might grow
out of candidacies already having
been announced. Chairman R. F. '
Dunlap explained to leading Democrats
there that this meeting should
rightly be held before any candidates
had announced either for the United '
States Senate or for Congress.
The Democrats who gathered at 1
Huntington therefore assembled with a
view of the interests of the party as a
whole and regardless of the interests 1
of individual candidates. There was (
nothing said during the meeting and \
no action taken during the gathering '
which would emphasize any particular
candidate for office.
Only two of those Democrats who '
have been mentioned for the nomina- >
tion for the United States Senate were
on the program?Col. W. P.. Chilton
and Hon. Clyde B. Johnson. Mr. Chil- 1
ton made one of the important address- (
cs at the evening session and Mr. John- (
son substituted for Chairman Dunlap
at the breakfast for the women at nor.n. i
Former Governor John J Corn well ;
^ired his regrets from New York to' 1
Col J. H. Long, of the Huntington 1
Advertiser, and possible candidate for c
Congress in that district. .V. AL Neely ,
former Congressman for tile first dis- r
trict, arrived at Huntington at 4.30
in the afternoon, and was given quite (
an ovation in the Frederick lobby and 1
called on for an extemporaneous speech
at night. '
Col. Chilton's praise of Woodrow ; 1
Wilson awakened the greatest en- c
thusiasm. He is chairman for West
Virginia in the Woodrow Wilson
Foundation drive. Clyde Bcecher |
Johnson inspired Democrats assembled t
by saying that the Democratic party f
is "a party of high ideals" and by de- 1
fining the two dominant parties in this r
way: t
Republican?Business dollar. f
Democrats Citizen's interest. a
A committee was named to arrange
for a statewide publicity campaign, d
which will be financed by contributions | v
of a dollar or more from Democrats
of every county of the State and from a
other voters who wish to be allied with c
the Democrats this fall. c
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Chocolate-Coated Ice Crean.
Christian K- Nelson went to Chicago
'rom Omaha 15 months ago with 19
:ents and at idea.
Itoday the 19 cents has grown to a
steadily increasing fortune of six fig*
ures. It'll be well over a million before
Nelson pays his income tax.
Mt^hat did it?
The idea!
Nelson's idea was to cover a square
Df cold icecream with a layer of hot
chocolate, thus making a confection
with real icecream inside.
unf that irira hf? xrac man.
aging his father's icecream plant out
in Onowa, la. And he furthered It
while he was studying chemistry at
college.
When he was graduated he peddled
the idea around from ice cream factory
to ice creain factory. Everybody
laughed at him.
"Cover cold ice cream with hot
chodolate? Man, you're crazy!" they
*ould say.
But Russell Stover, manager o? an
ce cream plant at Omaha, was different.
He thought Nelson's idea could
)c put over. And together Stover and
S'elson did put it over.
That's why you see a big yellow sign
tdvertising, "Polar Pie" or "Imperial
Maskas" in your confectionery store
vindow.
For Nelson's the inventor of the pies.
Nelson is not making it. His comeany,
composed of himself, Stover and
ethers, is selling licenses to firms in
>ther cities to manufacture the confecion.
Today more than 1,000,000 blocks of
he chocolatd-coated ice cream are beng
eaten daily. And Nelson's com>any
gets 5 cents royalty on every doz:n
pies.
And Nelson's busy with an adding
nachine tryng to figure up his income.
"Don't lose heart," Nelson advises
>thers. "I kept at my hunch and
tluggcd?that's why I succeeded.
"Just don't give up. It seems to
ne that too many folks are only tco
tnxious to tell the world they're lickid."
Don't Shoot Hob White.
Every shot fired this season at the
job-whites that are wintering in your
lelds is a shot at your pocketbook, says
7arm and Ranch. Quails destroy
niliions of hibernating bugs that would
itherwise awake next spring to fall
tungrily upon the product of fields
ind garden.
"While you fight the chinch-bug relouble
your efforts to increase bobvhite
quails," says A. C. Burill of the
Missouri College of Agriculture. "They
re said to eat from 500 to 1,000
hinches at a meal, and their stomachs
rave another meal every two hours,
t least this is the usual rate of digeson
in most insect-eating birds. Quails
re the only wild-birds which specialie
on chinch-bugs in the winter seaon."
To protect the hob-white the most
ffective plan is for several farmers I
o-operatively to publish a notice in the
ounty papers forbidding hunters to
hoot quails on their premises. This
as been done successfully in several
lissouri communities. Many county
apers already are running such
otices properly drawn up by a lawyer
nd kept standing in the paper throughut
the hunting season. In such
ases the publisher will add the name
f any farmer in the county and keep
: there for, say, 50 cents for the seaon.
Protect the quails; they will fight
our bug battle Mr you?winter and
ummer.
FOR SALE
Nine-room house on Princess street,
ellar, garden, electric lights, etc. A
ood, comfortable home.
Lot on Main street 40x203, unimroved.
Seven-ItJOm house and on a era of
ind, all necessary outbuildings, near
ufficlds. Fruit and plenty of water.
Small farm, about 45 acres, on the
ike, one mile from a shipp./g point,
lomfortablc house of eight rooms,
mall barn. Twenty acres of this
lace in orchard, sn full bearing, poplar
varieties.
One brick house, 7 rooms, cellar,
istern, large garden, electric lights,
nd necessary outbuildings.
One frame house of 10 rooms and
trge lot.
One buflding lot 90x95 fee%, deirable
part of town.
J. STRIDER MOLER
IEAI. ESTATE AM) INSURANCE.
SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. VA.
We guarantee $36.00 per week full |
ime or 75c an hour spare tint* selling
;uarantced Hosiery. Agents making)
75 (H) to 5125 (H) a week. Good hosiery
s an absolute necessity, you can sell
t easily. Our fall line ready at pre
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daily the dull. annoyinR pain of headache. Abso
lately harmletn. "White Cape" contain no narcotic
M or habit-forminic drugs. Got a box today. Then
you'll have them ready when headache coraca.
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weight assures generations I
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In paper containers, 45 cents a quart, iced 50 cents a 'Ji
quart. Half Gallons, iced, 95 cents. Gallons, $1.65. We can
| also furnish brick icecream on short notice. ?|j
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JOHN H. MILLER, Proprietor. 9
Sheoherdstown, W. Va. J
RANF BROWN WANTED:?Men or women to tako
j ii orders among friends and neighbor*
i_i _ r* ^ i _ / * i _ r?f f!lc Renuine guaranteed hosjery.
R U D 11C ba 16 L* I 61^1^ full line for men, wt>mcn and childn*
Eliminate darning. We pay 75c a?
The undersigned offers his services 'lour spare time, or $36.00 a week f"r
to persons who intend to have pub- ^u'' -'nte. Experience unnecessarylie
sale this season, and guarantees ^ r',e International Stocking Mil!*satisfactory
service. Call on phone or 'Sorr'slnwn, Pa.
address ntc at Kesrneysville. ?
BANE BROWN, i 51-50 gets the Register a year.