Times-promoter., April 19, 1907, Image 7

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DRIVES OUT SPIRITS
HOW "HOODOO DOCTOR"TREATS
HIS PATIENT8.
Negro People Mostly Are Firm Believ
ers in His Power to Save from
Effects of Being Con
jured by Enemy.
Other doctors may cure you If you
are stricken with some disease, but
there is only one doctor who can cure
you if you are really "hoodooed."
The "hoodoo doctor" is a tall, gaunt
and cadaverous looking negro with a
wealth of long wavy hair, and he lives
in the West side, says the Kansas City
Star. He is a familiar figure on the
streets of both cities, and invariably
carries a little black hand satchel.
The hoodoo doctor is held in awe by
nine-tenths of the negro population
and his services are in demand by the
people of his race.
"You may laugh at us for believing
in our hoodoo doctor," said ono colored
woman, 'but what Is the difference be
tween him and the divine healers of
white folks?" •*
The negro people, or at least a great
majority of them, arp firm believers in
tne power of the evil spirit and go so
far as to credit some of their race with
the power to "conjure" an enemy, or
one of whom the conjurer is jeal
ous.
When such a person pay a a social
call to a supposed friend the first thing
necessary after the visit, according to
the hoodoo doctor is to throw coarse
salt over the floor of the room in which
the alleged conjurer has visited, and
then, with a vigorous movement,
sweep the salt east and west and north
and south, the while the sweeper mut
ters an/ incantation known only to the
hoodoo doctor and to his patients.
The next step is to send,for the hoo
doo doctor—the quicker the better in
order that the conjurer may not have
time to get in his deadly work or to
work any material harm to the health
or the happiness of his victim.
When the hoodoo doctor arrives
upon the scene he goes through the
salt sweeping process again and calls
upon the evil spirits to depart in
stanter. His visits are preferably
made at night, but where this is Im
practicable the room wherein lies the
victim of the dread hoodoo is darken
ed. The hoodoo doctor then proceeds
to rub his patient—always in the dark
—and the evil spirits he robs out of a
conjured patient are said to be mar
velous in size and hideous to behold.
After the rubbing process is over the
hoodoo doctor prepares a concoction
of hard boiled eggs, fresh grass in sum
mer or the dried article in winter, a
handful of twigs and several other
mysterious and more or less unpala
table ingredients, the concoction a se
cret known only to the hoodoo doctor.
This he feeds in tablespoon doses un
til he is assured that the work of the
conjurer has been destroyed and his
patient free from all the wiles to
which victims of the evil spirit are
heirs.
Once a negro has been hoodooed he
is apt to have a recurrent attack at
any time, always being more or less
susceptible to the wicked conjurer.
Thus is the hoodoo doctor in such
great demand.
"People can be hoodooed in differeht
ways," said the hoodoo doctor. "They
can be 'fixed' so they can amount to
anything or have any success in busi
ness or love or be able to keep in fair
ly good health, and they just got to
get that hoodoo out of 'em before they
ever will be anyjgood. That's what's
the matter with lots of the white folks'
failures, only they think they are too
smart to bother with the hoodoo doc
n
tor.
A Distinction. _
"A cook in one respect is different
from all human beings."
| "Why so?"
"Because, she never wants any
.. other human help in her hour of
I knead.''
Beautiful Eastern Things.
The Chinese know a lot They know
how to make the tea, and, above all,
how to keep it hot without .resorting
to setting the pot on the stove and
poisoning the drinker with tanln. And
they have given the occidentals the
tea cosey, that hoodlike cover the Eng
lish particularly affect, and padded
baskets into which the steaming tea
pot Is dropped while undergoing re
1 moval from fire to table. Some of the
1 baskets for holding precious teacups'
are like boxes intended for Jewels,
and should the American with a per
versity peculiar to her so desire, these
lovely woven willow antiques 'with
i brocaded linings might serve to hold
I her fancy work and the ever-present
I piece of-summer embroidery. Both
I Chinese and Japanese understand the
I art of enhancing the rarety of por
I celain by placing it in a "padded cell,'
I as it were. Hence the beauty o! these
I baskets.
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Des Triplex.
"Baker has lots oi brass. He shine®
In any society."
"Yes, I'd'like to know what brass
|olish he uses."
Carpets can be colored on the floor with
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Ask your
druggist. 10c per package.
Other people's happiness gives a
pessimist s headache.
FITS, St. Vitu? Dance and all Nervous
Diseases permanently cured by Dr. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer Send for Free $2.00
trial bottle and treatise. I)r-. R. H. Kline.
Ld., 931 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. •
People seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves
to copy.—Goldsmith.
Garfield Tea, which is guaranteed under
the Pure Food and Drugs Act, is the best
remedy for constipation, sick-headache,
and indigestion. It purifies the blood ana
cleanses the system. v ,
Every man Is valued in this world
as he shows by his conduct that he
wishes to be valued.—Bruyere.
It Cures While You Walk..
Alien's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for
hot, sweating, callous, and swollen, aching
feet. Sold by aH druggists. Price 25c. Don't
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Address Allen S. Olmsted. Le Roy N. Y.
Some people climb to the top for the
purpose of looking down on their
neighbors.
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Barry's Trlcopherous has been growing
hair by making scalps fertile. No
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at your druggist's or by mail postpaid.
Barclay & Ob., 45 Stone Street, N. Y.
One of the things you can't buy oa
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Are both symptoms of organic de
rangement, and nature's warning to
women of a trouble which will soon- ,
sr or later declare itself.
How often do we hear women say,
"It seems as though my back would
break." Yet they continue to drag
along and suffer with aches in the I
small of the back, pain low down in
the side, dragging sensations, nerv
ousness and no ambition.
They do not realize that the back
is the main-spring of woman's organ
ism and quickly Indicates by aching
a diseased condition of the feminine organs or kidneys, and that aches
and pains will continue until the cause is removed.
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made from native roots and herbs has been for many years the most
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of cures of feminine ills.
Miss Lena Nagel, of 117 Morgan St., Buffalo, N. Y., writett- "I was
completely worn out and on the verge of nervous prostration. My back
ached all the lime. I had dreadful periods of pain, was subject to fits
of crying and extreme nervousness, and was always weak and tired.
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the whole feminine system. ...
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Women suffering from aqy form of female weakness are invited to
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What is medicine for? To cure you, if sick, you say.
But one medicine will not cure every kind of sickness, because different
medicines act on different parts of the body. One medicine goes to the liver,
another to the spine, Wine of Cardui to the womanly organs. * So that is why
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without relief. My back and head would hurt me, and I suffered agony with bearing-down pains. At last
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Japan exported last year over $11,
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