FRIGHTENED HIS ILLS AWAY.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 368, 28 May 1903, Page 3

FRIGHTENED HIS ILLS AWAY.

*n*tov* witfe w AflUoMoK oc apian San RtiiMn t*«.m ud ihM wm ( KbrmculotMlr Cared, ' "There are not a few recorded cases of chronic diseases and physical deformities being cured by fright or some violent emotion," said an old New Orleans resident, recently, while gossiping with, his friends at the St. Charles, relate* the Times-Democrat, "but I have read or beard nothing more extraordinary than a recent occurrence in north Louisiana. By comparison the most extravagant alleged faith cures' appear commonplace. A Mr. Hampton had tbeen a cripple for 16 years. He had an affliction otf the spine and was unable to walk. "He was oarried about from place to place by a large, powerful-limbed negro, who carried him as he would a sack of corn. Mr. Hampton would put his arms around the negro's neck. One night two laborers, who belonged to a gang which was repairing the railroad track in the vicinity, planned to steal a pig. They knew one of the farmers had butchered three pigs, and that the dxessed animal* were hanging in a barn. One of the men sneaked into the (building to get a porker while the other waited in the roadside to keep a lookout.

"It w»i an exceedingly dark night, and, as it happened, Mr. Hampton and his negro ware returning home. Suddenly,, out of the dark, loomed the form oi the black with his charge on his hack. The waiting accomplice to the pig thief thought it was his partner returning with hie greasy booty, and cried out in smothered tones': ' "Is he fat?" The negre was superstitious, as his race is wont to be, and he thought it was a ghost. .He jumped about ten feet, and Mr. Hampton was shaken off his back. The negro was a faithful feWow under ordinary circumstances, but in his fear all ties were forgotten, and he ran down the road. Mr. Hampton was greatly frightened himself, and' made a (supreme effort to follow the deserter. ■ Strange to say, he succeeded in using his limbs, and ran 800 yards hefore stopping. None of the country doctors could explain the phenomenon, but it is a fact that he was completely cured." "■■ ->.*sj( An Indians*. MftSl Tr«*. The inhabitants of the village of Chetwynd and others near by hare a unique way of receiving and sending mail. Eecently orders were received to discontinue the post office at Chetwynd because of rural mail delivery passing within half a mile of that place, and so a large elm tree at the cross roads was utilized and. made to serve as a post offioe. Thera are IT boxes attached to the tree, besides the government mail box, which is used solely for money orders, regsitered let* ters, etc. Ghetwynd gets all its mail in a large box on the left of the tree, and fully 120 people receive mail at this tree, The elm is a magnificent specimen of its kind, rising fully 300 feet, without a limb within 30 feet of the ground. It is three feet in diameter at the bottom.—lndianapolis News. Great Britain'* Wonderful I/ao4c Consider Britain's wonderful luok in the past, says a Sydney newspaper. It was a stroke of luck that made France and Spain, instead of joining to drive the English out of Canada and the West Indies, wast* their strength on the eiege of Gib* raltar, defended by an English carairy general, Elliott, who, by another queer chance, was also the beat defensive engineer in Europe. It waa another stroke of luck that ended the Crimean war before the Indian mutiny broke out, and another that prevented the late Chinese shindy breeding a European war while South Af» rioa was ablaxe.