| Show how tha coiet wa conjured among the prisoners to be tried one morning was a negro youth who had been caught in the act of making 7 and 11 come at 5 cents a call his old mother was in a dreadful of perturbation at the predicament in which her boy found himself and dreams of chain gangs and shackles made her desperate sho called on a conjure doctor and begged for a charm that would conjure the judge and make him let tho boy go free she was given a bag filled with a fine red powder and told to sprinkle it where the judge walked when on his way to the courtroom A few minutes before the hour for the convening of the police court the old woman sprinkled the powder in the entrance to the police station on the stair steps leading up stairs and on the floor of the courtroom just as tho court waa called to order the recorder began to sneeze the policemen sneezed the witnesses the prisoners and the spectators sneezed in a little while everybody in the room was in a paroxysm of ing court was hastily adjourned and everybody made a rush for the open air every one down stairs in the station house office was sneezing and even passersby in the street joined in tho spasmodic exhalation of conjured atmosphere it was not as epidemic of grip aa at first supposed but the old comans womans wo mans con juro powder was ground cayetno pepper it only had tho effect of saving her erring son for ono day for tho next morning he got tho full limit of the law atlanta constitution |
