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Show Loaded for Witches. In witchcraft lore sliver seems to havo been credited with great powei to disperse evil spirits. In an old book on the subject one reads of a "valllant Souldler w'o had skill In Necromancy," Necro-mancy," and who always used "silver bullets to shoot away the witches." The evidences of such superstition are brought directly to th" modern eye through tho discover mado by a Pennsylvania farmer. Mr. Vedderman Is Interested In curios, cu-rios, and purchased recently an old musket at a farmhouse sale. From Its appearance the weapon antedates the revolution. It was In a deplorable state of rust, and In cleaning it tho now owner discovered that it was loaded. Ho caref"'ly withdrew the charge, and to his surprise found Instead of bullets two silver shillings, dated 1781, tightly wadded with leaves of a Bible of ancient print. Beneath tho coins was u small lock of hair and a piece o.' paper containing an Illegible Illeg-ible quotation. Tho gunpowder was coarse and undoubtedly of colonial colo-nial manufacture. Tho whole looks very much like a charmed charge, calculated cal-culated to demolish somo weird lady of the broomstick. Philadelphia Record. |