Show A queer superstition abram a farmer living in leaver township aa cut down a large oak tree on his farm and in cutting it up lie found embedded in abc trunk seven or eight feet from alic ground ii small glass bottle and what had alie appearance of a lock of leair the boelle had been in a liole in the tree made by on luger then a pine plug was driven into aliu hole over alic the hair also bedig held in alic hole by the plug the w us corked and contained a colorless over the plug had grown six solid rings of wood besides i thick bark there was a superstition among the early settlers and it is licud by many of their aliat asthma and oilier affections could bu cured by the victim standing against hie tree and having a lock of hair plugged in it the leair wa still attached to his licad it must then be cut oft close to his head and the afflicted person walk anway without looking at it or over picking ing by alic tree again while alic use of n bottle was not included in this treatment it is believed eliat alie one with the leair discovered in hie heart of lie oak tree was put in the emly anys of alie liy ocic believer in llie to cure an of kind lumber ll 11 wm |