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Show A Negro's Toudoo Charm. "Come in here," said Warden McKlnney, at the county jail the other day; "I want to Ehow you something you never saw before," Tho reporter walked in and tho speaker handed him a queer looking flannel bag, tied at the mouth with a yard of string. The strange object was a genuine voudoo charm. Which had just been taken from a negro prisoner. pris-oner. Tho darky had parted with It as a homeless, friendless man, out of a situation, parts with bis last dollar, The bag contained tome bard substance and the reporter's ouriosity was excited. He undid the string, and, inserting his finger into tho bag, brought to light another mystery. It waa a rabbit foot, but so wrapped in strings and red rags as to be barely recognizable. Next to the fur on the foot was wound some kind of a flexible reed, not larger than a knitting needle, nee-dle, aud over this wus wound a dozen yards of thread. Dangling from the foot were i three small pieces of red flannel cut in the shape of a diamond, heart and cross respectively. respect-ively. Over the whole was slipped a covering cover-ing that might originally have been the finger fin-ger of a kid glove. Then the entire arrangement arrange-ment was Inclosed in the Uttle bag and tied i about the neck. This was the luck bog or ; charm which the owner confidently relied on j to heal any wound, cure any disease, or win any game. Birmingham (Ala.) Age. |