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Show HKHCKKHKKHKHKHKHta Odd Prescription That "Cured" African Native lacy on which the treatment was based. One would like to know that witchdoctor's witch-doctor's recipe for deafness. Probably Prob-ably he gives his patients a strong infusion of the telephone directory. Manchester (Eng.) Guardian. There are modernists even among the witch-doctors of Africa, to judge by the story told by a missionary on furlough about the native who was treated - with powdered gramophone record mixed with water from a locomotive loco-motive the engine water to make him move and the record dust to make him talk. In its own way the treatment treat-ment is not illogical and it embodies an obvious compliment to the white man's capacity for "big ju-ju." It Is water that makes the engine move and the record which makes the gramophone talk the only flaw in the argument is that the patient was neither a phonograph nor a locomotive. loco-motive. However, he recovered the use of his limbs and tongue so simple sim-ple faith must have once more proved its superiority to that nasty, know-all spirit, by failing to perceive the fal- |