The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, November 02, 1922, Page 3, Image 3
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foe Muxiday, Healer
of Buzzard Roost
Greenwood, Oct. 28.?Possessed of
power from God to cure divers maladies,
he firmly believes, Joe Munday,
healer of Buzzard Roost, is watching
the world beat a path to his door over
a narrow, spring-breaking road, up
Buzzard Roost Hill and around the
bend to the ancient home of the Munday's.
Many believe in the power of
Joe Munday to cure disease, and as
his fame increases, the distance leng
thens over which come the lame, the
sick and the halt. One day last
week, a North Carolinian, suffering
from cancer, wended his wearisome
way up Buzzard Roost Hill and
sought the power of the healer. Every
day, from far and near, sufferers
with all sorts of diseases, beseech
Joe Munday to look at them;
for that's all be does, just looks
at them, and lo, the disease is healed,
so he claims, and so many who
have visited him claim.
Munday is about 60 years of age,
ana an ms lire, ne uas nveu uccti
Buzzard Roost. He is a hunter,
such as Nimrod was, and Buzzard
Roost is not far from the swamps
of Long Cane, where fat grey squirrels
scurry up the tall willow-oaks
and one's gun may speak often.
Where Buzzard Roost Is.
Buzzard Roost 5s little more than
, a hill, buf a hill steeper than most
hills are, between Hodges and Abbeville.
There is a graveyard there,
and one or two old grey houses nearby
but aside from that, only open
fields and patches of woods surround
Buzzard Roost. A topsoil road is
being constructed through the illnamed
community and soon the home
of the so-called healer will be accessible
to those who seek his power.
In the years before the 18th amendment,
when men journeyed to
Abbeville for the "wee drop" that
they brought back within and without,
the steep hill between Hodges
and Abbeville proved the Waterloo of
many of the soggy tipplers, and there
they perched in flocks, so the legend
runs, and thereby came the name.
Buzzard Roost.
Hard to Find Healer at Home.
To find Joe Munday at home, one
must go early jand wait late. Frequently
he shoulders his gun and
goes early into th& solitude of the
forest, only returning at nightfall.
If one wishes to see him, one must
wait. ,
Such was the fate a newspaper
man and his companion who visited
the Munday home a few days
ago, to get a picture of the healer
and hear from his lips, the source
of his power. But Munday had gone
into the Long Cane swamp, and the
distant echo of his gun told of turn
Dling squirrels tnat were nmng nis
Hunting bag. Seeing the healer, was
out of the question, but his sister-inlaw,
Mrs, A. H. Munday, told of his
power.
Mrs. Munday sat in the back hall
of the old Munday home and told
how Joe had learned the power to
heal by looking at a sufferer from his
wifea, who died several years ago, and
left him the gift of healing as a legacy.
The Munday home is grey and
weatherbeaten. It is a rambling old
house, a story 2nd a half, with wide
wind-swept hallway through the middle.
A chimney at each end furnishes
means of heat "in winter. A fev^
sleepy jhounds dozed in the backyard
oblivious of the strange story
Mr. Munday was relating.
"Joe worked on this child last
night," she declared, indicating her
small daughter on her lap. "She is
about well now, but she had a bad
case of thrash before Joe looked at
her. Here, honey, open your mouth
. and let the man see how you're cured
up," and the child obediently opened
a mouth that was rapidly clearing of
the "thrash" eruption.
"Yes, Joe works some marvelous
cure's," Mrs. Munday continued.
"People come here from 'most everywhere
and wait on him. He gets
letters by the hatful and I just told
him today we would have to get
somebody to read them and answer
them, as some are written so bad
we can't make 'em out."
"Joe don't charge anything unless
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way he works it. And he will wait
to see whether you're goin' to be
cured before he collects. No, he never
takes jany money unless the patient
is perfectly cured and satisfied. He
cures pellagra for $5, and it's worth
it if you've ever had it. 'Course, he
-waits to see whether the cure works
before he'll touch the money. If
he didn't the power would leave him.
And then if he told anybody how he
got his power, it would leave him,
too. He believes it came from God,
but he won't tell anybody how.
"Joe says that he can tell when
yirture goes out of him when he is
making a cure, because his mouth
gets sore. Stays sore pretty near all
the time, I reckon.
'The power to cure disease has
fceen in Joe for years, and it's grow
PEOPLE WITHOUT A BOSS
Little Island in Atlantic Has No Civil
or Military Head. i
Half-way between Africa and
South America, in the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean, live a people without
a ooss, writes Rhoda Lee Dodge in
the Mentor Magazine. Their country
is the Isand of Tristan da Cunha, '
named after himself by the Portu- <
guese explorer that discovered it 1
four hundred years ago. A volcanic 1
peak, eight thousand feet high, tops
the island; at its base are tall cliffs
that rise like gray tombstones over !
the graveyard of ships. Diving down
to the Antarctic, storms sweep ships !
impotently before them on to the 1
rocks of Tristan da Cunha and the '
adjacent Nightingale and Inacces- 1
sible islands. .Most of the islanders
were unwilling visitors; they had no 1
choice, but reached the forbidding 5
shores in torn and dripping clothes, 1
or no clothes at all?sailors saved '
from shipwreck. '
A century ago, England sent, troops 1
there to watch for ships that might (
try to rescue Napoleon, who was confined
on St. Helena, a thousand miles !
away. When the troops were recalled ;
William Glass, a soldier, and his wife ]
asked to stay. As years passed and
the toll of wrecked ships grew, Glass, \
his family, and the castaways be- 1
came a British colony. Wives were ^
imported and an annual mail service *
supplied. The mail service was dis- 1
continued, however, when it was dis- 1
covered that scarcely a dozen pieces
ha been delivered in a year. A tele- ^
scope and a set of flags are now the *
sole means of communication. At the 1
cry of "Sail ho!" boats put to sea *
and cross the dangerous waters to
barter vegetables, mutton, and wild- (
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Ao f o lr i o f o*? fl oim oaa/?o t*o rv r\ ^ p% a n
VwO,l/ OX\ 111 1^/1 ilUUi J OCUUO) 1 U L puiouu,
needles, cloth, and candles; and to
hear the news and perhaps get mail.
Rat poison is an important import,
for the island swarms with rodents
from stranded vessels. Wrecks are
common.
Actually, noSe of the colonists need
stay. The British have repeatedly offered
to move them to a friendlier
country. Some left, but returned
later, bringing families with them to
share the easy going life. "So the population
fluctates. At present there'
are about one hundred men, women,-,
and children living there. They represent
several nationalities; but Eng- *
lish is the language spoken.
Most of the wivesare dark-skinned. 1
The only woman contributed to the
colony by the sea was an East Indian t
stewardess from Calcutta.
Houses in the village of Edinburgh s
at the foot of the mountain, are 1
strongly built to resist storms, and .
are furnished with cabin doors, ward- *
room tables, copper pots, and other *
salvage.
The ^fugees have no civil or military
head, no council or court Ojf law.
Each man is his own boss. For sixty
years, Peter Green, a Dutch sailor, f
acted unofficially as judge, but when 8
he died in 1902 no one succeeded ,
\ i
him. Crimes and disputes are rare, c
On the whole* island there are probably
not twenty-five dollars in cur- j
reiiey. v>rops aua guous are equally ,
shared, and when the population is f
increased by wreck, the cost of main- '<
taining the newcomers is cheerfully 'c
divided among all the settlers.
Queen Alexandra has a pair of ^
opera glasses, made in Vienna, valued
at $25,000. They are of platinum* 1
set with diamonds, rubies and sap- j
phires. ]
ing on him. He cured Alice Williams
of pellagra. Alice is a nigger that
lives over there. And here the other ]
day, Mrs. Mollie Nickles sent for Joe ^
to come to her place quick to^ cure j
mule that had got cut. When Joe got <
there the mule was pretty near dead, ]
but Joe looked him in the eye and the J
blood stopped, and they went back to j
plowing. Joe can always stop bleed- ]
ing. Hje can cure eczema and any kind ]
of skin disease. I know he can cure }
pellagra because he cured my daugh- j
ter. Her arms were all red and sore, ]
but after Joe looked at her scaled off 1
and she is well,'' Mrs. Munday as- j
serted. j
The healer of Buzzard Roost says (
the power to heal can be transmit- <
ted from a female to a male mem- |
ber of his family, but not to one
of the same sex. For instance, a 1
mother can transmit the power to a
BEGGAR IS RICH.
Legless .Man Travels Around In a
Sedan.
Frederick Hammitt, 4G, leglass
beggar extraordinary, in jail in New
Yorw bewailed the misfortune that
had befallen him.
Hammitt, arrested for selling pencils
in the police crusade against beggars,
denies the stories told of his re-|
putea weana. ne misiea mat iic was
i merchant and not a beggar.
"They say I am rich because I have
an automobile," the prisoner almost
sobbed in telling his life's story.
'IBeeause I have no legs, may I not
tiave anything else? I spent $550 for
that machine. I wouldn't sell it for
$3,000, but that doesn't say I spent
that much for it.
"I will be rich some day though. In
that sedan of mine is a perfected gear
shift and other apparatus necessary
:o a safe operation of an automobile
3y a person minus one leg or both. I
am going to patent that contrivance,
and then watch. No more selling pencils.
"They say I have five bank books
and a $20,000 ranch im North Dakota
rhey lie. They lie. What they meant
is I did have all that."
Hammitt then recounted the interring
story of the rise of his fortune
in oil stocks, its investment in the
:arm which reaped large profits and
:he loss of almost all his money when
:he crops failed and the stock market
vent against him. He also told of the
Deautiful four-room apartment that
ie converted from a barn in Waltham, Mass.,
with a few hundred dollars renaming
from the wreck of his fortune.
Most of the time, Hammitt said, he
Irives about the country cooking and
deeping in his car, comfortably fitted ,
vith a kitchenette, sleeping Quarters
md a wardrobe, selling his pencils.
The alleged wealthy mendicant
dosed his woeful table with this bit
>f philosophical reflection:
"They call me a beggar. They say
am an example.
"The Lord has certainly caused me
o be legless so that you people who
lave your legs realize how kind He
las been to you."
Something Wrong.
The new'arrival had just passed the
)early gates and was gazing around
:uriously. Suddenly his face grew
)ale.
"Wha-What?" he gasped. "Surely |
his isn't heaven?" '
"It certainly is," St. Peter reasmred
him. "What makes you doubt
t?"
"Why, it can\t be," remonstrated
he latest citizen. "That angel over
.here in the corner used to be a New
fork taxicab driver."
TAX NOTICE.
The treasurer's office will be open
:or the collection of state, county,
ichool and all other taxes from the
L5th day of November, 1922, until
;he 15th day of March, 1923, in:lusive.
From the first day of January,
1923, until the 31st day of January,
L923, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be
idded to all unpaid taxes. From the
'irst dr j of February* 1923, until the
28th day of February,1923, a penilty
of 2 per cent, will be added to all
mpaid taxes. From the first day of
March, 1923, until the 15th of
March 1923, a penalty of 7 per cent.
arill hp nHripri tn nil nrmnirl Isyac
son. The power ha9 been in his fam- J
ily for generations, Munday claims. '
The healer is heavy set and free- <
kled. He farmed until his wife died
and his children all married; now
he does little but hunt and heal. He ]
is a Methodist and believes devoutly ]
in his religion.
Throughout his section of the
country the strange hunter's power 1
is known and respected. Many of his
neighbors corroborate the stories of :
cures that sound miraculous. Few of
them scoff and many of them insist
that they believe Mundav is endowed
with some supernatural gift, j
He rarely ventues far from home, .
going to Abbeville only occasionally
on Saturdays.
The Levy.
Eor State purposes 7 1-2 mills
Eor county purposes 7 mills
Constitution school tax....3 mills
?"or highway purposes ....1 1-2 mills
Total 19 mills
Special School Levies.
Bamberg, No. 14 21 1-2 mills
Binnaker's No. 12 3 mills
Buford's Bridge, No. 7 4 mills
Clear Pond, No. 19 2 mills
Colston, No. 18 9 mills
Denmark, No. 21 16 mills
Ehrhardt, No. 22 19 mills
Eish Pond, No. 5 2 mills
Govan, No. 11 12 mills
Hutto, No. 6 6 mills
Hampton, No. 3 2 mills
Hey ward, No. 24 . 2 mills
Hopewell, No 1 3 mills
Hunter's Chapel, No. 16 12 mills
Lees, No. 23 8 mills
Lemon Swamp, No. 13 4 mills
Little Swamp, No. 17 8 mills
Midway, No. 2 2 mills
Dak Grove, No. 20 10 mills
Dlar, No. 8 16 mills
Dakland, No. 15 8 mills
3t. John's, No. 10 8 mills
Salem, No. 9 12 mills
rhree-Mile, No. 4 8 mills
West End, No. 25 10 mills
All persons between the ages of 21
and 60 years, except Confederate soldiers
and sailors, who are exempt at
50 vears, are liable to a poll tax of
SI.00.
Capitation dog tax, $1.25.
All male persons who were 21
vears of a?e on or before the first
[lay of January, 1921, are liable to a
poll tax of SI, and all who have not
made returns to the auditor are requested
to do so on or before the
first day of January, 1922. and thereby
save penalty and costs.
I will receive the commutation
road tax of two ($2.00) dollars from
the loth day of November, 1922 to
the 15th day of March, 1923.
In addition to the above levies
there is a three mill levy for drainage
on all property in the town of
Bamberg and some of the surrounding
territory.
G. A. JENNINGS,
Treasurer of Bamberg County.
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