Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1888 — LENGTH OF DAYS. [ARTICLE]

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Five Hundred Year* Old—la Living a Lost Art? Is life worth living? In the days of long ago people seemed to think it was, if the length of time they devoted to becoming acquainted with its lights and shadows is any criterion. It would seem as though life mnst have afforded much of enjoyment in the good old days. Sophnclei hung on until he was 13C years old, then penshed by an accident Attila was 124 when he died of the consequence of a revel on the night of his second marriage. This is a warning to young men. Epemenides was 157 at his regretted decease. Crowns did not sit so heav.ly on the brows of monarchs as they seem latterly to da Fohi, the founder of the Chinese Empire, reigned 115 years, and so did Apaphns of Thebes Egyptian. Tacitus gives I<s years to Tuisco, a German prince. Daddon, an lllynan noble, lived for 500 years, according to Alexander Cornelius. The art of living seems to be one of the many “lost arts,” which the dark ages covered over, ana modern civilization has not yet been able to uncover. It is certain long life was not secured by using mineral poisons as remedies for disease. That is essentially modern practice. The an tients doubtless drew on the laboratory of nature for their medicines, hence the span of their lives was naturally extended. -v We know that our immediate ancestors fdund their medicines in the fields and foreste, adjoining their log cabin homes. These natural remedies were efficacious and harm-less-left no poison in the system. Physicians were rarely called in, and the people lived to rugged and hearty old age. Is it not worth while to return to their wholesome methods of cure for common ailments? H. H. Warner & Co., proprietors of Warner’s Safe Cure, have introduced to the public a line of Log Cabin remedies, and their name indicates their character. They include a “Sarsaparilla,” “Hops and Buchu Remedy,” “Cough and Consumption Remedy,” “Extract for External and Internal Use, “ “Rose Cream,” for Catarrh, “Scalpine,” for the Hair, “Liver Pills,” and “Porous Plaster.” They are carefully compounded from actual recipes, the most efficacious in use by our grandparents, and those who would like to try the virtues of old-time remedies, have an opportunity to secure the best in “Warner’s Log Cabin Rem-