Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — Remedy for Indigestion. [ARTICLE]

Remedy for Indigestion.

Here is rather a curious remedy, bnt 4b many cases a very certain for the core of indigestion. It is simply the cultivation of a habit of chewing, while out of doors, different kind of green leaves and swallowing the juice. One can always cull a leaf from a hedge or j>ush as one passes. Almost all are good that are nauseous, such as the ivy, or poisonous laurel-leaf. . One of the latter, however, is a capital thing where there ,is. a. slight irritation of the stomach. The.chewing of leaves cures dyspepsia, principally, I believe, by. increasing the 4ow Of salivary juice, and partly by the t fonio and stimulating action of the leaf ehewed. The leaves that occur to me at present as most likely to be beneficial Me (hose of the pine-trees spruce or Scotch fir, blackthorn, currant and rose bushes, mint, the petals of many flowers, the stalks of mountain-daisies, the white portion of rushes, the bark of many young trees, and the tender parts of the stalks of green wheat, oats, or almost any of the larger grasses; but your own taste mlxst in a great measure guide you, if you elect to make trial of any remedy. I should say, however, that the chewing is'better, to take place before or between mpafe than immediately after.

ii John Brown writes that he never .enn forget an incident during the cholera in 1832: “One morning a sailor came to say I must go three miles down the river to a village where it had broken out with great fury. Off I set. We rowed in silence down the dark river, passing the huge- hulks, and hearing the restless convicts turning in their beds in their chain*. The men rowed with all their might: they had too many dying or dead at home to have the heart to speak tome. We got near the place. It was Very dark, but I saw a crowd of men and women on the shore at the landing place, all shouting for the doctor. We were near the shore, when I saw a big, old man. hi* , hat off, his hair gray, his head partly bald. Ho said nothing, bnt turning them all off with his arm, he plunged into the sea, and before I knew where lie was he had me in his arms, t was helpless os an infant. He waded oiit with me, carrying me high np W his left arm, and, with his right levelling every man or woman who stood lhhis way. It was Big Joe, carrying me to see his grandson, little Joe. He bore mb off to the poor, convulsed boy, and (1 tired me to leave him till he was Detter. He did get better, but Big Joe was dead ttiat night. He had the disease on him tvhen he carried me away from the boat, bnt his heart was set upon his boy. I can never forget how terribly in earnest he was.”

I Dr. D. Rawls, of Oonnersville, Ind., pr°" oounceaDr. Ball’s Cough Syrup as an infallible remedy m the community. He says it finds a ready sale at all timer. It s the people’s remedy. A Mortgage. —ln the whole range ot sacred and profane literature, perhaps there is nothing recorded which lias %uch staying qualities as a good healthy mortgage. A mortgage can be depended upon to stick closer than a brother. It has a mission to perform which never lets tip. Day after day it is right there, hot does the slightest tendency to slumber impair its vigor in the night Night taid day, on the Sabbath, and at holiday times, without a moment’s time for rest and recreation, the biting offspring of It* existence, interest goes on. The seasons may change, days run into weeks, weeks into months, and monthd may be swaftopred up into the gray man of advancing years, but that mortgage stands up in sleepless vigilance, with the interest,* perrennial stream ceaselessly running on. like a huge nightmare eating opt of the sleep of some restless slumberer, the unpaid mortgage rears up its gppnt front in perpetual torment to the miserable wight who is held within its pitiless clutch. It holds the poor victims Tprith the relentless grasp of a giant; not one hour of recreation, not a nap* hint's evasion of its hideous presence. J? Q W. of modifying asppet yfflt.W® .interest is paid; a very devil qf hopeless destruction when tlie pay-

* -‘-A 1 story is told of a man in Con■'CellCut who fell from the roof Of a flvestofybuilding to the sidewalk:'but as he strode on the thick soles of his rob-ber-boots, lie bounded back within a quarter of an inch of the roof, and so continued to bounce, the distance decreasing by only a quarter of an inch at each journey. He subsisted on hash enclosed in robber balls, which he managed to catch on the bound, and at die end of a month, was stopped and restored to his family. •».One day of domestic felicity is worth a year ot public gratitude and enjoyment.