Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — THE SAVAGE WAY. [ARTICLE]

THE SAVAGE WAY.

How the Indian Treats an Injury— Old Time Methods. The savage is emphatically the child of nature. He lives close to nature, his only education is gained ip nature’s ■chool. . - ' When the Indian receives an injury, he does not seek a cure in mineral poisons, but binds on tlie simpie leaf, administers the herbal tea, and, with nature’s aid, comes natural recovery. Our rugged ancestors, who pierced the wilderness, built their uncouth but comfortable Log Cabins and started the clearings in the woods, which in time became the broad, fertile fields of the modern farmer,, found in roots and herbs that lay close at hand fiature’s potent remedies for all their common ailments. It was only in very serious cases they sent for old “saddle-bags” with his physic, which quite as often killed as cured. Latter day society has wandered too far away from nature, in every way, for its own good. Our grandfathers and grandmothers lived wholesomer, purer, better, healthier, more natural lives than we do. Their minds were not filled with noxiousisms, nor their bodies saturated with poisonous drugs. Is it not time to make a change, to return to the simple vegetable preparations of our grandmothers, which contained the power and potency of nature as remedial agents, and in all the ordinary ailments were efficacious, at least harmless?

The proprietors of Warner’s Log Cabin remedies have thought so, and have put on the market a number of these pure vegetable preparations, made from formulas secured after patient searching into the annals of the past, so that those who want them need not be without them. Among these Log Cabin remedies will be found “Log Cabin sarsaparilla,” for the blood; “Log Cabin hops and buchu remedy,” a tonic and stomach remedy; “Log Cabin cough and consumption remedy,” “Log Cabin hair tonic,” for strengthening and renewing the hair; "'LogCabin extract,” for both external and internal application; “Log Cabin liver pills;” “Log Cabin rose cream,” an old but effective remedy for catarrh, and “Log Cabin plasters.” All these remedies are carefully prepared from recipes which were fotind, after long investigation, to have been those most successfully used by our grandmothers of “ye olden time.” They are the simple, vegetable, efficacious remedies df Log Cabin days.

Norse Discovery of America. Chicago luter Ocean. Those gathered in the hall, however, were not disappointed, for they listened to an interesting and instructive lecture by Miss Marie Brown on theiNorse discovery of America, who claimed that this country was discovered by Leif Erickson, an Iceland Viking, in the year 1000 of our era or 500 years before Columbus reached these shores, and that he and his party sailed along the continent from Baffin’s Bay to Florida and planted colonies along the route, and a particularly strong one in the neighborhood of Narragansett Bay. The Scandinavians, she maintains are the fountain head and authors of all modern civilization and true liberty. The pretensions of Columbus as the discoverer of America she derides, and charges that he and Rome had known of the discoveries of the Norsemen and concealed the information in order that the church and not heretics should credited with the glory of the discovery. Commbus first learned of the discovery of America on a visit to Iceland in 14'47,and cunningly hid the information that he himself might be immortalized. The lecture was illustrated with many stereopticon views of famous places, scenery and personages of Scandinavian lands. Miss Brown thinks that there are in in the Vatican and Propaganda libraries, old monkish manuscripts and documents which will establish beyond all dispute her claim that America was discovered by Leif Erickson and his venturesome Icelandic companions in the year 1000.