The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-01-17
NaeraOu g,stsltigeaees,
] I..lasrge.Yleaytea view of. ihe Indiau,

a Large-S -Sleaytea Flsw Of. ihe Indian.
81 don't take the came view of the
North American Indian that most peo.
pie do" said Professor Bangs in dis.
cussicn down at the grocery store I'm n
suburban town the other night. "Nov
somo think that the red man displays a
want OF good taste in declining to wash
himself, but / don't. What Is dirt7 It
is simply matter, the same kind of mat.
made of dirt, the thirgI We eat are dirt,
and they grow in the dirt; when we die die
and are buried We return again to the
dirt from which we were made. Science
say. that all dirt is clean. The savage
Indian knows this; his original mind
grasps this idea; he has his eagle eye on
science, and he has no soap. Dirt Is
warm. A layer one-sixteenth Of an inch
thick on man Is aaid by Professor Hux-
ley TO be as comfortable as 6 fifty dollar
suit oflclothess Why then, should the
child of the forest undyess himself once O
week by scraping this off, aud expose
himself to the rude blasts of winter 7
He has too much sense. His Lead 10 too
level to let him take square wash more
than once in every two hundred years,
and even then he don't rub hard.
"And then in regard to his practice of
eating dogs; why shouldn't man eat q
dog? A dog sometimes eat e man, and
turn about is fair play. A well.digested
dog slowed away on the inside OF Choc-
taw squaw does more to advance civiliza.
ton and the Christian religion than @
dog that barksl oil night in back yar,,
and makes people get up out of bed and
swear, don't it? And nothing is more
nutritious than dog. Professor Huxley
says that one pound of dogs hind leg
n0urishes the vital forces more than a
wagon.load of bread and corned beef.
II contains more phosphorus and carbon.
When dogs are alive they agree with
men, and there is no reason Why they
shouldn't when they are dead. This ma.
tion will enter upon glorious destiny
when it stops ralaing corn and potatoes,
and devotes itself more TO growing cropo
ofn%ppies.
scalping inhuman. Idon't. look upon
it as one of the most beneficent pro-
cesses ever introduced for the ameliora.
ton of the sufferiugs cf the human race.
What is hair? 1t Is an excrescence. Ii
It grows 1t costs q man O great deal OF
money and trouble to keep It cut. If it
falls out the man becomes bald and the
flies bother him. What does the Indian
do in this emergency? With character
istic sagacity he lif,s out the whole scalp,
and ends the annoyance and expense.
And then look ct the saving from other
sources. Professor Huxley estimates
that two thousand pounds of the food
that man cats in q year go to nourish
his hair. Remove that hair and yofi
save that much food. If I had my way
| would have every baby gca!ped when It
10 vaccinated, aa q measure of political
economy. That. would be craftsmanship.
have notion 20 organize % political
party on the basis of baby.scalping, and
to go on the stump to advocate 1t. If
people had any sense I might run into
the presidency as q bsby. sseesasiiper.
tAEd rs for the matter of the Indiana
wearing rings through their noses don't
see why people complain Of that. Look
ST the advantage it gives man when he
wants to bold ON TO anything. IF o hur.
ricane strikes an Indian all he does is to
hook his nose to tree, and there he 10,
fast and sound. And it gives him some.
thing to rest his pipe on when he smokes,
while, in the case Of q man with q pug.
the s;agss helf:s &c .;n ;sns HE prohoscia dewn,
and to mako 1t a Roman nose. But 1
look at him from a sanitary poirt of
view. The Indian suffers from Gasarrh.
Now what will cure that disease7 Metal
in the nose, .n which electricity can be
collected. Professor Huxley says that
the electricity in metal ring two inches
in diameter will cure more cataYrh than
all the medicines between here and Kan.
sns. The Child Of Nature with wonder.
iul instinct has perceived this, and he
teaches lis Lesson. When we, with our
higher civilization, begin to throw away
nnger-rings and eaF-riDgs and to wear
rings In our noses we Will be harder
race. am going to direct the attention
OF Congress to the matter.
Then take the objections that are
urged to the Indian practice Of driving o
stake through man and building bon,
tlre on be; ;s.sse sch, What Is thsir idea?
They want to hold that man down. If
they sit on him they will ohs.ruct the
view Of him. They put stake through
him, and there he is secured by simple
means, and If isis driven Ia carefully it
mfy do him good. Professor Huxley
says that he once knew o man who was
cured of yellow jaundice by falling on
and having sharp-pointed
paling run into him. And the bonfire
may be equally healthy. when mans
stomach ia ont Of order you put q mus.
tard plaster or it. Why3 To warm il.
The red man has the same idea. He
taxes faW faggots, lights them, and ap-
plies them to Che abdomen. Il Is certain
cnre. Professor HESiAv-n
oh, dEy. up ahont Professor Huxley 20 i
exclaimed Meig5, the storekeeper, at this
unctnre. diaE Adezer.