Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-10-29
Log Cabin Grandmothers.

An Indiana doctor has recently discov-
cred in a common weed whose medicinal
qualities have never before been suspect
ed. a valuable remedy fol- bowel disorders.
There is nothing particularly strange
about this fact.
Nothing.
And yet the very simplicity of the new
discovery would, with some, seem to
throw just doubt upon it's power To
make it one has only to pour hot water
over the leaves of the plant. In its prep
aration no vast chemical works and APP
pliances are required.
Is it to be wondered at since such
plainly prepared remedies are accounted
as of such great merit in these days, that
such wonderful results attended our
grandmothers, whose teas and infusions
of roots and herbs and balsams, have ex-
erted so great an influence in the main
tenance of health and life?
Certainly not
The greatest pieces of machinery strike
US most by their exceeding simplicity.
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mothers remedies was their freshness
and simplicity. Every autumn found the
little Log Cabin abundantly supplied with
fresh leaves, roots, herbs and balsams,
which were carefully dried and prepared
and laid away for use Dreading to call
doctor because of the expensiveness of
his far-made trips, they Immediately gave
attention to the disease and routed it be-
fore it had gained a foothold.
The old Log Cabin grandmother. in cap
and high tucked gown, and perchance
bespectacled in rough silver, her weary
feet encased in ''hum made slips, is the
dear sweet nurse who rises to the view of
many a man and woman to-day as the
! early years of life pass in retrospect.
The secrets of grandmother's medicines
were rapidly being forgotten and the
world was not growing in the grace of
| good health. To restore the lost art of
| log cabin healing has been for years the
desire of we'll known philanthropist in
whose ancestral line were eight "goodly
physicians" of the old style, men who
never saw medical college save in the
woods, nor a ''medical diploma" except
that inscribed on the faces of healthy and
long lived patients. Much time and mon
ey was expended in securing the old for
mul@, which to-day are put forth as LOG
Cabin remedies, "-sarsapari1la, hops and
buchu, cough and consumption, and sew
elal others, by Warner, whose name is
famous and standard for medical excel
lence all over the globe. These oldest
newest and best preparations have been
recognized as Of such superexcellence
that to-day they can be found with al
leading dealers.
When Col. Ethan Allen was making
history along our northern frontier dur
ing the revolution, Col. Seth Warner, the
fighting Sheridan of that army, who wa:
a skillful natural doctor, used many sucl
remedies, notably like the Log Cabin ex
tract, sarsapariIla and cough and con
sumption remedy, among the soldier.
with famous success.
They are noble inheritance which We
of to-day may enjoy to the full, as did on
forefathers, and using, reap, as did they
the harvest of life full of days and full
of usefulness.
To remove paint-Sit down on it be
fore it is dry.
To-day is important. Yesterday ha
gone. To morrow never comes. Tax
care of your cough to-day by using Wal
ner's Log Cabin Cough and Consumptio