Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-11-16
THE TROTTING OK.
1t is a Very Serviceable Animal in
India.

INDIA.
Next to the elephant in general use
fulhess in India we should be inclined
to place the ''trotting OK of India
tIot," says Mr.. Lockwood kipling.
1.-THE sloping quarter and straight hook
may possibly account for something in
their more horselike gait"
All through the Mahratta country the
OK is the common drought animal, diff
fering in speed and size according to
the work for which he is required.
Cattle of the Nagore breed, used by
rich men to draw their state carriages,
used to be kept near Delhi for carrying
dispatches. Mr.. Youatt was informed
that they would travel with a soldier on
their back fifteen or sixteen miles in
the day, at the rate of six miles an
hour
The Nagore cattle have none of the
awkward swinging motion of the legs of
the English COW. They bring their hind
legs under them in as straight line as
the horse. ''They are very active"
continues Mr.. Youatt, ''and can clear a
fve-barred gate with the greatest ease"
One owner possessed a calf which would
leap the same railing to 60 to water, and,
having drunk, leap back again.
Napoleon borrowed his idea of bull
lock transport for the first stages of his
Russian campaign from the Indian
armies, but the Indian bullocks are
shod. Napoleon's were not, and the
bullock transport was ruined before the
frontiers of Poland were reached.
A Family Laxative.
Physicians are inclined to recommend
self-medicatio to the laity. Yet there is
one need says the American Analyst, which
they are almost unable to supply. We re-
fer to the family laxative" The family
physician is able to prescribe for the most
complicated and obscure of maladies and
yet is often puzzled to know just what to
give when asked for remedy which can
be kept in the house for family use as a laXa-
tive that shall be effective, free from danger,
andnOt unpleasant to take. When absent on
our summer vacation we were asked by four
different parties, representing as many
families, What we thought of the Syrup Of
Figs" Not one word did we volunteer on
the subject, and we were somewhat sur
prised to find that there was this small
token Of the very general use OF that prepa-
ration. These parties said they derived
more benefit from it and found it more
pleasant to take than anything Of the kind
they had ever used The simple question
with them was, is it a dangerous COM
pound? We informed them that its active
ingredient was preparation of SIENNA, and
that 1t was entirely tree from danger. With
this assurance they volunteered the infor-
nation that they should continue to keep
it in the house.
The therapeutical properties of SIENNA are
so we'll known that comment on this seems
unnecessary 1t might be we'll to notice,
however, that Bartholow says it is "a very
safe and seryiceable cathartic, and that it
is "highly priced as remedy for constipa
ton" He also makes the important OBJ
servation that it's use lis not followed by in
testinal torpor and constipation"
The simple truth of the matter is, we
have altogether too few preparations which
we can recommend to our families as effec-
tive laxatives But the California Fig
Syrup Company has one of the most desir-
able combinations for this purpose with
which we are familiar. The Fig Syrup
Company gives to the profession the COM
position of this preparation, therefore
there is no secret about It; the persons who
use this laxative speak in the highest terms
about it; and we are pleased to notice that a
large number of physicians are prescrlb-
ing it.
Viewed from the narrowest and most sell
fish standpoint the physician. will lose moth
ing by recommending such preparation as
Syrup OF Figs to his patients; while viewed
from the highest standpoint of doing the
best possible by those who place themselves
in our care, we would say the profession
cannot do better than give their indorse-
ment to such a preparation.