The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-06

| In between joints there are big woody
| KNOBS, sometimes the size of your fist.
| From these the pipes are carved out
they are gathered by the carload from old
fields down in Virginia. From these
same woody KNOBS you get the medicinal
| virtues. Virtues Is almost too weak q
word. I've known a dozen cases at least
| in which they were actual salvation to
life and reason.
''They were cases of hysteria. COM
pllcated with faintness, sleeDl essness and
complete loss OF appetite. Perhaps you
don't know it, but, although IL is uncom-
mon, men may become hysterical the
same as women. Hystena is a nerve dis
order variously excited. Therefore. the
saw-brier must be as much q nervine as
a tonic. The fresher the root the better.
When just out Of the ground the woody
KNOBS cut almost like wax. If they dry
out they become tough and fibrous, ana
neither taste nor smell as they did when
fresh dug. The wood of them is tasteless
so much so you would take 1t TO be
wholly inert But II is no such thing. The
bark alone, which is bitter and full OF
curious favors will not answer as med
icine. The whole root is cut In bits
ed into a bottle and covered with pure
corn whisky. After it has stood six hours
it is fit to take. The dose is all the pa
tient can bear-it is usually taken in
nlIcCGy AHS DSNea~. -
appears to act directly upon the mucous
surfaces, to tone them all, and set them
about their proper business. Thus, IL
there are morbid secretions, they give
place gradually, therefore safely, to nor>
NAL ones. Few things are more injurious
than to have morbid secretions too sud-
denly dried up. The secretion is natures
effort to be rid of poisonous stuff. III the
robson is reabsorbed it is certain 20 come
out again with ten-fold its original
venom.
seThen there Is the blackberry, also the
dew-berry. Both in root and fruit, teeth
ing infants and their mothers nave rea-
son to be more than grateful to ootn.
Blackberry cordial has saved thousands
of babies-so has syrup made from dew
berry root. But the best thing OF all
is a cordial from both the root and fruit.
ITO make 1t, boil a peck of well washed
roots In five gallons of water until re-
duced to one gallon. Strain, boil up
again, and skim well. Then mix with
the strained Juice of half a bushel OF
berries, boiled for ten minutes before
straining. Boil the mixture five minutes,
skimming it very clean, then put in five
pounds of loaf sugar, an ounce OF whole
cloves, an ounce of alspice. the same
amount of ginger, and handful of cara
way seed Boil for fifteen minutes long
err, take from the fire and add good corn
whisky in the proportion of one quart to
two quarts of the juice. When cold
strain out the spices, bottle and seal.
The older this Is the better. 1t is not
only cure for bowel troubles, but an ex
cellent preventive. A teaspoonful to
tablespoonful in water the FIRST thing
in the morning will take you safe through
the sickliest summer. even in an UNI
healthy locality.
"Then there's the hedge rose. Per-
haps you don't know It's common name.
dog-rose, comes from the fact that "
was long reckoned cure for hydropho-
bia. 1t was. just the same-further, the
big red hips were held first rate cures
for chillblans not to mention being
lucky. In that respect they came next
to rue-the herb of grace, which pre-
served against lightning, bewitchment.
and murrain in cattle"