The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-04

also know the habits of venomous rep
 tiles and insects.
 On reaching the age of puberty tn
 Indian youth entered upon his dream
 fast-to remain in solitude in the deel the law. In the meantime, from dreams
 and visions, his life mission would bt revealed to him whether he was to be come leader, warrior, hunter or medi cine man.
 One of the duties of this fast was tt expose himself to death by wild ami mals or coaxing some reptile to attack him. Knowing the cure, he was confid- ent of success in the strife. Therefore arming himself with forked stick usually the plant willow, at the end oi which he fastened bunch of the leaves and roots of the wild violet, he would proceed to his forest obligation.
 He must sit in the shadows watching a rattlesnake's den in the rocks until the snake crawled out into the sun shine, when stealthily creeping behind 1t he would wave the wand in front of the reptile until it became sleepy, then tease it until it struck at him. Upon receiving the venomous thrust | the youth administered to himself the antidote by binding across the wound a poultice of crushed violet leaves. The snake must be killed. Its rattles must be suspended from the fork of the will low wand when he returned to his peo- pie after his fast was ended. He must also show the unmistakable scar of the fangs of the reptile.
 The wild violet usually grows in re- aions where rattlesnakes are found but growing in every meadow are other simples known to the Indian hunter. Bruised wild violets leaves will relieve the pain of the stings of wasps, bees or any other poisonous insect The Iro- quois Indian of to-day compounds an ointment, of which the violet is an es- sential portion, which is described as being a rare remedy in vicious eruptions including cancerouS groWths.
 As early as 1,595 it was by the medi- cal Knowledge of an Indian that Car tiers exploring expedition was saved. or all the company only four were free from the malignant scurvy from which many had died when the Indian medi- cine man prepared decoction from the
 
 the scourge and restored the explorers to health. Unfortunately the name of the tree was not known to the explor- CTS. By the descent of Indian medicine lore it comes to the present generation as the buds and fingers or young branches of the hemlock spruce tree.
 The maidenhair fern leaves dried in an oven to powder and mixed with animal oil such as bears grease and with one or two other roots is an Iro- quois prescription which allays the tor ture of poison ivy,
 Indian hemp has been in the medi- cine bag of the Iroquois always, and is used in dropeical conditions.
 Indian cucumber Is a diuretic which was known to the red man centuries before the modern so-called kidney cures of the paleface.
 Turkey root or yarrow, sometimes added to Indian tobacco, rendered it more intoxicating to the red man who had his ide-awake dreams. "Yangwa' is the Irouois name for tobacco al- though the latter, by an error of the early Spa niard, has become it's current name. "Tobac," the true Indian word, is merely the stem CT tube of the pipe. Gentian, or ginseng, was a root well known to the Indian medicine man pos sibly centuries before the Illyrian King Gentius, for whom it was named, dis covered it's remedial virtues. That wayside traveller, the common milkweed, figures in the rehumatism cures of the ha-dah-gwas, or medicine conjurer. Burdock leaves, applied as a poul- tice, are the Indian cure for headache pr neuralgia. Bloodroot is the astrngent of the | bag that heels sore throat
 Wild appleroot is tonic essential to he medicine man.
 Wild turnip, cooked with maple syrup, | $ the Indian remedy for a cough. Wild blackberry leaves macerated, or he roots steeped to a tea, are admin stered by the medicine man as a cer- ain check to the most persistent bowel | 
 The smut of green corn is parasite with which the Indians will stop the , lowing of blood from a wound--gun- ihot or other.
 Fungus growth are uncommon to the pine, yet there is a certain excrescence considered by the Indian to be super natural which sometimes presents it. elf near the top of the tall pine tree. Legend says that this is some strange being gone astray and hiding from | tight, that can see, hear and speak
 If an Indian hears it cry on his way trough the woods, evil and woe will ,efall him. It cries whenever the wind trikes 1t.
 Modern investigation shows that, be- ng porous and not firmly attached to he tree, by it's vibrant ualites when he wind strikes it it responds in a sort f whistle. In time, when it grows i'd and hard, it falls from the tree. To the Indian who finds it will come .reat power and luck It is divided in- O bits no larger than a pea and d's- ributed as compensation, for favors or lck tokens; it also possesses rare medi- inc power.-From the New York Sun.
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