The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-09-17

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thcr famous English poets also &C
t@pted the teachings Of Pythagoras,
which are at the present time taught
and practiced in the strictest manner
ly the famous Russian writer and re-
former, Count Leo Tolstoi.
t.The Brook Farm EXPERIMENT.
Half century ago there gathered on
4 little farm not far from New Haven,
conn. the most remarkable coterie Of
l.>u and Women WHO have ever been
associated in any community in mod
>Crn times. George Ripley, the most
famous Unitarian minister of. New
England at that period, was the found
CT of the community. The practical
realization of the Pythagorian philoso-
Fly was the central idea of the Brook
Farm experiment. Among the 40 mem
hers of the community, most of whom
afterward became eminent in various
professions and callings, were Emer-
son, the philosopher; Bronson Alcott,
the transcendentalist; Thoreau, the in
terpreter of nature; Margaret Fuller,
the educational reformer; Charles
Dana, the founder of the New York
Sun, and Hawthorne, one Of the great
est literary lights Of the century. The
Brook Farm experiment failed for lack
of financial management, but the
ideals survived.
The Wonderful Discovery of a Sile-
sian Peasant.
A little less than 100 years ago a
fourteen-year-old peasant boy, who was
barely able to read and had not been
taught to write. while engaged in cut
ting wood on a mountain near his
home, observed a wounded deer bath
ing its injured leg in one of the numer-
Gus springs which abound in that par
ticular region. Day after day the deer
came and bathed the damaged parts
until entirely healed of it's injury.
priessnitz soon after suffered a severe
accident from which the physicians
who were consulted declared he could
not recover. He tried the deer's rem
edy, applying water by means of wet
cloths placed over the injured parts,
and in few weeks was quite restored
to health. He induced others to try his
remedy and invented many different
way Of applying water by means Of
baths, douches, packs, congresses and
various other methods. Before he was
twenty he had become famous. Dur
ing the first half Of the last century the
little village of Graefenberg, where he
lived, was thronged with invalids from
oil over the world, including many ply
sicians and notable people of high sta
ton. government officials, princes, lords,
barons: msrquises, who sought relief hy
the employment of water skillfully ap-
piled by attendants acting under the
of this prophet of a new
method in therapeutics.
Institutions known as water cures"
rapidly sprang up in France, Germany,
and America, and for twenty
five or thirty years prospered greatly.
Failure came at last because of lack
Of knowledge of scientific principles and
the employment Of crude and empirical
methods.
The Natural Method of Cure.
The water cure" was the forerunner
of something better. 1t embodied the
great principle that mature heals"
Something more than thirty years ago
a small group Of men organized in
Battle Creek a work which later grew
into what is now known as the Battle
Creek Sanitarium. The principles
recognized by Pythagoras and those
who have followed his teachings dur
ing the last 1000 years or more were
embodied in this movement, together
with others wrought out by scientific
and observers. The work
prospered from the start. and soon
after its. incorporation was placed up
on a purely philanthropic basis as a
self supporting charitable institution.
and has since remained as such.
The "Battle Creek idea. .tes#
In 1876 the enterprise came to be
known as the Battle Greek Sanitarium.
The scope was enlarged so as to In
elude not only hydrotherapy or water
treatment but all sorts q eiectrical