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Was )!: (ter Acquainted With Chctmstrv Than Half Of (i ’lege Graduates Giri'nl in Philadelphia Inquirer jfcthir---. whs said by the world jjjLjst.' v-ho met in Philadelphir neeiiil. about the chemistry of •hf, fir: i Americans. But if.a American Indain knew „prt, eta mistry than half the col e?r grab.niter. ever learned. On t>: tonic of Indian oherois jrv .non< i better informed than jj’iut, A. Brapeenn, head of the (Call(Atmpanv of this city. “I rend.’ tvrin- “your column regard - inp the prehistoric chemist'- in 5eV|>* atid too Holy Land. You failed to mention the prehistori c jhemists of America.” Mr. Branegan admits the Indian theriiislry is his hobby. It is the [ruth that he has delved extensive, j. in.that field and found many aiming results. It is astonishing how many chemical secrets the red man knew centcries ago and before he ever a nale face. By the simnlo use. says Mr. Brenegan, of barks and the brains of animals, the Indian made a leather from hides, “which in softpe." and durability can hardly be equaled today.” With glue made from fish scales be fastened feather to his arrow and than glue equaled the common fish glue of commerce. Modern science has found r.o surer way to keep water out of a (jbat than the Indian employed when he used the pitch from nine trees to renrent the seams cf his frail birch-bark canoe. To make his potterv more dur able the Indian mixed w>th e'ay powdered clam O’* mussel shells, and did that chemical trick so well erne of his bottles buried in the MLs«kdi>pi vallev for centuries are as strong today as when they carife from the hand of their mak er. And to meke his pottery the red mar again drew upon hi« chemi cal instincts. He ■applied to th» ekiy oxides of iron before he baked it As a geologist, the American abjjrieine knew a bookful. It his way he was as smart and clever in cleavage of r,v>k- «nd f!i#t as arc the most skillful dia mond cutters# #r. Breregan says the Indian I knivj'an i °nl'V f°r arroW hea<ls e- and spear points. “I have,' ■ *n} C4t(* ’ ^xamii.ed hundreds of 2*J7LiP ,wr•"» Tr * , would flake off at -very stroke. So !XT7 • , Amuric“n chemist ' . h'tl fields and streams for water-worn stones of basalt or thorite whieh have the closest , ??raip. # i ?Of this material he macje his axe' 1 !‘<!’n fairly good edge do-r j-ars of use. Iiu‘ the Indian displayed his ' 'J!; “"K‘ chemical knowledge in' • K:!"r ;lr‘ to"! v,'hieh he carved' '■’ t int arrowhead and ax. ''I’Ve was that tool ? a tv no fro-a j. ^ of a buffaj dept- or bear. P t:" ”1 ';r| t- was hi • nTo. ! para11on of that bone chisel. A1 1> -ic with am- gr' Sve nr jt Woujd i >dl> i"d break. It wouldn’t chin! •he flint and stone, hard as ar mor plate, ,f: '• bone was scoured, then-bur. | !e<l !fl h,i- ashes moistened with j water which, a„ our chemists j know, is the process of making 1 mk P. Chemistry! When the bone j was truly dried it frfrmed a chisel ! i or chinning flint and sharpening! t.one axes And Mr. Branegan1 ‘ vs scarcely any other material nown today would be better for that purpose. In the West were found axes .. ,r ^mptite. which. hr-ie.l for hundred of years, retained their polish. As hematite will ;oor wear out the hardest steel file it (an be seen that the Indian’s method of making his ax had call ed for a high order of chemital re search. Widest interest of the white race is rho-vp for Indian arrowheads, nice these have been found by thousands. Man,- legends told about the se A'ret ouarries of flint! How did the Indian find his flint, and how did he dig- it out? Somgiimes he removed the earth, then built a big fire upon the rock, ■pourod cold water upon it and thm‘ cracked it. Not all Indians could make a spear point or arrowhead, and the red artisan v.hc did the work us ually made them at his wigwam end rot af the place where the flint was found. Quartz and obsidian as wed] as flint, were,used for arrows. An Indian mint was not so crude as it seem|. His money, or wampum, was made of clam shells. But these re bilired. ° delicate cutting and then had to ho bored so that the wam pum could be put upon a string. And, in boring a clam shell, the [red man displayed Hifitfi|jhtk*hani |cal skil1- Using a strong, dry reed ! | for a drill he employ'eVW buw | string as a sort of engine.- • j Twirling the string revolved the I drill and so the Indian could make ! holes through a rock. Boy Scouts ' today deem it a pretty trick to start a fire in similar fashion, but ■ Indian boys were doing it before j Columbus discovered America. The Indan knew colors and by, bis chemistry produced some good I and lasting ones. Henrfatite fori brown and^ red, malachite for green, ochre for yellow, while for dyes he took the juice of poke- 1 *erry, the bark of walmft or butternut. And the Indian knew how to j lake his pigments so as to with land wet add time. Mexican Indians had calculated the exact solar year before any white man saw those marvelous | Aztecs. Other Indians had grown their maize potatoes, hominy, squash, tap ioca—all Indian names—before the pale face ever dined in the I U. S. A. And the Indians knew enough j chemistry to understand fertiliza- , tion of the soil. He was the first to use along the Atlantic coast tons j of fish to enrich his fields. The menhaden were driven upon j the beaches by blue fish and then J the Indian farmer reaped his har- i vest of fertilizer. remaps, as a medicine man, the first race of Americans readi ed its prime in the domain of chemistry. Nearly everybody knows now i the use of aspirin. But centuries ago and before anybody had pat ented a drug on this continent the Indian knew the curative proper ties of wintergreen, using the leaves as a poultice for rheuma tism. Our white pioneers learned of i that wonderful herb from the red man and so we today h'ave a big family of what chemical high brows call salicylates. South American Indians showed the fi>st Spanish invaders the use of a strange bark which they grew upon the cinchona tree. They chewed the bark, but \ye now en joy the same thing in the powder l ed form of quinine, or as calisaya. And were not Indians the first to employ auto-suggestion a great aid in the sick room, a thing, all physicians now regard as high-' ly important? The Indian medicine man was not a humbug when he danced and employed other antics before the sick. By pretending to remove a pain in the form of a devil he employed psychology to make the patient help cure himself . Which proves that not all learn ing is found in books. A “Correct” Likeness of Washington TMis heroic statue of the coraraantlor-ln-chiet of the first armies of the United! States was made for the city of Portland, Oregon, though not yet deliv ered there by the artist. The western mus.lcipality has loaned it to the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, opening in Philadelphia June 1 and continuing until December 1, to celebrate 160 years of American independ ence. At the foot of4 the sculpture is shown Pompeo Coppini, the sculptor. Dr. Henry Waldo Poe", of Portland, declares the face to he the most correct likeness of Wajtidngtcu ever modeled. NOTICE OF SERVICE BY PUB LICATION. Noith Carolina—Cleveland coun ty—In the Superior court. Cora Henry, plainti.fr, - vs. Tom Henry, Defendant. The defendant above mentioned will take notice that an action en titled as above has been com menced in the Superior court of Cleveland county, N. 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