. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . working, self-denying min-isters of Christ; many cin speak English ; some canwrite, read and cipher; some are members of theChurch, and all are peaceable and quiet,—civilizationhas done this much, but it has all been for the ben-efit of its own cupidity and protection. As for theIndian (!) in the wild woods, unbroken liy the a.\ ofthe pioneer; by the shimmering stream full of sus-tenance to him, and whose banks were bordered bythe unstinted growth of medicinal plants whose vir-tues were unknown at that time, only to his medicineman :

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. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . working, self-denying min-isters of Christ; many cin speak English ; some canwrite, read and cipher; some are members of theChurch, and all are peaceable and quiet,—civilizationhas done this much, but it has all been for the ben-efit of its own cupidity and protection. As for theIndian (!) in the wild woods, unbroken liy the a.\ ofthe pioneer; by the shimmering stream full of sus-tenance to him, and whose banks were bordered bythe unstinted growth of medicinal plants whose vir-tues were unknown at that time, only to his medicineman : the Atropa Belladonna, by which they charmedtheir enemies to death; the Blue, Bkick and PurpleCohosh; the Taraxacum Dcns-Leonis or Dande-lion, the Poilophylli/m Pelfafuin, or Mandrake orMay Apple; with nature at his command; with hisbow and arrow on his shoulder, or his fishing poleor net in his hand, the Indian of primeval ages wasmore one of Gods noblemen than the nondescriptjuoduced by the liypocrisy of civilization! ! I ^\mm^^ ^»^—^^<^ 1^ AU^.. >^ V ^^^^/Hr-Wll- ?•!??••(?•?+??+?•++%• ^••(??•VT-+-i--i--+- ^^-YVtf*^^**»^?*>*^-Y VTX •f-^ir-r? 4. + •+ + + a j idii*,^;^^

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