Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1878 — He Felt Better. [ARTICLE]

He Felt Better.

A middle-aged man, whose coat had seen other if not better days, rushed breathlessly into Miley’s saloon, the other day, and said: “Woman over at postoffice—just got letter—husband dead—fainted away—gim me—glassful

best brandy—quick! ” The wholehearted bar-tender passed it out, and the man, taking a few steps from the bar, drank it off at a gulp. “Ah! ” he .says, “I feel better now —stronger — braver. I never could bear to see human misery.” “You’ll feel it if you don’t travel suddenly,” says the bartender. He went out piously rubbing his vest at the lower button, saying: “I feel stronger, braver now.”