Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1881 — ANXIOUS TO RISE. [ARTICLE]

ANXIOUS TO RISE.

tFrom the La Fayette Dally Journal.] There’s plenty of room upstairs, as Daniel Webster said to the young lawyer anxious to rise, out despondent of his chance to do so; but no one need injure himself either in climbing the stairs of fame or those of his own house or business place. The following is to the point: Mr. John A. Hutchinson, Supt. Downer’s Kerosene Oil Works, Boston, Mass., writes: Mr. Patton, one of our foremen, in walking up stairs last week sprained his leg badly. I gave him a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil to try. He used it and an almost instantaneous cure was effected. In one of its misanthropic moments the Detroit Free Press says: “The average woman does not pretend to believe half she reads or what her neighbors tell her. It is only when she whacks up a dollar to a clairvoyant that she expects to get the real old solid gospel truth. ” [From the Chicago Tribune.] Thomas O. Thompson, Esq., the Mayor’s Secretary, who, some few days ago, slipped on a banana peel and sprained his knee, writes that St. Jacobs Oil “ acted like a charm.” A precious boy of 6 years, listening wearily to a long-winded tale related by a prosy relative, took advantage of a short pause to say, slyly : “I wish that story had been brought out innumbers.”