Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1882 — A Picture Worth Beholding. [ARTICLE]

A Picture Worth Beholding.

Hanging between two email windows, and catching the light from a larger one opposite, in one of the offices of Adams Express Company, at 59 Broadway, New York —the office occupied' by Mr. W. H. Hall, head of the delivery department—is a plainly finished but neatly framed chromo about 2 1-2 by 3 feet in size, which is looked upon by hundreds of people daily, on many of whom it has a wonderful and salutary effect. It represents a flight of half a dozen rough stone steps leading from the swarded bank of a placid lake to a little rustic temple set in the rugged side of the mountain which rises in stupendous proportions in the background all covered with a rank, luxuriant growth of foliage in brush and tree. In the open door of this. little temple stands a half-concealed figure, with an arm and hand extended, holding forth a small, dimly-de-fined package, while seated on the sward at the foot of the steps an aged pilgrim, barefooted, lame and decrepid, bears a staff in one hand, and in the other holds before his dim eyes a small bottle, whose label he eagerly scans. This label bears the words “ St. Jacobs Oil the Great German Remedy. ” Simple as this little chromo appears in its unostentatious position it has an influence which it would be difficult to estimate. “It is to that picture and the persuasions of Mr. Hall,” said Mr. Edward J. Douglass, a gentleman connected with Mr. Hall’s department, “that I owe my present ability to perform my work. Some weeks ago I was violently attacked with sciatic rheumatism, and hour by hour I grew worse, and nothing that my family or the doctor could do gave me any relief. I began to think in a few days that my case was hopeless and that I was doomed to be an invalid and helpless cripple for life. But at last I thought of that little picture which I had so often looked at with but little interest, and then Mr. Hall came to my bedside, and, telling me how St. Jacobs Oil had cured him of a worse and longer-standing case than mine, urged me to use the same remedy. I did so that very night, directing my wife not to spare it, but apply it thoroughly according to the directions; this ■he did with a large piece of flannel cloth saturated with the Oil, and then bound the cloth to the affected parts. The next morning I was free from pain, and, although a little sore in the hip, was able to dress myself, and the next day resumed my duties in the office as sound as a dollar, itere I am now in full health and strength, having had no touch of rheumatism or other pain since. Whenever I see one of our drivers or‘any other person who shows any symptoms of lameness or stiffness, I point him to the picture in Mr. Hall’s office, and then direct him to go for St. Jacobs Oil at once. ” —E. Y. Evening Telegram.

An Ohio paper published the “Charge of the Heavy Brigade,” but the mistake of a careless printer who had changed the 300 to 329 escaped detection in time to be corrected. Ne±t morning a tall, raw-boned farmer called at the publication office and asked to see Mr. Tennyson. The polite clerk informed him that Mr. Tennyson was not in and asked him if he had any message to leave. “ Just this,” answered the somewhatexcited farmer, “if Oakes Ames is going to be worked into any more poetry in this village it’ll be pretty nasty travelin’ for the poet. ” Moses How, Esq., of Haverhill, Mass., strongly indorses St. Jacobs Oil for rheumatism, etc., from the observation of its effects in his factory as also in his own family—so we see from one of our Massachusetts exchanges.—Bridgeport (Ct.) Standard. Humoring customers: “Yes,” saida lady customer, “ these are very pretty; but haven’t you something more expensive ?” The gentlemanly clerk took down another package of the same goods, remarking briskly: “Oh, yes, ma’am ; here is something which will cost you a dollar more per yard, but it is much finer, you will notice.” Of course, she took the highest-cost piece, because it was the highest.

The Mason & Hamlin Company.— At Milan, Italy, they have recently had a Musical Industrial Exhibition and Competition, under royal patronage; at which were collected and compared, during a period of several months, the largest number and greatest variety of musical instruments, old and new, ever brought together. America was honored in the award to the Mason & Hamlin Organ Company of the highest medal, and the only one in this department. Considering that 250 awards were given, altogether, this distinction was very marked. It is a continuation of the triumphs of these famous organ-makers at every one of the World’s Fairs for fourteen years; to which there has been no exception.— The Manhattan.

There are women to-day in San Francisco subsisting upon scant crusts in blind alleys, who could step into the empty mansions of our new millionaires and arrange the appointments of room after room of the entire house with an artistic sense and individuality of taste which would put to blush the first upholsterer of the city. The day is not far distant when this will become a distinct calling for women. The originality of conception and design manifested by women wherever their artistic powers are allowed a chance of development will lead to many new paths for industrious womanhood. San Francisco Chronicle.