Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1882 — Kansas Praising It. [ARTICLE]

Kansas Praising It.

“ While I was in Topeka last winter, ” said the Hon. Arthur Edgington, “ I had a pretty rough time of it. I got a bad cold, and then, that not being sufficiently severe, I was also attacked with rheumatism. The pain was in my left shoulder. At times I almost writhed in agony. I tell you, sir, that the pain could not have been greater had my shoulder been screwed up in a vise. I was utterly helpless, and felt like I was destined to remain in that condition indefinitely. My friends and a physician were generous in their prescriptions and my room soon became a miniature apothecary shop. But nothing did me any good. One day some one told me I was enduring a great deal of needless pain when I could invest 50 cents in a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil and be cured. linvested in a bottle of the Oil, rubbed it on my shoulder twice, and in two days I forgot that I ever had rheumatism. Yes, that is a great remedy, and no mistake. They can’t say too much in favor of its healing power. ” The above was uttered by Mr. Edgington while sitting in the porch of the La Gonda House, at Columbus, the other evening, and was overheard by an escaped reporter, who is traveling over the country incog. Inquiry developed the fact that Mr. Edgington is one of the most widely-known men m Kansas, figuring prominently in politics, and acting as the responsible agent of the Bradstreet Commercial Agency. Upon subsequently making Mr. Edgington’s acquaintance the reporter was assured that all he had heard was true, and he was at liberty to use it in the papers. —Oswego (Kan.) Democrat. Sarcasm among military men is sometimes expressed so that it hurts. During the • war John Morgan was in Kentucky, and he was particularly down on a Federal regiment of Kentucky troops—the Thirty-second. They were stationed at Somerset in that State, and one day Morgan sent a flag of truce to the commanding officer, as follows: “Bemovo the women and children and the Thirty-second Kentucky at once, as I am going to shell the town.” The feeling of the officers and men of that Kentucky regiment can be imagined, but not described.

A few Sundays ago a Western church was discovered to be on fire, but the preacher, with great presence of mind said nothing about it He merely remarked : "This building is heavily burdened with debt and I wish some one would lock the doors until the amount is raised.” Everybody volunteered to do the locking, and as everybody forgot to come back there was no panic and no one was hurt Wx frequently read of a man committing suicide in New York, because he was " unable to obtain employment” We quite as often read that hundreds of immigrants, upon their arrival in Castle Garden, immediately secure situations through the Employment Bureau, and that the supply of laborers is not equal to the demand. “Comment is unnecessary.”—Norristown Herald. . On her retur a from Sunday morning service Percy’s mother told him that Mr. F. preached about the importance of parents bringing their children to meeting, and that he would have to go hereafter. The critical 8-year-old replied in anxious tones: “ I don’t want to, ma ; I never heard i sermon in that church in mv life that I liked “Pray,” said Mr. to a gentleman he overtook on the road, •• will you have the complaisance to take my great-coat in your carnage to town ? ” “ With pleasure, my dear sr ; but how will you get it again ? ’ “O, very easily, replied the modest applicant, “ I «h«n remain in it”

We see in the New York Spirit of the Times mention of the cure of Mr. George Drake, 46 Fifth street, Indianapolis, Ind., of a severe case of water rheumatism by the use of St. Jacobs Oil.— Cincinnati Enquirer.