Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1882 — Immediate Belief. [ARTICLE]

Immediate Belief.

Col. W. Halbert is notoriously poor pay. A few days ago he entered a drug store on Austin avenue, and asked for a bottle of Dr. McFraud’s Kidney Encourager. The clerk, who had been informed that all the bad debts contracted ■would be deducted from his monthly stipend, produced the bottle. “Do you think,” said Col. Halbert, reaching out for the bottle, “ that one bottle will relieve me of my discouraged kidneys?” “Yes,” responded the clerk, still holding on to the bottle, “I know it will relieve you right off. It will relieve you of $1 in cash before you get out of the store with it.” The Colonel groaned, and, remarking that the remedy was worsa than the disease, took his discouraged kidneys to the next drug store for relief.— Texas Siftings. The New York Times' funny man thinks that flies now subsist on sugar .and baldheaded men, which, with a little patience, we might induce to live exclusively on caterpillars and English sparrows,