Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — Merited Charity. [ARTICLE]

Merited Charity.

' “You might give me a pe~>riy,” said a well-educated mendicant to a gentleman on the street. “I feel very sorry for you, my son,” replied the gentleman. “Do you?” • * “Oh, yes.” “Won’t you put your hand in your pocket and tell me how sorry you feel,” replied the boy.— Carl Pretzel's Weekly. A prominent physician asserts that it is dangerous to loan your lighted cigar to a stranger, contending that disease can and very often is conveyed from one to another by this custom. Mr. I. Carpenter, 463 Fourth avenue, New York, after running a gauntlet of eight years’ rheumatism, used St. Jacobs Oil, the greatspain reliever, by which he was entirely cured and has had no return of his complaint.