Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1885 — The Most Precious of Gifts. [ARTICLE]

The Most Precious of Gifts.

Health is undeniably a more precious gilt than riches, honor, or power. Who would exchange it for these, the chief objects of human ambition? It is obviously the part of wisdom to employ means for the preservation of health and the prolongation of life which time and experience have proved to be reliable. Mapy of the dangers by which health is threatened may be nullified by the use of that most irresistible of correctives and tonics, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitt°rs, which, by increasing vital power and rendering the physical functions regular and active. keeps the system in good working order, and protects it against disease. For constipation; dyspepsia, liver complaint, nervousness, kidney and rheumatic aliments, and neuralgia, it is invaluable, and it affords a sure defense against malarial fevers, besides removing every trace of such disease from the system. Half a wineglassful taken before meals improves the appetite, and insures complete digestion and assimilation. He was a little, shriveled up old man, while his long white hair hung down nearly to his shoulders. He had been down to Washington to witness the inauguration. “This makes the twentieth time as I have seen ’pm put ill the President,” he said to one of the bystanders, “Indeed I Why you must be a centenarian. ” “Well, no, stranger, I'm not, but my father wanted me to be one of them kind of chaps when I was a boy, but I kicked, as I always despised them kind of fellers. I’m only a shoemaker, qir, from Milwaukee.” “You don’t understand me, sir,” replied the man. He then explained to the old fellow the meaning of the word. “I didn’t hardly catch on to what you meant, stranger; I thought you meant a boss doctor or something like that.” And the little old fellow hobbled away to find a barber shop, so as to have his hair cut, in honor of a Democratic President.— Chicago Ledger. Joking on facts will frequently part closer friends than beer and French mustard.