Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1885 — THE HOTEL CLERK’S STORY. [ARTICLE]

THE HOTEL CLERK’S STORY.

It is the f&Bhion among many so-called humorists to represent the American hotel cleric as a lordly and supercilious being, who, with a headlight diamond in his immaculate shirt front and a look of contemptuous disdain upon his classic features, sends tired and travel-stained arrivals off to impossible regions in the fifteenth story, or haughtily refuses them any lodging whatever. The fact is that the true American hotel clerk is an invaluable feature of our civilization. The time of the arrivals and departures of all the trains on all the milroads is at his tongue’s end; he is full of information about what is interesting at the theaters, and of stories of actors and actresses who have stopped at his hotel, and withal a kindly man, who, if the house is crowded, will let you sleep on a billiard table. Mr. W. P. Hammond, who is clerk at the West End Hotel, 503 and 505 West Madison street, Chicago, is of this obliging disposition and is always ready to give any information regarding the hotel to those who seek it. The accomplished landlady of the West End has recently suffered with rheumatism. The story of her cure is thus told by Clerk Hammond: “Our landlady was taken with quite a severe attack of rheumatism in the lower limbs, suffering much pain and being scarcely able to walk. She heard of Athlophoros and of the cures it had effected, and sent me to the drug store to buy a bottle of it. I got it, and in half an hour's time after she had taken the first dose she felt relieved, and in a few days the rheumatism was entirely gone.” * “How much did she take?” “About one bottle.” “Has she had any return of the pain?” “Not to my knowledge,” replied Mr. Hammond, “and I am certain she would be likely to say something about it if she had. She speaks of Athlophoros in the highest terms, and has recommended it to many. In one case I remember the cure was as quick as in her own.” The accuracy of Clerk Hammond’s statements is fully confirmed by the landlady herself, who is not averse to having it known how she was cured. “I will tell you something about my cure,” she said to a visitor who called to l«arn the facts in her case. “I was so lame and suffered so much pain that it was impossible for me to bend my limbs or walk around my room wiUiout taking hold of the back of a chair for support. My relief, after taking the first dose of Athlophoros, was almost immediate. In fact, after taking a few doses I was well and have not been troubled since. At the same time that I was suffering from the rheumatism, there was a lady boarding in my hotel who was suffering with facial neuralgia so much that it was impossible for her to sit up. I advised her to try ‘my remedy,’ that being the name I have for Athlophoros. After she had taken two doses of it she was well, and the next thing I knew I saw her rushing for a street-car to go up town. My confidence in Athlophoros cannot bo shaken. I find it a positive cure for nervous headache and shall always keep some in tho hotel, as I cannot afford to suffer from rheumatism, neuralgia, or any such trouble while I can get a medicine like Athlophoros.” If you cannot got Athlophobos of your druggist, we will send it, express paid, on receipt of regular price—one dollar per bottle. We prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but if he hasn’t it, do not be persuadod to try something else, but order at once from us, as directed. Atulophobos Co., 112 Wall street, New York.

Max O’Rell says that London contains more Roman Catholics than Rome, more Jews than the whole of Palestine, more Irish than Dublin, more Scotchmen than Edinburgh, more Welshmen than Cardiff, and more country folks than the counties of Devon, Durham and Warwickshire put together. It has a birth in every five minutes; has seven accidents every day in its B,UOO miles of streets; has an average of forty miles of streets opened and 15,000 new houses every year. In ,1883 there were added 22,110 new houses to the vast aggregate of dwellings which is called the metropolis, thus forming 368 new streets and one new square, covering a distance of sixty-six miles and eighty-four yards.