Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1886 — THE HOTEL CLERK'S STORY. [ARTICLE]

THE HOTEL CLERK'S STORY.

It is the fashion among many so-called humorists to represent the American hotel clerk 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 tine American hotel clerk is an invaluable feature of our civilization. The time of the arrivals aiul departures of all the trains on all the railroads is at his tongue’s end; he is full of information alxmt what is interesting at the theaters, and of stories of actors and actresses who have stopped at his hotel, and w ithal 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. Tiie 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 drag store to buy a bottle of it. I got it, and iu half an hour's time after she had taken tho 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 Atlilophoros in the highest terms, and has recommended it to mauy. 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 learn tho facts ia 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 without taking hold of the back of a chair for support. My relief, after taking the first dose of Athlophoros, w r as almost immediate. In fact, after taking a few doses I was well and have not been troubled since. At the same time that I w r as 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-cai 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 the 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 get Athlophoros of your draggist, we will send it, express paid, on receipt cl regular price—one dollar per bottle. Wo prefer that you buy it from your druggist, but if he hasn’t it, do not bo persuaded to try something else, but order at once from us, as directed. Athlophoros Co., 112 Wall street, New York. A vouNo man asks: “When is the best time to move? When is his rout due?—. New York (Graphic. 1-ou sudden colds, hoarseness, or irritation of the throat, take Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral The barber is the chap who knows how to manipulate the polls. Dr.v and gray hair will become moist and dark by the use of Hall’s Hair ltenewer. A oood many marriages come out of a tennis court —Boston Budget.