Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — Ploughing the Waves. [ARTICLE]

Ploughing the Waves.

A storm at sea means the inevitable sea-sick-ness for ocean travelers. The vibration of a steamer’s screw, even, is a sore trial to any but the strongest stomach. “Splicing the main brace,” as the imbibation of a glass is Jocularly termed by sailors, is a poor substitute for the swallowing of that incomparable tranquillizer of sea-sick stomachs, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, which no commercial traveler, tourist or invalid should be without in “crossing the briny,” or making a tedious land journey. No unmedicated stimulant of commerce is comparable for efficacy to the great invigorant. Emigrants to the West pronounce it a reliable preventive of malarial infection, as well as other complaints to which hardship, impure water and miasmatainted vapors give rise. It renders brackish water drinkable and harmless, and is a fine remedy for disorders of the stomach and bowels, and for kidney troubles and rheumatism. We must not hope wholly to change their original tempers, nor make the gay pensive and grave, nor the melancholy sportive, without spoiling them. — Locke. Accounts are settled but once a year in the Bermudas. The 30th of June is the usual date.