Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1888 — Edwin Forrest’s Secret. [ARTICLE]

Edwin Forrest’s Secret.

The .great tragedian, Forrest, had a secret which everybody ought to learn and profit by. Said he: “I owe all my success to the fact that everything I have undertaken! have done thoroughly. 1 never neglect trifles.” That’s the point—don’t neglect trifles. Don’t neglect that hacking cough, those night-sweats, that feeble and capricious appetite, and the other symptoms, trifling in themselves, but awful in their significance They herald the auproach of consumption. Yqu are in danger, but you can be saved. Dr. Fierce’s Goiden Medical Discovery will restore you to health and vigor, as it has thousands of others. For all scrofulous diseases, and consumption is one'Of them, it is a sovereign remedy. The Chinese sojourning in Berlin this winter adopted a novel precaution against cold. They assumed ear protectors made of papier mache, the top covered with black satin, the side pieces with blue silk profusely painted with flowers. The inside was lined with fur, which, projecting on the cheek, gave the appearance of whiskers. They also substituted shell or horn-framed spectacles for those of steel or other metal. The base-ball pitcher is an unscrupulous fellow —he gets the batter out by fair means or by foul.