Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — Serious Danger [ARTICLE]

Serious Danger

Threaten* every man, woman or chili living in a region of country where fever and ague i* prevalent, since the germ* of malarial dilease are inhaled from tho air and are swallowed from the water of such a region. Medicinal safeguard is absolutely neoessary to nullify this danger. As a means of fortifying and acclimating the system so as lto be able to resist the malarial poison, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is incomparably the beet and the most popular. Irregularities of the stomach, liver and bowels encourage malaria; but these are speedily rectified by the Bitters. The functions of digestion and seoretion are assisted by its use, and a vigorous as well as regular condition of the system promoted by it. Constitution and physique are thus defended against the inroads of malaria by this matchless preventive, which is also a certain and thorough remedy in the worst cases of intermittent and remittent fevers. Ox the Congo there are no beasts of burden, there existing merely a manual transport, the porters being the natives of the Bakongo tribo, inhabiting the cataract regions. In physique these men are slight and only poorly developed; hut the fact of their carrying on their heads from sixty to a hundred pounds weight twenty miles a day, for sometimes six consecutive days, their only food being each day a little manioc root, an ear or two of maize, or a handful of peanuts, pronounces them at once as men of singularly sound stamia. Small boys ot eight and nine years old are frequently met carrying loads of twentyfive pounds weight