Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — The Era of Muscle. [ARTICLE]

The Era of Muscle.

Tais is an athletic age. Everybody wants to be strong. The erase—for tt has well nigh reached that stage—affects both sexes and even o.illdhood. The pugilistic phase of this fad in young America la by no means morally promising. but it Is one thing to be endowed with vigor and another to be .S'andowed with muscle. Super muscularity is often induced by physical efforts perilous to health and calculated to shorten life. The vigor which means a regular and efficient discharge of the physical functions is the first medium at which all may safely aim without causing ruptures or breaking blood vessels. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is largely conducive to a gain in vigor of this sort, since it stimulates and assists digestion, promotes regular bilious secretion, and keeps the bowels in order. Bleep, that grand recuperator of nervous vigor,is encouraged by it, and it remedies malarial, rheumatic and kidney trouble.

If human dwellings were constructed on same proportionate scale as the ant hill of Africa private residences would be a mile high. M. L. THOMPSON A CO., Druggists, Coudersport, Pa., say Hall’s Catarrh Curs la the best, and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold. Druggists sell It, 73c. Emily Soldene, once a shining light in the operatic world, has settled in Sydney. She recognized, after two or three heavy losses, that her stage days were over, and thankfully accepted an offer to write musical notices for a second-rate daily. It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than even by good laws, —Aristotle. Gravity is only the bark of wisdom; but it preserves it,—Confucius.

Governor Lorenzo Crounse, of Nebraska, has formally announced to his friends that it is not his intention to be a candidate for re election to his present office, but many of them bell ve that he would not be averse to accepting a seat in the United States Senate.