Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — Better Than Medicine. [ARTICLE]

Better Than Medicine.

His temples were beginning to be gray and he was old enough to have a folly developed case of dyspepsia. He looked at the slice of roast beef, and then tried to eat it, after whltfii be signaled to tbe waiter. “Here, take this back,” he said; "I can’t eat meat that’s roasted until It’s like a piece of leather. I told you I w anted It rare. Do you call this rare?’ "Young man,” replied the waiter, ’if I gave It to yon any rarer than that It would have to be raw. Look here. Yon can squeeze tbe blood out of it” After finishing a good, hearty meal the man with the dyspepsia handed the waiter a quarter as a "tip” and went out, saying to himself: “I wonder If ho called me ‘young man’ Just from force of habit or because he really meant It?”