Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1881 — What They Can Do. [ARTICLE]

What They Can Do.

Tennyson can take a worthless sheet of paper and by writing a poem on it make it worth |i>,ooo. That’s genius. Mr. Vanderbilt can write fewer words on a similar sheet and make it worth $60,000,000. That’s capital. And the United States government can take an ounce and a quarter of gold and stamp upon it an “eagle bird” and “Twenty Dollars.” That’s money. The mechanic can take the material worth fifty dollars and Snake it into a watch worth one hundred dollars. That’s skill. The merchant can take an article worth twenty-five cents and sell it to you for one dollar. That’s business. A lady can purchase a comfortable bonnet for ten dollars, but prefers to pay one hundred dollars for one because it is more stylish. That’s foolishness. The ditch-digger works ten hours a day and shovels out three or four tons of earth for one dollar. That’s labor. — Selected. We do not often speak of any pro* prietory medicine, but from what we nave read and heard of Allen’s Lung Balsam, we shall take the liberty of saying to those who are troubled with a Cold, Cough, or any Throat or Lung Affection, that from the testimony afforded, we have such confidence in this article, that were we afflicted in this way, we would make a trial of its virtues. Beware of the fatal consequences of neglecting this timely warning. Before it is too late, use Allen’s Lung Balsam, which will cure the disease. Every druggist in the land sells it. Vennor’s programme for 1881, gives us sharp frosts in June, and the warmest December ever known. The meteorological times seem to be out of joint, if Vennor be received as authority.