Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1884 — Southern Affection for Faro. [ARTICLE]

Southern Affection for Faro.

Speaking of faro and other wicked games,*a Virginian, after remarking that in the better days of the republic, when everybody played faro, a gentleman was distinguished by the comment “He plays with red checks” from the poor white-check trash, dwelt upon the passionate love for the game which possesses men who get into its clutches. “Years ago,” he said, “ two of the finest lawyers in New Orleans on their way to New York stopped at Charlottesville, Virginia, because they heard that there was a man there who dealt faro. They found the man and played all night. About midnight one lawyer whispered to the other: 4 He’s cheating.’ 4 Hush,’ said the other; 4 I’ve known that for two hours; but there isn’t another faro game within forty miles.’ Eecord. Sufferekh from nervousness, early decay, etc., if you value lite, avoid advertising doctors and medicines that act on kidneys and liver. Be not deceived by the many bogus certificates of cures from paid or imaginary persons. If a weakness of the sexual system is the cause of your distress, Dr. tiuysotts Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla will strengthen the parts affected, stop the drain, quiet the nerves, produce dreamless slumber, and allow you to regain perfect health. It has cured thousands, and will cure you; for, by purifying the blood and strengthening every weak portion of the body, it removes every symptom of distress. A peanut famine is now threatened. Should it come to pass, what will the circuses do for attractions? Mbnsman’s Peptonized Beef Tonic, the only preparation df beef .containing its entire nutritious properties. It contains bloodmaking, force-generating, and life-sustaining properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous prostration, and all forms of general debility; also, In all enfeebled conditions, whether the result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over-work, or acute disease, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard A Co., proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists. A bucking horse is frequently the power behind the thrown. It is truly wonderful to see how the name of Mrs. Pinkham Is a household word among the wjves and mothers of our laud. Alike in the luxurious homes of our great cities and in the humble cabins of the remote frontier one woman's deeds have borne their kindly fruit in health for others. A cur-rent item refers, of course, to the hole in the Üby’s pants made by the house dog. J. W. Thornton, of Clalborn, Miss., says: “Samaritan Nervate cured my son of fits.” Writing the obituary of an adversary seems like a mean kind of revenge. Wakefui,neßß at night is a terror, Samaritan Nervine cures it, and hence Is a blessing. When a New York fanjlly have trouble with the Irish servant, they try ,to Bridget over,. •' At what season did Eve eat apples? Early in the fall.