Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1885 — Everybody’s Air-Brake. [ARTICLE]

Everybody’s Air-Brake.

, “Yes, sah,” said Uncle Zacta, “I’se watched it forty years an’ it's as I sez: De fust of May an’ Chriemas day of de satne year alien comes on de same week day.” Further conversation proved Uncle zach a most incredulous person. Chancing to mention Dr. Carver’s feat of breaking glass balls with a rifle, he said: “I heerd ’.bout dat shootln’ and kuowed right off It wasn’t squar’; dat was a Yankee trick, boss, sho’s you born.” x “What was the trick?” “Darwuz loadstone put intode glass balls, an’ likewise onto de bullets; so when de bullet fly outen the gun, it an’ the ball jes, drawed tei gedder, which, in course, broke de glass—dat’s the trick !’** Later, U;uele Zach observed a rope running along the side of the car. “Boss, what’s dat line fur?” “To apply the air-brake in case of accident.’'’ Then we had furthet to expain now the fonee of the brake was obtained, to which UnclesZaeh responded: “Look a here, boss, you sholy don’t ’spect me to b’lieve dat foolishness? Why”, de biggest harricane whatever blowed couldn’t Btop dis train, runin’ forty mile a hour. An’ you think 1 gwine to b’leive a little pipe full of wind under de kyars can do it? No, sahree!” 7 here are a great many Uncle Zachs who Judge everything simply by appearances. The air-brake does not seem to be a very powerful thing, but power and efficiency are not necessarily equivalent to bigness and pretense. t •' Philip Beers. Esa.. who resides at the United States Hotel, New York City, and is engaged in raising subscriptions for the New York World Bartholdi pedestal fund, was once upbraided by a distinguished relative who was a physician, lor commending in such enthusiastic terms, a remedy thatcured him of Bright’s disease eight years ago. He said: “Sir, has the medical profession, with all its power jnd expericne: of thousands of years, anything that cau this terrible disorder?” No, no, that is'.fue; there is no mistake about it but that 'Varner’s safe cure is really a wonderfully Effective preparation. That remedy is an “air-brake ” that every man can apply, and this fact explains why it has saved so many hundreds of thousands of lives.—(. opyriyUted. Used by permission of American Rural Home.