Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — A Good Remedy. [ARTICLE]

A Good Remedy.

Hostetter McGinnis-met Dr. Perkins Soonover a few days ago on Austin avenue. “1 am much obliged to you, Doctor, for that tonic you gave me,” said Hostetter, taking" the learned physician warmly by the hand. “So it helped you, did it?” “Helped me? Well I should say it did. I never had anything brace me up as that tonic did.” “How many bottles did you take ?” “I didn’t take any myself. Catch me putting such stuff down my throat. When I want to commit suicide I’ll go at it in a different way.” “But I thought you said you experienced beneficial effects from it.” “So I did. I gave the stuff to my rich uncle, who had just made his wi.l in my favor/ and now he is no more. One bottle of your tonic knocked him cold.” —Texas Siftings. Laconic patient to physician: Caught cold. Physician: Take Red Star Cough Cure; no morphia, no poisons. Only twen-ty-five cents. St. Jacobs Oil cures pain. The Smith Family in Everything. Virginia was founded by a Smith. Two of her Governors have been Smiths, and one of them was Governor twice, and more than that, he was at one time a little stage driver, if not a “little cart driver.” One of the signers of the Declaration of Independence wa's a Smith. There have been nine Smiths in the Senate of the United States. A Smith was appointed to the Supreme Bench of the United States. A Smith was the first Attorney General of the United States, then Secretary of the Navy, and afterward Secretary of State. Eight of the Confederate Generals were Smiths. Smith is one of the most illustrious names in England, and Scotland furnished Adam Smith, the great political economist. So there is no discount on the Smiths. —Lynchburg Virginian.