Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1886 — Don’t Know When to Stop. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Know When to Stop.

How few people know when to atop. If the preacher knew when to stop preaching, how much grander the effect of his sermons might be. If the genial fellow knew when to stop telling his good stories, how much keener their relish would be. If the moralizer knew when to stop moralizing, how much longer the flavor of his philosophy would remain. If the friend knew when to keep still, how grateful his silence would be. If the frank and candid creature who tells us our faults knew when to hold his tongue, how much less strong oUT impulse to strangle him would become. If the high liver knew when to stop eating, how much less sure dyspepsia would be. If the popular man knew when to withdraw, how much more regretfully we should see him go. If the politician knew when to retire into private life, how much whiter his record would be. If we all knew just when to die, and could bring it about, how much truer our epitaphs would be. The court fool who prayed, “Oh, God, be merciful to me, a fool,” prayed deeper than he knew; but the man who prays, “Oh, God, teach me to know when I have said enough,” shall pray deeper still.— “ Amber,” in Chicago Journal. Mr. J. E. Bonsal, New Bloomfield, Pa., clerk of the several courts of Perry Co., Pa., was afflicted with rheumatism for more than thirty years. After spending hundreds of dollars with different physicians, and trying every known remedy without benefit, he used St Jacobs Oil, which effected an entire cure. The sense of smell is so little thought of that its extreme delicacy even is not appreciated. A recent writer says: “Despite the comparative insignificance of this sense in man, its delicacy is most marvelous, and by it we can appreciate more minute subdivisions of matter than by any other avenues to the brain.” Prof. Valentine has calculated that the actual amount of oil of roses necessary to excite a sense of smell, or be detected by the human nose, is only one onehundred and twenty-thousandth of a grain. Other experimenters have discovered that there are other substances of which even a less amount will make itself known to the olfactory sense. For instance, mercaptan, or sulphurated alcohol, will impress this sense when subdivided to the extent of onebillionth of a grain—a subdivision more easily calculated than comprehended. Therefore, if any one should work out a complete and practical system of . osmic therapeutics, or nose cure, the infinitesimal portions of substance required would make it a cheap as well as ready method. Hahnemann, the father of homoeopathy, resorted to this method of treatment, but did not reduce it to a science, or even develop it enough to encourage a continuance of the practice among his disciples and followers. — Dr. Footers Health Month ly.