Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — The Old Silver Spoon. [ARTICLE]

The Old Silver Spoon.

How fresh in my mind are the days of mysicknea«, - . When I tossed me in pain, all fevered and sore; The burning, the nausea, the sinking and weakness. And even the old spoon that my medicine bore. How loth were my fever parched lips to receive it. How nauseous the staff that it bore to my tongue, And the pain at my inwards, oh, naught could rclidYß Though tears of disgust from my eyeballq it She old "silver spoon that medicine spoon, Howawlnl the staff that it left on my tongue. Ench is the effect of nauseous, griping medicines which make the sick-room a memory of herror. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets, on the contrary, are small, tugar-coated, easy to take, purely vegetable and perfectly effective. 25 cents a vial. A B’atesman that is for sale is a poor nvestment.