Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — A TOBACCO HEART. [ARTICLE]

A TOBACCO HEART.

Thousands of Americans Can't Get Icife Insurance Because Tobacco Has Destroyed the Heart Action and Wrecked the Nervous System—No-To-Bac Works Many Miracles. Delanson, N. Y., June 17. —Engineer 0. N. Bates stepped off engine No. 47 with a long oiler in one hand and a bunch of blue waste in the other. Not a bystander there could help remarking his youthful, healthy look, and active, vigorous movements, and contrasting his appearance with his condition of two months ago. “Say, Colonel, how well you look!” “Yes, I am well; better than I have been for years.” “What have you been doing?” “Oh, not much; No-to-bac cured me of the tobacco habit and braced me mentally and physically. In fact, made mo a new man in more wavs than one. I had no appetite; couldn't sleep; now I sleep like a baby and eat three times a day with a relish, for the first time in sears. My heart action is regular and no longer a bar to increased life insurance. You know throttle pulling requires a pretty, steady nerve, and my nerves are O. K. now. One box and a quarter of No-to-bac cured me completely in ten days., after using tobacco forty years. No-to-bac is sold by all druggists. I see the ‘King No-to-bac’ on nearly every druggist’s counter, and made by the Sterling Remedy Company, of Nesv York and Chicago. You ought to get one of their little books called ‘Don’t Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life Away,' and post yourself. They send them free to any one that writes. It cost me $1 to get cured, and I spent three or four dollars a week for tobacco. If I bad failed to get cured I would have gotten my money back, as the makers guarantee three boxes to cure any case. I have recommended the use of No-to-bac to many of the boys on the line, and every one of them who got the genuine article, so far as I know, has been cured. Look out, don’t let some of the imitations be palmed off in you for No-to-bac.” The cab bell rang, the engineer climbed up quickly on the footboard, stuck his head out of the cab window, pulled the throttle half an inch and the big train rolled away.

Once a Slave; Now He’s Rich.

Lewis Bates is probably the wealthiest colored man in Chicago, being rated at nearly $500,000. He is entirely uneducated, dresses poorly and lives like a poor man. He was born a slave nearly seventy years ago. In 1801 he reached Chicago by the “underground railroad,” and began by working in a foundry. He soon became an expressman, and at once began Investing his savings in real estate. In this he has shown excellent judgment, and nearly all his investments are gilt edged. Though he spends little money on himself, lie Is open-hearted and kind. He has no family and his only heirs are a few very distant relatives.