The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1860-12-13
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NUMBER V.

The benevolent and DISTINGUISHED advertisement
pays more highly than any. We give an adyer-
tisement Of this genus, extracted from tine London
religious papers
"A retired physician, whose sands Of life have
nearly run out, offers to those suffering from con-
sumption, bronchitis, asthma and all diseases of
the chest and lungs, an infallible remedy. This
remedy was discovered by him in the East Indies,
when his only child, a daughter, was given up to
die. he worked night and day To discover a RENE
dy, he succeeded, and his child was saved. This
remedy he now offers to the public, with the de-
sire of saving many who, like his child, have been
given over by doctors TO an early tomb. This re-
cipe will b. sent to any one enclosing siXpcnce in
postage stamps, to defray the expense of adyertis-
ing and secretary DIR. James having retired 10
spend his few remaining years in the bosom of his
family. Address DIR. James, Cecil street, Strand,
London"
On sending the required sixpence, We receive a
paper describing an elaborate process for the pre-
PARTON Of the recipe from Cannabis Indica, or
Indian hemp, (Which he states cannot be obtained
pure at one druggist shop in a hundred and
other drugs. The process of manufacture is too
complicated by far for any private individual to
undertake. The benevolent physician, therefore,
fearing this, will send Il bottle for ten shillings,
which is the exact cost of the ingredients, he
- charging nothing for his labor, but being salts
fed with the prayers of the many he has rescued
from an untimely grave"
What a dear, good. kind old man. says IL
young lady won't charge a cent for making
it. / can Just imagine him, with his snowy locks
falling over the collar Of his coat as he stands
over his crucible. ~mingling his prayers with the
: Cannibis Indica.'
Not so fast, my dear young friend; the re-
tired physician, whose sands of life have nearly
run out for the last six or seven years, has Jet
black hair and a rather rakish appearance, and
really one would not take him for more than thir-
ty, at most, if he did not state that his sands were
so nearly run out. lie keeps q very handsome
carriage. and has 4 young lady with him who can
:. Cannibis Indica' from an carly grave. Could
not one imagine Cannibis Indiea to be an Indian
Chief, who liked the physicians daughterso much
that he could eat her, but didn't, instead of a
bottle of nasty brown stuff made from the plant
they make ropes from? The fact il, that DR..
James, the retired physician, Is a young impostor,
and if his sands of life are nearly run out, we
should like TO shake him, - rs TO make them run
out faster, or apply a preparation of Indian
to the external part of his throat, in re
turn for his villainous deception-raising the
hopes of fond parents, who, like dying men,
at a straw, and pour his detestlble decoc-
down the throat of their dying child. hoping
against hope, that, like the daughter of the J. re-
tired physician" she may be rescued from an
early grave. Meanwhile. DIR. James fOurishes
no one Is going TO confess that they have been
made fools of, or if they do, DIR. James has NOV
and after that little excitement Is over. re-
his old trade, in commun with the many
thousands, i few Of whom we have endeavorcd to
describe. showing how they swindle the public by
r..rpv &c acknowledgements