The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1885-11-27
A Personal Card
MATTER IN WHICH THE PUBLIC
SHOULD HAVE A DEAL
OF INTEREST.
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| 10 me TC0UeTS " We COLUMBIAN:
Why does the government spend so
much money and risk so many lives in
trying to capture the counterfeiter.
"Suppose he does counterfeit gov
ernment bonds and notes, surely the
government is rich enough to stand
any loss his act may confer!'
But the individual citizen could i'll
afford TO be put to continual financial
loss if such desperadoes were left 90
unwhippcd Of justice.
1t is only the valuable thing that is
counterfeite it is only in the light of
purity and virtue that impurity and
vice can be known. No one in these
days would counterfeit a Confederate
bond or note.
People who commit fraud always do
it by similating the highest virtue; by
preying on the cleanest reputation, by
employing the fair name of virtue with
which to give respectability to vice.
Let us explain: Seven or eight years
ago, so we have been informed many
times in public prints, New York
state gentleman was pronouuced. as
many millions have been pronounced
before, incurably sick of an extreme
disorder BY suggestions which he be
lieved were providential, he was led
TO the use of preparation which had
been for several years employed by a
select few physicians in New York city
ard one or two other prominent places
The result was that he was cured, he
whom doctors without number and of
conceded ability said was incurable
Having secured possession of the for
mula, ABSOLUTELY and irecocabIy, he
determined to devote portion of his
accumulated wealth to the manufac-
ture and sale of this remedy for the
benefit of the many who suffer as he
suffered, in apparent hopeles'ness. In
less than three years, so tremendous
came the demand for this remedy and
SO exalted the reputation, that he was
obliged for his purpose to erect lab
oratory and warehouse containing four
and a quarter acres of flooring and
filled with the most approved chemical
and manufacturing devices. Probably
there never was aremedy that has won
such a meritorious name, such extraor-
dinary sales and has accomplished 80
much good for the race.
| Unprincipled parties arhO flourish
only upon the ruins Of others, saw
in this reputation and sale an opportu-
nifty to reap golden harvest, mot le-
Ultimately, not honorably) for which
purpose they have made limitations and
substitutions of it in every section of
the country, and many druggists, who
can make larger profit on these imi-
tation goods often compromise their
honor by forcing a sale upon the un
posted customer.
Yes, undoubtedly the manufacturers
could well afford to ignore such in
stances of fraud so far as the effect
upon themselves is concerned, for their
remedies have a constant and unremit-
ting sale, but they feel it to be their
duty to ao0re the public against such
limitations and substitutions, non-secret
and otherwise. The individual who
buys them and the people who coun-
tenances their sale alone suffer- in
mind, body and estate therefor.
The author of some of these fraud
ulent practices have been prosecuted
and sent to prison for their crimes, but
there is another class who claim to
know the formula of this remedy and
one Sunday school journal, we are told,
has prostituted its high and holy call
ing so far as to advertise that for
twenty FIVE cents it will send all new
subscribers transcript of the Warner
formula! This formula, by the way,
must be wonderfully Kaleidoscope
affair, for there is hardly a month
passes when some papet is not issued
which pretends to give the only cor
rect formula
The manufacturers inform us that
they would be perfectly willing that
the public should know what the true
formula of Warmers safe cure is. (ncne
that have been published are anything
like it), but even if every man, woman
and child in the United States were as
familiar with this formula as with their
A B C's, they could not compound
the remedy, 1t is impossible TO obtain
the results that are wrought by this
remedy If one does not have the per.
feet skill acquired by years of practice
for compOunding and assimilaling the
simple elements which enter into its
composition.
The learned DIR. Foster, the honored
head of Clifton Springs sanitarium,
once said that having roughly analyzed
this remedy he recognized that the ele-
ments that compose it were simple but
he attributed the secret of its power to
the method of its compounding, and
this method no one knows except the
manufacturers and no one can acquire it.
Our advice TO our readers, therefore,
cannot be too strongly emphasized
As you would prefer virtue to vice,
gold to dross, physical happiness to
physical misery, shun the imitatator
and refuse thereby to lend your aid
financially to those who seek to get, by
trading upon another's reputation and
honesty, sale for wares and goods
which on their merits are fit only to be
rejected as the veriest refuse. You can
neither afford to patronize such pco,
pie nor can you afford to take their in
furious compounds into your system.
When you call for Warmers Safe
Cure see that the wrapper is 6ldck ,oiH
aohite letters and that the wrapper and
label bear an imprint of an iron safe
the trade mark, and that safe is 6lo,on
IN the back of the bottle and that a
perfect lc promisSory note stamp il
over the cork. You can't be imposed
on if you observe these cautions.
| We have the highest respect for the
remedy we have mentioned and the
highest regard for the manufacturers
and we cannot too highly commend
their digni6ed and considerate tone il
relation to those who would traduc,
their fair name and ruin the best inter
est of the public in such matters.
In case of burn or scald, the es
sential thing is to exclude the air from
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