The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-25
A PERSONAL CARD.
A MATTER IN WHICH THE PUBLIC SHOULD
HAVE DEAL OF INTEREST.

much money and risk so many lives in
trying to capture the counterfeiter7
Suppose he does counterfeit governs
ment bonds and notes, surely the governs
ment is rich enough to stand any loss his
act may confer~
But the individual citizen could ill
afford to be put to continual financial
loss if such desperadoes were let go un.
whipped of justice.
1t is only the valuable thing that is
C ountelfeited; it is only in the light of
purity and virtue that impurty and vice
can be known. No one in these days
would counterfeit confederate bond or
note.
People who commit fraud always do
it by Stimulating the highest virtue; by
prcying' on the cleanest reputation, by
employing the fair name of viatue with
which to give responsibility to vice.
Let us explain: Seven or eight years
ago so we have been informed many
times in public prints, a New York state
gentleman was pronounced, as many mil
lions have been pronounced before. in
curably sick of an extreme disorder. By
suggestions which he believed were pro-
vidential, he was led to the use of prep
ara' ion which had been for several years
employed by select few physicians in
New York city and 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 formula, absolutely and irrevocably,
he determined to devote u portion of his
accumulated wealth to the manufacture
and sale of this remedy for the benefit of
the many who suffer as he suffered. in
apparent hopelessness. In less than three
years, so tremendous because the demand
for this remedy and so exalted the rep
utation, that he was obliged for his purs
poses to erect laboratory and ware
house containing four and quarter
acres of flooring and filled with the most
approved chemical and manufacturing
devices. Probably there never was a
remedy that has won such a meritorious
name, such extraordinary sales and has
accomplished so much good for the race.
Unprincipied parties who flourish only
upon the ruins of others. saw in this rep.
uta,ion and sale an opportunity to reap IL
golden harvest, mot legitimately, not
honorably) for which purpose they have
made limitations and substilutions of it in
every section of the country and many
druggists, who can make a larger profit
on these imitation goods. often compton,
Use their honor by forcing sale upon the
unposted customer.
Yes, undoubtedly the manufacturers
could we'll afford to ignore such instances
of fraud so far as the effect upon them
selves is concerned, for their remedies
have constant and unremittiD. sale,
but they feel il to be their duty to warn
the public against such limitations and
substitutions, non secret and otherwise
The individual who buys them and the
public who countenance their sale alone
suffer in mind, body and estate therefor.
The authors of some of these fraudu-
lent 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 arc told, has prostitu
ted its high and holy calling so far as to
advertise that for twenty five cents it will
send all new subscribers u transcript Of
the Warner formula! This formula, by
the way, must be a wonderfully kaledo>
scope affair, for there is hardly month
passes when some paper is not issued
which pretends to give the only correct
formula!
The manufacturers inform us that they
would be perfectly willing that the pub
lie should know what the true formula
of Warmers safe cure is. none that have
been published are anything like iD. 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. The
meth cd of manufacture is IA secret. 1t is
impossible to obtain the results that are
wrought by this remedy if one does not
have the perfect skill acquired only by
years of practice for compromising and
assimlatng the simple elements which
enter into its composition.
The learned DR.. Foster, the honored
head OF Clifton Springs sanitarium, once
said, that having roughly analysed this
remedy he recognized that the elements
that compose it were simple but he ats
tributed the secret of its power to the
method of its compromising and this
method no one knows except the manu>
facturers 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 misery. shun
the imitator and refuse thereby to lend
your aid financially to those who seek to
get. by trading upon another's reputation
and honesty. a sale for wares and goods
which on their merits e..e lit only to be
rejected as the veFlest re fuse. You can
neither afford to patronize such people
nor can you afford to take their injurious
compounds into your system. When you
call for Warmers Safe Cure see that the
wrapper is black with white letters and
that the wrapper and label bear an i'm
print of an iron safe, the trade mark. and
that safe is blown in the back of the
bottle and thata perfect 1c promissory
note stamp is over the cork. You can't
be imposed on if you observe these eau
tons.
We have the highest respect for the
remedy we have mentioned and the high.
est regard for the manufacturers, and we
cannot too highly commend their dignitied
and considerate tone in relation to those
who would traduce their fair name and
ruin the best interest of the public in
such matters.
Woman'a Face