The Daily Tombstone., 1885-12-01
A PERSONAL CARD.
A Matter i'm Which the Public should Have a Deal of
 Interest.

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 conferw
 But the individual citizens could i'll afford to be put to continual financial loss if such desperadOes were let go unwhipped of justice.
 It is only the valuable thing that is counterfeited; it is only in the light of purity and virtue that impurity and vice can be known. No one in these days would counterfeit q Confederate bond or note.
 People who commit fraud always do it by stimulating the highest virtue; by proving on the cleanest reputation, by employing the fair name of virtue 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, New York state gentleman was pronounced, as many millions have been pro- nounced before, incurably sick of an extreme disorder. By suggestions which he believed were providental, he Was led to the use of preparation | which had been for several years em- l ployed by a 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 abil itx- co.1 ,,o,,rnIln Hny;,C, cured possession of the formula, "ab- solutely and irrevocably," he deter mined to devote portion of his accu- mulated 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 became the demand for this remedy and so l exalted the reputation, that he was | obliged for his purposes to erect a | laboratory and warehouse 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 meritOrious name, such extraordinary sales and has accomplished so much good for the race.
 1 Unprincipled Parties, "who flourish l only upon the ruin of others" saw in this reputation and sale an opportun- | ity to reap golden harvest, (not legitimately, not honorably) for which purpose they have made limitations and substitutions of 1t in every sec tion of the country, and many drug gists, who can make larger profit on these imitation goods, often compro- mise their honor by forcing a sale upon the unposted customer.
 Yes, undoubtedly the manufacturers could we'll afford to ignore such in stances of fraud so far as the effect upon themselves" is concerned, for their remedies have a constant and unremitting sale, but they feel it 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 icountenances their sale alone suffer in mind, body and estate therefor
 The authors of some of these fraudulent practices have been prose- cuted 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 jour nal, we are told, has prostituted its high and holy calling so far as to ad
 vertise that for twenty-five cents 1t will send all new subscribers tram script of the Warner formula. This ] town, rrta hy- tho nat Inc derfully kaleidoscope affair, for there is hardly a month passes when some paper is not issued which pretends to give the only correct formulal
 The manufacturers inform us that they would be perfectly willing that the public should know what the true formula of Warmers safe cure is, (nOne 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 form ula as with their A B C's "they could not compound the remedy" The method of manufacture is a secret. It is impossible to obtain the results that are wrought by this remedy if one does not have the perfect skill ac- quired only by years of practice for compromising and assimilating the simple elements which enter into its composition.
 The learned Dr. Foster, the honored head of Clifton Springs sanitarium, once said that having roughly an alyzed this remedy he recognized that that the elements that composed 1t | were simple but he attributed the secret of its power to the method of its compromising, 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 | nhysical misery. shun the imitafor