The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-06-08

The difference between DIR. Pierce's
| Golden Medical Discovery and So
| called patent medicines is the differ
| ence between an assured gold mine
and "hole in the ground" The Diff
ference between the claims made for
Golden Medical Discovery" and the
| claims ordinarily made for every COM
mon cure-all, Is the difference between
the cry Of q Colonel Sellers, and the
statement of a scientific man with his
| finger on an unimpeachable record of
| fact.
1t is the misfortune of the public as
we'll as the proprietor, that really great
| remedies-remedies of value and of
recorded worth, must be marketed in
the same manner presented to the
public by the same vehicle as Is an
absolutely worthless, catchpenny salve,
soap, or sarsaparilla. Just in the same
way If the philanthropist would travel
he must take the car that is equally
at the service of the gambler and the
thief, and the hero may ride cheek by
jowl with the coward. 1t belongs to
the public itself, to discriminate be-
tween the true and the false the
worthy and the unworthy. to go be-
hind the cures promised which are
only words, to the cures PERFORMED,
which are matters of fact. Ii is TO be
admitted that in many cases testimon-
ials are manufactured. They are like
the false references sometimes pre-
sented by dishonest servants. Their
success depends upon the fact that
most people are too careless to look up
references. They engage the servant
upon appearances and professions of
integrity. When the servant decamps,
with all the loose property, does it
prove that references are of no use?
1t proves only the folly of taking
things upon trust, of not examining
references, when you are putting your
life into the care Of a servant.
CAN YOU WONDER
that when people put their health into
the hands of these medicinal servants,
with nothing but promises to rely on,
and without investigating the testi-
monials they offer as to character and
past record, can you wonder that I'M
der such conditions many people are
deceived and find at the last that the
servant has stolen the very jewel of
health he was hired to protect?
All that is asked for Golden Med
ical Discovery" is to judge il not by
what it promises to do for you but by
what 1t has performed for others. Ex-
anime it's record. look up it's references,
enquire about it's dscoverer and his
rank in medicine, the institution he has
so long presided over, his life as a
citizen, his record as u servant OF the
state in congress. Look into these
things, for If the claims made for DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery are
true, If they are supported by actual
facts, If the testimonials which sup
port them are reliable, then the "Dis-
covery" is one of the most remarkable
medicines of the age, and it's cures are
nothing short of wonderful. Take some
examples. Here is the case of a lady
at the head of an important institu-
ton. She is to be found easily. The
reputation of the witness and the re-
liability Of her testimony can be abso-
lutely determined. The name of the
lady is Mrs Ella Taylor Dodge, and
she is matron of the Home for the
Missionaries Children" connected with
, the Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission
airy Society of the West, at Morgan
Park, Ills, p. o. Box 165. She writes:
twenty-five years ago when ] was
thirteen years old 1 had what the doc
tor called consumption. He told my
mother that nothing could be done for
, me excepting to make me as comfort
able as possible. The pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church in the
place where l lived heard Of my condl.
. ton and although he was not acquaint-
ed with our family, he called, and dur
. ing the call he asked my mother II
she would allow me to take a medicine
IL he would send it to me. She thought
that IL could do no harm IL it did nc
| good, so he sent a bottle of DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. Before the
, bottle was empty my friends saw 8
little Improvement in my health
, whereupon another bottle was bought
I can't say now Just how much took
4 but / improved steadily and today
am well strong woman, as you may
, imagine | must be to have the care OF
this Home. / now have a child under
my care who when she takes cold Il
settles in the larynx. l at first used
! medicines which her mother suggested
. before leaving her, but nothing did this
3 least good till l gave your Colder
Medical Discovery l have unbound
ed faith in it,"
Y This is not a solitary case and ii I.
chosen chiefly because of the socia
and religious standing of the woman
3 | who was cured. Cured of what? Mrs
I | Dodge says "cured of what the doctor
1 said was consumption" We don't say
} anything about 1t. We are willing L
accept the doctors diagnosis. Wha