The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-21
Sending Truth
After a Lie

John Graham. in a letter from 4
se!fmade merchant TO ht:I son" says
Sending the truth afte- 4 lie b a
has got a running starr IS like trying
to round up a stanpeced herd o.
| steers while the scare is ON hen
Lies are great travellers and Welcome
visitors in a good many homes. and
no questions asked Trutil ca:eIS
slowly. has to prove its identity. and
then a lot of people hesitate TO turn
out an agreeable stranger TO maize
ION for it
a case in point was h slanderous
and libelous article published by the
Ladies' Home Journal in May. POI
! wherein it was claimed that Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription CON
tanned alcohol am cchcr harmful in
gradients. DR.. PJe-cc promptly
brought suit against the Curtis Pub
fishing Company. publishers of the
Ladies Home journal The suit was
for 5000. 100000 damages. DIR. G
alleged that Mr.. Box. the editor. ma
liciously published The article con
tanning such false 4 defamatory
matter with the intent of iujurinS
his business: furthermore that no.
alcohol, or other INJURIOUS. or habit
forming, drugs are. or ever were.
contained In his "Faro-ite Prcscrip-
ton" that said medicine is OF purely
vegetable composition. being made
from native medicinal roots and con
tains no harmful ingredients what
ever. and that NJ. 3ok'S malicious
statements were wholly and abso
lutely false.
4 retraction was printed by said
Journal but was not until two months
after the libelous article appeared
They had to acknowledge that they
a obtained analyses OF
Prescription. made bE eminent
chemists. all of whom ce":ided that it
did not contain alcoho or any Of the
alleged harmful drugs: But the
matter was. however. o..ISht before
a jury in the Supreme Court of New
York State which promptly rendered
a verdict in the DoIr>:s favor
Thus his traducers ca ; TO grief
Their base ISLANDERS ~cr> refuted and
they were Obliged to ga humble
pie"
During the trial of the libel suit
DR.. Lee H. Smith. vi g President of
the Worlds DispenSar:- I:edical AS
ISOLATION. stated unde, oath that the
ingredients of DR.. Piercc's Favorlte
| Prescription were eXtrt-ied from the
following native cots: Golden Seal
Rlne Cohosh. I-ady.S 81; )rcr. Black
! Cohosh and Unicorn. by means OF
nure Slvcerine. He WAS asked how
he knew. as a physician and expert
enced medical man. that the Favor
lite Prescription" was re for the
disease peculiar TO and he
! stated that he knew S:.ch was the
! fact because of his, pr .fcSsional eN-
perience and the many I nusancS OF
women whose ills had been cured by
this prescription. T is experience
| was corroaorated by the standard
Medical Authorities OF the several
schools of medicine endorsing the va
rious ingredients in the strongest
terms. DR.. Smith being asked to
name these authorities, re.a from the
standard works. such as the United
States Dispensatory: The American
Dispensatory: Organic Medicines. by
Grover Coe. NJ. D.: Ma;cria Medica
and Therapeutics. by Professor Fin
lev Ellingwood of the Bennett Medi-
cal College of Chicago: New Rene
dies" by Professor Edwin N. Hale.
NJ. d.: Textbook of Therapeutics, by
DR.. Hobart A. Hare. Professor in
University OF Penn'a: Laurence John
son. NJ D.. Professor in University
of New York: ProfeSso- John King.
Author Of Woman and Her Diseas-
es": VIM. Paine. NJ D. Author OF
New School Practice of Medicine:
Professor John NJ. Schudc-. NJ. D-.Au-
thor of a treatise The Diseases OF
Women; Horatio c. Wood. NJ D..
Bartholow, A. NJ. NJ. D., Prof OF
N1,+a-;, NIodico Jefferson d