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Show Which Shall I Take ? This id often a serious question with the invalid. Ho finds the market Hooded with proprietary medicines, scores of which are recommended as certain cures for his peculiar ailment. He reads the papers, circulars and almanacs, and finds oach sustained by plausible arguments setting forth Us virtues and specific action. The recommendations are as strong for one as for another. The cures claimed to have been wrought by one are as wonderful as those claimed to havo been wrought by another. In his perplexity per-plexity and doubt, the sufferer is sometimes led to reject all. But it should be borne in mind that this coudition of things is one that cannot be remedied. In a land where all are free, tho good the truly valuable must come into competition with the : vile and worthless, and must be brought to public notice by the same . instrumentality, which is advertising. In such a case, perhaps the only absolute ab-solute proof that a remedy is what it claims to be, is to try it. The "teat ol a pudding ia the eating of it." "Prove all things, hold fast that which is good," is the apostolic injunction. There may, however, be stronger presumptive pre-sumptive evidence in favor ol one ' remedy than thero is in favor of another, an-other, and this should be allowed its . due weight. A due regard to this : may save a vast amount of experi-I experi-I mcnting and a useless outlay o! money. As presumptive evidence in i favor ol Dr. Pierce's Family Medi- cincs, the Proprietor desires to say, scientific process by which the virtues vir-tues of the crude plants and roots are extracted without the use of a particle of alcjhol. Not a particle of this destroyer de-stroyer of our race enters into the composition of either Lis Golden Medical Discovery or Favorite Prescription. Pre-scription. This consideration alone ought certainly to rank them high above the vilo compounds saturated with alcohol, Jamaica rum, sour beer, I or vinegar, which are everywhere offered lor sale. Again, they are of uniform strength, and their virtues can never be impaired by age. They are also made from fresh herbs and roots, gathered in their appropriate season, when they are flush with medicinal properties. In suDport of these claims, the following testimony is offered: Newark, N. J. R. V. Pikece, M. D.: Jkur ir I have sold a great deal of your excellent remedies, and I prefer to sell them before ethers, because be-cause they give good satisfaction to those who use them. I hear such re-ma re-ma ks as "Sage's Remedy completely cured me; it is a splendid thing;" or, "Pierce's Discovery is just what I wanted; I feel belter thau I ever did." One of our celebrated singers uses it for strengthening her voice, and says "there is nothing equals it;" and so I might give scores of remarks said about your preparations. A colored woman was using your Discovery, 1 and after taking three bottles wat completely cured. Slw, being in thi store, said to me, "I don't want nc f doctors 'round me so long as I can gei t the Discuvery; it beats all youi - doctors." And so I might go on. I am, most respectfully, yours, 1 al Atha B. Cuooks. |