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Show j -THE PERUI'TA FAKIR. i' All over this country, in many papers, pa-pers, the Peruna fakir still adverti.s-irigly adverti.s-irigly displays his cut of a nun and follows it with the printed endorsement endorse-ment of a Catholic institution." in ; Ohio. Emplvisis is given to the alleged recommendation by embellishing the flaring ann.-unceryent with bogu.5 pictures.. pic-tures.. This atrocious and mendacious fraud, though several times, unmasked j and . denounced, continues to raise its j brazen, lying front. How any dealer, een in patent medicine, with alcohol as its bfiisis. cnn. under such citcum- stances, repeat this villany is not comprehensible com-prehensible by any law of ethics or honesty. We- feel it a duty, therefore, to again j call 'attention to this matter and brain! j ii accordingly. But for the intoxic.it-j intoxic.it-j ing element iir this medicine, so-called, i it would not have i'us present vogue ' commercially. Many people, who are professedly temperate and would not knowingly resort to such drugs a.re misled into stimulation abhoreut to , them. Catholics of eiry section are rigb.t-I rigb.t-I oously indignanl at the unblushing fraud practiced iq.oa them by the Po- j runa fakir, who seem: to have n ! scruple in dishonest practice, even ! exposed, and, to use t:tp language of j one of the ministers of this city, in a. ! general denunciation of similar turpi- j tude has "put his conscience in cold storage," while tilling his purse dis- ' honnestly. Catholic Columbian. j |