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Show viiiciug; proof of the enicacy of the concoction. con-coction. From the old-time plain certificate certi-ficate cure, the next Btep was to print the picture of the person on whom the njiracle was performed. Now, the foremost in this race for trade are introducing" personally to sufferers the cured person, whose personal per-sonal statement, like that of the witness in court, is more effective than any certificate cer-tificate could be. In one Maine village the officers of both agent and witness are united in the same person, and he does a thriving; business buttonholing the farmers and other visitors to the place, exhibiting himself as one rescued from the gravei Under the new system, sys-tem, to be sick may be no misfortune, provided one gets well and can attribute at-tribute hit case to a patent medicine. It may result in a good salary. , USE LIVING SPECIMENS. Psteut ftfedlolne Ageuti Are Making a New Departure to Soil Their M area. There are indications that the patent medieine trade, like the book trade, is falling into, the hands of canvassers. The medicine vender is now frequently met with in Maine villages and on the country roads, says the Lewiston Journal. Another t feature fast developing de-veloping in the business is the use of "the living specimen," to furnish con- |