Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1877 — “ The Sure Witness.” [ARTICLE]

“ The Sure Witness.”

“The nineteenth century is the age of novels,” remarks a literary historian—he might have added with equal truth, “and novel impositions.” Studied politeness has been passed off on us for native refinement, the forms of devotion for its essence, and speculation for science, until we look askance at every new person or thing, and to an assertion of merit, invariably exclaim, “Trove it!” In brief, Satan has made himself so omnipresent, that we look for his cloven foot every where—even in a bottle of medicine. Imagine a lady, having a complexion so sallow that you would deny her claims to the Caucasian type if her features did not conform to it, purchasing her first bottle of the Golden Medical Discovery. The one dollar is paid in the very identical manner in which Mr. Taylor might be expected to purchase a lottery'ticket after his experience with “No. 104.163,” with this difference, his doubt would be the result of personal experience, while hers would be founded on what a certain practitioner (who has been a wholo year trying to correct her refractory fiver) has said concerning it. At home, she examines the bottle half suspiciously, tastes of its contents carefully, takes the prescribed dose more carefully, and then proceeds to watch the result with as much anxiety as a practitioner would count the pulse-beats of a dying man. She takes another dose, and another, and shows the bottle to her friends, telling them she “ feels better.” Her skin losesits bilious tint, her eyes regain their lustef, her accu Boomed energy returns, and the fact that she purchases another bottle is a sure witness that she has found the Golden Medical Discovery to be a reliable remedy for the disease indicated. The lady wisely resolves that in future her estimate of any medicine will be based upon a personal knowledge of its effects, and not upon what some practitioner (who always makes long bills rhyme with pills) may say of it. Dr. Pierce is in receipfof letters from hundreds of the largest wholesale and retail druggists in the United States stating that at the present time there is a greater demand for the Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets tlian ever before. In affections of the liver and blood they are unsurpassed.