Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1889 — II COST TOO MUCH. [ARTICLE]

II COST TOO MUCH.

The Sad Experience Which Befell 7-- —=— One of the A stors. In she early days of the direct tea trade with China, importers were the earuest cargoes of a new crop. The fastest clipper ships were engaged ip the " trade. Great haste in loading them was followed by a hot race to reach New York first. The first cargo brought the best price and large profits. The successful Captain was always rewarded, so every known aid to navigation was adopted. The young captain of one of Mr. clippers bought, on one of his trips, a new chronometer, and with its aid made a quick passage, and Arrived first. He put the price of it into the expense account of the trip, but Mr. Astor threw it out, insisting that such an item of expense for new fangled notions could not be allowed. The Captain thereupon resigned and took service with a rival line. The next year he reached port long in advance of any comoetitor, to the great delight and profit of his employers and the ch'agrin of Mr. Astor. Not long after they chanced to meet, and Mr. Astor inquired: “By the way, Captain, how much did that chronometer cost you?” “Six hundred dollars,” then, with a quizzical glance, he asked: “And how much has it cost you, Mr. Astor?”

“Sixty thousand dollars.” Men Sre often unfortunate in the reTcction of what they call new langleu notions. There are sicktnen who refuse, even when their physicians tell them tbsy cannot help them, to take Warner's Safe Cure, because it is a “new fangled” proprietary medicine. The result is they lose—life and health. Thousands of other men have been restored to health by it, as the testimonials furnished to the public show. These testimonials cannot be doubted. The proprietor have a standing offer of $6,000 to any one who will show that any testimonial published by them is not, so far as they know, entirely true.

Dr. Andrew Wilson, Fellow of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, the editor of “Health,” London, Eng., says, in his magazine, in answer to an inquiry, “Warner’s Safe Cure ifi of a perfectly sale character, and perfectly reliable.” The refusal of a manufacturing firm to pay for the patent of a new invention by one of their workmen, cost them their entire business. A new firm took out the patent and were soon enabled to make goods enough cheaper to drive the old firm out of business; and many a physician is daily finding his patients, long-time ehronic invalids! unaccountably restored to health by the use of the new kidney specific. New fangled notions are sometimes very valuable, and it costs too much to foolishly reject them, When asked whether the union jacks and the ensigns of the navy would have four new stars added in recognition of the four new States of the Union, Capt. Ramsay, commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, said: “The flags of the navy will not be changed to represent the four new States until the final ratification of the act of Congress is made. It is not likely that new flags will be made, but the four stars will be added to the union jack and the blue field of the ensign.”