Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1870 — Newspaper Statements. [ARTICLE]

Newspaper Statements.

HOW THE PEOPLE TEST THEIR TRUTH. This is not an age when people believe on trust whatever they see in the public journals. Fifty or sixty years ago when the accuracy of a statement that had appeared In one of tho gazettes or “News Letters’’ of the day, was questioned, it was considered a sufficient answer to all cavil to say, “It must be so, for I read it in the newspaper.” It is not so now. Newspaper assertions must be verified before they are taken for granted, and this is especially the case as regards statements setting forth the remedial properties of proprietary medicines- For example: it was not until the tonic and alterative properties of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters had been deliberately and thoroughly tested by thousands, and found to be in perfect accord with the nrintediCiaims put forth in itsj behalf, that it was accepted by the public at large as a Standard Remedy. But when multitudes who had resorted to it as a safeguard against malarious fevers, a cure tor indigestion and biliousness, a means of stresgthening the frame, cheering the spirits and imparting constitutional vigor, came forward and testified that its beneficial effects had exceeded their, most sanguine expectations, of course the world believed To resist such proofs was impossible. Great care has been taken from the beginning not to overstate the merits of the Bitters. Exaggeration and bombast have been the death of -many preparat ions that might otherwise have survived. They were “weighed in the balance and found wanting.” Hostetter’s Bitters, on the contrarv, have never been announced in grandiloquent language as a cure for every bodily ill, but simply as a pure harmless vegetable specific, possessing remarkable invigorating, regulating, anti-bilious and an tiseptic properties. This is exactly what the public know the medicine to be, and its enormous sales is an argnment in its Caver. A profuse and many times excessively offensive discharge from the nose, with “ stoppage ” of the nose at times, impairment of the sense of smell and taste, watering or weak eyes, impaired hearing, irregular appetite, occasional nausea, pressure and pain over the eyes, and at limes in the back of the head, occasional chilly sensations, cold feet, and a feeling of lassitude and debility are symptoms which are common to catarrh, yet all of them are not present in every case. Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy cures catarrh in its worst forms and stages. It is pleasant to use, and contains no poisonous or caustic drugs. Sent by mail on receipt of sixty cents. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by most Druggists everywhere. TherE is no excuse of so many deaths by consumption, if those afflicted with lung diseases will only use Allen’s Lung Balsam in season. It will soon euro the disease and prevent so great a sacrifice of life. For sale bv all druggists.