Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1871 — Be Guided by What You Know. [ARTICLE]

Be Guided by What You Know.

There is an old proverb which says, “Experienoe is the safest guide.” To this guide the sick and ailing naturally turn when casting about for the means of relief. They inquire what a medicine has done for others before they adopt it themselves. Of all the remedies and preventives in use, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters meets the test most triumphantly, and hence its immense popu 1 AHty and vast sales. The sufl’erer from indigestion is sure to ’’find some one among his friends who has been cured of that ailment by the famous vegetable stomachic. The victim of fever and age, liver complaint, constipation, nervous prostration, or general debility, has only to make inquiry in the neighborhood where he resides in order to discover what this standard restorative has effected in cases similar to bis own. In the published testimony to its merits he will find a volume of proofs of its sanitary properties, which it is impossible for his common sense to resist. He tries it, and the effecs it produces on his system adds another to the host of witnesses in its favor. Thus its reputation, founded on facts, not assertions, centinually grows and spreads. Charlatans and imposters, some of them mere local tricksters, and others who take a somewhat wider range, attempt to thrust into the hands and down the throats of invalids their haphazard concoctions, as substitutes for the tonic which for so many years has been a medicinal staple throughout the United States, Spanish America, Canada, and the w est Indies, but only succeed to a very limited extent. In this reasoning age, the people, having ascertained what is really deserving of their confidence, decline “ running after strange John V. Farwell & Co., with their present large building, are able to show the greatest variety, in all classes of goods. There is no stock, anywhere, so well adapted to Western trade, as theirs.