Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1878 — An Alpine Avalanche. [ARTICLE]

An Alpine Avalanche.

In the summer of 1864, a party of tourists, while visiting the Alps, climbed, with great difficulty, to an elevated and snow-covered plateau, in order to obtain a better view of Swiss scenery, and contrast the beauty and richness Of midsummer below with the bleakness and sterility of midwinter around and above them. In play they rolled the moist snow into large balls, they crowded it overthe edge of the plateau. In falling it struck softer snow, which immediately gave way, and soon an avalanche was tearingdown the moun-tain-side, burying and destroying everything in its ceurße. As the handful of snow became the irresistible avalanche, so the hackingcough with sore. throat and Catarrh,, if.neglected,, speedily develops Into that dread destroyer, Consumption. In the early stages, Dr. Sage’s 'Catarrh Remedy will effect a cure, though if the blood be affected or impoverished it must lie purified and enriched by Dr. Piercc’sGoiden Medical Discovery, and the liver and bowels kept active by his Pleasant Purgative Pellets. Many who despaired of life and had been Sven up to die Dy physicians and friends, owe eir restoration to the above remedies. Ely, Linn Co., lowa, May Bth, 1877. Dr. Piekce. Buffalo. N. Y,: Dear {Hr— I was prostrated some three years since with pleuro-pneumonia, which left roe with a troublesome cough, that gradually grew worso until physicians gave me up to die with consumption. I tried several remedies, that are advertised to cure consumption, but without obtaining any relief or benefit. Seeing your Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets advertised, I concluded to try them, and I found them to be all that you claim for them. My restoration has remained complete for over two years. Inclosed find $1.50 for a copy of your Common-Sense Medical Adviser. Ever gratefully yours, Jason C. Bartholomew. The New York Philharmonic Journal cautions its readers against being swindled in the purchase of the cheap organs and pianos which, it says, are now being almost forced into the houses of the people, at prices which seem very low, but whfch are really very high, considering the worthlessness of the instruments. The warrants which the makers of such instruments make are practically worthless, because the expense, trouble ana risk of enforcing them are so great that mosvpeopie, when they find out about it, will rather bear their loss than to* to get reparation. Makers know this and warrant organa which they know must very soon be utterly worthless. The safest way Is to buy the best. Anyone buying a Mason & Hamlin Organ, for instance, runs no risk; and he is wise who insists on having one of these organs, and will not be persuaded to take any other. It should be rememberedthat dealers sometimes try very hard to sell inferior organs, because they can make more on them.