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Otago Witness, Issue 1901, 10 July 1890, Page 11

WHAT EXPERIENCE TEACHES IS BHST There is something to consider in the daily expenses for the household necessities, which in the aggregate. of the year amount to a good deal. The ethics of buying and selling seem to be for the vendor to get all he can, and for the purchaser to see that he don't get too much. But what is too much ? It is almost a profound question, and presents the strange paradox that the dearest in many things is often the cheapest. Certainly this is so in food, whsn health is involved, and in remedies which restore health after it has been impaired. It is certainly bo in clothing ; for a cheap suit that will hardly last one season is dearer than the one which will last two seasons, the difference in price being reasonable. . So in shoes, and the like. Recurring to the items of food and health, undoubtedlj the most important, it is found that villainous adulteration is what renders it cheaper in much that is sold, and men are known who have spent thousands to be cured of disease, have suffered years of agony, and have trifled away their substance on worthless remedies. That which is testified to by thousands aS being an absolute cure, and permanently efficacious, is cheap at any price in comparison with such as have no virtue, and which prolong suffering. A casein point is the following : — "New Bloomfield, Pa., April 26, 1886. The bharles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen,— For more than thirty y§W* I had been afflicted with rheumatism so severe I had to use morphia to secure rest at night, Spent hundreds of dollars with pbysioians and for remedies without benefit. Five years ago I tried St. Jacobs Oil, and it effected an entire and permanent cure. I have not been troubled with it since. Cold or damp weather does not affect me at all. I desire to give it my unqualified endorsement.— J. E. BONBA^L, clerk to the several oourts of Perry County, Pa." The point here is not so much wh^at Mrßonsall paid for -the great remedy for pain, for the price is a mere bagatelle, but that he was permanently oured after 30 years' suffering. Of course the poor must count the cost in everything; but thej should reckon on the sounc' basts that that which is bad is worthless, and th^t which is the best and will oure, and stay cured, ia cheap at any price.