What Experiences Teaches is Best.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6831, 19 April 1890, Page 1

What Experiences Teaches is Best.

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 does not 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 ia, often the cheapest. Certainly this is so in'food, when health is involved, and in remedies which restore health after it has been impaired. It is certainly so in clothing ; for a cheap suit that will hardly last c-ie season is dearer than the one which will last two seasons, the difference in piice being reasonable. Se in shoes, and the like. Becurring to the items of food and health, undoubtedly the most important, it is found that villainous adulteration i8 what renders it cheaper in much ' J tbat is sold, and men are known who have^fcpent thousands to be cured oi 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 cur-s, and permanently efficacious, is cheap at "any price in comparison with such as have no virtue, and which prolong suffering. A case in point is the following :-^{'New Bloomfield, Pa., April 26, 158G. The Charles A. Yogeler Co., Baltimore, Md. Gentlemen, — Por more than thirty years I had been afflicted with rheumatism so severe, I had to use morphine to secure rest at night. Spent hundreds of dollars with physicians and for remedies without beneifit. 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 giveM.t my unqualified endorsement. J. E. Bons'all, Clerk of the several Courts of Perry County, Pa." The point here is not so much what Mr Bonsail paid for the great remedy for pain, for the price is a mere bagatelle, but that was permanently cured after thirty years' suffering. Of course the poor must count the cost in everything; but they should reckon, on the sound basis that that which is bad isfworthless, and that wbich is the best and will cure, and stay cured, is cheap at

any price.

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