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Show PROPRIETARY PHYSICIANS' REMEDIES , Statistics Show, of the Deaths from Misuse of Drugs In Two Years, Only Three Per Cent. Were Due to Patent Medicines, According to Figures Based on Medical Certificates. e Would Run No Risk. Darling, said the young man as he bent fondly over her chair, T would die for you." Well, rejoined the practical but otherwise fair maid, the rates of insurance are pretty low. SupjKise you get your life insured In my favor for $10,000 and then die for me?" And let some other fellow luxuriate on the Insurance?" exclaimed the wise young man. Well, I guess not A woman, 71 years old, accused at Feltham, England, of Intoxication and disorderly conduct, said she had been keeping up her mothers birthday. Her mother was 98. 5 no How'dy, PRESCRIPTIONS The press committee of the Proprietary Association of America will present at the next meeting of that body a report showing the number of accidental deaths caused by patent medicines in the two years ending June 30, 1907, as compared with deaths from other causes. Almost Immediately after the beginning of the latest crusade against proprietary medicines this committee was Instructed to collect data. This work was done through the clipping bureaus, which furnished accounts of all deaths, exclusive of suicide, due to the misuse of medicines, drugs or poisons. The result showed that only three per cent, could be traced directly to the products made by the ' members of the association. The greatest care Is said to have been exercised In tabulating the figures received. Whenever the cause of death was doubtful, special investigation was niade, no matter where the case might have occurred. The work of assorting and preparing the record was done In Chicago, and the original clippings and correspondence are In the possession of Ervin E. Kemp, 184 La Salle street, that city, the association's publicity agent. The report says. In part: A large number of accidents, resulting fatally or otherwise, were caused by the carelessness of persons who left drugs, medicines or poisons within the reach of children. A large nhmber, also, were caused by persons going to medicine cabinets In the dark and taking down the wrong bottle. In no case reported was any medicine, patent or otherwise, held responsible for Injury or death except when left within the reach of children or taken or administered In gross overdose. The committee says that It Is unlikely that any cases of death from the use of patent medicine escaped the news apers, but that It is probable that death from the causes tabulated did occur without receiving publicity. Physicians, of course, report the causes of death. The committee says that they would be the last to suppress the cause If due to the use of medicine not regularly prescribed. A recapitulation of the committees findings show 4,295 cases of poisoning, of which 1,753 were fatal. The greatest number of cases, 1,636, with 803 deaths, Is attributed to medicines other than proprietary remedies. There are on the list 80 cases of sickness and 43 deaths due to patent medicines. Analyzing Its statistics, the committee finds 201 cases of sickness, with 143 deaths, due to strychnine tablets, which are among physicians favorite remedies and are often left within the reach of children. Under the head of miscellaneous prescriptions are grouped 44 cases where, the report says, it has been Impossible after diligent Inquiry to ascertain the name or the character of the drug or medicine which caused injury or death, beyond the fact that the medicine or drug was prescribed Of these cases 18 by a physician. were fatal. The committee says: Under the head of All Patent Medicines are grpuped all those remedies which are recognized as patent medicines and which are advertised direct to the public for internal use. Competent, authorities say that at least one-hal- f of the medicines taken in the United States are of the kind known as patent medicine, and yet in two years among 80,800.000 people there have been but ninety cases (forty-threfatal) that have been reported In the newspapers from the use or misuse of these remedies. Not in a single fully substantiated case Is It ever charged that any patent medicine In recommended doses was injurious. In this connection It should be understood that in making death certificates and in reporting cases of injury to the newspapers from which these cases Vere secured, a physician had the final word, and iu this connection Is there any probability that the doctor will hide his own carelessness or neglect or that of a fellow practitioner whose support he may want at some time, and Is there even a possibility that he might hide any responsibility that could be Ask thrown at a patent medicine? Then when yourself these questions. you have found the answer, consider that' during all this most thorough and careful investigation covering a period of two years, in not a. single established case was It shown that patent medicine in recommended doses was injurious. The most remarkable case reported was that of an Italian laborer in New York who suffered from pains in the chest. A physician ordered a porous plaster which the patient ate, with fatal results. reminder of his treachery. Blacklock, said he. "I've come on a little errand for Mrs. Lang-.lon- . Then, with that nasty grin of You know. Im looking after his: things for her since the bust-up.- " No, I didn't know, said 1 curtly, suppressing my instant curiosity. What does Mrs. Langdon want? "To see you for just a few minutes yhenever it is convenient If Mrs. Langdon has business with me. Ill see her at my office, said I. She was one of the fashionables that had got herself Into my black books by her treatment of Anita since the break with the Ellerslys. She wishes to come to you here this afternoon, if you are to be at home. She asked me to say that her business is important and very private. I hesitated, but I could think of no "Ill be good excuse for refusing. here an hour, said I. Good day. He gave me no time to change my mind. Something perhaps It was his curious expression as he took himself off made me begin to regret The more I thought of the matter, the less I thought of my having made any civil concession to a woman who acted' so badly toward Anita and IIe had not been gone a myBelf- quarter of an hour before I went to Anlta Jn ber sitting room. Always, the Instant I entered the outer door at her part of ear house, that powerful, intoxicating fascination that she had for me began to take possession of my senses. It was in every garment she wore. It seemed to linger In any place where she had been, for a long time after Bhe left it She was at a small desk by the window, was writing letters. May I Interrupt? said I. Monson was here a few minutes, ago from Mrs. Langdon. She wants to see me. I told him I would see her here. Then it occurred to me that perhaps I had What do you been too it VS. ME IDE By DAVID GRAHAM PHTT.T.IIS, (c&x&iirir jpcs tvt aaB3-f2Z?ct- u of THECQSZWc' czirffwvy? "We can't take the risk, Mr. Black-lock,- " CHAPTER XXIX. Continued. replied he. The tw inkle in his The first news I got was that Bill As soon eye told me why, and also that he, Van Nest had disappeared. like every one else in the country exas the Stick Exchange opened, Coal became the feature. But, cept the clique, was in sympathy with nstead of wash sales, Roebuck, me. My lawyers found an honest judge, langdon and Melville were the Inand I got an Injunction that compelled tel ves, through various brokers, buy-pthe stocks In large quantities to the companies to transmit under my I suspended the History eep the prices up. My next letter contracts. for one day, and sent out in place of vas as brief as my first philippic; an account of this attempt to shut "Bill Van Nest Is at the Hotel it me off from the public. Hereafter." name of .Irankfoit, Newaik, under the Wf .th, laB,r Paragraph rhomas Ixiwry. lie was in telephonic I shall end each day chapter , ionramnlcatlon with President Mel with a forecast of what the next daya rllle, of the National Industrial bank, is to be. If for any reason it chapter twice yesterday. to apiear, the public will know The underwriters of the National fails that somebody has been coerced by Coal companys new issues, fright& Co. ened by yesterdays exposure, have j Roebuck, Melville compelled Mr. Roebuck, Mr. MowXXX. bray Langdon and Mr. Melville themANITAS SECRET. to selves buy. So, yesterday, those That afternoon or, was it the next? three gentlemen bought with real I happened to go home early. I money, with their own money, large quantities of stocks which are worth have never been able to keep alive less than half what they paid for anger against any one. My anger them. against Anita had long ago died away, They will continue to buy these had been succeeded by regret and stocks so long as the public holds remorse that I had let ray. nerves, or aloof. They dare not let the prices whatever the accursed cause was, slump. They hope that this storm whirl me into such an outburst Not think? will blow over, and that then the investing public will forget and will I L if'M' 1 relieve them of their load. I had added: But this storm wont blow over. It will become a cyclone. I struck that out. No prophecy," said I to myself. Your rule, ironclad, must be facts, always facts; only facts." The gambling section of the public took my hint and rushed Into the market; the burden of protecting the underwriters was doubled, and more and more of the hoarded loot was disgorged. That must have been a costly day for, 10 minutes after the Stock Exchange closed, Roebuck sent for me. My compliments to him, said I to bis messenger, buf I am too busy. Ill be glad to see him here, however. You know he dares not come to you, said the messenger, Schilling, president of the National Manufactured Food company, sometimes called the Poison Trust. If he did, and It were to get out, there'd be a panic. Probably, replied I with a shrug. "That's no affair of mine. Im not responsible for the rotten conditions which those financiers have produced, and I shall hot be disturbed by the crash which must come. Schilling gave me a genuine look of mingled pity and admiration. "I suppose you know what youre about," said he, but I think you're making a mistake." Thanks, Ned, said 1 he had been my head clerk a few years before, and I had got him the chance with Roebuck which he had improved so I'm going to have some fun. well. Can't live but once. My dally letters" had now ceased to be advertisements, had become news, sought by all the newspapers of this country and of the big cities in Great Britain. I could have made a large saving by no longer paying my sixty-odregular papers for .inserting them. But I was looking too far ahead to blunder into that fatal mistake. Instead. I signed a year's contract with each of my papers, they guaranteeing to print my advertisements, I guaranteeing to protect them against loss on libel suits. I organized a dummy news bureau, and FOOL!' SHE FLARED AT MR. Oil, THE FOOLS WOMEN MAKE through it got contracts with the teleOF MEN. Thus ' insured graphic companies. I could not see her face, bat only against the cutting of my communica- that I regretted having rejected tions with the public, I was ready for what I still felt was insulting to me the back of her head, and the loose and degrading to her; simply that my colls of magnetic hair and the white the real campaign. It began with my History of the manner should have been different. nape of her graceful neck. As I beNational Coal company." I need not There was no necessity or excuse for gan to speak, she stopped writing, her 1 violence in showing her that I would pen suspended over the sheet of repeat that famous history here. how main not. could not, accept from gratitude paper. After I ended there was a the recall points need only , I proved that the common stock was! what only love has the right to give, long silence. I I. said see not I a dont been about two had for her, dollars And Ill than casting less worth long actually And Bhare, that the bonds were worth less some way to apologize not easy to quite understand why I yielded. dollars in the hun- do, when her distant manner toward I turned to go. than twenty-fivWait please, came from her abdred, that both stock and bonds were me made it difficult for me to find illegal; my detailed recital of the even the necessary commonplaces to ruptly. Another long silence. Then I: If crimes of Roebuck, Melville and Langkeep up appearances before the don in wrecking mining properties, in servants on the few occasions on she comes here, I think the only person who can properly receive her Is wrecking coal railways, in ejecting which we accidentally met. But, as I was saying, I came up you." , American labor and substituting No you must see her, said Anita helots from eastern Europe; how they from the office and stretched myself at last And she turned round In her had swindled and lied and bribed; on the lounge in my private room they had twisted the books of joining the library. I had read myseif chair until she was facing me. Her the companies, how they were plan-- into a doze, when a servant brought expression I can not describe It 1 I glanced at it as it lay can only say that It gave me a sense nlng to unload the mass of almost : me a card. General of impending calamity. worthless securities at high prices. upon his extended tray. What doe3 Td rather not much rather not," then to get from under the market Monson," I read aloud. said I. and let the bonds and stocks drop j the damned rascal want? I asked, The servant smiled. He knew as I particularly wish you to see her, down to where they could buy them In she replied, and she turned back to on terms that would yield them more j well as I how Monson, after I missed him with a present of sx her writing. I saw her pen poised as 250 per cent on the actual eapi-tal invested. Less and dearer coal; months pay, had given the news- if she were about to begin; but she lower wages and more ignorant labor- papers the story or, rather, his ver- did not begin and I felt that she ers; enormous profits absorbed with- sion of the story of my efforts to would not With my mind shadowed educate myself in the "arts and graces with vague dread, I left thA mysteriout mercy into a few pockets. ous stillness, and went back to the On the day tho seventh chapter of of a gentleman. Mr. Monson says he wishes to see library. this history appeared, the telegraph It was not long before Mrs. LangcompKnies notified me that they would you particularly, sir, said he. Well Ill see him, said I. I de- don was announced. There are some transmit no more of my matter. They feared the consequences in libel suits, spised him too much to dislike him, women to whom a haggard look is beexplained Moseby, general manager of and I thought he might possibly be in coming; she is one of them. She was one of the companies. , want. But that notion vanished the much thinner than when I last saw But I guarantee to protect you, instant I set eyes upon him. He was her; instead of her former restless, I will give bond In any obviously ht the very top of the wave. petulant suspicious expression, she said I. Hello, Monson," wat my greeting, In now, looked tragically sad. "May I amount you ask. N'a-Jon- g f,, trouble you to close the door? sal a 'rvant had withdrawn she, shen I closed the door Ive come, she began, without seating herself, to make yea as un- happy, 1 fear, as I am. Ive hesitated long before coming. But I am desperate. The one hope I have left is that you and 1 between us may be able to to that you and I may be able to help each other. I waited. I suppose there are people, she went on, who have never known what it was to really to care for some one else. They would despise me foi clinging to a man after he has shown me that that his love has ceased. Pardon me, Mrs. Langdon," I In- tc terrupted. You apparently j i You think your husband and I are Intimate friends. Before you go any further. I must disabuse you of that idea. She looked at me In open astonishment. You do not know why my husband has left me? Until a few minutes ago, 1 did not know that he had left you, I said. And I do not wish to know why. Her expression of astonishment Oh! she changed to mockery. sneered. Your wife has fooled you affair. into thinking it a Well, I tell you, she is as much to blame as he more. For he did love me when he married me; did love me until she got him under her spell again. I thought I understood. You have been misled, Mrs. Langdon, said I gently, pitying her as the victim of You have her insane jealousy. Ask your wife, she Interrupted Hereafter, you cant preangrily. tend Ignorance. For Ill at least be revenged. She failed utterly to trap him into marriage when she was a poor girl, and "Before you go any further," said I coldly, let me set you right My wife was at one time engaged to youf Cant be too Careful la tks selectioa of a Raofe ar Healer. CoU weather it aeariag; why aot Wjia iaveab-fatisew? Come ta at bow ; we ire ready, aad a stock of beautiful atevea a wail year af Or, cal we aot call oa jroa? We cmaiag. wish te meet job - to oar auitaal advantage; for we fed that a careful iaspectioa ef ear famoat STEWART Steves will revolt ia year heconiig one ef ear any satisfied easterners ef STEWART Stoves. one-side- d good-nature- husbands brother, but "Tom? she interrupted. And her laugh made me bite my Up. So she told you that! I dont see how she dared. Why, everybody knows that she and Mowbray were engaged, and that he broke it off to marry me." All In an instant everything that had been confused in my affairs at home and down town became clear. I understood why I had been pursued relentlessly in Wall street; why I had been unable to make the least Impression on , the barriers between Anita and myself. You will imagine that some terrible emotion at once dominated me. But this is not a romance; only the veracious chronicle of certain husman beings. My first emotion was relief that It was not Tom Langdon. I ought to have known she couldnt care for him, said I to myself. I, contending with Tom Langdon for a womans love had always made me shrink. But Mowbray that was vastly different My respect for myself and for Anita rose "No, said I to Mrs. Langdon, my wife did not tell me, never spoke of it What I said to you was purely a guess of my own. I had no interest in the matter and havent I have absolute confidence in my wife. I feel ashamed that you have provoked me into sayI opened the door. ing so. I am not going yet, said she an grily. Yesterday morning Mowbray and she were riding together in the Riverside drive. Ask her groom. What of it? sa,d I. Then, as she did not rise, I rang the bell. When the servant came, I said: Please tell Mrs. Blacklock that Mrs. Langdon is In the library and that I am here, and gave you the message.. As soon as the servant was gone, she said: No doubt shell lie to you. These women that steal other womens property are usually clever at fooling their own silly husbands." I do not Intend to ask her, I reTo ask her would be an inplied. 1 sult e Consolidated Wagon 1 dis-tha- n 1 , Machine Company Leading Implement Dealevs Utak and Idabo George T. Odell, General Manager Hsortr at Salt LaK, Ojdrn, Logan, Idaho Faltj and Montotlitr. BE ON TIME Hava roar Watch eaa risht, or set oaa that wiB. Oar nperti wili either fia roan to ktep iccante tiwe or tel res oaa that witL Oar stack if sa larft aa4 prices sa naseaihlt that ?ea wait ceesiitr thaw if roa wait ta save easy. 170 IAIN ST. SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. 62,000 TONS OF CURRANTS. Britons Seem to Be Exceptionally Fond of This Fruit. Our although they had to pay a very high price for dried currants, considered them quit indispensable to the compounding at those pies, furmities and florentines which were the pride of every housewife. Domestic catering must have been an arduous undertaking in those days, for currants and other dried fruits were not to be procured out of London except once a year, at the annual fair of the local market town. The royal dish of plum porridge, which It was the privilege of the to serve archbishop of Canterbury to a newly crowned sovereign, was composed largely of currants, the fruit being stewed in strong beef soup enriched with red wine and red sack. Now that the order has changed and simplicity is the keynote of the highest class cookery, we Britons have trebled our appreciation of the homely and wholesome currant; and although florentines and plum porridge are dishes of the past, no less than 62,000 tons of currants go every year to the making of bread Cakes, pastries and puddings to tempt the British appetite. Ladles Pictorial. Dream That Came True. During a dinner to welcome his fiancee a young man at Hostlvar, near Prague, told of a dream he had that a shot was fired in the house. His father rose, as a precaution, to remove a pistol from the wall, but as he touched it it went off and killed the girl. On the Death of Balzac. There can be but austere and serious thoughts in all hearts when a sublime spirit makes its majestic entrance into another life, when one of those beings who have long soared above the crowd on the visible wings of at all genius, spreading once we which other wings did not see, plunges swiftly into the unknown. No, it is not the unknown; no, it is not night, it is light It is not the end, it is the beginning! It Is not extinction, it is eternity. Is it not true, such tombs as this demonstrate immortality? In the presence of the illustrious dead we feel more distinctly the divine destiny of that intelligence which traverses the earth to suffer and to purify Itself which we call man. Victor Hugo. She made no comment beyond a scornful toss of the head. We both had our gaze fixed upon the door through which Anita would enter. When she finally did appear, I, after one glance at her, turned it must have been triumphantly upon her accuser. I had not doubted, bui where is the faith that is not the stronger for confirmation? And confirmation there was in the very atmosphere round that stately, still figure. She looked calmly, first at Mrs. Langdon, then at me. I sent for you, said I, because I thoqght that you, rather than I, should request Mrs. Langdon to leave your house. At that Mrs. Langdon was on ner Fool! she flared feet, and blazing. at me. Oh, the fools women make oi men! Then to Anita: You you But no, I must not permit you to drag me down to your level. Tell your husband tell him that you were riding with my husband In the River Want Wagons. side drive yesterday. The Indian government Is, it Is said, I stepped between her and Anita. considering the desirability of using My wife will not answer you, said motor transport wagons for freight I. "I hope. Madam, you will spare in moving produce of us the necessity of a painful scene. districts to market. This is quite pracBut leave you must at once. ticable, considering the good roads of She looked wildly round, clasped the plains in India, and it would solve her hands, suddenly bust into tears. a problem that has perplexed the govIf she had but known, she could have ernment. had her own way after that, without In Doubt. any attempt from me to oppose her. In Egyptian hyeroglyphics a ph For fche was evidently unutterably wretched and no one knew better clan is represented by a picture than I the sufferings or unreturned duck. Philologists are not agr love. But she had given me up; whether this means that the ph slowly, sobbing, she left the room I cian in question was looked upon opening the door for her and closing a quack or that he was consldere favorite among the fair sex. it behind her. I almost broke down myself," said I to Anita. Chinaman of Promise. Poor woman! How can Seid Back, Jr., son of the wea you be so calm? You women in your relations with each other are- - mys est Chinese merchant in Portli Ore., has been admitted to practici tery. the bar of the feedral district and (To bo Continued.) cult courta. Motor-Transpo- ad-ho- & rt |
