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Show ARE PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS NOSTRUMS? nostrums; nevertheless, an lniiarlial examination of all tlie facts In the case leads irresistibly to the conclusion that every medicinal preparation compounded and dispensed by a physician is, iu the strict seuso of the word, a nostrum, and that the average, proprietary remedy is superior to tho average MARCH ts 0 ready-prepare- d Cloud-in-the-Sk- y Sub-fact- joss-hous- e Sands-manlan- that his lpcoinpetenry Is distinctly evSeemingly, however, the pliysl-- i clans of the United States are little worse than the average British physician; for we find Dr. James Burnett, Otl TrarttrM M uteri 4 MefllrH and Pharmacy, Edinburgh, lamenting In the Medical Mugnxlne the passing of tn prescription and bemoaning the fart that seldom does be find a final man able to devise a prescription even In "good contracted Latin." And what. It may be asked. Is the .stc.tus of the written prescription the prescription that is compounded and dispensed by the pharmacist Is It, ton, a nostrum? It may be contended that the patient, with the written formula in his possession, may learn the character of the remedy So. jiosslbly, he might If he understood Latin and were a physician or a pharmacist, it as he ttsually possesses no professional training and cannot read Latin, the prescription Is practically a dead secret to him. Furthermore, the average prescription Is so badly written and so greatly abbreviated that even the pharmacist, skilled as he usually is In deciphering medical hieroglyphs. Is constantly obliged to Interview prescrlbers to find out what actually has been scribed. It may also be contended, that Inasmuch as the formula la known to both physician and pharmacist the prescription cannot therefore be a But with equal truth It might be contended that the formula of any nostrum is not a secret since it Is known to both proprietor and manufacturer: for It must not be forgotten that, according to reliable authority, 95 per cent, of the proprietors of patent medicines prepared In this country have their remedies made for them by large, reputable manufacturing pharmacists. But even should a patient be able to recognize the names of the Ingredients mentioned in a formula he would only know half the story. It Is seldom, fur instance, that alcohol Is specifically mentioned In a prescription, for It Is usually masked In the form of tinctures and fluid extracts, as are a great many other substances. It Is evident, therefore, that the ordinary formulated prescription Is. to the average patient, little levs than a secret remedy or nos- ident Unable to Do Evon Housework cause of Kidney Troubles. " to-da- from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doans Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-MUbuCo., Buffalo, N. T. CAME PRETTY FAST FOR PAT. At That, He Had Had Only What the Doctor Ordered. A Philadelphia physician says that not long ago he waa called to see an Irishman, and among other direction! told him to take an ounce of whisky three times a day. A day or ao later he made another visit and found the man, while not ao sick, undeniably drunk. How did this happen?" the physician demanded of Pat's wife, who waa hovering about solicitously. Sure, dnebter, an' tie just what you ordered, an no more, that he had, she protested. I said one ounce of whisky three times a day; that could not make him He has drunk," the physician said. had much more than that. "Dlvll a drop more, dochter, dear, Sura an oi didnt she declared. know just how much an ounce was ao ol wlnt to the drug store an asked, an the lad he's a broth of a boy. too told me that an ounce waa IS drama and Pat has had thlra regular, an no more! Harpers Weekly. Used Ink for Bluing. One can never be too careful about apparently harmless articles setting about the house, said a housewife the other day. Not long ago my husband brought home one of those big tall bottles of ink from the office. It had got to be such a nuisance buying one of bottles every time the small five-cewe ran out of Ink, that he aald he would bring home a supply. About a week after that I got a new maid, and when she did the washing she took the big bottle of ink for bluing. Of course every stitch of our white clothes In the washing was ruined. Punishment by InclKl. A Bergen (Genesee county) d x sub-facto- r, - Cloud-in-the-S- Cloud-ln-the-Sk- fa-t- or trum. Cloud-ln-the-Sk- y t k - r e.g--- i - r " : I s n J : l'n-hi.- ; ' ' jAtli of the peace has adopted aa orlginaf scheme for the dispensation of justice. Henry Meyer, 27 years old and seven feet two inches tall, was a prisoner la his court for stealing four bags of oats, lie was sentenced to 90 days In jail, one day for each Inch of stature and one for each bag. Xunda (X. Y.) News. A Big Loser. Mrs. Myles I see the son of a London dry goods man Is a bankrupt, having managed to get rid of 12,100,000 since he came of age. Mrs. Styles Oh, well, boys will be boys! Mrs. Myles Well, this looks as if a boy had an ambition to be a bridge whist player. ! C'loud-lo-the-Sk- y Cloud-ln-the-Sk- y Be- Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, ot Clinton SL, Napoleon, 0, says: For fifteen years I was a great sufferer -- L x-- d Sub-fact- k cines) nro published In full. Vinli r the Focal and Drugs Act, every medicinal preparation entering Inters' it commerce Is now required to have liv proportlon or quantity of alcohol, opium, cocain and other habit forming or harmful Ingredients which It inay contain plainly printed on the As physicians prescriptions label. seldom or never enter Intt rstale comunmerce they are practically c der the law. And If It he m for the public to know tlm eo:inI-tloof proprietary lvniedYs. m is contended ly those who thruuch ig e u nostrum. Furthermore, the prescription comiKiunded by the average physician Is more than likely to lie a perfect jumble replete with therapeutic, physiologic and chemical incompatibilities and bearing all the earlnconiie-tency- ; marks of pharmaceutical for It la now generally admitted that unlesa a physician lias made a special study of pharmacy and passed some time In a drug store for the purpose of gaining a practical knowledge of modern pharmaceutical methods, be Is not fitted to compound remedies for his patients. Moreover, a. physician who compounds his own prescriptions not only deprives the pharmuclst of his just emoluments, but he endangers the lives of patients; for It Is only by the detection and elimination of errors In prescriptions by clever, competent prescrlptionlsts that the safety of the public ran bo effectually shielded from the criminal blunders of Ignorant physlclaus. Nor ran it be said that the average physician Is any more competent to formulate a prescription than he Is to compound It. When memorised or directly copied from a book of favorite prescriptions by famous physicians, " or medical or from some journal, the proscription may bo all that It should be. It Is only when the physlcla,. Is required to originate a formula on the spur ot the moment On the other hand, the formulae of nearly all the proprietary medicines that are exploited exclusively to the medical profession as well as these of a large iicrceiitage of the proprietary remedies that are advertised to the public (the patent medi- half-bree- GUARD specially-prepare- physicians prescription. What is a nostrum? According to the Standard Dictionary a nostrum Is a medicine the comiiosltlon of which la kept a secret. Now, when a physician compounds and dispenses with his own hands a remedy for the treatment of a disease and It Is authoritatively stated that probably CO per cent, of all physicians prescriptions In this country are so dispensed (ho names and quantities of the Ingredients which constitute the remedy are not made known to tho patient. Hence, since Its composition Is kept a secret by the physician, the remedy or prescription is unquestionably, In the true meaning of the word, a Simon-pur- e TEN YEARS OF PAIN. n WHITE ready-prepare- text-boo- i ST0RYgj To one not qualified, anil few lay men are, to discriminate intelligent iy between physicians' prescriptions, proprietary medicines and nostrums. It may seem little aboil ot a crime lo blot even that physicians' prescriptions are In any manner related lo ' Will you let Goss corns many davs, hut had never heard quietly. to ms In an hour? him talk so much at time as he had Certainly. Goodnight. dtes .his last ten minuter. Jispax rcii.e lies, vbif is it not runVy Herft-Mur- y Hunts let himself out He Hume was generally a silent man; Jasper tn know poCum !t the for path'll walked across a small square to a decisive even to severity, careless sit inn of the renudy prescribed by a under-officer-s log house and opened the door, which carriers and shirking beDues sane any phykitiunT percn creaked and shrieked with the frost. thought. Yet none could complain In a physician's lieve that the opium A dog sprang upon him as he did so, that he waa unjust. He was aimply prescription is lira potc.it or less likeand rubbed Its head against hia straightforward, and he had no symly to create a drug habit than the opibreast. He touched the head aa if pathy with those who were not the um In a proprietary medicine? At a bad been that of a child, and said: same. He had carried a drunken It ' unit ter of fart, wore opium-addicLie down, Jacques. Indian on his back for miles, and made and corain fiends hare been It did so, but It witched him as from a certain death by frost. He thru tilth the criminal carelessness of ha doffed his dog-skicap and buf- had, for want of a more convenient OF THE ignorant physicians than by any otket falo coat. He looked around the punishment, promptly knocked down uieaus. room slowly once as If be wished to Jeff Hyde, the sometime bully of the VuqucsMoimljiy, there are a number fix it clearly and deeply in his mind. Fort, for appropriating a bundle of of proprietary rmuwll s on the market Then he sat down and held near the furs belonging to a French the sates of which should be prohibitfirelight the letter the factor had But he Gasie Toujour. ed, and no doubt they will be when given him. His features grew set nursed Jeff Hyde through an attack the requirements of the Food and and stern as he read It. Once he of pneumonia. Insisting at the same Drugs Act are rigidly enforced; many paused In the reading and looked time that Caspe Toujours should are frauds, pure and simple, and some Into the fire, drawing his breath help him. The result, of It all was e aver-agare decidedly harmful. Of the sharply between his teeth. Then that Jeff Hyde and Gaspe Toujours SIR GILBERT PARKER proprietary remedy, however, It he read it to the end without a sign. became constant allies. They both disaald Is he that It may trui lifuily A pause, and he aald: So this la formulated their oaths by Jaspar tinctly better (ban the average physihow the lines meet again, Varre Hume. The Indian. Clond-in-thIts Is not for only cians' prescription; He read the last sen- Sky, though by word never thanking Lepage! ICopi rlgkt, 1W, tijr It. r. PfBM Oo.) composition less scent, but It Is pretence of the letter aloud: hia rescuer, could not ho Induced to CHAPTER I. pared for the proprietor by reputable leave the Fort, except on some mis"In the soon that hops you may give In magnifimanufacturing pharmacists Ask Mr. Hume to coine here for ms good news of in y husband, I am, with sion with which Jaspar Hume was unsaid Field, the ull respect. a moment, Gosse, cently equipped lahoratorlea and Sincerely yours, He preferred living an connected. "ROSE LEPAGE. der the supervision and advice of able chief factor, as lie turned from the life, and undignified, an and chemists, coinisdcnt physicians Again he repeated, With all re- earning his food and shelter by froBty window of Ills office at Fort skillful pharmacists. It should not be Providence, one of the Hudson Bay spect. sincerely yours, Rose Lepage. coarsely laboring with his hands. considered strange, therefore, that so company's The dog Jacques looked up. Fer-hap- He came at least twice a week to posts. The servant, or many physician prefer to prescribe more it detected something unusual Jasper Hume's log house, and, Biproperly. Orderly Sergeant those proprietary rem- Goaae, late of the Scots Guards, de- In the voice. It rose, came over, tting down silent and cross-leggeedies rather than trust those of theli parted on his errand, glancing curi- and laid its head on Its masters before the fire, watched the own devising. Jasper Humes hand fell ously at his master's face aa be did knee. working at his drawings and ao. The rhlef factor, aa he turned gently on the head, and he aald to calculations. Sitting so for perhaps IN LONDON. RELIGIONS ALL round, unclasHd Ida hands from be- the fire, Uose Lepage, you can an hour or more, and smoking all the hind him, took a few steps forward, write to Factor Field what you dare time, he would rise, and with a grunt, Faithist Community Latest Addition then standing still in the center of not write to your husband if you which was answered by a kindly nod. to Its Queer Sects. the room, read carefully through a knew! You might say to him then: would pass out as silently as he came. letter which he had held tn the With all love, but not With all reAnd now as Jasper Hume stood The Faithlat community which has fingers of his right hand for the last spect. at his Idea. looking Bal-haestablished a modest footing la ten minutes aa he scanned the wastes He folded the letter and put It In entered, let his 'blanket fall by and whose comprehensive gospel of snow that stretched away beyond his pockeL Then he took the dog's the hearthstone and sat down upon ranges from the creation of man to Great Slave lake to the Arctic circle head between his hands and said: It If Jasper Hume saw lilm or the "glory and labors of the gods and and the Barren Grounds. He medListen, Jacques, and I will tell yon heard him, he at least gave no sign Is of Ktheflan the goddesses heavens, itated a moment, went back to the a story. The dog blinked, and at first lie aald In a low tone to the latest addition to the long Hat of window, looked out again, shook his liondon'a religious sects, which are head negatively, and with a sigh now almost as many aa the days of walked over to the huge fireplace. the year. In London the Chinaman He stood thoughtfully considering the burns his Incense stick In more than floor until the door ojvmed and one In the east end, the MaJaBpar Hume entered. The fachometan has his mosque, the Malayan tor looked up and said: Ills temple, near St. George's street Huine, I've something here that's cast; the Parsecs worship the aun In been worrying me a bit. This teller Bloomsbury, the Mormons have a mis- came in the monthly batch this sion In Islington, and In many parts morning. It Is from a woman. The of the metropolis the Buddhists and company sends another commending Ancestor Worshipers perform their the cause of the woman and urging ns strange rltea. Of Christian aecta la to do all that is possible to meet her London there are at least 300, Includ- wishes. It seems that her husband la ing the Cokelers, the disciples of Wil- a civil engineer of considerable fame. shoeliam Slrgood, the Walworth He had a commission to explore the maker; the Peculiar People, who pre- Copper Mine region and a portion of fer prayer to physicians; the tho Harren Grounds. He was to be the followers of Joanna gone six months. He has been gone the prophetle serving a year. lie left Fort Good Hoie. Southcott, maid; the Shakers and the Seventh skirted Great Bear Lake, and reached Day Baptlata. the Copper Mine river. Then he sent back all of the Indians who accomWOMEN IN MEDIEVAL TIMES. panied him but two, they bearing the message that he would make the In Many Waya They Had Easier Lives Great Flab river and come Jgwp by .....Thtit Thai Dueandanta. - - Oreat Slave lake to ForfTtjeCCE He haa That was nine months The women of the sixteenth century not come here, nay to agq' anyj other of and earlier times had easier lives than the forts, nor has any word been rethose of our generation. To be sure, ceived from him. His wife, backed there are a hundred labor saving de- by the II. B. C., urges that a relief y vices which were unknown to party be scut to hxik for him. They them. But in at least two Important and Klie forget that this is the Arctic respects they had the advantage over region, and that the task is a well-nig- h ihelr descendants. They wuged no hopeless one. He ought to have conflict against dirt such as we carry been here six months ago. Now, how n on from morning till night. The can we do anythin-;Our fort la had no prejudice against gar- small, and there Is always danger of bage la Ills front yard, vermin In hia trouble with the Indians. We can't bedroom, decaying rushea on the floor force men tn join a relief party like of his banquet hall, or toiled lace In this, and who will volunteer? Who hia aleeves. The strength of arm and would lead auch a party and who will spirit which now goes to keeping clean make up the party to lie led? was left to the medieval lady for other The brown face of Jnspar Hume With Hia Back to His Superior He Read the Letter. tasks. Moreover, although her cloth- was not mobile. It changed in exing was gorgeous rich with embroidIt is finished, Jacques; it pression but seldom: It preserved a pushed Its noae against its master's the dog: ery and lace, and heavy with jewela is ready for the world. steady and satisfying character of In- arm. it was not subject to rapid changes of telligence and force. The eyes, howThen he put it back, locked the Ten years ago two young men fashion. The cut of a sleeve or the ever. were of an Inquiring, debating toliox, and turned toward had and who studied graduated hang of a skirt waa settled for five kind, that moved from one thing to and the fireplace. The Indian at the same college were years rather than five months. Life another as if to get a sense of balance gether in their profes- grunted; the other nodded with the together struggling waa then free from the modern terror before opinion or judgment was ex- sion as civi. engineers. One was debating look again dominant in hia of looking like a last year's rag bag. pressed. The face had remained im- Varre the other waa eyes. The Indian met the look with and Youths Companion. passive, but the ryes had kindled a Jaspar Hume. The one was bril- stoic calm. There waa something little aa tho factor talked. To the liant and persuasive, the other was in Jaser Hume's habitual reticence THE LOAD OF THE LAZY. factor's despairing question there waa and studious. Varre Le and decisiveness in action which ap- not an immediate reply. The evea persistent than have succeeded In any pealed more to could page Own This Man Worked Hard In Hia were debating. Hut they suddenly freedom of could any speech had possibly Hume only profession; Jaspar Particular Way. steadied and Jasiar Hume said sen-te- heart and mind for one. Only for have done. lously, A relief parly should one. Jacques, you understand. He Jasper Hume sat down, handed One of the neighborhood loafers sat go- the Indian a pipe and tobacco, and. saw he In he loved great It, lived it, comfortably smoking his Lul pipe, no Yes. yea; but who is to lead with arms folded, watched the fire. had It. In He achieved to be things his in the pre- them? cording to daily custom, got an Idea. He worked at It night For half an hour they sat ao, white scription room of a drug store, lie Again the eyes debated. and day, he thought It out. he de- man, Indian, and dog. Then Jaspar was soliloquizing aloud to the clerk. Read her letter. said the factor, veloped (t, he perfected it. he was Hume rose, went tn a cupboard, took conHere Is a sample of hia sound, hniullng him it. and matches, ready to give it to the world. But out some sealing-watented philosophy: I'll tell you what! Jnspar Hume took It and mechan- he was seized with Illness, became and in a moment melted wax waa A man la mighty miserable If lie ain't It. ically blind, and was ordered to a warm dropping upon the lock of the box got nothin' to do, when he ain't work-in- ' factor The had left his Idea, containing his Idea. Ho had just finmoved toward the. climate for a year. He at somethin. 1 knuw it Ive tried for his ho or table his com- ished this as Sergeant Gosse knocked him would piM, have behind, Invention, his 1 find ain't both ways an' that there wen other was tho and he While liis Idea. stmt, gone hla at the door, and Immediately after nostrils plete nothin that makes a man more miser room. able Ilian doin' nothin'. But. yon slightly quiver ns his eyes grew con- bosom friend stole his perfected idea entered the what tl'ov were looking at. of scious and Gosse." aald find his the stole idea, perfected yes. one know, there's two kinds of work: Turning quickly. .I.ispm- lhiiuc walk" i sold it for twenty thousand dollars. Jeff Hyde, Gaape Toujours. and Late of them la where a feller goes to work as if for more He was called a genius, a great In- Carsallen, and bring them here. at six in the mornin' an' works with toward tho window Ids 'lack to his su- ventor. and with light, And then he married her. Sergeant Gosse Immediately departhis hands till six at night. The othei li- You ed upon this errand. Jaspar Hume the letter. Tl'.i-lie You don't know her, Jacques. a feller sits around an' thlnka perior tuni'il and sai l. "I think this tiling never saw pretty Uose Varcoe, who, then turned tn and I ain't never happy unless I'm work-in'- . ho done." who said. I want you to j liking two men, chose the one In that first should but I don't and po a long Journey hereaway to the and brilliant, Tin shruge.od his shnuld rs was handsome kind of work. 1 In lieve In thinkiu' all I think an. a called as world lo Well, the that. Darren Grounds. Have twelve dogs whom genius. slightly: day long, an' that's harder than the and ddng are two Why didn't mornJaspar Hume expose ready by nine o'clock oilier kind. I can tell you you just too. but thinkimUntil-1.I '' not always ing. tl Proof is dfl'ereni him. Jacques? x It man if don't believe mo; you try Will jou leave th matter in my easy, and then he had to think of shook his head he ain1 liiigl.ly iiiiMTa'.dc wh.-i hands iiit'il the her. One has tn think of a woman In thought ru.Iy, and then after a panso w. irkin. Even a dog aid. Strong-hacYes, of course. n:td glad to do so. such a ease, Jacques. go too?" (Strong-hac- k You a.e only m.;a who ea:i ar- can see that." was his name for Jaspar Hmne) In Praise of the Pie. He was silent for a moment, and But the other either did nor or would I aura in an article j range Ihe iiffa'r. if it is to io done at Simmons I tell Hat as oii. all. Come, Jacques. You not hear. he said, know, then you Tho Indian, however, ap good New i'iiuliiiidi'rs should I you. poared satisfied, for he smoked harder s'iek lo pie. ,it: I e.i"s a'tenion to the that everythingif wl'S depend'tin-upon a will keep secret what show tn.-lc.i.'.i r. even you secure lie waul to a large box In tho afterward, and grunted to himself t that Kiii.Tsou uio it three tiine . So . laid . unlocked it. and took out a many times. A few moments passed tho let you corner, k.vp i lay. and says that plo is the ladder It may help you to model made of brass ami copper and and then Sergeant Gosse entered, fni which Nii w Mi:i:!a:id has climbed ter for n t hut unpolished wood. her. A woman'.lowed by Jeff Hyde. Gaspe Toujour She gel tin1 tin in its place of proud eiiiim-ti.-e- . After ten years of banishment, and I .ate Carseallen. Late Carscallei whether any sensible per bail lw riiiitr will do more thaa a Jacques, he h.is worked out another had got hla name Ijito" from haring i was over known to Tenge at tbs man's word auv time" It should he worth been called The Lite Mr. Carscal-lenJas-liana'-- ; eyes had horn look- idea, yqn sh. :u!dn:gM hour for predit'ested cereali by the Chief Factor because oi or thi- - Innocuous prune. Site dots not ing at the F.ictor. bin ihry were ' ten times the other, and the world studying something else. His fare called the other the work of a genius, his slowness. Slow as he was, however, h. Hove that many New Ian. I ancesnot q.d'o so fresh as It wus a dog the stout Scotsman had more that tors tiled of apoplexy, tl'p. in pie, hut Then ho became silent, the animal once proved himself sound and true few mlnnies hefr-re- . eouisst-lall to g. on p'?c::!i g. "I wir. see you at ten o'clock to- watching him :!io while. It had according to Jaspar Hume's Ideas, tl: fuel that ihe lint h.is gum- - fuitli morrow iiniraitig. .Mr. he said i seen him woikl::-- hi his model for j irrk ud cuxtini.'KD.) that it In vulgar Iu out pin. norance or fot mercerary reaauui are opr slag tho bii'j of ull household I iiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiniHHiiuuiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiijp FOOD FACTS Grape-Nut- s j FOOD A Body Balance People hesitate at the statement that , the famous tood, yields as Grape-Nuts- much nourishment from one pound as can be absorbed by the system from ten pounds of meat, bread, wheat or Mts. Ten pounds of meat might contain more nourishment than one pound of Grape-Nutbut not In shape that the system will absorb as large a proportion of, as the body can take up from one pound of Grape-NutThis food contains the selected parts of wheat and barley which are prepared and by natural means predigested, transformed Into a form of sugar, ready for immediate assimilation. People In all parts of the world testify to the value of Grape-NutA Mo. man says: I have gained ten food. I can pounds on Grape-Nut-s truly recommend It to thin people. lie had been eating meat, bread, etc., right along, but there was no ten pounds of added flesh until Grape-Nut- s food was used. One curious feature regarding true health food Is that Its use will reduce the weight of a corpulent person with unhealthy flesh, and will add to the weight of a thin person not properly nourished. There la abundance of evidence to prove this. Grape-Nut- s balances the body In a condition of true health. Srlentiflc selection of food elements makes Grape-Nut- s good and valuable. Its delicious flavor and powerful nourishing prop-ertle- s have made friends that la turn have made Grape-Nut- s famous. There's a Reason. Read The Road to Wellvllle," la pkgs. |