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Show PROPRIETARY REMEDIES VS. PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS Statistics Show, of the Deatha from Miauae of Drugs in Two Yaara, Only Three Per Cent. Were Due to Patent Medicines, According to Figures Baaed on Medical Certificates. The press committee of the ProprieAssociation rr America will present at ilir next meet ins of that, body knowing I he number nf awl S dental deaths by patent medicines in the two yearn ending June 30. 1907, aa compared with deaihs from other causes. Almost Immediately after the beginning or the latest crusade against proprietary medicines this committee was Instructed to collect data. Thla work was dune through the clipping bureau!, which furnished accounts of all deaths, exclusive of suicide, due to the misuse of medicines, drugs or poisons. The result showed that only three Mr cent, could bn traced directly to the products made by the members of the association. The greatest rare is said to have been exercised In tabulating the figures received. Whenever the cause of death was doubtful, special Investigation was made, no matter where the case might have occurred. The work of assorting and prepurlng the record was done in Chicago, and the original clippings and eorresKiiirtenee are In the possession of Ervin F. Kemp, 184 a Salle street, that city, the association's publicity agent. The report says, in rt: "A large number of accidents, resulting fatally or otherwise, were caused by the careless ucss of iiersons who loft drugs, medicines or poisons within the reach of children. A large number, also, were caused hy persona going to medicine cabinets In the dark and taking down the wrong bottle. In no rase 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 rases of death from the use of patent medicine escaped the newspaers, lint that it is probable that death from the causes tabulated did occur without receiving publicity. 1hyslclans, of course, report tha causes of death. The committee says that they would be the last to suppress the cause if due to the use of medicine not reqularly prescribed A recapitulation of the committee'! findings show 4,295 rases of poisoning, of which 1,708 were fatal. The greatest number of rases, 1,636, with 803 deatha, ia attributed to medlrlnea other than proprietary remedies. There are on the Hat 90 cases of sickness and 43 deatha due to patent medicines. Analysing its statistics, the committee Unde of sickness, with 143 deaths, due to strychnine tablets, which are among physicians' favorite remedies and are orten left within the reach of children. Under the head of miscellaneous prescriptions are grouped 44 cases where, the report says, it has licen 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 hy a physician. Of these cases 18 were fatal. The committee says: Under the head of All Patent Medicines' are grouped all those remedies which are recoguixed as intent 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 aa patent medicine, and yet In two years among 80,900.000 there have been but ninety people cases 4 forty-thre- e fatal) that have been In the newspapers from the use or misuse or 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 lie understood that In making death certificates and in reporting cases of iujury to the newspapers from which these cases tere secured, a physician had the final won), anil in this connection is there any probability thHt the doctor will hide his own carelessness or negh-c- t nr that of a. fellow practitioner whose support he may want at some time, and is there even a ioKslbl1i(y that he might hide any responsibility that could be Ask throw u at a pal cut medicine? these questions. Then when your-wlyou have round the answer, eunsider that during all this most thorough :ind careful investigation covering u pcriiM of two years, in not a single esiidiiishcd case was It shown that palm' medicine In recommended doses was injurious. Tin- most remarkable ease reported was Unit of nn Italian lalmrer in New York who sullercd from pains hi the chest. A physician ordered a porous plaster which the jmiiont ate, with fatal suits. tary 301-cau- - Would Run No Risk. Darling," said the young man as he bent fondly over her chair. I would die fo- - von. the practical but "Well," l otherwise fyr timid, "the rales of insurance arc pretty low. Hiipimmc you get your life insured in lnv favor for 910.0(H) and then die for me?" "And let some other fellow luxuriate on the insurance?" exclaimed the wise young man. Well. 1 guess -- not. A woman, 71 years old. accused at Feliham, England, of Intoxication and disorderly ronduct, said she had Iieen "keeping up" her mother's birthday. Her muthor was 98. or you to close the door?" said she, when fc servant had withdraw I closed tho door. Tve come,' she began, without seuilug herself, to make jaa as ua j hesitated happy, I fear, as 1 am. -.Vo, I didnt know," said 1 curtly, long before coming. Hut 1 am despercuriosity. ate. The one hope 1 have left is that iippn using my instant want?" What does Mrs. Langdou you and I between us may be able To see you for Just a few minutes to to that you and I may be able to whenever it is convenient. help each other." If Mrs. Langdon baa business with I waited. me. I'll see her at my office. said I. I there are jioople," sbe She was one of the fashionables that went suppose "who have never known what had got herself into my black books it waaon, to really to care fur some one by her treatment of Anita aince the else. They would despise me for break with the EUeralya. clinging to a man after he has shown She wishes to come to yon here that that hla love has ceased. 7SFCUSZTMr this afternoon, if you are to be at me Pardon Bar DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIES, A-jtho- r me, Mrs. Langdon," I Inme to asked her She that home. say 0? & torn coroivyj You apparently think terrupted. and business is Important very pri" We cant lake the risk, Mr. your husband and 1 are Intimate CHAPTER XXIX, Continued. vate." replied lie. The twinkle in hla I hesitated, but I could think of no friends. Before you go any further. The first news I got was (hat Hill me and told also that eye why. he, I'll be I must disabuse you of that Idea." excuse for refusing. Aa soon Van Neat had dUupix.uired. one else in the country ex- 'good an hoar," said I. Good day. like She looked at me in open astonishhere is the Stick Kxchange opened. was in the You do not know why my ment with cept sympathy clique, time no me to Hut. Coal became the feature. lie gave change my n stead of mind. wash sales.' Roebuck, me. Something perhaps it was husband has left me?" k My law yers found an honest judge, jjB curous expression as he took him-an- d Until a few mlnutea ago, I did not langdon and Melville were I got an injunction that compelled buy-nme begin to regret know that he had left you, Z said. oItmade through various brokers, the slocks in lurge quantities to the companies to transmit under my;TUe niora , thought of the matter, "And I do not wish to know why." contracts. I suspended the History the Her expression of astonishment j thought of my having made ceep the prices up. My next letter d IMnt 0,11 ln P,M of ft,p one ,ay- arus aa brief as my first philippic: concession to a woman who changed to mockery. Oh!" she cvii any 11 ncm,nt .of lWaU7I,t 10 ,?hu.V had acted so badly toward Anita and sneered. "Your wife has fooled you Hill Van Nest Is at the Hotel affair. "?Mcfrank fort. Newark, under the name of myself. He bad not been gone a Into thinking it a h t "ly quarter of an hour before I went to Well, I tell you, she is as much to ,1. riiomas He was in telephonic 1 h11 ,n' Mel-- , Anita in her sitting room. Always, blame as he more. For he did love' scaniiti iniicatlon with President " Ifeo tnt I entored the outer door ine when he married me; did love me llle, of the National Industrial bank. chapter Is to le. if fur auy reason It of her part of aar house, that power- until she got him under her spell twice yesterday. fail to apiear, the public will know The underwriters of the National ful, intoxicating fascination that she again." that somelMidy has been coerced by had for me began to take possession .1 thought I understood. You have Coal company's new issues, frigiit-me- d Roebuck, Melville ft Co." of my senses. It was In every gar- been misled, Mrs. Langdon," said 1 by yesterday's exposure, have ment she wore. It seemed to linger gently, pitying her as the victim of compelled Mr. Roebuck, Mr. MowXXX. In any place where she had been, for her Insane jealousy. You have themMr. Melville and bray Lungdon ANITAS SECRET. n long time after she left it She Ask your wife, she interrupted selves to buy. Bo, yesterday, those That afternoon or, waa it the next? was at a small desk by the window, angrily. three gentlemen bought with real Hereafter, you can't preI hastened to go home early. I was writing letters. tend ignorance. For I'll at least be money, with their own money, large "May I Interrupt?" said I. "Monson revenged. She failed utterly to trap quantities of stocks wjilch are worth have never been able to keep alive less than half what they paid for anger against any one. My anger waa here a few minutes ago from him into marriage when she was a them. against Anita bad long ago died away, Mrs. Langdon. She wants to see me. poor girl, and Before yon go any further, said They will continue to buy these had iieen succeeded by regret and I told him I would see her here. Then tucks so long as the public holds remorse that I had let my nerves, or it occurred to me that perhaps I had I coldly, let me set you right My What do yon wife was at one time aloof. They dare not let the prices whatever the accursed cause was, been too engaged to youf an me Into such whirl Not outburst think?" storm hoim this that husband's brother, but slump. They blow over, and (hat then the inTom? she interrupted. And her vesting public will forget and will laugh made me bite my Up. So sha relieve them of their load." told you that! I don't see how she I had added: Hut this storm won't dared. Why, everybody knows that blow over. It will become a cyclone." she and Mowbray were engaged, and I struck that nut. No prophecy," that he broke it off to marry me." aid I to myself, Your rule, IronAll In an Instant everything that clad, must be facta, always facts; had been confused in my nffnlrs at only facts. home and down town became clear. The gambling section of the public I understood why I had been pursued took my hint and rushed Into the relentlessly In Wall street; why I had market; the burden of protecting the been unable to make the least imunderwriters was doubled, and more pression on the barriers between and more of the hoarded loot was Anita and myself. You will imagine disgorged. That must have been a that some terrible emotion at ones costly day for, 10 minutes after the dominated me. But this Is not a Stock Exchange closed, Roebuck sent romance; only the veracions chronifor me. cle of certain husman beings. My My compliments to him," said I to first emotion was relief that it was bis messenger, but I am too busy. not Tom Langdisi. I ought to have Ill be glad to see him here, however. known sbe couldn't care for him," You know he dares not come to said I to myself. I, contending with you, said the messenger. Schilling, Tom Langdon for a woman's love had president of the National Manufacalways made me shrink. But Mowtured Food company, sometimes called bray that waa vastly different My the Poison Trust If he did, and It respect for myself and for Anita rose were to get out, thore'd be a panic. No," said I to Mrs. Langdon, my "Probably," replied I with a shrug. wife did not tell me, never spoke of it reno of affair mine. Im not "That's What I said to you was purely n guess sponsible for the. rotten conditions of my own. I had no Interest in the financiers have which these matter and haven't. I have absolute produced, and I shall not be disturbed confidence in my wife. I feci ashamed by the crash which must come." that you have provoked me Into saya me look of genuine Schilling gave ing so." I opened the door. I supmingled pity and admiration. "1 am not going yet" said she an pose you know what you're about, grlly. Yesterday morning Mowbray 1 tbink youre making said he, but and she were riding together in the a mistake." Riverside drive. Ask her groom. Thanks, Ned. said I he had been What of it?" ii.il I. Then, aa aha. my head clerk a few years before, did not rise, I rang the bell. When and I had got him the chance with the servant came, I said: "Please Roebuck which he had Improved so tell Mrs. Blacklock that Mrs. Langdon I'm going to have some fun. well. is In the library and that I am here, Can't live but 0090. , and gave you the message." My dally letters" bad now ceased As soon as the servant was gone, to bo advertisements, had become she said: No doubt shell lie to you. news, sought by all the newspapers These women that steal other womof thla country and of the big cities in en's property are usually clever at Great Britain. I could have made a fooling their own silly husbands." large saving by no longer paying my I do not intend to ask her," I refor alxty-vdinserting regular papers To ask her would be an Inplied. them. Hut I was looking too far sult. ahead to blunder into that fatal misShe made no comment beyond a take. Instead, I signed a year's con' scornful toss of the head. 'We both tract with each of my papers, they had our gaze fixed upon the door guaranteeing to print my advertisethrough which Anita would enter. ments, I guaranteeing to protect them When she finally did apiiear, I, after I suits. libel on organloss against j one glance at her. turned it muat and news bureau, ized a dummy 'FOOL!' SHE FLARED AT MIC. OH. THE FOOLS WOMEN MAKE have been triumphantly upon hei through it got contracts with the telei'K men: I had not doubted, accuser. but Insured Thus graphic companies. 1 could not tee her face, bst only where is the faith that ia not the against tho cutting of my cominunicu-- that I regretted having rciiv'i'd for confirmation? And contiuns with the public. I was ready for wliat 1 still felt was Insulting t. me the back of her head, and the loose stronger firmation there was in the very atwhite the hair and tlm: of coils to my magnetic aud her; simply degrading the real nape of her graceful neck As 1 be- mosphere round that siutely, still It began with my History of the j manner should hare been National Coal company." I need not There was no necessity or excuse tnr gan to speak, she stopiied writing, her figure. She' looked calmly, first at 1 violence in showing her that I Mould pen susMnded over the sheet of Mrs. Langdon, then at me. repeat ihnl famous history here. "I sent for you," said I. "because 1 need recall only the main points how not. could not, accept from gratitude paper. After I ended there was a that you. rather than I. should to silence. thought has was the love stock give, wliat long right I proved that the eomnion only "I'll not see her." said 1. "1 dont request 31 rs. Ijingdon to leave your actually worth less than two dollars a And I hud long been casting about lur And house." share, that the bonds were worth less- some way to upuloglze not easy to quite understand why I yielded, At that Mrs. Langdon was on net dollars in the hull do, when her distant tyanner toward I turned to go. than twenty-liv"Wait please.' came from her ab- - feet, and blazing. "Fool! she flared dred. that both stock and lionds were me made it difficult for me to tin. j at me. "Oh, the fools women make ol Illegal; my detailed recital of the even the necessary commonplaces to ruptly. Another long silence. Then I: "11 men!" Then to Anita: "You you crimes nf Roebuck. Melville and I mg - "keep up appearances" before ilw Hut no. 1 must not permit you don In wrecking mining properties, in servants on the few occasions on he comes here. I think the only per on who can properly receive her is to drag me down to your level. Tell wrecking coal railways. In ejecting which we accidentally met. your husband tell him that you were lint, as I was saying. I came op you. American labor and substituting No you must see her," said Anita riding with iny husband In the Riven helots from eastern KuroX; how they from the office and stretched 1111 elf had swindled and lied and bribed; on the lounge In my private room id- at last. And she turned round In her side drive yesterday. I stepped between her and Anita. chair until she was facing me. Her how they had twisted the books of joining the library. I had road lnys.-i- f t My wife will not answer you." said expression 1 can not describe It. 1 the companies', how they were plan- - j Into a doze, when a servant torou-.-l.I glanced at It as it lav can only say that It gave me a sense I. "I hope. Madam, you will spare liltig to unload the mass of almost me a card. us the necessity of a painful scene. extended his uKn tray. "General of Impending calamity. at securities high prices, worthless "Id rather not intu-- rather not," Hut leave you must at once." then to get from under the maiket Monson. I read aloud. "What (! j She looked wildly .round, clasped aid I- and let the bonds and stocks drop j the damned rascal want?" I asked. "I particularly wish you to sec her. her hands, maidenly bust into tears. down to where they could buy them la ; The servant Smiled. He knew as she replied, and she turned back to If sm had but known, she could hare on terms that would yield them more j well as I how Monson, after I 250 per cent on the actual ca pi- - missed hint with a present of six her writing. I saw her ien iwiiscd ns had her own way nrier that, without tal invested. Less and dearer coal: months' pay, had given the new,-. If she were about to begin; but she any attempt from 111c to opisise her. lower wages and more Ignorant Iati papers the story or, rather, his ve.- did not begin and 1 felt that sbe For she was evidently unutterably and no one knew better ers; enormous profits absorbed with- slon of the rtory of my efforts to would not. With my mind shadowed wretched educate niysel: In the arts and gni-.ewith vague dread. I left that mysteri- than 1 the sufferings of unreturned out mercy into & few pockets. ous stillness, and went back to the love. Dm she had given me up; On the day the seventh chapter of! of a gentleman." Mr. Monson says he wishes to are library. slowly, sobbing, she left the room I this history appeared, the telegraph said he. not before the door for her and closing Mrs. was sir. would me that j opening long notified It you particularly, they companies her. "Well Ml we him. said I. I d. don was announced. There are some j it transmit no more of my matter. They "I almost broke down myseir," said feared the consequences In libel suits, spise-- l him too much to dislike icm, women to whom a haggard look Is be- Ioor woman! llow can explained Moseby. general manager of and 1 thought he might possibly he In coming: she Is one of them. She was I to Anita. want But that notion vanished 'he much thinner than when I last saw 011 tie so ralm? You women in your one of the companies. "Hut 1 guarantee to protect you," Instant I set eyes upon him. He was her; instead of tier former restless, relations with earh other are-- t mya I will give bond fa any obviously at the very top of the wave. petulant, suspicions expression, she tery. said I. Hello, Monson," wa my greeting, In now looked traglcallv sad. "May 1 (To bo Cunllnuud.) amount you ask." Kaw ;i no reminder his treachery. trouble Howdy, Hlacklock," said be. "Ive ;.,iiie on a little errand for Mrs. Lang-- j with that nasty grin of m." Tlo-n- , You know, Im looking after Ins: Miings for her aince the bust-up- . Ie E DELUGE of tc&n&r S&B3-JSZ3BO- You L Careful Black-liM-k,- . them-telvw- : g . - : "" Cant be too Hast. la (to mUcHm (f a Kaags weather ie why set hegis imeti-tti- e miiq; sew? CeeM to ae sew; we in sdj, end a (tech ef heeetifel stoves swejfs year cwsief. Or, can ws set call aa yea? Vs wah to Beet ye- a- to tar Mtaal advaatace; far we fed that a carefal iipactias af aar faaMsa STEWART Stoves wifi mak is year heceauai aaa af ear auy satirfied cuteawrs af STEWART Stoves. one-side- d good-nature- d j 1 I iliffi-ivu- ! , e j ! ; J j I i ills-tha- n s d f Consolidated & Machine Wagon Gompany Lead lag lapleweat Dealer Utah asd Idahe Gearge T. Odell, Geaaral Masagar at Salt LaKt Ojdtti Lojan, Idaho FatU and Monimitiar. Ho ttJtj BE ON TIME Watch ma rifhl, ar cal aaa Sat wS. ta knp accanta fa (HI wthar fit wiS. Oar stack fa as Urn aai Ihet faa eas Hm rsr n hj SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 62,000 TONS OF CURRANTS. Britons Seem to Bo Exceptionally Fond of This Fruit. Our although they had to pay a very high price for dried currants, considered them quite Indispensable to the compounding of those plea, furmlttea and florentlnea which were the prtde of every housewife. Domestic catering most 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 comKKPd 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 Implicit y ia the keynote of the highest class cookery, we Britons have trebled our appreciation of the homely and wholesome currant; and although florentlnes and plum porridge arc 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 sprite. Ladles' Pictorial. jpei Dream That Came True. During a dinner to welcome hla fiancee a young man at Hoallvar, near Prague, told of a dream be had that a shut was fired In the house. Hla father rose, as a precaution, to remove a pistol from the wall, but as be tourhed 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 hwve lung soared above the crowd on the visible wings of all at genius. spreading once other which we wings did not see. plunges swiftly into the unknow.11. No, ii Is not the unknown; nn, 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. Want Wagons. The Indian government is, it is said, considering ihe desirability of using motor transmri wagons for freight In moving produce of dixtrirts to market. This la quite practicable, considering the good roads of the plains In India, and ll would solve a problem that has ierplexed the government. Motor-Transpo- rt In Doubt. In Egyptian hyernglyphlrs Is represented by a a ptaysl-da- n picture of a dnek. Philologists are not agreed whether thin nit ana that the physician in question was looked upon as a quack or that he was considered a favorite among the fair sex. Chinaman of Promise. Seid Hack. Jr., son of the wealthiest Chinese merchant In Portland. Ore., has been admitted to practice at the bar of the feedrr-- l district and circuit courti. |