The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-11-01

viz " PAAAiOAi eAAeee teSNAiy AieeLACNe AOOoiNSi
of the happenings in Rockland and else
where-we have noticed that the sheet
bears this advertisement
L. NJ. ROBBINS.
wholesa. and
D R U g g S T
$50 Street.
RoCKLAND, MAINE.
s-Phy.An. prescriptions carefully and accurately compounded All
the leading medicines constantly for sale.
Which announces to the world a bust
ness usually reputable, and in which a
good many excellent men have been and
are now engaged, with varied degrees of
success as to the benefit to themselves
and their customers. 1t would moi be
proper, perhaps, to say that the reader is
at once reminded of the apothecary of
Mantua, who had the transaction with
young Romeo because the particular
member Of the trade under consideration
is sleek and we'll fed, whereas his Italian
cOmpatriot was poor, so poor that CHS
poverty and not his will consented" to an
unlawful act. Besides that, the Rockland
professor of pharmacy is ''Well off, in a
worldly sense, and in fact publicly an
nounces that he is Financially strong
This statement is further sustained by
the affidavit of Miss Sawyer, the invan-
tor of the celebrated salve; and that eX-
cellent lady further at1irms that by the
same process which made the man Of
drugs Financially strong" she has be-
come financially weak-results to princ-
pal and agent which she can't quite under
stand. Perhaps it is the financial situation
produced by this salye trade which led
the druggist to declare in the Opinion 50
emphatically against the management of
cold women" The declaration of one Of
that class is that he has found it more
profitable to manage for her than to al
low her to manage for herself.
In another portion of that remarkable
publication we find the announcement of
its proprietor and it's magazine of brains,
as follows
THE ROCKLAND OPINION.
LEVI NJ. ROBBINS, OLIVER OTIS,
This might be a remarkably healthy
brace of professionals to be graphing
with death in a patients behalf. If the
prescriptions carefully compounded or
"the leading patent medicines didn't fix
him, there would still remain the other
barrel of the gun, the all powerful Oliver.
We hope no one will scotf at this sugges-
ton, but remember that there is Bible
authority for the remedial employment OF
the harp in illness. Why not, then, the
lyfe9
The newspaper which aspres to be the
party censor Of the state-the ''guide,
philosopher and friend" of Democracy,
from Piscataqua to Passamaquoddy-
once upon its establishment formed an
association with the " careful prescrip
tons and the leading patent medi-
zines" as this paragraph from its col
umns proclaims-
None but pure, fresh drugs kept for sale at the
Opinion Drug Store, sign of the Golden Eagle
1t is said that poverty makes strange
hedfellows, and, it must be confessed, so
do politics. when the Financially strong
fountain of party wisdom is tucked in with
an apothecary shop. If the announcement
had been, for instance, that choice beet
steaks and tender mutton chops could
be had at the Opinion office; or oysters
steWed or on the half shell, or even cod
fish and crackers, there would be some
consolation therein. 1t might have had
a branch clothing store, stocked with
Opinion pea jackets and troWsers: or
been made resplendent with tin ware, OF
announced in old time Californian style
q Rest for the Weary and Storage for
Trunks ANY or ali these might have
been tolerabe. But when or where be
fore did the regenerator Of Il party and Il
people insist upon perching the press, that
''tyrants foe and peoples friend" upon
an apothecary shop, thus compelling IN
association Of Democracy and drugs, a
partnership Of politics and plasters, a
mixing of salve and salvation II is
likely to work badly. The remedies MAY
get mixed. There will certainly trouble
ensue if the professor of politics shall, in
an unguarded moment, attempt pills and
potions, or the careful compounder, be he
never SO careful, get his boluses and bal
sans into the unsuspecting readers of the
them from nausea. Still, the union may
not be altogether without profit. Perhaps
the pharmacy Of the publisher may at
times act favorably upon the pen of the
editor. 1t is recorded that Dryden, when
his imagination Jagged, resorted to a brisk
cathartlc - and there are at times evil
dences that the hint, so practical and ac-
cessible in the Rockland office, has not
been in vain. Southey in one of his most
brilliant essays, says "there are quaclls in
medicine, quacks in religion, and quacks
in politics" We apply only one of these
propositions to the case in hand, although
Il dealer in ''all the leading patent medi-
cincs' would be considered scarcely ortho-
doN by the profession. The quackcly in
politics is the one with which we are deal
ing. In regard to the other branches we
express no views at this time A uuack
is one who, being ignorant, processes to
have knowledge, and to do what he can
not do; person of brazen assurance: an
imposter. Medical quacks often profess
to do wonderful things, and some have
even boosted that they could raise the
dead. The quack in politics, like the
quack medical, is always ignorant, but
full of assurance. Everybody but himself