The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-02-22
DIR. HBOSTWICH'S CELKiEsSsA-
TED MEDICINES.
How the rJquOr Dealers Try
TO Beat Murphy.

How the EJQuOr dealers AEy
10 Beat Murphy,
Tho Kansas City Times reports
the following, which is either
true story or q csnard:
The Murphy movement has taken
q firmer hold in Kansas than in anv
other State outside of Maine and
Massachusetts,. Ten or fifteen of
the largest of the interior cities
have been captured by the temper
ance people, and the licenses of the
saloon keepers have been revoked
and hereafter no mole license will
be issued.
Yesterday a reporter met with
one OF the principal men of a large
interior Kansas town who in turn
introduced the reporter to two 9TH
ers, here on the same business.
They said they were out OF the sa-
loon business now, they only sell
medicine. Chow is that ?" said the
reporter. "Well, you see, 1 have
opened an Office for the sale of pat
emit medicine" "How2I don't un-
derstand." ''Me and my friend
here and others have established
ourselves in the towns where the
Murphy movement has shut of Ii
cense, have opened general store
We sell calico, sugar, coffee, boots
and shoes, and patent medicines"
"Still / don't understand"
"Wel then" said the merchant,
pulling out four or five neat little
bottles filed with liquids, 81 will
explain. Here is one which is DR..
BostWich's sure specific for cholera
morbus. 1t is good for colds and
affections of the stomach. Look at
the label. (The reporter. lOoked):
Well that is the best whisky, and
just enough for q drink. A man
with a stomach. or who thinks he
is liable to cholera morbns comes
into my store and calls for the spe-
cific. 1 give him bottle; he calls
for water, drinks it off, leaYes the
bottle and departs"
"But this bottle of white liz uid 2"
"Oh! that is, as you see on the
outside, Compound Extract of Jn-
niper Berries. 1t is kept for young
men who are actually sick and
whose kidneys are affected. it is
the best Old Tom Gin"
"And these dark looking pitfalls Z"
''This is cough Syrup. DR.. Bcst-
wich says it is an Invaluable cure
for coughs, colds and the various
other ailments mentioned on the Ia
bel. 1t is pure Jamaica rum"
'But what is in these bottles Ia
beled Ague Cure ?"
"That is ague cure, sure enough
we sell a great deal of it. That
darkest colored is brandy; the light
er colored is Californis brandy,
both of them are extensively used
in Kansas and Colorado as fever
and ague specifics"
"But how do ysu afford to sell
one of those pitfalls full of liquor
for ten cents? The bottle itself is
worth half the money charged for
the drink"
"Don'C know how it would be il
all of our customers would carry
off the bottle; but as a general
thing they empty the phial into q
glass, and take little water, and &c
off with their disease much reliev-
ed, and leave the bottle behind
This we send to the doctor to have
refilled."
"But how about those who would
come to test the medicine with Z
view to stopping the sale of such
beneficial compounds !"
THAT Is easily managed. VIZ
know to whom we sell our paten
medicines. If it is some one tina
really needs a cholera-morbus oil
chills and fever specific, we giY'
him the regular thing. The label
are so near alike they cannot be
distinguished. But if it is one o.
those nosing, prying, meddlesom'
J people, who haYe destroyed GU
trade, we give them a we'll prepar
ed bottle of medicine"
GLOW is that ?"
"Why, we have cough syrup, ant
chills and fever antidotes, which
are charged with strong emetict
and purgatives, such as crotoH oil
and we sell them to those who ar
really sick. We haYe been driver
to this in Kansas, and while it is in
convenient, still it pays as well a
the old style of trade. We save Ou
license, but we pay for the bottles
People have the right to call for Dr.
Bostwick's celebrated medicines
and we sell them. They are no
patented, hence no revenue law i
violated. 1t is the only way W
Kansas men can beat the Murph.
! movement.