, 1879-07-17
WHAT 1 LEARNED AT DIR. BRANDRETH's


is or has been failure is quick to
sneer at success in others as an acci-
dent or STOOLS luck" Last week
saw promising study for this class
of sickly cynics. Probably no bust.
ness is 80 generally believed to be
founded on pure luck as the manu-.
facture of pills and plasters; yet this
was the subject Of my study, and it
taught me a lesson which it we're
we'll for mary another man to learn.
Selecting Brandreth's Pills and
Allcock's Plasters as my study, |
went to Sing Sing to learn, if could,
the secret of their commercial sue.
cess. A hundred men and women
are engaged in their manufacture;
25O to 300 pounds of pills are made
up daily; one piece of machinery
alone rolls out
THREE MILES OF POROUS FASTER
yard wide, every week. Govern
ment has received over 100000 for
revenue stamps upon these two pro-
ducts. The Brandreth Works are
an undeniable success. Now why ?
Did DR.. Brandreth stumble over
lucky accident and pick up fortune?
Not at ali.
Many years ago his medical sxps-
risnce satisfied him that the great Sc
cret Of health is good blood-that
"the blood is tho life." After years
ofpatient study and experiment, he
made the compound bearing his
name now so widely used over the
world. 1t is purely vegetable, and
its great office is to expsl all impu.
rites from the blood and thus render
ordinary disease impossible. 1t
proved last year, when taken in time,
certain preventive of that fearful
,courge, yellow fever. Slowly but
surely it won its way, as it did its
work Of healing. till the business
grew to it's present immense proper.
tions. Yet, to-day, this wealthy doc.
tor and his SON personally mix every
ounce of drugs used in the pills;
they weigh out the ingredients upon
huge marble, and perform them
sci 'es the manual labor of mixing
them thoroughly together before
they pass into the factory tobe rolled,
dried, counted, and labelled. Like
wise every strip Of porous plaster is
spread under the personal supervi-
sion of Col. Brandrsth Or the Gener.
al Superintendent. Every part of
the factory buildings is kept with
surprising and immaculate neatneso.
have seen many workshops, but
never saw such scrupulous purity of
floor, shelf, table and counter. Every
girl is required to be as neat and
tidy as feminine ingenuity aud taste
can make her-and every hand, male
and female, receives as high wages
as during the "aush" times of ten
years ago. Every implement Of her
work shines and glistens in its clean
illness and purity, and
NO HUMAN FINGER
touches Rrandreth Pill in the whole
course of its manufacture. Even the
counting and boxing are done by
shining little metal instrument. The
rooms are light and pleasant, not
speck Of dirt or refuse lies on the
polished, slippery floors, and between
tina windows hang paintings, litho.
graphs, engravings, chomos and mot
toes by the score, giving a most at
tractive and cheerful aspect to the
whole.
Now do you wonder success fol.
lows such management? Dare any
grumbler at his own luckless fate
call the success which follows such
conditions an accident ? The lesson
is valuable one to men impatient
Of the tardiness of lfe's success. Few
men ever struck the royal road to
fortune; but almost any man can
win an honorable competency by do
ing or discoverig something OF real
value to his fellow men, and then
carrying cool but busy head, an
honest heart, and consderate ener.
gy into his chosen work.
MORLEY.