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Chicago Times.
To enable the Times to furnish
its readers with some reliable infor-
nation regarding the Cuticura
remedies, which are now attracting
SO much public attention, a reporter
called yesterday upon Mr.. Peter
Van Schaak, of Van Schaak, Ste
venson q Co., wholesale and retail
druggists, corner Lake and Dear
born streets, when the following
facts were ELECTED:
R.-Will you oblige the readers
of the Times by answering a few
questions regarding the Cuticura
remedies?
Mr.. Van s.-Certainly; fire
away.
R.-Do they sell well?
Mr.. Van S.-The sale of the Cut
icura, Cuticura ResOIvent, and Cut
icura Soap have been unprecedent-
ed.
R.-What reasons do you give
for SO large Al sale?
Mr.. Van 81 give four reasons.
First, they are original and revolu-
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mode of treatment. Second, they
undoubtedly possess great curative
properties. Third, there are thou
sads upon thousands of sick and
suffering who have tried and found
wanting the usual remedies and
modes of treatment, and who are
ready to welcome really great and
successful medicine. Fourth, the
price of them is within the reach of
every invalid.
R.-Are your large sales of these
medicines through your agents?
Mr.. Van S.-No; they are 'legit-
innate mail orders. We employ no
travellers on the road-are funda
mentally opposed TO that way of
selling goOdS-the retailer has to
stand such expenses, and such
staple goods as these require no one
to force them off.
R.-Do you class them us patent
medicines ?
Mr.. Van ST. do not. They are
proprietary only so far as their
names are concerned, these being
held as trademarks.
R.-Can you tell us something
about this firm ?
Mr.. Van S.-Weeks q Potter are
importers, wholesale druggists and
chemists, and for twenty-five
years have been the foremost house
in the trade In New England.
R.-It is popularity supposed that
advertising will sell most anything,
regardless of merit. Is it true?
Mr.. Van S.-No. A remedy false
ly claiming to possess virtues of
which it is in fact destitute, will
surely fail. No reputable firm
and druggists are the most compe-
tent judges-wOuld think of risk
ing fame and fortune on any medi-
cine unless it had, under the most
trying circumstances, proved itself
to possess extraordinary medicinal
value. The expense attending the
introduction of such remedies is
enormous. A fortune must be
spent before any return can be eX-
pected. If, after a wide diStribu-
ton, they are found to possess the
virtues claimed for them, those
who have been cured will recon-
mend them one to another, and
thus make them remunerative.
When a man backs his statements
with his own money, you may
generally rely upon them. This
Weeks Il Porter are doing.
R.-Have they ever before pre-
pared medicines for popular use?
MIR. Van ST. believe not. They
are, like ourselves, agents for
great many, but we think these are
the first that they prepared them
selves. 1t is but once in lifetime
that a discovery is made of a REM
edy that such a firm as Weeks d
Potter are willing to stake reputa-
ton and fortune on.
R.-Are their prospects flattering,
or otherwise?
Mr.. Van S.-Nery flaItering. As
/ said before, the remedies undOubt-
edly possess great merit. And be-
sides, they treat blood and skin
diseases according to a new and
rational plan, that
must take firm hold on the con-
fidence of those who suffer from
diseases of the blood, skin
and scalp.