The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1881-09-14
THE CUTICURA REgEDIEs.

Them and lChGt Is thought Of them By
the Drug Trade-InterUie,Oo of a Times
Reporter Nth Peter Van Schaack, Esq
from the Chicago Times
To enable the Times to furnish it,
readers with some reliable informa'
tion regarding the Cuticura remedies
which are now attracting so much
public attention, a reporter called
yesterday upon Mr.. Peter Van
Setback, Of Van Setback, Stevenson
& Co., wholesale and retail druggists
corner Lake and Dearborn streets
when the following facts were ellie
tied:
R.-Will you oblige the readers o.
the Times by answering few ques
tions regarding the Cuticura rene
dies?
Mr.. Van s.-Certainly; fire away
R.-Do they sell well?
Mr.. Van S.-The sale Of Cuticura
Cuticura Resolvent and Cuticura
Soap have been unprecedented.
R.-What reasons do you give fol
so large a sale?
Mr.. Van ST. give four reasons
First, they are original and reyolu
tionary in their composition and
mode of treatment. Second, they
undoubtedly possess great curative
properties. Third, there are thous
ands upon thousands Of sick and suf
fering 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 oil
every invalid.
R.-Are your large sales of these
medicines through your agents?
Mr.. Van s.-No; they are Legitimate
mail orders. We employ no travellers
on the road-are fundamentally op.
posed to that way of selling goods
the retailer has to stand such ex.
penses, and such staple goods as these
require no one to force them of.
R.-Do you class them as patent
medicines?
Mr.. Van ST. do not. They are
proprietary only SO far as their names
are concerned, these being held as
trade marks.
R-Can you tell US something
about this firm?
Mr.. Van S.-Weeks & Potter are
importers, wholesale druggists and
chemists, and for twenty-five years
have been the foremost house in the
trade in New England.
R-lt is popularity supposed that
advertising will sell most anything
regardless Of merit. Is it true?
Mr.. Van $40. A remedy falsely
claiming TO possess virtues of which
it is in fact destitute, will surely
fail. No reputable frm-and drug.
gists are the most competent Judges
would think of risking fame and
fortune on any medicine unless il
had, under the most trying circum.
stances, proved itself to possess ex.
traordinary medicinal value. The
expense attending the introduction
of such remedies is enormous. A
fortune must be spent before any re.
turn can be expected. If, after u
wide distribution, they are found tc
possess the virtues claimed for them
those who have been cured will rec.
ommend them one to, another, and
thus make them remunerative.-
When a man backs his statements
with his own money, you may gen.
orally rely upon them. This Weeks
& Potter are doing.
R.-Have they ever before prepar'
ed medicines for popular use?
Mr.. Van 81 believe not. They
are, like ourselves, agents for n great
many, but we think these are the
first that they prepared themselves,
II is but once in a lifetime that a
discovery is made of a remedy that
such firm as Weeks & Potter are
willing to stake reputation and for.
tune on.
R.-Are their prospects aattering,
or otherwise?
Mr.. Van S.-Very hattering. AS
said before, the remedies undoubt.
eddy possess great merit. And be.
sides, they treat blood and skin dis
eases according to new and thor
oughly rational plan, that must take
a firm hold on the confidence of those
who suffer from chronic diseases Of