The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-12-04
Ti4E SALE ~ opIArEs
Orugsiltl Charged By Their Own Journal Wit
Being Responsible ftru.

1850 AsePehaANis W IL
To what extent are we warranted in
selling opiates? asks & druggist in
letter to the Pharmaceutical Era. Are
we justified in endeavoring to increase
their sale? Are we true to our con-
science when we meet the price of
another dealer as represented by the
would-be-purchaser? 1t seems to me
that the sale of opiates to the debased
creatures who have become their
slaves is the most disgusting and de-
grading feature OF the drug business,
and while l cannot understand how
anyone should desire to cater for such
trade, for one am perfectly willing
that they should have it.
An opium eater is naturally liar
and thief; you would not dare trust
one Of them within reach Of his or her
coveted drug unmatched; their m oney
is boarded to buy that drug alone;
they are outcasts from society; they
are beneath the notice of the honest
laborer; although themselves possess
ing wealth they are q disgrace to a
pharmacy. Sneaks and hypocrites.
what have we in common with them?
l hear you say: But they must have
their opium" Why2 Because by the
aid OF competition they have been en-
abled TO purchase the drug that has
degraded them Who is responsible
for this! Shame upon our profession;
it is ourselvesl Who else sells the de-
grading dug? Who has reduced the
price Of phine from 81 to forty
cents e-5seel5s- ana opium from seventy
five cents an ounce? Ourselves. Who
have reduced the price of laudnnum
from fifteen to five cents an ounce?
Ourselves.
Who delivers laudanum unlabeled
at request? The pharmacist. Does
he do this blindly? No. He knows
full well the regular customer. he
needs not to ask his wants, the ex-
tended bottle taken, filled, delivered
without word, tells only too plainly
the miserable pitiful story OF a ruined
life. For few paltry dollars reeking
with misery and degradation, we have
competed as for prize. 1t is dis.
grace aud a.blotch upon our escutch-
cons, placed there by our own hands.
We alone are responsible for the
enormous sales OF chloral, cocaine.
opium and its products and others OF
their miserable kind by the pharma-
cists OF the world. We owe it to our
selves to remove the stain, cost what
it may. VIII we do il?
1t has been suggested that a good
way to rid town of moths would be
10 set up a powerful electric light on
the outskirts. The moth has an in
stinctive fondness for light, and espe.
cially the electric light
A writer in the London Spect tor
thinks that if parrots could be made
to breed in captivity, the parent birds
might teach their young to talk. just
US the canaries teach their accomplish.
ments 10 their little ones.
Nature produces the light given by
the FREELY at about one-4OOth part Of
the cost of the energy which is ex
pended in the candle flame. and at an
insignificant fraction of the cost OF
electric light or the most economical
light which has yet been devised.
If box six feet deep we're filled
with sea water. and allowed to evap-
crate under the sun, there would be
two inches of salt on The bottom.
Taking the average depth of the ocean
TO oe piTe'r niles, there would be q
layer OF pure salt $50 feet thick on the
bed Of the Atlantic
The excavations of Mr.. Petrie have
shown that up to now we have known
nothing or next to nothing of the
archaeology of the Holy Land before
the cl ssicl age, and if we are ever
o learn anything about pre-exile
Israel on the soil Of Palestine itself. it
must be oy the help Of the spade.
Pence on Earti,
Is not the boon vouehsafed to tho chronic,