Evening capital., 1892-02-19

Editor EVENING CAPTTAL Several
deaths from accidental poisoning have
occurred recently. aud widespread pub
lie sympathy for the families in distress
Z has al length brought bin before the
Maryland senate 10 regulate the sale Of
Z poisons
Twenty-seven years experience in buy
u ing. selling, mixing, making, dispensing.
4 reading, studying. thinking and writing
about poisons suggests to my mind that
I il would be well for the Legislature 10
1 hasten slowly in the matter. From 1884
I 10 the present tine We have done fairly
well leaving the question 10 the dealer
who sells and the customer who buys
and uses the poison Ten thousand times
ten thousand does not express the daily
innumerable uses of these products Of
the chemist art, science art commerce,
trade manufactures-all the wheels OF
industry revolye by the use of poisOns;
dangerous deadly, fatal poisons in many
instances
Rogulatevthe sale of poisons in this
day and generation Ii would be easier
TO regulate the ebbing and the 1owing
tides of the mighty Chesapeake In the
first place a direct tax will have 10 be
levied upon more than a thousand drug
stores 10 compel them 20 purchase blue
bottles" they do not need. In the second
place the smart" and prudent druggist
ever diligent in his business will shift,
unload, transfer.this unjust tax, expense,
burden to bis patrons and customers, the
general public then comes war?
am aware to. be. in the. swim II is
the fashionable fad to introduce the
usages, customs, habits, manners and
l..
blue bottle law TO my mind smells of
Paris, Berlin. Vienna; their locked closets
and red tape and impertinent interference
Of officials have no place in America
Every freeman in Maryland, from the
tops of the mountains in the West to the
shores of the ocean in the East, should
utter at once a loud and earnest protest
When farmer poultry are destroyed
bv foxes, when his corn 10 consumed by
either crows or rats when his sheep-fold
is invaded and che best of his flock
slaughtered by the worthless ours that
everywhere In Maryland abound, he
wants TO destroy them at once and effect
ually. When the wealthy merchant eats
too much dinner and Is threatened with
stroke the family send for tartar
emetie, poison mixed with wine, and
he is on the eve of recovery before his
physician receives the telephone message.
When the humble mechanic is injured by
the many accidents common to his call
ing in his struggle for daily bread and
wants, arnica, laudanum and other things
poisonous in their nature which past sad
experience has taught him the proper
use, his blanched face. palsied hands,
mangled and bleeding limbs, all demand
that he should have the remedy or poi
SON at once, and Immediately in accord
ance with the ime-honored custom of
"old Maryland no continental meth
ods, no legal technicalities, no red tape,
no blue bottles. A blue bottle, or one
with all the colors of the rainbow, with
| az many stops as a modern high church
organ, with the corners of triangle or
| a heXagon, and sides as rough as the
Andes or Rocky mountain ranges, will
not prevent want of wit and common
sense in population of a million from
time to time during the year destroying
even as valuable thing as human health
and life Respectfully,
J, NJ. WoRTHINGToN, NJ. ID.