Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-02-24
MAKING MANY PILLS.
,1-e ARE TURNED OUT BY THE
MILLION EVERY WEEK.

- and Lovely, and the Little
,,rd Things Look Positively Inviting.
Union one has begntten pills, so to speak.
-,s times a day for five and fifty years,
ia Superintendent Blandford, OF sing
u, voIl would think that he would be
IN, ready to repent for his misdoings
~ las down the potion box forever ana a
j., rs see what he is responsible for.
ton. or 1000, 900 cathartic globules a
ne for tiftv-ivc years. That makes 200,
.Ion1 of the little dcmons-a sort of Il ma
anal debt of those active little spheres OF
ain and usefulness. As if this offending
on. NOT enough for one man to have over
.su. the CAV superintendent admits that ht
ruilty also of spreading mile and three
L91rter, Yf plasters every day-plasters Is
4 NJ Of holes As the devils highway is OF
. tflll,. and with the drawing power OF
Eo-u' engines of the heaviest cilliber.
Il ~N hundred and thirty-nine miles OF
4 I1,,ar. one yard wide, every year of his
r.glii.. over $1,000 miles of scratCherccs
a gI uu against him in the books of the Tt
A piiu- angel Verify. this man has much
"A answer tor. 1t is like astronomy. The
"a CURES are appalling.
Il But. come with me, We who only know
.tls pill of commerce by its works and ieV
h See some of the mysterious ways con
Injected with its evolution ana manuiac-
|ture
You have sat, perhaps, in some apothe-
|cl~y shop and seen the clerk hbououSiy
4 working with mortar and prstle, with
EliC0rice and sugar and u.4-Ue-.H ANA what
hot, slowly compromising "a half dozen pei
lets by prescription.
This Is not the WAY OF making the pill of
Icommerce-thr festive and famous little
Ipill which is built for the maStication of
the million. which pokr- It's nose into the
advertising columns of every newspaper in
the land. whose name l. known in many
I,0ugurs. from the equator to the pole and
agk again, which cures half the real and
ulny imaginary ills of mankind, and |
I'LL swear 10 you three-quarters of our ills
are 50 near imagined that very little pill,
with confidence thcrcaddcd, will cure
them as we'll as a CARLOAD Of prescriptions
arafully compounded.
The pill of commerce il such a very gre
-ly.0us and wholesale sort of an affair.
there are so very many Of them needed to
supply the demand that they are made,
lAg pins and buttons by machinery, and
Yankee ingenuity has invented machinery
which can be depended on to measure out
correctly and mix thoroughly.
odd drugs, when they are vegetable, are
als.- the secrets OF success in pills" said
Tue superintendent THAT is one of the
troubles Of new firms making pills. 1t is
hard for them To get the matured apples
tc a.yyu.u, and frankincense. the famous
treasure OF the east which your Bible has
told yHU about. and other drugs which are
USED in this business and which should be
from eight 20 ten years old before they are
USED !. We employed these rs they first
come 90 Us they would tear the stomach of
.-- publ. all TO pieces" Whew, and the
o. gentleman laughed as if he had seen
'1-r experiments with new drugs and
Ane" where the laugh came in.
Hot. ;ui'y, Hayti, Chilli what a placel
A'N- went !n out of the biting nor'wester
N-..- Wa, racing across the Tappan Zee
z. -..y mike, an hour, Il mist came before
It ''e-.Aeies and my head swan and
'ra,H' ree.ya before the hot air and the
"HltNe'iu-, aromatic smell There was
-'-..r ot machinery driven at lightning
SPEED d.I tHc little group of workingmen,
-'t.t o.. them white haired, hale and
'7-'.. were bending their energies to the
.'e a. turning out 10000 pills in the
a.'-rI four hours
% O. broad stone table they were pre-
a1L- dough for the two pill machines
"Lal been tor hours III the steam mixers
"L'A stirred and cut and ground and
.''g' again until the ingredients were
A~'-tr.y mixed. Now it was rolled out
''I Pie crust and cut into long strips
.'As ltgaron., and these were passed along
3"s pIA machines, couple of grooved
l.~--E>, with forty grooves in each, which
minute
Dr appetiteS had these machines. Boa
instructors were not in it, As fast as the
1-- SlEp- could be fed into them they
. "-'''t them out below completed pills,
:. .s,i! To be carted away in trays to the
.y.I- room. and thence to be packed in
.-l Jokes and shipped to the uttermost
parts Of the earth.
.,. ~" clean IS everything 1t is the first
-.7 'o1 Ap. .'e and the last, and every
nv. ''9'L is Ike 1t. Nothing is more i'm
r r,, tAdn this. A fly speck in August
'' " i'gh crime and misdemeanor.
e.. -' men worked cheerfully and briskly.
,. - Aat "a certain stent to do, and the
~ J.. was done the sooner he would be
t... 'A'y did not seem to mind the
9,.. nL..l was told was about lO5 dogs,
~. WEI. . asked about it they said they
.. used Co. It, They were dressed for the
mn '4 with heavy sweaters, and il was
nj I'D '." from their clear complexions
..!y AIR that there was nothing
isr .t,-'.'.- about the work. Like the at
r... -'' .D Turkish baths they seemed to
anna grow fat and strong on it.
-,s,;- 's1' Too toIt,' said the superintendent.
i,,.-- 90. "'.ectionate eye at the fast NOV
i3.. cry. Indeed, there is no branch
m. .-'. pals or plasters in which have
A.. t.., 'A my time. Years ago. of course.
B... ever! Thing by hand. but as the bust
,,.-, 7'.' Tie ddvs utages of machinery
sggrr ...''- 4. manifest aud ingenuity in time
va. s..i, H!hg room was a big one and it
n. r ,'N d. female loveliness, for many of
nai, I ...-S 'iaies Of Sing Sing find work for
vas ',,,I. hands to do in here. But there
t,i.. Ar!p from machinery here also,
tysr.1 machines which count out the pills.
nsfr. D', TO box, and dump them in
bba az 'Hr covers to be put ON and the
clrr,.. .'' many different languages to be
uD,r' wv vi vi Jhe top. Then they were piled
"" white Dlaftnr. aud CONT =. Al -