The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-08-16
R-I-P-A-N-S.
Soap, Salt, Vaseline and 0unpowder.

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~ Every farmers wife who boils'
her tea-kettle Over a fire OF
SN maple or hickory wood. knows
- that, by lecching the ashes and
adding any refuse grease at
S~ command, she may make q SER
~ viceable soap. And yet, not
withstanding this, h finds IT.
~ E%S3 better to buy a soap made by
. improved methods. Some man.
~ ufactlrers produce soap Of such
VMV peculiar excellence that people
- are led to specially d. sire it;
M and the makers advertise their
product widely, and accumu-
49, late fol tunes by its sale. The
~ fact still remains tina soap is
Hcombination Of alkalo.d n
\suf& grease. Its manufacture is a
simple or artistic process, according to
the quality produced. Soap has been
made for thou ands Of years, but the
best soaps are the product OF nine
tcenth century methods.
Gunpowder Is composed of charcoal,
sulphur. and saltpeter. Yet not every
wO d produces the best charcoal for the
purpose. Some sorts of sulphur are OF
more value than others to the manufac-
turer of gunpowder, and saltpeter must
be properly prepared to admit OF best
results. Given all of best quality. skill
in blending is still required, and al
though it is possible for almost any one
tO make an explosive mixture, those
who have use for gunpOwder find it adj
vi able to buy of a manufacturer who
has gained a reputation for making the
best. The ingredients are no secret. but
the resultant cOmbir alton is of proved
effectiveness. and, although some other
may be as good, it is risky to expert
ment; consequently the trademark OF
a favorite brand of gunpOwder is worth
a great sum to its owner.
Medicines are of less universal use
than soap, and more persons require
them than have occasion to buy gum
powder.
Soap is a universal cleanser.
GunpOwder is the explosive in most
common use.
There is a certain form OF prcscrip-
ton in almost as common use among
medical pract. TONERS, in their attend
ance upon the sick, as soap is in the ev.
ery-day affairs of the household. 1t
seems to be needed on every OCCASION.
This application by physicians OF a sim
gle remedy for many apparently vary
ing ills about from the we'll
known fact that every illness results
from or is augmented by u disturbed
C nditiOn OF particular organs that
come in play in the conversion OF food
into muscle or bio d., or into power of
action by limb or brain. Whatever
aids or stimulates those organs gives
life and energy to all others. 1t is not so
very strange that, out of the expert
encc of generations, a formula should
be evolved that is as simple and definite
as hat used for making soap or gun
powder. The marked difference to be
observed, however, in the case OF the
medical compound Of Rhubarb and So
da, and the few other ingredients equal
ly we'll known that 90 to make up this
prescription, is, that the method by
which it could be prepared in a manner
to secure permanent excellence, and adj
init of transportation in a form fit for
immediate use, is a recent discovery.
1t is Tor that reason the compound has
only o arrived at the distinction OF
having a name assigned to it. That
name is R-l-P-A-N-S, and each letter is
the initial of one OF the constituent in
gradients.
The preparation of medicines in tab
let form has only beef rendered posi-
BILE in a large way by machinery in
vented within a comparatively short
ime: but the result has already worked
/ material change in medical practice.
rhe physician to-day is supplied With
medicines in this form, and the maker
who produces best results secures the
trade. The apothecary is fast ceasing
to compound the physicians prescrip-
ton, but sells instead the same ingre.
iients prepared with a skill and nicely
that is beyond his own power to equal
with the facilities at his command.
Physicians do not write prescriptions
for petroleum jelly. but put down, in
stead, the word vaseline, and the en-.
terprising merchant who applied his
trade mark to a common product, the
great excellence and wide application
Of which he had been among the first
TO discover. reaps a profit therefrOm.
and deserves it by the uniform excel.
ience and purity Of the arti> lie he sup
plies.
So, too, the manufacturers Of RIP
ANS Tabules. being the first to set Oh
loot careful inquiries concerning tho
| myriad combinations of Rhubarb and
soda known to be in such universal use
| among doctors, and to search out the
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particular prescription thai @
had acquired the greatest fame ~
and widest acceptance, and 49,
then to undertake the manu- ~
facture in modern tablet form.
using the choicest of selected SH1
drugs and combining them by -
methods that rave been proved n
scientific and found to lie ~
fortunate. have secured q ~
trademark that is valuable, ~
| and piven tn the hlic 81 medi-H