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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18

1t has an opening at the bottom covered
with a metal screen and filter paper
Upon the drug is poured pure alcohol,
which in passing through extracts all
the active properties and comes out as
finished fluid extract. The solid ex-
tract may then be obtained by simple
evaporation. While the process is
simple one, many details must be OBJ
served, especially as to the density OF
the liquid.
After all themedicinul properties have
been extracted, the mass left in the per-
colator contains an increased amount
of alcohol This residue is placed in
huge tanks and the alcohol is redistilled
Recovered" by heating. This re-
covered alcohol is not however always
used for medicinal purposes, as some
nam facturers believe that it is inn
possible to separate it completely from
certain volatile substances contained in
the drugs. 1t is claimed by experts
that the recovered alcohol always retains
peculiar odor which is as easy to de-
tect as the smell of camphor.
The making of tablets has developed
into a complicated industry. Tablets
are all the fashion nowadays. Twenty
five years ago dough was made and
tablet after tablet was pressed out by
hand and rolled through strip to give
it a sugar coating. Machines are now
in use which make from 300 to 400 tab
let's per minute. The dry powder flows
from small rubber feed to steel plate
which contains a hole the size of tb-'
tablet. AS the powder fills the hole a
/ punch from above shoots down and
! presses it with terrific force. Another
punch below the plate then throws the
! pressed mass up and an attachment to
! the feed pushes the tablet to the side at
! the same moment that it refills the hole.
The tablet is now finished except the
sugar coating. For this purpose hol-
low vessel of Brobdingnagian dimen-
sions is provided. A strip is put in
with the tablets and the vessel starts to
/ revolve, sometimes under q gentle APP
! plication of heat AS the water evap-
crates the sugar will precipitate and
coat. the tablets with wonderful accu-
racy and evenness.
The pillmaking industry is On the
wane. Tablets are more popular and
I machine facilities for pillmaking are
1 fewer. The pill is made from dough
J which is rolled out to any thinness de-
! sired, up to one one-hundredth of an
I inch, with almost mathematical accu-
racy by placing it between two boards
which approach by means of an accr-
rate screw. The dough is then pressed
into little round balls by concave cyl
indrical surfaces which are pressed in
at right angles. The coating process il
similar to the one employed with nh
lets. E. y Gr''u 4.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18
SOME STAGE GAGS.
Little Things That Made a Variety Come
dams Auditors Laugh.


dams Auditors Laugh.
AS the favorite comedian appeared
before the audience of local variety
theater with the limp so characteristic
of him, there was ripple of applause.
The only way that he could properly
introduce himself was by singing a
song, and he at once bravely complied
with the ti1nc-honored custom, says the
Philadelphia Call.
II wore new pair Of shoes the o.hcr
day" he announced, after the piano
player had stopped. "They didn't hurt
Inc until met two policemen. Then
got pinched"
Something else must tell you,' he
continued. Il was sleeping in cellar
the other night when | woke up and
saw five mice playing poker. They
were deep in the game-raising and
calling and raking in the chips. They
didn't notice cat behind barrel near
by, but did.
suddenly the puss made leap
The game ended with the same OLD
story thing went into the kitty
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18

titles were to be ground, the drug was
naken TO some Croesus who possessed
a chaser mill. This machine consist
ed of concave revolving disk which
contained the crude drug and number
or porcelain balls which rolled about
and ground the drug into a powder.
AS the powder began to form, the
o. ae circular motion tended
.alse II over the walls of the disk and
an this way It was collected in vessel
under the machine. The principle of
grinding with porcelain balls is still
in use, but the machine is in the
shape of large hollow ball. Into this
are put the crude drug and the porce-
Lain balls; the vessel is closed air-tight
and reyolves until the powder has
reached the required fneness. Then
the vessel is turned around with its
mouth directly over small box, Gov
ering Is thrown over the top, and the
stopper is removed. The valuable con-
tents drop into the box below, and little
or none OF 1t escapes into the air.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18

The venerated apothecary of old is
gradually dying out. There is no longer
any room for him, and he becomes a
-snzre druggist, a merchant in medi-
clngs. True, knowledge of chemistry
{ is still necessary, and the pharmacist
must possess general scientific educa-
Sion equal. and even superior in some
respects, to that of the practicing physi-
clan, but his usefulness as a chemist,
analytical and manufacturing. is grow
ing less from year to year.
We cannot wonder at the fate of the
apothecary when we consider the ex-
tent and volume of the business trans
Sacted by the manufacturing chemists,
or, more strictly speaking, manufacture
ing pharmacists, who are displacing
him Detroit, ST. Louis and Chicago
boast of several large houses which sup
ply the entire west with products.
= Hundreds of thousands of tablets are
turned out daily by a single firm in
Chicago The same firm, a few days
ago, bought ten tons of couch grass in
one shipment. AT Of which viii be used
in the uzzn1factuTe Of single article.
These FIRMS bug their crude drugs,
their vegetable mateTia medica in ire
1ns-.30ms Quantities from New York
brokers and sometimes directly from
~lhe producer The salts however, the
-yneuSsrlrun-z.. and all the more intricate
opportunities are bought from three
firms who are I'M reality the Only man
ufacturTn4y cT5ssIrriis-z ll1hnugh the man
alfacturing FAlEr1rrssgiEE1 ordinarily goes
by the Sz1l& EzzEDs-
When the EzzEmEHzedur5-g PhaTma-
eist has procured LIS crude drug, he
must dry IT thoroughly Sometimes it
is air-dried. that is. all water except
such as is held in solution by the air
eyithin the drug, but the more common
procedure is to subject the drug to
heat not exceeding PIP degrees Fahren-
heit In this way every particle ofwater
is driven off, while the volatile sub
stances are retained.
Then the drug is ground. There are
many different kinds of grinders to
suit varied conditions. The apothe-
cary OF former times was obliged to
grind allhis drugs with a hand machine
similar to the ordinary spice or coffee
mill. A large iron mortar was also
used for pounding and smashing hard
drugs. Occasionally, when large guam,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18
MuskMELoN LITERATURE.
The Fruit Has Formed the Theme OF
Lovers and Writers.

The Fruit Has Formed the Theme of
Lovers and Writers.
Muskmelons have played a part in
history. They caused the fall of
Argues and led Mack to the capitula-
ton of Uln. One day, says the Paris
LIE Temps, Able Bernis came to dine
with the marquise de Pompadour, who
was furious because the maitre d'hotel
had forgotten to serve melon. "Shall I
get two muskmelons for you, madame?"
He paid two louis for them. Delight
fri," said the marquise. my compli-
ments, Monsieur l'Abbe." Bernis was
happy until the moment when theclock
struck his eye. what makes You sad?"
asked the pompadour. "Oh, madame
la marquise," he replied, "ny friend
Malvin and have only one pair of
trousers for both of us, and he is wait
ing for it to go to dinner" The pompa-
dour gave a pension of three hundred
thousand livres and an abbey to him.
His friend became, under the Same pro-
lection, archbishop of Lyons. One
evening strategist was explaining to
Bonaparte what he should have done if
Mantua had not surrendered. Bona
parte asked: "You have been in the
wars, monsieur?" The strategist re-
piled: mo, but have read Polybius,
Marshal SAKE and Chevalier Folard. !"
Bonaparte said: ''Oh, you are learnedt
Do you know how to make melons
grown" The strategist exclaimed:
General indignantly. Bonaparte
continued: ''You have read La Qnin-
tinie?' "Yes, general, the strategist
answered. ''You do not know how to
make melons grow, although you have
read La Quintinie, and yet you talk to
me about war because you have read
Polybius, Good day, sir" Bonaparte
eo;
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18

sYsdicai Men Suffering from TOO n1uci
Philanthropy.
| The medical men Of Brussels, accord
! ing to the London News, are passing
! through trial of much tho same sort
| as that which lately afflicted their pro
| fessional brethren in Cork. They com.
pain of the inadequate pay they re-
ceive from the societies formed by the
working people to secure medical at
tendance on the cooperative principle.
In Brussels, as in many places else
where, the poor club together for medi-
cal aid, and engage a practitioner, who
attends them for fee which is almost
purely nominal. This might be en-
dured, and is endured, on the consider
alton that the insufficient offerings of
the poor man will be made good by the
liberality of those who are better off in
the world But that Is just where
Brussels fails. The well-to-do middle
Glass has oontrived to secure footing
IN the ''mutualistn societies.
Persons who are quite able to make
good the deficit in the medical ex-
chequer help to increase 1t. They come
In as poor men In such numbers that
the Unhappy practitioner hardly knows
where to look for his legitimate fee.
He has protested, but his last state is
worse than his first. The protest was
addressed TO the offenders only, and
they had no difficulty in persuading the
vast majority Of the genuine working
class members to make common cause
with them.
The doctors are the best abused per-
sons in Brussels just now, and twenty
of them have resigned their Office in the
societies. AS prelude to
possible strike of doctors, this seems to
signalize one of the most awful dangers
Of the time. 1t would be awkward,
however, if-by pure coincidence, of
death rate should diminish
Turing the continuation of the strike.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18

i But there are many drugs where
grinding by rapidity OF motion Is NOT
desirable, such as gum resin and all
drugs containing volatile oils which
would be injured by heating For such
drugs a machine similar to a wringer
with iron cylinders is used In our
large laboratories. One of the rollers
revolves five times as fast as the other,
and in this way the drug is not merely
crushed, but torn to pieces. The ma
chine is small and revolves slowly. but
the unequal rapidity of motion of the
two cylinders gives it the power to
grind easily the hardest drugs, such as
colchicum seed. which is so hard that it
cannot be mashed with heavy sledge-
hammer. Similar machines are now
used in our large -four mills, and they
possess heinestimable advantage of ex-
tracing all the nutritive elements of
the seed, instead of peeling away the
husk and with it much of the most val
liable portion of the seeds, such as the
phosphates.
There are two other kinds of mills In
plates which rub against each otherand
are used for bulky drugs, while the
other is needed especially for grinding
'impalpably fne," that is so fine that
the powder feels like perfectly
smooth mass. This is inclosed in an
iron casing and contains q vertical
wheel with protruding teeth or beaters
which throw the drug against an iron
netting called the screen. The wheel
turns at the rate of 1900 revolutions
per minute.
All of these grinding machines are
now in common use among manu-
featuring pharmacists and each
possesses advantages for certain pur-
poses, but the poor apothecary of
twenty-five years ago was obliged to
grind all his drugs as best he could in
his primitive hand mill or at best in q
chaser machine.
Solid extracts are obtained in two
ways. The old-fashioned way. and one
which is still in use, is to subject the
herbs to strong pressure until all of
The juices had been squeezed out. This
liquid is then boiled down to about the |
consistency of honey. About fifty |
ears ago the making of fluid extracts
,egan. Four of them were entered |
nto the pharmacopoeiao of 1850. The
rginal idea was that one minim of
he fluid should represent one grain of
he drug. In this way the apothecary
ould know exactly what quantity of
he extract he would have to take to
btain a certain quantity of active
acknowledgements. This difficulty had
ways been stumbling block for the
pothecary, and, strange TO say, il was
lot until after great deal of expert
nenting that the present simple sys-
EN- of percolation was devised.
Nowadays, the ground drug is put
nto glass or stone jar called percolan.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18


YOU CAN MAKE MONEY e nR eIesa 1ss G2Dfs
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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18
PROGRESS In PHARMACY.
"A Modern Laboratory and the Old
Time Apothecary Shop.
zBrobdingnagian Machines Used by the
Manufacturing Pharrna cists- Extent OF
Their Business and Its Eject on
the Pharmaceutical Profession.
Special Chioago Letter.

Within the last few years the prac-
saice has been growing among physi-
~eians to carry their drug stores with
them. The Homeopath has always
done this, and with the growth of fa-
-cilities for condensing strong medi-
~cinal properties in small pills and tab
lets the Allopath is gradually follow
ing in the footsteps of his brother of
the other school.
This, of course. lightens the burden
~of the consumer-the sick who must
pay the bills-and it is a progressive
step. But like all such steps in prog
ress, 1t is lanentable in many respects.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18
A Cure for SANDER.

In Poland it was once the custom TO
sentence all baclsbiters to go on all
fours and bark like dog for the space
of quarter of an hour This mode of
punishment was introduced during the
reign of Charles ", but it was soon
abolished, as it had to be applied so
frequently that his najesty's rest was
disturbed, for the barking went on all
the forenoon while the courts were sit,
ting.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-10-18
a SERIOUS AFFAIR.
The Old-Time Breakfast of Which Newly
Married Ones Partool.

Married Ones Partook.
The old-fashioned wedding breakfast
was training in fortitude for others
beside the bridegroom, says London
journal. 1t was the nurse of manly
virtues for some half-dozep or more of
his friends. Little do the unthinking
youths Swho nowadays assemble at a
wedding to guy" the "best man" sus-
pect that generation ago victim of
this description would not have had to
''dree his weird" alone. His weird
would have been breed conformity with
him by second BEST" third best"
down sometimes in descending scale
of excellence to an "eighth best" man.
To every bridesmaid there was
'groomsman," and TO the youngest
groomsman there was speech, the re-
spouse to the toast of the bridesmaids
health. 1t was an effort of oratory de-
handing extraordinary tact--a demand
which, we need not say, was very rarely
satished-in the youth who would steer
successfully between the Scylla of sheep
ishness and the Charybdis of vulgar iocu-
larity; and many were the groomsmen
whom one or other Of these twin whirl-
pools swept away. But the survivors
nay, even the submerged arose the
stronger for their plunge.
They had familiarized themselves in
imaginationwith the position of bride
groom, often even assisting their mag
NATIVE powers by Irritation with their
allotted bridesmaids; and they some
times returned home nerved for future
feats OF matrimonial daring Of which
their degenerate descendants seem i'm
capable. 50
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11
INconE TAX DECISION.
A Part of the Law Declared UncOn-
stitutiOnal.

WASHINGTON, April S.-Chief JUS
tice Fullerread the decision in the in
come tax case this afternoon. AS an
ticipated, the decision declares that
the tax on rents from real estate is tax
on real estate, and, therefore, direct
tax, and, as provided for in the pres
ent law, is unconstitutional The tax
on municipal and state bonds is un-
constitutional. On all other points
the court is equally divided and no
opinion thereon is given.
The decision that those portions Of
the income tax law are unconstitu-
tional which impose tax upon rentals
and state and municipal bonds, does
not, officials Of the department OF jus
tice say. affect the legality of the re-
naming portions of the law. The al
torncy general said the ease had been
SO presented to the court that por-
tion Of the law might be declared un-
constitutional while the rest Of it
could stand.
II is thought that this decision will
reduce tlN amount anticipated from
the tax from one-third to one-half.
1t leaves the very wealthy classes
exempt, while still operat-
ing against the moderately successful 4
business man whose income is not de-
rived from real estate, stocks or bonds.
The intent of the law is thus defeated,
and its early repeal seems probable
EDIToR
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11
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Fatal Railroad Accident.

AT Smiths Mills near Newport last
Monday night, the mail train south
at 10 o'clock ran againsta a boulder that
had fallen on the track and the en-
gine was overturned. Engineer +
J. Rooney and Fireman L. A. En-.
erson were confined in the TAB and
terribly scalded. They were rescued
in very few minutes and were taken
to Newport, but although everything
was done for them, they died at 4
O'Clock this morning. Rooney was
unmarried, was about 80 years old
and lived in st. Jolnsbury. He was
one of the most popular men on the
road. Emerson was unmarried, was
twenty-three, and his home was New
buryport, Mass.
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11

The attempted assassination OF Ii
Hung Chang, the Chinese envoy, by a
Japanese fanatic while he was in
Japan trying to arrange terms Of
peace, was about the only piece of
good luck that China has encountered.
1t was the means Of gaining an ar
mistice from Japan during which
peace negotiations will continue.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11

The government receipts continue
10 fall short OF expenses. In March
the shortage was Sls,00O,0O and SO
far in April it is about ss,OOO,0 900.
The situation is expected to improve
before long, but there is certain to be
a heavy deficit for the present fiscal
year. Grover is not worrying over
what to do with the surplus this time,
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11

Few crumbs of comfort for the
Democrats in last weeks municipal
elections. They carried Columbus, o.,
and made gains in that state, but these
were offset by losses in others. The
old Democratic city of st. Louis, Mo-,
went Republican by $4,000 and the
Republicans carried Chicago by 45,-
900. a
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11

Farmers don't put your claims for
last years sugar bounty into the
hands of agents for collection. The
internal revenue collector of this dis
trict announces that checks will be
sent to all those to whom the bounty
is due as soon as possible after July
lst next.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11

Judging from Henry Watterson's
satirical references to Grover Cleve-
land in his Montpelier lecture, the il
lustrious Democratic editor is not a
svcophantic admirer Of the president
or his policy. lie has reputation
for fearless independence and is lead
er. rather than Il follower. Il the re-
Gently awakened sentiment in his par
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11

Uncle Sam has a serious difficulty
with Great Britain concerning the lat
ter's attitude toward our little neigh
boring republics of Nicaragua and
Venezuela. In the case of the former,
an Englishman accused of having par
! ticipated in recent civil disturbances
was shipped out of the country by the
Nicaraguans. Great Britain claims
that he was duly commissioned rep
resentativc of her government and that
his expulsion was an insult to her.
She demands very heavy money in
dcmnity and proposes to collect it by
force, il necessary. Our government
has an interest in seeing that neither
England or any other European ma
ton gets foothold so near the Mica
raguan canal. The dispute between
Great Britain and Venezuela concerns
the boundary between the latter coun-
try and British Guiana. Venezuela
claims that the British have gradually
and constantly encroached on her ter
ritory until she can endure itno long
er. We have used our good offices in
the endeayor to get Great Britain to
submit the matter to arbitration but
she has refused thus far, although
Venezuela is ready to do so. Great
Britain will only agree to arbi-
trate part Of the question which, if
decided against her, would still leave
her in possession of valuable territory
which Venezuela claims has been
wrongfully taken from her. II the
United States intends to stand by the
famous Monroe doctrine she will see
that British aggression on the Amer
lean continent is checked.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11
Randolph, VT

ty in favor Of Southern man as can.
didate for the presidency in '96 should
crystallize, there is strong probabili-
tylthat the choice would fall on Mr.
Watterson.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11

English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused Jumps and blem /.
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs,
splints, sweeney, ringbone, STILES ,sprains,
all swollen throats, coughs, etc. Save $50
by the use of one bottle. Warranted the
most wonderful Bemish Cure ever known.
Sold by Richard G.. Morton, Druggist,
Main St., West Randolph, Vt.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-04-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Business is improving all over the
country, so the commercial agencies
agree. Good!