The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-29

1t 10 for Old Age and Tor preserving
Fingers and to Cure Baldness-one
Prominent Business Man DRINKS a Pint
of Liquor a Day for Nineteen Days.
Topeka, Kan, March 2S.-The Tope-
ka Mail and Breeze prints the follow
ing:
The officers of the State Temperance
union are quite dissatisfied with the
way the drug stores of Topeka and 9TH
er cities are being conducted. In a
report issued a few days ago il Is sta
ted that a large number Of them are
doing an exceedingly illegitimate bust
ness. A recent examination OF the
drug store returns of Topeka for the
month of January, disclosed the fol-
lowing facts: Over 30 per cent Of the
afidavits made out are made TO par
ties suffering with the disease of cold"
This does not include the numerous
cases of grip and of throat and lung
trouble. Neither does it include the
dread disease of cough" In the case
of one leading druggist, 70 per cent of
the affidavits are made out for colds
Judging by the diseases mentioned,
very few applications are made on the
order or recommendation of a physician
The following classification based up
on the returns Of one of the leading
druggists, exhibiting the number OF ap-
plica tions for each of the named dis
eases, IS a fair sample of the average
monthly report of all druggists, say
the officers of the Temperance union:
For family purposes (no disease men
toned 2; for the disease Of weakness,
5; malaria, 5; grip, Z; indigestion and
dyspepsia, s; for use in medical prac-
tice (taken out by physicians, 3; Tor
various mechanical purposes, Il; for
rheumatism, %; for the disease of stom-
ach, of lungs, of kidneys, of heart, of
liver, of some other organ Of the human
anatomy, So; (and notice in the cases
mentioned no disease whatever is nam
ed, whereas the expressed intent of
the law is that some specific disease
shall be namedD; for miscellaneous pur-
poses, including the disease Of old
age" 'cramp in the heel, use in
store" pain in bowels" preserving
finger" use as atomic etc, 81 appli-
cations; and last, and more than all the
rest combined, "for the disease of cold'
176; making a grand total of 1868. Oc-
casionally the Temperance union came
across instances where not even any
attempt was made at naming the pur-
pose for which the liquor was desired,
the space being left entirely blank.A
again some such silly reasons for de-
string the liquor were given as 'for loss
of eye" for mother ON account of old
age" for my baby" etc. Some times
the same person would be found hav-
ing applied al different drugstores, ap-
parently thus attempting to avoid sus-
nj dot of No 70
which he desired the alcohol. In one
case the Temperance union found the
name of a certain individual a well
known business man, in the application
book of one drug store, nine times in
seventeen days-a pint each time, and
in every case for the disease of cold"
apparently an obstinate case, which
had likely baffied all medical skill.
In the statement issued by the State
Temperance union is found the follow
ing:
Lawrence furnishes a fine example
Of what well organized Law and Or
der league can do. Over forty govern
ment liquor permits were issued to
that city last year, but a league COM
posed of a few determined citizens so
completely drove out the jointists that
but eleven permits had been issued dur
ing the first four months and a half
of the present year. More than half of
the receipts issued to Atchison and TO
Wichita in the early part of the year,
were made out to jointists, that is. pro-
vided that the same ratio prevails in
Topeka, which, so far at least as Atch-
isOn is concerned, we have no reason
to doubt. And, by the way, here in To-
peka. we ought to be getting rid of
our jointists and Smoky Row dens Of
infamy, instead of parting company
with some of the best officers the city
or county has ever had"