Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1899-08-23
"Take TNS or None"
BY Barry Pain.


DID you ever see thatF' nc ASKED
He handed me the evening paper,
pointing to IN advertisement. 1t was
the well known pictorial advertisement
of hollands Business Pill You will
probably recollect 1t. 1t represents n
tall, handsome, stern man, with n wax
ed mustachc, II fur cont and patent
boots-baby's size. He Is standing in n
chemists shop and waving away a pill
box which the obseaulous chemist is
proffering. Underneath Is line Of eX-
planatory letterprcss: "Baronet-No.
no! will have hollands or will have
none"
snid that had seen IL, but had not
noticed it particularly.
"Well.' he said. "that picture Is d,
Ing lot Of hnrm."
'IIow?'
"Take the case OF that baronet. You
might have guessed he was baronet
from his dressiness without being told
Of 1t at the bottom of the picture. He's
Ill, isn't her
HE doesn't look It."
But he does, or he wouldn't he buy
ing pills What's more, he's been in
the habit Of taking pills and found out
that Jollends'' aresthe best for Ills com
plalnt. But what Il wicked, foolish
thing 1t Is for him to say that II he
can't get Jollands' he'll have none? |
speak without prejudice. I've no inter
est In the pin trade. But l do think
hollands ought to be prosecuted for
putting thing like that about"
didn't see why 1t was rs bad as all
that and said so.
"Other pills mayn't give him the
stimulus, as 1t were. that hollands
would. hut still they'd help him II bit.
I suppose he don't know what dis
ease may become If not checked. But
the whole spirit of the thing Is wrong.
Suppose you have a handsome vase
and you drop 1t. and you break of one
handle. what are you to doy
confessed with shame what |
should probably do
"Yes. but after that you'd send 1t to
be mended. You'd stand it up on yont
manteipiece. twisted round. corner.
wise, IL may use the expression, so
that the riyets didn't show. 1t mlghtnt
be absolutely the perfect thing. but 1t
would be better than breakage. You
see what meanW
owned. with truth. that l did not.
MY chance companion Of the railway
carriage became lnboriously emphatic
In trying. as he said. to make the thing
clear
I'm give youxbpother case. then.
Suppose YOU "a a train. what
duycuE0! s--s-,-
~ don't knowSSs1Ee the next. | sup.
pose" w
There you've got 1t. You'd take
the next And that's what term a
moral action and the action of n sensi.
BILE man. That does you credit But
the baronet in the picture wouldn't act
like that. He'd say, If can't get the
train want. I'll walk right out Of the
station So he would too He'd go of
to some hotel and leave his family a
prey to anxiety. And If they were
touchy, as may happen, family quar-.
rel and the breaking up OF home
might be the result. There you have
the whole of the spirit of the thing"
"You mean that If a man cannot gel
Just what he wants lie should put III
with the next best"
"That Is one view OF It. say that
picture Of Jollands' Is doing harm
Here you have a man who is haronet
He is handsome and has dashlng
way with him. He is rich, as you see by
his clothes, and speaks dictatorlally
That is the kind of figure which makes
an impression on the young mind
They want to be like that. They mi
tate him as far as they can, leaving
out the title, of course. Then thai
proud, contemptuous kind of sulkines.
gets common. Ever read the sui
cides?"
Always"
II dare say more than one suicide
might be traced back to some such pic
ture as this Of hollands" He tappeC
the offending advertisement Impress
lively with one finger. "That may seen
strange to you but strange things hap
pen. Suppose man has an accident
In courtship. He is engaged to a girl
and she throws him over. She may BIZ
right. or she may be wrong-trai
doesn't enter into it. Let us suppose
that the girl was clipper and the
man much attached. He falls into {
semidespairing state. and while in tina,
condition he happens to pick uD q pa