Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-07
CITY ITEMS.

in MOrriSinMn-

OF RipanS Tabules in that fashionable sub.
Urb has become something absolutely UNI
precedented. Why. everybody uses them
said he. Even Mrs. -. | mention her
not because she is exceptional. save for her
riches, being daughter of the -- fam
lily
Believing the statement worthy of veriii-
cation, reporter was sent over to inter-
view the druggists in Morristown. What
he learned is recorded below:
We sell a gross of Rpans Tabules every
week" said the dispensing clerk at An
drew's Pharmacy. I'VE order gross
every Monday, and sometimes get 50
near out that we have TO give our order on
Saturday. The J-cent carton is the seller
and there is cutting in price. There Is
no money in the dollar bottle. for we have
to sell ii for 50 cents. We sell some of the
5tl-cent boxes. The proprietor is not in this
afternoon. and won't be until toward even
ing. Would like to have you see him.
think he will soon buy in five gross lots"
We sell quite a good many Ripans Tab
ules. We buy two or three dozen at a
time" said the manager of the Brown &
O'Connell Drug Company, and usually
have to put in stock of them twice a
week
we sell pile of the Scent Ripans Tab
ules and just keep a good stock of them all
the time. There is very little call for the
other sized boxes Even the best trade
want the Scent package" This was the
report of Mr., f. A. Carroll the druggist
Mr.. Henry NJ. Smith. the next druggist
visited, said: 'Ripans are selling very well
Win us. Some or my customers buy the .plb-
cent boxes in preference to the Scent kind.
They think they are better. ] have no doubt
but what they are if they are kept long.
for the glass vial holds the peppermint bet
ter
"Ripans are selling well with us" said
the proprietor of the ]. E. Stiles drug store,
who also wished TO be told what the picture
on the advertising poster is supposed to
represent. He thought il probably intended
to show ''one of those talking machines
hollering 'Ripansr" The real object in the
mind of the artist has been to discover the
letters RLPAN.S imprinted on the sky
by the application of a powerful search
light. No trouble to sell Ripans. We sold
eighteen packages of the scent kind yester-
day., said the clerk at the Roy & Burns
drug store Il tell you, gross don't last
very long"
The experience that capped the climax.
however. the reporter met with at the phar-
macy of Brown Brothers. Look here "
said Mr.. Brown, opening "A drawer, we put
in our usual weeks supply Thursday. and
here ii is but Monday and have only one
and one-half dozen left. We have a good
trade on them every day. One of my Gus
toners said he had very distressed feeling
after eating, and / advised him to use
Ripans. He tried a Scent package. and,
not being tisfied with the result, purchas-
ed small vial from one of the 50-cent box
eS. getting six Tabules in glass for 10 cents
instead of ten in pasteboard carton for D
cents. When he had used those he said:
L don't feel right yet. / don't believe
Ripans Tabules any good Knowing
the formula of Ripans, l was sure they
would cure if he would only continue their
use but he did not believe in patent medi-
cines so ] told him to call in next morning
and 1 would have something for him. l
emptied two of the 5-cent packages of
Ripans into a bottle and sold them to him
for - cents and called them digestive tab
lets and wrote on the bottle the name of
the ingredients of which the tabule was
composed. He used them, and reported
they were Just the proper medicine and had
cured him. l will say | am not in the habit
of doing this, and hope | did not do any
harm by using Ripans Tabules and selling
them for digestive tablets. | have not told
the young man that ! used Ripans Tabules
to cure him. but he said to me, They tasted
just like Ripans.'"
This experience in Morristown goes far
to sustain the opinion at one time expressed
by a learned physician that whoever would
put up the celebrated prescription after
which RLP.A.N.S are compounded and
and make the preparation so cheap as to
bring ii into common daily use among the
poor would be philanthropist indeed and
q benefa ctor to his race.
WANTFD-A case of bad health that
R.IP.A.N.S will not benefit. They Danish
pain and proong life. One gives relief
Note the word R.LP.A.N.S on the package
and accept no substitute. R.TPANS 10
for cents or twelve packets for As cents
may be had at any drug store Ten sam
Piles and one thousand testimonials will be
mailed to any address for 3 cents forward
ed to the Ripans Chemical Co., No. 10
Spruce St, New York.