The age-herald., 1900-03-25
means, and, in addition, have not a superior

means, and, in addition, have not superior education. All are anxious to save physi-
 clans charges, and think that druggist
 is fully competent to treat their ailments
 with success. Some of their diagnoses of
 cases are really pen pictures. Here is re-
 quest for something for an old woman
 who has a bad cough and cannot cough Then find a graphic appeal for plaster for a man kilt with stiches.' That Is not quit as notable an epic as the one which calls for enough f1ackseed to make pud- ding for a sore toe.' It was a little more expressive than the order which asked for Something for a heavy pain in the bones that is coming out through the eyes, We have here a rather amazing request for
 'enuf eppy cack to throw up baby four
 years old.' This youngster must have been
 in pretty bad shape, for here have de-
 mand from it's mother that furnished with
 something for her 5-year-old child who has
 an impression on his heart and a cough
 that Is choking him In the neck
 'oTo fill the next order may seen difhcult, but it really isn't. It states: Send me some
 of the essence you put people to sleep with
 when you cut their fingers off It evidently
 meant ether. At all events, that Is what 1t
 was filled with. The man who wrote this
 order wanted something to take tobacco out of my mouth.' l suppose 1t was the scent of the thing that he objected to- The good housewife who wrote to me requesting something to rub my old man with got a liniment, of course. It must have been her twin sister who wrote for something to knock a cold out of an old man. Another peculiar demand is for enough anise seed to take the twist out of dose of senna.' "These odd orders I might read until day. light Send me baby's top to nurse bot tle' meant, no doubt, a nursing bottle top, and something for a sore baby's eye Is not easy to mistake. I have also appeals for remedies for a 'sweled womans foot and "a man with a dry spit on him.
 "The phonetic sounding is, however, the most odd feature of the whole business. Cardamon seed I have had described as 'Colored man seed and 'MeCordon seeds Orders for unguentum have been couched
 in requests for honey quintom Annie
 Quintom' and Annie Grintum.' Orders for
 bug mint and 'barne-get' l have filled with
 bergamot and to a man who asked me for campfire I gave camphor. Arrowroot is
 frequently written air root and on one
 occasion I had a written request for 'raving
 bald Sam when Arabian balsam was in-
 tended. Some of the other mistakes that I
 have noticed in the last ten years at this
 stand have been cupid for cubeb. glory
 farm for chloroform, OK sled acid for ox-
 allie acid, lord worm for laudanum, paint
 killer for pain killer, "sirrip of swill for syrup of squills, gross of supplements for corrosive sublimate, and Mary attic acid for muriatlc acid.
 But I do not mind all these. It is the woman who wants five cents worth of cologne to smell a trunk and the chap who asks for "a mixture of two-ti1irds alcohol and two-thlrds castor oil that pug gle the average druggist They are what we call blind writers, but we manage to guess what they want. It keeps us think ing at times, though"