The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-16

1 said the druggist. But what l com plain of is the foIish practice some peo- ple have of keeping this stuff, and other poisons, too, alongside of ordi- nary and harmless medicines. It's posi- lively wicked. that's what it is. Now a druggist or doctor is called on to handle about all the poisons there are, yet you can't find any one more care full of the stuff than those two classes -not even those who manufacture them. We know the danger and guard against it. It's the same way with gun experts and crack pistol shots. Did you ever hear one of them say he didn't know it was loaded?" What would you advise people to do, who have to keep carbolic acid and other deadly drugs around?" asked the buyer of the postage stamp.
 ''In the first place, keep them in special place. and never, on any oc- cassion, put them on the same shelf or in the same closet with medicine. Above all, never leave medicines of any kind, comparatively harmless or deadly, down low where children can reach them. Now, I'll tell you how manage to steer clear of danger. The plan is one generally followed by drug gists:
 i We have a special shelf for poi sons, and it is away on the other side of the room from our regular stock or drugs, If a man uses ordinary com mon sense he would never put prussle acid in prescription for something else, because he would have to walk over to the other side of the room for the prussic acid, and this would nat urally make him stop and think what he was doing. Then, as further pre- caution, some druggists have all their poisons put up in peculiarly shaped bottles, say a vial with three sides to 1 it.
 "As soon as they pick it up they know it is different from the ordinary bottle, and if they have made mis- take and taken up a poison in error they realize it at once by the feeling. l. I go even farther this this. Not only do keep my polsons on shelf away from lotEer stuff and put in three=cornered bottles. but have fastened to the cork of each poisonous compound a small glass tube. This swings from the I cord, and the minute the bottle is lift ed the glass tube tinkles against the sides of the bottle, and warns a man. that he has something in his hand that must be used with caution.
 I *'So you see man has 10 be pretty 1 far gone, to fall into ar14 error. He has to go to a special shelf to get a poison, he has to pick up different shaped bottle from the ordinary one, and if these two fail he hears the warning tinkle of the glass, and that ought to wake him up. <;. 1 Now, what I'd recommend to women and all people who have poisons, car bolic acid, or any other kind, around the house, would be to tie a piece of | glass, or even small nail to the neck of the bottle That would jingle as soon as they took hold of the vial, and even in4the dark the warning would be given They ought to do that at once. The time to do things is when you think of them. The Keeping of poisons on separate shelf Or in odd-shapped bottles would be additional: precau- tion. uzz&& ! A oI GDutSE lilUuSlttAut RSts Wbil ' make mistakes often, and some people may say they're always on the watch, But there's nothing like making assur- ance doubiy sure, You never can tell I when you'll have to rush to the med- icine closet in a big hurry for some drug. Perhaps some one has heat failure, or sinking spell, and there are drops to be given. It's the easiest thing in the world to grab up the wrong bottle by mistake. But If the warning tinkle sounds the person will hear it and stop to think, and possi- bly thereby save q human life. .@
 "Of course, know that lots of times men and women, fin a fit of despon- dency, may want. to kill themselves, or they think they do. Then, when they find the carbolic acid hurts, they re- pent. Even in these cases the warn- ing tinkle might deter the person bent on suicide"
 Well, I don't believe any of the
 folks up at our house are tired of life } said the customer, but all the same ] I'm going to tie nall around every bottle of poison can find. And I'm
 going to do it as soon as I get home.' "A stitch in time saves nine,"s quoted
 the druggist, and he got glass of soda for pretty girl.--Exchange