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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28
DISAPPOINTING RESULTS.

we find In hospitals particularly disappoint-
ing results in the matter Of drugs" said an
officer of one Of the medical societies Of the city,
a prominent physician I'VE have become so
accustomed TO finding drugs poor in quality"
said another physician an officer of the other
medical society that we are getting I'm the
habit of carrying medicines in the tablet form
as the country doctors do. These are made up
for US by reputable houses whose products can
be depended upon. It has been known for
long time that the drugs sold by many drug
stores could not be depended upon. The worst
Of it is that the physician cannot tell whether
the patients lack Of Improvement IS due to his
resistance to the medicine, or its inertness, and
therefore he is powerless to remedy the condi-
ton"
Il presume" said DR.. Eugene H. Porter State
Commissioner Of Health. there is hardly
drug store in the State in which you Will not
find medicines Of poor quality. and many in
ferior drugs. rendered so by ignorant or indif-
ferent preparation. Many druggists cannot help
themselves. They are not IN a position to know
They think the goods are all right. \ first class
pharmacist using large quantities Of drugs ought
TO know something about them, however. I
think the two questions, pure drugs and the
control Of patent medicines, are very important
When I take the questions up. which I expect
to do, 7 think there will be some blows for men
will not be all on one side. have ample power
TO do anything wish about securing the purity
Of drugs"
The carelessness TO say the least, of some
druggists and the intentional substitution OF
drugs which others are guilty Of ere illustrated
by a couple Of instances related by Mr.. An
drews. In one a child was sent to drug store
on the West Side, uptown, TO have prescription
filled The child did not go to the drug store
did not feaze the druggist 10 whom the child
went, however. He took the bottle over the
counter and filed it with something probably
the compound which was represented by the
corresponding number contained I'm his book and
returned the bottle to the child without chang
ing the label in the least The members of the
family who were 10 take the medicine did not
receive the expected benefit but the
trary. were injured seriously by it,
The other case was that Of substitution Of a
cheap chemical for the higher priced one re-
quired and the consequent injury of the COM
plexiOn Of a handsome woman. An Sth-ave
masseuse had 2 prescription for improving the
skin which she had procured from a physician.
She took it TO a druggist and had It filled She
applied some of the Concoction to the face of a
patron, woman who had beautiful skin. The
womans beauty was ruined for a time by an
unpleasant eruption. Analysis of the compound
proved that the druggist had used as the base
a drug worth about one-sixth Of that called for
in the prescription
The representative Of The Tribune thought
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28
A FEW EXAMPLES.
.London Graphic.

introduced into the legislature at Albany Is
aimed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28
NOT YOUR FAITH IN ORIG STORFSv

,,.,-,,7 ,.s,ue Of the drugs dispensed IN
- ,ronortIon Of the drug stores OF Ne"
- a. so moor and nOstrums whose lilei
-, Lent secret by their propnetors nav -
-s-ora5 10 be so dangerous to puoho - -
nat a movement supported by the Dep"'
=. Health the medical societies ana many
30, lea ding physicians of the city mas oe'l -
+oor ro improve these conditions ~ =
- - os +be Academy Of Medicine that or
-, authorized it's officers TO support
S.,, ,,,i.b has been introduced into Ile l's''
.-,,t75;r~ tbe sale of any proprietary u
- -,,5i.iue containing alcohol, morphine
,,,,,,,,, or any other preparation ulle99
-, t,.,-s5farts and their quantities are pI'.'SI
80 49,, label. It has ESQ been reccmmehueo .-ia'
'-- -, 81. added that shall empower the De
-.r.,,a,tso NJ Health Of all cities in the Stelo u
- rsr and second classes to take cog12izahce VI
the sale of poisons and other drugs anu 'U'p'
measures To regulate their sale.
- ono may believe the tests made by the De
7,sr-nert of Health and the testimony Of prom
1-err musicians and even druggists themselves
-tar. are few drug stores in New-Nork CITY
where drugs which have a full medicinal N7'pe
sra ,,ead I'm compounding prescriptions Cheap!S
rrouud drugs. whose strength is unknown anu
whose action cannot be depended upon are uSeu'
Patients in consequence do not respond 10 'He
medicines prescribed, and the physician il '' q
loss TO account for H. He does "o' NJ"
whether # is because Of the patients coho''o-
or the fault Of the drugs, and he Is po"eIleSS -
,.,.s with f. The variation In the strength Oh
,f--75s sold i'm Nev-York is SO great Jhat the
lives or. rersons are jeopardized- According 10
one druggist. this condition is due 10 the COM
r7errialisrn which has crept into the business,
Druggists are buying cheap drugs, and Re" Oh
them are equipped SO that they can tell whether
or not they are getting drugs which are capaoie
81 producing the results expected Of them.
Asa result many physicians are going PACK 10
The method Of the oId-fashioned country prac-
rftioner Of carrying their medicines WIN IneI"'
rlrerared by chemists on whom they can de-
IND So accustomed are physicians TO the
twisting drug conditions that when they learned
~ the results of the tests Of a number of drugs
made by the Department OF Health they mani
tested no surprise at all These simply corro-
borated their own experiences.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28

Ut Hornbook is alive to-day with his nos
'ruiiis' ana Is reaping his harvest. He is dis
peiislIs headache powders which contain ace
lailliiu' d heart depressant; catarrh snuffs that
make the users cocaine slaves. and cures ,or
'NnHs under the heavens that produce
drunkards and morphine and opium victims
1hey depend upon the presence Of alcohol and
these harmful drugs to make the public free
users Of their medicines. It is against these
harmful nostrums that the bill which has been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28
BETTER GRINDING NEEDED.

The active principle" as the druggists call it,
IN each drug is not distributed evenly through
the part Of the plant from which it is taken.
For this reason it has 10 be ground evenly ana
10 a certain ineness Standards of hneness have
been established for different drugs They must
he ground neither too fine. for they may be too
strong. nor 700 coarse for they may be weak
or uneven in strength. or absolutely inert
Screens containing different numbers Of meshes
10 the square inch used to determine the
fneness. IN the case Of lobelia, for instance. II
should be ground so that all Of the particles Will
pass through a screen having fifty openings 10
the square inch. About a third Of the lobea
obtained passed through a screen Of 100 meshes
while some Of it would not pass through a screen
finer than %. All the other drugs had this un-
evenness, so that one could not be sure whether
he had the right strength or not. or whether or
not there was any Of the active principle in
the drug The normal dose for aconite. which is
used to reduce fevers, is about ten drops IN the
samples examined 10y the department some were
so weak that twenty-five drops would have been
required Of the tncture in order 20 obtain the
strength OF a normal dose. In other words, a
doctor prescribing a normal dose would have OBJ
tained less than half Of the active principle"
which he wished TO give. The life Of a child
might depend upon the quick reduction Of a
fever. In such a case he might lose the life
because Of the weakness Of his medicine The
sixteen samples Of belladOnna ranged in guam
tity Of active principle" from o. 70 0O69 per
cent The normal dose Of the former would be
eight drops Of the latter about fifty drops Some
OF the samples looked like weeds, hayseed. tea
leaves and sawdust.
DigitaIis is used as 2 stinulant in heart dis
ease. The samples ranged In active principle
from 1914 per cent down To 1855 per cent. the
normal being 35.0S per cent The character of
digitalls and some other drugs, according TO the
Health Department, IS such that they deteriorate
and become inert IN course Of time. Digitals
should be renewed at least every year. II is
sometimes adulterated with a beautiful but
worthless leaf. There seems 10 be a tendency
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28
Burns made Death soliloquize in thi. fashion

urhs made Death soliloquize in this fashion
mere ] Killed one. fair square death
~ IoSs blood, or want o. breath
IhIs night I'm free to take nv oath
mat HornbOOkS skill
mas claq "a score + their last cloth
BY drop and pill.
1Mdt just a swatch o Hornbook's WAY
LINUS goes he on from day to dav.
Ihus does he poison. kill and sIay
Ans weel paid fort:
let stops me o my lawful prev
WI pills and dirt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-28
GREAT HARM BEING DONE.

NTorphfne and cocaine fends and drunkards
ere being made every day by the use OF nos
trlms According to Champe s. Andrews, coun-
sci for the Medical Society Of the County OF
New-York. there are two thousand nostrums
on the market containing alcohol, opium,
morphine or cocaine. OF these, he said eight
hundred contain alcohol, ranging in quantity
from Is TO so per cent; five hundred contain
ouiurn. four hundred morphine and three hun
dred cocaine. Many cocaine fends have been
made by use Of catarrhal snuffs whose formula
were unknown 10 the users. They did not know
that the suufs contained cocaine ranging in
quantity from 1 TO 81 per cent. There are only
Two reasons for keeping the formula Of a nos
1r7Iu acret-worthlessness or harmfulness,"
said Dr. T. Eliot Harris, of this city formerly
Editor Of The New-York State Journal Of Medi-
cine" The harmful ones contain cocaine. al
cohol. morphine and, in the case OF headache
cures. acetanilid. which make the user feel good,
but are injurious"
The Academy of Medicine at the meeting re-
ferred TO adopted a resolution urging physicians
not to prescribe medicines with the contents Of
which they were unfamiliar. DR.. Eugene H. Por-
ter, State Commissioner Of Health, says that he
intends starting an investigation Of the use Of
poor and adulterated drugs.
Il was an astonishing condition OF things
which the Department of Health found when it
began 10 investigate the drugs used in the city
The head Of its drug department visited eight
Of the leading Wholesale druggists. supplying
according 10 the department. 997s per cent Of
the drug stores OF the city. I asked said he
for the best drugs they had" Samples to the
number Of one hundred and fifty of such drugs
as aconite belladouua digitalis lobelia, powdered
SIENNA, saffron and rhubarb We're secured OF
these the acouite. belladonna, digitalis lobelia,
saffron and powdered SIENNA have been tested.
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
A Spur for Colleges.

New York, August 3.-The General
Education Board has recently made con-
ditionai appropriations from the income
of the John d. Rockefeller foundation of
Sl0,O00,OO0 for higher education to nine
colleges in different parts of the United
States, amounting to S312, 500. The gifts
are conditional on the colleges and uni
versities raising three times as much
from other sources.
The institutions and the amounts they
will receive are: Coe College, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, $4,000: Washburn Col
lege, Topeka, Kan, S25, 200; Tulane Uni
versity, New Orleans, 5000; Wofford
College, Spartanburg, 5000; Furman
University, Greenville, s25,OOO; Wake
Forest College, Wake Forest, N, O., S37,-
500; Howard College, Birmingham, Ala,
S25, 900; Southwestern University, Jack
son, Tenn, $25, 900, and Mississippi Col
lege, Clinton, Miss, $25, 200.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Flashes from Friendship.

Friendship, August 6.--Our corn crop
is very nice in this community.
Miss Sallie Hopkins, of Camden, is Wis
iting her sister, Mrs. w. M. Campbell, of
this place. ~
Eugene Walker and family, of Ander-
son, is visiting his brother, HI. G. Walker,
this week.
w. p. Moore and Tom Brook are visit
friends in Westminster.
Miss Rubie Gillespie, of near Pendleton,
is spending awhile at the home of her
uncle, j. A. Wilson.
A good many of the young people of
this place attended the singing conven-
tion at Fant's Grove Sunday.
Bear In mind that the protracted meet
ing will begin at Friendship the second
Sunday in August. Everybody invited.
walker Wright and viii Moore passed
through this community in an automobile
Sunday. nm.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Westminster knitting Mill News.

Westminster, August 7.-Miss Winnie
Sanders visited in the Oakway section
Sunday and Monday.
Miss Bertha Barker has returned from
two weeks visit to Baldwin, Ga.
The knitting mill has been working
only about half the force of late. This
is due from scarcity of yarn.
Ira and Rance Phillips visited at Long
Creek Tuesday. They report good
time.
Carve Barker and Rance Phillips at
tended preaching at Pleasant Hill Satur-
day night.
j. I'll. Freeman is visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
j. S. Lawless.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granvilles Marsingale Wis.
tied their son, John Marsingale, Sunday.
Ed. Pike visited homefolks Saturday
night and Sunday.
James Lee and son, Warren, spent Fri
day night with p. X. Phillips.
Hurrah for Jacob Rotheli!
VOL. Buck.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Little River Items.

Little River, August 6.--Crops are
being greatly hindered by the continued
rainB.
The health of this community is gene
rally good.
The roads in this section are in pretty
bad condition, and not much is being
done to mend them. Our 81 or two days
does not keep them up by half. So there
is room for work some where farther
back than the county board. They can
not work the roads without means. We
truly hope there will be some changes
made in some way to give us better
roads.
Prof. John Harris, of Townville, and
w. FL. Talley, of this section, took a
pleasure trip to Lake Toxsway and other
points in tho hill country last week:
j. a. Wigington and John M. Holden
are on business trip to Pickens and
Greenville. They will be away for two
weeks.
Miss Mary Talley, of this section, has
heen spending week with the family of
nor uncle, Sloan Entrekin, of near Wal
halla.
l.. Wood has moved his saw mill to
j. s. Cannon's place. There is much
lumber being shipped from this section.
Rev. e. S. Jones closed meeting at
Whitmire on the first Sunda The con-
gregation was large and ntiye on
Sunday. There were three .ditions to
the church, which were baptized on
Sunday in connection with the service.
After the close of the service Brother
Jones wended his way up the blue hills
to Bear Pen, whore he preached at 4
p. m. to those good people.
Candidate j. l.. Talley put in his ap-
pearance Saturday night, after being
absent for some time.
John Rutledge killed very large rat
tie snake on the Sd instant, near the
home of T. A. Grant.
For the information of those wishing
to vote at Little River, they will find the
club list with ID. d. Alexander, at the
Alexandermill.
Those wishing to vote at Salem will
find the club list with j. Fl. Wood, at
Salem post Office. NJ.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Wolf Stake News.

Wolf Stake, August G.--James Smith
and daughters, Misses Jane and Grace,
returned home, after a few days visit in
Georgia.
Ed Rodgers and sister, Miss Della, of
Easley, are visiting their mother, Mrs.
James Sherman.
Will Smith, of Piedmont, returned
home this morning, after short visit to
his brother, Hamp Smith.
Jep Bryant, of Piedmont, has been Wis
iting friends and relatives here.
Hamp Smith and little daughters,
Misses Pearl and Ossie, are visiting in
Easley and Piedmont this week.
John and Wade Kelley visited in
Pickenl recently.
Jeb Sherman, of Anderson, is visiting
his brother, James Sherman. G.. w.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
v. l. Norman Talks.

The Concord (N.C.) Evening Tribune,
OF July 9th, has the following to say
about former Walhalla man:
v. l.. Norman takes charge of the st.
Cloud hotel on Wednesday, the first day
OF August and the Normandy will CLOSE.
Knowing the interest felt in this move a
Tribune representative saw Mr.. Norman
and he made the following statement:
"Just say to the people of Concord that
The st. Cloud Normandy will be con-
Quoted in the same liberal plan that has
made the Normandy famous. No pains
or expense will be spared to make the
new hotel the peer of any in the State. I
have secured the service of two of the
finest meat and pastry cooks in North
Carolina and the cuisine and general SER
vice of the house will be improved upon.
The new plant, including two annexes,
will contain fifty bed chambers, which, in
o rush, can be made to entertain 1875 to
16O guests The house will be renovated
from top to bottom and the latest kitchen
appliances installed. White mattresses,
in their neat uniforms of blue and white,
will be q feature of the dining-room and
o complete system of automatic tele.
phones will connect each room in the
hotel and annexes with the office at NO
distant date. The latch. string of The
st. Cloud-Normandy will hang on the
outside and strangers will be made well
come to the genial hospitality which will
characterize the house."
AS Is well.known the st. Cloud has re-
Gently undergone much Improvement and
is in better condition than ever to accom-.
modate the travelling public. Mr.. Nor
man is evidently alive to the needs of the
oity and will make every effort to give
Concord hotel that will answer the de.
mands and attract people to the city. As
manager of the Normandy he had made
reputation and will be the Same genial
and efficient manager with enlarged OPP
portunities at the new place, where he
will be found after the first of the coming
month.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Local Intelligence from the Different Sections that will
Prove Interesting to Many.
Now Hope Happenings.

New Hope. August 6.--The High Falls
schools, A and b, are In a fiourishing
condition under the management of Miss
Rene Hnns!ngger, Of CoDuefoss, and Billy Billy
Craig, of Piokens.
Mr.. and Mrs.. Frank Wood, after spend
ing week visiting among relatives in
this community, returned to their home
In Spartanburg Sunday.
Mrs. Pauline Junkins, of Anderson,
accompanied by her four children, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary M. Hunt,
and other relatives in this vicinity.
Oscar Kelley, the third son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John A. Kelley, boarded No. SO
this morning for Fruitland, N. c., to
enter the Fruitland Institute Tomorrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. John P. CAN'T, of LIB
erty, accompanied by their daughter,
little Miss Pauline, visited relatives in
this community last week.
Misses Lula and Lena Brown and
brother, Claude, of Anderson, are on a
two-weeks' visit among friends here.
Willie CAN'T and two brothers, Ernest
and Homer, spent the latter part Of last
week at the home of John A. Kelley.
ID. ii. Kennemore, of Pickens, accom-
panied by his uncle, George Kennemore,
of Oklahoma, visited at the home of
@. A. Morgan recently.
Mrs. Emma Blair, of Anderson, is Wis.
iting friends in this community this
week.
A crowd from this section are antici-
pating trip to Clemson next Wednes-
day.
Several young people from New Hope
attended the all-day singing at Old
Pickens Sunday. Sc
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Beware OF Oint for Catarrh
that COntain Mercury,

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
of smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering it through
the mucous surfaces. Such articles
tions from reputable physicians, as the
damage they will do is ten fold to the
good you can possibly derive from them.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
+. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., con-
tains no mercury, and is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. In buying
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine. 1t is taken internally, and
made in Toledo, Ohio, by f. j. Cheney &
gists, price 75c. per bottle.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-15
Word from Whitewater.

Whitewater, July 8.--Rev. e. 8. Jones
preached at Bear Pen school house Sun
day. 5
The The health of nnr community lie very
good at this writing.
The school at this place is progressing
nicely with Miss Leize Perritt as tsacher.
S Mrs. Mary K. Nicholson, who was sick
1sQme time ago, has sufficiently recovered
be out again.
Silas Burrell has a. wreath of smiles
around his face. There is boy at his
house.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Shelton, of Wal
halla, are spending some time at the
home Of l.. A. p. Nicholson. We hope
they will enjoy the oool mountain air
and pure water.
j. N. Breedlove was called on a very
sad mission Sunday when message
came announcing the death of his mother
at Lake Toxaway, N. @.
Mrs. Rebecoa Wilson is on an extended
visit to her granddaughter, Mrs. Robt.
Mccall, of Cashiers, N. G.
Andrew and T. Y. Hudgens made q
pleasant trip to Glenville, N. c., recen,ly y
and report a fine time. @.