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New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

An electric cab whizzed up 10 West Side drug
spie The other day and a stylishly gowned woman.
"-- nionc hair and diamond earrings. alighted ana
Eppe1 across the sidewalk, entered the store ana
sailed uD 10 the prescription counter.
Good morning she said. sweetly. DO you
Aee2 Dr. Elzevir's Marvoline?"
3sn IL Nonderine. madam asked the clerk,
VIKING Sideways 10 the man whom he had been
enaghtening the troubles Of the drug. dis
De-ser
On no. That is not the same thing. All the
eg stores carry Marvoline. and ! and my friends
-aEe been getting it right along
ferAaDs they could accommodate you at NO %
1efoss the way. madam" said the clerk pointeoly.
ne have call for Marvoline and It isn't IN our
stock"
That's TOO bad. I'm IN such hurry TO meet
.g 2e@eiler." remarked The customer i IKE the
.0oks Of this store ana I wish you would order TWO
-fge bottles for me. I'll call tomorrow morning
Very well madam. We viii send for case I'M
-sai2tey," and the clerk grinned. aside.
-Aank you so much. Remember, It's DF' EIZe-
y AaryolIne. Good morning!"
he smiled with an air OF having an income OF
40 a year and departed with the elegant haste
- "alch she had arrived
What's wrong about that woman and her
SileFE" asked The clerks friend
"o--lag. only sizes professional runner
-1e1 by he Droprietors Of new drugs and nedi-
s-s - 60 about and ask for their goods 70 ereate
A-.ilous demand. Tie idea is TO get the new
-.-- oa the shelves. where customers will see H.
- ~ course. rhe druggist VIII have 10 boom II.
- = gzl Of IT, knew by her manner What
-s. 4:l d. nesides. yesterday an A D. T. mes
-st- laG Ia ard SAID. aiimu.e three bottles Mar
...-e quick. \ man in the hotel is %altin Ter IL.
h, - - ;ae runners 90 UEen you happen 10
iie zOs-3E
sor.esles iaey have 10 square the bun b.
s3,i-si..s nd taking The bottles back 10 their
isers; again tAey make some excuse aDout
80 s.5rt ~ c.4uaee calling Later on the way
- ] zgpposo YOU taInk &e nave a pretty good
~. Goes sem czteasigeg Are there many new
~ iatlea.szT
Il - TOOK aI tlat ne runners asked for. we
h-.--. iaillas covering tlle block WY. mere are
80 - Eew lreparations, ranging from more
80 Aalrful patent UaeGlcitlrs 10 lhe coai TAR
80 ~, ca tie market every year. The German
rrs ,lsal chemists never tire Of nnding new COM
-s IL tie by-DrOducIs OK the dye works ~
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..F4ere Is a pamphlet giving the names of $50 OF
the latest torments to the clerks existence New
York by the way, is the hardest place In the couii
try to introduce drug novelties, just the same as
It is for drama and art The most srcces5iul pro
moters start the dope in a small city; the I2'2'
doctors prescribe it. its reputation spreads through
the provinces. and some day. with an irresistible
rush il sweeps into the cynical metropolis
nuisance akin to that of the professional run
ner is the behavior OF some Ordinary cust9HSt II9 @
never come back for their medicine. 1t seems odd
scTiption and ther. fail TO get the benefit OF It;
perhaps they have bilked the doctor equtly WIZ VIZ
The druggist and changed their minds about Ihe
naed oS 7rea tnaent Accidents account for some
e and customers have turned up weeks after
d a. 10 call for their medicine stored in the drug
Eist's Taorgue. If the addresses OF inc absent, ,
send the bottles around; but generally such people
ieaVe M Of the routine cares of the drug clerk
v,sl.es il seem probable that other human being
GoLnI G.oicais draw soda water trim the window. sell
rttcies hand out cigars. supply stamps and
toles, aI1lg Ii1nlggo-9nation collect telephone fees sell
candy point the directory zen peei%s wi Wiz ctr
gents and put plaster on mumberless nn2ers
Fire alarms and ane Poee G'l 1he drug store is pub
n 3it,,fion open night and day There may re
foTnai az S rrnf. bv necessitous merely trhing
customer at any mo m9menl,d enddep death are dragged
Ken Sfo.e: The ambulance doctor helps himself
into ,t me So Ind absorbent cotton while the mob OF
70 lnlIneit, i, am include sneak thieves who carry
oeg articles from the counters. 3,i,, to tI,a
~ 10 d-,Ir store is Eade way sttlloil 10 -
oiten lHe 80 -, can Dartly understand me sceinlng
heaTficssness of Astor Place d al ,5noher man
e Tigt carrying the limp body Of woman & "o nea
been Knocked down by streeteaF' ''''o
p'"at Is ii? Vat ls - exeaimed En1gb m mbato"en
aalr.d ..1o,t come herein. an closed up Lee
tie polls take il away, o ~, t,e East side
according DIT. Josep9 M 6ahn, a., '1ls Who * ven
aeauaInse5 with conditions ir ..e,dna me 10 street
less considered by the 20
cases aio "a pharniacist and his clerk than % '''
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
A PROFESSIONAL JOE.

In the old days the drug clerk spent his spare
moments in pounding leaves and barks for the
production Of tnctures and extracts that are now
supplied by wholesale manufacturers. When he
had nothing else to do he made ointment and
rolled pills The mortar and pestle We're the uni
versal sign of the trade But the diverse modern
activities of the pharmacist more than compensate
for the earlier details of toll 1t is stin time
honored practical jest TO ask the apprentice to pow
der ten pounds Of camphor in a mortar. After
that camphor won't powder, though il Is readily
soluble in alcohol.
There are all kinds of drug clerks in New York
except, perhaps, the kind that write immortal
glitternE vaTi-hued bottles of the show window.
There may be such, according TO Dr. Caswel
Mayo authority who dlsapprOVes of the Use OF
behind Il a low comedian In
some recent fiction a Broadway prescription CLERK
works nine hours 4 day and earns much as so a
week. The East Side clerk is often duty from
o'clock IN the morning until midnight or ! a. m.
ana gets 81 for his weeks wages. He used 10 get
only SO. An apprentice is likely TO get nothing at
Hil. being told that he ought 10 be thankful tor
Chance 10 learn fine trade.
drug clerks hours OF labor 10 siXty-siX q week
but despite the activities of inspectors. II - mostly
n dead letter the East Side. II Is considered an
advantage that for the summer mt least stores are
danger Of having prescriptions containing arsenic
and strychnine put up by sleepy oyeFwOrked
clerks anG the fact that few cases OF fatal acci-
dent reported does not prove small hazard
pharmacist to the writer. \ mistake less than
s.ttal would a. least not be likely OF discover.
The classic practice of clerks and apprentices
seC pins under the counter. the detTtment OF the
diuss ana tneir OWn health. Is still observed
on The East Side. although the Board Of Health
has inspectors on the lookout The proprietor shows
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
WOMEN DRUGGISTS.

There are perhaps two hundred women licensed
as pharmacists in New York. One or two are pro-
prstors OF stores. original founders or sue
cessOrs 10 their husbands; few act cs clerks. and
the majority ambitious wives OF druggists who
have taken the course and passed examinations IN
order 70 assist their husbands. Law and medicine
afford the same phenomenon of wifely helpSulness
leading TO knowledge.
No union Of drug clerks exists and the only ex-
elusive association Is the Drug Clerks Circle OF
New York. with about one hundred and city men,
bers. which meets monthly at East Side head
quarters. The Greater New York Drug Clerks As
soclation admits any worker in n store whether
licensed or not.
The temptation TO acquire drug habits is said TO
be less among East Side clerks than elsewhere, he
cause the apprentice is taught from the beginning
that morphine and cocaine are terrible devils
III woutd surprise many people 10 AnoW that ouF
oldest college o. pharmacy IS that of Manila Flli-
ippire Islands. which was founded ny tne Sl,alSS
lards "a 1865" said Francis d. HAYS. an otiest. ~
the American PhR-maceuIical Association ne
first college In the United States proper We -
tablished By QuaEsrs at Phladaln1la ~ AA--i -''s
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Gates hang on the wall IN large gilt frames like
WORKS OF art IN a Bowery auction room, do nothing
put put up prescriptions. Their minds are un-
troubled with the names and prices OF hundreds
OF new and old patent medicines that sold at
another counter by fourteen strong armed clerks
The patent medicine statesmen not pharmacists.
but the proprietor does especially care to have
that fact made known. The surgical instrument
department Is in charge OF a few specialists who
are competent to talk with physician buyers II
Is claimed that only such large store can MI the
prescriptions calling for new and strange drugs
that come from MOntauk Point or Phllaisl Dhl5s- A
clerk employed here specialist has lost his
talent for ell around work and on the other hand
from an ordinary small pharmacy IS nOt
equal 10 the specialists task Everybody goes
home 6 O'Clock. when the store closes, and tnere
is night bell Sunday opening
Some Fifth pharmacies dlfrer rom 0Fster
first class stores having range OF prices higher
by p 30 per cent A patent medicine that sells
on broadway for So cents acquires tone with the
Fashionable 1t is said when the price is marked ST.
\ drug put up in u coarse package at 10 cents
pound does not attract like one-h.th o. tie guam
titv at - cents. wrapped In scented mono
rrarnmcd paper and tied with farcv pink striug.
s cheap store also has pink string, but disCrim-
mating customers find a difference And the gulf
between the countcr-seepiIg, saliOw clerk Of the
East Side and bis elegant. soft voiced brother OF
the avenue is all but impossible
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

nominations Of Christianity. Pdn-Tslanfsa has
developed into a reality. while nor even shs rnos.
enthusiastic utopiast has ever conceived such a
thing as Pan-Christian!ty. Pan-Islamlsra has
for its Ostensiblc object the bringing abcu. o.
uniformity in the teaching and interpretation O.
the sacred law but the political aim OF the rloye-
nent Is to establish common accord among
MOsleES Of all countries ard races. whether
under sovereigns and rulers OF their own faith
or subject to foreign rule for mutual protection.
Just at present Pan-Islamisn constitutes tho
absorbing topic OF the hour in Europe. especially
In those countries which, like France, Russia
Great Britain and Holland. have NIoslem races
subject to their rule. Some are disposed %
ascribe the origin OF the movement 90 Sultan
Abdul Hanlid. But he is entirely innocent:
thereof. would gladly have stided it at its BIRTH
and is merely swimming with the tide. endeavOr-
Ing to remain abreast OF it. in order not 70 be en-
quilted BY its rising food. The movement does
not recognize him as its leader. but MahOmeJans
throughout the world. especially those who have
fallen into direct or indirect dependence upOu
Christian governments. naturally turn theiF eyes
with pride and satisfaction toward the one mon
arch OF their own creed who has remained irde-
pendent and who is still regarded as constituting
one OF the great powers. The Turkish Sultan Is
not the most orthodox or the most civilized Or
Iahometans. nor Is he OF the bIuest blood Os
Islam. But OF all the great Emirs and SuItans
VINO have held sway between COTdOva and Delh.
he alone has succeeded IN maintaining his
throne. and Mosems in every part OF the globe
watch his fortunes with solicitude. Imagine. Gor
instance, the realization OF the Yellow Peril and
ChrlstendOm overwhelmed By MOngOI invasion.
and the people OF Europe subject to the tnmedi-
ate rule Of mandarin OF the province OF Europe
residing. say. IN Paris. Supposiug further, that
alone among the Western powers Russia had
succeeded in maintaining her Independence and
had retained in St. Petersburg a tradition OF
rnn4irr1..l a., sooo-n.l 49,
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ton followed suit two years later and then cane
ever twenty-five years ago snd their laws regard
ing pharmacy were fragment9Ty or non-existent
strychnne and other poisOns ard al prescriptions
ers may sell poisons such as oxaiic acid and paris
green, which the druggist Is forbidden TO handle
book. The last OF ;he big states TO pass CEREAL
pharmacy law was Indians which enacted Tegula-
was The only state in which the general statute
latoT for his grocer constituents
The American Pharmaceutical Association.
which has been raising the standard OF the
drug dispensers education and may be called the
II used TO be the pubiic's onIy frie1d before Ire
lawmakers took an interest in the subject Oe
diploma before the applicant may come before a
stale board o. pharmacy for a license was hrss
tory OF the United States A year and half ago
York State For the grade OF licensed phaTnaeisc
the law now requires fifteen Regents' counts as
two yeaes' course Of study. four years practical
Sea ~ ta stCSs s.; anq 1 IRe pRs ~ q an Ss
however. does not apply TO those hailiug HrOu
can do little damage IN a small toGn. only three
years experience AID no college diploma are Ee.
drussist who would an prescripticns and zen poi
shcnsard AppSeatices are rcsistere,i by- the state
board as eoHveuienee IN proving the tine We
teear bes,nspl p'''''''' 'ps'''''' '0''''''''S -
college are chemistry, which $ ne n9s-s $50 g S5
pharmacy. or the science Of mixing etNSss 49,
employ ed. Iatin is almost II not quite eIs2ne.4L
art Of dividing. adding and sun.reetins lnlAtotet
II takes considerable efl-tlct, AnoM Mle1ee -
figure ont some complicated forulutas- mere are
about eighty schools Of pharmacy ~ tne country
sO-10 -onrected with state universities and Others
ioceI orE1niEations supported by the druggists
The-s has been movement - connect with
iniVersitss ara not long agO the New York College
~ Pharnacy became Inc0rporated with ColumHlR
T-rf,-a-itv THIS city has altogether four Nchool4
vgish ssventy-ave % a hundred students IN each.
Nero schools OF pharmacy have been established
nv nhiIanthropists IN WashinEtOu City. North
C;arolina and Tennessee The Negro ENviuG an
ear for music and aptitude for i-ifating sounds
learns quickly by tae VOte method He finds uclr-
dious satisfaction In Latin term that stasssru
the memory of white student"
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Incidents Which illustrate Unmeas-
Nred FerOcitu of Race Hatred.

When the Jewish women Of the stricken city
OF BialystOk. Russia. with cheeks drawn and
brOws knOtted by an agony too great for express
sion, through tears looked upon the MANNED
corpses Of their loved ones lying on the grass
plot about the Jewish Hospital after the mas
sacre Of June II. they might well have found
expression Tor their woe in the lamentatiOn q
jeremiah. Let mine eyes run down with tsars
night and day. and let them not cease; for tho
virgin daughter OF my people Is broken with
great breach with 9 very GrievOus blow II
go forth into the held then bshols the slain with
the sword! And II enter the city. then behold
them thas are sick with famine! Hast
thou utterly rejected Judah? Hath thy soul
loarhed Zion? Why hast thou smitten US. and
It Is probable that the fun tale OF the hor-
roFs Of BialyStok has not been told. From the
stories told Of bodies brutally hacked after death
until almost unrecOgnizable. it is evident that
the passions Of those who carried on the mas
agtnable 70 the citizen Of the United States
trained In self-cOntrOl. Many OF the bodies
were mere masses OF crushed flesh. every bone
having been broken The spirit which prevailed
among the rioters Is illustrated in these Incl
dents:
The body OF Apstein a teacher, was found
lying the green grass with hands tied.
Upon examination II was discovered that into
his face and hands three-inch nails had been
driven. The rioters had entered his house and,
after bestial Outrages. killed him in this fashion
and then murdered his family When his body
reached the hospital IL was found TO be marked
with bayonet thruSts
Beside the corpse OF Apatein lay that OF
child OF ten years. One OF its legs had been
chopped of with an
A wounded merchant named Nevyazhii<y az
the hospital told this story: Il live in the sub
urbs. Learning OF the pogrOm, ] tried %
reach the town through the fields. but was in
teTcepted by roughS. Ny brother was killed.
my arm and leg were broken; my skull was
fractured and was stabbed twice IN the side.
7 tainted from loss Of blood. and revived TO md
soldier standing over me who asked What.
are you still alive? Shall bayonet your K
begged him to spare my life. The FOUghs again
came, but spared me. saying: He will die; let
him suffer long,
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
Working More Than Sixty-six Hours Every Week and
Sleeping Under Counter in Hot Weather Do
Not Steady the Hand in Mixing Prescriptions

the inspector that he has a legal cubbyhoe for his
employe in the Of the store. but he may use
that SPACE for his family. and the clerk finds
IL handy to throw mattress under the counter, SO
to answer the night bell.
IF the bosses would let us go home from
o'clock in the afternoon until 8 O'Clock when thero
Is little business, it would help us out said an
East Side clerk.
There are more night calls in this district than
elsew here. ascribed the thick population and Il
thcuEhtless tendency wake the clerk in crder 10
buy a stamp or use the telephone. There IS less
Of the cigar and soda water business. however and
patent medicines that sold in purely American
neighborhoods by the truckload are almost un-
known. Everything l. prescribed BY the doctor.
who charges small fees. The pharmacist. an
intimate friend of l,is customer tells him what
is necessary in dealing with cosmopolitan custom
and polyglOt prescriptions For example, an
East Broadway clientele includes the Russian.
Italian Rumarian and German. Eveu when pre-
scription is written IN Latin there varieties Of
Latin with which to contend. The American Latin
for potassium bromide is potassii bTOmiduu1, while
the Germans call il kalium ETomatum. Add TO this
an f.bbrevaton in heroglyphic scrawl and
ircn cina the cLnncns for the militant
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forced labor system, still in full swing. and
sot only the government, but also every pacha.
and even petty hey, could compel the fellaheen
20 leave his own field untitled in order TO labor
for him without pay. In fact, there no
cruelty and no abuse to which the peasantry
were not subjected.
To-day, thanks to the English and to Lord
Cromer. taxation has been reduced by about GO
per cent, and the dues are collected only after
the crops have been harvested Forced labor
has been abolished. Life and property are
secure, and the rich landowner and officials OF
high and low degree have 10 longer the power
OF monopolizing the water supply for purposes
OF irrigation at the expense of the peasant
Moreover the only hogging that is ever ad-
nlinistered is for crimes OF violence. and then
only on the hack instead of on the soles OF
the feet. Prosperity reigns on all sides. Yet,
with all that the people. especially the lower
classes, are inabued with sentiments of intense
aversion for their benefactors, hate them far
worse than they did in 1882, when Arab Pacha
raised the entire country to drive the abhorred
foreign dogs" into the sea; and. in one word,
prefer the barbarous tyranny Of their own
former sovereigns unrestrained by English con-
troll to all the advantages which have been
conferred upon them under the benefcient and
admirable administration of Lord Cromer.
1t is the same in all Oriental countries, espe-
ciaIIy in those where the people profess the
Mahometan religion, and are consequently inn
bued with more or less fanaticism. There is no
comparison between the India OF to-day and the
India of one hundred and two hundred years
ago That England has endowed the huge
empire Of Hindostan with perfectly wonder
full system Of government even her most un-
generous critics are forced to admit. Yet the
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
THE RELIEF CLERK.

The business Of the relief clerk who works In
half dozen stores in rotation on the days on
OF the regular staff is preferred by some. since
there are greater independence fewer hours and the
high pay OF s. a day. Many East Side clerks are
students in colleges of pharmacy. who work three
DAYS and earn enough to be able 10 spend the rest
OF the week in study. Such clerks are permitted
v the law to put up prescriptions under the direc
tton of a registered pharmacist. Throughout the
city one-haIf of the registered Pharmacists still
begin their careers apprentices who wash bottles
and sweep floors.
The large Broadway pharmacy IS more like a
deDartment store than anything else and there ere
specialists in every branch Of the business The
man who sells pound OF rochelle salts never nils
prescription. 4 telephone operator, cigar sales
man. staff OF soda water experts anu another
TO handle toilet articles attend TO their lines.
In store eighteen registered men whose certih-
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
TYRANNY PREFERRED TO FOREIGNERS JUSTICE Y

terms and professed themselves unable to pay
they were hogged until they yielded Although
many years have elapsed since then cannot
forget the spectacle presented by a peasant
thus maltreated who was carried into my room
with the soles Of his feet all cut to ribbons and
the kourbash stiff with his dried blood for the
purpose Of convincing me that the stories OF
the abOminable cruelties practised on the peas
antry were not overdrawn. The corvee or
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
1osle Population OF Egypt Blind All the Advantages
They Have Derived from British Control,
Says ex-Attache.

they entertained toward them. and which con-
stituted the principal basis of British rule in the
Deccan, has considerably declined since the over
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

fashionable establishments uptown. Also It is one
thing to be a good Samaritan to Broadway SOU
bretie. requires merely bottle of smelling
salts and another to attend untidy human wreck
picked in gutter.
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

GOO OF Moslems They have vestige of love
for their white masters. while the fear which
New-York tribune., 1906-07-15
HuNDREDS GA NEW ONEs.

racks the brains of the pharmacist just to keep
track OF the exceptionally meritorlous or popuiai
additions.
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BIALFSTOK HORRORS.

Continued On second page.
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IicbmGrftc.

Union Stod OorbS, GittS-
burg, ga, a. gpril. Minouieb
Marft itetig; Ereiic $50 bis 90.
Sdmeirc: Morft itctig; 9orferS $40
bis $50; Serfel $40 bis G.60; rollbe
$50 bis 600. Shnie: Worft itctig
Trima metbcrS 400 bis 800; SGm.
mer 40 bis 500.
GbicoQo, "a. 9lpril. - Mino'
pieb: 3liiubr 5000; Stiere 400 bis
G.35; aiibe 3.25 bis 400; Hinoer
30 bis 5.35; 9ullen 2.60 bis 1926;
&Gibcr 90 bis 6.25. Shpcine:
3uiubr 1900; id)perc $50 bis
6.62h; 0uthers $50 bis $50
Sdnie: 3uiilbr 10000; Sd)aie l.25
bis GAO; 2Gmmer 4.75 bis 7.25.