Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-08-17
From The Magazine Press.
Excerpts OF Opinion from the Leading Writers of Today
Rev, A. Peake
newspaper:
Rev. John a. Peake.

Pobably the root cause of the dis
ease is excess Of water. The irriga-
ton schemes executed by Lord Cremer
were not altogether well designed,
and the land is becoming waterc eyed.
A commission is Investigating the
problem and Lord Kitchener has TAX
en- up the work of irrigation with
characteristic energy. One may hope
that he will reap success Infant
mortality again, is heavy and increas-
ern countries, and Egypt, unfortunately
is still very scantily provided with
doctors or sanitation. Plague, too,
has been more serious, and in one
place it took the severest form OF
all-pneumonia. Cholera, however,
always liable to be introduced by the
Mecca pilgrims, was kept out.
On the moral side, the progress
of Egypt is less satisfactory than on
the material side, says the Daily
News:
Crime after temporary lapse, has
swept up. Human life is of little
account, and men are killed for trfles
Lord Kitchener has little faith in
the drastic deportation law, which
gave the authorities power to seq
regate bad characters without trial
Crime. he wisely observes can be
finally checked only by the spread OF
education and civilized ideas. 1t is
precisely the educational poverty
of Egypt which is the darkest blot up
on the record of Lord Cromer, who
left it far worse than he found 1t.
To Sir Eldon Gorst's credit be it
said, that he began, if only tenta-
lively and hesitantly, to make the
omission good 1t is plain that Lord
Kitchener means to carry on the
ucation is almost wholly in the hands
of the provincial councils, but
grant OF 100000 has been made by
the central government. That is onl
a commencement, but a commence
ment of this kind is notable enough.
The Current Digest contains an in
structive article ON How to sell pat
ent medicines"
The composition of a proprietary
medicine is of small account from
The commercial standpoint, according
to The Druggists Circular (New York
July.) Perfectly good formulas are ly
ing around loose, and anyone can get
the recipe for an effective laxative
Or expectorant or tonic for the askln
The promotion of the article after 1t
is compounded is the important thing
Without, the best medicine will not
go with it, ordinary water, with
or without flavoring or coloring, has
been known to yield fortune. The
circular is moved to speak on the
subject by the receipt OF a letter
from subscriber, who says he
knows a man with lot OF formulas
for medicines and asks how he shall
go about to exploit them. To him
says the writer:
For a dollar or two anybody ma
buy a book containing formulas for
remedies for every different kind oil
disease that actually exists or can
be imagined, for advertising purposes
almost anybody can manufacture the
goods, or have some firm of manu-
featuring pharmacists do this for
him, and without the expenditure OF
more than a week or two's salary
of an ordinary working man, may find
himself in possession Of a stock OF
medicine which at dollar bottle,
or twenty five cents a box, or even
at two, four and eight, would net him
a tidy little sum. Having proceeded
thus far our suppositions could by
reinvesting the said tidy sum in
more of the medicines and converting
them likewise into cash, be able to
buy good farm and retire, or an
automobile and retire indefinitely.
The thing seems SO easy that it
seems shame for any man to shove
dirt for dollar day or edit pap
er for his clothes and board.
"The only weak link in the get-rich-
quick scheme is the one which our
druggist friends doctor IS patient is
seeking to strengthen, to-wit, the one
at the point where the owner of the
formulas depends upon somebody else
to create a demand for the goods
1T is easy to say just advertise,
but not everybody knows just how
or where to advertise, and not all
have the money to pay the bills. An
| illiterate farmer once MKT a little
aoid with watar and fooled enough