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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1910)
240 acres well improved, li miles from Depot in Kas. Good spring. Best of terms. Will take 40 acres as part payment, balance long time at low interest. 200 acres 1XA miies from depot. Richardson county, Nebraska. Good buildings and land. Vi ill take 40 or 80 acres as part payment 160 acres upland, 1 mile from depot, Richardson county, Nebraska. 512.000. 160 acres Johnson county, Nebraska 80 rods to church and school. Best of terms. Might rent i 107 acres near Brown ville, Nebraska 80 acres -mile from Falls City high school. 640 acres, $8,000 improvements Also 640 acres adjoining. Will take 160acres a-^ part payment. Fine running water. A No 1 opportunity. Money tc loan. "WORKING" THE PHYSICIAN| ■ MORALLY. PRESCRIPTIONS ARE NON-TRANSFERABLE Dr. Morsman Tolls of the Injus-j ticc Done Physcians By the Unthinking Patient. If a person goes to a lawyer for nil Vice he experts to pay H fee, anil he is willing to pay It, for he knows that it is the legal sluily anil train ing '.hat makes the lawyer competent to give him advice. Now if he goes to a physician for medical advice or treatment he should pay a fee for th>' medical study and training which enables the doctor to give him compe tent ad vie ' The doctor may give lit in a prescription, ltl’T UK HOKS NOT PAY KOK TilK PKKSt'HI PTIOX It is the knowledge and skill behind! it that he pays for The prescription J is merely an order upon the druggist insti ucting him what to prepare for j the doctor'.! patron, and it 1 written | for this person only, for the particular ailment with which he is afflicted,■ and for tills particular time only. The doctor is not selling perscrip tlons His knowledge is his stock in trade, just the same as knowledge, is the lawyer’s stock in trade. Tlit> doctor would not think of writ ing the same p rscrjption foi every case; nor would he think of writing i he sumi prescription for every per j son nor for every stage of the same disease. His knowledge and his judgment m»11 him what this individ ual case needs NOW; not next week or next year; not tills individual's brother nor ids neighbors, Me Is applying his learning to benefit, the patron in this particular instance and he is just, as much entitled to a fee as a lawyer. 'Iti* patron um*s not HIM THIC I’RKSCRIPTION. He has no right to use that proscription oftonor than the doctor Instructs. Certainly iie lias no riglit to loan it to itis friend and nelgnboi mil let them have copit's made perhaps to loan to thei • friends. That is pilfering from the doctor's stock in trade ids knowledge. if tin sc friends and neighbors wish to avail themselves of the doctor's know ledge let. hem go to him and pay him for it. What rigid have they, who have paid hint nothing to take the benefits of his ability. The doc tor never intended to treat a whole neighborhood when he wrote the prescription. If lie had he would have chargi d accordingly, it may seem very kind of you when your neighbor is sick to say to ldin. "Why. hem. i have a copy of In-. X's prescription; it helped me quickly. Here, take it to the drug store nml get it filled " That may lie generous, but It isn't just Indeed I would ha-diy call it generosity. for you a; riving away something that does not in h ti" to you. Wouldn't it tie (pi its g nerous and more just to say "Dr. X gave me a perseription that helped me quickly; go to him." It is very likely he won't go, be cause he doesn't want to pay the price. It is your "something for nothing" that starts him; but that is his lookout; not yours. If he A Long Drink down the neck of a giraffe must be ecstasy itself when he s quenching his thirst. There's Nothing More Estatie Than a Glass of Soda drawn at this fountain Appetizing flavors, fruit syrups in season. A GOOD LONG DRINK OF DELICIOUS SODA is always yours when ordering it from here FALLS CITY CANDY KITCHEN P. G. BACAKOS. Prop isn't willing tn pay. lie isn't i-ntit 1<-<i to any of tin’ doctor's store of know ledge. J do not refer now to eases of ex t re in i suffering or danger. In such i list allies ii is the enll of humanity and all within hearing must answer and you need not hesitate to use tin Hiietor's bruins or his medicine from any consul ration of him lie wouldn’t want you to. No one answers to Hie call of Immunity more quickly or more often than the doetor. tie gives of his knowledge generously and of ten of his means. A large percent of his services are never paid for. lie charges these accounts on his hooks as a matter of routine, but lie knows that many of them don't mean money. He doesn't count them as an asset only ns so many families Unit are a little under obligation to him, and lie serves them again and again. Practice of medicine isn’t a busi ness, and as a rule the doctor isn’t a sharp business man. lie is loo easy, lie lias bad bis mind so occupied with mastering the details of his profes sion; so full of subjects totally aloof from business, that business educa tion lias been crowded out. The mind is a good deal like a bucket of water. You can fill it full, but a drop more and It will run over. There are dif ferent sized buckets and there are different sized brains. Therefore it is no discredit to the good doctor that he is a bad financier. This giving away and repeating (lie doctor’s prescription is often the re sult of thoughtlessness; sometimes ig uorance, but it is ns rank a piece of injustice as is ever done by one in dividual to another, and that other his friend and counselor. Think of it! Why you wouldn't give another a dime's worth of you neighbor’s corn without his consent. You would rather give a dollar's worth of your own. Then why give dollars worth of the doctor’s stock in trade with out so much us "by-your-loave"? it is a puzzeling sort of inconsistency that can permit a person to give or accept such a thing. Ilic person who is given a pre scription by the doctor has no right lo it whatever. It belongs on the druggists' file—evidence that it was properly written and properly filled, and available to the court in case sonic untoward event brings it within the court's jurisdiction. Neither have you any right to require a copy from the druggist. It's mission is ended when it is stuck on the druggist's file and the medicine which it was the order for, is handed to you. It is ridiculous lo suppose that the small sum you paid the doctor en titles you to month's or year's of treatment. You couldn’t get a quack to treat you on those terras. * May doctors will not permit all their prescriptions to be re filled with out tin ir consent and those they mark “N. H , (non repitur), which means it is not to be refilled. This is right and just and it should be applied to all, bill the doctors do not use this liar very often only to those which it is not wise to continue, and it is only the patient they are con sidering, not their own interests. This bar should be more generally used. The druggist is powerless to act in the matter. In the absence of instruct ions from the doc tor he has no right to decline to refill unless the perscription contains something which he regards as dangerous. Phy sicians arc careless about this mat ter. They frequently tell their pa tients to have the prescription re-fill ed as needed. These verbal orders cloud the subject so that the druggist lias no established rule to go by. There is another side to this prac tice of handing around prescriptions, besides the matter of injustice to the doctor, and that is the possible error. By what sort of reasoning does a man or woman.with no medical knowl edge whatever, bring themselves up to tin' idea that they can prescribe for some one else? Without any knowledge of pathology, how can they assume to make a diagnosis? With out any knowledge of therapeutics how can they assume to apply a rem edy? Without any knowledge of materia lnedica and doses, how can they assume to prescribe? They only know that a certain prescription ben efitted them in a certain instance; therefore it must be good for anoth er. Verily, " fools rush where atigeh fear to tread.” If the individual whe takes upon himself the doctoring o! his neighbors could only know ho'\ difficult it is to distinguish ailments how many symptoms are common tc several diseases; how many influen es are to In considered, in diagnos ing a case; if ho could only get a glimpse of the bewildering thera peutic effects of medicines, he would hesitate to put the mantle of the physician upon his shoulders. Put this same individual in a telephone office, where thousands of wires are centered, would he lake upon him self to mend some obscure, broken eomnnmicatlon? Hardly. He would leave tlial to experts. Why doesn’t I he leave the other to the experts? II lie started in on the telephone job i he would likely wreck one hundred connections hunting for one. Is the | human system any less complicated that he so readily tackles the job of repairing it? Put your finger upon the key hoard of a piano. If you are competent it will give forth melody and harmony; if not, noise and dis cord. Are the keys to the human system easier to play upon? It is the egotism of ignorance that presumes thus to usurp the physicians functions. True, the doctor's pre scription for one individual may be adapted to another, and it may not. Why take the chance? It is done daily. Spirt out and tell till your friends that you have something the matter with you name it what you please and nine out of ten will prescribe for you. Itlaeksmilli, car penter. merchant, butcher, baker and candlestick maker, each will offer you a remedy. The strangest thing of :ill is that die ad vtTV**is accepted Smith will take Jones’ advice about medicine when he wouldn’t take it about a horse tiade. A wag once told a friend who was complaining about his liver to ttike five grains of as inine extract three times a day and he went to the drug store and naked for it. Go to the doctor when you are sick, if you can’t go to him he will come to you. Pay him; he deserves it and he has earned it. Take your prescription to the most capable drug gist AND LEAVE IT THERE, where it b comes a voucher. Have it refill ed, if the ductoi says so. And don't give it to your friends and neighbors. A. MORSMAN, M. D. Norsman Dru£ Co. Cut While Cutting Hedge. A young man by llm name of Irvin Prater, who works for Mr. Williams, on the old llarkendorf place, had his leg badly cut last Fri day. lie was on one side of the hedge fence and the man on the op posite side made a heavy stroke which caught Prater above the knee infecting a deep gash. There will be no serious trouble unless blood poisoning sets in. The cut is very painful Mrs. G. YV. Inskeep arrived Tues day from Chicago for a visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ben Poteet. THE COMERS AND COERS HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TO YOU AND ME What Your Friends and Their Friends Have Been Doing the Past Week. 15 per cent off on all one-piece dresses.—Pence & Little. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Reuter of Mor rill wore shopping here Monday. Biggest shoe sale in the town now going on at Pence & Little's. Mrs. Ren Poteet, dr., and daughter, Jessica, of Denver are visiting the family of Den Poteet, Sr. Elmer Saylor came up from Kan sas City last Thursday to attend the funeral of his cousin, Bert Saylor. Mrs. Bert Wright of Kansas City arrived Thursday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Mattie Stoughton. Mrs. Daisy Kerr King went to Oma ha Thursday for a visit of several weeks with her. sister, Mrs. Bruno Hansen. Frank M irtin was down from Coun cil Bluffs the first of the week for a visit wills his mother, Mrs. Helen Martin. Nelson Saylor and wite, who ar rived Thursday with the body of their son, Bert, returned Monday to their home In Newkirk, Okla. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Daeschnor and baby came over Friday and paid a short visit to the family of their aunt, Mrs. W. H. Maddox. Boss Beeds, Walter Tanner and George Wahl went to Maryville, Mo., Monday to see Falls City win the game on a foreign diamond. Mrs. Bydia Behman left Monday for her home in Newkirk, Okla. She was called here to attend the fune ral of her nephew, Bert Saylor. Mrs. Harry Morrow and little dau ghter arrived Monday from Pittsburg, Kas., and will visit a week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Kcrner. Misses Florence and Elta Boose spent last Saturday in Kansas City. They went down on the morning train to meet, their sister, Miss Clara, who was returning from New Mexico. George Rhine came in from Gove City, Kas., Sunday night and will remain about ten days. He is hero on business connected with the set tling of the estate of his mother, Mrs. Sarah P. Rhine. He will likely sell the farm just north of town as well as the town property. The Falls City friends of Ur. G. B. Gandy of Humboldt will no doubt lie pleased to learn that he has gone abroad and will take a special course in surgery in Berlin, Ger many. He will spend several months in study and will also visit several interesting cities before returning. Now, Look Here ! Of couase you know what place this is, but we re going to have something here August 6 to 14, 1910 and there isn’t a better place for it in the state—many have said so. It's going to be great this year. The Falls City Chautauqua Watch tnis space for Chautauqua “ Dope." Oh, yes—if you want any information about the big affair, address the secretary. E. K. HURST, Fails City, Neb. «__ Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schaible are rejoicing over the arrival of a 'Pt'n daughter, who came to their home Tuesday morning. Frank wears the smile that wont wear off and straightway went to practicing lul a-hys. Ulia Powell left Sunday for his horn*1 in Gorden, Neb., after a visit with relative's. He experts to close out his interests in Gordon soon and will move to Idaho. Mrs. W. T. Fenton accompanied tier husband to Geneva Tuesday. She stopped for a short visit in Tee Uln ae h on her return. Prof, and Mrs. Win. Harnack and children came up from Hiawatha and spent Sun lay with Peter Kaiser and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Arthus Weaver re turned Saturday from a short visit with Mrs. Hart in White Pigeon. Mich. All muslin underwear goes at 20 per cent reduction.—Pence-Little Co. Ben Reichers came over from Craig Saturday to visit his parents and take in the ball game. 7 spools Coats' thread for 25c at Pence & Little’s. 5 pounds of rice for 25 cents at Pence-Little Co's. Joe Geiger surprised his friends by dropping in upon them unannounc ed. He looks as hale and hearty as he did ten years ago. He is ia Shubert now visiting tiis son. Mrs. T. !'\ Hewitt of Lexington,ac companied by her two sons and her sister. Miss Margaret Naylor, arrived Wednesday for a visit with their par ents, Thomas Naylor and wife. Dr Bailey will leave shortly for Hastings where he will deliver the annual commencement address to the college graduates in the First Presbyterian church of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Frank McDermand came tip from Kansas City Wednes day night to attend the commence ment exercises. They will be guests at the home of John Powell for a few days. George Rhine, who lias been here looking after the Rhine estate, sold forty acres just north of town Wed nesday to Charles Portrey for $8,000. There lire no buildings upon this piece of land. Herman Tubach itad the end of his little finger taken off Tuesday after noon. This was made necessary be cause of his hand being badly crush ed while at work in his mill sever al months ago. Lyman Millinery Stock To be Sold at the Cost of Materials The Lyman Millinery Stock has been turned over to the undersigned to be sold at most any old price. The stock is new, very well bought and is all of the very newest style. Every woman needs an extra hat or so, especially since they may be had for so little. If you need a flower to beautify an old bonnet, a piece of velvet, or anything in the millinery line, this is THE BEST CHANCE OF YOUR LIFE TO GET IT. l Trimmed Hats will be sacrificed. Over a hundred of them to go—THE PRETTIEST STYLES OF THE SEASON. SALE NOW ON. Don't Overlook this Chance to Buy Millinery at the Bare Cost of Raw Materials 1st Door North City Hotel F. L. BRITTAIN, in Charge - ... ....
