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About The Falls City tribune. (Falls City, Neb.) 1904-191? | View Entire Issue (June 10, 1910)
Henry C. Smith LANDS & LOANS V----J 240 acres well improved, H miles from Depot in KdS, Good spring Best of terms. Will take 40 acres as part payment, balance long time at low interest. 200 acres 1)4 miles from depot, Richardson county, Nebraska. Good buildings and land. Will take 40 or 80 acres as part payment \ 160 acres upland, 1 mile from depot, Richardson county, Nebraska. §12,000. 160 acres tohnson county, Nebraska. 80 rods to church and school. Best of terms. Might rent 107 acres near Brownville, Nebraska 80 acres Jf-mile from Falls City high school. f 640 acres, $8,000 improvements Also 640 acres adjoining. Will take 160acres a- part payment. Fine running water. A No. 1 opportunity. | ' READY - iflflDE MEDICINES’ THE TEXT OF DR. MORSMAN'S INTERESTING TALK Many Good "Patent’’ Remedies, The Difficulty for the Laity Is In the Diagnosis.. 1 do not know any better name for ibis class of preparations than to eall them ready-made medicines. ■lust as a man can buy ready-made clo*htng that will fit him If he Isn't deformed or of irregular shape so he can buy ready made medicines that will fit his disease, if It isn’t unusual or complicated. True, any one cab go to the tailor and he measured and fitted exactly even if lii is deformed, and so too be can go to a doctor and have his diseases diagnosed and receive med icine adapted to his ease,even if it lie complicated. it goes without saying that better clothing and lietti^ treat ment come from the tailor and the doctor. Hut the ready-made clothing serves its purpose and so does the ready made m< dioiiie, I only apply this term to the better class of preparations and do not include "nos trums,” Cnstoria, Mentholutum, Jaynes' Vermifuge, White i’ine Com pound are examples. There are hundreds of others. The difficulty In using ready-made medicines lies in making a diagnosis of the case and fitting the remedy to it. Of course the tailor doesn t think much of the teady-made clothing nor does the doctor have a very high re gard for ready-made medicines, but. silence is becoming to the doctor bo cause lie uses ready-made medicine himself, lie doesn't, call them that. He calls them "pharmaceuticals," hut that is what, they are tfnd the doctor's kind of ready modes very soon be come the popular ready-mades lie cause the doctor uses them and thereby introduces them, to the great profit of the manufacturer. This Is just what the maker wants and is the best advertising be can get. Llster ine was first used by physicians ami it ha3 been a popular ready-made for years. Sal llepatica was Introduced by physicians, now it is bought as freely as t'astorln. Glyco-Thymolino was introduced by the dentist; now his patrons buy it. There are very many eases like these, where the doctors have started a very nice, prof itable business for some other fellow; ami le i.s still doing the same tiling. or course there are certain kinds of ready-made medicines that the doc tors never use. The doctor would not use Oasioria nor Janyne's Vermi fuge. bet a use they are already pub lie property; and he has no need to Use them for he knows pretty nearly what they are. I'he physicians have used barrels of white pine compound, but now they have nearly abandoned it, because it has become a popular remedy. Some patent medicine men have the nerve to advertise that the doctors will not n-e tin ir preparations because he is envious of their success. That is the rottenest kind of rot. The doctor Is not envious. That isn't ills posi tion. lie thinks that the people use these medicines too much; that they resort to patents when they ought to come to him, and he is right. The public has a will of its own and will do as it pleases about ready mades, and the doctor and tailor are both of them powerless. The great trouble about ready-made medicines is that the maker always claims too much for their preparations. It is misleading also in regard to diagno sis. because it always makes the symptoms lead up to the disease; the ^ ■■■ YOUR best salesman cannot work more than 12 hours a day. C| An advertisement of your goods in this paper j works while you sleep and wake—24 hours a day. •J It works in many house holds at the same time. €J It talks better than the most fluent $ ... a week salesman. *1 bio one slams the doot in its iace. <J RESULT: It sells goods, j Q About the cost? Farlers than the $ . . . . salesman a:.d docs lots more work. isht. remedy is prepared for instead of I pointing out ho real trouble, Tho| business of the advertiser is to make! readers believe they need this par j lieular remedy and no other; and that he must ask for tills one and “take no other,” although there may be forty other ready-made prepara tions that are just exactly as good. If the druggist tins the article call ed fer, but tries lo induce the custo mer to take something else, which ho says is better, he lays himself ipen to the suspicion, that he has ‘an axe to grind,” but if he hasn't lit* article asked for and recom mends something else, it is probably lust as good and just as reliable. Die number of preparations of this lass is now so large that it is impos dble for the druggist lo carry all of hem and new ones are being born :*very day. Of course (lie advertising ■oiiveys tlie impression that the retn ■dy advertised Is as well known as he alphabet; but it. may not be any bettei known than the Greek alpha bet locally. When advertisers say, ‘sold in all drug stores," they mean they would like it to lie sold in all Jrug stores. Some of tlie ready-made medicines ire really physicians’ perscriptions, Hid rood oiuy too. Some are actual ly taken from the Pharmacopoeia or nthcr standard authority and are de pendable and reliable and quite often the people, who put them out do not make them. They are made by Pharmaceutical manufacturers, tlie lame concerns that put out the doc !ors‘ ready-mades; and two prepara tions advertised under different naniet may In* identical in composl Iion All of tlie headache tablets, pills and capsules are practically the same. There is but little difference between the various makes of cu thar'lcs or liver pills. The large or nld style pills are practically the vegetable cathartic pill of the Pharmacopoeia. All tlie little pills or granules nre all similar in compos ition. The difference is mostly in color, size and talk; of course the customer goes by the talk, the ad vertising. He thinks his own par ticular kind is better, and if he THINKS so, they AUK better. The druggist would as soon sell one as the other, unless he has a cheap line which lie is pushing for the sake of greater profit. 1 do not be lieve this is good policy, it is likely to drive customers away. People al ways want what they ask for and as a rule they go where they can get it. 1 would rather keep the eus turner than get the extra profit. I hi) market is full of cheap lines made for the druggist to push. I do not like to name them publicly, but any one interested can get the information at the store. The reader will understand that 1 have lo in careful about giving names in print. If special information is want ed, I will be glad to give it verbally. The use of ready-made medicines is constantly increasing. People find them servicable and so continue to use them and to recommend them lo others. Customers an learning that tlie dlf leremes are not as great as the makers would have them believe, and If they have confidence in their ilruggist are quite likely to depend upon liis judgment and the UPRIGHT druggist will not fail them. Ilis ad vice will he honest advice, lie will ho shortsighted indeed if he carries a line to push. Whenever the druggist lias put out preparations of his own and lias made them whpt they should be, they have been well received by the patrons. But this presuposes med ical as well as pharmaceutical abil ity; and many drugists havn't both. But any COMPETENT druggist can make a good “stagger” at it. as many patent medicine men do. The trouble is that In the small towns the trade is divided up so that no one drug gist has patronage enough in that line to make the venture profitable. If it wasn’t for that, local remedies would be more common and to the ad vantage of tin public. In early English times the apothe cary was the family medical man and the surgeon had little to do with medicine. That system of practice may come again. The physician is doing all he can to bring it about. In dispensing he lias taken a step backward to the old English system to the detriment of his service. Next week I will take up Nostrums. A. MORSMAN. M. D. Morsman Drag Co LIBRARY REPORT. Following is The Report For Year Ending May 31, 1910. Number of books (accession number)... 4637 Number of hound periodicals .. 75 Number Weise bouqd periodic als, not acc'ed. 50 Books withdrawn. 117 Actual number of books. 4005 Periodicals subscribed for.. .. 40 Periodicals, gifts. 12 Total. 32' Books added Ibis year. 645 Gifts. 17 | Books not accounted for. I Cards Issued... 0851 Pictures loaned. 32 Gov. Document (Con. roc).. 17 vol. Gov. Documents (state ree) ..4 vol. Visitors.27032 Cash received.$16S.17 Periodicals. 2334 i Books Loaned Adult Juv'nl Fiction. 8127 7741 1 General. 13 87' Phil and Rel. 250 115 [ Socnlogy. 239 287 Language. 20 3, Natural Science,. .. 92 557 j Arts. 287 260, Literature. 476 18o > His and Travel.. .. 419 694 Hi >g’ uphy. 145 182 ( Totals. 10068 10096 Country Life. “Give me hack the old country borne in which 1 spent my childhood days! I am tired of the city with its never ceasing noise and strife, oil! Let me spend my remaining days in the peaceful quiet of a coun try home.” These were the words of a welt known man after many years of act ive life in the city. The country has a charm which is all its own. Man is never more himself than when he is close to nature. William Cullejri Bryant wrote Ids immortal poem, Tliunatopsis, under the mighty trees] of his quiet home. It was the mi grating birds whieli before the return of winter were seeking a warmer clime, that awakened in the bosom of tin' young and doubting Kmcrson the thought of immortality. The thought that came to his longing and craving soul that there is a better dime, to which one musi go like the birds before the return of winter. To my mind the tillers of the soil, when all things are considered, have the most free and happiest lot of HI mankind. It is true that every calling has its own difficulties and disagreeable fea tures. and Hie farmers' is not except ed, Yet no calling has profited more by modun inventions than that of the farm r. Ail kinds ci machine*'}' have eoiiie to Ills aid to lighten his labor and to take away much of the so-called drudgery. To be a farmer and to bo the owner of a farm is to be indeed a gentleman, lie is the most independent of all men. The Tribune thinks that the time lias come when when especially farmers' boys, and the girls as well, should feel that to be on tile farm does not m. an that they are beneath anybody, but that their calling is equal to any other calling. To our many readers on the farm, we would say: He eon tent, for yours is a happy lot. Boys, stay on the farm. Miss Battles of Des Moninos, Iowa lias been employed by the school board to teach in the English depart ment of the high school. 1 '■ 'MMMl' ■ II ■ Miss Lange of University Place will teach the fourth grade at Central the coming year. Must Have Accessories. I hear you pielu d up an abandoned farm " ■Yep. ’ ■‘Genuine farmer now, are you?" "M> smart friends* won’t believe it until I have picked up some aban doned dialect.” Falls City High School Track Team, 1910. COL. C. A. GEARHART August 10th. 3 P. M. Here’s a Good One This week several of the leading business men in town have asked me what we had on the CHAUTAUQUA program this year, and every time I've mentioned GEARHART the expression has been “He's a dandy.” Col. Gearhart was here two years ago and more than lived up to what was expected of him. Don’t fail to hear him at the Falls City Chautauqua August 6th to i4th, 1910 E. K. HURST, Secretary 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. i , 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 11st Door North City Hotel F. L. BRITTAIN, in Ghargc^ * 1