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tise tills unlawful business, to make a 

 living on, there must be three factors 

 at least and any one, or all of these will 

 sooner or later come crashing down 

 upon their benighted heads. 



I — To the regularly licensed physi- 

 cian alone is given the right to treat 

 the sick and injured. Men who have 

 spent years in deep study and at great 

 expense. Therefore, they have a per- 

 fect right to complain because of 

 counter-prescribers, as it is their only 

 means of making a living. Would you 

 not complain if a drug store opened 

 near you and cut prices far below than 

 wdiat you could buy for? Same with 

 the doctor. He cannot afiford after all 

 the years of hard study and the money 

 he has spent in acquiring his knowl- 

 edge, to treat people for twenty-five or 

 fifty cents and give medicine besides. 

 You are not licensed to practice medi- 

 cine! How quickly you would com- 

 plain if other professional men, say 

 dentists or lawyers, were to put up 

 prescriptions and practice pharmac} 

 without a license. 



2 — Why do doctors give their owi; 

 medicine? Excluding Homeopaths,, 

 some, because to draw their patients 

 to them, because the druggist on the 

 corner will try to help them for less 

 than his fee and his prescription. If 

 druggists will show the doctors that 

 they are proficient in the art of com- 

 pounding medicines and prescriptions 

 and help the doctor by tending to his 

 profession, namely, pharmacy, the 

 doctor would in turn help the druggist 

 by sending him his prescriptions. 



3 — -'Tis true that druggists know a 

 little physiology to enable them to 

 classify medicines as to their uses, but 

 what does he know of diagnosing di- 



sease? Nothing! 'Tis just guess work 

 with most of them. Who suffers 4jy 

 this — the druggist himself l)ecause the 

 doctor will soon know of it and the 

 patient. How often have we heard 

 that the medicine the druggist pre- 

 scribed, in some cases did no good, 

 others created more pain, still others 

 which have killed. There is no sym- 

 pathy coming to the druggist as he de- 

 serves all he gets, but to the public, 

 there is, to those poor ignorant folk 

 who know no l)etter. 



Let the pharmacist practice his pro- 

 fession with dignity and proficiently, 

 as surely there is sufficient in the art 

 to occupy his time without infringing 

 on another profession, so as to make 

 the doctor feel that his services and 

 help are indispensable in his practice 

 and in turn will look up to and appre- 

 ciate the art of |)harmacy and the phar- 

 macist himself. 



A SHAMEFUL SIGHT. 



I sa^v him take her in his arms — 

 The window shades were right ; 



He gazed upon her half-draped charms, 

 The day was full and bright. 



A dozen people stopped and stared 

 Upon this shameful sight. 



He clasped her soft and pearly throat ; 



He stroked her shining hair. 

 He stooped, with hand that seemed to 

 dote, 



And touched her ankle bare. 

 And she before that window stood 



And did not seem to care. 



He lifted high a lacy gown. 



A tremor o'er me ran ; 

 He slipped it o'er her dainty head, 



No protest she began — 

 She w^as the dummy girl, and he 



The window-dresser man. 



—Puck. 



