JULY 1, lOlS 



561 



boracic acid in the ears of the patient 

 cleanses them more effectually than soap 

 and water or anything else I have ever 

 tried. Some time ago I told you about 

 using it for an inflamed eye; and I see it 

 is frequently mentioned in medical journals 

 or in articles on medicine. Now, here is a 

 point, however, that must not be lost sight 

 of. I paid $1.25 for an ounce of this fluid 

 enserol that did not cost more than a few 

 cents. To keep the matter before us I have 

 been examining druggist's wholesale price 

 lists, and I see fluid enserol quoted at 85 

 cts. an ounce. 



It indicates that a big lot of the much- 

 advertised patent medicines are only com- 

 mon well-known remedies with some ficti- 

 tious name tacked on to them. In the 

 magazine called The Good Health Clinic, 

 for May, a list of about twenty advertised 

 medicines are given, and I think the list 

 was taken from Harper's Weekly. Here is 

 one of them : 



Murine — once a "cure," but now a "remedy" for 

 sore eyes; a plain boracic-acid wash. Sells for $1 

 an ounce, and can be made for about five cents a 

 gallon. 



You will notice this " Murine " is the 

 same old boracic acid under a different 

 name — the dollar-an-ounee medicine that 

 can be made for five cents a gallon. Here 

 is what the editor of the magazine says in 

 regard to it : 



These well illustrate the " Two Biggest Frauds on 

 Earth " — the fraud that takes $1.00 of a man's 

 money for what costs one cent and the fraud that 

 gives him the expectation of the relief and cure of 

 his diseases by way of some drug poison — and the 

 common name of both these frauds Is " Medicine." 



E. E. K. 



While we are about it, I wish to make 

 just one more clipping from this list of 



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medicines or foods. It is in regard to our 

 old friend sanalogen : 



Sanatogen, " the life food and nerve tonic " — just 

 plain ordinary cottage cheese prepared in powder 

 form. 



Here it is again, a dollar a bottle for 

 cottage cheese which is sold in our Medina 

 markets for 10 cts. per lb., and at the same 

 price away down in our Florida home, and 

 probably all over the land. It is, as is well 

 known, a very wholesome and concentrated 

 article of human food. No doubt it helps 

 many people who have not been accus- 

 tomed to use or get acquainted with cottage 

 cheese, and may be it will do more good be- 

 cause it costs a dollar a bottle than if they 

 got it for 10 cts. per lb. 



In closing, just a word to our friend who 

 has trouble about hearing. Go to your 

 druggist and get the remedy, and use it as 

 described in the journal referred to, for 

 last year. But instead of paying $1.25 an 

 ounce for enserol, go to your druggist and 

 get some boracic acid. He will tell you 

 about the quantity of it to use to make it 

 good both for eyes and ears. 



And there is something else you should 

 keep in mind : It is not positively sure, 

 although it is quite probable, that this 

 man's hearing was restored by the enserol. 

 If you look about you, you will find that 

 old people frequently get back their sight 

 — yes, and in some cases hearing also — 

 without taking any medicine whatever. A 

 few days ago I was surprised and delighted 

 to note that I could read an ordinary news- 

 paper while standing outdoors, without my 

 eye-glasses. Now, had I been taking some 

 sort of " treatment " in order to see with- 

 out the aid of glasses I might have been 

 ready to swing my hat and give a big testi- 

 monial. 



TEMPERANCE 



god's kingdom coming. 



I am surprised at you, brother Root. If you were 

 a young man, and had no personal knowledge of 

 how the Devil has been licked over and over for 

 the past seventy years or so I could account for 

 your pessimism. I am only 42 ; but I have seen so 

 many unexpected public reforms occur in my life- 

 time that I think amazingly rapid progress has 

 been made. Perhaps your article in your June 1st 

 issue means you become discouraged only over the 

 liquor-traffic. You say, "We get answers to cur 

 prayers in everything except in regard to the liquor 

 traffic." Now, do you not think you really ought to 

 ask the Lord's forgiveness for such an incorrect 

 statement when you stop to think of how even the 

 preachers drank, and an active prohibitionist was 

 about as welcome in a church as skunk in a bee- 

 hive? At least that is what the historians tell us; 

 and even within my own memory drinking church- 

 members have left my own denomination, the Meth- 



odist, for some more liberal on the liquor question. 

 But to-day they find that all the denominations de- 

 nounce them; and when we look at the diagram 

 maps the Anti-saloon League issues from year to 

 year, and see how the black spaces have been so 

 marvelously reduced (indeed, they have to print new 

 maps oftener than once a year to keep up with the 

 progress), I feel like shouting "Hallelujah! " that I 

 should live to see this. Think of the early temper- 

 ance reformers. My grandfather was a Washing- 

 tonian. I suppose they get the election returns in 

 heaven ; and if they rejoice so much over one sinner 

 that repenteth, they must be singing a mighty chorus 

 as, month after month, the reports come in of whole 

 states and even whole nations driving out the liquor 

 saloons. 



If, even in the darkest hour, God is able never 

 to leave himself without witnesses, and has at least 

 seven thousand who refuse to bow the knee to Baal, 

 why should any one become discouraged when we 



