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advertising decency and frequently 
beyond. Under the guise of bitters, 
eatarrh cures, cancer remedies and 
correctors of local disorders many 
of these ‘‘privateers’’ have amassed 
fortunes. It is possible to introduce 
an eruptive element which deceives 
‘“the lamb’’ into believing that im- 
purities lodged in the blood are be- 
ing driven out. The only tonic value 
is found in the alcohol and not in- 
frequently an equally harmful drug, 
the iodide of potash is found. Sel- 
dom are any of the well known min~ 
eral salts which are helpful, found. 
It may well be written, ‘‘it may be 
seriously questioned whether the 
blood of persons who take iodide of 
potassium continuously is not de- 
cidedly impoverished instead of be- 
ing purified as it is claimed.”’ So 
the charlatanry continues. 
To minimize this evil the Massa- 
chusetts Legislature gave instruc- 
tions to the Massachusetts Board of 
Health and an exhaustive study was 
made of the proprietary medicine in- 
dustry and careful analyses made of 
the ‘‘tonics and bitters.’’ In the 
twenty-eighth Annual Report pub- 
lished in 1897 the analyses may be 
found. But the business still con- 
tinues. 
The education of the public is the 
only solution of the problem but 
unfortunately the most informed 
members of the community are at a 
disadvantage in their protests. Ig- 
norance, again, reasoning that it is 
to the interest of the Doctor ‘‘to run 
down’’ these so-called competitors. 
Economy, falsely so-called, will send 
the sufferer to the drug instead of 
to a physician but it 1s poor econ- 
omy. Some medical journals in the 
past have ‘‘fallen’’ to spurious ad- 
vertising but not so often as the so- 
called religious press. With all the 
counter movements at work it is a 
strong man who will face the issue 
and fight. 
The City Physician of Beverly has 
been true to his calling in his vig- 
orous condemnation of this type of 
drug taking. Dr. MacLeod without 
fear or favor declared them to be the 
great American fraud. Tlis note of 
warning has the true ring. He 
states that alcohol makes up the 
body of many medicines,—Bitters, 
44 percent; Paine’s Celery Com- 
Only thoroughly trained 
competent servants (male 
or female) supplied. Re- 
ferences personally and 
carefully investigated. 
SOSFifth Ave., 
pound, 21 percent; Kilmer’s Root, 
25 percent; Lydia Pinkham’s Com- 
pound, 20 percent, and Hood’s Sars- 
aparilla, 18 percent. More danger- 
ous even than alcohol are com- 
pounds, often in headache powders, 
Cocaine, Morphine and Acetanlid, 
with all their deleterious effects. 
Dr. MacLeod deserves the thanks of 
every thoughtful citizen. The true 
eall of the physician is to conserve 
the health of the community. Dr. 
MacLeod has been faithful to his 
task. Our own physicians have 
been preaching the gospel of com- 
munity health for years and this 
corroborating testimony of the Bev- 
erly City Physician ought to add ac- 
cumulative weight to their efforts. 
Professor Wm. Bennett Munro 
of Harvard, supports the new 
constitutional amendment. ‘‘ The 
amendment aims to give to Massa- 
chusetts cities powers which are 
exercised by cities in other states 
and countries, and which have stim- 
ulated municipal enterprise in these. 
If any of the projects outlined in 
the report of the metropolitan im- 
provements commission a couple of 
years ago are ever to be successfully 
undertaken, the cities of the metro- 
politan district must have greater 
powers of land-taking than they now 
possess. The proposed amendment 
deserves the support of the voters 
on November 7th.”’ 
Judson Jones, aged eighty, after 
twenty years of labor in writing and 
fifteen years of correcting mistakes, 
has finished a phonetic spelling edi- 
tion of the Bible. Yet there are 
those who have never read the book 
in plain English and are not much 
more informed than the lad who 
said Hosea was an ancient Greek 
God and had a picture in the Boston 
Public Library. Judson Jones 
doubtless has found his literary task 
less difficult than the literal obedi- 
ence of his study. 
It now transpires that the work 
on the Austin Dam did not tally with 
the drawings—the latter calling for 
a thirty foot base—it measured 
twenty feet. The contractors took 
the chance at the expense of safety. 
More sacrifices on the altar of greed. 
MISS WILD 
Registry Office 
Telephones 8822, 8823 Madison $q. 
N. E. Gor. Sist St. N. Y. 
The City of Beverly has received 
from the Mayor the budget for the 
coming year and true to the spirit © 
and wishes of the people a liberal ap- 
propriation is provided for the 
School Department. The returns of 
a dollar invested in the education of 
the young are greater than any fi- 
nancial transaction. No community 
can make a mistake in providing lib- 
erally for the education of the 
young. 
For the first time California has 
empaneled a jury of women. Their 
first case will be the consideration of 
charges against an editor for inde- 
cent language. It is a poor woman 
who is not better than the average 
man and the unfortunate editor will 
fare hard and he deserves it. 
third time a _ cardinal 
from the United States has been 
created, now O’Connell and for- 
merly McCloskey and Gibbons. It 
will be of advantage to the Ameri- 
ean Catholics to have strong Ameri- 
ean influences in the Vatican council. 
For the 
Despite the criticisms of the 
Pulitzer policy of the New York 
World, it must be said to its credit 
that the international peace program 
was always maintained even to the 
extent of opposing the fortification 
of Panama Canal. 
Dr. Wiley’s strange position op- 
posing the study of physics and 
chemistry as impracticable is unex- 
plainable. It would appear that of 
all curriculum studies these appear 
intensely practicable. 
The value of the new Hamilton- 
Manchester road is beginning to be 
evident. When the road is com- 
pleted and the highway is open, a 
distinct gain will have been made. 
Vote early. 
‘‘Madam, are you a woman suffra- 
gist??? No sir, I haven’t time to 
be.’’? ‘‘Haven’t time! Well, if you 
had the privilege of voting, whom 
would you support?’’ ‘‘The same 
man I’ve supported for ten years.’’ 
‘¢And who is that??? ‘‘My hus- 
band.”’ 
Special attention given 
to out of town orders. 
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