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BAR-KEEPER'S

"FRIEND"

TRADE

FOR

MARK

SCOURING, CLEANSING AND POLISHING

BAR FIXTURES, DRAIN BOARDS

AND ALL

Tin, Zino, Brass, Copper, Nickel and all Kitchen and

Plated Utensils. Class, Wood, Marble, Por celain, Etc.

CEORCE WM. HOFFMAN,
Sole Manufacturer and Proprietor,

298 EAST WASHINGTON ST., INDIANAPOLIS.

THE BAR-KEEPERS' FRIEND.

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CASS 0SSISTERS REST OFFICE

Why?

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recommends it

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1-Pound Box Powder, 25c.

Established 15 Years.

FOR SALE BY ALL WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS.

'ry U. S. Metal Polish, guaranteed standard goods, 3-oz. box

retails 10c.

ALL WE CAN DO

is to put in your hands the very best laxative water we
know how-one that acts on a different and more whole-
some principle than any other laxative, purgative or
cathartic you or any of your customers ever used, read
about or heard about.

To put it up in attractive packages.
To make it pleasant to take.

To tell the public just as much about HEPTOL SPLITS as a liberal expenditure of money in newspapers, bill boards and window displays will accomplish. (Send for sample proofs of our advertising-it will show you we're advertising this "different" laxative in a "different" way from the other fellow.)

To offer you a liberal profit on your sales and to back you up with our guarantee on each bottle.

ALL WE ASK OF YOU

is to put yourself in shape to supply the demand and to
occasionally create a little demand of your own by sug-
gesting HEPTOL SPLITS-The Only Perfect Laxative
when somebody asks your advice as to a good laxative.
Are you supplied? HEPTOL SPLITS costs $5.00 for
case of 50 bottles direct or through your jobber.

THE MORRISON HEPTOL CO.

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Meyer Brothers Druggist

VOL. XXVI.

PUBLISHED MONTHLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE ENTIRE DRUG TRADE.

ST. LOUIS, DECEMBER, 1905.

Entered at the Post Office at St. Louis, Mo., as second-class matter in January, 1895.

Meyer Brothers Druggist

PUBLISHED MONTHLY.

C. F. G. MEYER, PUBLISHER.

No. 12.

Editorial

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In the Pharmaceutical Eye is Fabius Chapman Godbold, of New Orleans. He is first vice-president of the A. Ph. A., secretary of the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy, treasurer of the local pharmacists' association, member of the executive committee of the state association and one of the staunchest friends and most able workers in the N. A. R. D. He is deliberate in both acts and judgement, and directs his energies in a manner which brings certain results.

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FABIUS C. GODBOLD

M. T. BRESLIN, NEW ORLEANS, LA.

It Is Fortunate for the Pharmacists of Illinois that the recent conference of the State Board of Pharmacy, with representatives of the colleges of pharmacy of Chicago and the retail druggists of Illinois did not result in the adoption of a measure which would lead the board of pharmacy to at once put into operation the following proposed regulation:

The State Board of Pharmacy should refuse to grant apprenticeship registration to applicants who cannot furnish satisfactory proofs of at least one year's attendance at high school.

The result of such a rule can be easily realized by any pharmacist of Illinois who stops to think about

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the trouble and expense necessary to find and secure an apprentice who can comply with such a regulation. We feel that we are well within the bounds of facts when we say that less than one-half of the students from Illinois who attend colleges of pharmacy come with proofs of one or more year's high school work. They may have what is liberally construed to be "its equivalent," but they do not have the actual schooling as set forth in the above proposition.

We publish elsewhere in this issue of the MEYER Brothers DRUGGIST the official report of the Chicago conference and resolutions adopted by the I. Ph. A., which led to the meeting. These resolutions were introduced and passed, as resolutions so often are, by a vote which was formal. The resolutions sounded well, gave an air of "higher requirements" to the proceedings and, as some one voting in favor, said to a neighbor, "will do no harm, as the board of pharmacy cannot enforce them."

The time may come when the registered pharmacists of Illinois will all be at least high-school graduates, but that will be when the N. A. R. D. has succeeded in bettering trade conditions and increasing profits to that point where more high-school graduates will feel justified in entering the drug trade. The N. A. R. D. has worked wonders in this direction, but 1906 is too early to require even one year's actual high-school work on the part of the applicants for registration as apprentices. This is true even in the highly educated and enlightened State of Illinois where the board of pharmacy requires an examination in general education before an applicant can take the examination for registration either as apprentice, as. sistant or pharmacist.

We congratulate the conference upon so squarely stating the question at issue. It was wise, indeed, to say, "at least one year's attendance at high school," without adding the usual qualification of "or its equivalent." This qualifying sentence opens the way to a multitude of subterfuges. The State of Illinois is well supplied throughout its great length and entire breadth with good high schools and if one or more years' of high-school work is to be required, let the law so specify without crippling the requirement with the indefinite “or its equivalent.” If work in other educational institutions is to be recognized, they should be as specifically named as are the high schools.

The board of pharmacy in deciding that it could not legally adopt the recommendations contained in the I. Ph. A. resolutions, in a way, begged the question; but the real issue of whether or not Illinois pharmacists are ready to employ only such apprentices as have previously had at least one year in high school is still before the trade and profession and should be calmly discussed in all of its bearings. The columns of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST are open to our readers who are ready to express their views. We invite correspondence on the subject.

Good Work Accomplished by Quiz Compends.Teachers and board examiners alike frown upon quiz

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compends, while publishers and candidates for registration consider the quiz compend series to be just about the proper thing. We have detected an opportunity to speak a good word for quiz compends on account of a purpose they have served in at least one state. We refer to a board of pharmacy which announces its avowed purpose of framing its questions in such a way that the quiz compend fiends will not be able to answer them. This resolution, if practically carried out, will cause the board of pharmacy to get up sets of questions which are calculated to test the practical ability of the applicants to a greater degree than have the questions of the past. The farther you get away from quiz compend questions the nearer you are likely to be to an examination which a competent pharmacist can pass at any time without special cramming for the occasion. In this connection we call attention to the item relative to examinations which was published on page 323 of the MEYER Brothers DRUGGIST for October.

Medical Superstitions are as old as disease of the human body and as numerous as superstitions in any department of sociology. As the country becomes settled and the inhabitants better educated, medical superstitions gradually die out. Many of them common to the settlers of the new West three generations ago have been lost to history. Some of those still in the memory of people now living are being recorded in our Drug Clerks' Department. The editor of that department is a close observer and has the advantage of exceptional opportunities in studying the thoughts and actions of a class of people who became the pioneers of the Middle West two or three generations

ago.

Mr. H. N. Force, by his contributions, enables the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST to place on record interesting superstitions which would otherwise soon be lost to history. His "Diary of a Drug Clerk" is written in an interesting style, but also contains carefully prepared and accurate records of conversations which have actually occurred within the past few years.

But One Price for Advertising Space. This is the rule of the MEYER BROTHERS DRUGGIST which has worked satisfactorily for both publisher and advertising patrons during a quarter of a century. We frequently have our attention called to the sliding schedule of advertising prices in force with some publications, but the justice of our position is quickly comprehended when it is fully understood that we treat all of our advertising patrons alike. This is especially evident when our prices are taken into consideration in connection with our paid subscription list and the position which the publication holds in the estimation of the drug trade.

Do You Take an Inventory of your stock of goods? If not, you are so far behind the times and out of touch with business methods that you cannot possibly know whether you are making money or falling behind. The retail drug trade of today requires the same careful, systematic business methods that are followed in other lines of trade.

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