The remedies recommended for the relief and cure of corns are usually also recommended for the removal of bunions. While these remedies often do afford relief, the two maladies are almost as distinct as they could possibly be. Corns are inflammations of the skin, where as bunions are inflammations of the synovial membrane, which connects the great toe with the foot proper. Nothing less than surgical operation will absolutely and permanently cure bunions.

Relief to bunions is often afforded as stated by the application of corn cures, assisted by frequent bathing in hot water. Frequently anointing with petrolatum, the application of tincture of iodin or of iodin ointment, or the wearing of a rubber protector will prove beneficial.

A warm flaxseed-meal poultice at night often eases a great deal.

Shoemaker recommends the following paint:

Barium nitrate

Potassium chlorate

Powdered shellac

12 ounces

4 ounces

4 ounces

Green.

8 ounces

4 ounces

2 ounces

Care must be used in mixing these powders; no trituration is permissible as decomposition is certain to result. These fires had best not be kept in stock on account of liability to decompose.

120 Cc.

60 Cc.

120 Cc.

20 Cc.

10 grams

10 Cc.

Potassium nitrate. Oil wintergreen. Distilled water.. .to make 1000 Cc. Dissolve the potassium salt in the water, add the ammonia to the soap solution, then the chloroform, oil and gasoline; shake well and add the water. This makes a white, milky compound, which separates slightly on standing, but readily unites on shaking. The wintergreen is only added for its odor, and may be replaced by any other preferred, or omitted altogether.

The solution of soap is made as follows:
Olive oil..

Potassium hydroxide.
Alcohol

Water .of each to make 1000 Cc. Place the oil in a suitable dish, add one ounce alcohol, mix well, then add the potash dissolved in one ounce water. Apply heat by means of a waterbath until the oil is completely saponified, which is shown by a portion being removed and dropped into boiling water, when it should dissolve completely without the separation of oily drops. Allow to cool, add 500 Cc. alcohol, and water to make 1000 Cc. Filter through paper.

It is far more rational to correct the conditions which cause people to take narcotics habitually than prevent the use of them.

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THE SHERLEY BILL.

The retail drug trade well knows that it will be its burden to pay the tax exacted by this measure, and how well the trade remembers the tax of 1898 -a war measure then, how gleefully the manufacturer passed it along to the retailer who frequently paid 75c for 30c worth of stamps.

If this should pass now it will probably be to stay, so you have not time to lose.

Write to your Congressman and your Representatives, tell them that this proposed tax is unjust to you and your brother druggists and is an imposition. Make it clear to them and Congress will hardly pass a law that is so obviously a case of class legislation.

But get busy, the time to do it is now. Don't wait for some one else to strike the blow, strike it yourself and strike hard.

Associations have taken action but this should not keep you from using your personal influence. You are individually concerned, wake up to your own interests.

SACCHARIN MAKERS GET SIX MONTHS' GRACE. At a meeting of the three secretaries-MacVeagh, of the Treasury; Wilson, of Agriculture, and Nagel, of Commerce and Labor departments-held at the Treasury Department, June 20, a decision was reached to extend for six months from July 1 next the time for which any prosecution will be undertaken against those who use saccharin in food preparations, providing the presence of saccharin is plainly declared on the label:

The three secretaries are designated by the Pure Food Board as the officials of the Government to prepare and enforce regulations calculated to prevent violations of the terms of the Pure Food law. It was recently decided by the Remsen Board that the use of saccharin in food should not be permitted. Following this decision a hearing was asked by the manufacturers of saccharin, who urged an extension of time in which to prepare for such decision, and also that there be a modification of the departmental position on the subject if the Government is intending to enforce the anti-saccharin decision made by the Remsen Referee Board. At the time this hearing was held intimations were given by Secretaries Wilson and Nagel, Secretary MacVeagh being absent, that an extension of time would be given. However, the final decision was not reached until this week, when the subject was gone over by the three secretaries.

The reason given for an extension of time is said that the secretaries in charge of this subject desired further time for examining into the question and to review the opinion rendered by the Referee Board. The secretaries entertain the opinion that no serious injury can be done to the public in the short time in which the use of saccharin is to be permitted, in view of the decision by the board that saccharin even in small quantities is liable to be deleterious to health. Under the ruling made by the secretaries allowing this additional time it will be ob

served that the requirements are that the use of saccharin in all foods must be plainly indicated on the labels of such food. X XX

THE CURATIVE STATEMENT. President Taft has sent a special message to Congress asking that the Pure Food and Drugs Act be amended so as to prevent fraudulent statements relative to curative effect of medicines. Complying therewith Representative Sherley and Senator McCumber have introduced bills which have the same object in view. We quote from the McCumber bill:

"Be it enacted, etc., that that portion of section 8 of an act entitled 'An act for preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes," approved June 30, 1906, relating to the misbranding of drugs be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "That for the purpose of this act an article shall also be deemed to be misbranded. In case of drugs: 'First. If it be an imitation of or offered for sale under the name of another article.

''Second. If the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed, in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package, or if the package fail to bear a statement on the label of the quantity or proportion of any alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate or acetanilid or any derivative or preparation of any such substances contained there

in.

"Third. If there is written or printed on the package or container thereof any false or fraudulent misrepresentations concerning its curative qualities, effect or physiological action.'

Our readers must not confound this measure by Representative Sherley with his tax measure. The tax measure should be opposed, the Pure Food and Drugs Act should be amended for the protection of the public.

President Taft speaks in no uncertain terms relative to the importance of such amendment:

"Prior to the recent decision of the Supreme Court, the officers charged with the enforcement of the law regarded false and misleading statements concerning the curative value of nostrums as misbranding, and there was a general acquiescence in this view by the proprietors of the nostrums. Many pretended cures, in consequence, were withdrawn from the market, and the proprietors of many other alleged cures eliminated false and extravagant claims from their labels, either voluntarily or under the compulsion of criminal prosecution. Nearly one hundred criminal prosecutions on this charge were concluded in the Federal courts by pleas of guilty and the imposition of fines. More than 150 cases of the same nature, involving some of the rankest frauds by which the American people were ever deceived are pending now, and must be dismissed.

"I fear if no remedial legislation be granted at this session that the good which has already been accomplished in regard to these nostrums will be undone, and the people of the country will be deprived of a powerful safeguard against dangerous fraud. Of course, as pointed out by the Supreme

Court, any attempt to legislate against mere expressions of opinion would be abortive; nevertheless, if knowingly false misstatements of fact as to the effect of the preparations be provided against, the greater part of the evil will be subject to control.

"The statute can be easily amended to include the evil I have described. I recommend that this be done at once as a matter of emergency."

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OKLAHOMA PURE FOOD RULES.

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The new rules adopted by the commission June 15 requires a statement of the amount of alum on the label, when used as an ingredient in the manufacture of baking powder.

The preparation or serving of lemonade, orangeade or other acid drinks in a tin, galvanized iron or other metal container not enameled is prohibited. This rule strikes at the numerous cases of tin poisoning at places where acid drinks are sold from metal containers.

Only seven basic colors, or their blends, will be permitted for coloring food and drugs. These colors are known to the trade as "certified." Their pres

ence in any food product must be admitted on the label.

Dispensers of soda fountain, flavoring extracts and crushed fruits that are artificially flavored, or artificially colored, are required to display a sign admitting such substitute colors and flavors, or to make such admission on the printed menu card used.

All articles of food sold in bulk by weight or measure, shall be sold and delivered to the consumer at their true and actual weight and measure, provided that a reasonable variance from the agreed weight or measure is permissible if this variance is as often above as below the weight or measure agreed upon in the terms of sale or purchase. This rule will apply to all food products not in package form. It will be construed to apply to the sale of ice as to other food products sold in bulk.

WHEN IS LITHIA WATER?

Chief Justice Claubaugh, of the District Supreme Court, declined to decide what lithia water is and sustained a demurrer filed by a lithia water company to a libel of the Government under the pure food act on water seized here. Justice Claubaugh said that when doctors disagree as to the relative size of a dose of medicine necessary to bring about a certain therapeutic effect, it would be too much to ask a court to say how much lithium must be contained in a water which may be called a lithia water under the pure food act.

The Government admitted the existence of lithium in the water in question (Buffalo lithia water), but contended that it did not exist in an appreciable quantity to bring about the therapeutic effect of lithium by drinking a reasonable amount of the water. The Government will appeal.

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TOBACCO CASE DECISION SUMMARIZED. The Tobacco Trust decision is characterized by Attorney-General Wickersham as a "most comprehensive and sweeping victory for the Government." The trust is held to be a combination in restraint of trade-a monopoly in violation of law.

The decision affects sixty-five American corporations and twenty-nine individual defendants.

An opportunity is given the trust to disintegrate and re-create a condition of transacting business not repugnant to law.

If, at the end of six to eight months, the corporations fail to bring themselves within the law, a receivership and dissolution by court decree will follow.

The trust is held to have been guilty of intimida

Your attention is respectfully called to Section 23 of the new Food and Drug Law, passed by the Thirty-second Legislature, as follows:

"All manufacturers of foods and drugs doing business in the State of Texas, or all such persons as shall bring into and offer for sale within the State any article of food or drug shall annually register their firm names and addresses with the Dairy and Food Commissioner, and shall pay to said Commissioner a fee of $1.00 for such registration on or before the first day of September of each year. Such fees shall be turned over by the Commissioner to the State Treasurer and set apart as a fund to be known as the 'Pure Food Fund,' which fund, or as much thereof as may be necessary, may, with the advice and consent of the Governor, be used by the Commissioner for paying the expenses of the Dairy and Food Department. The amounts for such expenses shall be audited by the Comptroldrawn ler upon his warrant upon the State Treasury."

The phrase "all such persons as shall bring into and offer for sale within the State any article of food or drug" means those who buy foods or drugs, drink, flavoring, confectionery, or condiment from dealers doing business outside of the State, and who have them shipped into the State for the purpose of offering or exposing such products for sale in the State, w.ether they order direct from the outside dealer or through an agent or drummer.

If, however, the wholesale dealer or manufacturer outside of the State maintains a branch office in the State from which such branch office its products are distributed to its customers, then you are not required to pay the registration fee.

You are required to pay only one registration fee of $1.00 per annum, regardless of the number of different food or drug products that you import.

The phrase, "manufacturers of foods and drugs," is self-explanatory. It includes millers, ice cream makers, bottlers of carbonated beverages and makers of sugar, molasses, canned goods, baking powders, lard or lard compounds, cotton seed oil. butter, sausage, flavoring compounds, patent medicines, including among other things headache reme.les, colic remedies, kidney remedies, face powders, face cream, stock foods and stock remedies, etc., etc.

NOTICES OF JUDGMENT UNDER PURE FOOD

AND DRUGS ACT.

Number 826 relates to misbranding of "Kickapoo Cough Cure, failing to state alcohol content and wording not in conformity with regulations. Number 837 "Dr. B. W. Hair's Asthma Cure,' misbranding; 840 misbrand.ng of "Brunner's Greaseless Peroxide Cream," containing no peroxide of hydrogen. Number 843 misbranding "German Seidlitz Salts." Number 854 adulteration of asafetida. Number 856 misbranding of "Egyptian Deodorizer and Germ Killer," and adulteration and misbranding of orange extract. Number 858 misbranding of "Apricot Brandy' and "Blackberry Cordial." Number 860 misbranding of "Painease;" 861 adulteration and misbranding of orange flavor; 862 misbranding of "Philips Face Lotion," misstatement of ethyl alcohol content and containing methyl alcohol; 863 misbranding "D. Dodge Tomlinson's Celebrated H. H. H. Medicine," wrong statement of alcohol contents, etc.

Number 874 relates to misbranding of "Munyons Asthma Cure," "Munyons Special Liquid Blood Cure" and "Munyons Blood Cure;" 885 adulteration and misbranding of Quinine whiskey, claiming to contain 85 per cent alcohol and 14 grains quinine per fluid ounce, whereas it contained 42 per cent alcohol and 1/75 grain of quinine. Number 891 misbranding of ...ake-Man Tablets."

Numbers 871 and 888 relate to adulteration and misbranding of turmeric, belladonna leaves, Alexandria Senna leaves and powdered cloves.

Number 876 adulteration and misbranding of Ozone Vichy Water. Number 877 adulteration of turpentine. Number 892 adulteration and misbranding of "Strawberry Fruit Flavor" and "Raspberry Fruit Syrup," the Metropolitan Tartar Company and 889 misbranding Lowell Vanilla Extract.

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FOOD INSPECTION DECISION 137.

It has come to the attention of the Board of Food and Drug inspection that the seed of charlock (Brassica arvensis L.) is being substituted by some manufacturers, in whole or in part, for that of the true mustards, viz., yellow or white mustard (Sinapis alba L., synonym Brassica alba (L) Boiss.), brown mustard (B. juncea L.), and black mustard (B. nigra L.). It is the opinion of the board that when charlock is substituted in part for mustard the label should clearly indicate this fact. A condiment prepared from mustard or mustard flour and charlock with salt, spices, and vinegar is not "Prepared Mustard," but, provided a greater quantity of mustard than of charlock is used, it should be called "Prepared Mustard and Charlock."

CHICAGO VETERAN DRUGGISTS' ASSOCIATION. "Jamieson Day," June 21, 1911.

What US Germans call Kaiser-Wetter was the brand we had. The Jamieson day started at the Art Institute with an exchange of courtesies at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Jamieson, our gracious patroness seated in her electric car with our honorary president, O. F. Fuller, to her left as her escort, decorated the members of the C. V. D. A. with the traditional buttonhole carnation while our Commissary General Blocki presented Mrs. Jamieson with one, just one, American beauty.

Jim Sullivan, the Hyde Park liveryman, furnished the brake that took us to Central Park (Garfield now), Douglas Park, Garfield Boulevard, Washington Park and Jackson Park. Towards evening-tide it was a ride through a part of the city not known to many of our members and our distinguished guest, Prof. Remington, more than once expressed his delight at the pleasurable outing.

Just one cloud, heavy on the silver lining. We had a hard time to apply and exercise the supreme test

re

(not the Supreme Court test) of "reasonable straint" of our thirsty crowd-through the dry district, but Jonn the Dry was firm and nothing do.ng, except the following out of the route and program. Of course, all of us being members of the Hum.ne Society we sɩopped frequently to water the horses.

At 6:30 we sat down out in the old historic Busses Garden to a splendid German "Mahlzeit' such as "Mutter Koch' only can cook. The table was beautifully decorated in carnation color, was hugely enjoyed by the guests after the usual silent toast to the departed friends.

Jamieson welcomed his guests and then turned the meeting over to the toastmaster, "Taft" Hottinger, who, for a man of his delicate frame, worked Herculean-like to draw the cork of eloquence from every man present.

All talks were splendid because they came from the heart and our associate member Remington who came all the way from Philadelphia to be with us dwelt particularly on the mystery of our association that was solved by the magic wand of "Gemuthlichkeit."

The corresponding secretary, Commissary General Blocki read several letters and among others a telegram from Queen Mary in regard to her selection of our carnation for the coronation emblem.

Teophilus from Holland read a paper in Dutch that was by those who know the language pronounced a "label" on our good name.

Jamieson after welcoming the guests was called on for a few remarks and did himself proud in throwing out in bold sketches the full meaning of our glorious association, I wish space would permit a reprint in full of all the eloquence on tap, and it would not take so much space either as G. P. was absent. but sent a letter of regret (for himself) and congratulation to us that we were spared the serious infliction of his pyrotechnic oratory, but threatened to bottle and cork it for next year so those of us who live to see next Jamieson day must beware and put in a supply of Babcock extinguishers and asbestos clothes. And now, brethren of the pharmaceutical press, help us out. You are perhaps, as I hope, experts in mathematics and linguistic proclivities. In 1898 we had the first Jamison day; 1911 we had the fourteenth Jamieson day; was the 14th day the 14th or 13th anniversary. It was the 13th repetition of the initial day but never mind you shall decide the case without knowing that I hold that yesterday was not the 14th but the 13th anniversary.

at is your verdict, gentlemen of this most intelligent jury? Come my way, please! Some of our members got into a hot debate on this point. Jim Pease was so reckless as to ring in the "eclipse of the sun," whatever that is, and Teophilus from Holland was badly hurt by handling such a dangerous word as the "calendar year.' What is a calendar year? Can you tell us? If you can take a Perfecto Book on. WILHELM BODEMANN, Rec. Sec'y. XX X

PROFESSOR ARNY IS SUCCESSOR TO PROFESSOR COBLENTZ IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Professor H. V. Arny of Cleveland School of Pharmacy, Western Reserve University, has accepted a position on the faculty in the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York, Columbia University. Professor Arny is well qualified in every way to fill the chair to which he has been elected. He graduated from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1889 and received the degree of Doctor of Pharmacy from Goettingen in 1906. Professor Arny is as energetic and enthusiastic as he is capable. Socially he readily makes friends and has the esteem of druggists in all sections of the country. A good selection has been made by the New York College. Professor Arny recently published "Principles of Pharmacy."

WE NEED A LITTLE LESS FAITH
FAITH IN THE

MIGHTY DOLLAR.

Two problems at least are involved in any consideration of the ethics of business, the matter of business and the manner of its conduct. It is not only the methods of business which are on trial in our own time, but the fact of business itself.

To make of business the end of life instead of merely a means of living is in itself unethical. Some men say proudly, other half ashamed, "I live for business." The man who lives for business is unethical, howsoever his business be conducted. Man is not to live for business, though business be needed to enable a man to live. We have got to accept the truth of Henry Demarest Lloyd, who maintains that business is the stewardship of the commissary department of mankind.

We could not for a moment forget, even if we would, that commercial integrity is the foundation of a noble people. So did England win high repute throughout the world of trade. Men, not bricks, make a city was true not only in the classic days, but is true today.

A little less faith in the mighty dollar and more of dependence in the might of manhood is what America needs in our time.-Rabbi wise, New York.

A New York merchant placed an ad in the classified columns for an accountant recently. The position paid $1,200 per annum. He received 44 letters and 27 personal calls, and yet did not get a man. Out of the 71 applications, more than 25 per cent knew absolutely nothing of accounts, and all the rest were either old men with the word failure stamped in every line of their faces or else boys who were just out of school looking for their first job. It was a perfect demonstration of the fact that no man may hope to make a success today without he specializes. No matter what a man knows—if he knows it well there are a dozen places open for him. It is the fellow who is just looking for any kind of a job that is always out of work. One of the most prominent fraternal organizations opened an employment agency in a large city. They requested members of the organization to come to them when they wanted help, and promised to get positions for the members of the organization who were out of work. The whole scheme was an absolute failure because the men who called on the organization for assistance in finding employment in 95 per cent of the cases were men who were "willing to do anything to earn a living," but when questioned none of them had a trade or a profession of any sort. They had been job holders all their lives. If you are bringing up a boy, have him specialize on some one thing and he will never be a work hunter.-Ex.

your business from your advertising. If you don't advertise, of course the supposition is that you have no business worth speaking of."

"Don't ever cut your price. If you charge two different prices for the same article or the same service, then you have charged one person too much, not one person too little."

"Have you a show window? Put something in it which moves. The movement not only catches the public eye, but it is communicated to the other goods in the window, and they move also."

"It makes no difference which league you are playing in-National, American or Epworth—the man who is paying your salary is keeping your batting average."

"When a man comes into your place with a suggestion for any sort of an improvement, it pays to hear his story. A blessing may even come disguised as a book agent."

"The manufacturer once filled the back fences with gaudy advertisements in alluring, alliterative descriptive adjectives, punctuated only with exclamation points, praising the stuff he packed in pretty cans. Today he must use a certified report of a well-known analytical chemist and spend more money perfecting the contents of his can rather than beautifying its exterior and making the landscape look like the coat which Joseph wore when he was cornering the Egyptian grain market. Verily, the Missouri idea is spreading abroad in the land, and the dear public wants to be shown."

"If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him. If he pays wages that supply you your bread and butter, work for him, speak well of him, think well of him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents. I think if I worked for a man, I would work for him. I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of his time. I would give an undivided service or none. If put to a pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify, condemn and eternally disparage, why, resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. Not that you will injure the institutionnot that-but when you disparage the concern of which you are a part, you disparage yourself."-Elbert Hubbard.

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THE SHOW WINDOW.

Roe Fulkerson, in Atlanta Georgian.

"I agree with you absolutely, my friend," said the Business Doctor.

"Your show window is perfect, and I am not surprised that it sells so little merchandise for you. One follows the other as naturally as a pickaninny follows a minstrel band. It's so perfect that a man would pass it a hundred times and never look into It's just like half a hundred other show windows on this same block. It attracts no more attention than that lamppost on the corner, and for the same reason.

it.

"That lamppost is just like all the other lampposts in the city, but if that one were painted red instead of green it would attract your attention. and you would wonder every time you passed it why it was red. This is individuality.

"There is no place on earth where individuality can be displayed to a greater extent than in a small