People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1897 — South Carolina's dispensary. [ARTICLE]

South Carolina's dispensary.

South Carolina’s ili:; lsary law has been in operation fer ilyears, and in that time it has earner but SIOO,OOO. The Columbia State pr us out (hat this is just capital enough > run the business and is not availa* > to the stockholders—the people. TV will get nono of the earnings of tin' < ispousary until it goes into liquidation .ml its asserts are divided. It won'Jd t appear from this that dispensary nh ’: is a very desirable investment.—t,, rlotte (N. C.) Observer. Monotone A well known physic n once told tv patient, who lie suspect was receiving too many calls from ho i itous friends, to make a stroke with a ] noil on a piece of paper every time hew..... asked, “How are you today?” The result for one dly was just 24 strokes, and the physici.. . immediately gave strict orders that u< visitor should be permitted to enter the sickroom until further notice, remarking to the nurse that if his patient must bo worried to death there was at least no reason why it should be done in such an unscientific manner. Only those who have suffered serious illness know how trying it is to bo required to answer again and again tlio same question, asked by one well meaning individual after another. It would matter less if visitors contented themselves with asking just the one question, but they do not, and the minute details of one’s ailments become peculiarly depressing after a few repetitions. Many people forget that rest and quiet ore often invaluable agents in securing restoration to health. —Philadelphia Ledger.