The Equinox (Volume I, Number III)

THE BIG STICK Just as a dishonest commercial traveller will sometimes get a job by accept- ing a low salary, and look for profit to falsifying the accounts of “expenses,” so [Here; this will never do.—Ep.] We have had fine weather recently in Mesopotamia—— [I dare say; but I’m getting suspicious; stop right here—Ep.] All right; don’t be huffy; good- bye! S. HOLMEs. SECRET REMEDIES. British Medical Association, 429, Strand, W.C. 1s. Every person who has the welfare of the people at heart should buy this book for free distribution among the poor. The major portion of the Press (which lives corruptly on the advertisements of the scoundrels exposed in this book, knaves who sell ginger at the price of gold) has done its best to boycott the book. The public—the’ helpless, ignorant section of it—spends nigh 2} millions sterling every year on these quack nostrums. We must safeguard them. We must register all “patent” remedies, insist on the ingredients and their cost being printed clearly on each box, and appoint a committee with funds at its disposal from the Treasury to recompense adequately and generously anyone who really should discover a cure for human affliction. The Chancellor of the Exchequer need not worry about his third of a million yearly from the stamp duty. No country ever yet lost money by driving out its bloodsuckers, and saving its citizens from the penalties of ignorance. A.C. THE MAGNETIC Mirror. By Dr. CAROLUS REX. Is. This little work is very skilfully written; it is intended to induce members of the higher grades of the Universal Order of B... F.:. to pay “ Dr.” “Carolus” “Rex” sums of from Two to Twenty Guineas for “Magic Mirrors,” which we hope are worth as many pence. PROFESSOR JACOBUS IMPERATOR. Iv AA 345