who live in boarding houses, etc. Their small salary barely allows them to exist and does not allow them any luxuries whatever. They go to their rooms, in many cases small and dingy, and are lonely. They long for some sort of amusement, so the theatres are visited to relieve the strain of loneli

ness.

The desire to become acquainted sometimes makes them over-anxious, and the selection of friends is unwisely made, which in many ways lead on to an immoral life. They return from work tired and lonely, do not care to read or study, and this feeling is more than a match for the average person and soon leads on to a life of sin.

Some people rightly hate a flirt or masher, and not without reason, but those who have ever been "lost in a big city" will tell you how hard it is to keep from flirting now and then.

Some years ago I met a young lady in this manner, and found her to be a very refined and absolutely moral person. We have been friends for years, very good friends, and both of us have been glad more than once that we flirted on that occasion.

A great many marriages to-day are unhappy because girls or boys fall in love with the first pretty face that comes along, while if they numbered many more good friends the chances for a more suitable match would be greater. More young men would become benedicts sooner if it were not for the great many unhappy marriages we hear about. The salaries nowadays are also so small that they do not permit of the average young fellow supporting the girl of his choice in the proper way-hence he remains single.

A certain friend of mine holds a responsible position in a large concern in Chicago. He has been sick for a few days, in fact goes home sick from the office, so that there is no possible doubt of his sickness, and from his very meager salary this time is deducted. His whole salary does not permit him to enjoy many things, so how can he pay doctor bills and exist on only a

part of his salary? This same firm has a member who is a prominent churchman in one of the large movements here. A large sign appears at the entrance to their place of business telling about the meetings. How much better would it be to have "Christianity in his Business," than to make such a bluff.

The average Christian movement today reminds me of trying to cure tuberculosis with a skin salve. We jump at the places where the trouble appears, but do not get down and pull out the roots of the evil.

If you can tell me how to meet the right kind of people without the expenditure of considerable money, and how the average clerk can do the same, it will prove of much benefit to us all. Churches should start a movement for the unacquainted people, and thus stop the loneliness and breeding of sin in our large cities.

The above letter was received with no more address than we give here, hence it was impossible for me to reply to the writer direct, and I take this means of answering him-believing while I am answering him I shall be answering many others in like predica

ment.

It is a very common complaint with young people in a large city-feeling lonely and finding no way to secure friendship. The churches are trying in every way to bring about this friendship and a great many lodges and ethical societies are trying the same thing. I am sure in the great City of Chicago, at least one hundred different managements are anxiously looking for just such men as is described in the above

letter. I do not think it would be at all difficult to find ordinary companionship, at least if one went about it in the right way.

I think the trouble is probably with the one who seeks. If I started out in the world seeking something for myself without any thought of ministering to others, I should never find happiness, friends or satisfaction of any kind. The world is so made that

we can only find any real good for ourselves by trying to serve others.

If this young man would say to himself every day, How can I render service to others? How snall I be able to bring cheer and friendship to some lonely, disconsolate person?-instead of searching for a friend, search for some friendless one and in a perfectly frank and natural way seek to become a friend, that is the way he would find friends for himself.

This is a very simple remedy, and yet it is a remedy that a large multitude of people are needing. A great many young men and women have made their mistake by desiring friends for themselves, rather than to be friendly to others. They expect some one to come to them and offer them friendship. If they go to church they think some one else ought to take the

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initiative to urge friendship upon them. Such people are destined to travel the path of life alone.

Just how it will come about no one can say beforehand, but to go out into the world with a feeling of friendship toward everybody and an earnest desire to become helpful and friendly to others, will sooner or later lead to the formation of friendships that are worth having.

Do not seek persons you imagine are above you. Do not hesitate to be friendly to those you imagine are below you. Some very uncouth, illiterate people are the best people in the world. The best people to know. The best people to become permanently attached to. Quit trying to get something. Try to give something. This is the way to find friends, and the only way.

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which the lens become opaque and generally whitish. I do not call to mind any case of Cataract that was cured without the use

of the knife until recently. It is considered to belong to that part of professional work exclusively assigned to the skilled eye surgeon.

I know of no physician that pretends to cure the disease without cutting. This consists of laying the eye open and removing the diseased lens. It certainly is a very delicate operation, but it is one which is often successful. However, patients always dread the knife, and I have known persons who continued blind rather than risk the surgeon. I suppose no one,

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The Globe Democrat of January 31st has an article claiming for a doctor in St. Louis, the rightful credit and praise of discovering an operation which promises a revolution in surgery as applied to the kidneys. method was discovered by which the kidneys can be directly subjected to anesthetics. The paper states that the physician who made the discovery may in time disclose his name through the medical journals, but for the present, owing to the demands of strict medical ethics, he remains unidentified.

But it seems that medical ethics is a very peculiar kind of thing that denies to the world the earliest notice of a discovery so important and valuable, and so praiseworthy as the name of its author. I believe if a physician has made a discovery in the cure of disease, advancing and elevating the standard of his profession, he certainly deserves the credit of it, and of the admiration of his co-workers, and of the people as well, at the earliest time possible.

It is the men of the medical profession who are thinkers and indefatigable workers that make discoveries and that have raised the calling of physicians to great usefulness and honor. Their names, therefore, should be known and sung around the world, for they give inspiration and a saving influence to all that come after them, and a lasting inheritance to mankind.

But while the gospel of medical industry and skill is entering the territory hitherto unoccupied and spreading all abroad and checking the sufferings of humanity everywhere, there is another view to take of this subject, for the special encouragement of the

of indomitable ambition and achievement. A discovery as the invention of the discoverer, is a property right which under our laws may be secured to the owner or inventor's exclusive use, and becoming a property or financial value, it naturally and legally belongs to its originator or cre

ator.

It follows, therefore, that when a doctor discovers something new, not before known, that it would not be opposed to sound ethics to refuse to make known to others the information that may enable him to obtain influence, and, perhaps, wealth. Therefore, should any physician come to my office suffering of Cataract blindness, I will cure him as a patient for the fee, and if desired, I think it would be strictly ethical to show him how the cure is made for a stipulated amount of the glittering shekels. This I will do when the opportunity offers..

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Preparatory Treatment for Childbirth. By ELI G. JONES, M. D., Burlington, N. J. UST a few words to the mother and to those who expect to be mothers. Childbirth is a natural process of Nature, and in nine cases out of ten Dame Nature will do the work, but the doctors often "butt in" and thus we have instruments used, chloroform and ergot, that has, by its causing powerful contractions of the womb in labor, caused the death of thousands of babies in our country.

Every time the instruments

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ceps) are used at childbirth, there is either laceration of the perineum or some other female trouble engendered, so that you not only have to pay the doctor for the use of the instruments,

but later on for the treatment of the laceration, or some other female disease. The use of the forceps makes business for the doctor for some time after confinement.

The use of chloroform during labor is also followed by ailments of different kinds and of course adds to a doctor's income.

At the medical colleges much time is spent teaching students operative midwifery, but no time is taken to tell them how to prepare a woman for her "hour of trial."

The Indian women never have a doctor in confinement. They know how to take care of themselves. Some time before confinement they drink freely of a tea of squaw vine or partridge berry (mitchella repens). It makes their childbirth quick and much easier than without it.

The Eclectic school of medicine has used the partridge berry for this purpose for seventy-five years. In my own practice about two months before the expected confinement I have the pregnant woman take the following mixture: Fluid extract partridge berry, four ounces; fluid extract black cohosh, four drachms; syrup of sarsaparilla, enough to make an eight-ounce mixture. Mix. Dose, one teaspoonful before each meal and at bedtime. Great

care should be taken to get only reliable fluid extracts of the above plants. Parke-Davis, Detroit, are the best.

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In my forty years' practice, and attending over three hundred confinements, I have never had a of flooding, laceration, convulsions, or lost a woman either in labor or after. Much of my success I attribute to the use of the above mixture before confinement. When this remedy is used women seldom have any kidney trouble, cramps in the abdomen and legs, flooding, lacerations or convulsions, and my experience has been that the labor is shorter and less painful than without it. It will indeed prove a great blessing to our ladies in America when they use this simple remedy, and when they can prepare themselves for their hour of trial.

Some women at such times crave certain kinds of food, and they should have it. Nature knows her business and when she makes a demand supply it. Women often want to eat chalk. It is because they need the lime in the chalk. They often have the toothache, because there is a deficiency of lime in the system; the child needs the lime, also the mother. It is a good plan to have a piece of chalk near at hand and nibble a little of it several times a day. It will help to make your child healthy and have less trouble at "teething.” If you don't care for the chalk get some phosphate of lime from the druggist, take about enough to cover a three times a day.

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A month before the confinement bathe the whole abdomen every night with warm sweet oil, with one drachm of tincture of arnica to the ounce of sweet oil. It is relaxing and it will help soreness and pain in abdomen. Make an ointment of a yolk of an egg and glycerine, equal parts, to apply to the nipples, to harden them, every night during the last two weeks of pregnancy.

When you feel the pains of the labor beginning, take an injection of warm water in the rectum to clear out the contents. Do this before the doc

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tor comes. You may have a young doctor or one who makes a practice of using instruments. But do not forget that childbirth is a natural process and that in nine cases out of ten Dame Nature will do the work if the meddlesome doctors don't "butt in."

In all the years of my professional career, I have never owned a pair of obstetric forceps. I never use instruments in such cases, and two of my teachers on midwifery never used them in their thirty years' practice. I never give ergot during labor, it is too powerful. I use tincture of black cohosh, twenty drops, in a glass of water, a teaspoonful once in half an hour. It is a safe remedy, for it produces natural pains, and there is no flooding after the childbirth.

I don't take any confinement cases now, but often ladies come to me to get my "preparatory remedy" to know its value.

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A Splendid Code.

R. JAMES ZEDIKER, of North
Yakima, Washington, says:

"In my practice I am in constant competition with Osteopaths, twenty-five or thirty drug doctors, with magnetic healers, chiropractitioners, Christian Scientists and other kinds of healers.

"I like the competition. I have no desire to have any of the competitors legislated out of business. I am fully capable of holding my own against any or all of them. If any man or woman can do better work than I do, such person should have the business, and I would oppose any law that would interfere with them and favor

me.

"I say, let the intelligent people be the judge as to whom they wish to employ. It is their money that pays the bills. I say it is a direct insult to a free American citizen of average intelligence to put a monitor over him, to tell him what doctor he shall employ.

"On the other hand, I say if the drug doctors who have had all the ad

"I do not believe the Legislature ought to pass any law that would stifle advancement, throttle investigation, create a monopoly, shut out competition, raise the prices the laboring masses have to pay, and compel the citizens to hire a certain class of men to do a certain class of work against their wishes and will. Give every doctor, drug or drugless, a square deal. Treat them alike."

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KIN diseases, or rather those constitutional miasms which manifest themselves in eruptions through the skin, have been the cause of much suffering in the human family; not so much from the eruptions themselves as from the effects of suppression of these vent points of internal disease. There are no diseases having their rise in the skin, except those coming from injuries, such as bruises, punctures, burns, contact with acid poisons, etc. The eruptions which appear upon the skin are only symptoms of internal disease. The skin is an organ of elimination, and throws off a vast amount of effete matter. Naturally, therefore, if there is anything blocking the free action of any internal organ and interfering with its functions, the tendency is to throw it to the surface, hence the appearance of eruptions, fungous formations and discolorations of the skin.

If this process of elimination is interfered with, as it generally is, then the effete matter-this poisonous product of an internal disease—is thrown back into the system and must seek another route. Be it remembered that Nature always strives to preserve life and to keep the body in as good repair as possible, and every eliminative process is carried on by the best method and through the best route for the general bodily welfare. If one route and process is interfered with, the next

best is chosen. But you will note that each change must be for the worse.

The human family is possessed of a great pride in appearances, and this has occasioned many a downfall. An eruption on the face, or where it will be seen by all, is something which must be taken care of at once on account of its unsightliness. So lotions, washes and cosmetics are used with the effect that the natural vent of some internal disorder is stopped up. The effect must be disastrous. If the sewer outlet of a great city was dammed up, the physical effect would be about the same. The system is called upon to find another outlet, and this may be also objectionable and subject to suppressive measures. The final wind-up is a funeral, or the appearance of a cancer or suppurative process which defies all drugs and operations.

If a person sick with measles, scarlatina, smallpox, general erysipelas, or any disease where the entire skin is involved, should object to the unsightly eruptions, and request the use of lotions, washes, or other methods of suppression, the physician and all acquainted with these diseases, would veto the proposition most positively. Why? Because they know that the suppression of the eruption in such cases is fatal, and at once. But where the eruption is not so extensive, and the suppression is not immediately fatal, all connection between cause and effect is lost, and the logical deduction of such action is not made. The result