The following editorial, clipped from one of the local papers, is good reading and contains excellent advice to "some" doctors:

"A good many girls, launched into society and questing husbands, and a good many young men, building up a practice or a business, believe that they help themselves by taking and giving many confidences and by getting as close as possible to persons whom they meet.

But the girl who opens her soul to every man finds in time that men flee before her. A girl must be exclusive if she would be highly appreciated.

The value of confidences, like the value of wheat and potatoes, is regulated by the supply.

Neither will people employ doctors or lawyers whom they know intimately. It is better for a lawyer or a doctor to know a great many people slightly than to be entitled to call all the young women by their first names and to invite himself to family meals.

It cheapens one's confidences to make them too common. There are men and women who expose their minds to everyone with whom they are on terms of familiarity. The whole world knows the private business, the secret thoughts and emotions, the domestic trials and troubles, the follies and sins of such persons. And such persons, while they have many intimates, have few real friends. It is better to have few intimates and many friends.

The excellent quality of reticence is almost an essential element of success. More people have hurt themselves by telling too much than too little.

From practical as well as sentimental standpoints it is prudent to keep most people at a distance and to become familiar with only a few.

Nature seems to have so planned that one chum, or one sweetheart, or one wife, is sufficient to one's needs of soul-close companionship."

Location and Practice for Sale.

Established Homeopathic practice, $2,000 a year, in best town in Indiana of its size, 16.000 population, office fixtures and drugs, for sale or with residence, price of good-will, $250 worth of office fixtures, $500; or with residence, $3,500. It is an excellent opportunity. Enquire Box 114, Kokomo, Ind.

A story is told in the Omaha Mercury of a Pennsylvania farmer who wore his old suit until everyone was tired of it, and his estimable wife was almost ashamed of the hustling man who had

been inside of it so long. But one day he went down to town to sell his produce, and while there he determined to buy a new suit and, happy thought, surprise Eliza. So he bundled a neat suit into the wagon and drove homeward. It was after night as he hurried homeward, and at a bridge over a river he stood up on the wagon and "peeled" and threw the despised old suit in the water. Then he reached for his new clothes. They were gone-had jolted out of the wagon. The night was cold and his teeth chattered as he hurried home. He surprised Eliza even more than he anticipated.

Everybody Ought to Know Something

About Cambridge Springs.

Passengers by the Erie Railroad will find it for their interest in many ways, to stop at Cambridge Springs, midway between New York and Chicago-long enough, at least, to get acquainted with the place-its waters, its hotels and its society.

A thousand feet higher in altitude than Saratoga, cooler in summer and warmer in winter, its waters are safe, pleasant, and, in many complaints, distinctly and immediately beneficial. They have been known for more than forty years, and the good results from their use in rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, malarial fever, influenza, nervous prostration, bladder and kidney troubles, nonassimilation of food, and many other forms of indigestion, are beyond all question.

Taken in the particularly restful, and at the same time invigorating atmosphere peculiar to the Pennsylvania hills, they certainly work a natural, and therefore a lasting cure, in thousands of cases. Almost as many persons, however, go to Cambridge Springs purely for recreation as go there for the benefit of their

health. The Half Million Dollar Hotel 'Rider is in itself a magnet that attracts many who find nowhere else just the environment of convenience, comfort, courtesy and good living superadded to the bracing air, lovely prospects, woodland rambles, and opportunities for golf, etc., unlimited and unrivalled, that they find here; or society anywhere more agreeable or refined. The Hotel Riverside enjoys an equally loyal and enthusiastic patronage, and there are half a dozen other hotels accommodating from 50 to 150 each, in all of which the rates are reasonable and the service good. It is, indeed, a matter of general remark, that in spite of all that is furnished, the wave of high prices has not yet reached Cambridge Springs.

The hotels are open all the year, each season having attractions of its own. Stop-over privileges will be extended on notice to conductor and deposit of ticket with station ticket agent immediately on arrival. An Illustrated Booklet in Relation to Cambridge Springs can be had of any Erie ticket agent, or by writing to D. W. Cooke, General Passenger Agent, New York.

Points Picked Up and Quoted. A homeopathic dose is not always a sugar pill.

It is a wise doctor who always remembers his own diagnosis.

A dollar in the doctor's hand is oftentimes worth five in the patient's pocket.

Prompt calls make grateful patients, but sometimes the visit is not very remunerative.

"Pride goeth before a fall" and a wise man keeps away from the front end of an automobile.

Ballooning is not yet a common mode of travel, but many people still build castles in the air.

In spite of all the newly discovered cancer cures, the death rate from cancer continues to increase.

Digitalis when indicated in a given case is more effective if administered in the form of an infusion.

"The proof of the pudding is in the eating" and the real value of a medicine is known by the results its accomplishes.

Spigelia is a wonderful remedy for the relief of "neuralgic" pain. It is also an efficient medicine in many cases of endocarditis.

A two minute consultation, a one minute prescription and a five dollar feeA short life and a merry one for both physician and patient.

many German towns they are unknown. This immunity is not attributable solely to the comparative rarity of drunkenness among French and German women; it is also explained by the far more prevalent use of children's cradles in those countries than in England.

Blood Impoverishment.

Iron is the first thought when a condition of anæmia has to be treated; but, viewed from the standpoint of nowaccepted scientific facts, is not this looking at but one phase of the question? That there is a deficiency of iron in the blood in most forms of anæmia, is, of course, indisputable; and to endeavor to

But if it's in "deposit" must, go, draw and spend it, else he'll bust.

The patient may explain the cause of his malady, and it is well for the physician to attentively listen, even though his own idea may radically differ from the story related.

And now comes a German Professor who is said to advocate raising the depressions in the skull of the new born infant with a corkscrew. Are there no more wine bottles that need opening?

The smothering of infants while asleep is discussed by Dr. W. Wynn Westcott, who says that during the last ten years no fewer than 15.000 infants have thus been killed by suffocation in England and Wales, and that the yearly average of such deaths in London is 600, and in Liverpool 150. He further states his impression that a considerable number of cases which ought to be classed in the same category escape detection under the euphemism of "convulsions." He says He says that deaths from overlying are exceptional on the continent, and that in

iron seems but a common-sense proced

ure.

This practice would be sufficient, if anæmia were in reality nothing more than a condition of iron-deficiency; but modern physicians know that the real underlying causative factor is a disturbance of the complicated processes of nutrition and metabolism, and that ironpoverty is but one manifestation of this disorder. Sufficient proof of this fact has been presented to every physician, when he has observed how anæmic conditions persist in spite of the long-continued administration of iron. In these cases, many, many times it has been necessary to fall back on Fellows' Hypophosphites to achieve the desired therapeutic results; not because it contains iron, but by reason of the fact that it embodies what authorities claim is indispensable, i. e., the ability to awaken and stimulate the depressed nutritive and metabolic processes. It invigorates these processes, rekindles nervous force, revitalizes all functions, and thereby brings about a condition of systemic vigor of which blood-enrichment is necessarily a feature. The useful element, iron, is