say that the fares authorized will be such as to induce a large attendance.

The diverse route privileges authorized on California tourist tickets are such as to give your delegation an opportunity of going one route and returning another. For instance, going through Denver, Scienic Colorado and Utah, direct to Los Angeles via the San Pedro route and returning optional, either via San Francisco through Utah and Colorado or via San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and the Canadian Rockies via St. Paul, or via San Francisco returning again through Los Angeles and the Grand Canyon of Arizona. For those desiring to take in Yellowstone Park at the time of your meeting, tickets may be so routed as to bring them back via Livingston, Mont., or Yellowstone, Mont., for the side trip through the Park.

At a later date when the rates are settled, I will be very glad to quote you further details regarding your special train arrangements and will issue the necessary itineraries or any other printed matter to circularize among the members of your association, advising them in detail conditions of rates, diverse routes, etc."

There comes to our mind the question whether the Profession would prefer to remain in Denver so that an excursion can be made to the Moffatt Road. If so, now is the time to acquaint the Committee with your views.

Does this schedule meet with the approval of the Eastern members? If not, now is the time to make your views known.

You see we want to go on a special train, and are anxious that you shall enjoy the entertainment on the way out that is being arranged for by the Profession of the various cities and the Committee. Does the date of leaving please you-or would a day later, or a day earlier be better? Remember the committee wants to please all, and are anxious that all go together.

T. E. COSTAIN,

Secretary of the Transportation Committee.

The fair young debutante was surrounded by an admiring crowd of officers at the colonel's ball. Mamma was standing near by, smiling complacently at her daughter's social success. The discussion was over the quarrel of the day before between two brother officers. "What was the casus belli?" asked the fair debutante. "Maud!" exclaimed mamma, in a shocked voice. "How often have I told you to say stomach?"

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GENIUS AND INSANITY.

The extreme views of Lombroso and others, who assert that genius is a form of mental disorder, are not altogether novel, for even the poets have held that "great wits are sure to madness near allied;" yet the truth would appear to be represented by a somewhat more moderate statement. In Dr. Joseph Grasset's book on "The SemiInsane and the Semi-Responsible," the author has made an effort, among other things, to complete and to verify what he considers the somewhat questionable statements of Lombroso by those of other authors. After due deliberation he concludes that intellectual superiors frequently possess psychic defects which are sometimes very marked. Such individuals may often have a high social value, and the writer believes that their intellect and their nervous affection are connected, though not as cause and effect. He goes on:

"This is the question. What are the relations which unite this intellectual superiority and a psychoneurosis which is so often found together in the same individual? The most distinguished among those who have studied this question have come to the conclusion that the intellectual superiority is a consequence, an effect, a symptom of the neurosis, and they have finally come to identify genius and insanity in their essence.

"Diderot (cited by Lombroso) had already said 'How near genius lies to insanity! Those whom Heaven has marked for either good or ill are subject more or less to these symptoms. They have them more or less frequently, more or less violently. They are shut up or put in chains, or else they have statues erected to their memory.' Moreau de Tours was the first scientifically to formulate this famous doctrine. 'Genius, that is to say, the highest expression, the ne plus ultra, of intellectual activity, is a neurosis! Why not? We may easily accept this definition.'

"Lombroso has gone much farther than this and has not only taught that genius is a neurosis, but, according to him, genius is a

special neurosis. It is epilepsy. After all this,' says he, 'we can, without fear, state that genius is a true degenerative psychosis, belonging to the group of moral insanities which may temporarily spring from other psychoses and take their form, but always conserving certain special characteristics which distinguish it from the others'; and, again, 'Genius creation is a form of degenerative psychosis belonging to the family of the epilepsies.'

"Thus, as Regnard has said, they have lumped the criminals to the great men. The hypothesis of Lombroso has been energetically combated in various quarters and can not be scientifically

upheld at the present time.

Intellectual superiority does not interfere with normal intellectual activity; on the contrary, it exalts it; therefore it is not morbid. Another thing that proves that intellectual superiority is not a consequence or a symptom of a neurosis is that many people may, for example, have a neurosis like that of Pascal without having his genius, exactly as they might have a nose like Cyrano's without having his wit, or might be pock-marked like Mirabeau or Danton without having their eloquence.

"The hypothesis of Moreau de Tours is therefore no more tenable than that of Lombroso.

"Another hypothesis, would maintain an inverse relationship between intellectual superiority and neurosis, i. e., the neurosis is the consequence of the superiority; and, in fact, intelectual overwork, the strenuous life, and the desire to know for oneself every sensation in life, certainly drain the nervous system of superiors, and may, in many cases, aid powerfully in the development of the neurosis.

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"But the neuroses developed in youth, or even in infancy, the hereditary neuropathic defects observed in the superior, as well as in his ascendants, his descendants, and his collaterals, can not be explained in this manner. In the same way when Baudelaire would take to drink in order to allay the terror which his hallucinations caused him, one could not attribute these hallucinations to alcohol One can not therefore formulate in a general law the relationship which would make a neurosis derived from intellectual superiority.

THE COST OF PREVENTABLE SICKNESS.

The

According to the experts, New York has sustained an economic loss of $71,100,000 in four years due to preventable sickness. figures are startling, but believable.

One of the encouraging signs of the day is the new attention

being devoted to the problem of keeping people well. It may seem rather inhuman to estimate one's worth in dollars and cents, yet the method is convenient for certain purposes. Economically a vigorous, healthy man is worth more than his sickly brother. A community of ailing people cannot compete with one composed of men and women in possession of all their mental and physical faculties.

It is to one's advantage to keep his economic value as high as possible; it is no less advantageous to his community. If, as is well established, a well man is better than a sick one, then people individually and collectively will find it worth their time and trouble to keep themselves always at the point of highest physical efficiency.

So students of municipal progress and improvement turn their attention to the problem of cutting down preventable sickness. They show the penalty a community invites by neglecting its tenement districts, by allowing unnecessary crowding, by permitting unsanitary and immoral conditions to continue-and they express the inevitable penalty in dollars and cents. Some day cities will come to appreciate more fully that health means economic gain. They will promote health-are doing so, in many notable instances with the same intelligence that they now devote to the development of purely coinmercial and industrial projects.

O where is my wandering ma tonight?

O where can my mother be?

She hied her forth to the Suffrage fight
And hasn't come home to tea.

The range is cold on the kitchen trail.
The cupboard is bleak and bare,
For mother has gone to the county jail
For pulling the Speaker's hair!

O where is my wandering ma tonight?
My mother, oh where is she?

She dwells in the "box,"

While father's socks

Are holy as they can be!

"Are you my nearest relative?"
Said Johnny to his ma.
"Yes, dear," she smilingly replied;

And the closest is your pa."

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Current News.

DR. LESTER E. SIEMON of Cleveland, spent his vacation at Put-in-Bay, O. NEW COMERSTOWN, OHIO, is said to be a good location for a homeopath. DR. S. A. STACY, formerly of Coshocton, O., is now located in Eugene, Ore. Dr. George W. Quay, Rose Bldg., Cleveland, can recommend an excellent location in Northern Ohio and will gladly answer any letters of inquiry.

DR. A. M. ANDERSON, C. H. M. C., '02, of Lakewood, has a new Winton touring car and spent his vacation in Pennsylvania.

DR. EDWARD CRECELIUS, of Norwalk, has been so successful that he has bought a fine home and is also erecting a row of dwelling houses.

PROF. JAMES C. WOOD and family cruised the Great Lakes during August on the steamer Northwest.

DR. A. E. BIDDINGER, of Cleveland, went with the Cleveland Naval Reserves on their annual cruise up the lakes.

DR. RUSSEL JEWITT has become associated in practice with his father Dr. E. H. Jewitt, of Cleveland.

BRIMFIELD, PORTAGE COUNTY, OHIO, a town of 400 inhabitants situated in a prosperous farming community is in need of a doctor.

DR. C. R. LUTON, class of '95, C. H. M. C., visited the college in August. Dr. Luton is now located at Los Angeles, Cal.

DR. J. H. STEPHENS, of Cleveland, toured through the New England states during August.

DR. AND MRS. WILLIAM H. PHILLIPS, of Cleveland, spent part of their vacation sailing up the Great Lakes.

DR. FRANK W. GOODELL, a prominent physician of Effingham, Ill., visited the homeopathic institutions of Cleveland during August.

DR. D. H. BECKWITH delivered a stirring address at the September meeting of the Old Settler's Association.

THOSE COUNTY SOCIETIES of the South which have meetings despite the hot weather are one and all discussing pellagra.

Two COLUMBUS, O., PHYSICIANS, Drs. Tarbell and Gilliam, are active candidates for the superintendency of the State Hospital for the Insane.

DR. PAULINE BARTON-PEEKE, of Cleveland, has returned from an extended visit to the East.

THE TRANSACTIONS of the Ohio State Society meeting edited by Dr. R. O. Keiser of Columbus, has made its appearance. It is well edited by the able and energetic secretary.

DR. H. R. LOOMIS of Cleveland, is about to open a new private hospital with accommodations for thirty patients. Dr. Denver Patterson, of Collinwood, is associated with Dr. Loomis in this new enterprise.

DR. HOWARD HERMAN, class '97, C. H. M. C., now of Dayton, O., visited Cleveland in August. Dr. Herman and a party of friends went through Ohio

in his touring car.

AN EPIDEMIC of scarlet fever has been prevalent in Milwaukee this year, as is shown by a record of eighty-one deaths from the disease during the first six months of 1909 as compared to eight deaths for the same period in 1908.

ACCORDING TO REPORTS from California a new immense supply of pitchblend, said to be enough to supply the world with radium for all time, has been discovered on the McCloud River, north of Kennetta, Cal.

THE COLUMBUS HEALTH BOARD has directed the health officer to conduct an examination of the water in the 2,700 driven wells in the city. These have been blamed for causing most of the typhoid fever cases prevalent there.

THE NATIONAL RED CROSS SOCIETY is planning to increase its membership from 20,000 to 100,000. In a letter recently published President Taft heartily endorsed the proposed increase in the society.

THE OHIO VALLEY HOMEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY will meet at Wheeling, W. Va., October 5, 1909. Dr. A. A. Roberts of Wellsburg, W. Va., is president and Dr. H. L. Wells, Cambridge, O., is secretary.