morning after the battle, and not one of them would I have hired to do anything. They were even too lame to dig in the ditch; if I had wanted some one to carry a message to Ali Baba, I would have called in a gamin off the streets rather than trust one of those bruised-up, drowsy giants. And as for intellect, there was not a man among them who had mind enuf to match that of a ten-year-old girl.

Of course, I know that this condition of deadness would not last-they would get rested up, and doubtless in a few days be pretty good fellows and possibly fair students. But the point I make is this: football makes no man better; makes no man more useful; helps no man to do better work.

A man may be a pretty good fellow in spite of football, but no man is more of a man because he plays football.

And now the curious part is that all this deadly brutality is a product of our schools and colleges. Schools stand for culture; but, instead of producing culture, we get the strange paradox of an unmanly sport, that would have even made the ancient Romans stand aghast.

It makes one think of the remark of Ernest Renan, who said: "You can never find God in a theological seminary."

And here is an institution standing for culture which supplies us the very acme of the other thing.

Any institution that represents actual life would never tolerate football a moment, for it interferes with, and is a hindrance and a menace to life. If you want life, and life in abundance, you can never hope for it thru football. A great manufacturing company at South Bend has a habit of encouraging games and athletic sports among its workers. I met one of the managers of this great concern last week, and we spoke of this feature of physical culture.

Do you have a football team?" I askt.

He smiled and answered: "I hope not-our efforts in the line of athletics are with an eye to helping along our work. The man who plays football is good for nothing else."

"But football in moderation," I ventured.

Can you shoot a gun with moderation?" was the rejoinder.

Would a railroad manager encourage his brakemen, firemen and engineers to engage in football? Well, hardly! He would have to hire a new lot of men at once if he did. Those football players I saw at Lafayette hadn't energy enuf left after the game to safely climb the side of a box car.

The entire intent of football is violence; and that it may be scientific violence makes it no less brutal. No young man can play the game without being less of a man, and without taking on the instincts of a brute. There is a football face just as surely as there is a prize-fighter's face, and between them there is no choice. To push, shove, jostle and "tackle" become his habit of thought, his dream, and this desire of his life writes itself upon the countenance.

At Ann Arbor I saw the curious sight of the professor of oratory drilling a thousand students in a new yell. This yell was the invention and creation of the professor-he was very proud of it. It ran this way: Rickety, rickety, pickety, ran, gan, Mich-i-gan-Mich-igan, b-a-a-a-h-h!

This was practised over and over and over, so it could be used effectivly at the coming contest between the Michigans and Wisconsins. It was a note of defiance and derision to be bawled by a thousand lusty throats whenever Wisconsin happened to gain a little. If Michigan seemed to be getting ahead, there was another yell, but keyed differently, and expressing exultation.

These things were explained to me by the professor of oratory.

I congratulated him.

And now do you think that an institution that was a part and parcel of life, would tolerate either the game of football or the manners and etiquette of the game? Never!

A college is an imitation of life-a make-believe; a place where young folks are supposed to be getting ready to do something. Most colleges are endowed

bolstered-institutions; and so are not bound to be practical. Thus we have the spectacle of a professor of oratory lending himself to teaching a yell of derision, and for the time losing sight entirely of his real mission, which is supposed to be to help his students in becoming useful citizens.

Football and hazing spring from the same savage soil. Both are found only in educational institutions— neither has any direct relationship with true education. Both are fungi on the body pedagogic.

The practical world has no use for football. The game will have to go, and its passing will not be regreted by those who love books and ideas, and prize that mintage of mind which manifests itself in courtesy, kindness and a just appreciation of all that is beautiful, good and true.

Education should be physical, moral and mental. By discouraging football we do not wish to be understood to under-rate the importance of the physical side of education. Its importance is increasingly recognized. But proper physical education should be for symmetrical development and the preservation of normal and well-balanced health. Over-development for a brief season of supreme effort, physical training to be then largely or completely suspended, is a very improper kind of physical education. Efforts or contests that strain the powers to the utmost frequently cause permanent injury. Prize fighters and other professional athletes are not long-lived, as a rule. Physical training should be for health-while in college, and should be continued for the same purpose after leaving college. It should not be dull and uninteresting, like sawing wood; it should be done for pleasure rather than as a duty; it should be constant rather than intermittent; it should be attractiv and interesting, not brutalizing, and free from danger to life or limb. This kind of physical training is an important part of a rational education; it is of permanent value, and in no way an injury, either to the student or to the community. Every educational effort and process should be an up-lift to both individual and community.

Medical Services to the Masses.

Mr. R. Fulton Cutting, President of the Citizens' Union, of New York City, in an argument for the re-election of Mayor Low, says in part:

A deep impression has been made upon people of the East Side by the activities of the Health Department. Dr. Lederle has been diligent in excluding from the schools children afflicted with contagious diseases; and he has establisht a corps of trained nurses, who, when a child is excluded, go at once to the home and tell the parents how to treat the disease. These nurses go back to these homes every few days, and as a result the children return to school usually in a very short time. In the summer these nurses give free treatment to the sick infants of the tenements. Dr. Lederle has establisht a branch of the Health Department on the lower East Side, where poor people can get immediate treatment. He organized a summer corps of physicians to give special service to children suffering from peculiar summer complaints. He establisht a trachoma hospital, and last year 50,000 children

received free treatment there for this disease; treatment they never received under Tammany, and without which many of them were sure to go blind. These measures come into such intimate contact with the people, that they will certainly attract votes for an administration providing them.

[The Referendum League of Illinois, 1441 Monadnock Block, Chicago, is sending out "Little Educators; roc. for samples, and 25c. for 500 pages. Here is one :]

Majority Rule vs. Bribery.

One of the burning questions of the hour is: How shall majority rule be restored to the voters? In theory we have majority rule today thru our representativs; but in practise we are governed by aggressiv minorities, who co-operate more or less closely with party bosses. Bad laws and ordinances are constantly being passed, and much needed laws and ordinances as constantly fail of enactment; and the people seem helpless in either case. Under the present system the venal legislator may be so well rewarded by those who purchase his evil services that he does not care for re-election, and if he can escape the penitentiary, the public has no recourse but to elect a successor, who may be as corrupt as the first one. In this respect the public cannot even "lock the stable door after the horse is stolen."

The fault lies not so much with individual members of our law-making bodies as it does with our present system of legislativ control. The tap-root of all our present trouble and disgrace lies manifestly in the irresponsible power of the law-makers. This power has a tendency to corrupt our representativs. Their votes are now too valuable for their own moral safety.

HOW THEY ARE TEMPTED.

Hon. William Flinn, for twelve years a member of the senate of Pennsylvania, recently said: "It is not strange that the average legislator, earning a salary of $100 per month, or less, would be tempted to be dishonest when he is confronted with a bribe of $20,000 for a single vote." If, under present conditions, bribes like this have been given, or may in the future be given, is it not the part of wisdom so to change matters that no bribe will be offered?

How can this be done? The answer is, remove from the law-makers the final power to enact laws. Do this by restoring that power to the people, and then no bribery will be attempted. No man will pay for goods that cannot be delivered. Give the people an optional veto upon all legislation, and you have solved the vext problem now under consideration. Direct legislation thru the method of the initiativ and referendum will do for any of our states what it has done for so many years in Switzerland, and for a shorter period in South Dakota.

In Switzerland the people originally held town meetings, which, when the population grew too great for convenient assembling for law-making purposes, were abandoned for the representativ system. After a time that system grew corrupt, because of the evils of government by the few; bribery and partisanship being exceedingly prevalent. The condition of Switzerland then was the same as prevails in the United States today. The referendum was then adopted, restoring to the Swiss people the veto power; and at once there was an improvement for the better. The members of their parliament now occupy the high position of counselors and advisers to the people. Hon. N. Droz, ex-president of Switzerland, says:

Under the influence of the referendum a profound change has come over the spirit of parliament and people. The net result has been a great tranquillizing of public life.

Prof. Frank Parsons, of Boston, who recently visited Switzerland and converst freely with all classes, says: I did not find one man who wishes to go back to the old plan of final legislation by elected delegates without chance of appeal to the people.

Gov. C. N. Herried, of South Dakota, says: Formerly our time was occupied by speculativ schemes of one kind or another, but since the referendum has been a part of the constitution, these people do not press their schemes on the legislature, and hence there is no need of recourse to the referendum.

ple will be mailed free on application to the Editor at Lima, Ohio.

"Our experience gives us this belief:-Quinia for malaria, mercury for syphilis, the various antitoxins for their antagonist, are as true specifics as at present known, but if fever long continued causes death, the removal of this symptom is essentially specific; and, therefore, in the category of these remedies thermol should be placed, it being entirely devoid of dangerous effects."-Abstract from the Pediatrics.

"After the removal of Alcohol, Celerina, given in doses of from one-half to one ounce every four hours, is speedily followed by the most characteristic symptoms of improvement."

I have tested Neurilla in two cases, my own being one of the two, and find it all that you claim for it. In my own case, I felt the effect of the second dose. I am sixty years of age, have practised medicin half of my life, and my practise has been largely in nervous cases. I have used almost everything that has been recommended for neurasthenia, and can say that Neurilla excels all others, and gives more satisfactory results. I shall continue to prescribe it in cases where it is indicated.-D. L. Wood, M.D., 1515 Adams street, Toledo, Ohio.

You can order your surgical instruments by mail just as well as not; indeed, this method will often save your time. On page 5 you will find the advertisement of Geo. C. Frye; it contains a long list of various standard instruments, with prices that you will find attractiv. Is there not something you want in this line?

It is a fact that that very old and very well known disease-Gonorrhea-gives a great deal of trouble to the physician as well as to the patient. Some have even gone so far as to say that it is never entirely cured; and the great number of various treatments that have been proposed for it from time to time, show that the treatment of it has not heretofore been satisfactory. It behoves the "live" physician to watch new treatments for this disease, for surely he will find it much to his advantage to gain better results in this particular direction than his neighboring physicians obtain. A new treatment is presented to our readers this month on page 33-Gonoseptone. Send for a sample bottle.

A girl went into the shop of a Brisbane chemist and wanted a toothbrush, and “would he please give her a good hard one, as there were six in the family?"— Chemist and Druggist.

"Passiflora-Daniel's Conc. Tr. Passiflora Incarnata should be prescribed for nervous complaints, including headache from alcoholic excess, fits, hysteria, epilepsy, and insomnia. As a cure for impotency it is claimed it has no equal. Its quieting influence is made quickly apparent in cases of convulsion, causing immediate relaxation, and preventing a recurrence. This remedy is also highly recommended in all menstrual disorders, especially dysmenorrhea and all uterin disorders."

"In chronic Bright's disease, Anasarcin is the remedy of all others, and when I say this, I am only adding my testimony to the rapidly accumulating mass of evidence from physicians elsewhere."-E. L. Drake, M.D.

Have you tried Naphey's Uterin Wafers? A very convenient form of medication.

Kentucky is the acknowledged home of whiskey; then why not get the genuin Kentucky whiskey when

buying? See the offer Mr. S. N. Jones is making on page 9.

Turn to page 22 and see Sharp & Dohme's musical looking advertisement. Neurasthenia, Presenility, Convalscence; these are three conditions that they recommend it for; in short, wherever you need to build tissue. This is only one of their line of elegant preparations, and they will send you a pint bottle free if you will pay the expressage. Write for their literature concerning their other preparations at the same time.

Have you a road cart for rough work? Or is your old road cart getting pretty well worn? Then you will be interested in the Geneseo-that "rides as easy as a buggy." See adv. on page 19.

Have you tried the Natural Body Brace yet? If not, why not try it in your next case needing pelvic support? Comfort for your patients means reputation and profit for yourself.

There are often cases in every physician's practise that cannot be properly treated except in a wellequipt sanitarium. See adv. of the Fairmount Home, on page 2.

What weed does a Chinese doctor remind you of? Yellow dock.

Cleanliness is all-important; and inside cleanliness is more important than outside cleanliness. Clean the alimentary tract, and keep it clean. No need of the excellent but disagreeable Epsom salts, for we now have that modern refinement-Abbott's Saline Laxativ. See adv. on page 23, and order some now.

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The busy physician should economize his time. should equip his office with such appliances as will permit him to care for each patient quickly and easily, without leaving the patient a moment, and with as little preparation as possible between patients. The Allison Tables and Cabinets are constructed to meet all requirements, and can save you much time if properly used. It is a good advertisement to have your office equipt in this modern manner, even though your practise may not actually need it. See adv. on page 22.

Years ago, the use of preparations of blood was new; it is new no longer, but now has its place among the old and well tried remedies. We do not know whether Bovinine was the first of these preparations or not, but it certainly was the first the writer ever heard of. And thruout all its years-regardless of the coming of competitors-it has easily held the meritorious place it created for itself. In the words of Josh Billings, "'Nuff sed." See adv. on page 31.

The physician certainly has a hard row to hoe; no one need envy him. And yet, his tasks are made easier from year to year. One of the ways in which his tasks are made easier for him is by improved instruments, and another is by improved preparations. Of these latter, a notable example is Pixine. See adv. and constituents on page 33.

Dr. O'Henly Snider, Atlanta, Ga., says: "I have proven Satyria's remarkable value in kidney and various urinary affections; one case especially of chronic nephritis being improved as no other medicin could do that I have tried."

Messrs. Micajah & Co. recommend their Medicated Uterin Wafers for the treatment of ulcerations of the uterus, basing their recommendation on the following: A careful analysis of the various special methods of therapeutic treatment used by successful gynecol(Continued over next leaf.)

During the past fifteen or twenty years various forms of pain, as neuralgia, headache, dysmenorrhea, sciatica, etc., and high temperature from various causes, have been controlled in an almost magical manner by a new class of remedies: the synthetic chemicals, or coal tar derivatives, chiefly of German manufacture. Antipyrin and acetanilid are prominent members of this class of preparations. But, as is well known, the magical relief from this class of remedies carries with it a grave danger: that of heart depression, with cyanosis and profuse sweating. Cases of sudden death from this cause have been many, but the greatest harm, which has become very wide-spread, is the insidious injury wrought by occasional doses of these remedies.

It was thought that European countries contained all the talent and scientific attainments for the production of remedial chemicals. But at last Yankee inventive genius has come to our aid, and the result is, a group of chemicals far more efficacious than the aniline products (sometimes called dye house chemicals), and what is still better, they are absolutely safe, being free from the depressing qualities of the foreign drugs.

The first preparation perfected; was one intended to cover the wide field involved by the two leading symptoms met in the practise of medicine, namely Pain and Fever. The mode of manufacturing it is very complicated, involving many chemical actions and reactions that cannot be entered into here; but those interested in this phase of the subject may obtain full details by writ ing us. In brief outline: We begin with carbolic acid, then add nitric acid, producing nitro-phenol; then ethylate it through the influence of bromide of ethyl; then it is reduced to the anide group, and afterwards condensed with the two acid radicals, acetic and salicylic acids, the product being a white, crystalline powder.

It is the therapeutic value of any medicine that the practical physician is interested in. Here is the strong point of this preparation, the object sought in its preparation being therapeutic efficiency combined with safety. This preparation is practically tasteless, and does not disturb the most delicate stomach. Its action is that of a sedative to the nerve centers, particularly the thermo-center, thus controlling heat at the point of physiological control. It assists elimination by way of the kidneys and the sweat glands, by means of gentle relaxation of those parts. At the same time it is antiseptic, inhibiting bacterial growth wherever it goes in the system. The combined result of all these actions is the elimination of fever and pain. Thus sleep is invited, delightful rest is obtained, and Nature returns to her task of repair and rejuvenation.

and approved by the medical profession in all parts of the country. The above mentioned claims have been more than fulfilled. Wherever known, the demand for Thermol becomes steady and increases rapidly. Sales are rapidly increasing, both through the trade and direct with physicians, as many physicians seem to prefer to order direct from us, again and again, as our books amply show. The price to physicians is 85c. per ounce. In order to introduce Thermol to physicians not yet acquainted with

This remarkable preparation is called Thermol, and its therapeutic application is almost endless. As a temporary remedy, it gives speedy and safe relief, without depression, in headaches, neuralgias, sciatica, painful menstruation, and all painful conditions. As a leading feature in the treatment of serious and protracted cases, it is invaluable in typhoid fever, pneumonia, peritonitis, rheumatism, remittent fever, etc., etc., also in all menin. geal inflammations. It has been on the market now for about four years, and has been thoroughly tried, tested

it, we will send a high grade one-minute clinical thermometer (worth $1.00 or more) and a trial ounce of Thermol, either in powder or 5 gr. tablets-both the thermometer and the trial ounce of Thermol for $1.00. Literature free.

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ogists the world over, shows that they are but varied ways of accomplishing three necessary changes condition.

1. Equalize the circulation of the pelvis. 2. Stimulate absorption and excretion.

the genital canal as clean as possible.

The use of the hot water douche in connection with our Medicated Uterin Wafers seems to fulfil every requirement of the ideal method." See adv. on page 11.

A bright lad when askt by his teacher to name some of the most important canals in America, named the alimentary canal as first in importance.-Kansas City Medical Record.

Do not torture your patients with old-fashioned methods in treating spinal curvatures, but turn to page II and see the description of the light and elegant spinal apparatus made by the Philo Burt M'f'g. Co.

The following statement by the makers of Ergoapiol will meet with the high approval of all discriminating physicians:

"Ergoapiol (Smith) is a purely pharmaceutical preparation, the manufacture of which is governed by all the rules relating to ethical preparations. It is a true medicinal preparation of the physician, and at no time is to be compared with nostrums seeking its field of clinical medicin." See adv. on page 30.

Do you not often want to recommend a pleasant and efficient laxativ that can be kept on hand for occasional family use, and which will be readily taken by the children? See adv. of Syrup of Figs, on page 30.

More and more are physicians using electricity in their every day work. Many are the cases that it will reach if properly applied; but proper application will not be made unless you have proper instruments; and

here, possibly more than in any other line of his equipment, can the physician get miserable, useless (Continued over next page.)

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