as well as several from the leading European schools, more recently obtained (but who is not, nor could he be made a surgeon by any or all the schools in the land; though, perhaps he is as good as the average THINKING "physician"), we cannot charge up any of his mistakes, be they of omission or commission, to the wrong teaching of this or that school.

I found the child breathing laboriously, and thoroughly cyanosed and in the last extremis. The doctor had been treating it for a week, and for the last twenty-four hours it had been getting rapidly worse.

As soon as I saw the child I knew that there was but one thing to be done; but doubted if it could be done in time to save its life.

As the doctor had no instruments with him, and not knowing to what kind of case I was going, I took none, and knowing there was not a minute to be lost, I ordered it into a carriage, and had it taken at top speed to a hospital. It seemed it would die before it could reach its destination.

We could not take the time to make any of the usual preparations for an operation, as the child was breathing its last. It was hurriedly placed on the bare wire springs of a vacant bed that stood by, and with what instruments I could grab up, I opened the trachea and inserted a tube. By the time I had accomplished this the child had ceased to breathe; but with the inrush of air through the tube, caused by artificial respiration, it began breathing again, and soon the cyanosis began to disappear. The tube has now been out for the past three days; the child breathing normally and sitting up in bed playing.

Who saved this child's life, the THINKING "physician" or the MATERIALIST "surgeon?"

The day before I was called in to see the child this same doctor had this case: A young lady whom he had known since childhood, and a few months married, called and told him she thought she was pregnant, and, in time would need his services. On the day mentioned, at the noon hour, she went to a nearby market to get some meat. While gone, she was seized with a sharp pain in the region of the ovary. She hurried home and began using domestic remedies, but grew worse, getting weak

and faint. The doctor was called and administered some internal remedies. The patient continued to grow worse and in a few hours was dead. A post-morten showed the abdomen full of blood. How different the result: had she been in the hands of a MATERIALIST "surgeon" instead of that of a THINKING "physician?"

140 Sixth Ave., San Francisco, Cal.

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE MEETING.

To the Members of the American Institute of Homeopathy:

Your executive committee met January 6th at the office of the secretary, five members being present, and Dr. Reily being represented by a written report and proxy. The president and first vice president reported having visited Oklahoma City, spending Dec. 30th and 31st in investigating its merits as a meeting place. They were cordially received and cared for by the chairman of the local committee and the other three members of the local profession.

As a result of their investigation, much as it dislikes to disappoint the enthusiastic and hospitable people of that thriving little city, your executive committee, by unanimous vote, has deemed it necessary to exercise the authority given to change the place of meeting.

In determining this problem your executive committee must, of necessity, count upon a meeting of normal size. Our Oklahoma friends are sure the attractions of their community would draw even more than the usual attendance. For six years past the average of members and visitors has been 875. If half this number were to attend a meeting at Oklahoma City, it would be impossible to give to all comfortable hotel accommodations, especially difficult for a convention covering almost a week of time. There are but two, so-called, first-class hostelries in the city. The Lee, the leading one, is building a seven-story annex,

which, as yet, is far from completion. It has been expected that this hotel would furnish headquarters and committee-rooms. At Jamestown special rates and accommodations based on contract agreement, were promised at the Lee. To our surprise, the proprietor of this hotel, in contradistinction to all other citizens of the city, showed the members of the executive committee scant courtesy and refused to accede, in the slightest degree, to the wishes or necessities of the Institute. Not until after the departure from the city of the committee did the local chairman and the Board of Commerce wring unwilling concessions from this proprietor. Even then the rate proposed was far in excess of the contract agreement related at Jamestown and stipulation was made that no committee rooms should be used in the evening.

Not only were the proposed arrangements unsatisfactory, but also the accommodations possible far from adequate. Contingent upon the completion of the annex and contemplating, too, that at least two people should occupy each room, quarters for not to exceed two hundred guests was the most favorable promise of the Lee. Under similar conditions a hundred and fifty guests might be crowded into the second hotel. Bath rooms, much

needed during dusty Oklahoma June, are scarce in both hotels. Were the attendance of members, visitors and exhibitors to exceed three hundred and fifty, the second-rate hotels and the boarding houses would have to provide for the balance.

The "White Temple" proved unavailable, except possibly for the opening session. It was found that the meetings would have to be held in different places, more or less remote from each other. It would be impossible to have all the sessions of the Institute, its bureaus and committees, the allied societies and the exhibits under one roof. The comfort of the places proposed, too, would largely depend upon the temperature and barometric conditions, said to be decidedly objectionable in summer.

The usual reduced rates on the railroads are no longer available because of the new interstate law. The distance of Oklahoma City, nearly four hundred miles from Kansas City, would make this absence of a special railroad rate a material burden to most of our members. The three general passenger agents met at Oklahoma could promise nothing, unless the journey were begun

on Wednesday for our eastern members and on Thursday for the middle West, with no concession at all for the far West. No through trains to Oklahoma are run from Denver, Chicago or the East. Unless Pullman car parties of eighteen or more persons were arranged, eastern visitors going by way of St. Louis would have to change cars there, and if they traveled by way of Chicago, would require a change at that point, and a second change at St. Louis or Kansas City. In order to free those who presented the claim of Oklahoma we wish to say that the less liberal policy of the railroads as to rates and through trains is a recent move and, of course, was not anticipated last June. However, it is no less a disappointment and, in view of the present financial stringency, a serious objection, in the opinion of your executive committee.

For these reasons and others which were discussed for hours by your committee, it was thought best to have our meeting elsewhere. Invitations came from Hot Springs, Pittsburg, the state of Pennsylvania, Los Angeles and Detroit. We were not unmindful of the potency of the claims of each of these possible locations, and to the loyalty of the members of our school in these places the Institute owes its thanks. We could not overlook the fact, however, that the American Institute had recognized the justice. of the demands of the West and Southwest. That territory received our first and last thought, Kansas City, Missouri, is a western city and in every sense is the gateway to the Southwest. The preferred invitation of our men in Kansas City was, therefore, accepted and it was decided to hold the meeting there during the week beginning June 22nd.

It were perhaps a work of superogation to speak of the beauties and attractions of this wonderful city. Commercially, physically, aesthetically, it is second to none in these United States. The combined population of Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, separated simply by an imaginary line, is nearly four hundred thousand. The municipalities form one great, restless, aggressive, progressive, beautiful city. High bluffs, deep gorges, attractive ravines, multitudes of rivulets, great rivers, high land and bottoms-all give themselves to natural picturesqueness and artistic possibility. Millions upon millions have

been spent in developing one of the finest park and boulevard systems in the world. This is, without doubt, one of the show cities of America. The transcontinental tourist who has simply passed through Kansas City, and almost every American railway system touches it, knows nothing of the multitudinous attractions of this place. The railways are in the valley out of sight and the city on the hill-tops. One must take the incline and view it from a high place to know that at his feet lies the pride of the West, beautiful Kansas City. Here are vast hotels, gorgeous theaters, great churches, palatial homes, wide gardens, inviting shade, and cool retreats. The hundred members of the local profession and the nearly two thousand of the state of Kansas and Missouri will give us hearty welcome.

The trip to Kansas City is easily and quickly made. It is a night's journey, twelve hours, from Chicago, six hours from St. Louis, over night from Denver, and can be reached from New York city with but one night on the sleeper.

To Dr. Hensley, the local profession, the Board of Commerce, and the cordial people of Oklahoma City we express our hearty thanks for the courtesies shown and the hospitality offered. We regret that necessity rules our action, but, knowing their hearts and minds, we believe they will gracefully submit to our decision and, in company with the membership of the American Institute, do all in their power to make the 1908 meeting at Kansas City a great and lasting power for good to our beloved homeopathy.

Respectfully-Royal S. Copeland, W. E. Reilly, J. Richey horner, Frank Kraft, J. H. Ball, T. Franklin Smith, Executive Committee.

Ann Arbor, Mich, Janury 10, 1908.

ARUM TRIPHYLLUM, Jack-in-the-Pulpit, has for its distinguishing characteristic, acrid discharges from all sources.