Dr. Charles S. Woods, one of the best known men in pharmaceutical circles in the middle west, has gone to Iowa City where he has accepted a professorship of preventative medicine. For the last two years he has been medical counsel for Eli Lilly & Company and last fall was a candidate for mayor of Indianapolis on a citizens ticket. Dr. Woods is a graduate of Moores Hill College, University of Chicago and also studied abroad. He has been a member of the Indiana Chemical Society and a member of the faculty of the Indiana University School of Medicine. He also holds membership in the American Pharmaceutical Association, National Educational Association and the American Public Health Association. A farewell dinner in Dr. Woods' honor was given by a number of friends at the Hotel Severin. Many state and city officials and persons connected with the Eli Lilly and Company attended.

Wholesale and jobbing druggists of Indianapolis have noticed a tendency toward better trade conditions during the last few weeks. Reports from over the state are that business is gradually resuming normal proportions, after the depresssion that began last August. Factories are resuming operations and taking on additional men. Traveling salesmen say they are finding retail druggists more optimistic and that they are no longer hesitating about placing fairly substantial orders. The outlook for business this year is regarded as very satisfactory. Last year's business probably was not as good as that of 1912.

After a short illness, Samuel Allen Fisher, general manager of the Mooney-Mueller Drug Company, wholesale druggists of Indianapolis, died at his home 2511 Central avenue in that city. Death was from acute indigestion from which he had suffered but a short time. Mr. Fisher was born in Greencastle and graduated from Depauw University in that city. Twenty two years ago he became identified with the Indianapolis Drug Co. and twelve years ago left that company to become a traveling salesman for the Mooney-Mueller Drug Co., of which he became general manager five years ago. Mr. Fisher's first experience was with W. W. Jones, a retail druggist in Greencastle.

At

one time he was president of the Commercial Travelers' Association. A widow survives. The body was taken to Greencastle for burial. Mr. Fisher was forty-nine years old and was a member of the Central avenue Church, F. and A. M., Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and of the Commercial Travelers Association of Indi

ana.

Charles F. Lane was striken with apoplexy at his drug store at Yandes and Nineteenth streets, Indianapolis on the evening of January 6th and died a few hours later. Mr. Lane was fifty-six years old and was born and spent all his life in Indianapolis. He had been in the drug business for years, for some time having been located at Brookside avenue and Tenth street before moving to the Yandes street address. Funeral services were under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias and Order of Druids, and burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. A widow and three children survive.

The twenty-seventh annual winter entertainment of the Order of White Elephants was held in Germania Hall, Indianapolis, on the night of January 8. A large proportion of the three hundred retail and wholesale drug clerks who are included in the membership attended. The program started late to accomodate those who could not arrive until after their stores closed and it continued until early in the morning. There was an elaborate banquet, during which a cabaret performance of excellent quality was given. William Adams is Mighty Jumbo-presiding officer of the organization.

There was a romatic marriage at Lawrenceburg on January 1, when Edgar E. Barnes, a drug clerk of Indianapolis and Miss Elizabeth E. Kretz, a stenographer of Cincinnati, were married in the Court House. The couple decided to surprise their friends and met in the Court House at Lawrenceburg by agreement. They will reside in Indianapolis.

The Indiana State Board of registration and examination in pharmacy gave an examination for applicants for license in the State Capitol building, Indianapolis, January 12. There were forty-eight applicants for licenses as reg istered pharmacists and sixteen applicants fo assistant registered pharmacist's license

Among those who took the examination were Miss Marie C. Reichel, 4130 North Senate avenue, Indianapolis and Mrs. Bertha H. Ellis, Terre Haute.

With an authorized capitalization of $20,000, the H. C. Whitmer Co. has been organized and incorporated at Columbus to manufacture a line proprietary medicines, etc. Those interested in the company are C. H. Whitehouse, F. C. Whitehouse and L. A. Whitehouse.

Burglars broke open the front and rear doors of the drug store of Homer D. Bassett, 904 Massachusetts avenue, Indianapolis, one night recently. The doors were forced open by a "jimmie" but nothing was taken and it is supposed the burglars were frightened away before they could enter the store.

The Hook Drug Company, Indianapolis, has invaded the down town retail district. A lease has been taken on a room at the northeast corner of Washington and Meridian streets, in the heart of the shopping district. The company has a string of retail pharmacies in the city.

A loss of several hundred dollars was sustained by the Haag Drug Company, Indianapolis, during the last month when the Commercial Block, Washington street and Kentucky avenue, in which the company has a retail pharmacy, was badly damaged by fire. This store has been in operation only a few weeks.

J. F. Shandy, J. S. Hopkins and C. P. Shandy have organized and incorporated Shandy & Hopkins at Terre Haute for the purpose of conducting a retail pharmacy. The company has an authorized capitalization of $5,000.

Severance Burrage, pathologist for Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, recently addressed the Madison County Tuberculosis Society at Anderson.

The Coca-Cola Company has brought suit in the United States Circuit Court to enjoin Edward Ferger, an Indianapolis druggist from manufacturing and selling an alleged imitation of coca-cola. An injunction to prevent the use of the word "coca-cola" is asked.

Arthur Johnson, an Indianapolis druggist, hired a new errand boy recently. He sent the youngster to the bank to make a deposit, trusting him with checks and money. He has received the checks by mail but is still looking for the boy and the money.

West Virginia News

Restrictions governing the use of prescriptions to secure whisky under the new prohibition law which goes into effect July first, this year, was the subject of an important conference held in Charleston in January. Dr. S. L. Jepson, Secretary of the State Board of Health, called the conference at the instance of Governor Hatfield, and nearly all the members of the Board were in attendance. Each showed a personal interest in the matter under consideration and each indicated the desire to see the letter of the new laws complied with. It was realized that both the physicians and the druggists are in position to be the principal instruments in having the statutes carried out, and expressions from the leading druggists, especially those of the State organization, lead to the conclusion that they will do their part.

The new prohibition law is a most stringent one. It requires a physician permitted to issue prescriptions for whisky to be reputable in the full sense and temperate. He must also have a personal knowledge that the person prescribed for is temperate and not addicted to the use of intoxicants or narcotic drugs. On the prescription the physician must designate the amount of whisky necessary, state how it is to be taken, give the name of the person prescribed for, assert that the illness requires whisky and that it is not meant as a beverage. The physician must also give the nature of the present illness and if whisky has been prescribed therefor previously during the year, and if so how often.

The physician is required to make a personal examination of the patient before prescribing whisky. All prescriptions of this nature must be kept on file by the druggist filling them and open to examination at all times.

Huntington lays claim to having more ambitious young men who have a liking for pharmacy than any other city in the state. At the recent examination of applicants in Charleston six of the nine were from that city. Each of them did very creditably, too. Huntington has some of the finest drug stores in the state.

During the recent campaign which resulted in an overwhelming victory for the prohibition forces, the cry was wide and loud that even if the saloons were closed, it would be an easy matter to get whisky by prescription, but the promise is made now that every precaution will be taken to enforce the Yost law, and make West Virginia an absolutely dry state so long as the law is in force. The duties of the Health

Department are being pointed out, suggestions along that line having been made at the conference in which the Governor, himself a physician, was most active. When any person obtains whisky by prescription it will cost him an extravagant sum, and he will be able to get but little at a time.

The conduct of the State Government will go along under a handicap for awhile after the prohibition law goes into effect, and it is more than likely that some entirley new source of governmental income will be required. There is no end of talk concerning the so-called necessity of an extraordinary session of the legislature, yet nothing definite can be said in that connection for the governor refuses to indicate how he views the matter. The expense of running the state government has increased materially during the past two years, and its revenue having been cut down so perceptibly through the elimination of liquor licenses leaves a wide gap to be closed.

practice

Nine applicants for license to pharmacy in West Virginia took the recent examination held in Charleston before the State Board of Pharmacy. These applicants were from three states, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the Mountaineers naturally predominating. They are: Charles A. Russell, St. Marys, Pa.; Frank M. Smith, Youngstown, Ohio; Roy B. Willson, Piketon, Ohio; and the following West Virginians: Thomas William M. Smith, Thornton; Eugene M. Camp, Robert Orin Ellis, Ellis W. Jones, Charles M. Rayl, Ivan S. Davis and Bennett W. Walton, all of Huntington.

The members of the State Board are President Frank B. Haymaker, Clarksburg; Vice President W. C. Price, Huntington; Secretary, Alfred Walker, Sutton; and S. M. Scott, Jr., Terra Alta; B. E. Downs, Wlech.

The examination was held in the chamber of the state senate. The next meeting of the Board at which there will be further examinations, will be held in Wheeling the first Tuesday and Wednesday in May.

With the beginning of February begins the actual campaign of the new Huntington Drug Company to get a business that will justify the huge expenditures made by the company that has started it. This is one of the biggest of the wholesale drug houses in the state. A change in the date of opening the business was made necessary through the inability of the company to get possession of its new and perfectly adequate quarters at the corner of Eighth street and Third avenue, Huntington.

General Manager, W. C. Price, who for years resided in Charleston, has moved his family to Huntington, and is looking after the details of the work of installing the new business. Asked about conditions Mr. Price said "We are at the mercy of the Croft Standard Company, but as their building was not completed in the expected time we have had to make the best of it." The Croft Standard Company has been occupying the quarters selected by the new drug company.

After an illness of several months, Mrs. J. M. Potterfield, mother of C. A. Potterfield, one of the best known druggists in the southern part of the state died recently at her home in Harper's Ferry. Infirmities incident to her age was the case of her death.

State Tax Commissioner Fred O. Blue, who becomes supervisor of prohibition when the new law goes into effect, has issued some stringent rulings anent the Yost law. Some of them have reference to drug store sales, while others concern only those who have been dealing in intoxicants. Everything in the whisky, beer and ale line that is to be sold in West Virginia must change hands before midnight of June 30. After that time every transaction in which intoxicants of any kind changes ownership will be considered a violation of the statutes and the penalties provided are severe.

a tribute to Thomas Penrose Cook, who died January 7, 1913, in recognition of his sterling character, his genial personality, and his unselfish service to this club during his eighteen years of membership."

Another drug store which has become a land-mark in Columbus has changed hands. S. L. Harvey has purchased the Reinert store on East Long street. Mr. Reinert has been in the drug business 42 years and has operated this particular store for 30 years. He has retired to a farm in southern Ohio to enjoy a well earned rest.

C. E. Dunbar, Red Lilly Representative in New York City led the Lilly Salesforce for the year just ended in the sale of empty capsules which entitles Mr. Dunbar to the distinction of being president of the Lilly Million Capsule Club for 1914.

At a dinner at the University Club at Indianapolis during the Lilly Salesmen School held the first week in January, Mr. Dunbar was presented with a handsome gold watch fob appropriately engraved as an insignia of his office.

Membership in the Lilly Capsule Club is limited to those salesmen who sell over a million empty capsules a year to the retail trade and a lapel watch chain and button is presented to each member. The Club was started two years ago and its membership during that time has increased eighty percent.

Dr. J. H. Beal left for Tampa, Florida, on January 26th for a visit to the Tampa-Cuba Cigar Company, in which he is interested.

Louis Roessler, Cincinnati druggist, who was struck by an automobile while alighting from a street car, on Wednesday evening, December 17, 1913, died on the Friday following. He was forty-two years of age, and is survived by a widow. He was a member of the Ohio Valley Druggists' Association, Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association, and several other organizations, and was one of the bestknown druggists in the city.

Among the New Year's guests of Eli Lilly & Company at the home office was E. S. Retter who represents the Company at Kansas City, Mo.

"The little savings bank in the home means more for the future of the children of a family, almost, than all of the advice in the world. It gives them the right start."

-William McKinley.

Perpetual Registration.

Mr. C. O. Hoffman, of Arcanum, a member of the Ohio Board of Pharmacy, writes as follows:

"In reply to your letter asking my opinion in regard to doing away entirely with the triennial renewal of certificates, will say I think the Pharmacists of Ohio are asking for something deterimental to their own interests. As the law now stands, it has a tendency to check and sift out the undesirables. Some fellows who become so low and worthless that they lose out entirely are only too anxious for a law of this kind. This class, having drifted from the business for one cause and another, would be glad for the opportunity to come back and act as manager for some ex-saloonist or some one who has a little money and thinks there is a mint in the drug business.

For these and many other reasons, I am opposed to this change."

Place Large Soda Fountain Order.

For installation in the new thirty million dollar Terminal Depot in Kansas City, the Kansas City Terminal Railway Co. has just placed an order for an elaborate soda fountain and luncheon equipment. This contract, which went to The Liquid Carbonic Company, provides for equipment to occupy approximately 2,000 square feet floor space, and is one of the largest contracts for soda fountain and additional equipment placed in a good many months. The fountain is to be installed about April 1st of this year.

Effete Boston.

During an Episcopal convention in Boston, one of the bishops had an experience he will long remember. He was a portly man, weighing over three hundred pounds. One afternoon while walking through Boston Common he sat down on one of the benches to rest. When he attempted to get up, he failed in the effort. He tried again and failed. About this time a little girl, poorly clad, came along and was attracted by the struggles of the bishop. Stepping up to him, she said:

"Don't you want me to give you a lift?" The bishop gazed at her in amazement, and exclaimed:

"Why, you can't help me. You are too little."

"No, I am not," she replied. "I have helped my papa get up a great many times when he was drunker than you are."

-Homeiletic Review.

Superstition and Drugs.

A recent edition of the Columbus Dispatch devotes a column space to the superstitions which have long existed in regard to the medicinal properties of certain drugs or drug store articles and say that calls for such fakes' are not uncommon in Columbus drug stores. We quote from the article as follows:

"Mister, have you got any fishin' worm oil?" asked an earnest youngster of a well-known downtown druggist.

The druggist had heard the request often before, but never tired of hearing why it was wanted. So he asked: "What are you going to do with it?"

"We're gonna give a show in my backyard, an' I want some fishin' worm oil to rub on my joints so I can be a contortionist and fool all the other kids 'ut can't do it," was the answer.

This is only one of the superstitions with which druggists come in contact daily. Youngsters believe that because fishin' worms are wiggly and can twist and bend in any direction, that to rub fishin' worm oil on the joints will give the human being a certain fishin' worm ability to twist and bend likewise.

How old the superstition is no one knows. Certain it is that it was a well developed superstition twenty-seven years ago, when a certain reporter now writing this story dug up fishin' worms and made some oil for the express purpose of learning to become a contortionist. Know how to make it? No? Then you were not reared in the country. Put the fishin' worms in a bottle, set the bottle in the sun on a hot summer day, and let the worms fry into oil. That's all there is to it.

Another thing the druggist often gets calls for is skunk oil. This is "fried out" from the fat of a skunk, and is suppose to be of inestimable value in curing sore throat and deepseated colds in the chest. Rub the skunk oil on, then cover the affected part with flannelpreferably red flannel. The druggist says there is no value whatever in skunk-oil-but he wouldn't dare go back to the place where he was born and tell it to some of the grandmothers there.

Rattlesnake-oil is another thing demanded of druggists, but which is not for sale. It is made by frying the greese out of a rattlesnake. Rattlesnake oil is the last word in cures for rheumatism. It is applied externally, of course.

Again the druggist says 'Buncombe" and again he is dared to go back "home" and say it.

"Got any nigger root?" asked an old colored woman of the druggist.

"Certainly."

"Gimme a nickel's worth."

It was procured and the druggist handed it to her. "Is that all Ah get for a nickel?" "Yes, that's all."

"W'y, man, Ah kin go five miles out hyuh in de kentry and dig all that stuff, Ah kin tote away."

"Well," asked the druggist, "why didn't you go there and get it instead of coming to me?"

"Hit's too fer."

"That's what I thought when I went after it," the druggist said, and the old woman went away perfectly satisfied.

The Procession.

"Yass'm 'twuz a pubsession weddin', and— Who? Dem people? Cou'se, dey's po' folks -po' as Job's turtle-but dey suttingly did have a puhsession weddin' dess de same. Ah'll tell you 'bout hit.

"De guests was all dissembled, and old Pahson Bagster was sollermizin' de happy couple on de sponsibilities o' mat'imony 'twell de groom-skimpy little black man wid keen legs 'gunter wall his eyes at de bride, dat weighs two hund'ed and fifty pounds, easy, and has de extinction o' havin' whipped a nigger constable once. De pahson, some way or nudder, got to thinkin' he was buryin' dem folks 'stidduh marryin' 'em, 'peahs like, and he talked on and on, in a tone wid ice down his back, as ye 'mought say, 'bout the urrors and turrors of their future, 'twell de groom took a-nudder look at de hefty bride, and was gone th'oo de winder.

"He was gone! De pusession follered, but dem keen little legs o' his'n worked so fine and fast dat dey lost him. De guests spread out and beat de brush, but 'twus de bride dat finally found him, hid in a holler tree. De little man had scrabbled up de tree and den fell down inside the holler, and dar he was; dey hatter chop him out. De bride snapped him up in her lovin' arms and hilt him fast 'twell de pahson got dar, all blowed and winded, and den de happy couple was made one. Puhsession weddin'?-Yass'm! Hit was!"

-Womans' Home Companion

First Course in Authors.

Young and enthusiastic teacher (to her class

in English Literature):

"To-morrow we shall take the life of Thackeray. Come prepared."

-Woman's Home Companion.

"The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitutde."-Emerson.