RECENTLY REGISTERED.

The Retailer who is now advertising lawn mowers, corn planters, mosquito killers and chigger cures is doing more to help the mail-order houses than the consumer who sends them his order. Who wants to trade at an out-of-date store? What up-to-date store will advertise that way?

The Alabama Board of Pharmacy met in Montgomery, October 24, 1906. The following candidates passed. There were five failures.

J. W. Garlington, Pell City, Ala.; H. M. Averett, Ensley, Ala.; P. B. Harrell, Jr., Selma, Ala.; E. H. Bowman, Neuman, Ga.; B. B. Bassett, Demopolis, Ala.; Wm. O. Allen, Selma, Ala.; Harry K. Goodlor, Gainsville, Ala., C. E. Hawkin, Demopolis, Ala.; R. M. Jackson, Greensboro, Ala., W. A. McCreary, Evergreen, Ala.; E. O. Quellin, Dotham, Ala.; J. N. Day, Atlanta, Ga.; Benj. F. Porter, Gurley, Ala.; Phil. Y. Harting, Cullman, Ala.; Wm. Nelson, Gadsden, Ala.; Millard Smith, Troy, Ala.

Next meeting of the board June 11, 1907, Blount Springs, Ala. Parties must be actively engaged in the drug business in Alabama to register in this state.[E. P. GALT, secretary, Selma.

New Jersey. Below I give a list of successful candidates from the October examination. The next examination will be held in Trenton, on Thursday and Friday, January 17 and 18, 1907.—[HENRY A. JORDEN, secretary, Bridgeton.

Registered Pharmacists.-Joseph Colson Andrews, Woodston, N. J.; Leiba Movshev Avstreih, Jersey City, N. J.; Harry Ernest Bischoff, Union Hill, N. J.; George Schuyler Bangert, East Orange, N. J.; John H. Blake, East Orange, N. J.; James Garfield Coles, Jersey City, N. J.; Hermann Walter Dittrich, New York, N. Y.; Franklin Wallace Farl, Pemberton, N. J.; Sidney Faber, New York, N. Y.; Joseph H. Fekula, Philadelphia, Pa.; Frank Garfield Fogg, Salem, N. J.; William Gale, Jr., Westfield, N. J.; W. Harry Harbourt, Trenton, N. J.; Moerel Chattle Kahn, Long Branch, N. J.; Coleman Miller Moncur, Newark, N. J.; John Frank Neumann, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Abraham Orris, Bayonne, N. J.; Bernard Simon, Newark, N. J.; Ralph English Seaman, Perth Amboy, N. J.; Fred Louis Smith, Jersey City, N. J.; Raymond Sharp, Merchantville, N. J.; James Francis Sullivan, Candem, N. J.; Joseph C. Weller, New York, N. Y.; Pauline May Wert, Long Branch, N. J.

Registered Assistants.-Ralph D. Denig, Hackensack, N. J.; John W. Henry, Newark, N. J.; Carl E. Hoffman, Newark, N. J.; Joseph Reich, Newark, N. J.; Bruno H. Schubert, Town of Union, N. J.; Leaword G. Stratton, Beverly, N. J.

During the last quarter temporary certificatės were issued to:

John W. Cloe, Atwood; J. S. Elerick, Bird City. Following are the names of those who were restored to the register during the last quarter:

C. W. Jones, Mankato; John I. McGeorge, Argentine; Frank Gatlin, Topeka; W. T. Shane, Hutchinson.

Merchant's licenses were issued to the following. John Kerr, Athol; I. L. Olmstead, Togo; R. D. Welstead, Jewell; R. N. Rahn, Broughton; E. E. Isenberg, Natoma; Park & Hammond, Clements; F. C. Brown, Asherville; G. F. Paull, Strawberry; R. Kibler, Guilford; B. W. Gilchrist, Bentley; T. J. Self, Wayside; F. A. Crumbine, Alexander; H. S. Gaither, Clayton; J. W. Bean, Seward; Paul Bethke, Stuttgart; John Gregory, Gregory; T. A. Prouse, Beagle; A. Ozment, Ontario; W. W. Stice, Beman; Hageman Brothers, Woodruff; M. S. Howard, Dana; Emil Gregor, Dorrance; Wm. H. Glynn, Emmett; Roll & Unangst, Peck; N. V. Ream. Alexander; F. Forney, Penalosa.

The next meeting of the board for examination will be held in Arkansas City, February 13, 1907, beginning at nine o'clock. Those desiring to take the examination should notify the secretary at least five days before date of meeting. The secretary will furnish the necessary blanks on application.-[W. E. SHERRIFF, secretary, Ellsworth, Kans., November 17, 1906.

Illinois Board of Pharmacy.-At the meeting on November 13-15, in Chicago, twenty-seven of the fiftythree applicants for registered pharmacist, twenty-two out of a class of thirty-four candidates for assistant pharmacist and one of the three applicants for locality

certificates were successful. Their names follow:

Registered Pharmacists.-Will Allshouse, Arthur W. Blettner, Daniel S. Cropp, Delmar C. Elliott, Isadore A. Edison, Barney Feldman, Robert F. Haines, Wm. A. Halston, Fred J. Hisgen, Jr., Herman R. Krampff, Jesse S. Lancaster, H. Aug. Langenhan, Paul O. Martin, Jacob Mayzels, Jas. Patejdl, Martin J. Siebrandt, Saml. E. Stephens, Chas. G. Stegmayer, Nathan J. Smith and Rufus E. G. Zaleski, all of Chicago, and C. Henry Bloom, Rockford; Ralph M. Eberly, Aurora; Shirley L. Harnit, Kankakee; Edgar A. Ridgely, East St. Louis; Carlton G. Van Emon, Evanston, and Helen R. Woodruff.

Assistant Pharmacists.-Andrew Bakkers, Frederick L. G. Berthlein, Wm. J. Beyermann, Arthur E. Brown, Ralph H. Cohen, Jas. T. Dumas, Chas. Forman, Wm. Gehrke, Jacob Goodman, Bernard F. Jusajtus, Anthony J. Kelly, Rudolph G. Mrazek Ella H. Pettersen, Henry Pfaff, Jr., Frank Ratkowski, Bohumil Rund, Elmer F. Seaney, Frances E. Wells and Edward H. Windeguth, all of Chicago, and Ernest H, Behrensmeyer, Quincy; Carl, A. Breitling, Streator, and Thomas H. Paul, West Pullman. Locality Certificate.—Andrius L. Graiczunas, Chicago.

The next meeting of the board for the examination of applicants will be held in Springfield, on Tuesday,

George H. Dockhorn, Chapman.

The board will also hold a meeting in Chicago, on Tuesday, February 19, 1907, for the examination of applicants who have not heretofore passed the preliminary test. An examination will be held the following day for all who have been successful in the preliminary test in the past.

The next apprentice examination throughout the state will be held on Friday, January 18, 1907.

The renewal notices for 1907 were mailed to all registered pharmacists and assistant pharmacists on December 1. The board makes a special request that all remittances for renewal of 1907 certificates be received not later than January 1, 1907.-[F. C. DODDS, secretary, Springfield.

FROM A DRUG CLERK'S DIARY.

A Week's Experience in a Retail Drug Store in a Country Place.

BY HARRY N. FORCE, PH. G.

[Continued from page 102.]

More Sure Cures for Warts.

Finally she continued:

"I Reckon I've Told You Several Ways of Curin' Warts, but I know some more good ways if the ones I've told you ain't handy. If you can find an old stump with water standin' in the top of it, wash your hands in it and not think of a 'possum while you are washin' 'em and

the warts will go away. If you can't do that mebby

this one '11 be easier. Find a smooth pebble and rub it on the warts and then lay it back jest exactly like you found it. If you can do that the warts will git

well."

Aunt Talitha again became absorbed in her occupation of smoking and sat puffing vigorously at the old black stone pipe. I supposed she had exhausted her fund of information about warts, but no, there was more to follow.

"Another way," she said suddenly, "is to steal a dirty dish rag and rub it over the warts. Then take it and hide it under the door step and the warts will git well." There was silence for a few moments, while she puffed vigorously at the old black stone pipe, then she continued.

"A good way to cure 'em in the summer time is to pick the wart with a pin till it bleeds. Git a bean leaf and rub some of the blood from the wart on it, and then bury the leaf under the plant you picked it from and by the time the leaf rots the warts will be cured." Another mixture of silence and puffs. "And if your memory aint very good and you're sorter absentminded like," she went on, "a' easy way to cure 'em is to take a knife and rub the blade over the warts. Then hide the knife, and when you forgit where you hid it, the warts will go away."

Aunt Talitha paused long enough to refill the old black stone pipe with the evil smelling home-made tobacco and light it, and when it was puffing satisfactorily, asked: "Did I ever tell you how to cure a wart with a yarn string? No? Well, it's jest this way: take a red yarn string-mind ye, it has to be red-and rub it across the greasy side of a meat rind 'till it is good and greasy. Then run it back and forth across the wart exactly across the center, and then back and forth across the other way, makin' a cross in the center of the wart. Then tie the string around an elm tree and shut your eyes and take as many steps backward as you have warts that you have jest doctored with the string. Then turn around, open your eyes and walk away without lookin' back and the warts will git well."

A Lie as a Therapeutic Agent. This appeared to exhaust her fund of information about warts for the time being for, after a short puffing period, she continued: "A good way to cure a sty is to let somebody come into the room where you are, and say: 'That's a sty on your eye.' Then you say: 'That's a lie,' and the sty will go away." A vision of how it might fade away into a black-and-blue spot where a fist might land in resenting the lie flashed across my mind, but I said nothing.

To Cure a Stitch in the Side.

Aunt Talitha began to puff at the old black stone

pipe more vigorously than ever, but suddenly stopped and with an exclamation as if in pain, grasped her sides with her hands. "Got a ketch in my side," she explained. Presently she continued: "It's gittin' better now. If I had been runnin' and took a pain in my "How, Aunt side, I could a stopped it right off." Talitha?" I queried, confident that there was another superstition behind the remark. "Well, you see, if you are runnin' and take a pain in your side, you jest stop, pick up a rock, spit on the under side and lay it back agin jest like it was and go ahead without lookin' back and your side will stop hurtin'. I know it will work, for I've tried it many a time when I was a gal." I sold a customer a bottle of toothache drops, and when he had gone, Aunt Talitha said: "A good way to cure the toothache is jest to bore a hole in a tree and put in a wisp of hair from the head of the person that has the toothache and plug it up. I'll bet his tooth never aches agin. And, speakin' of the toothache puts me in mind of a way of helpin' a child that is cuttin' teeth. Kill a rabbit and rub some of its brains on the child's gums while the brains are warm, and it'll beat anything you can do for it. And speakin' of nose bleed," continued she, although we had not mentioned the subject, "there are lots of ways of stoppin' it. One good way is to split a bean and let a drop of blood fall on the inside of it, shut it up with the blood inside and bury it in the ground, and it '11 sure stop the bleedin'."

Finding the Body of a Drowned Person.

A boy was drowned in the river not long ago and the body was not recovered for ten days. During this time quite a party of friends and relatives were searching for the body. The matter was a common topic for conversation, and I heard some very superstitious ideas advanced. "Why don't they git his shirt an' try that," said one old man. Some questioning brought out that he believed that if they would take the shirt he had worn last before he was drowned and throw it into the river above where the body was seen to go under last, that the shirt would float to where the body lay and then sink. Another way to locate the body was given. Take a loaf of light bread, place some mercury in it and place it in the water above where the body was last seen. The bread would float until above the body and then it would sink. None of these ways were tried, however, and the body was discovered where it had lodged in a drift.

ST. LOUIS A. PH. A. BRANCH.

A meeting was called by H. M. Whelpley and Otto F. Claus at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy building, on Friday, November 16, 1906, at 8:15 p. m., for the purpose of organizing a St. Louis Branch of the A. Ph. A.

The following gentlemen, who are all members of the A. Ph. A., were present: J. M. Good, Wm. K. Ilhardt, Frederick J. Carter, Sol. Boehm, H. M. Whelpley, Chas. E. Caspari, Geo. R. Merrell, A. A. Kleinschmidt, Edward H. Wolff, Otto F. Claus, J. F. Henry Fischer, Francis Hemm, Chas. Gietner, E. A. Sennewald and R. E. Schlueter.

Dr. H. M. Whelpley was elected temporary chairman and Dr. Otto F. Claus temporary secretary-treas

urer.

The proposed constitution and by-laws submitted for conducting local branches as printed in the August A. Ph. A. Bulletin, was heartily endorsed and will probably be adopted at the first regular meeting.

Mr. Kleinschmidt said that at future meetings interesting subjects may be discussed, among them it would be well to take up the U. S. Pharmacopoeia and the National Formulary. He stated also that members would not attend the meetings regularly unless something of that kind was done.

Prof. Good said it would be well to form a local association to assist the parent body, asking the chairman whether he thought it wise to organize now, or wait until the necessary number could be obtained.

Mr. Gietner spoke of the early work of the alumni association of the college stating that it was hard to get a large audience together, even though a good subject was presented.

Mr. Boehm would like to see the branch a success, but thought hard work was necessary.

Mr. Ilhardt said the Pharmacopoeia may be discussed and corrected, thereby helping others, also arousing a great interest, and getting new members.

Prof. Hemm mentioned the subjects of pharmaceutical education and drug store apprentices. He believed in the United States as good an experience can be had as elsewhere. Among other things he also said the time has come for the boards of pharmacy to take up the matter of drug store experience.

Mr. Wolff believed the difficulty was in getting members to come. He thought it necessary to have something of interest at each meeting otherwise a slim attendance might be expected.

Mr. Carter said as he was a new member of the A. Ph. A. he hardly knew what could be added to what had been said by those who spoke before him.

Mr. Fischer thought the principal reasons for organizing a branch, was to get new members for the parent body.

Mr. Sennewald was heartily in favor of organizing the branch and said he thought many subjects of interest might be brought up which would get the members out.

Dr. Schlueter claimed, he simply came to the meeting to add a medical flavor to the circle present.

Prof. Caspari spoke of the St. Louis Chemical Society, stating that members paid $4.00 per annum and as an average meeting no more than ten or twelve could be counted. He hoped the branch would be a success. Mr. Merrell was heartily in favor of organizing the branch and offered to do everything in his power to make it a success.

Dr. Claus believed that with a little work the branch, if organized, would be a success in every sense of the word. He said many subjects might be brought up for consideration, as educational, legislation and commercial, which would not only mean knowledge, but money as well to the pharmacist, physician, etc.

Dr. Whelpley believed not more than ten would be present at the initial meeting and was agreeably surprised to find fifty per cent more than he figured on. He said all interests can be represented at the meetings. Subjects for the druggist, physician, chemist, professor, drug clerk and the jobber would be very interesting. Diversified subjects should be presented on the program. He had no doubt but that the branch would be a success.

The chairman said each member present should bring another member with him at the next meeting.

The chairman appointed a committee of five to see all members in the city who were not present, said committee to consist of Otto F. Claus, chairman; E. A. Sennewald, Geo. R. Merrell, R. E. Schlueter and A.

A. Kleinschmidt.

The secretary was instructed to write to each member in the city notifying him of the next meeting.

One dollar was deposited with the treasurer by each member present, making a total of fifteen dollars, as good faith, the same to remain in the treasury, provided the organization of the branch was completed. This representing the dues of each member.

Communications were read by the secretary from Dr. Enno Sander and F. W. Sultan, of St. Louis; E. W. Gallenkamp, of Washington, Mo.; and Geo. F. Barth, of North Alton, Ill., each expressing good wishes for the success of the St. Louis Branch.

There being no further business before the meeting, on motion of Dr. Schlueter it was decided to adjourn, to meet again on Saturday, December 15, 1906, at 2:30

P. m.-[OTTO F. CLAUS, temporary secretary-treasurer,

November 16, 1906.

In San Francisco the damage by earthquake and by fire was estimated at one to nine respectively. In Valparaiso the reverse will hold. The fire department is voluntary but efficient and if not for the breaking of the water mains, would undoubtedly have checked the flames. The new water system of Valparaiso is highly efficient but the mains could not withstand such a rude shaking. They were set right, however, in forty-eight hours and in complete working order four days after the catastrophe, which is a very creditable showing.

COLLEGES OF PHARMACY.

The Buffalo College of Pharmacy, beginning with the present session, has inaugurated a course leading to the degree of analytical chemist; also one leading to pharmaceutical chemist. These courses are entirely aside and distinct from the regular college course leading to the degree of bachelor in pharmacy and the post-graduate course which leads to the degree of master in pharmacy and the one for doctor in pharmacy.

One Year in High School and the Conference of Faculties. The following is the resolution adopted by the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties as a change in its requirements for membership in and admission to the conference.

The resolution as finally adopted reads as follows:

1. A minimum age of seventeen years, except when a candidate is a graduate of an accredited high school or of an institution of equal grade, in which case no age limit shall be demanded.

2. That commencing with the session of 1208-09 a satisfactory completion of at least one year of work in an accredited high school or its equivalent shall be demanded; providing, however that said requirements shall not apply to matriculants who are bonafide legal residents of the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Iowa. Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Missouri. List of Colleges and Delegates at the 1906 meeting of the American Conference of Pharmaceutical Faculties:

Albany College of Pharmacy, Prof. Theodore J. Bradley.
Brooklyn College of Pharmacy, Prof. W. C. Anderson.

Chicago College of Pharmacy, Prof. W. A. Puckner, W. B. Day C. S. N. Hallberg.

Cleveland College of Pharmacy, Profs. W. H. Haake, W. T Hanke, R. A. Gansby.

University of Iowa, Prof. Wilbur J. Teeters.

University of Kansas, Prof. L. E. Sayre.

Louisville College of Pharmacy, Prof. Louis Diehl.

Maryland College of Pharmacy, Prof. H. P. Hynson, Charles Caspari, Jr.

University of Michigan, Prof. J. W. T. Knox.

University of Minnesota, Prof. F. J. Wulling.

National College of Pharmacy, Profs. H. E. Kalusowski, Lewis Flemer.

New York College of Pharmacy, Profs. George C. Diekman, H. H. Rusby, Virgil Coblents.

Northwestern University School of Pharmacy, O. Oldberg, H. M. Gordin, C. W. Patterson, M. A. Miner, G. D. Oglesby.

Ohio State University, Prof. George B. Kauffman.

Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, C. B. Lowe, C. W. LaWall,

ST. LOUIS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.

Senior Class Organizes.

The senior students met at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy Building and organized the "Omega Phi" Society for the coming college year. The organization was accomplished under the supervision of Dr. O. A. Wall, Jr., and ex-president of the Omega Phi and a member of the faculty. Dr. Wall delivered an address on "Organization," which was received with a hearty and prolonged applause. The constitution was submitted, and an election of officers was held, resulting as follows:

Percy Thomas Knoebel, president; Harper Paul Sweney, vicepresident; Hardy Don McAdams, treasurer; Marcy Marion Johnson, secretary.

Members of the Council.-Louis William Koch, Augustine Curtis Webster, Alvin Albert Robison, Harry Lewis Bremser, Edward Alfred Kroencke, Omar George Robb, George William Nold. After the inauguration of the officers, the "Keeper of the Royal Mortar" and the "Wielder of the Sacred Pestle," administered one of the mystic pills to each member present.

ST. LOUIS LOCALS.

Too Much for a Pharmacist's Generous Nature.A pharmacist can put up with almost any kind of impɔsition, but when a woman telephoned a prescription which the physician had in turn telephoned her, the prominent St. Louis pharmacist became indignant and refused to run the risk of mistakes which might occur in filling such a second-hand telephone order.

He Did Not Know the Difference between N. F. III

and N. F. II. We refer to the prominent pharmacist who received a prescription for an article marked "N. F." He failed to find the formula in his copy of the work. When he telephoned a brother pharmacist, he was surprised to learn that his National Formulary was just ten years behind the time. Make sure that you have the N. F. III.

Did not Think of Referring to the National Formu= lary. A prominent St. Louis pharmacy which prides itself upon its prescription department recently received a prescription calling for elixir digestivum compositum. The pharmacist promptly phoned the physician and asked him what new proprietary medicine he was prescribing and where it could be obtained. He answered, "See the National Formulary III., page twentytwo."

The physician will call for a fifteen-cent cigar the next time he is in the store.

The Popular Drug Co. is a firm whose destiny is carefully studied by the members of the St. Louis R. D. A. If the plan on which it is organized proves successful the druggists of other cities may popularize the example and thus hold in check budding drug departments in flourishing department stores. The stock in the Popular Drug Co. of this city is owned by a number of leading retailers. The management is in the hands of a prosperous down town pharmacist. The place of business is in the center of the first floor of an immense St. Louis department establishment. The agreement with the department store prevents that firm from operating a drug department at cut rate prices contrary to the rules and regulations of the St. Louis R. D. A. It is one of the few drug stores where the word "success" is spelled only in dollars and cents of profit. It deserves the support of every St. Louis druggist.

The First Wholesale Druggist in St. Louis, Nathaniel Bradley Atwood, was born in Newburyport, Mass., in 1796, and came to St. Louis from Philadelphia as a member of the firm of Smith, Piersall & Co., in the winter of 1819-20, and opened a wholesale drug business in the building, No. 67 South Main Street, just vacated by the old Bank of St. Louis. In the year 1823, he purchased the interests of his partners and removed to No. 56 North Main Street, afterward becoming a business associate of Dr. Sam Merry who was in 1829, appointed by President Andrew Jackson to the position of Receiver of Public Money for the Land District of St. Louis and held the office until the end of President

Van Buren's term. In company with Dr. Merry they dispatched a train early in the twenties to Santa Fe, N. M., which was one of the earliest trading ventures to that remote region. Individually he established branch establishments at La Grange and Memphis, Tenn., and maintained them until 1832, afterwards continuing at St. Louis in the drug business until his death in 1860. During the twenties and thirties his leading contemporaries were Charless & Blow, Bacon & Hyde, Corse & Anderson, Dupuy, Brooks, Richardson, Wetzell, and Hoffman. Later, during the forties and

early in the fifties, the drug houses of D'Oench &

Pelloux, Francis & Walton, Scott & Mellier, Mathews & Sons, Hopkins & Weller, Merrell, and Meyer Brothers, were actively engaged in business.

Recollections of early days at St. Louis in connection with the trade suggest the retail and prescription establishment of Annan, Gleim, Edwards & Francis, Enno Sander, Tanton, McCloud & Wheaton, Leach, T. & E. Catlin, Brookie and Latham.

Drug Clerks desiring positions should apply to Charles Miller, Ph. G., care Parke, Davis & Co., city. "The Tendencies of Modern Botany” was the subject of address by Dr. William Trelease, at the November meeting of the Engelmann Botanical Club.

The St. Louis Branch of The A. Ph. A. will hold a meeting at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy for prominent organization, Saturday, December 15, at 2:30 p. m.

The St. Louis College of Pharmacy at the November meeting sent a message of sympathy to Mr. Albert E. Ebert, of Chicago, who was at the time undergoing a surgical operation for appendicitis.

The Medical Profession of St. Louis is taking steps to secure free treatment for needy consumptive patients. Efforts will be made to secure greater precaution against the spreading of the disease. The expectorating rule created a sensation when the city ordinance was first passed, but now the public very generally observe the rule, and it is one factor in preventing the spreading of tuberculosis.

When and Where They Meet.

St. Louis A. Ph. A. Branch, St. Louis College of Pharmacy Saturday December 15, 2:30 p. m. Dr. Otto F. Claus, secretary. Cinchona Club, the first Tuesday in each month, 11 a. m., at the Southern Hotel (dinner is served at 1 p. m.); A. N. Collins, Ph. G., secretary, Page and Academy Avenues.

St. Louis Retail Druggists' Association, third Tuesday in each month, 11 a. m., at the Southern Hotel (dinner is served at 1 p. m.); Charles R. Judge, Ph. G., secretary, 515 Olive Street.

St. Louis Chemical Society, first Monday after the first Tuesday, at 8 p. m., St. Louis Academy of Science, 3817 Olive Street; Geo. Lang, Jr., secretary, care St. Louis College of Pharmacy.

St. Louis Drug Clerks' Society, second Thursday of each month, 8 p. m., Priester's Cafe, Third Street and Washington Avenue, E. H. Kurty, Ph. G., secretary, 2000 South Broadway, city.

Alumni Association St. Louis College of Pharmacy, scientific, meetings on the third Tuesday during the winter season, 8 p. m., St. Louis College of Pharmacy; Wm. M. Lauman, Jefferson and Russell Avenues, secretary.