"Seems a shame for a man that's got a wife to have to shuffle off without her even being on hand to drop a tear on his grave." "Yes, I was thinkin' of her, too. An' when you write to her, Dude--for I expect that job is up to you-you want to sling in somethin' about this send-off we give him. It ought to be comfortin' to her."

"Sure," Drayton absently agreed. "But speaking of her, I tell you, boys, I'm sorry for that little woman. I was looking through some letters I found in his tenthad to, you know, to find where we could get in touch with her. And she appears to be true blue-a dressmaker, I take it, who has been stitching and scrimping to send every possible penny out to Shorty, with the idea that he was going to plant it all in some sure-thing gold mine and grow up a crop of millions. And considering the way so much of it went-well, it's hard lines."

"Seems like no fellow ever gets playin' a rotten game but there's some woman in the background to get the worst of it," Mel Morris sententiously observed.

"That's right," agreed the boozy one in the background.

"Say, Dude, you want to put them nuggets in the toe of the little sock, jes' like they was, when you send it to her," Red anxiously advised.

"An' when you're writin', you can tell her about them claims," Corwin rather sheepishly put in. "For I reckon a half is comin' to her alright. Shorty didn't pull fair, but we was partners jes' the same an' I ain't takin' advantage of no widders. You tell her I'll have the papers fixed up first time I go to Tonopah, an' she won't have to pay no recordin' fees neither."

"And while you're about it, put in what cash there is, too, Dude," exclaimed Houghton, eagerly. "I can stand the donation of the boards. Fact is, I've got a wife and kid of my own back East-a boy that's wearing about the same kind of a little stocking that we found in Shorty's pocket, and a woman that's true blue, too. I've been saving and scrimping to scrape together to build a little shack and buy some furniture, thinking maybe I could get them out here before Christmas. Perhaps some of you fellows may have

thought I was figuring almost too close sometimes, but I had to go in debt for a part of my stock, and with the camp not picking up the way we expected it towell, it's been slow work. And the way I've missed the wife and kid! Why, I tell you that when I looked at that little brown sock to-day there was a lump in my throat as big as a hen's egg. That's the kind of fool a man can be when he

is a fool."

"I know," rejoined Casey, reaching one huge, hairy hand in brotherly friendliness to the other's shoulder. "I've felt that way myself more'n once, an' when 'twas somethin' worse than lack of money that was stoppin' me sendin' for 'em, too. But when it comes to gittin' your folks out here, Houghton, you jes' want to git a hustle on an' do it. Why, it's jes' what this camp needs to start things-to git a real family here. It would begin to seem like a real place then. An' for the sake of the place-well, I ain't any bloated bondholder, but I got a little wad layin' idle in the Tonopah Bank, an' I want to say that if the loan of a few hundred dollars would start that shack to buildin', why, you're welcome as the day to it, Houghton."

"And I've got a lot of furniture over in Goldfield that's only been keepin' me poor payin' storage on it since my wife quit me," put in Red Willis, eagerly, "an’ if you could take it in an' use it, Houghton, you could figure you'd be jes' natchelly savin' me money."

"Casey, you're a man! An', faith, Willis, you're another!" cried Dan Mulligan, delightedly. "But 'tain't for you two to be hoggin' it all, an' I move you, boys, that we take up a collection roight now to square Houghton on the countersure, it ain't for him to be makin' it a donation, though it's proud we are of him for the willingness. But he's got that wife an' baby to think of. An' thinkin' of thim, too, I move you, boys, that we all turn to to-morry morning an' make 'dobe bricks for his residence for didn't we foind the 'dobe clay to bate the worruld whin we was diggin' the cache for poor Shorty beyant? An' ain't that betther for the climate nor any frame house he could be. buildin', to say nothin' of the cheapness? Sure, the kid will hang up a

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HE INTIMATE relations now existing between the United States, the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands, Cuba, Porto Rico and the Isthmus of Panama, have brought the diseases of the tropics to the earnest attention of the American people. Until quite recently, the graduate of any medical school in the United States had very vague ideas of leprosy, cholera and the rarer skin diseases, and was unable to diagnose them correctly. There are very few country practitioners in temperate regions who recognize leprosy when they see it; while plague, anaemia, dysentery, beriberi and many other "tropical" diseases are quite unknown to them.

The importance of the study of tropical diseases has been recognized by the British Government, which in 1899 established the London School of Tropical Medicine, at the opening of which the president said: "The details of tropical pathology, of diagnosis and treatment, and consequently the application of those principles to practice, differ widely from those obtained in temperate climates. It is with the science and practice of medicine as with the science and practice of agriculture; success or failure in the application of principles depend in great measure on knowledge of detail. It is the knowledge of details, the special training and the special experience, plus a scientific apprehension of principles. that will enable a practitioner to deal successfully with tropical disease. A physician may be competent to deal with. diseases in England but sadly incompetent to deal with disease in Africa."

Since 1898 the manner in which yellow fever is disseminated and may be prevented has been shown; and Havana has been made as healthy a city as any in the tropics. Malaria has been brought under con

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Early in 1903 the Jefferson Medical College established a lectureship in tropical medicine, Dr. Kieffez, of Manila, being the first lecturer. In the same year, the Washington Post-Graduate School established a similar course, and Philadelphia has a "Society for the Study of Tropical Medicine and Surgery." Lectures tropical medicine have been delivered at Chicago, St. Louis, Ann Arbor and San Francisco. Sir Patrick Manson, the distinguished British physician, in an address before the Merchants' Association of San Francisco, said: "When the Panama Canal is cut, you will probably find that it will introduce yellow fever into Asia; and that a yellow fever scare is worse than a bubonic plague scare. *** There is no question as to the necessity of a school of tropical medicine in the United States. I presume that the standard of medical education in the United States does not differ much from the standard in England, and I know that an ordinary physician there, fresh from a medical school, knows nothing of the diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases. *** Very few young physicians are competent to take charge of bodies of men in tropical countries. It is too much to expect of a medical man without a special educa tion.

"The opportunity in San Francisco is far better than in London. There is a local Chinese colony, which should be able to supply a large number of cases for teaching purposes. There are Japanese, Filipinos, Hawaiians and other tropical people to draw upon.

"A great deal has been said about studying the diseases where they arise, but the tropics, where the steaming heat knocks the energy out of white men, and where you feel inclined to sleep every hour of the day, and can't look down a microscope without a drop of sweat obscuring the eyepiece, is no place for study. The place to learn tropical medicine is in a cool place, like San Francisco. Cities do not live by bread alone, and, if San Francisco would establish a name and reputation for an undertaking so valuable to humanity, it would be greatly to her advantage."

Three things are absolutely necessary to the establishment and maintenance of a School of Tropical Medicine:

1. Competent and experienced teachers.
2. Adequate clinical material.
3. Students.

The teachers must possess the necessary knowledge and the faculty of imparting it. They must have at their command an abundance of material for daily demonstrations. The attendance of an adequate number of students to maintain the school successfully depends on the general recognition of the need of the knowledge to be acquired at the school, on its accessibility and on suitable social and climatic conditions. Enterprise, energy and money would supply all else that is needed.

Dr. E. S. Goodhue, a well-known physician of Honolulu, asserts that all the requisites for establishing and maintaining a successful school of Tropical Medicine are found at Honolulu, which is even better adapted to such a purpose than San Francisco. He urges strongly the establishment of the pioneer School of Tropical Medicine at Honolulu. The Hawaiian Islands are a most fruitful field for the observation and study of tropical diseases. They are a chemical retort into which the most diverse and incongruous elements and compounds have been introduced. The population includes Hawaiians, Japanese, Portuguese, Filipinos, Porto Ricans, natives of many of the South Sea groups,

white men of many nations, and negroes. The Hawaiian Islands have hospitals and dispensaries; the system of free treatment is said to be better than ir the United States; Government medical men are in charge of all outside districts. The equable climate is favorable to study and the social environment is satisfactory.

In such a school the students would not only become familiar with the diseases of the tropics and learn how to treat them, but would also be put in the way of investigating, observing and studying scientifically the great tropical scourges. A competent faculty would not limit its work to the Hawaiian Islands, but would send representatives to foreign countries for study. It would be the duty of a prosperous school to improve the habits of the people by instructing them what to do; to make the Islands healthier by eliminating preventable diseases; to issue bulletins and a journal of tropical medicine, thus helping the community and advancing the cause of science. By showing how leprosy is propagated, the danger of contracting the disease in the Hawaiian Islands and all other countries which it scourges is diminished, and it becomes possible to avoid leprosy just as yellow fever and malaria may be avoided. library of tropical medicine would be accumulated gradually. The publications issued from time to time by the school would contain instructions with regard to diet, dress, personal habits, etc., of residents of tropical countries, and would be of great benefit to the people.

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Dr. R. T. Strong, a physician of much experience in the Philippines, uses the following language, which is equally true of the Hawaiian Islands: "The frequency of dysentery in the Philippines, the inability of physicians to cope with the disease, and the fact that one attack seems to afford no protection whatever against another, makes it necessary that very thorough and complete study should be made to discover, if possible, some method of preventing infection, and, possibly, some serum that will effect a cure."

It has been found that the anaemia common among Porto Rican laborers on the Hawaiian plantations and the great losses of sheep in Texas, are due to a species of hookworm, discovered by Dr. Stiles