My picture of incompetency and apparent success of incompetents, is not overdrawn. The other day I had a marked copy of a local paper from a town in California. It was a flattering write-up of an old classmate. The doctor's automobile was mentioned, and he had marked with a cross a fine auto shown in a picture of the city garage. This fellow had been considered by all the Simple Simon of the class, inferior in almost every attribute of true manliness, yet now he flourishes as one of those of our class to whose success the school can "point with pride." It is interesting to read the long list of "changes of location" among Osteopaths, yet between the lines there is a sad story that may be read. How often I have followed these changes. First, "Doctor Blank has located in Philadelphia, with twenty-five patients for the first month and rapidly growing practice." A year or so after another item tells that "Doctor Blank has located in San Francisco with bright prospects." Then "Doctor Blank has returned to Missouri on account of his wife's health, and located in ----, where he has our best wishes for success." Their career reminds us of Goldsmith's lines: "As the hare whom horn and hounds pursue Pants to the place from whence at first he flew." There has been many a tragic scene enacted upon the Osteopathic stage, but the curtain has not been raised for the public to behold them. How many timid old maids, after saving a few hundred dollars from wages received for teaching school, have been persuaded that they could learn Osteopathy while their shattered nerves were repaired and they were made young and beautiful once more by a course of treatment in the clinics of the school. Then they would be ready to go out to occupy a place of dignity and honor, and treat ten to thirty patients per month at twenty-five dollars per patient. Gentlemen of the medical profession, from what you know of the aggressive spirit that it takes to succeed in professional life to-day (to say nothing of the physical strength required in the practice of Osteopathy), what per cent. of these timid old maids do you suppose have "panted to the place from whence at first they flew," after leaving their pitiful little savings with the benefactors of humanity who were devoting their splendid talents to the cause of Osteopathy?