Editorials

In a recent number of the Chicago Herald is a sketch of the remarkable power of Henry Hendrickson, a Norwegian, forty-two years old, who was educated at the Blind School in Janesville, Wisconsin. He has been totally blind since the age of six months; yet he is able to go about alone, and can detect the depressions in the sidewalks, and the street-corners, before he comes to them,—and this without the aid of touch.

The empirical character of drug-treatment is shown by such a record as this, taken from the Nineteenth Century : In Lincolnshire a girl, suffering from the ague, cuts a lock of her hair and binds it around an aspen tree, praying the latter to shake in her stead. The remedy for a toothache at Tavistock, in Devonshire, is to bite a tooth from a skull in the churchyard, and keep it always in the pocket.

We are frequently asked the questions, What is new? and What is going on in Boston? with the hope that we shall not be forgotten away off here. Now, friends, we do not mean to forget you, and will not, if you will remember and do the things which we tell you.

This is a useful book, and timely. In 225 pages T.

In the show-window of the Spiritualist publishing-house and Banner of Light office, on Wadsworth Street, Boston, is a photograph, with a card beside it, bearing the following inscription: THE LATE DR. P.

Attention of Journal readers is called to the advertisement of the pamphlet by Rev. George B.

As will be seen by the following letter, there has been a movement under way to hold another mental healers' convention. As it is but four months since a similar enterprise was attempted, its results must have been very weak, and unsatisfactory to its projectors; else why repeat the effort so soon? This letter was received by a Christian Scientist, and was an attempt to beguile this Scientist into the meeting.

There has been an attempt in Illinois to prosecute a German midwife, for practising her vocation contrary to the new medical laws; whereupon J. E.

The complaint charged her with practising medicine contrary to Chapter 104 of the Laws of the 21st Assembly of Iowa; that, without complying with the provisions of that chapter, she performed the act of healing upon Mrs. George B.

Substitute the word education for government , in Lincoln's famous saying, and it might well be used as a definition of true culture: Education of the people, for the people, and by the people. In practice, if not in statement, this is the motto of the professional monthly called The Popular Educator.