Dr.Salmon has not discovered the elixir of life, for the shadows of life's evening are stealing slowly over him.

He cannot move about, his hearing is dulled, and the light is almost shut out from the "windows of his soul." Let us think of this remarkable man waiting for death uncomplainingly in his old-fashioned mansion, surrounded by the beautiful foliage and the broad expanse of green fields that he loved so much to roam when a younger man, in that sylvan Sleepy Hollow in the Vale of Glamorgan.' "Eight weeks later he, who in youth had been 'the youngest surgeon in the army, died, the oldest physician in the world." Dr.William Hotchkiss, said to have reached the age of one hundred and forty years, died in St.Louis April 1, 1895.

He went to St.Louis forty years ago, and has always been known as the "color doctor." In his peculiar practice of medicine he termed his patients members of his "circles," and claimed to treat them by a magnetic process.

Dr.A.J.
Buck says that his Masonic record has been traced back one hundred years, showing conclusively that he was one hundred and twenty-one years old.

A letter received from his old home in Virginia, over a year ago, says that he was born there in 1755.
It is comforting to the members of our profession, in which the average of life is usually so low, to be able to point out exceptions.