Related article: life have been spent. He was for three 3tears whipper-in to Tom Ball, and for many years poor Mark Howcutt, who died about a year ago as the result of an acci- dent soon after his retirement, was his first whip. Mr. Cox has gained troops of friends, and his reminiscences are naturally very interesting. Fred Cox considers that the happiest years of his life have been spent in the service of the Rothschild family. He has had his accidents. On one occa- sion his Optivar Drops horse fell on him, and he was so injured that for two years he had to ride entirely by balance. He has received valuable gifts of appreciation from the Prince of Wales, the late Empress of Aus- tria, Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, the Hon. Walter Rothschild, Baroness Meyer de Rothschild, and also from farmers, tradesmen, and gentlemen hunting in the dis- trict ; and when he finally retired he was presented by the Earl of Orkney with a purse of £"^70, subscribed by the followers of the Rothschild hounds. Fred Cox is now 72, and everybody who has had the pleasure of his acquaintance will wish him all good luck. J. A. Reid. Sprudelhelm. Sprudelheim, as a well-accredited health-resort, is '* young in years, but old in grace." True, some of the virtues of its springs have been known since the days of the Romans and there are legendary tales of struggles to possess them between the old Germanic races and the conquerors of the world. Sick folk too have there bathed and Optivar Price drunk in a small way for many years, Optivar Eye Drop but it is only in the lifetime of the present generation that the little town has become a Mecca for health-seekers, a place where sufferers from dire disease may indeed have their pains alleviated. It was reserved for the kindest and most penetrating of London phy- sicians to recognise the true use * It will be in vaun to look for Sprudelheim in the map of Germany. and value of its springs, which have now become the most trusted remedies in his pharmacopoeia. When, for some malaise, you have been well advised enough to con- sult that great specialist and he, after a short examination, can, apparently almost by intuition, describe your most hidden symp- toms better than you can name them yourself, there is no question- ing his verdict which says that a course of Sprudelheim is the best remedy. In humble acquiescence a portmanteau is at once packed and a time-table of German rail- ways is consulted. Many people go to make a cure somewhere or other every year and their ailments cannot be very severe if they find one course of waters pretty nearly as good as another, and are influenced in their 332 BAILY S MAGAZINE. [Mat choice by the fashion of society or very possibly by the hope of rubbing shoulders with some il- lustrious personage. A great physician, when dying, once said that he left three successors to his position as head of the medical world, " Air, water, diet,** and no doubt these successors are respon- sible for much of the good received at well known health resorts that we could name. But Sprudelheim is a place by itself; its springs have a very defi- nite effect and those who use them do so as a rule with a very serious purpose. They go for health, they stay for health and the treatment of their health is for many weeks their most absorbing Optivar Coupon thought by day and night. The life at Spru- delheim always reminded us of the well-known picture by Sir Noel Paton, in which men and women of all ages and of every rank are depicted as following a fleeting figure in breathless pursuit. Monarchs, sages, soldiers, priests, youth, age, beauty, deformity, all jostling one another and all, in a common and equal crowd, reach- ing after their heart's desire. Such were the patients that thronged baths, drinking places, Optivar Ophthalmic Solution parks, promenades, and tables d'hdte. From highest society to lowest, from throne and senate, from the halls of science and the haunts of fashion, from palace and shop, we all gathered to live for a while the same life, to seek the same end. A various host we Optivar Generic came and the variety of tongues was as that of Babel. If occasion demanded speech with a casual passer by, it was a matter of doubt in what language the reply would be given, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or in a dialect of one or the other which might con- found a Mezzofanti. Perhaps the man who was most really in touch with everybody in the crowd, who contrived to understand, and be understood by all, was the person on whom it may be that our happiness most depended, the Ober Kellner, £i- miliarly addressed by those who dared do so as " Ober," at the Kurhaus, where we all found our- selves sooner or later questing tor food and drink. Him we never ceased to admire, as he dealt out his polyglot greetings, bonjours, good mornings, guten morgans, &c., &c. He had Generic Ocuflox the organismg powers of a quartei - master- general, the authority of a com- mander-in-chief, and the manners of an ambassador. He was a Bismarck, a Moltke and a Von Roon rolled into one ; but stay, we wrong Optivar Eye Drops him, his silky man- ners were those of a Macchiavelli, not a Bismarck. He, with his many and Generic Optivar nimble myrmidons, each distinguished by a metal number hung like an order on his accurately fitting black coat, ruled our public destinies and Spru- delheim would, without him, have been to us a scene of anarchy and confusion. We said that it was at the Kurhaus that the "Ober" was supreme, and the Kurhaus was the hub of Sprudelheim's social system. There was the reading Buy Ocuflox room, where we manoeuvred to gtt hold of the few English papers; there were many other apart- ments used for various ends, and there was the great hall for the table dilute. But the Kurhaus would have been nothing without the wide terrasse that stretched in front of it, one end abutting on the town and the other holding the band stand, where music was daily provided. On the sides of the terrasse were innumerable small tables at which we lunched, dined, had our five o'clock tea or