but that there is a regular train of cause 

 and effect, and in the knowledge of how 

 to break this chain is the key to the 

 proper control of an epidemic. Veterin- 

 ary medicine has been able to obtain 

 benefits from bacteriology much beyond 

 those already so important to human 

 medicine. This is so because of the 

 persistent prejudice opposed to bacteriol- 

 ogy in medicine, while the veterinarian 

 has been allowed to treat his patients 

 practically as the experiment animals are 

 treated in the laboratory. 



Bacteriologists are frequently meeting 

 demands made of their science that are 

 beyond its present stage of progress. It 

 is frequently forgotten that this is biology 



whose deductions are always subject to 

 the variation of growing things, and not 

 chemistry or mathematics, with their def- 

 inite determinations and strict limitations 

 Bacteriology is now an established 

 science, and it is as competent to render 

 service in due proportion to its develop- 

 ment and with the same integrity as any 

 biological subject. There are now many 

 known facts in bacteriology that cannot 

 be made useful because intermediate 

 steps in their study have not been learned 

 It will require long series of experiments 

 in some cases, but when added to the 

 present usefulness of bacteriology the re- 

 sults may be expected to satisfy the most 

 severe critics. 



Adolph Gehrmann. 



THE YELLOW-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 



"Come here! come here! come here! 



My Philip dear, come here! come here! 

 Philip, my dear! Philip, Philip, my dear!" 



Poor mournful Mrs. Flycatcher, 



With ample breast of dainty buff, 

 Now don't you think you've called your mate, — 



To say the very least — enough? 



I'm sorry for you, plaintive one; 



I would be glad to make him fly 

 From his long tarrying place to you, 



If that would stop your weary cry. 



Can't you decide to give him up? 



All over town you've called his name; 

 I heard you calling this week, last, 



The week before you called the same. 



Perhaps some boy with " twenty-two" 



Has shot him for his sister's hat. 

 Go! search the churches through and through; 



If he's not there, accuse the cat. 



— Carrie B. Sanborn. 



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