EDITORIAL. 
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financial loss, and hangs on, like Wilkins Micawber, in the hope 
that something will turn up ; and we know of no commercial 
firm which has employed them that has not already dismissed 
them, or continue them merely as an expensive advertisement. 
Our esteemed New York Herald seldom mentions their exist¬ 
ence now, and although it is energetic in its quest of news it 
failed absolutely to secure the item detailing the disbandment of 
the Illinois Electric Vehicle Company. Although a little late, 
we give it full permission to copy the facts of the case from the 
news pages of the current issue of the Review. When inven¬ 
tive genius can daily replace the wear and tear upon the intri¬ 
cate machinery of an automobile as is done upon the complex 
machinery of the horse, then it may win in a fair competition ; 
but it never can by boastful buncombe, unsubstantiated claims, 
and malicious denunciation of the honest horse, and when the 
air bubble has passed by they will still find that horse power 
over streets and roads is the cheapest and most reliable means 
of progression, unless every street and every road is provided 
with a steel track, with a trolley overhead or underground. 
ALBERT W. CLEMENT. 
Those who were best acquainted with Dr. Clement will be 
the ones who will appreciate most keenly the great loss which 
veterinary science has sustained in his untimely demise, in the 
midst of his active and most enthusiastic labors in its behalf. 
Few men had been enabled to prepare themselves so well for 
their life-work as he, who spent years in passing through the 
various steps of an acute medical education, perfecting his 
knowledge after obtaining his degrees by intelligent research 
and study in the post-graduate schools and special laboratories 
of Europe. United with these qualifications was a love of the 
work which he had espoused amounting to an infatuation, so 
that he pursued his quest of knowledge in his daily labors, and 
thus constantly improved his mind until he stood at the very 
front of the most learned of his calling. When we say that Our 
profession has sustained a serious loss in the death of Dr. Clem- 
