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sciences, and even capital—has suffered to snch an extent that 
an estimate of the losses is not possible. Why not add the losses 
in every industry together for the past four years and place them 
all to the account of the all-absorbing and all-eonquering hump¬ 
backed bicycle ? 
As the general financial and commercial horizon clears, and 
prosperity again smiles on this great country, which it is as cer¬ 
tain to do as the bicycle as a craze is to subside, the horse and his 
friends (and their name is legion) will participate as grandly in 
the good times as they ever did. Already the demand for well- 
bred animals is increasing, prices are as high for quality as they 
have been for years, and they will steadily advance with a return 
of the feeling that the country has emerged from the chaotic 
state in which it has existed for the past four years. 
IIvIvINOIS VETERINARIANS UP IN ARMS. 
There is nothing surprising about the action of the Chieago 
Veterinary Society at its special meeting in April and at its 
regular May session, as the profession of Illinois generally, and 
of Chicago in particular, has been submitted to the most humil¬ 
iating insults both by the Governor of the State and the authori¬ 
ties of the Windy City that could be offered to a body of earnest 
men struggling for the good of a noble profession and for the 
benefit of mankind. The affront is no greater to the veterina¬ 
rians of Chicago than it is to the members of the profession 
throughout the State, so far as the action of Governor Tanner 
is concerned, but the Society, being composed of energetic 
and earnest men, and meeting at frequent intervals, has under¬ 
taken to champion the cause of their less fortunate brethren, 
until snch time as it too can take up the cudgel against the 
common enemy, the politician. Nor is this disgraceful proceed¬ 
ing a Statq matter only, but it concerns every graduated mem¬ 
ber of the profession of veterinary medicine throughout the 
country and throughout the English-speaking world. We made 
notice in the May Review of the appointment by the Governor 
of the State in question of a non-gradnate to the very impor- 
