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is, why not show it by granting your fellow-practitioner an early 
reply to all correspondence ? Why not show your interest in a 
more potent form by attending the meeting of your local veteri¬ 
nary medical association ? If you are not a member, go as a 
visitor. You will always find the latch-string out, or in later 
phraseology, “Just press the button, and they will do the rest.” 
You will soon become so interested yon will realize your need 
of association fellowship and wonder how you existed without 
it. Or probably you are one of those who are willing to en¬ 
shroud themselves in a mantle of egotism, and feel the meet¬ 
ings of the association unworthy of their attendance and sup¬ 
port. Yes, I meant to use the word shroud, as such an article 
will be useful in their early professional burial. Do you not 
realize the rapid advancement of our profession is due in a great 
measure to our associations ? Then why are you contented to 
continue your parasitic existence ? You cannot even be con¬ 
sidered as a sponge, for it will upon pressure or by slow evapo¬ 
ration give out all it has taken up. 
Why not give to your fellow-practitioners at these meetings, 
or through the medium of the veterinary journals, more of your 
cases and experiences, that all may be benefited and onr worth 
to our people enhanced all over the land ; some one may be en¬ 
couraged and enthused by your effort to lighten the burden of 
the veterinarian, and in return may suggest the idea yon have 
been groping after for years. Why not be willing at all times 
to give your professional brother a light off your cigar ; he has 
gained, yon have not lost, perhaps gained also by the aroma of 
his probably superior Havana, which had been useless to him 
till the procuring of your assistance ? Why not be ever ready 
to reach out the right hand of good fellowship and assist each 
other? Not willing to do it only on demand, but proffering it 
at all times, thus showing to your professional brethren that 
you have an object in life; an object which in your case deserv¬ 
edly begins with a capital O. 
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to 
others? Why not, in furtherance of this same end, take a 
