EDITORIAL. 
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lost faith in its position somewhat by the failure of the auto¬ 
mobile show to attract the multitudes, the appearance of only 
eight vehicles for the run of the Automobile Club to Tarry- 
town, and other evidences of the impracticability of the horse¬ 
less carriage. 
The Veterinary Service Association, unable to obtain 
practitioners of any standing to become its slaves for a mess of 
porridge has adopted the dishonest practice of claiming that 
certain veterinarians (who would not recognize it in any sense), 
are connected with it. If this Association cannot see that its 
system is not only disgraceful but a failure, it is blind indeed. 
A Suggestion : Eastern veterinarians, take your wives 
with you to Detroit next September, and goby way of the Great 
Lakes, thus securing one of the most restful and delightful ex¬ 
cursions which the world affords. A party of sufficient size 
might secure attractive rates, besides the pleasure of renewed 
friendships and association. 
We will shortly begin the publication of the extensive ex¬ 
periments recently conducted jointly by the States of Texas and 
Missouri to determine some important facts concerning Texas 
fever. We have received from Dr. J. W. Connaway, of 
Columbia, Mo., a number of half-tone cuts illustrating the ex¬ 
periments, which will be employed in the body of the report, 
rendered jointly by Drs. Connaway, of Missouri, and Francis, 
of Texas. 
A VALUED CORRESPONDENT, Dr. Francis Abele, of Quincy, 
Mass., reports in this month’s Review, under the general head¬ 
ing of “ Reports of Cases,” the absorbingly interesting circum¬ 
stance of a man in attendance upon a case of tetanus in a horse, 
which the doctor was treating with antitetanin, becoming in¬ 
fected with the bacilli of that disease. While it would not ap¬ 
parently be impossible for the germs of the disease in the horse 
