"Let the dogs live. The cars will necessarily kill some. They are not long lived at the best. They give us devotion, companionship, and ought to make us kinder and more gentle, from their helplessness and dependence upon us. They are good friends, to some very unfeeling people. Do not chain them up. Repeal our cruel laws. Let us, a professedly Christian city, be as humane as the unchristian Turk, or the worshipers of Buddha in India. Let us honor ourselves by doing justice to the speechless. Let the dogs live."

Here I give a cure for hydrophobia, a clipping, from a paper: "The time between the biting of an animal by a mad dog and the showing signs of hydrophobia is not less than nine days, but may be nine months. After the animal has become rabid the scratch of a tooth upon a person or slobber coming in contact with a sore, or raw place, will produce hydrophobia just the same as if bitten by a mad dog.

"Hydrophobia can be prevented, and I will give what is known to be an infallible remedy for man and beast if properly administered. A dose for a horse or cow should be four times as much as for a person. It is not too late to give the medicine any time before the spasms come on. The dose for a person is one and one-half ounces of elecamnane root bruised, put in a pint of new milk, reduced one-half by boiling; take all at once In the morning, fasting until the afternoon, or at least a very light diet until several hours are passed. The second dose same as first, except take two ounces of the root. The third same as the second. Three doses are all that are needed and there need be no fear, as I know from my own experience, and know of numbers of cases where it was entirely successful. This is no guesswork. The persons alluded to had been bitten by their own dogs, which were then tied up to see if they were really mad. They proved to be mad and the remedy was successful. A physician told me he had known of the use of this remedy for over thirty years and never knew it to fail when properly administered. He related a case where a number of cows were bitten, and penned half in one pen and half in another; to half the remedy was given and were saved. The other half died from hydrophobia." Let us not become insane on the hydrophobia question. Let the dogs have plenty of water, don't tie them up in hot weather, and don't make the poor animals chase for miles after a bicycle, carriage or electric car on a hot •and dusty road. If there is a spectacle humiliating to those who wish to respect their fellow man, it is the sight of a dog, in the last stages of exhaustion, struggling to keep up with some vehicle upon which his selfish master is taking his ease, unmindful of its misery.

The following article was written by D. E. Salmon, D. V. M., Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, in the Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, issued at Washington, D. C, and as will be seen, he is a firm believer in rabies. I reproduce it as authority from the other side of the question.

This is the concluding speech to the jury by the "Prosecuting Attorney," whose duty it is to always find the prisoner guilty:

"The symptoms of rabies are such as we should expect from serious disease of the central organs of the nervous system: First, Irritation; second, paralysis and death. The rabies virus appears to have little effect upon the system until it reaches the brain and spinal cord. There it multiplies, sets up irritation, and finally interrupts the functions.

"Rabies is generally divided into two forms: First, furious rabies; second, dumb rabies. In the former the animal is irritable, aggressive, and bites nearly every object which comes its way; in the latter the muscles of its jaw are paralyzed almost from the first appearance of symptoms, and being unable to bite, the animal remains more quiet and tranquil. Essen-tilly the. two forms of the disease are the same, but owing to the parts of the brain attacked and the acuteness of the attack, paralysis appears much sooner in one of these forms than in the other. The saliva from a case of dumb rabies is just as dangerous and virulent as that from a case of furious rabies. The dogs with dumb rabies are less dangerous simply because they are unable to bite and thus insert their saliva into a wound.

"The impression should not be formed that dumb rabies and furious rabies always represent two distinct types of disease, and that one may at a glance classify every case as belonging to one or the other of these types. Quite the contrary. The typical cases belong to the two extremes of symptoms, and there are all graduations between the two. In fact, almost every case of furious rabies sooner or later change into the dumb form, that is, the final stage of rabies is almost invariably paralytic, and the dumb form in its typical development occurs when the paralysis appears on the first day of the disease. The paralysis may not appear, however, until the second, or third, or some subsequent day.

"Again ,a dog does not necessarily bite everything about it even though it has rabies and its jaws are not paralyzed. It may be combative and furious all of the time, or only a part of the time, or not at all. There is no disease in which the symptoms vary more than in rabies of the dog, and it is, consequently, impossible in any description of moderate length to give an idea of the different forms under which it may appear.