Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-31
THE WORK OF M. PAsTEUR.
\ Walk Through His Laboratory
 With His Chief Assistant.

l With His Chief Assistant. l LONDON, Dec. 30.-Its representative has cabled tonight to the Boston Globe as fol lows:
 Your correspondent yesterday visited M. Pasteur's laboratory in Paris. M. Pasteur | was to busy too do more than extend cor l dial greeting to the reporter and refer him to his chief assistant, Dr. Grancher, for infor- nation as to the details of the treatment for l rabies. These you have doubtless already been informed of by the general press dis patches. M. Pasteur's little corps of assist ants regard their chief with the devotion in spired by a great leader. I was somewhat newspaper which had been sent him con- l taining communication by Henry Bergh championing the cause of the Newark dogs
 and describing Pasteur as an ''obscure drug gist, slnarting under his obscurity and seek
 ing notoriety," 'Who is this MT Bergha'
 inquired the doctor, land is it possible that
 such ignorance concerning M Pas
 teur exists in America2'' I assured the offended gentleman that, while the American people might esteem MT. Bergh for
 certain humanitarian ideas, they would hard
 ly regard him as safe guide in scientific
 matters. This assurance somewhat appeased
 the doctors indignation. 'I suspected as
 much" he rejoined, "but we who have so
 long known M. Pasteur as one of the bene
 factors of the race and one of the leading scientists of the age are surprised to find that
 so many people hear of him now for the first
 time suppose it is because he has turned his attention to a subject which appeals
 strongly to the popular imagination. Con-
 paratively few persons are afflicted with hy-
 drophobia, and yet in proving that this can
 be avoided M. Pasteur seems to have won wider reputation than by all the previous and far more important applications of the pro- found principle elucidated by him"
 hot, 1o J1, your representative. ''To inoculation com monly so-called," responded the doctor.
 '' You must remember" he went on, "that inoculation is not limited to human beings.
 It was really by inoculation of silk worms that Pasteur saved our silk industry from the destruction threatened years ago."
 Thls, exclaimed M. Grancher, his face glowing with enthusiasm, ''this is the man whom your MT. Bergh says is smarting under his obscurity. Why eleven years ago our government awarded Pasteur the solemn thanks of the French people for his dis tlngulshed services to mankind"
 ''1n what other way has the inoculation principle been appliedY' Using the word in it's widest sense" replied the doctor, ''it is applicable to the treatment of vines by which the ravages of the phylloxera have been checked and millions of francs saved annually to our wine producers. At one time this industry seemed likely to oAo oA'' II Wuo MI. Pasteur's advice that such a catastrophe was prevented. By the way" interjected the doctor, '1ook at that document" He handed the correspondent a bulky roll of manuscript. It an address to M. Pas teur signed by several thousand of the farm CTS of France thanking him for the promul gation of his method of curing the sheep of the malignant disease which few years ago decimated the hocks. ''Do you remember the success with which Dr. Ferran treated the cholera patients during the terrible epi- demic in Spain2" continued M. Grancher. "Ferran openly ascribed to Pasteur the orig ination of the idea of innoculation which he was putting into practice. I could go on for an hour, but I have already said enough to explain why we, his disciples, re- gard the treatment for hydrophobia as one of his least achievements
 AS took my leave after an interesting conversation upon M. Pasteur's methods the doctor smiling said: ''You Americans ought to know more about Pasteur, for the first public recognition of his services to science was in the shape of a prize established by that distinguished native of America, Count Rumford. This was thirty years ago. If Pasteur ever smarted under obscurity' it must have been before that time,'" and the doctor laughed heartily as he bade me adeu.