Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-04-10
THE LONG BOW CLUB AGAIN.
A Letter from Its Honorcd scribe to AN Alb.
sent Member.
Island Pond, Vt, April I. 1891

Island Pond, VT, April I, 1891.
My DEAR -. We have been told that
"somc are born to greatness, others
achieve greatness, while still others have
greatness thrust upon them" As this is
true of men so it is true OF organizations
and societies. Even the LONG Bow CLUB
is no exception to this rule, and greatness
has been thrust upon not only the Club,
but on certain of it's members by an un-
expected addition to membership of a
late Importation from the Isle of Jersey.
This Comrade is unique in his way
writes V. S. at the end of his name, and
is quite willing that Others should do the
same. One of his first acts was to APP
point our worthy President his deputy,
and that nothing should be left undone a
regular diploma was made and presented
i'll due form by the Chaplain. This new
member so he tells us won his first fee,
and great notoriety, in the difficult feat
of extracting thirtyseven feet of barbed
wire from horses throat after all other
veterinary surgeons had given the animal
up to de This clever operation doubt
less attracted the attention of the Wash
ington authorities, and he was sent to
this port to prevent the importation Of
cattle that are infected with contagious
diseases and hunt for the deadly microbes
that cause the same, and am pleased to
state that he has not only accomplished
the former but has added to his fast bud
ding honors by discovering the latter
For over year the doctor has been on
the hunt for the microbe, and at last he
has CooPER-ED it, and has the little wig
ger imprisoned III glass slides.
1t must not I've supposed that the doc
| tor has simply brought TO light the mi
| crohc in the body of an Influenza patient.
This we are told is an easy matter; in
fact all that is needed to do this is a mi
| croscopc and newspaper reporter. No,
| far from It, our doctor Is no pot-huntcr,
creeping up on microbes and grabbing
them when they have no chance to cs.
cape; he takes them on the wing or does
not take them at all.
A few days since the doctor decided
that as the influenza was epidemic, its
microbes must be in the air. Taking
down his split bamboo fshing-rod, he
carefully attached glass slide to the end
Of the line; then packing his lunch basket,
the doctor, accompanied by his deputy,
the President of the Long Bow Club,
went up on the roof ofthe Stewart House.
Standing the lunch basket in the shade OF
the chimney they sat down on the edge OF
the roof, allowing their feet to dangle
over, and the doctor proceeded to whip
the air of the back yard for microbes
while his deputy held the microscope.
They kept very still that the microbes
might bite better. But it seemed to bc n
| poor day for them, and though they
hauled i'll the line frequently and examined
the slide with the microscope, and visited
the lunch basket often. they were not re
wardcd with single microbe for the first
four hours. The deputy then modestly
suggested that when he was boy and
went fishing IT was considered extremely
suspicious to cxpeetorate on the bait
The doctor SHnIcd at TINS ana called II