The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-19

tho road to further benefits. HalIkine's
hnt-plagne system consists In adding a
weak solution OF cnrboIic acid. or es-
aenco OF mustard. to viruent growth
OF plague bacilli. thereby destroying tho
microbes: their products, however. which
remain. possess remarkable protective
power and may be used as vaccine. relying
for its power to confer immunity on that fun
domental view OF modern propby tactic treat
ment that ono attack OF disease from which an
individual RECEIVERS leaves him invsibly forth
ned against another attack In order to ac-
cumulate for the plague prophylactic large
amount OF these extra cellular toxines." the
bacilli were cultivated on tho surface Of
liquid medium. where they were suspended
by means OF drops OF clarified butter or Of CO.
coanut oil.
The incubation was described by a gentle
man who had been Haifkinized as like fifteen
vaccinations Mt one time. Its perfect harm
lessness was first OF oil demonstrated by the
officers OF the Plague Laboratory at Bombay.
the principal and professors OF the Grant Ned
ical College. a large number OF leading
European and native gentlemen OF Bombay,
together with their families and households.
The application OF the method on more ex-
tended scale soon followed: at Hubli alone
some $4,000 persons were operated upon.
Whether similarly extended needs will arise In
India or elsewhere In the near future is an UNI
certain problem Tho outlook is not good In
Egypt. where quarantine has Just been estab-
lished for great variety OF commercial goods.
But NJ Haffklne says that no Government must
look alone to incubation. or wait until disease
gets hold. and then say to its officers. Come
In and cure"
The whole subject Is arousinR the keenest
interest among the younger generation OF
medical men. The official support by the
Government OF the new Schools OF Tropical
Medicine In London and Liverpool has made
them rallyinG place for the study OF microbes
1t 10 enteric disease that carries of most
young Englshmen in tropical climates. After
80 most OF them are immune. but in their first
years OF residence thousands are victims OF the
native nee elect OF sanitation and poison charged
water supply. NJ. Haffkine mentioned that In
EQUATIONS against typhoid we're likely to give
the Same effect as against cholera. series OF
eXper iments was carried on last winter In q
number OF cantonments In northern India in
fascinating those who volunteered, as a pre-
ventive against this disease. But the study OF
incubation against typhoid 10 in still more
elementary condition than that against plague.
Lord Rosebery pleasantly continues his series
OF public dress rehearsals on the semi political
stage. very plainly ntimatinR that II the Lib
erHl party ubkS, tnen DuTklS ID Wllllu ne
sectional leaders OF the opposition are torn
with anger and despair over this jocular
wrecker. who may be animated with deeper in
tent than they know In making the formation
OF a Liberal Government impossible while he
remains in public life His CHEEKY advice to
jettison homo rule and reconstruct the Lib
eral party on the lines drawn before tho Union
ist split was admittedly a most mpractic able
utterance 1t puts the Irish Nationalist
vote in Parliament against his leader
ship. and 1t gave the great number OF
British Liberals who hoped home rule had
died with Gladstone an awkward question to
put to their candidates at elections Now.
Lord Rosebery has come out publicly on the
Church question. and. being a shrewd observer
OF popular feeling. he Is against the rituallsts.
| This keeps him level with Harcourt as a Broad
| Church champion But there ia nothing OF the
| perfervid. polemical prizefghter about Rose
| berry. He Is all for compromise and federation.
| His words are interesting. from the fact that
| they are typical both OF his genial attractive
ness and want OF definite intention that make
| him the enigma OF English politics. He says:
Il have som etimes been led to imagine what
would happen II the great Apostle OF the Gem
tiles were to return to earth and sec the posi-
ton OF the Church at this moment. He would
see that in the course OF a long development
OF centuries the faith that he preached in pow
| ety in prisons. In stripes. In persecution to an
| I'm believing world has assumed very different
! shape and proportions At this time. He would
| see the splendor Of ritual He would see great
| structures-the most beautiful in the world
| formed to commemorate that faith Of which he
saw tho foundation laid in circumstances 80
| different. He would see much to praise and
| perhaps something to condemn. But. II
| may carry my conjecture a little further
| Ii.
| OF establishment would be this-that the
most beautiful. the most eloquent. the most
| pathetic. and the most memorable passage in
| his writings Is the one that in ecclesiastical
| discussions Is the most often to be forgotten
| Do you remem Der the eloquent commentator
| that st. Paul gave on charity II was not aims
| giving only. but was that brotherly love which
| says no evil which thinks the best OF all things
and which sums 1t up by saying. Now abideth
| faith. hope. charity. those three: but the
| greatest OF these is charity? Do We always
recollect when We dispute about incense and
| lights In terms OF some violence that the
greatest OF all virtues that st. Paul incucated
| is charity? After all. am not here for one
moment to dispute the merits and the eleva-
ton OF a careful and beautiful Church service
but these are not the essentials OF Christianity
| and are we not little apt In striving after In.
| cidentas to forget the essentials"
| 1t Is very well felt and well said. Doubtless
| it will bring him many adherents. But how /,
| bears on tine definite question whether the
| national funds OF the Church OF England are &c
| pay salaries to clergymen who prefer and prac.
tice the ritual oil another Church is not obvious
| In connection with the centenary celebra.
lions OF the Royal Institution this week Prof
| Dewar gave remarkable demonstration with
| liquid hydrogen. As Is we'll known. the task o.
obtaining this gas In a fluid condition has beer
exceptionally difficult Liquid air, the produc
ton OF which comparatively lately astoundet
the world. Is now made by the quart. Some
months ago 1t cost no more than good cham
payne and now hopeful savants are talking o
| producing it almost as cheaply as ale. Blu
| liquid hydrogen as the professor remarked. |!
quite another affair 1t ia very costly to manu-
facture and very difficult to keep. as it Is ex
tremely volatile. Radiation must BIO checked
as far as possible. and so the ONCE o
preventing hydrogen from again vanishinG
into gas is assigned to liquid air. That. II