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ROSS VS. GRASSI

said: "The facts of science are greater than the little men who find those facts!"—and then have gone on searching, and saving.

For the fight has only just begun. The day I finish this tale, it is twenty-five years after the perfect experiment of Grassi, comes this news item from Tokio—it is stuck away down in a corner of an inside page of a newspaper:

"The population of the Ryukyu Islands, which lie between Japan and Formosa, is rapidly dying off. . . . Malaria is blamed principally. In eight villages of the Yaeyama group . . . not a single baby has been born for the last thirty years. In Nozoko village . . . one sick old woman was the only inhabitant. . . ."

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