Morning journal and courier., 1893-02-06
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 under the best sanitary conditions. He was not allowed any milk except what had been first scientifically sterilized. No meat was fed him uptn it had been sub jected for four hours to temperature Of four hund1ed and fifty-one degrees in or der to kill any of the microbes which
 might be lurking within its tissues. He was not allowed to lap any water except l that which had been first boiled fifteen
 minutes in accordance with the directions | of the board of health. His kennel was | cleaned and sprinkled with germioides eve | ry hour. All his food was subjected to | mioroscopicsl and chemical inspection,
 and, in short, everything which great I
 sanitary scholar could suggest was done to I
 protect the animal from being insidiously |
 attacked by the cunning and pestifeIous
 bacteria. In fact it required all the time
 of one servant to carry out my sanitary directions, besides my own scientific toll. After I had owned the pup month some water was given him which, by mis- take, had been boiled only fourteen min utes. The intelligent animal at once saw that something was wrong and he refused to touch the water. He whined, shook his head and acted as if he wanted to say:
 My fine sanitary susceptibilities tell me that those microbes are still dangerous; they have not been boiled the time re- quired by science" This demonstration ment gave me great delight Thereupon I named the dog Sanitas and called him San for short. He rapidly grew to bs fine large dog and I grew very fond and very proud of him. At first thought should name him Peacemsker, but the name San itas pleased me more and more every day. When time permits may tell you some of the discoveries valuable to mankind which are the rich results of scientific ex- periments made with San. At present I can only state @ few incidents in which he was an actor November 7, 1891.
 Early in the morning of that day my | friend, Jonathan Edwards Cowell came to my house and proposed that we drive over | to Branford on coon hunt. The idea l pleased me immensely. I hate coon be- cause he is such an unsanitary animal. He eats frogs and mice which have not ! been disinfected, entrails and all. His | house is utterly destitute of sanitary plumbing and he appears to take no pre- | cautions whatsoever to guard against the deadly bacteria.
 After taking sn early breakfast we start
 ed for Brsnford, taking along San and a
 sharp axe. Upon arriving in Branford we
 left our horse at & farm house and went
 into a woods which we were told was 8
 good place to find coons. We put close
 muzzle and chain on San to keep him
 slowly and cautiously stole through the
 woods. We know the habit of coon is
 to come out of his houee on pleasant day
 aud sun himself on limb, so we kept 8
 sharp lookout for hollow trees In about
 an hour our search was successful. While
 crossing little knoll we looked down into
 the hollow in front of us and saw 8 large
 basswood tree, the top of which had been
 blown of, leaving stump about thirty
 fest high, with few branches near its
 top. Upon one of these limbs lay g large mother raccoon with four children
 near her. all basking in the sun.
 Friend Cowell looked at them a mo
 ment and then said: "Those coons seem
 to be taking so much comfort and look
 so nice and sleek. don't let us disturb
 them" did not share the kind feelingi , of my companion and at once replied "Coons are unsanitary creatures. h tht E language of my brother sanitsrisns they are enemies of the public health,' and think 1t was foreordained from the be ) 1 ginning of the world that my mission
 should be to wage unceasing war on sucl - | enemies"
 8 Friend Cowell is devout believer 1, D rigid Calvinistic doctrine. Consequent, ? l my foreordination argument overwhelmed 8 him and he assented to my proposition : to cut down the stump and capture tn
 coons.
 !, As soon as the coons saw us they al n ran down into the hollow stump. W 6 then went up to the tree and began > cut it down. San smelled the coons r We took off his muzzle and the way tha @ dog parked and jumped around, full c IT eagerness to get at the coons, was @ Ct d rious spectacle. To keep him from dar y ger of being cut with the axe we tie Is him to 8 tree at safe distance from ul 'r All the time we were cutting down th l. stump San kept up perpetual clamol n as if he wanted to say: ''f am ssnit' le ry dog-just let me get chance at thos B. unsanitary coons."
 le Finally the etunp fell, revealing 8 ho 3. low in the log large enough for San IS run up into. I started to let him loos, 10 whereupon Cowell said: "Hold on mir B. ute. You have been bragging about you e pup rear ed on sanitary principles. No st he fs seven times as big as the coon, but y will bet you hat that this unaanitar n coon will whip your sanitary dog"
 y The sad fact is that my friend Cowel y although pious man and firm in the tru o and ancient faith that the vast majority ( ,r mankind are destined to be eternally roas al ed hereafter, is tainted with the wicke D. idea that sanitarians are shallow lot ( d l persons who have inconsiderately embrace . some shallow ideas soon to be relegated t
 the limbo of other follies which have her. n tofore temporarily mialed human wesl r. ness. This unfortunate condition of m t, friends mind made me all the more am n ious to demonstrate the superiority of m !. sanitary dog. After some discussion W l. decided to have trial by battle of th { merits of the sanitarians;-that the coo d should represent the anti-sanitarians an r. the dog should bear the well known an J. honorable colors of the New Haven boar }. of health-and that one of Brooks bet g hats should be stsked on the result of th :. contest.
 ,l I then let San loose. With a gres t bound and fierce growl he dissppesre p in the hollow log. Almost immsdiatel l. we heard wailing yelp inside the 10 h and then series of dolorous ki-yis cam 1 pouring out of the opening. We hear d the yells nearer and nearer the mouth c s the hollow log, and presently out cam o San screaming "bloody murder, watch, fir :. and police," with the coon's teeth burie n deeply in his shoulder and her sharp claw t wound around and into his writhing body |, | A few feet from the stump the coon re J. leased her hold and ran back into the los l. Ssnitss then sat down on his hsunche D and howled so that he could have been es & silly heard by @ person mile away. s tried to set him on the coon again, but j. whined and shook his head as if to say y II have had all the argument I want wit n that unsanitary coon. I decline furthe 0 debate."
 8 Cowell laughed and screamed with dc l. light. For my part, must confess tha s at first I felt mortified to find that m }. carefully reared dog had so little sand f }. him. However, scientific explanation c e the matter was soon revealed to my santa : ry mind. I saw that Sans defeat was du d to my failure to inoculate him with Koch
 lymph. wanted to do so when that grea J. discovery was first proclaimed to a won
 dering world, but my fellow scientists al
 tumbled over each other so, in their eager
 ness to get some of that mysterious fluid b that I, being an in6rm old man, wa
 crowded out and failed to get any.
 Cowell then said: i've have had ful g enough with these coons. Let us go hom s and leave them alone. The mother de t serves liberty for her brave defense of he 6 children" So we started for home. Or ;. the way iokingly asked Cowell if he di' n not want San in exchange for the hat