Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-10-05
DEATH OF PASTEUR
He Became Famous in Fighting
Hydrophobia
HE WAS A GENIUS IN SCIENCE
His Birth in a French Province, Ills Life
in Paris and the IIonors Hcapcd
Upon Him.

Paris, Sept. 2S.-Professor Louis Pas
teur, the eminent bacteriOl0Gist, died
here at o'clock this evening.
Louis Pasteur was born December
81, 1922, in the French town of Dole.
His father was an old soldier who, on
returning to France decorated with the
trophies of war, was obliged to work
hard to earn his bread. He took up
the trade of a tanner, and soon after
ward married a worthy young Sirl
whose heart and spirit were agitated
by thoughts above the level of her
modest life. When little Louis came to
them, with mingled pride and tender
ness they used to say over him: I'VE
will make him an educated man In
1925 the Pasteur family removed to
Arbois, where the Pasteur senior
bought A lanyard, in which Louis spent
a good part Of his childhood. until he
was old enough to go as a half-pay
scholar to the communal college. The
father used to supervise his sons les
sons every evening. Young Louis was
"a good deal of a boy. He did not take
the shortest road to his school, or re-
turn directly to his home. He amused
himself with the making Of portraits
of his friends, male and female, and the
accuracy of his drawings in his 18th
year was astonishing. what a pity
recently said an old lady of Arbois,
that he should have buried himself
in chemistry. He has missed his voca-
ton, for he might by this time have
made his reputation as painter
PASSION FOR WORK.
Finally Louis began to realize The
sacrifices his father was making for
him, and the passion was aroused with
in him for the work which was to form
the foundation of his life. The prin-
cipaI of the college, where he first out
stripped all his comrades, used to say:
Gle will go far. 1t is not for the chair
of a small college like ours that we
must prepare for him; he must become
professor in a royal college" My lit
tie friend" he would say to Louis,
'think of the great Ecole Normale."
And to the EcOle NOrmale in due time
he went; and when he was duly at work
there, the director cOnfided to him the
superintendence Of the quarters Of the
older pupils, who, during claSstime,
were his comrades.
Chemistry was then taught in the
Ecole Normale by NJ Ballard The late
M. Dumas was professor of chemistry
at the SOrbOnne, and Pasteur used to
attend his lectures as often as poSsi-
BILE. When he graduated he went as
assistant professor of chemistry to
Strasburg. 1t was while connected with
the university of that place that he
married Mile. Marie Laurent and the
story goes that when the wedding day
arrived he came near missing the APP
pOintment SO absorbed was he in an
unfinished experiment in his labora-
tory.
THEORIES ATTACKED.
In January, 1869, NJ. Pasteur heard
that certain scientists were attacking
his discoveries concerning the silk
worm disease. Accompanied by his
family and assistants he proceeded to
the village of st. Hippolyte-du-Fort
where he had secured a little cottage
in which to conduct experiments. He
convinced himself that his theories
were correct, but did not satisfy his OPP
moments, who were so violent in their
attacks that the government hesitated
about accepting the results Of his work.
NapoIeon III had become personally
interested in the controversy, and au-
thorized Marshal valiant to propose to
Pasteur that he proceed to a villa in
Austria belonging to the prince i'm
nerial. Silk worms had been bred there
FOR 10 wears, but without profit, owing
RI the rayages Of disease. The whole
business was to be turned over to Pas
teur's management, and he would thus
nave an opportunity of applying his