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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11

fore making his work public. knowing
that he would meet with criticism and
ridicule, he wished to fortify himself
at every point. In the spring of 1898
he prepared the manuscript for his
pamphlet, which was publishedfn in June,
1898. AS he had expected, he became
target for all sorts of abuse and malice,
especially in England. The medical
men of the continent were as rule more
scientific than those in England at that
time, and there the pamphlet was treat
ed with more consideration; for scien-
tific men are not prone to reject what is
new without fair tests. In England,
again, many medical men condemned
vaccination after giving it unfair trials
and refusing to follow his directions.
The first copy of Jenner's pamphlet
that came to America fell into the hands
of Prof. Waterhouse, of Cambridge.
Struck with the value of the discovery,
should it be all that was claimed for it,
he wrote an account of it for the Colum-
bian Sentinel of March 2, 1899, and
brought it before the American Acad-
emy of Arts and Sciences, Of which John
Adams was president. Waterhouse sent
to England for vaccine virus, and vac
cinated seven of his own children, six
successfully. Then, like Jenner, he
inocuiated them with smallpox, but this
did not take. That was the beginning
of vaccination in America. In 1901 DIR.
Waterhouse got some new virus and in
structions from Jenner, and sent some
to Thomas jefferson, who was then
president of the United States. Jeffer-
son Immediately vaccinated nearly 200
persons in the families of his sons-in-
law and neighbors. and his success in
creased the popularity of vaccination in
America.
For four years after the publication
of his pamphlet, Jenner gave practi-
cally all of his time to vaccination, and
most of it gratuitously, and in addition
spending several thousand dollars
year in the work. Parliament was petit
toned to compensate him for his
great work, and after debate he
was voted q miserable 6 10000, much
less than he could have made in private
practice, had he accepted the invita-
tions to go to London. Several years
afterwards, the facts being again
brought before parliament, he was
voted an additional 6 100000.
In one way or another Jenner was
honored by the government or princes
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
DIR. JENNER'S DISCOVERY.
Vaccination for Smallpox Just One
Century Old.
The Famous Physicians Marvellous Scien-
tifc Revelation Was Not the Result
of Accident Has Been Stated
Time and Again.
written for This Paper.l


Edward Jenner, the discoverer of
vaccination and one of the greatest
oenefactors of the human race, per-
formed his first test experiment 100
years ago. On May IA, 1896, he inocu-
lated the boy Phipps from pustule on
the hand ofayoung woman who had got
cowpox from one of her employers
COWS. In addition to his work in this
ine he was a remarkable man, being
a naturalist, a Psychologist, a geologist,
an advanced agricultural scientist and
an eminent physician and surgeon.
Fitted by nature for scientific work,
ne was more inclined to it by the great
John Hunter, under whom he studied
medicine, and whose intimate friend he
was until Hunters death. In 1771 he
prepared the natural history speci-
mems brought back by Sir Joseph
Banks, Capt. Cooks naturalist, on his
first voyage of discovery, and for this
work was offered the position of natur-
alist to Cooks second expedition, but
this offer was declined.
Before he was graduated in medi-
cine his attention was directed to a
common belief among the country peo-
pie near his home in Worcestershire
that person who had once had cowpoX
was safe from smallpox. AS soon as
possible after going back to his native
place, Berkeley, to practice medicine,
he began to collect information on the
subject. For several years the cows
in that vicinity were free from cowpox,
and he could make no experiments.
From the first he was somewhat dis
couraged by his country physician ac-
quaintances, who said they had no
faith in the common belief, and bad
often seen people afflicted with small
pox after having had cowpox. On the
other hand, he found several persons
who had often been exposed to small
pox without infection after an attack of
cowpox, and they attributed their i'm
munity to the cowpox. Five years of
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and potentates of almost every civ
iliZed country. Diplomas and hon.
ors of learned bodies were show
cred upon him, and medals were
struck in his honor. In England, on
the continent and in America the clergy
prayed for him and preached the gospel
of vaccination. His pamphlet was
translated into almost every European
and Asiatic language. The Spanish
government, then more civilized and
wideawalle than at present, fitted out
an expedition that carried vaccinators
and vaccine virus to all the Spanish
possessions in the new world. So
greatly was Jenner honored that dur
ing the war between France and Eng
land his personal passport to an Eng
lishman travelling for his health was
honored by Napoleon on many occa-
sions.
Bitterly as Jenner and his discovery
were fought during the first 25 years of
vaccination, nothing could succeed
against the figures showing the decline
of smallpox year by year after 179S,
when the discovery was made known.
In some countries in which the annual
number of deaths from smallpox had
been thousands, 1T fell to tens, often to
less than fifty.
The mere saving of lives and of days
of illness does not appeal to some men;
but the saving of wealth touches pop
plar chord. During the first four years
of vaccination the saving of life and
days of illness resulted in England alone
in saving of wealth to the amount of
e 100000, from vaccination alone.Ma<-
ing no allowance for increase of popula-
ton, and taking no account of the great
er risk due to more rapid transportation
and closer intercommunication the
wealth saved in England alone by vac
cination during the century of vaccina-
tion amounts to 9S0.5o0, 900. The
amount is of course much greater, as
will be seen by the fact that the cholera
epidemic Of 1SS4-S7 cost southern Eu-
rope 10000 lives and more than $780,
o00,o00; and smallpox without vaccina-
ton would be a worse disease than choI-
era, far worse than yellow fever.
W. &. EGGLEsT0S.
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fed. They were usually talking very
earnestly together, and there was moth
ing of an jovial nature between them
They were simply prominent senators
discussing public affairs in confiden.
tiaI manner Senator Edmunds was
large man with full gray beard and
perfectly bald head. Senator Conkling
ling had full head of hair and a beau
tiful beard. think that Senator Conll-
ling was very proud of his appearance;
but Senator Edmunds was very plain
sort of man, and never dressed we'll
There was another public man who
often called upon Senator Conkling.
He came over from New York frequent
ly. and whenever / showed his card un-
der the door Senator CoEkling instant
ly responded and told me to bring the
gentleman up to his room. 1t was Ches-
ter 4. Arthur, and he was collector Z:
customs at New York. remem-
bers his name very well, because he sell
dom had any engraved cards with him,
but always leaned on the hotel counter
and wrote his own cards. He was aft
ervards vice president, and when Pres
ident Garfield died he became president
OF the United States.
whenever Mr.. Arthur went upstairs.
Senator Conl1ling would be waiting for
him at the door, give him a cordial wei
come, and shut the door. Mr.. Arthur
used to stay there sometimes until long
after midnight. One morning, at
about two o'clock, he came down from
Senator Conkling's room, and asked
for room for himself, but the hotel
was full and he had to go elsewhere to
get a bed. He was very cross about
il; but it was his own fault. He had
not registered nor asked for room.
i guess il they had supposed he would
ever be president of the United States,
the proprietor would have gladly given
up his own ROOM" SMITH D. Fry.
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Investigation as to the differences be-
tween the doctors and the dairy people
convinced Jenner that there were sew
eral different eruptions all known as
cowpoX, and that one variety did pro-
tect against smallpox.
Having established this fact, the new
difficulty arose that even after an at
tack of the true cowpox the mixers
sometimes had smallpox. Long study
and investigation showed the cause of
this: that the cowpoN was not preven-
tive unless it was communicated to the
human at a particular stage of the
eruption. 1t was well for Jenner and
for vaccination that this matter had to
be thought and worked out, for if the
vaccine theory had been published be-
fore, this fact was discovered vaccina-
tion might have been set back half
century, certainly for many years.
These Investigations had occupied
about Is years without Jenner's being
able to find single case of cowpoX.
Nothing shows better the fact that he
had n truly scientific mind than the fact
that he arrived at these correct conclu-
sions before he had the opportunity of
testing them by actual experiment.
From 17T3 to 1896 he was studying the
subject without seeing COW or person
with cowpoN. When the opportunity
finally came in 1796 the boy Phipps was
inoculated. The result was as pre-
dicted by Jenner. Afterwards the boy
was inoculated with smallpox, and this
incculation had no effect, as Jenner had
predicted would be the case. After years
of most patient work and investigation
Jenner had the satisfaction of knowing
that his reasoning was correct, and that
smallpox could be robbed of its tcrrors.
Solar as health and life are concerned.
no other discovery ever made can be
compared with the discovery of vacci-
nation. For years smallpox had been
tbe terror of the world, and Jenner had
the opportunity of becoming probably
the richest man in the world by keeping
his discovery a secret. He was too
much of a man to do that.
After his successful experiment on
the boy Phipps. Jenner went over all his
work and repeated his experiments be-
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would say: 7 am going in there He
would not waste any time with them,
but went right on in to his breakfast.
! have heard men swearing at him, when
he left them in that way: and then,
when he would come out and go to
the parIor to see them, they would
greet him with bows and smiles, as
though they were coming into the pres
ence of a king.
Senator Blaine used to stop occa-
sionally at Wormlcy's. and maybe you
don't know how those men hated each
other. Sometimes they would meet
in the halls, in the parlor, on the stairs
or on the elevator; but they never no.
ticed each other. think that Senator
Blaine used to like to go out of his way
to meet Senator Conkling in the pres
ence of other prominent people. Mr..
Blaine was always smiling and talking
to people. Mr.. Conkling would always
wear a severely dignified look, and
would not speak to Mr.. Blaine, or to any
of the people with Mr.. Blaine. Then,
after Mr.. Conkllng had gone away, Mr.
Blaine would smile and say: Tt is q
pity Conllling is so rude and ungentle
manly and the people would agree
with Mr.. Blaine. In that way, by pur-
posely meeting Mr.. Conkling, and max
ing him appear to be rude, think that
Mr.. Blaine managed to increase the
number of Mr.. Conkling's enemies.
There is one thing, however, that al
ways struck me as singular. Although
Senator Conkling was always dignified
and severe with public men, he was
polite to servants, if they treated him
with proper consideration. On the
other hand, Mr.. Blaine would smile and
bow to public men, but he never paid
any attention to servants, and did not
put himself out to be kind to us. Con.
sequently, the servants all stood in awe
of Senator Conkling, but they liked him,
too. But, while everybody talked o1
what great man Senator Blaine was
the servants did not praise him very
much.
There was one man that always stood
OH good terms with Senator Conkling
and that was Senator Morton, of Indi
ana. Those men were almost like
brothers. Senator Conkling was never
dignfied nor repellant with Senator
Morton. / think that he was the only
man with whom Senator Conkling even
walked arm in arm about the halls or III
the parlor. When he was with Sen.
ator Morton and no one else was about
Senator Conkling was different man
He would talk to Senator Morton, tel!
stories, and act as other men usually act
when in the company of friends. He
would laugh out loud when talking tc
Senator Morton; but he never showed
any more animation than to occasional.
ly smile when others were talking tc
him. He was the most dignified man
l have ever known.
There was another man whom Sen.
ator Conkling seemed to like very well,
and that was Senator Edmunds, of Yer.
mont. But their ways were very much
alike. Both of them were very digni.
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NUMBER s.
Knew Herself.

Stranger (at the door)-I am trying
to find lady whose married name ]
have forgotten, but know she lives in
this neighborhood. She is woman
easily described, and perhaps you know
her-a singularly beautiful creature,
with pink and white complexion, sea-
shell ears, lovely eyes, and hair such as
goddess might envy.
Scientifically, sir, don't know
Voice (from head of stairs) tell
the gentleman I'll be down in a min
ute.-N. Y. Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
MEMORIES OF CONKLING.
Some of the Peculiarities Of the
Great New Yorker.
The Senator Would Permit No Hotel
Ehploye to Knock at His Door
How the German Minister
Lost q Rooster.
Especial Washington letter.

"When | was very young man, l
used to wait upon Senator Conkling," ;"
says an old hotel servant. II was in the
dining-room, and for awhile / was bell
boy in Wormley's hotel. While was in
the dining-room attended to Senator
Conkling during an entire session of
congress. He was a very particular
man, but he was very kind man also.
soon learned to know exactly what he
wanted, and when went to the kitchen
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Perfectly safe

Wife petulantly)-Sucha a lump OF
selfishness! The house was full of
strange noises last night, and didn't
dare close my eyes once; and there you
were, sleeping like a log. Burglars
might have carried US both off and you
wouldn't have known it.
Husband (svearily)-Don't fret, dear.
IF they ever carry you off they'll bring
you back-N. Y. Weekly.
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origin of an Expression.

Yeast-I believe in battle the musi-
clans always go to the rear?
imsonbeak-Yes; and that is the
reason so many would-be soldiers think
tney would be willing to face the
nusic.-Yonkers Statesman.
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His Head All Right.

eve don't seem to have any No. 13
collars" said the haberdasher, after
looking through his stock. People
are not wearing 13's now, anyhow.
Won't No. IA do just as well?"
II think not" stiff1y answered the
young man on the outside of the coun-
ter. Il may have a little neck, but ]
am not q clam. Chicago Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
A Generous Landlord.

Tenant-That chandelier in the par.
lor is so shaky I'm afraid some time
when the children are romping under
it, the whole thing will fall.
Landlord-Well, that chandelier aint
worth more than its price for old brass,
anyhow. 1t doesn't matter whether ii
gets broken or not.-N. Y. Weekly.
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Guessed Exactly.

Squillig newspaper in hand Heres
an account of terribly-bungled exc
cution.
willigen-Couldn't the sheriff get
the hang of it?-Pittsburgh Chronicle
Telegraph.
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An Expert Definition.

whats the difference between a
bachelor girl and an old maid?"
well, a bachelor girl thinks she could
get married if she wanted to, and an old
maid knows she couldn't" chicago
Record
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So Informed.

Saidso-Whom do your children
favor?
Herdso-I'm told the pretty one looks
like his mother, and the other one looks
like me.-N. Y. World.
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A Masculine Discovery.

''Gamsby, what do you consider the
most trying characteristic of women?'-
why, their tendency to lose much OF
their good looks when they get old
enough to have sense."-Chicago Rec
ord
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An Easv Mnttcr.

Simmons-IIow in the world DO you
get yourself into the proper frame of
mind to write those pessimistic poelns2
Timmins--I use a fountain penn
dianapolis Journal.
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Town Topi

Mrs. Vansock Indignantly Mrs.
O'Lone, the color all came out of my new
table-cover on account of the horrible
washing-fuid you use.
Mrs. O'Lone (pacifyingly)-N
moind, mum. Shure it all wint into
the other clothes, mum.-Judge.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
No Need of Legal CompuIsiOn.

''Blest if i can understand this cur
rency question. I asked somebody
what a legal tender was, and he said
it was like this: If owe you So, and
offer you $2-bill to settle the debt,
you must take it,"
well, that's right"
"Yes; but what a blooming idiot
you would be if you wouldn't take it,"
Puck.
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Reducing Their Chances.

sJust think, there will not De another
leap year for eight years"
''Ycs, that makes it awfu;ly hard on
all you girls that are over 20. Chicago
Record
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Clever Bridget.

''They have potatoes to burn out in
North Dakota
That's nothing; Bridget has them
right here in our kitchen" Chicago
Record
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Had No Use for Reggy.

Reggy-Sweet Airline, will you be
mine?
Sweet Arline-Before 1 answer your
question let me ask you one. Do you
swear when you lose your collar button
Reggy-Never!
Sweet Arline-Then it canont be; I
cannot marry man who has no spirit.
Town Topics.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
Easy Way Out of 1t.

First Teacher am very much an.
noyed by my pupils coming late.
Second Teacher used to be an
noyed in the same way, but have found
out how to bear it.
What is it?"
II come late myself.''-Tit-Bits
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
silence Is Golden.

Jinks- Ny wife agrees with all
say.
Blinks-You don't do much talking,
do you?-Town Topics.
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Her Husband was am Export.

Mrs. Shears Tin jewelers. shop buy.
ing diamonds)-I wish my husband
were here.
jewelers. he an authority on dia-
monds, madam?
Mrs. Shears-Not exactly; he is az
editor, and knows paste whenever he
sees it.-Odds and Ends.
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A Wo,nan,a Mrnnr.

BIabton-Why are the women of to-
day SO heavily laden?
Ratley-Giye it up. Why?
Blabton-Because they carry leg
of mutton on each arm.-DemoreSt'
Magazine.
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Produces the Same Effect.

'Look at the color in her cheeks.
One would almost think she had been
drinking"
''Well, I guess she has been painting
things red, all right enough"
Presently they driftcd apart.-De-
troit Tribune.
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Only for q Moment.

He saw her standing meath the mistletoe,
And in the twinkling of an eye-alack!
Her head upon his shoulder lay, and, 10!
Her golden hair was hanging down his
back.
Chicago Tribune
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Chicago Tribune.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-19
Arc R~estigouche Salmon Losing Their
Fighting Quaiitiesf

a novel question has been raised in Forest
and Stream which is of interest to the fisher
men who fish IN artiflcially stocked waters.
For some reason or other n fisherman got tho
notion that the salmon in the Resti:ouche
River were not 30 game now as In past years.
Another of the Restigouche fishers was of tho
Same mind. II there is anything the sports
man angler does not want. and Will not have
II he can help 1t, 1t is the deterioration of the
lighting qualities of his fish. lie would like
to have the fish go into training IL possible.
What the fishermen want to KIN w is what Is
the matter with the Restigouchc salmon! 1t
appears that the stream has been stocked to u
considerable extent during late years, and II
this stocking has taken the nerve out of the
salmon every one who is Interested In fish
wants to know the reason why. and more yet,
the remedy. II Is we'll known that the hand
reared English pheasants are not to he COM
pared with a wild American ruttod grouse. in
OF fishes is going to result in taking the fight
out Of American game fish. IT will he a sad
thing to the minds of men who fish for fun,
and not for profit.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-04-19
TRY NEW ES.
All Fish Have to Feed, and the Question to
Solve Is, What DO They Eatt

II there Is anything a fisherman likes TO do
failed IL get a bite, and no stories are more
frequently told than those OF big baskets filed
at lakes or ponds knowl to DO alive with fish,
but In which the fish were never before known
to bite. There are lots OF ponds In which fish
can be seen hut not taken. In some lakes fish
may be taken In the spring only. or In mid
summer, giving rise to the belief that they do
not feed at other times. In places where troll
ing spoons alone are used. very often big
catches are made with flies of bass and pick
erel, and in places where only natural bats
worms, frogs, minnows-ar popular, artificial
lures are often successful.
1t Is related of a Jefferson county village that
no one ever used flies for bass fishing till a hoy
who knew about Adirondack trout fishing
came along with a seven-ounce ty rod, with
other tackle to match,
THAT toothpick catch a fish," said tho ma.
tive fishermen. why, n half pound bass
would smash II all to pieces"
A couple OF them we're curious TO know how
boat. They got TO n big, dark pool under a
cedar tree on n ledge Of rocks. and u Grizzly
King and Yellow Sulllc dropped onto the water
like natural hies. What followed was con.
viucing TO the natives, A black Lass OF over
two pounds In weight grabbed the Grizzly
King and Was hooked. lie put up q good fight.
but at last rolled up on Ills side and was dipped
up with tho landing net, Tho natives didn't
ulnr in that region. and bigger messes OF iSh
were the rule,