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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24

anttoxin treatment. Then DR.. YersiA went
to Annoy. where he treated twenty-three VIC
tins. OF these. twenty one recovered. those III
the worst condition after two days and those
mildly affected Immediately. Then the people
cried out: This is a miracle. And every one
was anxious to try the serum. But Dr. ierslh
supply was now exhausted 1t should be men
toned that the antftoxin was introduced under
the patients skin in the region OF the kidneys
No attention whatever was givei- 10 the SWeIi,
ings. which. in the Chinese pfactce, are opeheu
and scraped in order to remove the poison
Chinese newspaper, the "H"u-lao, a,,'r
giving some details Of this event IN Annoy, aous:
rs not this divine: Has not lioa-to returned 10
earth again." Hoa-to. II may he remarked;
was celebrated Chinese physician VINO hv,d
about 1000 years ago. He is resarded as INC
genius of medicine in the Celestai EMPIRE "'"
temples have been erected in hls honor.
After spending few days IN Hong hohe iaSt
August. DR.. Yersln once more re,uihed 10 ~. ~.
French capital with view TO developing MS
resources for producing the serum thal lie hau
Just been testing
DIR YERSIN'S CAREER.
Dr. Yersin is Of old French stock. bu, was poih
IN Switzerland in he village Of Morges ocarcely
thirty years ago. in 1880 he studied hehic'he
at the Hotel Deu. in Paris. At that time ne met
some Russian peasants who had been bitten oy
q wolf and had come TO the Wrench capital 10 De
treated for hydrophobia al me faSteui
there one of these people died. In performing
an autopsv on the body of the Vlctn the young
medical student injured his own hand rearlIIo
hot; ,a mi
tr,n bie own system, he sought for hlnsell inc
same antitoxic treatment the Russians had re =
ceived This incident brought nm INTO lilenul!
relations with DR.. Roux. the eminent orector o
the Pasteur Institute. French Journals are no"
calling attention TO The fact that the famous me
moir on the antitoxin of dpn;heria' Which was
the first step in the search for 1he vaccine nli.''
az croun was signed by both RouX ana 1eisih'
The young man took out naturahZa,ion paPei "
in France in 1855. And AT that ,iiile ne wa a.
signed 10 a responsible post III the fasteur ii9'
into He worked with almOs. ''ehZic" ,i''hu'.
asm for months over his microscope lis com
radas were astonsh"d at the respect SHOWN nun
nv The professors and at his audacity IN s-ekilis,
q wear or so later. appointment on 'hv 'ltu 81
s,off Of the maritime service in the colonies III
Tho East He got the assignment, however, anu
went TO Tonauin. lie travelled, explored, nun
cd faced the tiger "a rhinoceros or we may " =
neve his biograph rs) and the most saNas, O.,
az Cochin China Then he settled uo"i d. .,a'
pon I'm that country. where a fasteui iiis'''u
Rad been established by DR. Chimette, - 81,
~ The snake-venom antitoxin. ierS,h "ae a.
york on a cure for some bovine pest Wleh' e"i !!
I'm 1891 the bubonic fever began i's ray 80
"a the no,thward Thereulon. as mas a'I'""'
hecn mentioned. he went up l" H"hs No'h
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
.SOUE Young FELLOWS"
From The Youths Companion.

From The Youths companion
An American who had lived in Mexico for twenty
and visited the places and people that were once
familiar to him. His opinion OF his native land as
Poston Herald Is by means hattering. There
ara mice people" here yet. hut he thinks that the
prevailing tendencies in American life favor eN-
irayagance pretension. hurry and worry; ana along
with the overdriVen man we nave 'ie lazy mas
lust TO test this labor question" the visitor told
the correspondent. Il went 10 pidhtatohs IN w, VT
and asked for work There was plenty OF H. Inc
planters and farmers were all WILING 10 give me
$40 month and good board ana ciean ,,, ,a az az
500 a year at that rate ana Sct iat, 700 u.i.o
worked hard in my time in rough empioyments'
and have fear OF sweating. ~,
We'll then. | met some young leIows IN Masn ~
ington loafng about the barroOms and In 'front.' OF
the hotels talking about hard times
Boys | said. there Is no need or loanhg ana
20 over TO Alexandria. and there's MY So.amo- %
wants a man: another wants three ana sun an
other two Wages SO month. bread butter ana
meat and peaches and cream in the season
You can read Sundays and learn something
and come out with money in your pocket az the
end Of the yeaP9 e,s WV Work. rSt' ." your
NV reception by those young men was not en-
thuslastc Some said they had never worked az
hard manual labor Others hated ta IA II va
given hut not one prompted by good sense and
a Willingness do honest, hard work
Now that's fine lot OF young men Tor you!
You call them, | SUI pose the Hope oil America
The fact is our cities crowded with men. 90
that there is surplus IN every 9eiat .'hsnt o.
labor The country has been empticd OF the Drawn
and muscle that should be given 10 agriculture On
a farm a man at least raise food enough 70
avoid starvation and il he f. not able 10 pur-
chase land and cannot find occupation in our cities.
there are farmers in nearly all parts OF the coun-
try who will be glad to employ MIN.
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A DOG STORY.
.ondon Spectator

From The London Spectator.
our annual sheep and cattle show has lately been
hold here II IS the biggest gathering OF the kind
ir New-Zealand and this year record was estao.
ushed there being over twenty thousand visitors
In his crowd A friend of mine missed his dog,
Scotch collie named Mike with whose help some
prize sheep from the "Meadowbank' estate had
been brought to the show grounds and penneo
there Not being able To find the dog. my friend
concluded that he had gone 10 the house where ne
had been the night before. but upon inquiry found
that Mike had not done so, Upon returning TO
the show grounds he found the dog watching one
OF the Mead Dwbank sheep that had jumped out or
the pen: he took notice whatever OF other sheep
which were being moved about the grounds, but
stuck faithfully TO the one truant. which he evil
IDENTIFY considered under his care. until relieved OF
his self-imposed charge by the welcome arrival OF
his master who with Mikes help. soon had tho
wanderer back in the fold again. ] aNerward
heard that some one had tried TO help Mike re-
capture the sheep. but the dog resented his inter-
ference. and drove the sheep away from the pens
I'm order 10 show that he took orders from any
one but his master
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
DO RATS DISSEMINATE THE PLAGUEs

From an address by DR.. James Camille. late OF
Hong Kong. in London
The basin of the Mediterranean and the strip OF
country which runs parallel 10 that sea across IN
Asian Continent from Turkey 10 emma may De
tenth century but the Mediterranean part OF the
belt has disappeared almost, wholly within the
districts within the last fifty years shows plague
astride the Hmalayas with giant limbs reaching
on one side the Red Sea and on the other the shores
The animal which above all others is known to
be affected by plague is the rat; but the wide geo
graphical area throughout which this animal Is
met with would seem TO frusrate any attempt 10
little more closely. however. we find rats one
murine aydg ns the R0 old World except
carr. and The sigmodontes inhanting the me N snH
family that of the resoka. Is met with reaching
from Palestine TO Formosa across the northern
part Of India The southern limit in India seems
10 be where the great band!coot or pig rat exists
and here plague is unknown This Is the only ami
NAL which presents geographical distrhu,io oi
wollnigh CORE spending TO the present distribution
of plague and IT il the animal above All others
which is looked upon az being liable to be at
We ind that pigs dogs. rats snakes iacka's Hnd
plague is epidemic among human beings. Pigs and
dogs believed to be attacked only ai,sr con
ing OF rats. and possibly jackals, are infected IN
the same way None OF ne pu shcc onts or rab
bits are attacked. /. is the hesh-eating animals
c,,inea- pig and number OF animals can be inocu-
lated expeiimentally or made 10 consume plheue-
., bv tho natural process Of Infection. If it is by
Consumption OF flesh that animals are Infected;
n seom 40 70 leone Infected from flesh The snake
from the rat. the jackal pig ana dos ron m, ean ing
does the rat become infected Gould we find that
out we should likely know how mar Is nicctea.
Dersh from plague surely their mortal enemy. the
f So cmt teaches it to avoid the diseased rat In
Hong Kong during 1894 many cats dea IN pc e,
| tho hind
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"TO WiLLOP."

From Notes ard Queries.
II il unite true that this word Is in common use
In Scotland but II is probably considered n slang
ter,n-or at any rate one with "A strictly provin-
ciai charactcr-when il means TO chastise. Jamie
SON limits il with this sense TO tlydescale on the
oth.r hand a. "A variant OF gallop CAS-. weollanl.
mo word has a recognized standard value. IL is so
,sed bv both Gavin Douglas and Sir David lynd-
saw the latter employing 1t thus In his Com
plavnt TO the kirg
And sum 10 schaw THAR courtle corsls.
Wad rvid TO Ieith. and ryn THAR horsis.
And wvchtlie wallope ouer the sands
Yea mother spairit spurris ror wandis.
A. annIied 10 the sprghty and winning move
n,s ~ bonnie Maggie Lauder tclrca $500. the ex-
PRESTON is still IN keeping with the original mean
Ing. . , o,io,,od DOR IN. c,.e,
For brawlic could she fisk II.
A, rrssent the word Is used In describing such
- bie and nexional exertons those OF sal
80, i,,st shaken from net into the bottom OF "A
na, ar Of a long and lank and likewise lame
,rnv.lIrr pressing forward 10 a railway station.
,,,linr and pa thetic figure long known In the up
,,"nds Of an eastern Scottish county was once. In
,nr hearing aptly delneated In the explanatory
marx There goes Tea Archie walopin away
-, evokng sympathy. IN hasiy moment
causticaly depicted endowed with limbs that
.uaIlonit like the sOuple o fall The spontane-
oua Imagery Of the Scottish peasant, usually apt
and adequate Is often singuarly picturesque and
craphic Those who have watched tnresher will
Instantly recognize the significance OF this fgur-
alive touch while the connection of the nall move
men, with the original "waop' Is evident enough.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
EXAGGERATED REPORTS.

The plague was itself very terrible, and the dis
the people very great, as YOU may observe
of what | have said. but the rumor was Infinitely
greater: and II must not be wondered that our
friends abroad. as my brothers correspondents in
particular. were told there namely. In Portugal
and Italy where he chiefly traded, that In London
there died 20 coo in a week that the dead bodies lay
unburied by heaps: that the living were not suff-
Gent to bury the dead. or the sound TO look after
the sick that all the kingdom was infected like
wise so that ii was n universal malady such as
was never heard of in those parts OF the world.
And they could hardly believe us when we gave
them al account low things really We're; and how
there was not above one-tenth part of the people
dead; that there 100000 left that lived all the
time in the town: that now the people began to
walk the streets again. and those who were lied TO
return; there no miss of the usual throng OF
neopIa In the streets except as every family might
miss their relations and neighbors; and the like.
saw they could not believe these things ana Y In
ourv were now TO be made in Naples or In other
cities on the coast Of Italy. they would tell you
there was a dreadful infection In London so many
wears ago in which. as above there died zovw In a
week just as we have had II reported IN Lon
don that there was a plague in the city OF Naples
In the wear 1866 I'm which there died 10000 people in
81 dav of which | have had very good satisfacti ion
n at II was utterly false.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24

From The British Medlcal Journal
In the Hong Kong epidemic the Chinese scrVa,,s
In European houses enjoyed marked l'',''''',r
.nnd there was never any scarcity OF doW.'i' ~
,,'nnts The house OF "A European was look'u ul,o"
va = sanitary haven Of immunity, put even mn
aoas not obtain i'm Bombay, where there seems 10
of.tv except in flight. The danger OF 5uch a pr
1nt,ro is but TOO evident. and We are quite pr
nr"i IN hear OF baneful results In the surrounulhS
districts. - , ..., an o.ida,tc of ,laeu.
m"hed In The Daily Mail" which must be- but one
-, loves of similar incidents. "A Hindoo clerk ven
Tho .burning ground for the purpose OF cr"na' 70
inc The body Of his father, wn) had died OF plague
n Ma -.fiIrn he found that IN the mean time his
nn,n"r mad sickened and died. while shortly after
ia his wife was att, ,ke1 and In few hours was
Ge.d ais, II. clcrx himself ana an uncle OF MS are
now down with the difeasc -,
incorrect returns are held 20 hc me explanation
-, "a Increase Of the mortality Tor diseases other
,bon plague. Any one who has mad 10 deal with
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24

natives especially ma lives OF India during plague
epidemic well knows how they assai their medical
men and sanitary inspectors with prayers ana
heartfelt beseechings pronounce their Illness
TO be plague. BY doing the patient Is not only
removed from the house. but all the occupants OF
the house put to considerable Inconvenience
annoyance and expense by having to leave their
abode while. in addition. their goods and chattels
have 10 be dsinfected. 1t Is difficult for British
practitioners and sanitary agents to resist their
treaties but ii must be still difficult for native
doctors TO withstand the desires and requests Of
their friends and relations. one must pardon the
native practitioners. therefore. IL they occasionally
yield to the temptation OF substituting fever
the title OF the ament instead of plague. II Is but
human to do So and might be regarded
charitable. were II not but too apparent that dire
results TO human life almost certainly cDsue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
HOW THE PLAGUE CAME TO LONDON

The manner Of its first coming TO London proves
this also viz by goods brought over from tioland,
and brought thither from the Levant; the rrst
breaking of IL out in a house in l.ongacre Whele
these goods were carried and first opened; its
spreading from that house to other houses by the
Visible unWary conversng with those VINO were
sick and the injecting the parish officers VINO were
employed about persons dead: and the ike. These
are known authorities for this great foundation
point that it went and proceeded from person 10
persou and from house to house, ana no othefwlse
In the first house that was Infected there ded
four persons \ neighbor hearing the mistress OF
the first house Sick went 10 visit her ana
went home and gave the distemper to her family.
and died and ali her household. A minister called
10 pray with the first sick person in the second
house was said to sicken Immediately. and die. with
several more in his house. Then the physicians be-
gan 10 consider for they did not at first dream or
general tagion; but the physicians being sent TO
inspect the bodies they assured the people that II
was neither more less than the plague. with all
its terrifying particulars. and that II threatened
a universal Infection many people having al
road conversed with the sick or distempered, and
having as might be supposed. received infection
from them that II would be impossible 10 put stop
to IT, ,.,
my observation afterward. namely, that the danger
was spreading insensbly: for the sick could infect
person: but that man. who may have really re-
reivad the infection, and knows II not, but goes
abroad and about sound person may give the
ma que to n thousand people. and they 10 greater
numbers in proportion and neither the person Civ
ing the infection nor the persons receiving II know
ANYTHING of it, and perhaps not feel the effects OF II
fc several DAYS after
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
DESCRIBED BY DEFOE.
STORIES OF THE GREAT PLAGUE IN LON
DON, CLEANED FROM HEARSAY
AND IMAGINATION.

In these walks had many ;ismal scenes before e.
my eyes particularly. OF persons railing dead III
the streets. terrible shrieks and screenings or
women. who In their agonies would throw open tnelr
chamber windows and cry ont In dismal. surpris-
ing manner IL Is impossible to describe the variety
of postures in which the passions OF the poor people
would express themselves.
Passing through Token House Yard in l.otnDury.
OF "a sudden easement violently opened Jrst over
my head, and gave three frlghttui
screcchcs and Their cried oh dee ill., death. death.
in n most nimitable tone. and which struck me
with horror and "A chness In my very blood There
nobody TO he seen in the whole street, neither
DID any other window open. for people had no curl
osity I'm any case. nor could anyDony heIp one
another; so went on to pass into Bell Niiey. ,
Just In Bell Alley. the right hand OF the
passage. there more terrible cry tnan that,
though IL not directed out at the WINDOW:
But the whole family in terrible fright, and |
could hear and children run screaming
about the rooms like distracted. when a garrett
window opened. aud somebody ON window on
the other side OF the alley called and asked. What
is the natter" Upon which from the first window
it was answered, 'Oh. Lord. my old master mas
hanged himself.' The other asked again, us he
quite dead?' and the first answered LAY. ay. quite
dead; quite dead and cold" This person was a
merchant and Deputy Alderman. and very rich
| care not to mention his name though | knew MS
name, too: but thai would be hardship to the
family which is now fourishing again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE.

II is most certain that II. By the shutting up OF
houses the sick had not been confined. multitudes,
who I'm the height Of their fever were delrious ana
distracted would have been continually running up
and down the streets; and even as II was "A very
Great number did So and offered all sorts or vio-
ence 10 those they met even Just az mao dog runs
on nd bites at every he meets. Nor can doubt
Iut that should one OF these infected diseased
creatures have bitten any man or woman while the
frenzy Of the distemper was upon them, they Il
MN the person so wounded would as certainly
have been incurabiy infected as one that was sick
before and had the tokens upon him:
I heard of one infected creature who, running out
Of his bed in his shirt in the anguish and agony or
his swelngs of which he had three upon hirn). got
his shoes on and went to put on his coat but the
nurse resisting and snatching the coat from him.
he threw her down. over her. ran downstairs
and into the street directly TO the Thames. IN mis-
shirt the nurse running after him. and calling TO
,hc watch 10 stop him. But the WatchUan fright
anod al the man and afraid to touch him. let HIM go
on upon which he down to the still Yard Stairs.
,hrev away his shirt and plunged into the Thames.
and being "A good swimmer. swan quite over me
,i,,er and tho being coming In. as they call
- uhat is running Westward he reached the land
NOT iii he came about the Falcon Stairs. where.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
THE MADNESS OF THE DISEASE.

But this is but one. 1t Is scarce credible what
dreadful cases happened in particular families
every day-people. in the rage OF the distomper or
In the torment OF their swcllings, which was. IN
deed intolerabe. running out of Their own govern
ment raNing and distracted. and otentimes laying
violent hands upon themselves. throwing themselves
out az the' windows. shooting themselves, etc.
mothers numbering their own children in their
lunacv: some dying of mere grief as a passion
some OF mere fright and surprise without any In.
lection at all; others frighted into idiotism ana
foolish disira ctous some into despair and unacy.
others into melancholy madness.
The pain OF the swelling in particular very
violent and TO some intoerablc The physicians
and surgeons may be said to have tortured many
poor creatures even to death. The swellings I'm
some grew hard and they applied violent drawing
plasters poultices. to break them; and II THESE
aid not do they and scarifed them in terrible
manner In some those swengs were made hard
partly by the force of the disemper and partly by
their being too violently drawn, and were so hard
that no instrument could cut them: and then they
burned them with caustics, so that many died
ravng mad with the torment, and some In the very
opcrafion In these dstresses. some, for want oil
helm TO hold them down in their beds or to look &c
them laid hands upon themselves as above; some
broke out into the streets perhaps naked and would
run directly down to the river, II they were moi
stopped by the watchmen or other officers. anc
plunge themselves into the water wherever they
found il.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
ILL TREATMENT OF THE SICK.

II often pierced my very soul TO hear the groa ms
ard cries of those who were thus tormented 5ut
of the two this was counted the most promising
particular in the whole nfecton' Tor IL these swell
ings could be prought 10 Il nt;'o anu ~ ,o
run. or. the surgeons cali II, 10 ugest we
patient generally recovered; wher. LIS ,L Win
like the gentlewomans daughter; were STRUCK Win
death at the beginning ana had me tok,.S ~, -
upon them often went about indieren'iy tas! .lli :.
little before they died. and some tn the moment
they dropped down. as In apopeXles ana epiepsi,,s
f. often the case. Such would be taken suuuei.iy
very sick and would run TO a bench or DuK or any
convenient place that offered Itself or 10 the,r own
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-01-24
DEFOE WAS NOT sUPERsTITIOUs.

But when | am speaking OF the plague as dis
temper arising from natural causes we must con-
slider It as it really propagated by natural means.
Nor is IL at all the less judgment Tor It's beng nhder
the conduct Of human causes and eiiects' 10r as INC
Divine Power has formed the whole scheme or
nature and maintains nature in It's course, so me
same Power thinks III TO let His own actinSS with
men whether of mercy or judgment, to go on IN the
ordinary course OF natural causes, and He Is peasei
TO act by those natural causes as the ordinary
means excepting and reserving TO Himself never
the,ess =. power act in supernatural way Wntn
He sees occasion. Now II is evident tha', IN 1ne
ca Of an Infection there Is no apparent extraor-
dirary occasion for supernatural operation but the
ordinary course of things appears sunlclenty
armed and made capable OF all the effects that
heaven usually directs by contagion. Among
these causes and effects this Of the secret convey
ance of Infection. imperceptible and unavoidable, Is
more than sufficient to execute the nerceness ol
divine vengeance. without putting 1t upon super
naturals and miracles 49, . :,
The acute penetrating nature OF the disease ltse'f
was such and the infection was received 80 imper-
ceptibly that the most exact caution couu not Sc
cure us while IN the place but must be allowed 10
believe-and have many examples fresh IN my
memory TO convince me of II that ! think none can
resist their evidenced say | must be allowed TO
believe that no in this whole nation ever re-
ceved the sickness infection but who received IL
in the ordinary way of infection from SOMEBODY or
the clothes. touch or stencil OF somebody, that
was infected before.