Evening journal., 1899-02-11
BILL JONES ON GERMS
Statesman and Scientist Dis
cusses the Salmons Bill.
he Is IN FAVOR OF PATHOLOGY

ADVANCED WHY FlARNIfuRsr
SHoULD NOT BE MADE "A GERM
cENTBE-THH QUESTION Is
VIEWED FROM McIRAL. MATTE
RIAL AND ECONOMIC snAND-
FONTS BY TUE DIsTINGUlsHED
SON or THIE SHoESnRlNG DIS
TRICT
In his brief span cf life the Way
farer has taken more or less interest
ia toe germ theory. Tie has read the
writings OF Darwin. Pas.eur, Leeuwen-
heck. Shredder, Dusch, Schwann. Tyn-
dali. Cheyne, Wyman, Bastian, Van der
Baoeck, Roberts, Cohns B.l.roth, Koch
and others. and has come to the con-
c.usion khat the work Of these men Is
destined to be Of great and lasting
benefit to humanity.
Anything new in the study Of bac-
teia is hailed with delight by the
members Of the medical fraternity
and, il written in plain and compre-
hensiye style. By laymen as wei.
Between 3 and 4 O'Clock this morn
ing the wayfarer was passing the Do
yer posi- office. Stacking out Of the
slit in the door he noticed bulky
package. Curiosity prompted him to
see what Il was. Taking it to the gas
light he read upon the face OF the
iegal-.ooluing envelope THE address.
Mrs. WiiUam Jones, Sandtown, South
Murderkill hundred, Kent county, Del
aware" Knowing that Hon. william
Jcnes was stin in town, noltwithsland-
ing the earnest appeal OF his wife to
return home, The wayfarer opened the
m ssive and discovered that it was an
able treatise on Germs" AS the Hon
orable William Jones was for many
years professor OF physiology in the
Ho.landsvne Pathological and Bac-
teriological Institute; ocu.st to the
Masters Corner Free Eye and Ear
Hospital and Dispensary, astrologer TO
the Buzzard's Hin Observatory, and
the author Of a work on THE Iniiu-
ence of Temperature Upon Bacteria
and Thsir Spores at Willow Grove, -
and as he had never written a general
treatise on the subject OF Germs It
was with the greatest avidity that the
Wayfarer s1od under The lamp-post,
out in the driving snow storm, and
siaked his thirst Tor knowledge by pc
rusing the paper. He considers the fol-
lowing such a masterpiece Of sciertlfiC
research and deduction. couched in
the simplest OF items and in the plain
e.; OF English, that il would be an in
justice to the world 10 permit It to be
lost TO postefty among the private
papers OF Mrs. Mary Ann Jones. There
fore he gives It IN its entirety trust.
ing that those who peruse it will have
lhein minds disahueed Of many OF th'
fallac.ous notions which are now en-
tsrtaipsd regarding germs and their
Origin and general utility:
Dover, Del Feb. z, 1899
My Dear Mary Ann. An still ther,
lhaint no eleolzshun. There has b.i
forty-ate votes cast, an ef there hain'
no objebkshun, witch there hain't, VI
wi'e now perseed 20 take anuther bal
it,
I GOT a second-handid copy If yor
.etter te.lin' me to cum home, bu
things is in eech shape hear that
CANT possibly leve fur a week OF twc
That feMer President Sammlons ma
interdocced bill to make germ
senter ouUten Fanhurst Hit hahn
enuf to hav all the crazy people an
the pore folks congreegated their, bu
there's sum peple as thinks hi
oughter be tuned into breedin' piac
fer germs. I'm agln' the bill on genei
prinsipe's. no sum Of them foxes II
there, an vile they don live in m
deestrict, I'm agoin' to wipe out al
geografikal lines an take care Of m
trends. Df that big os Sammonse
passes, hst'i be without mi consenI
an allow as how mi consent ha
esumhhin' to do with things aroun' thi
yere stalk Houhe. 1--we got THAI thsT
In5un river ees bin hung up ON senite
Harr's male. an Seniter Abbitt al
them luther fellers wot is after th
eel. progers votes cainn git nit dow
ssniter BTasure's selyrit sos1sty bin
tide up in the House an Dave Rose
tackin' hit down by mi orders. Ha
old Sudeil, New Cassll Single Tacl
sec, cum down here to-day jes'
time to see me lay out that theme bl
maxim a seperet assessmint fur gar
an improvements. got Nox to tai
the trane. an Ablbitt to git up an wa
out. Hit wuz att mi request as no
make a blum OF speal1in' fur the BIZ
wuzn 7 no good. toll Sendter Pile
AXE a bluftr of spea.kin' fur the b
fur he lived where Single Take
growed an them roorel fellers didi
1 never seen him bid a bigger b.q