The Daily Missoulian., 1909-12-05

neer officers in charge of the park
last year:
Repair and maintenance of the entire
system. including the Cooke City. east.
west and south roads: repairs to
bridges; laying Of tile and iron cul
ycrts; clearing of dead and fallen tim
ber from the roadside: s. miles NJ
road sprinkIed: Il number of pumping
stations converted into gravity tanks:
hydraulic rams installed; r.pairs To
sprinkliag wagons. road graders. carts.
and other vehicles; maintenance Aof
trees. shrubs, vines and lawns.
Mr.. Washington is inclined to crit
icise the treatment the black race re-
ceives at the hands of Europeans in
Africa. He says that the negro Jared
better and had made more progress in
America than in any other country.
and declared that il was to the negro
of this country that the race in other
lards must look for an example
Liberia has been invited to partici-
pate in the colorcd exposition.
On December "A and Is the Civil
Service commission will hold a num-
vacancies in the government service.
In the list are the following:
Assistant engineer at the Smith
sonian Institution in Washington. at
s1,0So per annum: assistant in tn.
library Of the Bureau of Statistics.
5000 year: assistant geologist. 5000
year; assistants in the naval OBJ
servatory. s1.i00 year; mechanics for
the Indian service. s72o n year: hus-
bandmen in the Animal Industry bu-
reau. agricultural department. 81 eco n
year.
Star service has been ordered de-
livered twice n week to the citizens
of White Sulphur Springs and VOL
s.y.
Considerable interest is being mani
Tested here over the fight which is
being waged against the hpokworm or
laZybug disease. Previous To the an
nouncement Of the million dollar con-
tribution of John ID. Rockefeller to-
ward the suppression Of the laZybug.
this parasite and the discussion over
1t was considered by many as huge
joke. Although long held by public
health officials OF the government here
that the hookworm was indeed a cause
of laziness among mankind. the public
generally regarded the discussions as
purely academic and their interest in
its ravaees was not aroused to any
great extent
The hookworm disease was discov-
cred by DIR. Charles Wardell STILES.
lac oh faF Of hn fri af nj
the hygienic laboratory of the United
States public health and marine hos
nital service. eight years ago. Up to
Rockefeller's gift to fight the plague
DIR. stiles was the innocent butt of
many a joke about the alleged worm.
but now the tide Of sentiment and
opinion has turned In his favor and
he is receiving the credit for the dis
covery which now seems so important
to human health. t.t-
The hookworm or lazyhug was dis
covered hy DIR. Stiles in Garfield hos
pitai here in 1901. and in q lecture be-
fore medical men shortly afterwards he
said that IL was the cause of the leth-
argv or laziness so prevalent in the
south. The press got hold of the mat
ter and instead Of treating 1t as a sci
eutific discovery. the doctor saws, 1t
played il up as "A huge joke, although
the medical profession was behind him
in his conclusions.
DIR. Sites and medical men gener-
ally are firm in the belief that "a svs-
tematic warfare against the germ will
result i'm "A reduction of the death rate
in the country and hiring much greater
happiness and health to hundreds of
people and the solution of the child
labor problem in the south. Rockefel-
ier's gift Is looked upon more as a
hrmanitaiian than an economic char
itv 1t is declared that over two mil
lion people in the south are afflicted
with the parasite.