Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-13

Sonirrels one hot day in the sum
And The mer OF 1903. A German
PIague blacksmith in the country
town OF Pachero. Caiitor-
MIA. wanted a mess OF ground squirrels
for his dinner. He banked ms IoISe'
hung up his leather apron. TOOK the
old shotgun from its pegs on the wall
and had an excellent afternoon sport
In q nearby field. That evening ne
toasted on fat. tender broiled squlfrels'
Three days later he WAS taken violently
m-so I'M. In fact, that the physician
who was called sent him to the German
hospital I'm San Francisco. The doc
tor q man OF keen intelligence ana
acute observation. realized that he was
dealing with a disease which he had
never met before and the exact identity
OF which he was unable 10 determine
At this time bubonic plague existed IN
Chinatown. San Francisco, and the
task OF eradicating II had been as
signed 10 A young officer Of the public
health and marine hospital service who
was afterward to take foremost rank
among the worlds authorities on that
disease. His ability was already rec
ognized by the medical profession. ana
he was called to diagnose the strange
disease which had attacked the country
blacksmith. He saw NJ once thar the
patient was SUFFERING from buoonlc
ulaRue--the Black Death-and was able
to prove this baoteriologically after tho
death OF the man Passed Assistant
! S,ireeon George w. Mccoy, OF the Fed
erai laboratory IN San Francisco. whose
meteorological work on the ground
souirrel marks an advance IN plague
| investigation, finds that many OF the
| ground squrrels sent IN for eNanlina
| ton have the disease In Hight form or
1 a WnNH
| Usually when the germs from such
| case are infected into rats or guinea
| pigs they die quite as rapidly az n
! they- had been given a dose ~ the most
! virutent plague bacteria known. In
! other words. although the disease does
| not seem 20 kill on all % the squirrels
! after Il has Travelled through several
! generations, II regains its virulence
/ when Injected into another species. The
squirrel, then II the animal in which
the disease Is kept alive sort Of nat
ural living incubator as IL were. and
| when plague leaves the squirrels Tor
/ another species, wide spread death and
| suffering follow In It's train DR. Blues
Officers and men have secured the city
% san Francisco and ridden II of
plague The present movement looks
| 10 the eradication or this outside focus,
| the determination Of the disease from
! california Winiam Colby Rucker In
| Harpers Weekly.
| Work OF Cesaro Lombroso died In
/ Caesare Turin italy, on Ocotber
/ Iombroso. 49, He helped 10 spread
! the view which today is
| winning that n ~ better 10 help people
out OF their badness than 20 pound
| them back Into more n n. Finding an
] oocipital dunple, like monkey. IN the
/ skul Of "a soldier who. ln "a m Of anger
/ killed an officer led Lombroeo to the
/ lifelong study which convinced him that
! crime was often the result OF phyaica
| imperfection rather than so-called
| criminal addiction. ITO correct crime
/ he said II would urge manual, physical
labor. Crowhing criminals into prB-
| on does harm Instead Of good. not
/ only 10 the prisoners themselves, but 10
society CfmnalH should be corrected.
not punished" His name Is chleny
! identlhed with his two great theories:
/ first thar genius a a peculiar, psyohl-
cal form Of lunatic epilepsy, and, sec
ond that there 10 a Degenerate class Of
| human beings distinguished by anatom-
| ical characteristics who are born with
criminal instincts and who represent
a reversion 10 q very primitive form 81
] humanity. Iombroso recognised crime
a. n phenomenon 81 degeneration. and
he placed the criminal among those
abnormal types 0f the human cpecies.