The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-02-20

mycetss without end. And there were
many others. :. :
~But the Scarlet Death. 0ranser. 4
Edwin 1t last suggested.
Eyes, yen, Edwin: I had forgotten.
Sometimes the memory Of the past r.
very strong upon me. and forget that
am . dirty old man. clad n goat
skin. wandering with my savage
grandsons who are goatherds IN the
primeval wilderness. The neeting
systems lapse like foam, and 20
lapsed our glorious, colossal civilixa-
ton. I am Granser. . tired old man.
I belong to the tribe Of Santa Rosans.
married into that tribe. Ny sons
and daughters married into the Chauf-
feurs, the Sacramentos. and the Palo.
Altos. You. HareLip, arc Of the
Chauffeurs. You. Edwin, are Of the
Sacramentos. And you. Hoo-Hoo. are
Of the Palo-Altos. Your tribe takes
its name from . town that was near
the seat Of another great institution
of learning. It was called Stanford
university. Yes, remember now. II
Is perfectly clear. was telling you
Of the Scarlet Death. Where was
In my story
you was telling about germs, the
things you can't see, but which make
men Sick" Edwin prompted.
"Yes, that's where was. A man
did not notice at flrst when only . few
Of these germs got into his body,
But each germ broke In half and be
came two germs. and they kept doing
this very rapidly SO that In q short
time there were many millions Of
them in the body. Then the man was
sick. He had a disease. and the dis
ease was named after the kind Of q
germ that was In him. It might be
measles, Il might be Influenza, II
might be yellow fever; II might be
any Of thousands and thousands oi
kinds Of disease.
Nov, this is the strange thing
about these germs. There were al
ways new ones coming to live In
mems bodies. Long and long and long
ago. when there were only . few
men in the world. there were few dis
eases. But N men increased and
lived closely together In great cities
and civilizations, new diseases arose
new kinds Of germs entered their
bodies. Thus were countless millions
and billions Of human beings killed
And the 4thichly snsn spacked to
gether. the more terrible were the
new diseases that came to be. Ions
before my time. in the middle ages
there was the black plague that
swept across Europe. II swept across
Europe many times. There waa
tuberculosis. that entered into men
wherever they were thickly packed
A hundred years before my time
there was the bubonic plague. And
IN Africa was the sleeping sickness
The bacteriologists fought all these
sicknesses and destroyed them. Just
a. you boys fight the wolves away
from your goats, or squash the mos
quitoes that light on you. The BAG
teriologists--"
But Granser. what IL whatyou
call-it?" Edwin interrupted.
you, Edwin. arc q goatherd. your
task is to watch the goats. You know
. great deal about goats. A BAG
teriologist watches germs. That's
his task, and he knows great deal
about them. So a. Twas saying, the
bacteriologists fought with the germs
and destroyed them-sometimes
There was leprosy, . horrible disease
A hundred years before was born,
the psychologists discovered the
germ Of leprosy. They knew Ill about
It. They made pictures OF Il. have
seen those pictures. But they never
found way to kill It. But In 1884,
there was the pantoblast plague, q
disease that broke out in q country
called Brazil and that killed millions
Of people. But the bacteriologista
found II out, and found the way to
Kill Il, 20 that the pantoblast plague
went NO farther. They made what
they called = serum, which they put
into mans body and which killed
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the man And in 1910. there was pei.
lagra, and also tbs hookworm. These
were easily killef BY the bacteriolo.
gists. But In 1S47 there arose q new
disease that had never been seen b.
fore. II got into the bodies of babies
Of only ten months old or less, and
It made them unable to move their
hands and feet, or to eat, or anything:
and the bacteriologists were eleven
years in discovering how to kill that
particular germ and save the babies.
TN spite Of an these diseases. and
Of all the new ones that continued 20
arise, there were moro and more men
in the world. This was because IL
was easy to get food. The easier Il
was to set food the more. men there
were; the more men there were, the
moro thickly were they packed TO-
gether on the earth; and the more
thickly they were packed. the moro
new Kids Of germs became diseases.
There were warnings. Soldervefsony.
- 9&fly - 1875, told the bacteriolo.
s1sts that Nm had NO guaranty against
some new disease. . thousand times
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