Gunnison news-champion., 1921-05-06

ts-lo'.r..t aa'rars germs That's
H. ,arE az. a- E-oas a r-ea, deal
about iH-ra So aa was saying. the
tartrr.-.-'r. 'naza; z!'h the germs
nd I..r-.r.t them sometimes.
There 7-s '.fr0ry. a horrible disease.
4 hgntrat years before ! vas born.
re bar'a- lrrIz's discovered the
garu ~ 'n--. sy They Eueg al about
r. They mad" pictures o' Il have
fnan those pictures But they never
found q way 20 Eu t. But IN 1854.
there vaz the pau'ohlast plague.
d.soas" that broke out in country
cAllei Iazll and that killed millions
Of y"osla Put the bacteriologlsts
found ir out. and found the way TO
Eill 4, so that the pantoh'ast plague
went no farther They made what
they called 4 serum. which they put
into q mans body and which killed
the pau'oblas, germs without EiTl!uE
the man. And in 1910. there was pei
lsFra. and also tho hookvorm These
were easily killed by tho bacte-lolo-
gIz,s But in lsE7 there arose new
ilIH' .A.t' All4h ltha L'Ht tE L'.f'A4 Ff.f'4A ls-
fore. n got into the bodies 0f babies
Of only ton months old or less. and
Il made them unable 70 move their
hands and feet or 10 eat. ,r anything.
Rud n" lpr'eri0Iogists we're eleven
years lu discovering how TO kill that
particular germ and save the babies.
, In spite n all these diseases. and
a.
ar.rc there vere more and more men
iu the aarN This vas because II
vas rary 20 got food The easier It
vas TO get TODD the more men there
v"re. the NOR" men there were. the
nor" 'ArEIy were they packed to-
rnth"r nn tho earth. and the moro
tlc}'y thay wer, packed. the more
new kinds " germs became diseases.
There were warnings Soldrryctzsky.
as early as 1879. told the bacteriolo-
C's'e that they rad no guaranty against
sou" pcw disease. a thou and times
'mnr" deadly than any they knew.
arising and killing by the hundreds
OF millions and even by the billion
II w a, his point that iiare-Lip
rose TO hIs Zoo, an expression OF huge
contempt on his face
"Cran7cr." 10 announced. "vou
rako ne a.gk ui'h your rabble Why
DON, yur tell about tho Red Death
n you ain't going 70. say 70. an well
start back Tor camp
The old man looked at him and
silently began TO cry The weak tears
Of age rolled down hts checks. and all
tho fcebleness OF his eighty seven
years showed In his gricts'rickcn
countonance
Sit down" Edwin counsclod sooth.
ingly "Granser's all right He's just
Eettin' TO tho Scarlet Death. amt you,
Granser7 He's Just goIn' to tell us
about it right now. sit down, Hare
LIP. Go ahead Grauser"
The old man wiped the tears away
on his grimy knuckles and took up
the tale in tremuloIs. piping voice
that soon strengthened as he got the
swing OF the narrative
1T was in the summer OF 2OI3 that
the plague came. I was twcuty-seven
years old. and well do | remember It
wireless dispatches
HareLIp spat loudly his disgust,
and Gransor FASTENED to make
amends
We talked through the air In
those days, thousands and thousands
OF miles. And the word came OF a
strange disease that had broken out
in New York There were seventeen
millions OF people living then in that
noblest city OF America. Nobody
thought anything about the news. II
was only a small thing. There had
been only few deaths. II seemed,
though. that they had died very quick.
ly. and that one OF the first signs OF
the disease was the turning red OF
the face and all the body Within
twenty four hours came the report OF
the first case in Chicago. And on the
same day. II was made public that
London, the greatest city in the world
next to Chicago, had been secretly
fighting the plague for two weeks and
censor!ng the news dispatches-that
Is. not permitting the word to go forth
to the rest OF the world that London
had the plague.
TT looked serious. but We In Cali.
fornia, like everywhere else. were not
alarmed. We were sure that the
bacteriologists would find way to
overcome this new germ just as they
had overcome other germs in the past.
But the trouble was the astonishing
quickness with which this germ de-
etroyed human beings and the fart
that II inevitably killed any human
body It entered. No one ever recoy-
cred. There was the old Asiatic
cholera, when you might eat dinner
with q well man In the evening and
the next morning. II you got up early
enough. you would see him being
hauled by your window in the death
cart But this new plague was quick
er than that-much quicker From
A.