Gunnison news-champion., 1921-04-29

c-nsoopss and ultramicrusc0pes. and
~e put them 10 our eyes and looked
through them. so that &c SaE things
larger than they really we're. and man.
things we could not see without the
microscopes at all Our best ultra
microscopes could make a germ look
forty thousand times larger. 4 nus
sci shell Is a thousand times larger.
A mussel shell Is thousand fingers
like Edwin'A Take forty mussel shells.
and by a. many times larger Was the
germ when We looked at IL through
a microscope And after that We
had other ways by using what ~s
called rlOTinE pictures. Of making the
forty tythousandiim germ many.
many thousand times larger stiIl And
thus We saw all these things which
our eyes Of themselves could no, see.
Take a grain OF sand pre..k Il into
ten pieces Break one OF those pieces
into ten. and one Of those into ten.
and one Of those into ten. and one OF
those into ten. and do II all day, and
maybe. by sunset. you will have q
piece as small as one Of the gernh
The boys were openly incredulour
Hare-Lip shifted and sneered and Hoo
Hoo sn!cksred. until Edwin nudged
them to be silent
The voodtick sucks the blood OF
the dog. but the germ. bein: so very
small. goes night into the blood Of the
body. aud there IL has many children.
In those days there would be as many
As a billion-a crab shell. please-as
many as that crab shell in one mans
body. We called germs mIcro-orEan.
isms. When . few million. or a on
lion. OF them were in 4 man. In all the
blood OF q man. he Was sick. These
germs were . disease. There were
many different kinds OF them-more
different kinds than there are grains
Of sand on this beach We knew only
a few OF the kinds The microorganic
world was an Invisible world. a world
ve could not see. and ve knew very
little about IL Yet. ~e did know
something. There was re bacillus an
thraeis: there was the micrococus:
there was the bacterium termo. and
the bacterfum lactis-thai's what
turns the goat milk sour even TO this
day. HareLip; and there were schixo-
myceies without end. And there were
many others
But the Scarlet Death. Granser.-
Edwin at last suggested
Yes. yes. Edwin: had forgotten.
Sometimes the memory OF the past Is
very strong upon me. and forget that
! am a dirty old man. clad In goat.
skin. wandering with my savage
grandsons who are goatherds IN the
primeyal wilderness. The heeting
systems lapse Ike foam and SO
lapged our glorious. colossal ciyiliza-
tion. am Grnnscr. q tired old man.
! belong 10 the tribe OF Santa Rosans.
I married into that tribe. Ny sons
and daughters married into tho Chauf.
feurs. the Sacramentos. and the Palo-
Altos You, Hnre-Lip. are OF the
Chautfeurs. 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. tho
things you can't see. but which make
men sick" Edwin prompted.
Yes. that's where I was. A man
did not notice at first when only q 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 short
time there were many millions OF
them in tho body. Then the man was
sick He had disease, and the dis
ease was named after the kind OF a
germ that was IN him. It might be
measles, IT might be Influenza, 1t
might be yellow fever; 1, might be
any OF thousands and thousands OF
kinds of disease
Now. 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
men In the world. there were few dis
cases. But as 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 more thickly men packed to-
gether. the more terrible were the
new diseases that came to be Long
before my time. in the middle ages,
there was the black plague that
swept across Europe. II swept across
Europe many times. There was
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. tust
~ you boys fight the wolves away