read in the Tribune, They have hunted squirrels for years 1 A% 

 without getting sick and like the homeopaths or Christian 

 scientists are in the state of mind of the Armored Armadillo — 

 corrugated, convoluted, hornified and impenetrable to com- 

 mon sense. If only there were a Providence to supervise the 

 proper distribution of the plague bacillus! Unfortunately it 

 most commonly attacks the poor who must live in misery; 

 or the strong and active whose occupation brings them into 

 contact with rats — street loafers and idiots are immune. 

 Among the latter I mention town councilmen. Much against 

 my wishes plague did not decimate Oakland's council. 



The situation in my opinion is extremely grave, for plague 

 among ground squirrels means that we have an endemic focus 

 in America. . . . Wherefore not only California will suffer 

 from time to time from plague, but the danger of its extension 

 to neighboring states and eastward will persist. 



IN July of 1909, Wherry sent his family to Mill Valley for 

 a rest; and needing one himself had followed for a week- 

 end. On August ninth he returned and at the door of my flat, 

 pulled a yellow sheet from his pocket : 



On nomination of Dr Woolley will you take position bacteri- 

 ologist in department pathology in reorganized Ohio-Miami 

 medical college of the university of Cincinnati salary eighteen 

 hundred with expectation of advance in nineteen eleven. 

 Charles Wm Dabney 



"What will you do?" I asked. There was no smile in his 

 answer: "I'm going," he replied. 



