1 Oo P rev i° us ly scattered over widely separated segments of city 

 soil for the teaching of the students — was being collected in 

 one spot again. With larger influx of students and larger 

 teaching responsibilities, it took much of Wherry's time and 

 his personal scientific studies were pushed aside. As spring 

 came he needed rest. And so to San Francisco and its dwarfed 

 world's fair and to sit again upon the shoulder of Mount 

 Tamalpais. Before he got there his mother wrote him (March 

 14,1915): 



I try to imagine you and the children in that nice home that 

 was your aunt's. We have had a great deal of rain which of 

 course makes plague worse. Yesterday (Sunday) while I was 

 sitting on the veranda, 1 1 funerals passed by on their way to 

 the Mohammedan cemetery which is behind the Women's 

 Medical School. A boy who attended my little school got 

 down with it and Dr Orbison treated him with iodine and he 

 got well. Dr O has cured several people by using this treat- 

 ment. One or two drops are taken inwardly & it is applied to 

 any outside buboes also. I think the Salvation Army in India 

 discovered this cure. . . . We have been warned by the Police 

 to be armed, so Nellie left her pistol with her father. He is 

 treasurer of this Station so keeps a safe and he has locked up 

 the pistol in it! Two men who were caught for robbing and 

 killing were hanged in our jail last week. An old Christian 

 man who wanted to see the sight got a ladder & climbed up 

 on the roof of the med school which is just beside the jail. He 

 was arrested. Several Sikhs were arrested here who had bombs 

 & materials for making them — one exploded and so they were 

 caught. . . . The young men who had a hand in throwing 

 that bomb at the viceroy in Delhi were hanged, but one of the 

 principal ones is in America. It is a pity they can't be arrested 

 over there. 



Evidence for the truth of her letters was usually furnished 

 by clippings. So with this letter there came one making Com- 

 missioner Booth-Tucker sponsor for the iodine therapy. Local 

 Mohammedans had passed a "regulation" expressing "their 

 absolute loyalty." "These were the Sikhs," mother wrote on 

 the clipping. Then the official count of the plague dead. In 

 February, 23389 had perished in the Panjab. Indicative of her 



