Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1900 — IMMUNITY FROM THE PLAGUE. [ARTICLE]

IMMUNITY FROM THE PLAGUE.

Certain Races'Are Not Affected by the Bubonic Pestilence. Apropos of the bubonic plague, has It ever been noticed in what an erratic manner immunity from this disease seems to have been conferred upon certain races and even sects? Thus in 1584 it was noticed that the Protesttants of Lyons escoped almost to a man. So did the Jews in an outbreak at Nimeguen in 1736. Something of the same sort has been noticed with regard to other diseases, for while in the outbreak of typhus at Langoens in 1824 the Jews remained immune, their coreligionists in Poland have always been the first to catch cholera. But' the strangest thing in connection with the plague is that in most cases the seed? of the disease seem to remain dormant in the systems of those exposed to the risk of contagion until some new epidemic calls them into activity. Procopius, who observed the plague in Constantinople pretty closely during Justinian’s reign, declares that if persons born in an infected town settled in a town hitherto free from it they were sure to be the first attacked if the plague again visited the country, even after the lapse of several years. A similar fact was noted during the Nimeguen outbreak, where two children of one Van Data were sent to the immune town of Gorcunen and remained there In perfect health for three months. At the end of that time the' plague came to Gorcunen, and tney died there at the same time as the rest of their family.—Pall Mall Gazette. To know how to grow old is the mas-ter-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.—Amiel. Mammon is the largest slave holder la the world.—Saunders.