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Show Hj THAT SMALLPOX GERM. B It is said that an eastern scientist has finally H located the germ of smallpox, found the family to H which it belongs, and many particulars of its fam- M ily. That germ should be sent at once to the H Deseret News office, to give Brother Penrose a m chance to wither it up by prayer. Between the B germ and the prayer a lymph might be obtained H which would be both effective and harmless, which H through a mild "surgical operation" might be in- H jected into the human system and make the world H in a little while immune against the dread dis- H ease. In this age of scientific advancement we H have no right to shrink from any experiment H which promises to lve man more dominion over H every sinister enemy of the race. It may be a del- H icate matter to handle this new found germ, it H may be a serious matter to stand one of the M Elder's long prayers, but science is inexorable, H and while the purpose is to give the children of H men more safety and more dignity, whatever may H be disagreeable about the preliminary details H must not be heeded. The thing to be desired is immunity from smallpox without vaccination. Now, if the enemy that has caused uuch destruction of human life has been located In Boston and the certain antidote anti-dote is waiting in Salt Lake, by bringing the enemy en-emy and the overthrow of it together, out of the Goliah and David scrap surely a lympth should be evolved which would fix humanity forever on high and safe ground. We would recommend the sending ot the Elder to Harvard to kill those germs by invocations as fast as they are brought to light were it not tor the fear that after a fair trial the elder might be furnished transportation home with a note reading as follows: "We return re-turn the elder. We have heard him pray and believe be-lieve the germs should be protected." |