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Show In the Matter of Microbes. Proof is at hand that the multifarious multifari-ous microbes which live in, on, and about all kinds of matter have been sadly slandered. This proof was "made in Germany" by a herr doctor professor at the University of Gottin-gen, Gottin-gen, and, if microbes had a legal adviser, ad-viser, might form the basis of a big suit far damages. The herr professor secured se-cured a dozen fresh eggs. He set the eggs in a specially constructed incubator incu-bator to which chemically pure and sterilized air was supplied in exactly the proper quantities. At the end of twenty-one days all of the eggs hatched. The chickens were let out of the incubator into a fine, large coop, supplied with plenty of light, air, water wa-ter and the choicest foods. But the air was sterilized, the water was don- : ble distilled and was made chemically pure, as - were also-, the various foods. Every form-and kind of microbe and germ was scientifically shut out, and of all creatures which have ever lived that. dozen chickens were the. first to start in life . with not a single microscopic micros-copic animalcule to interfere with them. But the little chickens did not thrive. Day by day they grew weak and thin, and, one after the other, they lay down , on their backs and turned up two stiff little yellow legs to the microbe laden air outside their sterilized coopfl They dia not digest their food properly, they had difficulty in breathing, and they seemed to have no enjoyment of any-kind any-kind in life. The last chemically pure chicken survived for twenty-three days. Then it quit scratching and the experiment experi-ment was ended. It is time to call a halt on the indiscriminate indis-criminate denunciation of microbes. Man without microbes would-evidently have a hard time of it. What is needed need-ed is to isolate the beneficent microbes and to organize them into ward and precinct clubs for the waging of war of extinction against their improper and harmful colleagues. |