The Panola weekly star., 1885-10-24
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IN that direction When W. Ind Tia,
minute organisms, hardly more than
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strongest lens, exist IN the centre N .
lump " chalk rent from the very mid.
de ~ some great mass, fall n vitality,
and capable ~ producing important
formentAllve changes In Substances with
which they cnms In contact. We can
form some approach n conception II
the ublversality II life, and NJ the din.
Guilty, II not the lmpossibllliy. of ssoap.
ing lls most disastrous forms. That
much u this life il scryiceable and ben.
ehclal IL apparent, and tlmt much Il also
injurious aud poisonous Il equally ap-
parent II seems almost Ike nm asser.
ton u positive malovolent force In tho
world, this poisonous microscopic life,
when viewed with reference 10 lts pos.
sibilitles. In the multitude Of deathly
diseases thus created and In the fact
that just before death, and not Just after,
the pntrefactiye poison Is often found 10
have begun lis malignant work but as
nobody seriously doubts that good is to
overcome evil in the whole cosmos, so
the determination Of these poisonous
powers is something to be looked for,
and 10 be worked for. by the doctrine
u exclusion, by the elision Of favorable
circumstances Of development, tho
elimination Of the maleyolcnt germ
from among created things by the de.
struction OF the conditions which nur.
ture II and favor It's continuance and
propagation, ill the dlsease.producing
germ shall one day become as extinct as
the dodo.
Every physician knows that bacteria
are to be found swimming along their
fatal way In the veins Of patients in ty-
phoid, scarlet, puerperal and other fe.
yers, to say nothing of smallpox, diph-
iberia, measles. septicemia, and the
rest, that they are OF material substance,
and that they propagate each after ito
kind and not after another, showing &C.
tive force and individual existence.
This individual existence and continu-
Ing active force, in fact, Is seen 10 exist
in the earliest and most minute form of
life, in the initial atom Of bioplasm, as
one may say. The old distich in rela.
ton TO the great neas that have little
1eas ito worry and to bite 'em, while
little ileas have lesser neas, and so ad
mfnitom," II possibly vulgar, is Ger.
tainly true, and shows that the idea OF
the animal parasite is not at all novel
one. Even the little fly has its parasite.
that may be observed when he dies on
the window.pane, and hangs glued there
In tiny, fuzzy mould.
The capablty for eyil, not alone in
matters Of human health. but even in
the financial affairs Of the world, which
these iniintesimal atoms Of life exert. is
to be understood from the circumstances
that the muscadine, the parasite of the
silk-worm, has cut down production OF
nix In France from an annual amount
Of s hundred and thirty million francs
TO thirty millions only. The oidium
meanwhile some time since as good a,
extermnated the vine in Madeira, many
OF the vineyards there having been re.
planted with the supposedly yet unin.
fected vines Of California; and the smut
in wheat and the rust 10 cotton are para,
sitical concerns that every year do theil
own damage.
Parasitical growth must needs alway,
be an unhealthy growth, since IL is diff
cult to believe that any created thing
has more life than il needs for It's owr
uses. and consequently has none to Civ,
away and supply the wants and uses o.
the parasite. To avoid this parasitlca
growth, or to destroy it, then, demand,
our best efforts, let us find II where ",
may; and regarding II as q malevolen
aud malignant enemy, il Is something
curious TO see that the cleanliness which
Is next to goodliness is its only extermi
nator. Plenty Of water. then plenty o
sunshine, plenty Of air-the great cleans
ing processes Of nature-will be ou
safeguards against our general enemies
the especial enemy needing still NOR,
especial measures. People who see par
ticular yisitations Of an angry provi
dence in the mortal diseases that roI
their homes OF their chlefest treasure
should look TO il first, and make sur
that they themselves are not the sngrr
providence, with choked drains. fou
closets, decaying vegetable heaps in un
used and unaired cellars. or with un
elcansed refrigerators, the gathere,
moisture on whose interior walls par
takes Of the nature Of slime aud poison
the milk the children drink. II we cal
not escape the cruel enemy altogether
we can yet by vigorous concerted effor
make his approaches so difficult as :
thin his numbers for want Of food. an
secure perhaps some portion Of indem
nifty for the future, II not for our NOR
immediate selves, for those that are 80
to come. -Harper's Bassr.
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