The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-03
AboIishfnE Death.

a new seeker after the elixir OF life has
been introduced 10 tho public by that on
nipresent gentleman. the syndicate inter
view writer. Dr. Lloyd Parker. NJ B., is
the scientific investigator. and his home
is In England. He is a disciple Of Koch
and PasteUr. with an ambition. however,
soaring above anything the great bacteri-
ologists named have ever been credited
with entertaining. While Koch and Pas
teur have sought specifics for certain dis
eases. Parker has been seeking a specific
for death in the abstract. And what is
more, he says he believes he has found il.
In short. he thinks that presently he may
be able to place I'm the hands OF the medi-
cal fraternity a preparation that has
the power 10 give Immortality 20 the body,
except in case it is destroyed with fire. or
torn asunder with explosions or the like.
lie does not claim to have the indestructi-
bility Of the body in view. but to have ia
view preparation that viii destroy the
specific microbe OF death. and thus remove
the real cause OF natural dissolution
His theory. that Of the psychologists
Is that all diseases are caused by infnites-
imal germs. microscopic in the extreme.
but nevertheless alive and capable Of be
ing cultivated. But he goes beyond this,
and says that while the various diseases
differ i'm their character, and have their
cause in totally different bacteria, the cul-
mination Of ltdisease is the same. name
Is. death. Therefore it must be that the
elimination Of disease has its own specific
microbe. to put the finish to the work Of
dissolution, and without which the various
organs of the body, distempered and de
graded from their pristine purity and Vi
tai activity, would semain purulent mas
Of living corruption. unable to resolve it.
self into its primal elements and to form
other combinations, which science says
must be done. as things are going now.
When a scientific man evolves a theory
so promising as that, he proceeds to ex-
pertinent with a view TO ascertaining how
much there may be In 1t. And that is what
DR.. Parker did. His first experiments were
with a Japanese day-lily. which lives but
"a day and then withers and dies He found
what he was looking for. locating the death
germ in the bulb at the root 1t was lit
tie spiral organism that kept twisting
around in a demoniacal way; and it was
an animal, of such inhnitesimal proper
tions that II required the strongest kind Of
a microscope to find il. The death germ
was Experimental upon with various
substances when finally it was dis
covered that a vapor Of pyrolg-
neous acid and some other ingre-
dents had the effect of destroying it,
Other lily bulbs were treated with the va
por and they iived and fiourished becom-
ing immortal and ever-blooming, whereas
all Of their family before them had lived
only day each and then persisted. Follow
ing the lily experiments. DIR. Parker. says
he tried the vapor on the animal ephem-
era, insects that live but a day. In this
he was too successful, for his flies soon be-
came so numerous that he was forced to
catch them in a net and burn them up. He
had made them practically everything, ex-
cept in the event of destruction with fire.
After the flies, he experimental with frogs
and achieved fresh victories over DEATH
and at last tried It on a dog He exhibited
a fine st. Bernard to his interviewer and
stated that the dog had received the vapor
treatment when he was in the last stages
Of decrepitude. He has not yet put man to
the test, and cannot say when he will. He
will not make his secret public for fear
that harm would come of 1t.
It may be doubted that it is desirable
for the doctor to continue his experiments,
in so far as they relate to the animal king
dom, any further. There are too many
people, and dogs, and frogs. and flies in the
world that really ought to die. to make
the immortality Of the body at will a bless
ing to the world. Besides if there were
essary to provide against any new addi-
tions and that might not be agreeable or
practicable. But it would be a great
thing if the doctor could perfect his dis
covery in its relations to the vegetable
kingdom. If he could make the cotton
stance scent cotton would have no ter
rors for the planter. The whole expense
OF the crop would be the picking and mar
keting. With the melon vines made per-
petual, and the strawberry vines and po-
tato vines ditto, humanity would have
picnic: necessity for work would
be abolished, to great extent, and there
would be no demand for the free and un,
limited coinage of silver 1t would not he
a bad idea for the populistic statesmen to
send memorial to DR.. Parker, congrat-
ulating him upon his good work, and urg-
ing him to greater efforts in the future.
Deputy Assistant United States Treas
urer Muhlemann says the new Russian
law PERMITTING the conclusion of CONNER
cial contracts upon a gold basis means that
Russia is preparing to drop silver as
basis for her money system and adopt gold
Russia has accumulated vast store of
gold, S500,OC0,OOO or more besides which she
has enormous gold credits abroad, and she
is preparing to put the gold into circulation
at home. Gold does not circulate in Rus
sia among the common peoDle AZ all NOW