Arizona republican., 1899-07-11

| turn sour nor butter ranc-d; eggs keep always fresh; in the hottest summer
 our meat never becomes high It
 would almost seem that everybody
 should be satisfied, except the bacteri-
 ologtst, whose occupation is done"
 It was probably in anticipation of
 some such state Of affairs that the
 ''sterilizei" milk booths were allowed 1 to radiate the elevating inflGsnce of their classic architecture over the pub lie parks. But the doctor declares that
 soon we would begin to miss some thing in our germless wcrld There
 would be no beer, wine or whiSkey, all
 the yeast plants having been killed by germicide All bread would have to
 be aerater, for the leaven which has
 Ceen employed for 50 many centuries
 would have lost its potency Cheese
 would not 'ripen," and there would be distinct falling eff in the flavor of the best butter. Vinegar could no longer
 be manufactured, for all the members l of that branch Of the bacilli family to whom is intrusted the care of working
 on weak alcoholic solutions would have been killed Then our digestions would give out Inhabiting the ali
 mentary canal are innumerable micro organisms, which work night and day
 helping us digest our food. Now. if
 these friends of ours were all killed by q universal sterilization. we would soon feel the effects of it. Herhivorous animals, including vegetarians. would lose the pciwer to assimilate the aIlu. lose which enters so largely into their food.
 The extinction of the ce.lulosa-de- composing bacteria would also bring it about that the tough fibers of hemp and flax no longer would separate af- ter maceration in water. and so the textile industries would be interferred with The extinction of those little workers who have in charge the mak- Ing of saltpeter would stop the pro- auction of nitrates But worse than all this would be the fact that neither grass nCr herb nor tree could grow in a 'sterilized' soil, and as animal life IS dependent on vegetable life all things would come to an end A 'sster- 1Hzed' world would be a dead world.
 pr. Gabbett evidently believes this for he says: ''The amount of carbon hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen. etc. avail able fer the composition of living bod les is not an unlimited quantity. but is constantly utilized ever and over again; there are necessary economies III the working of the laboratories of nature At present all living things Gle and return to the earth from which they are derived, and their substances are again used to construct the shh- stances of new living things. A mart Is at cnce assImilated by snecropha- gous' creatures, the scavengers Of inc soil; but the important economy con slsts ln the slow deccmpositions sci m by bacteria, resolving dead organic matter into elements available for fresh fife. If these decompcsitions were to cease, if animals and nIants were to remain incorruptfbIe after Geath, how can we escape the concin- sion that sooner or later the suppIv of such available clements must he ex- hausted, and life itself must come fo an end ?'' ~
 Therefore. in cur detestation of inc dlsreputable members of the baciI1i family. let us not forget those hard and faithful members awho ceaseiessly labor that we nay live St- Louis GlObe-Democrat