Arizona republican., 1904-03-20

Prudent had almost determined to erect vast steam sterilizer capable of 150 deg. Cent. in which he would each week disinfect all his clothing His furniture. his dishes. and even his pocket book would go there once a month. Who could tell whether d crisp banknote or a coin even at it's brightest, might not have been handled by a consumptive or befouled by q diptheretic? His poor cid servant, Jeannette, was nearly driven crazy bv all this.
 What an odd sight when Prudent Canon put his knives, his razors, and even his gold watch and chain in the flame that kills ythe evir micrococue. the streptococQue. etc. almost creating them while cremating the microbes upon them.
 Prudent Capon never ventured out. He dreaded the ever-active parasite in the dust on the street. while the ground was fairly alive with millions of name less germs. In the omnibus and the trolley one rubbed elbows with persons suffering with smallpox. typhoid fever. or scarlitina; at the theater at church. :, ;n a restaurant. in the cafes. and in | the public halls one inhales an air surcharged with poisons. sits upon chairs that others have Contaminated. uses glasses that others have so:led : with their lips, turns the pages of books already turned and tainted bv consumptives' fingers.
 For the same reasons my poor friend closed his door to visitors and never wrote a letter for fear Of receiving n reply that might introduce into his house some foul germ.
 Is it necessary to say that he had neither dag. cat or parrot? The ter rible stories he had read in his daily paper caTefully borated and sterilize1 ] in advance) of animals teeming with germs and microbes positively gave i him an attack of iaUndice. and the accounts of deaths from malignant 1 carbuncle resulting from the bites of flies that had fed upon poisoned or Ge- composing meats caused a shiver of | fright at the mere sight or sound of 1 one.
 Besides, Prudent Capon passed the greater part of his life in his bathroom or his dressing room. Carbolic acid was his favorite perfume. Twenty i times a day he sponged himself off gargled his throat to dislodge p1eu- monia germs. He calculated that at each antiseptic nasal douche that he took he killed not less than ffty thousand bacteria. Oh, these phantom microbes, these accursed germs!
 Capon. thus washed and disinfectad and annointed antiseptically, ought to have lived to be a centenarian. Ru; no; one day last simmer he committed for the first and last time in his life a great impruderce. The sun shone brightly, the air was pure and the birds were singing in the trees. Margot the young and pretty farmers daugh- ter happened to pass under the bach elors window Prudent discreetly pushed the shutter part way open thus, braving perhaps, the measles ol malaria, and leaned out to follow . moment longer the vision of a trin ankle. Oh, woman, we have alway: sinned through yoU!
 slate detached from the roof -s
 slate large and heavy all charged witl microbes without doubt-fell suddenly
 upon the aseptic head of my friend. H.
 fell like bullock. his skull fractured
 They supposed that he was dead.
 With a thousand cares they carrie;
 him to his bed and ran to find me