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in Manitoba not bj advocating the building of smudges, thereby re- 

 placing the evil by one only a grade less — a method just a step higher 

 than the old-fashioned plan of fighting a disease by incantation —but 

 Vjy simple effectual scientific means. An epidemic like la Grippe will 

 be unable to begin its career of death. At the very outset the cause 

 of its appearance will be understood, and by a touch, perhaps, or a 

 word to the people at large, the delicate machinery of its environ- 

 ment will be readjusted in such a way as to summarily end it at the- 

 very beginning. In this way almost all the pests that are of the- 

 nature of an epidemic on man, beast, or vegetable may be met at 

 once and annihilated, along with the circumstances that gave rise to- 

 them. 



Thus, as I have briefly endeavoured to indicate, to a greater extent 

 probably than we have any idea of, the race will be elevated and 

 benefitted by the pursuit of what is, after all, simply a delightful 

 recreation." 



