St. Landry democrat., 1889-03-23

the great sawmills, the floating RATS O
logs. The piles of lumber that were being
slowed upon vessels. The busy streets
It was like the breath of new life. Re
luctantly he moved to the boat.
"Hello, Reggie, you are quite stranger
in these parts, man alive, where have yor
been keeping yourself.
"Wel1, Aft, / am glad to see you, wha
have you been doing with yourself, you
| look the worse for wear"
''Faix, Reggie, my boy, that's not much
| of compliment for me as for yourself
you look younger every day"
Because I take care of myself, ALT
you are running the human machine at toe
great a speed, my boy"
They strolled a dozen yards to seat
themselves upon the bank, where they
were Joined by half dozen more fisher.
men. They had hardly seated themselves
when the bottle was handed, when il
reached Reginald he passed it to the next
'Take dram, Reggie, it will make your
blood circulate, choke out the dampness,
besides it's not fair shake to the resi-
of US"
| uSV0r uTluh d UO}S, NOV blhb l
| wish to be i'll hammered, either"
| "You are prohibitionist, then I"
ono, am nothing of the kind-listen,
boys, do you hear those noisy engines that
are driving the saws, did you ever stop to
| think how steam engine works. The
two long boilers are half filed with water,
Won build a fire in the furnace that is
beneath, the steam generates motion as it
leaves the boilers to find its way into the
steam chest, which contains sliding valve
that moves backward and forward, to open
and close hole at each end this sliding
valve is moved by the eccentric that keel S
one hole covered at time beneath the
steam chest, the cylinder is placed, and,
in this cylinder, the piston rod works,
which has a head something like the
plunger of syringe that fits lightly.
Now, take your syringe with the plunger
in, and bore hole at each end The
steam that comes from the steam chest
enters the hole near the nozzle and
forces the plunger to the other end
while the steam that is behind the plunger
escapes through pipe into the open air
The forward hole is closed and the rear
one receives the charge of steam to force
the plunger to the other end, and so it
moves backward and forward to ELL the
busy earth with wealth. The little crowd
had drawn closer to the speaker, as he
continued Boys. if should tt II you that
there was little difference between steam
engine and mans body you would be in
credulous, but such is the case. A mans
mouth is the door of the furnace, you fill
it with food, which you chew thoroughly,
for food well chewed is half digested, you
roll the mass around your tongue until it
is well mixed with saliva. This food you
are chewing is the wood and coal of your
human engine, when it Is we'll masticat
you swallow it, when it is down. the inner
coating of the stomach takes hold of it, in
much the same manner that a snake
crushes it's prey, churns it all up to mix it
with the gastric juice. which is secreted
by the inner coating of the stomach, when
the stomach has dissolved the food and
changed the starchy part into sugar, the
dissolved substance meets the pancreatc
fluid, which acts upon the fatty parts and
softens them, then it travels to meet the
bile which the liver generates, and is
further acted upon until it becomes
milky fluid called chyme, which is alb
sorbed into the human body to form blood
This blood is the steam that runs the ma
chinery. The heart, or pump of cur en-
CINE is as large as your fist. and has four
rooms, or chambers, two upper and two
lower. Let US gaze into the human body
and watch this steam as it flows along the
pipes called arteries and veins, we will
launch our little boat into the current that
flows through the veins to the upper right
hand room, or right auricle that receives
the dark cloud that has been scorched by
the fires of oxidation and filed with all
the impurities of the body, from this upper
right hand room it flows to the cham Der
directly beneath, Or right ventricle. The
folding doors or valves between the two
rooms open downward, as soon as the
lower room is filed, the folding doors
close, and this lower room full is cced
by contraction into big steam pipe called
the pulmonary artery, where it is con-
veyed to the lungs, which consist of CO.
O00, 900 air cells that spread it out so that
the atmosphere we inhale can act upon it,
from here it is gathered to flow into four
pulmonary veins that take it to the left
hand upper room, or left auricle, when
this room is full, Lair of folding doors
open downward to empty it into the room
beneath, the doors are closed between the
opSCA dud 1O"Cl lOOulc, dud tnC lOWSE
chamber, by contraction, forces it into the
aorta or pipe that connects it with the ar
teries, which carry the purified blood to
every part of the body. The protoplasmic
cells are the workmen in this vast factory,
and are e:ernally upon the watch for the
arterial blood to appropriate the material
for the purpose of building up muscle,
flesh, nerves and bone, and like economical
workers they cast the refuse into the river
that sweeps by, Which is the darker blood
of the veins that carries all Of the impuri,
ties to the lungs, which are the escape
pipes of our steam engine, for the carbonic
acid gas that we exhale at every breath is
the wasted steam. The pores of the skin
are the safety valves, that discharge the
surplus heat. Let US look more closely at
the blood, we will place drop upon the
stage of microscope and run the magni-
flying power up to $50 dlameters, the blood
is gone, and, in its place, we have what
resemble rolls upon rolls Of coin, stacked
in endless rows, 100000 900 of these little
coins make one cubic inch.
Ito be Continued
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