The morning news., 1899-02-12
PAGES IL TO 20.

them seems as large as the canon Of the
Colorado In your geography.
Nov, these little white corpuscle SOL
diers have their sentine.s stationed here
and there throughout the body on guard
against just such attacks of the wicked
bacteria, and as soon as the little white
sentinel in your thumb saw the invading
horde, he turned and ran as fast as he
could to the nearest telegraph office and
sent a message along nerve telegraph
wire, summoning his brothers and warm
ing the King of the Corpuscles, who has
command OF all the soldiers.
'"rhe little sentinel Is very plump and
soft, because he is made of pure protopi-
asm, and in order to get through wall
of tissue that lay between him and the
telegraph office he had to squeeze himself
together so tight that his whole little body
ached, and crawl through a tiny crack
not half large enough for him.
Then, without stopping to rest, he rush.
ed to the nearest artery and called for
his brothers as they came by, and as am
extra precaution, he hailed a little red corr
puscle that was swimming along with a
great load of meat for tissue building.
and sent him TO the little castle in wil-
lies side where the King of the Whits
Corpusce stays curled up when he is
not on IA tour OF inspection through tha
body
But the little red messenger did not wait
till he reached the kings castle befors
spreading the dreadful news. AS he rush-
ed along he told his little white cousins.
and they all shook themselves and gor
ready for the fray. They would have
turned and run back toward the thumh
at once If they could have done SO; but
blood corpuscle can only go with thG
piasmic current and there is no turning
back, so, though trembling with impa-
tience they had to go all the way to tho
kings castle before starting out for tho
cut in Willies thumb,
THE King of the White Corpuscles has
received the sentineFs telegram and was
ready to start with his generals and sol-
diers when the red messenger arrived,
and In a few seconds a whole army OF
little white corpuscles was In the plasma
stream Of blood, rushing along toward
the wounded thumb. They went so fast
that they tumbed all over each other. and
sometimes n little corpuscle that was nog
a very steady swimmer would be rol-
ed over and over three or four times be-
fore he could strike out himself again.
Now the wicked bacteria knew that
they must work quickly In spreading in-
tiGmmation through the tissues OF the
thumb, for there is tradition in the bac-
terra family that as soon az they get t0
work nicely, a swarm of white soldiers
~ sure ~ Npihp anu NiS w diiNS tneHA
all away
And, sure enough I'm very short time
after the little sentinel and a few follow
ers thrust themselves into the breach, tho
King of the Corpuscles arrived at the head
OF his great white army, and the terrlbles
battle began. Line after line of the cur
puscle soldiers were slain by the black In
vaders but as fast as they fell others
rushed forward to take their places, and
the minutes seemed like hours as the bat
lie went on. The wicked bacteria foughh
like demons; but, being in the wrong, they
had 70 lose the battle, and at last they
were overpowered and driven from the
field, leaving their dead behind them
THE little white soldiers who were noe
s.ain gazed with anguish upon their falIeu
brothers, whose bodies lay so close to-
gether that they almost filled the canon.
Then the surviving soldiers formed them-
selves into strong circle around the bat
tlefeid to keep the invaders from return
ing, and they are there now in such vast
numbers that you can feel the hard,
strong circle with your finger"
Willle's papa then showed him a little
white spot in the center of the cut on nis
thumb.
I'VE say the sore thumb has suppur-
ated," he said but what we call sum
puratioa Is only the dead bodies of the
brave little soldiers lying white and cold
upon the field where they fell fighting for
Willie"
Poor little soldlersw said Willie
thoughtfuliy. 81 thank them very much.''