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The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03
was washing its milk cans with dirty

was washing it's milk cans with dirty water.
 To have located the trouble by the old methods of Inspecting every cream cry and dairy in turn would have taken months. By the methods of the new wonder worker with germs aiding, detection was reduced to a science. and valuable saving to the milk dealer was accomplished without delay.
 But of all the work of the germ trainer--the applied bacteriologist-- that which has to do with opsonins is perhaps the most wonderful and incred- ible. Indeed, the whole theory regard ing opsonins is staggering. The name itself comes from a Greek word mean ing "to cook, or to make edible," and opsonism consequently is that peculiar quality in the blood which excites the hunger of the leucocytes. or white cor puscles, for invading microbes causing disease.
 No one has ever seen an opsonin but that there Is such a quality in the blood Is proved in the following manner: When disease germs enter the body the leucocytes or white corpuscles i'm mediately rush to devour them. thus ridding the system of them. But if these same germs are placed in sterile water and tie same white corpuscles added, the latter will not touch them. If, to tbis water. bloom serum be added. the leucocytas immediately deyour these same germs.
 Now that quality in the blood which causes the white corpuscles to devour and destroy invading germs is, known as opsonism, and here results one Of the most wonderful achievements of the applied bacteriologist.
 carbuncle, for example, will be cured if the leucocytes are hungry enough to eat up all the bacteria caus- ing the carbuncle.
 Ordinarily they may eat but a DOT tion of them and the carbuncle con tinues. But the applied bacteriologist has discovered that germs from this same carbuncle sterilized-that Is rem dered inocuous,, and then injected near the carbuncle, excite the leucocytes to such an extent that they rush to the carbuncie and devour- five times as many of the trouble causing bacteria as previously. thus eliminating the dis ease. Wonderful as it may sound. these invisible germs have their likes
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03

but as the water supply was drained from an area something like yen thousand square miles. the quesso' was how to find the source from Iwhi.'' r,l they came. It seemed hopeless tasA' like finding a needle fin a haystacA,
 The man without scientlnc
 edge, if confronted with such a PIo bIem might search for years before finding what he sought. But 10 the az piled bacteriologist, the trainer VI germs. the problem offered no terrors' Straightway he went to the city wnose water was being contaminated ana LOOK A look at the germs which were caus- ing the trouble. Up to that time they had been outlaws preying upon soci- ety. but to them the bacteriologist ad : dressed himself mentally at least, about as follows. Now, see here, you chaps, you've got to give in and tell
 me where you come from" And they did.
 As a hound follows up a covey or quail. so did the expert trail the germs, which now instead of being menace were help. The water in this case flowed into the reservoir from a good sized stream. and at the first ,forking above the basis samples of water were taken from both branches. One was pure and the other showed contaminat- O~' Every time in the upward course that another branching occurred. the same process was repeated until miles and miles above the reservoir and far dis tant from the railroad there was found on the bank of tiny stream in the backwoods a newly constructed pig pen draining into the stream. The problem was solved and the cause of all the trouble, a ten-foot square pig non fn 10 mn p1flAo nf fATTf- tory. was discovered by the germs with no delay. Had it not been for the work which they. did it might have taken months to locate the cause of infection.
 Here then is case when the germs did the work and paid dividends too, by saving the water company many lost customers and suits for damages or perhaps the annullment of It's fran chise
 Another field in which the applied bacteriologists find a mighty unseful ness is in dealing with the subject of milk supply. Thousands of babies die every year in every large city of the country from contaminated milk. Many a farmer. the milk from whose COW is daily used to feed small babies, would laugh at the idea of scientifically painted dairy, or a scientifically ar ranged COW barn. And yet these fea- lures are among the most vital to in- fants.
 Here. too. are many illustrations of the Sherlock Holmes ability of germs when properly handled. One of the largest milk dealers in New York, who handles thousands of cans of milk, found some weeks ago that 100 cans of his milk were being thrown out by inspectors every day because their con tents were sour. As his milk came from all parts of the State he was in despair to locate the trouble, which was a serious one for him. involving the loss of hundreds of dollars every week because of destroyed milk.
 |. Then the man of the new profession, the applied bacteriologist. was called in. and he. in turn. called on his germ servants to help him. As a result. it was discovered by sampling, much like that in the water case, and" watching for the telltale germs. that one cream cry more than 200 miles from the city,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03

and dislilxes and eliminate disease germs accordingly.
 As the dead and sterilized germs of any disease may be used to cultivate the appetite of the white corpusles for the1ive germ of that disease. it follows that wonderful, assortment of germs Is kept on hand in these new iabora- tories.
 Calls from physicians from the At- lantic to the Pacific are received here every day for sterilized germs to excite the opsonins and a stock of germs which would bewilder the average man is kept on tap. Literally. everything of this sort that the doctor can want is now in trained capativity here. and one and all these bacteria are being made to work for and pay dividends to the humankind of which. they have been allowed to prey undisturbed until the progress of scientific knowledge at length has brought them into subjec- tion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03
MAKINGGERMS WORK.
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATORS CHECK
 DISEASE AND AVOID DANGER.
They Utilize Bacteria Opsonins Used to Rouse Hunger of Blood Corr
 pucIes for. the Bacilii.

New York. May 2,-(Special)--The most remarkable police force and of fensive and defensive army in the world Is made up of germs. trained germs. which fight for man.
 Modern science through the work of bacteriologists has actually succeeded in domesticating as it were the germs which only few years ago were re- garded as an unmixed evil. Now they have proved such willing and useful servants that the horse is in danger of losing his title of mans best friend.
 Bacteriologists have now reached the point where an army of germs can be made to march up and down mans in- side. watching for any undesirable in vaders. and ready to- attack them. Compared to these trained germs, trained feas. remarkable as the feat of training them seems. assume an elephantine proportion. Yet those min ute organisms have really, been con quered and then trained by the bac- teriologist, so that they are no longer to be regarded as undesirable citizens.
 Aladdin himself had no more pow erful or wonderful servants in the genii of his lamp than has the bacter iologist in the trained bacteria at his command. and no fairy castle was ever half so much a house of wonders as the laboratory where myraids of in- visible but highly useful germ slaves are being employed to solve what were formerly regarded as insoluble pro- blems-questions not of abstract sci ence but of every day business fife.
 Here for the first time, the germ. will-popularly regarded only as 6 cause of many evils to mankind. Is in- stead being trained and utilized in all his wonderful capacity-to work for man. And when he is really put to work under the iron rule of a hu- man being, the things that the ubi- quitous germ can do are almost incred- ible.
 This is what is being accomplished in the most business like way fin the new Lederle Laboratories here by scien. lists under the direction of the form CT Health Commissioner of New York.
 The average man, however, is apt to be bit skeptical of the practical possibilities of the germ hunting and germ study.
 "oh! yes" he Is likely to say, "l know about germs. They are the fel- lows that give you typhoid fever and things, and they're all bad
 While the average man is right in his condemnation of germs so long as they are left to themselves. 1t Is like wise true that they fill, a field of mar vicious usefulness under the direction of scientific experts as is being shown for the first time in these new labora- tories.
 Perhaps no better illustration of this could be found than just such a case as that for which your average man would be likely to ask. A water com pany near New York found, that its supply as 1t came into the reservoir was being contaminated. thus threaten ing its business. since no one wants water that may produce illness. Of course the contamination was due to germs-piratical. untrained fellows
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03
rUBERCULosIs CONFERENCE.
Germany VIII Send Delegates to wash-
 fngt0n.

Berlin, May 1.--Charge de'Ahaires Garrett has transmitted to the Foreign ofice the invitation of the American Government to send delegates to the International Tuberculosis Conference to be held in Washington, Sept. 21 to Oct. of this year.
 This invitation was sent in accord ance with a resolution of Congress of March 6. Anticipating this invitation, the German investigators already have formed a committee tc attend the Con- sress. of which Professor Ernst yon Leyden is chairman. The German Government and the medical societies of Germany will send a numerous rep resentation.
 Accompanying the invitation, the State Department sends out certain information regarding the congress printed in Spanish, German, French and English.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03
GERMANY WILL WELCOME HILL Berlin Newspaper Speaks
 Its Mind. ASHAMED OF TIE INcDENI Says Benjzmin Franklin Was Poor
 But a Diplomat. C1ar Nicholas May Please Toistoy By Fersaitting Russian Edition Of
 His werks--suItan And
 Ills Soldiers.
ASHAMED OF TIE INcIDENl
pY wALrER DUvKInk.

Berlin. May 2.-"There is one thing we owe ourselves and the new am- bassador who is to, represent the United States in Germany" writes The Berlin Tagebiatt, and that is to show pr. D. Jayne Hin when he arrives here in about month that the real German people have no silly prejudices in favor of wealth. ,ts
 The first ambassador the United States sent to Europe was Benjamin Franklin. He came to London in 1757 and 1764 to represent Pennsylvania and other States and in 1776 he came to Paris to help his country win its in dependence. In a letter he wrote to a friend he gives this portrait of him. self. Very plain in dress, his. thin grey hair brushed down flat--imagine how that must look among the pow dered Partsian wigs
 He was. as he writes. at the same time ambassador and merchant, banker and consul for his economical country men had not given him suite along. but everywhere he was received with enthusiasm and admiration, London and Paris honored the eminent man. and the plain citizen made an excellent renresentative for his country.
 sTf Benjamin Franklin were to come to us in Germany as amba ssador to- day he would do well to go less In tor simplicity. It would avail him little that he had invented. the lightning rod, or done something to educate his peo- pie, he would have to give costume balls and flower festivals. It would not he enough for him to be clever and tactxul--he must be able to serve din- nera on solid silver and to post lac queys in knee breaches and silk stock inEs on every step of his stairs.
 The American government. proud of It's democratic traditions, sends only the baIet men to represent it abroad and apes not think of weighing fheIr purse snd then we think it fit to remind that Americas prestige might suffer less hey send rich men. For some time the people of America have been annoyed because we in Europe carry off only the wealthiest millionaire maidens. and now, is 1t strange that they feel shock
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03
The Attraction of Bulk.

baltlmore, American.
 Big men" said Mir. H. M. Davidson of Cleveland. O., at the New Howard, have an attraction for one another.
 T have been somewhere about the 200pound mark for a long while, and am feet and 3 inches in height. so | am competent witness to the state-- Enent. Whenever a pair of large limb ed, bulky specimens of the genus homo meet they eye one another with more interest than do mortals of ordinary size. Last summer I went fishing up in Canada, and the guide I selected the. first day proving Unsatisfactory, I took next day an Indian. who was as magnificent a man in a physical way as l ever beheld. He exceeded me by at least an inch in stature and. had the frame of Hercules.
 Why was it, he asked, you did not take me yesterday? fully ex- pected you would want me.
 And what made you think soT responded. /fs,
 Because you and I are pretty near. ly the same size, and big men always like big men,"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03

Cah Is merely disease of the Things the body the deepatd blood disease which greater the from Posons and impurities accommodating nhame ant of the disease There ringing the hn discharge from the nost filthy the has an offensive and other annoying and nhalatons the blood valuable only
 temporary relief they afford purified Nothing equals S. S. for this the catarrhal pufes blood lasting S. nourishes irritating
 matter and the symptoms all Carh acs' advice free THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,, ATLANTA GA.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03

Wanted to. sell, twenty-nve pariox organs and twenty-five square pianos, terms e1.00 cash. balance s1.O0 per week.
 E. E. Forbes Piano Go. su-tu-thu-eat. eE
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03

ed. when we tell how big a dowry their ambassadors must bring.
 "The Hill incident was an exceeding ly disgraceful one. disgraceful to Ger many although Germans will never en- dorse the sayings that "a poor ambas- sador would not feel at home in Ser lin,' and that American prestige must suffer- Americas prestige in Germany are not the courtiers, who are invited to these dinners.
 ''The surprise would undoubtedly have been even greater to Americans if they had not. befere this time, had proof of how highly some of us, a very few of us fortunately. value the splen- dor of money. We have seen how a Vanderbilt was honored at Danzig and a hundred other instances of this kind. Nobody would be foolish enough to de- mand that the intelligent rich be ex- cluded from the highest honors and no one will deny that fortune is very convenient thing to have. but we must not allow others to get the impress sion of us that we are more apt to forgive an empty head than an empty pock etboolx and that we Germans en- dorse the old saying of King Philip that an ass loaded with gold can jump all walls.
 '.Dr HilL who is an exceedingly able diplomat, should be made to feel from the very moment he enters our city that we want him to feel very much at home."
 Czar May Honor Tolstoy.
 The impossible is about to happen in Russia From a very reliable source I am informed that Czar Nicholas has expressed a desire to honor Count Leo Tolstoy on his s0th birthday in Sep tember, and that the honor will take the form of fulflling. of Tolstoy's dear est wish-official permission for the publication of the aged writer's com pIete works in R6ssia.
 If this news should prove true it is still more surprising in view of the fact that friend of Tolstoy's, Bod janskl, only a short time ago was ar rested for distributing copies of the Counts works. That the arrest did not have the sanction of the Czar is cer- tain, however, for M Stolyptn person. ally issued an order to set Bodtanski free
 Apropos of TolstoY--An amusing sto- ry comes from Moscow. A peasant came to Count Tolsfoy's house in Cha mowinkin the other day with load of wood. Upon, entering he saw an old man in shabby peasants clothing chop ming wood in a shed. and asked him:
 Say, little grandfather. do you know if the Count needs any woodT
 
 q do not know" the old man re- piled. but you might ask them in the house"
 The peasant entered the house and in the hall was met by a fveried lackey.
 "would Your Grace like to buy load of wood" he asked. making deep bow.
 T do not know. Ask the Count" the reply came.
 "Where Is the County"
 "In that shed over there choppinE wood"
 Shaking his head the peasant left and told his comrades outside. "Thera Is something wrong in that house. the people are crazy. and a fellow who goes fin there had better keep his hand on his purse."s
 MesaIIlance of a Prince
 "Mesalliances" in German princelv antilles are becoming a commonplace
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03
AN HONEST OPINION
is Always Given to Every Customer
 of HoIf,n Dye Works.

not be put into perfect condition, they will tell you SO, because if they take in job they cannot do satisfactorily they know they will lose a customer.
 adv
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-03

MesaIIlance of a Prince "Mesalliances" in German prtncelv families are becoming a commonplace item in the news.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-04

The 2-year-old son of Mary Types, 6
Nez Perez Indian, was so badly
burned Saturday at the home in
Spalding, Idaho, that it can not live
The child was playing with matches
and set its clothing on fire.
Several posses from Midway. B. c..
are in the woods searching for the
three murderers and holdups Who Gre
ated so much excitement there last
Tuesday night. The men are said to
have crossed the line into Washington
and to be near Oroville.
The socialist of KoOtenai county
Idaho. have placed the following cOun
ty ticket in the field: Senator, John
G. Koch Cathdrum; le:klature, A,
v, Smith, Mendimont; w. L. Sommers
and r. ". Waldo, Harrison; sheriff
Lev Steering ere. Stinson: assessor, Ern-
est c. w. Hubbard, Lyondale; probate
Judge. S. y. Stowe, Occur d'Alene; sur
veyor, John d. Guerin, Harrison: treas
urer, A. V. Fuller, Harrison; prosecut-
ing attorney. w. A. Laird, Hill; COM
,nissioners. James S. Zornes, Stinson;
Gus Nelson, Occur d'Alenes; Frank
lie Fevre. Rathdrum.
T,r,-rx Cor,,av, x--hn canf1rQd
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-04

If you are not interested in pianos
yourself. you will be doing your friends
a favor by telling them that the most
remarkable Piano Sale ever held by
the Eilers Piano House or any house
in the West for that matter, will last
only today and tomorrow, and that
on pianos bought before Saturday
nights closing time you have little to
pay and much to save.
We have come up to the last two
days Of this sale with a tremendous
business. We thought by reducing our
prices half-and by giving them terms
OF payment never before offered in the
Northwest on reliable makes of instru-
ments, we might be able to make up IN
sales about Fifty pianos which should
have been sold in July-Would nave
been except for the extreme heat.
We have sacrificed profit and in some
cases a portion of the cost, but we will
accomplish what we set out to do
sell the extra Fifty easily before Sat-
urday night, and besides, we have
made still greater reputation for the
! house and Fifty more friends,
Never were such chances given for
easy piano buying and easy paying
Five Dollars cash and a Dollar
Week.
The values nave been extraordinary
and will be greater than ever if pos
sible. today and tomorrow and the de-
mand will test our selling forces to the
limit, so get here early for the best
selection.
We will let these prices demonstrate
how well worth your while il will be
to purchase your piano now while 1928
buys a $3.50 value and $147, $152. $175
and 1874 send home a piano worth
double the above sale prices.
Yesterday the $40O styles we are
selling at $243 seemed to be favorites
with $21S for the 1915 models a close
second.
In the finer-c ased and higher-priced
pianos our $500 styles, which some
time ago We're reduced to 1888 and
now selling at 1924, were taken lively
Some of the piano values in this sale
today are even greater than above
but We prefer to keep them as a still
greater surprise when you call to see
them. We haven't exaggerated the
savings and the advantages of this
sale in the slightest degree.
The public found here every state
ment carried out to the letter and they
bought and are satisfied.
Great will be the savings on pianos,
and on terms of Dollar a Week, to-
day and tomorrow. Never were such
chances for persons with light pocket
books to secure reliable, guaranteed
pianos today and tomorrow at Eilers
Piano House, IA E. Main st.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-04

Under Sheriff Howard Bailey as he was
leaving the home of Thomas Lavelle
at Butte, Mont, after he had attempt
ed to ransac. the place, pleaded guilty
LebOre Judge Donlan to burglary and
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
three years.
AS the result of preliminary hear
ing before Justice Mann. Al De Vaul,
merchant of South Billings, Mon
tana, was held to answer to the charge
Of receiving 200 pounds of stolen
flour His bond was fixed at $3.50.
1t cost A. w. Peabody of Seattle
only So TO hug a Portland widow on
Washington street in that city the 9TH
err night. That he escaped SO easily
was due to the refusal of Mrs. ]. Ell
bridge to enter a formal complaint In
the municipal court Although Mrs
Eldridge accompanied the policeman
to the station with PEABODY she re-
fused to lodge any complaint against
him. Peabody deposited cash bail OF
IS. This he forfeited by his nonap-
pearance.
A. Tho grand LODGE of Good Tenn
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-04

Frank German, who was captured b
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-09-04

last week, the following officers wer'
elected for the ensuing year: j. H.
Faulds Of Stevensville, grand chi:i
templar; George A. Douglas. Jr.. Bou'-
der, grand councillor; Mrs. A. j. Hes.
ter of Butte, grand superintendent u
juvenile work; J. A. LOngstaff, Heiei'
grand secretary; w. d. Bennett, Ana
conda, grand treasurer; delegates -
the national grand lodge, which mee's
next year at Waupach, Wis, Amela
I1offness of Missoula and ohm Nottihs
ham of Missoula, both of whom az
past grand chief templars; alterna'ess
C. S. Passmore and ]. w. Kemper "
Butter.