Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1903, Page 32

June 21, 1008. Humanity’s Final Battle (Continued from Page Three.) that arises between man and all other many-celled organisms. As forces on carth besides the vertebrates only the insects dee mand consideration. Man needs little from them, but they Warm him much. So he is In open, steady war of destruction with them everywhere. Its end is not doubtful. And so on. There remains of organisms of the land only the many-cclled plant, But man has not had to fight with the plant. He dwelled with it from ecarly times as if it were a beloved younger sister, Immeasurably more pliant than the anf- mal, it has been changing through thoue sands of years under his hand into a true, ever-improving tool. The grass ripens into corn for him, the creeper of the primeval forest bears grapes for him, the rough, gnarled forest tree changes into a frult- bearer for him. When this has been cone tinued for still more thousands of years, every every fruit, every tree-form on earth will be so thoroughly the work of man that one can hardly call it a ‘‘con- quest”™ of man any more. The plant will simply have heen made part of the human world; a far different achievement from that of destroying the monsters A last look, now, into the water. There In the depths still live whole families and races—the prickle skins, the sea stars, 8ponges, polyps, worms and others, all rep- resented by myriads of individuals. Withe out question the actual mastery of the deep 8ea by man is only In its beginning. blosgom But it begins so thoroughly that there can be no doubt about his victory there either. The great sea mammals, like the whale, learned man's power first. A sim- flar war of extinction was begun agnst certain usful fishee, like the herring al- though man S now assumed the more fdeal position of ruling by propagating them. The oyster has been changed into a domestic animal, as man did with the bee inds of years earlier. civilized coasts will become such dominfons from which will reach into the sea and yoke the salt waters to his work. ' True, the coast is not the high sea, not the abyss of the deep water, But over tha abyss our steamships glide in a thousand directions. And the same century that built the first steamship, that measured the ocean chasms for the same time and dis- covered the fairy-like animal life down there, is forcing culture into the depths, Through the under-seas our telegraph cables wind like enormous sea snakes. In the coming century the submarine boats will follow. It all hurls itself along with express speed in which there is no more pause. Man, master of the water, as he is of the land—master of all multi-celled or- ganisms, master of all his ancestors down to that lost gastrea, the first stomach, down in the earth, Gradually all man deep water as in the light on the And in the midst of this full triumph—an appalling discovery! Our most hideous liv« ing foe has been unknown to us until within the last decade, It is no other than the last act of thig great drama that began many thourands of years ago when the young creature, man, faced the world primeval filled with tertiary and diluvial monsters, and had to answer the question to what he was going to do. Three acts, and man has settled with all his multi-celled ancestors, cousins and uncles. Now, in the fourth act, the whole mass of life has been subjugated with tha exception of this last corner. And this corner is the world of bacillus, the simpla primordial form of life, « This last battle is 80 much more im- mense than all the rest, that is by far the mot important in the history of the world. as We are in it now, but how long will it last? And is it at all certain who will be the victor? The attack of the bacilll is a monster attack on the most extravagant scale, Will man win? The problem is stated clearly: a colo: al cell-community, man 4,000,000 of such cell communities on the earth—fights desperately against of individual cells that want to pour into his community, whol myriads feed on it and produce poisor to kill it, Now what does the present phase of our bacteriological knowledg signify? It signities that the war finally has en- tered a field wherein our cell- communities find a new resort. The brain, the thought-cells, have entered the fight. In that part of our cell-commu- nity nothing was known of the battle tween bacillus and man until recently Vast armies of cells in the human body have fought, the days of the first man, agalnst the inimical disease and pest bhe- since cells. But the brain cells of humanity took no part in the war, Now, the brain cells have produced a *“science.” In a circle of thought the cell itself is discovered by the brain cell. Then the bacillus is discovered, Its deadly work fs recognized. The counter-effects of the ecells of the human cell-community are per- ceived. There follows the decision to re:ch down into the dark battle The brain cells established themselves at last as the allies of the other fighting cells =with their whole Titanie power, with their "memory,"” with their ‘“reading eye,” that THE ILLUSTRATED BTF. Ralph Broderick, third. Bert Colby, first. 3ASE BALL, TEAM OF THE SHELTON (Neb.) HIG Joe Bills, pitcher. Ed McDermott, right field. John Dean, center, Arthur Walsh, shortstop. Guy Bastian, second. Howard Walker, catcher, Clifford Lester, third, H SCHOOL, B. A. Reasoner, principak TRACK TEAM OF THE PAWN TECUMSEH, Neb. make possible study reaching back thous- ands of years That is the new =sftuation. t the small single results here and there will decide the battle. The brain cells may err again and often again about the bacillus and its poison in individual cases They may beat the empty alr many times But the decisive thing is that they have enterced the fight! They have discovered They se¢k no more in visions for expluna tion of what is happening in th own cell-community. The brain cells have b come battle-allies offered burnt while the other but blindly, for cell-community This rand of the cell is so mighty, so tremendous in its import, instead of dreamers that sacrifice or cell fo the cursed a ight existence of comet desperately, the whole last development that in the light of human knowledge it may he said Yes, now man will be victor!" It is the last fight the mastery by man of the realm of life It is the “finis" of a world ocl Only beyond t 1 can the true age of man begih hen the last rending eagle of Promethe will have been killed. WILHELM BOELSCH. i CITY HIGH SCHOOL—WINNERS OF THE INT - - Victims of BERLIN physician of renown, be lieving that exc ssive practice at the pilano 8 responsible in a measure for the larn pread if nervous diseages, irstituted a4 campaign against musical education of children ¢ Hge now customary both in thi < d in Europe In hig opinion no hould be permitted to enter upon the st of music before the age of 16, and even th the hour of drumming upon the keyvhoard should be restricted to two a day Of 1000 girls who undertook pian practice before the age of 12, 600 later became affiliated with some form of nervous dis of 1,000 whose musical education only 100 ever iffered in tl manner From these stal the doctor deduce the theory that finger ex ercises” and more excrcis o ar the nceds of girle r nd thou deductions from statist gel erally to be looked upon wit i« many of the laity will approve his mmaon Bense views But the German savant might well have ERSCHOLASTIC TRACK the Piano gone a and step consldered farther in his tigations the sad those who compelled to listen to the efforts of the beginniers upon the Robert Webster the Housekeaper, The sufferings of the nothing com#ired to those of the involunt iry audi- tor whe to work, an embry Beethoven 3 with ¢ Inve case of are piano, May say Jones in are as is trying perhaps, 1 the next finger while room \is Too many practicing scale girls without a particle of talent Lbegin the study of musi ind especially the piano, tecan thelr parents believe it I8 *“the prog thing'" to do After ruining the nery of the neighbors and lowering the value of the adjacent property, these girls finally abandon music as fgnorant as when thie began, and take up some other fad Few girls dabble in painting or drawing without at least a modicum of artistic taste or talent, but many, apparently, re- rd piano playing as a purely mechanical complishment If this Berlin physician can induee 1ch girls to forsake the piano I favor of the golf stick, the lawn mowep or the earpet sweeper, his efforts in behalf vain. of humanity will not have been in