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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1913)
PAGE FOUR Fooling the Phagocytes War and Rumors of War Within the Human Body are Daily Incidents How we Deceive our Best Friends WE ABE prone to deceive our friends and the Phagocytes are no exception. The Pha gocytes are our bent and most intimate friends and yet we take no thought for their perennial willing ness to fight for us our battles and every chance we get to fool thein we accept with unfailing enthusiasm, Tho Phagocytes are the police of the body, always ready to club some offending bacillus over the head and run hiin into the lockup. The Phagocytes are. the standing army of the body, only they do not stand still long at a time, bo busy are they in putting down insur rections on the part of germs thought thoroughly naturalized or in repelling invasions on the part of alien microbes. Let something go wrong and the Pha gocytes are there in a jiffy, foot, borso and dragoons, putting up a fight that makes the heroic memory of the Tro jans pale into cowardly insignificance. Every day the Phagocytes have their rounds to make and their fights to fight, brief, hand to-hand and eye-to-eye encounters with hostile bacilli, and sometimes there aro general alarms and fierce, long conflicts with a determined enemy. That's whon we start in fool ing the Phagocytes. Let us say that we have a cold in the bead. A lot of hostile bacilli aro encamped in the sensitive membranes up there, having the unlawful time of their lives, rioting joyously in the mis , ery they are dealing to us. But, thoy have forgotten in their unholy mirth the army of the Phagocytes. Those in trepid organisms need no formal call to battle, DO' definite declaration of war, no official proclamation before they cross the border into the territory of the enemy. Upstairs thoy rush, all bands to breakfast I Soon, there is a fight in progress. No, not "soon," but immediately. The bacilli of the cold, base dcspoilers that they are, grapple with the Phngocytcs. Why shouldn't theyt Even a rat will fight, once he's cornered. The little devils of the cold must fight or be de stroyed. So, there is a battle that is a battle and he arena which we are rings and resounds and has trouble a-plenty with consonants and vowels. Then, when the ravages of war become too much to bear, we Btart in to fool . the Phagocytes. Tou see, we know that the Phago cytes are in the blood and blood is what we do not want up there in the war district. Rather, we would Btarve out the enemy. We prefer to wage a Fabian campaign, to make cunctutory war. But the Phagocytes first-class fighting men, they cannot understand military delay of any sort. Thoy en joy Light-Brigade charges, forlorn hopes, dashing maneuvers, but the prin ciples of scientific warfare are to them a closed book. No, there's no use in reasoning with the Phagocytes. There they are, in deadly embrace with the bacilli of the cold, knee-deep in gora and impregnated with the lust of slaughter. They wouldn't come down and quit any more than a bulldog will let go as long aye, and longer as he can know and feel anything. The Pha gocytes are enlisted for the war; thoy intend to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. 80, we, for whom the Phngocytos aro doing yoeman service, fool thorn. We put on our other end a mustard plas ter. We put the countor-irritant on the calves of our legs and we put our feet in mustard water, sizzling hot. Ouch! This false alarm is soon received by the Phagocytes, engaged in unrelent ing, savage, quarterlcs war 'way up there above the equator. One can imagine the little soldiers taking coun sel among themselves: "Yes, we have a very fine scrap on our hands here right now and it's get ting better all tho time, but there must be something fierce coming off down toward the south. At that, we'll have For Sale or Trade on Terms to Suit One of the most profitable, full bearing apple orchard! In the Hood River district. Owner not practical farmer; aniious todia poaei price renaonnhle: tennl to auit; anle or trade. Property includes 6 acres 17-ycar-old treea; 8 acrea 8-yenr-old trees: 16 acrea 7-yenr-old treea; 6 acrea pasture; 20-inch water right; 6 room house, ham, apple house, span of mulea; one 5-year-old mare; one Jersey cow; 1U0 chickens; waiton. hack, butfiry, gasoline sprayer and inumerable farm implements. Also 21 shares of stock in Hood Kiver Apple Growers Union. Write Immediately for terms and particu lars. This is absolutely s snap end a money maklng proposition. harry McAllister f Csausarca BUf . rsrliaaa. Oratas these fellows too dead to skin in two or three more battles, and it might be worth while to go below and see what's doing. We can come back any time and polish off this gang here." 80, off rush the Phagocytes, still spoiling for a fight, happy-go-lucky little warriors. They reach the hot re gion and they gird up their loins, hitch thoir breeches, spit on their hands or do whatever a Phagocyte does when he prepares for the lists. Then they start to wade in. Imagine their blank amazement when they find that there is nothing into which thev can wade. no foe to fight, no drunk and disor derly bacilli to run in, no anarchistic demonstration to disperse. Nothing to do at all and a fine chance tn fiirht passed up. 80, the Phagocytes stand around with their hands in. their nnck- ets for a while and send out scouting expeditions. Still, they find nothing ana they start back to the battlefield they've left so recently, only to find nil the enemy dead and littering the field. So, we reckon, the Phagocytes swallow their disappointment some how, cord up the deceased and start out on a humdrum existence of peace. Inat, friends, is what we call fooling the Phagocytes. There is something human about thia business of making false alarms for tne fbagooytes to answer. A good many of us spend part of our time fighting for folks who don't appreciate me sacruices we make or the love we bring to them. We are all of us, if our hearts are clean, of the spirit of Don Quixote, after all is said and done. We are like the Phagocytes, useful usu ally and sometimes foolish and in the way. When we are in the way well, then there is some sort of a mustard ap plication to call , us to other scenes. There are many human Phagocytes and every day these are being fooled. Surveying the Congo The use of modern methods for lay ing out frontier lines in the colon ies is well brought out in the work which is ' being done in the Congo region. According to a recent treaty, France ceded a certain amount of ter ritory in Africa to Germany in ex change for concessions in Morocco, so that this led to expeditions on the part of both countries in ordor to fix the boundary lines. Captain Peri quet states that wireless telegraphy will be used for the first time on a large scale so as to determine lati tudes exactly. Wireless stations now exist in the French possessions, also in Cameroon and Belgian Congo, and all these are to be utilized by the expeditions. They will carry im proved kites for mounting the an tennae wires, also the necessary wire less posts. For taking the latitude they use prism astrolabes which give vory close results. These measure ments will be combined with plans drawn up on the spot by the alibade, this latter being used especially for the important points. Once in pos session of the data, they will draw up a map of the frontier region on as large a scale as possible. Other sci entific work will be done at the same time, which is likoly to be valuable, such as hydrography, orography, ques tions of populutiou,-botanical and eth nological research, terrestrial magne tism and the like. Land Opportunity $1.50 an acre per month buys 10-acre (arm, that will make you independent for life. Located in Moses Lake Valley, -east of famous Wenatchee district. For illustrated booklet, address HALLETT BROS. Dept. M 1 OS Pike St. SEATTLE, WASH. Hidden Lake Is Big Boon Discovery of Water Underground in Washington County Great Benefit to Whole District THE discovery of what appears to be an immense underground lake, underlying the entire cen tral portion of Grant County, Wash., is responsible for the present activity in the Moses Lake district, regarding which mention was made in these columns last week. Land that was once considered practically worth less, because of the lack of water, is now being reclaimed by the use of pumping plants, which furnish an eco nomical means of supplying water for irrigation from a source which seems to be inexhaustible. The result is that barren wastes of volcanic ash and sagebrush are giving way to thriving orchards, and alfalfa and garden fields of prolific production. The soil is remarkably fertile and produces heavily when the science of irrigation is applied. The underground lake which has been the means of this remarkable change is located in an ancient course of the Columbia Kiver. The Columbia has performed some strange feats in her day, and this is one of the strangest of them all. The lake is several miles in extent and crops out in various places throughout Grant County. These visible portions of this immense body of water are known as Moses Lake, Brook Lake, Bound Lake, Black Bock Lakes and Willow Lakes, and they form the outer rim of an area about 40 miles long and 20 miles wide. One settler who lives in the inter vening country carried his water in barrels for three years, hauling them a distance of 16 miles. He never thought of digging a well because the country looked so much like a desert that he never dreamed of finding such a thing as water beneath the surface. But one day. he was induced to dig a well, and he struck an abundant supply of water at 40 feet. This caused a furore. One settler after another begin sinking a well, and every time that this was done water was encountered. The re sult is that today the entire country is dotted with wells, and many pump ing plants have been installed, irrigat ing from 10 to 4,000 acres each. Discovery of water caused a rush, and practically all available land has been taken up under the homestead of desert act. Much of this land is now being placed on the market by com panies that have become heavily in terested in the district, and the coun try is being rapidly developed. Wen atchee capitalists have invested $4,000,- 000 in the Moses Lake country and are now Improving their land by setting it out to commercial orchards. The or chards that have already been devel oped in the Moses Lake district yield as heavily as those of Wenatchee, it is said, and the fruit produced is shipped through the Wenatchee Fruit Growers Association. One company, Hallett Bros., main taining offices at 106 Pike St., Seattle, has recently published a handsome booklet descriptive of the district, and the Great Northern Bailrond is also sending out considerable information regarding it. speakers should know the Bible. He says that men who speak with telling force are those "who are able to give illustrations from Holy Writ, who are familiar with the stories of Holy Writ and who can tell them to their audi ences." In Chicago three; policemen attempted to break up a ball to which they had been denied admittance. The officers, with half a dozen citizens whom they enlisted in their cause, were ejected from the hall with much damage, after a riot in which shots were fired by the bluecoats. The officers lost their stars, also. Here's a fine case of freak legisla tion and it isn't from Oklahoma, either: A bill haB been introduced in the Mis souri legislature prohibiting women wearing dresses that button up the back, unless the buttons be as large as silver dollars. The bill provides a fine of from $1 to $3, with a fine for per sistent offenders. The congregation of a church on Long Island is engaged in a war of words concerning the pronunciation of "Jerusalem." A young lady soloist, singing "The Holy City," made it "Jer-u-seelum." Bev. Charles E. Gregg was shocked at this. Straight way, he wrote a letter to the singer, upbraiding her for her pronunciation. He declared that the syllable "sa" should be pronounced "ser" or "sar." The congregation took up the question. Dictionaries helped little and it s be ing fought out yet. a In Switzerland a village has gone on a strike. The entire town is interested. Indemini is on strike against the fed eral government. For several years the inhabitants have been petitioning for a road through the mountains to the nearest Swiss towns, so that it would not be necessary, as at present, to cross the frontier into Italy for pro visions. A campaign of passive re sistance was inaugurated to emphasize the grievances of the village. The town officials have resigned and there is none to enforce the laws or to col lect taxes. No one will become a can didate for office. The legislature of Nevada has put the Bono divorce market out of busi ness, practically. The assembly of law-makers has passed an amendment to the divorce' laws making one year's residence in the state compulsory upon person b wishing to obtain divorces, in stead of six months, the law's present requirement. Business men of Beno objected to the amendment and main tained a lobby to work against it. Patrolman Holcomb, of San Diego, may lose an arm, as the result of be ing bitten by a girl. He arrested her on a charge of disorderly conduct and she bit his hand. He paid no attention to the wound, which has become infected. California may have one of the most severe "gun-carrying" laws in the country, if the bill introduced by As semblyman Ambrose of Los Angeles be comes a law. He would make the car rying of a concealed pistol a felony, as well as the carrying of a black jack, billy or a pair of brass knuckles. The carrying of any other sort of weapon, concealed,- is also a felony. The carry ing of any firearm, such as a shotgun or a rifle, in any public place by any person not a citizen of the United States is also made a felony. a To "Rube" Marquard, famous pitcher for New York's team in the National League, came a most humiliating ex perience in epokane tne other day. Marquard, who is traveling about the country doing a vaudeville turn, es sayed to catch a baseball thrown from the Old National Bank building. A great crowd watched him and laughed as he misBed two balls. Marquard, made peevish, offered $50 to anybody in the throng who could do the trick. His offer was accepted by W. E. Crow foot, a photographer, who caught the first ball thrown. Marquard made good his promise and disappeared, fol lowed by the boots of the crowd. It is now considered certain that Oregon will not have a "Blue Sunday" law. A bill proposing to close on the seventh day all amusements, such as theaters and baseball parkB, has been killed by the state legislature. John A. Hogg, of Vancouver, Wash., braced himself with a poker, which he rested against a cook stove, while he turned on an electric light. His hand was severely burned by the elec tric current. He was held a prisoner a moment, but broke the connection by throwing his whole weight onto the light fixture. Massachusetts socialists defend she red flag, their party's emblem, by saying that it is the "flag of hu manity and the flag of peace." Looking It Over HIBAM MAXIM, the man who invented an instrument that makes the discharge of fire arms practically inaudible, has announced that he has a machine with which he expects to make cities noise less. "The device will shed silence as a lamp sheds light," he is quoted as having said. It is stated that the Maxim silencer can be placed between the source of noise and the persons af fected by it and absorb all racket. People who like to sleep late of morn ings may buy one of Maxim's inven tions and put it in their windows, thus defying the milk man and the early street cars. Hollow Horn Bear of South Dakota, an Indian chief, wants to present Woodrow Wilson with a peace pipe on the day of his inauguration, as a fea ture of that ceremonial occasion. If the president-elect will allow Hollow Horn Bear to present the pipe, a dele gation of chieftains will journey to Washington and will invest the giving with tribal ceremony. a " President Taft believes that public """ "aasBSJBJBJBjasSSt HBBBBJJ0 SBBJBBBBJBBBBBiaaBSJBBJBBaBB "a aa"aa"a mmm mm mm mmm aws , 0 0 0 n o 0 d O a o 1 4) a We want you and each member of your family ' drink a cup of the Best Coffee ever roasted , since the Arabians discovered this King of " food beverages The moat expensive modern roasters operated by skilled coffee experts are preparing in Portland a coffee that should be on your table. , The goodness, the rich aroma of the best berries, is kept in the roasted grain. By a process that has been perfected recently, it is possible to serve in the cup the stimulating coffee essence that Nature planned for the benefit of man. 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