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vmimr PAGE FOUR Fooling the War and Rumors of War Within the Human Body are Daily Incidents How we Deceive our Best Friends "T TT TE ARE prone to deceive our I frieuds and tho rhagoeytoa V V re no exception. Tho 1'ha goeytea are our best and most intimate friends and yet we take no thought ior their perennial willing news to fight for us our battles aud every chance we get to fool them wo accept with unfailing euthusiasm. Tho Phagocytes are the police of the body, always ready to club some offending bacillus over the head aud run him into the lockup. Tho Phagocytes are tho standing army of the body, ouly they do not stand still long at a time, so busy are they in putting down insur rections on the part of germs thought thoroughly naturalized or iu repelling invasions on the part of alien microbes. Let something go wrong aud the Pha gocytes are there iu a jiffy, foot, horse and dragoons, putting up a fight that makes the heroic memory of the Tro jans palo into cowardly insignificance. Every day tho 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 are general alarms and fierce, long conflicts with a determined enemy. That's wheu we start iu fool ing the Phagocytes. Let us say that we have a cold iu the head. 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, they have forgotten in their unholy mirth the army of the Phagocytes. These in trepid organisms need no formal call to battle, no definite declaration of war, no official proclamation before they cross the border into the territory of the enemy. I'pstairs they rush, all hands to breakfast! Soon, there is a fight in progress. No, not "soon," but immediately. The bacilli of the cold, base despoilers that they are, grapple with the Phagocytes. Why shouldn't theyf 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 the 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 start in to fool the Phagocytes. You 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. Bather, we would starve out the enemy. We prefer to wage a Fabian campaign, to make cunctatory war. But the Phagocytes first-class fighting men, they cannot understand military delay of any sort. They en joy Light-Brigade charges, forlorn hopes, dashing maneuvers, but the prin ciples of scientific warfare are to thein 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 gore 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; they intend to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer. So, we, for whom the Phagocytes are doing yoeman service, fool them. We put on our other end a mustard plas ter. We put the counter-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, quarterless 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 the 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 orchards in the Hood River district. 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They roach the hot re gion and they gird up their loins, hitch their breeches, spit on their hands or do whatever a Phagocyte does when ho prepares for tho lists. Then they start to wado in. Imagine their blank ama.ement when they find that there is nothing into which they can wado, no foe to fight, no drunk and disor derly bacilli to rim in, no anarchistic demonstration to disperse. Nothing to do at all and a fine chance to fight passed up. So, the Phagocytes stand around with their hands in their pock ets for a while nnd send out scouting expeditions. Still, they find nothing and they start back to the battlefield they've left so recently, only to find all 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. That, friends, is what we call fooling the Phagocytes. There is something human about this business of making false alarms for the Phagocytes to answer. A good many of us spend part of our time fighting for folks who don't appreciate the sacrifices we mako or the lovo wp 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 everv dav 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 order 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 very 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 likely to be valuable, such as hydrography, orography, ques tions of population, botanical and eth nological research, terrestrial magne tism and the like. Land Opportunity $1.50 an acre per month buys 10-acre farm, 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 lOSPikeSt. SEATTLE, WASH. I and Butter Question: Thick and Thin Hidden Lake Is Big Boon Discovery of Water Underground in Washington County Great Benefit to Whole District THE discovery of what appears to bo an immense underground lake, underlying the entire ceu tral portion of Orant County, Wash., is responsible for tho printout activity in -.the Moses Lako district, regarding which mention was made in these columns last week. Laud 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 uu eco nomical moans of supplying water for irrigation Irom a source which scorns to be inexhaustible. Tho result is tint barren wuxtes of volcanic ash ami sagebrush are giving way to thriving orchards, aud alfalfa and garden fields of prolific production. Tho soil is remarkably fertile and produces heavily wheu the science of irrigatiou is applied. The underground lake which has been the means of this remarkable change is located iu an ancient course of the Columbia River. The Columbia him performed some strange feats in her day, and this is one of the strangest of them all. The lake is several miles in extent aud crops out in various, places throughout Grant County. These visible portions of this immense body of water are known as Moses Lake, lirook Lake, Round Lako, Black Rock 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 thorn 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 on-J day he was induced to dig a well, and he struck an abundant supply of water nt 40 feet. This caused a furore. One settler alter 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 Jovel-. 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, Ilallett Bros., main taining offices at 106 Pike St., Seattle, has recently published a handsome booklet descriptive of the district, and the Great Northern Railroad is also sending out considerable information regarding it. Looking It Over HIRAM 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 nfilk 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. President Taft believes that public WELL GO DOWN TO ITcE SMITHS FOOP FACTORY AND BET HIM Four Dollars that we can EAT SIXTEEN Pound op SJRLOIN STEAK speakers should know the lliblo. i He hiivs that men who sneak with telliuu foroo aro those ' ' who are ablo to give illustrations irom noiy writ, who are familiar with tho stories of Holy Writ and who can tell them to their nudi- OIH'OS. ' ' lu Chicago tlu'eo poHvomuu attempted to break up a ball to which they had boon denied admittance. Tho officers, with half a doxen oiti.ens whom they enlisted iu their cause, were ejected from the hall with much damage, aftor a riot in which shots were fired by the bluecoats. Tho officers lost their stars, also. Here's a fine case of freak legisla tion and it isn't from Oklahomu, cithers A bill has been introduced iu tho Mis souri legislature prohibiting women wearing dresses that button up tho luuli, unless the buttons be as largo as silver dollars. The bill provides a fine of front $1 to $3, with a fine for per sistcut offenders. . The congregation of a church ou Long Island is engaged in a war of words concerning the pronunciation of "Jerusalem." A young lady soloist, singing "The Holy City," made it "Jcr u-see-lum. ' Rev. Charles E. Grogg was shocked at this. Straight way, ho wrote a letter to tho singer, upbraiding her for her pronunciation. 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Marquard, who Is traveling about the country doing a vaudeville turn, es sayed to catch a baseball thrown from , the Old National Hunk building. A great crowd watched him and laughed as he mlssod two balls, Milrquttrd, made peevish, offered $50 to anybody In tho throng who could do the trick. His offer was accepted by W. K. Crow foot, a photographer, who caught tho first bull thrown. Marquard niado good his promise and disappeared, fol lowed by tho hoots 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 parks, has been killed by the state legislature. John A. Hogg, of Vancouver, Wash., braced himself with a poker, which hs rested agninst a rook stove, while he turned on an electric light. His hand was sovcroly burned by the cloe trie current. He was held a prlsonor a moment, but broke tho connection by throwing his whole weight onto the light fixture. 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