■ h i ■ ■ ini«' i ii i ■ IRON IN WATER. a TWO GREAT INVENTORS. It Takes Only the Least Little Bit to Make Itself Felt. H a lf a part per million of Iron In water Is detectable by taste, and more than four or five i arts make* water un palatable. In some mineral springs Iron Is the constituent which Imparts a medicinal value to the witter, but or dlnttrlly it Is undesirable. More than ■J.fi parts per million in wuter used for laundering makes a stalu ou the clothes. Iron must be removed from water from which tee Is made or a cloudy, discolored product will result An irou content of over two or three parts per million In water used In the manufacture of paper will stain the pa|>er. Iron Is harmtul In water used for steaming, for It is in equilibrium with acids which Insi le the boiler become dissociated, with the result that the free acids corrode the boiler plates, hut the amount of trou carried in solution by most waters is so small that the damage It does to steam hollers gen erally amounts to little. Waters haring a high iron content have in some places, where they have been used as city supplies, caused au Immense amount of trouble and ex pensc. for they favor the growth of crenothrix to such a degree that the water pipes become clogged with the Iron sheaths of that organism The re moval of Iron from water Is sometimes easy and sometimes very dtiiiculL— United States (.cological Survey Their Foresight Did Not Equal Their Ingenious Ability. Not Infrequently great inventors do not comprehend the significance of the thing they have produced. An inter esting anecdote of two famous men of j science whose foresight did uot equal j their inventive ability up pears iu Les i Inventions Illustrees. '¡j When Hertz hist began to obtain sat- j ; lsfactory results from Ids uow famous A researches iuto the possibility of truns I mitting electric waves certain men of science suggested that some day shut lar vibrations might serve to transmit 8 messages through space Hertz laugh ed at the hypothesis and assured all comers that his experiments were for laboratories only. Now. after a few short years. It is hard to Hml u single issue of a daily* paper that does not record some noteworthy example of the use of wireless telegraphy. Levassor was the great engineer who sketched ttie automobile with sueli skill that his design has not been material V ly changed to this day. After Levas sor accomplished his historic trip from » V Paris to Bordeaux and return at the dizzy speed of about lifteeu miles an hour his udmirers gave him a ban quet. During the toasts one of them, stirred by the spirit of the occasion, rose and enthusiastically culled on the assembly to drink to the approaching day when carriages should travel at the speed of sixty miles an hour. Levassor turned to his nearest neigh Quits. bor and asked In a quick undertone. Little Maudio would tell "whoppers ' “W hy is It that after every banquet * One day her aunt thought she ought to some people feel called on to make be cured of lids habit, so she spoke fools of themselves'/” seriously to the little maid, who prom Iscd to lueud her ways Too Familiar. To point the moral auntie told the “ I suppose you are fam iliar with the tale of the shepherd boy who was ill ways calling 'W o lf!' until no one works of Bobby Burns?” "Certainly, und also with the works could believe him Then one day the wolf really came and ate up all the of Billy Shakespeare. Ueorgie Byron and Jack Miltou " — Boston Transcript. «heel». “All the sheep'?” Interrupted Man He “ Ves. every one ot them,” replied — w . - . r * ; - <®wc\arr- ~ nuntle decidedly "Every single one'/' Auntie nodded. "W e ll.” said Maudie slowly. “ 1 don't believe you. and you don t believe me So there!” —isiudon Answers a [■ “It Hurt a fact to j Hammer it” power a s s *»«*«¡sa»;»«J3SE-- « hmi The fact we wish to hammer is that Alex McNair & store in Tillamook county. Our FLenominal Succass DemonstaiSb iMt Fact. Remember Buyi ng Wivaa. Wives are still obtained by purchase n some parts of Russia In the dis trict of Kamyshin, on the Volga, this is pmetleally the only way In which marriages an» brought about The price >f a pretty gin from a well to do fain ily ranges from $100 to ?'J00. How many people live on the reputa tion o f the reputntloa they might huve made!— rtolmaa. Builders’ Hardware, ïiîiamook, Ore. CLOVERDALE HOTEL CLOVERDALE, ORE. n * Home Travelers and Visitors • Meals 35e and 50e , 1 value, and is the making of a good Drink P!ont-/ ot Water. A Roumanian intent 1 st claims that ranch. any one can live to .la« 100 years ohl,- 73 acre bottom land ranch, burring accident*, if ho drinks enough cleared and fenced, with good house water, lie declares tie has discovered ; that old age is due to a decrease In and barn, all stocked. An in- the amount of water in tile system coine starts us soon as you own the and that Esther Time may t*e check Near to cheese factory mated by systematic water drinking property. during middle age. and school $13,600 buys this McNair »k Co. for thing kept in a fully stocked hardware store. I A 1 £ AGENCY Alex Kave Troughing. Farm Tools, Shelf Goods, Cutlery, and every i Food For Punsters. ” ! don't see how Fussleigb gets any enjoyment out of his food l i e s diet lug. you know ’* 4s 1,000 buys n market garden “ Yes “ •'He uses this new ‘mathematical property on the main lino of the masticatory* system.” S. 1’ near Hubbard. Party lives “t.ood gracious, what's that'/ So in Tillamook county and wants to many chews to the mouthful?” Full particulars “No. lie eats beaus by the dozen, use the money. rti'c by tile grain. tl«h by the perch at this office, and spaghetti by the y a rd ” $3'» an acre buys an 80-acre “ Does he seem better’/' “Measurably s o ” - OeveUiud Pint» ranch near Meda. Buy this prop l>caler erty now. It is sure to increase in Co.’s store gives more quality, service and satisfaction than anv other Î TAYLOR ssur^tsanar» c s o for f a Beds 50c and up, Everything Eirst-elass Y ou r Patronage Solicited SPECIAL AGENCY Star Brand’’Shoes Fbr the Fhnvous The Largest Selling Brand of Shoes in the World t Tho ."Patriot” — sonir. po pular unes A Fine Shoe (or Men T h e “ Pil»rim ” — The Buenea Man*« Shoe T h e “ Society” — A Particular Shoe tor Particular Women " T e a A Ted” School Shoe*— Far Boy« and Girl« AU mad« of Good Leather. "O u r Family” — For Every Member of the Family "Stronger-Than-The-Lew” — The Longeât Wearing Work Shoe Made ‘Soft and Good” — A Work Shoe True to Name No substitutes for leather are ever used. t,Star B rand Shoes A re Better ” GLOVLROALL M G K G A N T I G G GO. j terest you. Willamette Valley property. 160 acres, 30 acres meadow land, Seventeen and one-half acres small house and good barn, creek bottom and bench land with small orchard, 1^ miles to school, good barn, 14 aores cleared. $100 5 acres good onion land, hut only per acre. It takes $1000 cash to money-maker. 6.000 cash, balance J of this is cleared, 5 cows go with handle this and its an excellent 10 years at 6 per cent interest. ranch. Ask- for particulars. $5,000; buy. Reasons for selling— Owner is re half cash; balance 5 years at 6 per See us for prices on residence or tiring and wishes to move to his cent. business lots and small acreage village home. 14,500 buys 80 acres; better than To acres tide and creek bottom half river bottom land. 6 acres pieces in the growing village of land. Ask us for prices and terms plow land, house and barn, prop Cloverdale. Eightv acres of merchantable erty all fenced and cross fenced timber close to the village of 8 head of cows and complete farm Cloverdule at a price that will in- outfit. W ill consider trade for Taylor Real Estate Agency Cloverdale, Oregon.