TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. MAY 2
THE GREAT “WAR COMET."
I
THE EXPIATORY DEAD
ANIMAL SAGACITY.
Its Fiery, Spreading Tr.ll Was Fifty Insxplicabla Fata of tha Enemies of The Instinct That Leads ths Ostrich
Million Miles Long.
Dreyfus Revision.
to Protect Its Eggs.
The wonderful "war comet” of 1861
“Always the dead!” Reinach cried I The nature students everybody Is n
A Hindoo Ceremony That Puzzles sprang bo suddenly into view aud bitterly.
“Whenever we find a for- 1 nature student nowadays were trying
blazed with such unexampled bril- gery, a crime, always it Is set to the to outdo one another.
the Uninitiated.
“Eagles wheu the sun Is overhot
Haney as to astonish the astronomers account of a dead man!”
And he drew up a list, horrible in its shade their young with out prend
and frighten those unlearned in come
WALK OVER GLOWING COALS. tary lore half out of their wits. The eloquence, of the dead who strewed wings,” said the first, "On August aft-
unlearned declared that the civil war. the dark path of this monstrous case ernoons I have seen a mother eagle i
of crime aud cruelty aud infamy. Yet stand patiently two full hours, her left
The Participants In the Mystifying which was just getting well under there had fallen so many of the ene- - wing spread like an umbrella, while In
headway, must have something to do
Spectacle Play With the Fiery Em- with it. However this may be. it ndes of truth und Justice that he might ' Its cool shade her nestlings slept.”
bars as Children Play With Sand burst forth, unheralded and uninvited, have called them the expiatory dead.
“Squirrels,” said the second, “can
Three I have told you of—that poor tell whether a nut Is good or bad with
and Emerge Unharmed.
shining with greater brilliancy and
wretch, Iæmerclef-Pkard. “found dead” out opening It. A chestnut, a walnut,
I once witnessed a most remarkable magnitude than any phenomena of a In his room iu the Rue de Sevres; Hen a shellbark, they lift It In their little
ordeal by tire at Benares, India, It similar nature which that generation ri, “found dead,” with a closed razor paws, hold It to their faces n moment,
was held on the grounds of a villa on had ever Been.
Ou the night of July 3 of that year near by; Felix Faure, “found dead” then If it Is bad cast it aside. How do
the outskirts of the city, and among
they tell? By the weight, by the
It
exhibited a most wonderful spec and smuggled into his palace.
us were some of the most prominent
There were many others. Captain sound? I Incline to think they do It
tacle.
In
the
evening
the
nucleus
did
men and women of official and social
d’Attel. who claimed to have beard by the smell."
life in British India. Army and navy I not api>ear to be larger than a star In Dreyfus avow his guilt to Lebrun-Re
“Ostriches never sit," said the third.
the
first
or
second
magnitude.
As
the
officers touched elbows with French
nault the day of his degradation, was “They lay their eggs on the pale Sa
savants, all more than glad to accept small hours of the morning approach “found dead” in a railway train, his haran sands, and the sun doe< the rest.
an invitation that might at least offer ed, however, the nucleus visibly In corpse blue and already on the way to But before the ostriches depart from
opportunity either to catch some clew creased In both magnitude and bril decomposition, though his journey had their eggs they place on the top of
toward solving the mystery of the In liancy. The tall waved back and forth lasted but an hour. This pretended each a pinch of sand, for they kuow
dian tire ordeal or else catch the priest over our little world In a most threat confession, which Dreyfus never made. that the germ will mount to the top
ly performers in a nice trap at consum eniug manner, at times sending rays D’Attel confided to his friend. Cbaulin- and that the sun's heat would kill til-'
mate and age long deception, success almost to the zenith. On the morning Fervinlere, a member of the chamber germ were It not protected."
fully worked among a superstitious of July 5 the astronomers announced of deputies. Now, the deputy took
“A trained elephant.” said the fourth
and overcredulous people like the Hin through the dally papers that the head train one day to visit his home. An student, “danced very badly nt a mati
of
the
great
comet
was
only
separated
doos.
hour later he was "found dead” on the nee performance and was accordingly
Beats liad been arranged for our par from the earth by a distance of 12,- railway tracks between two stations. beaten cruelly by its master. That
000,060
miles.
According
to
the
report
ty out ou the spacious lawn, where a
And Kocher of the prison guards, who night, hearing a shuffling noise out
trench had been dug sixteen feet long, sent out from the Cambridge observa also claimed to have heard Dreyfus side, the master crept forth, and there
tory.
the
comet
appears
to
have
pass
six feet wide and four feet deep. The
say, “I am guilty, but I am not the In the moonlight he found th’e elephant
lire in tiie trench was lighted before ed Its ascending node between the 27th only one!” died, and to tills day no one carefully practicing Its dance steps."
noon, but the ordeal itself was not to and the 2!)th of June in longitude 279 knows where or bow. It was as
come off until after sunset. The trench degrees, the longitude of the earth be though eternal truth had reached down
A PRIVILEGE RESERVED
was tilled with kindling wood and logs ing 277 degrees at the same time.
On Oct. 10 its tall extended over a and slain this lie wherever it lifted its
and was set afire by the attendants,
evil
head.
Coremoni»« Witnessed at a Jeweler's
who kept up a blaze as hot as a blast space of 50.000,000 miles and at sev
The prefect Barreme was summoned
Ring Counter.
furnace all day long, until the trench eral points was not less than 10,000,- to Paris by his government chief. He
"I want a plain gold ring for a lady.
by sunset was filled three feet deep 000 miles in width.
was
"found
dead"
in
his
compartment
At first it was generally conceded
Best you've got In the store.”
with a compact, glowing bed of red-
that It was the famous comet of 1556, when the train arrived at the Gare 8t.
"For this lady?”
hot coals.
Lazare.
Laurenceau,
prefect
of
the
"Sure! Who else would It bo fori
We were escorted to our seats at the one which caused the Emperor north, was called to Paris to give evi
about 6:.'li), and we were not Inclined Charles V. of France to resign his Im dence regarding the spy system on the Pull off your glove, Katie, and let the
perial
throne,
he
taking
It
to
be
a
to question the reality of that fire from
German frontier. There was no acci gentleman measure your finger.”
The girl withdrew her woolen glove
the moment we sat down within twelve warning from God. All surmises were dent on the Journey. The next day he
subsequently
set
at
rest
by
the
discov
feet of It. Whatever else might be
was “fouud dead” iu his room at the and bashfully extended her small
ery
that
It
was
the
famous
Thatcher
band, red and toll worn, toward the
fraud or hypnotism In this Indian tire
Hotel Terminus.
ordeal, we could not for a moment comet, discovered by Professor A. F.
Lorimer, one of Henri's most tire clerk.
Thatcher
at
the
Rutherford
observa
"There, that’s about the size.” said
doubt the realism of that scorching
less agents of forgery and crime, was
heat that made our eyes smart aud tory in New York city.
"found dead," hanged In a lonely barn; the jeweler to the girl.
t
"Do you wish him to put It on?”
grow bloodshot. We, who had come to
another, Guenee, was "found dead” on
“No—not yet,” said the blushing girl.
scoff and doubt, were soon realizing
A STRANGE MAKEUP.
the floor of his room in Paris. Then
"When he puts that ring on, It’s on to
that the managers of the Benares fire
there was Munier. His part in the con
ordeal had already gained 75 points out When Wilton Lackayo Looked “Like a spiracy had been to falsify the mean stay.”
Size. quality and price nt last were
of 100 In favor of their honesty and of
Sore Finger.”
ing of a cryptic telegram sent by Pa-
their power over the mighty element
Barrett was a very pompous man. nlzzardl to the Italian government, so settled satisfactorily, and the young
of fire, that figures so largely in orlen aud as my bump of reverence has al that ft affirmed the guilt of Dreyfus. man pulled from his |>ocket n shining
tai philosophy as one of the three or ways been a concavity he early mark And Munier was “found dead” In a coin.
“Here you are, gold for gold!" be ex
four primal elements of the physical ed me out for his displeasure. After railway train. Was it any wonder the
universe.
giving me a list of plays for which to martyr's friends began to see in these claimed proudly. "Nothin’ but gold 'll
A great commotion and babel of procure wardrobes—plays which he did mysterious and opportune deaths the pay for that ring.”
“Haven’t you anything smaller?”
voices soon proclaimed the coming of not do during the season—he suddenly work of an avenging destiny? With
the procession of priests, headed by changed his mind and put on “Julius grim emphasis Reinach declared, “Dé asked the sordid clerk.
“Plenty, but nothin’ good enough to
tlie arch priest Brahmapoots, carrying Caesar” in Richmond. Va. it was im cidément la fatalité est Dreyfusarde!”
a huge Indian sword, followed by the possible to get an armor there. 1 play —the very stars In their courses fought pay for that ring.”
“Bit of sentiment, eh?" queried an
two minor priests who were destined ed Metellus Cimber. first citizen and against the lie.—Vance Thompson in
Interested bystander.
to walk unharmed through that yard Phasarlus—and a soldier! Luckily I Success Magazine.
“Oh, yes, sir," said the girl, with evi
thick fiery bed. scintillating in the in- had sandals and fleshings. I borrowed
dent pride. "He's been saving that
creasing darkness and lighting up the a tunic from Otis Skinner, a toga from
twenty dollar gold piece for nearly
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
dark* faces of the hundreds of gaplug the stage manager, who was out of the
four months, waiting to buy this ring.”
Hindoos standing behind us. While bill: 1 had a mob shirt made in the
Remember that the money you —New York Press.
we Europeans aud Americans, always theater; 1 got out a makeup for l’lia-
hypercritical and given to scientific re sarius, the barbarian, but the soldier? squander won’t work for you.
We are always too young to hare
Your Own Body.
search, were awaiting the coming of All of the utility men were compelled
Think deliberately of the bouse you
the moment when our 75 per cent of to “eke the battle rabble out" as sol known better if our mothers are the
live in—your body. Make up your
credulity was either to be shattered or diers in the last act. I could not get judges.
mind not to abuse it. Eat nothing
rounded out to the fullness of a com in the town a helmet and armor, so I
Men do a lot of things Just as fool
pleted and abiding faith In Hindoo simply "lurked" behind the other sol Ish as having their clothes button In that will hurt it; wear nothing that
distorts or pains It. Do not overload
control and mastery of the devouring diers clad In fleshings, sandals and the back.
element of fire, our Hindoo fellow on Skinner’s tunic, which came halfway
Dreaming of what you would do if it with victuals or drink or work.
lookers, on tile other hand, were antlcl to my knees. I was then five feet you had a large Income is probably Give yourself regular and abundant
sleep. Keep your body warmly clad.
paling the ordeal with all the simplic eleven and three-fourths and weighed about the slowest way to get one.
ity of credulous children. Ours was an 130 pouuds, so you may imagine the
The man who fails In bls efforts to At the first signal of danger from any
almost terrifying heart tension, and we audience hardly became conscious of do something well Is still more of a of the thousand enemies that surround
you defend yourself. Do not tuke cold;
almost wished that we were not occi me until my third entrance.
success than the one who never tries.
dental skeptics, always bent on doubt
My modest disposition and my desire
A mother worries If her daughters guard yourself against it. If you feel
Ing things of an extraordinary nature. not to meet the star's eye did not avail are not Invited to parties and then sits the first symptoms, give yourself hero
The priests marched aliotit the trench me. Ile spotted me the first thing. As up and worries because they are out ic treatment. Get Into a fine glow of
heat by exerclsa. This is the only
chanting and performing mystic Incan the curtain came down he called me late when they are invited.
body you will ever have In this world
tatlons, carrying along a glass reliqu and thundered. “What do you think
Ever occur to you that you ought to
A large share of pleasure and pain of
ary, or shrine, in which was seen the you represent?”
dress up more and brush your clothes
image of the god Siva, who, in the
I shyly responded. “A camp follower, oftener? Most iieoplo as they become life will come through the use you
Hindoo religious system. Is one of the sir, lurking behind the main column old neglect their personal appearance make of It. Study deeply and diligent
ly the structure of IL the laws that
trinity and is worshiped as the de- und robbing the dead."
too much.—Atchison Glob.
should govern it, the pains and penal
stroyer. Brahma l>elng the creator aud
“Huh!” be grunted, his eye passing
ties that will surely follow a violation
Vishnu the preserver of the universe. up my stretch of shanks in piuk flesh
Jury Friendships.
of every law of life or health.
We do not know to this day what those ings. surmounted by the tight little
“The eleven men in the world for
priests said as they perambulated tunic at top. "You look like a sore fin
whom I entertain a feeling of peculiar
about that fiery trench, but we do ger!”—Wilton Lackaye in Bohemian friendliness are those with whom I
Torpedo Boats.
know wliat soon followed, for. at the Magazine.
Toqiedo boats aud torjiedo destroy
served on a jury once,” said a broker.
end of the Incantation, the two candi
"There Isn't any other human tie Just ers are thin skinned, unarmored craft.
dates for the ordeal plunged Into the
A Dame School In England, 1837.
like that existing among jurors In a Often the steel hull Is only about halt
rtsihot coals and walked ankle deep
On a perch forming a triangle with criminal case. There we are, twelve an Inch in thickness, but they travel
the whole length of the trench, back- the corner of the room sat a cock and
ns fast as many railway trains, some
men. all i>erfect strangers to each oth
thirty or thirty-five miles an hour.
ward and forward, time and time two bens. Under n stump bed Immedi er, with different tastes, tempera
again. They played with that sclntil- ately beneath was a dog kennel In the merits and habits, picked up and bound They discharge their deadly bolt and
latlng, glowing fire as children play occupation of three black terriers, together for days In the moat trying run. A dark, stormy night is their
chance. Then, without a light ifliow
with the sands of Coronado beach. whose barking, added to the uolse of circumstances.
The hardships, the
Ing, they dash In and launch their tor
kicking It with their feet and stooping the children and the cackling of the
tragic phases of the situation, reveal
pedo, escaping. If they can. the hall of
down to pick up handfuls of the glow fowls on the approach of a stranger, iis In a new light. Hitherto unsuspeet
rapid fire that Is sure to deluge them
ing coals, tossing them In the air. to was almost deafening. There was only ed traits crop out. Wo argue, we qnar
—¿’rank E. Channon In St. Nicholas.
be blown by the rising evening breeze one small window, at which sat the
rel, we sympathize, we make up. In a
all over our heads and our easily In teacher, obstructing three-fourths of mnnner that would surprise our closest
flammable clothing. We were really tne light It was capable of admitting — friends. The responsibility that we
Fores of Habit.
afraid. No doubt about those sparks Parliamentary Report.
Realizing that he should pay her n
share sets up apart from everybody
and live, falling coals!
else and establishes a bond of Interest compliment, the chronic debtor hesl
When the two priests had walked up
The Number Three.
and sympathy that Is pretty sure tn tales before the beautiful woman.
and down alone through that fiery
last he says to her:
Three, which alnce the days of ry last."- New York Sun.
trench unscathed and unscorcbed. thagoras has been the divine numlier.
"Just make a little tab
then the whole Hindoo throng seemed Is not Invariably fortunate, for, though
next time I’m down your
A PI«« For the Indolent.
to suddenly catch the spirit of their the fates are three, so also are the
Men who All unaccustomed positions you bow well you are looking.'
priests, and. sure of their conquest over furies. The graces ate three, but so exacting severe mental toil are almost
But the look on her countenance was
the power of fire, they began plunging also are the judges In hades and the sure to l>e short lived. Persons whose enough to make him realize that coin
Into the trench, Old men and young heads of Cerberus. Then there are the callings subject them to a heavy nerv pllments must bo paid on face value
children walked through that fiery fui- records of three disloyal tribes In ous strain ought occasionally to apend and that beauty keep« no books.—St.
nave, forward and backward, and Welsh history; there are the three rob a day or two In bed. Even an after louis Republic.
when they had tired of this “playing bers In Orlon’s ’»elt; there were the noon nap la a tonic and may do much
with five” they came out as they had three tyrants at Athens, and 3 In to lessen the wear and tear of nervous,
Friends and Reputation.
entered, not a hair or a garment mythology Is as unlucky as It la dl anxious days. One of the ablest states
He who believes himself surrounded
scorched, not even the soles of their vine.
men of modern times, when once re by admirers and whose vanity In hour
feet blistered.
proached In early life for Indolence, re ly feasted with all the luxuries of
Rapid Changa.
Only males are allowed to go through
torted. "I am storing energy.”—Wil praise easily persfiadea himself that
"My hair turned from raven black to liam Mathews In RucceM Magazine.
the fire ordeal.
his Influence will be extended beyond
Never yet has any scientific theory Showy white in a single night.”
this life; that those who he thinks
"That's nothing I went Into a pawn
explained the power of the Siva wor
proud to be numbered among
Ths Angel Face.
shipers over fire. We ourselves were broker’s stjop once and stayed only fif
"He said I had a face like one of friends will endeavor to vindicate
absolutely convinced that trickery was teen ml'intes. When I came out my Raphael’s angels,” yald the blond, with choice by zeal for bls reputatlon.-
not to be considered as an explanation watch had turned from gold to sliver.” III concealed satisfaction.
Johnacn in "Idler Papers
of what we bail witnessed.—Los Ange - London Tit Bits.
"Oh. well, the faces of Raphael's an
les Times.
Ths Riddle.
gels were all painted, you know,” re
Must Have Read It.
His Daughter Papa, did yon know
plied the jealous little brunette.—Chi
A Caddie's Cadenza.
He (virtuously)— I call It simply out
mamma long before you married her? at
Lady Golfer (to would be caddie)— rageous f« the newspapers to print cago Record Herald.
Her Father — Just lietween yon and
But what do you know about the I all thia terrible stuff. She (sternly)—
me. my dear, I don’t know h"r yet.
A
Lesser
Evil.
game? Can you make ■ tee. for ln- How do you know it la terrible?—Bal
Chicago News.
Messenger
—
Your
wife
has
elope,)
stance? The Would Be Caddie—Can I timore Aircrican.
with your chauffeur Husband—Thank
make
Wh'y. In my young days. lidy.
IPs a aure thing fhnt one can’t t.e
fortune! Now I won't have to break
I need ter do It that well they called
Time brings no mercy to the blgofa It to her that tbe cook h«« ML—Hae sur» of anything In thia wurid-Vnu
mem the teacaddy.—Iondon Sketch
bate.-Schiller.
Buren Current Local.
per’» Weekly.
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>
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The Oregon Cheese Co., IncorpojtH
is prepared to buy all the first class
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and highest price Factory men will
do well to see R. Robinson, the mana
ger, before selling. He will be in j
Tillamook a good part of the time dur
ing the season
Only the best stuJ<
wanted.
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£
The GORDON HAT sells for $3.00 everywlic< <tl A
FERGUSON $2.50, and many other ch<!_
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for the Money
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The Clothers ancT
Furnishers
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—,
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Misses and Children's Sell
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