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i li TILLAMOOK WASHINGTON'S WOOING. PARIS THEATERS. Mannors and Custom» That Strike an American aa Peculiar. — litters of Importance Forgotten Be- cause of Martha Custis. The ship's bell Is struck every half hour to announce the time. The quarter deck must always be sa luted on being approached. The master at arms or chief of police Is the only man In the ship, not being an officer, allowed to wear a sword. From the minute a ship commissions to the day of paying off there Is always an officer on watch day and night with out Intermission. Grog Is always mixed with three parts water before being served out to the men Warrant officers and petty officers alone receive It undiluted. At any time of the day or nlgbt a man may be called upon for duty If necessary. Leave to go on shore Is re g.triled as a privilege and not a right. An officer’s sword at a court martial is laid on the table, point toward him, when he enters to bear the finding If he lias been adjudged guilty. It is re versed if be Is acquitted. In Naw York's Swsll Restaurants. ft 1 The tables that appear to be reserv ed In the fashionable Fifth avenue restaurants are very rarely occupied by the persons whose names appear on the slip which the waiter sticks In tn a glass to show that Mr. Smith or Jones Is expected, “We have to some tables out of the reach oí public," one of tbe head waiters a reporter, “as there are certain patrons whom we could not afford to send away. The only way of doing that Is to pretend that we are reserv ing the tables for somebody. Then when a patron whom we could not possibly refuse arrives and must have a place we can always tell him that the table was takeu. but that the par ties have not turned up. That satis flea him and keeps other guests quiet as well.”—New York 8un. Gravitation. ) Gravitation as a supposed Innate power was noticed by tbe Greeks and also by Seneca, who speaks of the moon attracting the water«, about 38 R. C. Kepler Investigated the subject atvmt 1615, and Hooke devised a sys tem of gravitation about 1674. The principles of gravity were demonstrat ed by Galilei at Fkireucs about 1633. but It was not until the great Newton ■topped U|«on the stage that the matter was fairly settled The others had guessed Newton proved, and to New ton unquestionably belongs the high honor of having shown us the true mechanism of tbe heaven«.—New York American. Shorten the Agony. ‘gay," exclaimed the man In th« chair, ''burry up and get through ah«« Ing mo." ‘‘Why." replied the bartier, "you said you had plenty of time" "I, know, but that was before you bevan to uee that rssor ’-Phlladel ph la Press The Real Difficulty. Boarder—You can divide a chicken with mathematical accuracy. Mrs. Hashlngtou. Mrs. Hashington Divid ing It Is easy enough 1 wish I could i ulttply It -London Answers. Mosquito«« th« Only Flaw—Not Evan a Servant Problem. Bird« are everywhere In Hawaii. Tbeir music fills the quivering air. One wonders why we do not all live In this paradise, where life seems to stretch out before one in a long, languid dream of delight. Suddenly through your dreaming comes a rude awakening. The Ha wailan mosquito, the one flaw In the gem, the only thorn In the garden, has called to make your acquaintance and i bid you welcome to his domain. I The houses, with their broad veran das filled with palms and flowers and furnished with tables, chairs, ham mocks and grass rug«, are a paradise to the weary traveler. It is here that the Honolulu people enjoy their glo rious climate. The lawns, thick and velvety a« a carpet, were kept In perfect order by the yard boys, for experienced servants —Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese— can always be had. In fact, the servant problem causes no worry to the house wife, who has but little anxiety in this land of plenty. Everybody seems to take life easily. Tbe offices close very early, and no one seems to know what care Is. The sug ar barons, tbeir capital once rightly In vested, draw tbeir dividends, and the rest of life Is required to spend them. We stop at the home of our friend, a bungalow that Is the picture of com I fort. One end of the veranda Is used as a sun parlor, sheltered by windows and screens, for what they call cold days—60 degrees above zero. Numerous rooms connect with this, the dining room being a veranda at the other end of the house and tbe kitchen a separate building, though connected by a roofed veranda. The guest cham bers are cottages by themselves. The bath Is hewn out of solid stone, with a shower above. Servants are provided for In quarters apart from the house. The whole, In fact, greatly re minds one of an old southern planta tion home with modern Improvements. Just in front of the house, spreading Its great limbs at least sixty feet in diameter, Is a great moukey pod tree, PORTABLE FIREARMS. and under Its protecting branches the The First Muskets Were Clumsy and children, and older ones, too, enjoy the swings and hammocks in an atmos Awkward to Handle. While the Introduction of portable phere which lulls to sleep. As we sit firearms Into Europe Is of compara here at midnight, dressed In the thin tively recent date, their use was fre nest of summer clothing, with never a quent among the Mohammedans of wrap, watching the moon rise out of eastern Asia at a very early period. La the sea, we understand why the Ha lirocquiere, who made a Journey to waiian so loves bls Islands.—World's Jerusalem In the middle of the fif Work. teentli century and who traveled ex tensively In the east, mentions the fir THE WHITE BIRCH ing of small arquebuses at the great Peeling the Bark Ruins the Tree’s festivals in Damascus. Beauty Forever. The first use of muskets In Europe was at the siege of Rhege In 1591 by One of the loveliest of our trees is the Spanish soldiers. These arms were the white birch, with Its graceful foli so extremely heavy that they could not age and gleaming trunk, and yet how be used without a rest. They were often It Is robbed of half Its beauty provided with matchlocks and were ef by careless hands! The temptation to take off strip after fective at a considerable distance. While on the march the soldiers them strip of Its easily peeled bark seems selves carried only tbe ammunition and well nigh irresistible If one may Judge the rests, and boys bearing the muskets by the countless forlorn trunks along followed after, like caddies on a golf our roadsides. Instead of silvery white columns standing out with conspicuous course. Loading these cumbersome arms was grace from the green of nelghliorlng a slow operation. They were clumsy shrubs and trees, the trunks are and awkward to handle. The ball and mnrred by great black circles, the re powder were carried separately, and sults of wounds inflicted by wanton the preparation and adjustment of the passersby. Too often this Is done merely for the match took a long time. Before long, however. Improvements fun of seeing how easily the bark can began to be made. The guns became tie pulled off, and no thought Is given lighter In construction, and the soldiers to the feelings of the owner when he carried their ammunition in broad fluds that one of his finest trees. In shoulder belts called bandellers. to which he took great pride, has been which were suspended a number of lit robbed forever of Its beauty. The next time you are tempted to cut tle leather covered wooden cases, each of which held a charge of powder. A off birch bark. stop. Think of the In pouch. In which the bullets were car jury to the tree and the Injury to all rled loose, nnd a primlug horn bung at who shall pass that way after you In depriving them of something they the side of the soldier. As late as the time of Charles I. might have enjoyed but for you—the muskets with rests were still In use. sight of that tree in all its beauty. Re and It was not until the beglunlng of member that the bark never gKiws the eighteenth century that firelocks again. If you have In mind the making of were successfully employed. some article for which birch bark Is an absolute (?) necessity, can you not The Word “Widow.” at least take It from some fallen log or As a word "widow" Is most Inter- from some tree well hidden In the cen estlng. Max Mueller traced It back ter of the woods, removing only the through thousands of years with bard- outer laysrs. and those In such a way ly any change of form or meaning. that the tree will suffer as little as "The word at Its original formation possible? By doing this you will earn meant simply a woman left without a the gratitude of all wayfarers and land man. Just ns It does today, and It bas owners.—Plant World. remained all these ages materially un changed both In sound and meaning.” Tba First Book Catalogue. A thousand years ago the Anglo-Saxons The first book catalogue was Issued used the word In England nnd north Germany. The Meso-Goths and. earlier In 1564 In Augsburg. Germany, by one •han they, the Latin people knew It George Wilier. It was a quarto of centuries before the Anglo Saxons, and nineteen pages and recorded the titles the Sanskrit records show that a thou of 256 books arranged in classes. Hand lists or posters were printed as sand years before Latin was written the same word was spoken on ths early a* 1469 by Jonathan Mentel (or Mentellnl of Strassburg, who printed slopes of the Himalayas. the first edition of tbe Bible In 1465 or 1466. The first catalogue tn England Don't Hurry. was printed in 1596 by John Windet Do nothing In a hurry. Nature never for Andrew Maunsell, a bookseller.— does "Moro haste, worse speed." says Minneapolis Journal. the old proverb. If you are In doubt, sleep over It. But. above all, never Two Runaway* quarrel In a hurry; think It over well “Dis paper.” said Languid Lewis, Take time However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look dlf “tells erbout a hoes runnln' away with ferent In the morning If you hare a woman, an’ she was laid up for six written a clever and conclusive but weeks." "Dst ain’t so worse." rejoined Boast scathing letter, keep It back till the next day. and It will very ofteu never ful Benjamin. “A friend uv mine wunst ran away with a boas, an' he go at all I .ord Avebury. was laid up fer six vesra"—Chicago News Good Naturod. Young Man I shall soon pay you Causa or Effect. my landlady, for I am going to be mar Assistant Editor—Here'« a poem from rled. a fellow who Is serving a five years' Landlady Oh. you need not marry term In the Eastern penitentiary. Man for the sake of the few marks you owe aging Editor—Well, print It with a me. Herr Eller.-Meggendorfer Blat footnote explaining the circumstance ter. It may aerve as a warning to other Labor rids us of three great evlle- poets.—rhilad el phi* Record. tedlousoess. vice aud poverty.—French Musical Not*. Proverb, He—Are you musical? She—I Pl«j Woman Is the one problem that set ti>e piano. Hs—Wall, that's not an ab solute denial. -Pick MeA'p. sac* can never adv*.—Chicago N«w* It Is not tbe play or the acting or the applause that attracts and bolds the attention of the American who is at tending for the first time a Parisian 0|>enlng. It is the audience. In the first place, tbe predominance of men I d tbe best orchestra seats will provoke a question which brings forth the in formation that In the majority of the better class theaters In Paris the first three rows of the orchestra are sold almost exclusively to men, and, as far as It Is possible, the box office favors men for the body of the house, prlnci pally because they do not wear hats and do not therefore obstruct the view of those sitting behind. Before the curtain goes up the stranger glances about and Is surprised to discover Jew> els and gowns decollete In the highest balconies, the part of the theater known In America as “peanut heav en.” Both men and women, dressed as for a grand ball, are perched away up at least three flights of stairs, and during entr'actes they come down and promenade with the others and visit their friends, and few are the wiser as to the location of their seats. The very fact of being present at an Im portant opening is enough to give a certain social precedence, even though they sat on the rafters or clung to the chandeliers. Another feature which attracts the American is that during the entr'actes the men who do not Join the prom enade stand up and don their hats the moment the curtain Is down, and they spend the entire twenty or twenty five minutes Inspecting their neighbors through opera glasses. There Is much activity In the balconies and in the boxes, caused by the social calls w hich are being exchanged. In the orchestra rows and family circles the men and the women stand up, and opera glasses are used freely by both, and many lit tie flirtations are enjoyed between those in the balconies, or loges, and those on the first floor. It Is not considered rude to level glasses at any one, whether withlu a few feet or up In the balcony, but It Is rather considered a compliment to the face or more often the shoulder that attracts such close Inspection. It Is true that the French are famed for their polished manner, but It is equally true that In the eyes of an American the roughest cowboy possesses a bet I ter appreciation of refinement than the dapperest member of the French no iI bility, and especially Is this noticeable I In a theater.—Harriet Quimby In Les lie’s Weekly. IN THE BRITISH NAVY HEADLIGHT, AUGUST 1 In tbe traditions of any member of the Washington family the story of Martha Curtis Is of supreme impor tance. writes Cora A. Moore In ths New Broadway Magazine. It happened one day that she was visiting at tbe plantation of a neigh bor, Major Chamberlayne, when there came riding In haste an officer In the British uniform. The business that he bad with the major he transacted quickly, declining an invitation to stay because, as be declared, he was on bls way to the governor at Wil liamsburg on matters of Importance. But the host repeated the invitation more urgently, slyly remarking that he bad also beneath bis roof the hand somest widow In Virginia, a young and charming woman. Ah. a lady in the case! That was different. But the plans of men have often waited on Cupid. When the offl cer bowed low oier the hand of the lady whom he met in the major’s draw ing room he forgot Williamsburg and the governor, and she. pleased with the courage of that colonel, George Washington, of whose military fame she had beard so much, scintillated and sparkled with even more than her usunl fascination. That evening, long after the rest of the household had re tired, he and the charming widow sat by the fireplace In the shadowy draw ing room quite without a chaperon to regulate the tide of swiftly moving events. Soon there was a resplendent wed ding nt the home of the bride. Direct ly afterward a coach and six horses, guided by liveried black postilions, con veyed the newly married pair to her town house in Williamsburg. Business Interests for some time demanded the presence of Colonel Washington at the capital. Later he took his bride and her two children, Martha Parke Custls nnd John Parke Custls, to his own es tate at Mount Vernon, where they en joyed that happy domestic life whlck Is celebrated In history. THE SECOND ANNUAL Tillamook County 1 Fair ; and Street Carnival : WILL BE HELD ON AUGUST 22, 23, 24, ’07 Much Grander, Much More Attractive, Much Bigger & Better The Biggest Clam Bake in Oregon ALL KINDS OF SPORTS Plenty of Amusement tor All Watch Tillamook Crow ! NEW GOODS ! A fine assortment of Summer Foot Wear, just received at the Red Front Shoe Store, consisting of Ladies’, Gent.’s, Misses and Children’s Shoes. May ladies’ patent leather and Vicci French Kid cannct be beat for fit, finish and comiort. No paste board coun ters. I have also a fine assortment of Men’s aud Boy’s fine Shoes. My stock of Men’s and Boy’s Work Shoes, high and low cut, and my King Logger Shoes are the best in the city for the price. No charge for sewing rips on shoes bought of us. Families that keep only one cow should endeavor to have the best ani mal that can be procured, More labor is required to care lor a single cow, pro portionately, than for a herd. A cow for the family should give a large flow of milk nt least ten months of the year, and the indk should contain at least four per cent of butter fat. as cream is one of the essentials. It is better to have n cow that gives even richer milk, but the majority of family cows are selected without regard to merits in that respect. It is difficult to rear the calves in such cases, hence in purchasing the family cow it would be profitable to pay a high price for a superior animal. See Dr. H. E. MORRIS about your Eyes. Red Front Shoe Store, P. F. BROWNE, Agent First Bank & Trust Company, BAY CITY, ORE. Opened up for Business SAPPINGTON & GO A Full bine of Groceries Flour, Feed, Tincuare and Crockery. We Ulant all Kinds of Produce Call and See Us Olsen Buildina □ ’ Tillamook Ooposite the Hotel. Capital Stock......................... $25,000. Offers every facility for safe tanking, and solicits your business. Commercial. Savings and Trust 0*" pertinents. Three per cent allowed on deposHS I subject to check. Four per cent on Savings an) Tits* Deposit«. Our little Imok, ‘ Helpful Hint» o’1 Banking,’’ explaining how to do y<*r hanking by mail is ready. Send for a copy. It's free f<* asking Feed Store Prices Process Barley, sack . Shorts, ton ................. Bran „ ......... Feed Oats, ton....... White River Flonr. bbl fits ¡¡5°° U-0° 16.00 4* uanly ranted