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WASHINGTON'S WOOING.
PARIS THEATERS.
Mannors and Custom» That Strike an
American aa Peculiar.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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bid you welcome to his domain.
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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
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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
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Fair ;
and Street Carnival
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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
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Feed Oats, ton.......
White River Flonr. bbl
fits
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16.00
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