TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JUNE
1908
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THE GENTLE ALLIGATOR.
BURIED ALIVE.
FRIENDLY ANIMALS.
Th» Intimacy B»tw»»n Them and Man Tha Mod* of Death Sel»ct»d by a Chi
na»» Murderer.
In y»llow»ton» Park.
Rough Ju»tic* as It Is administered
One of the moat pleasant features of
the drive through the Yellowstone Na tn moat parts of China 1» sometime»
tional park la the apparent Intimacy be tempered by Individual tastes, a» an
tween man and the animal and bird I 1 Incident printed Io oue of the China
life in the park. Thanks to the wise and I : port Journals attest. A man lu Sueblen,
■tringeDt regulatlpna. no abootiDg la condemned to die, preferred to be
allowed within Its boundaries. “The , burled alive, and ills wishes were car
result.” says an English tourist, "la ried out to the letter.
During the famine two brothers
Irosltlvely charming. Hundreds of little
chipmunks, with tbelr gaudy striped who lived In Sueblen fought desper
backs, scamper Impudently about or ately to stave off starvation from their
peer at the passing coach from the families and bad blood arose between
roadside. The squirrel did not bolt for them. At last the elder brother sold
the nearest tree, but nodded a wel bls father’s coffin for food. When he
come. All bird life treated us like refused to divide the proceeds with bis
wise. Even the lordly eagle hovered younger brother the latter chopped off
near, and the wild turkey stalked un his head with a cleaver.
Because it was too expensive to
concernedly through the rank grass.
We perceived a doe and a fawn graz- carry the murderer several scores of
lug by the road. Not until we were miles to the nearest yamen of Justice
within a few feet did they seek the the local elders. Including the father
■belter of the woods, yet not to fly. of the murderer, whose cotfiu bad beeu
They simply moved aside. Here at sold, sat In Justice upon the culprit and
least mankind was regarded sb a condemned him to death. He asked
friend—one who could be trusted. The that he be buried alive Instead of re
only animal who ran away waa a ceiving the horrible torture of the
brown bear He turned tall at the sight "thirty slices." The father Interceded
of a coaching party. Yet it was quite with the other elders to get them to
a common thing for bears to approach grant bls son's request
A grave was dug. and the victim,
close to the hotels at evening to feed
on the refuse thrown out. It was an with his nrmi and feet securely bound,
after dinner relaxation for the guests was trundled In a wheelbarrow to the
of the pit by bls wife, There,
to watch them feeding. They munched edge
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the murderer's own request, his
and disputed the choicest morsels, for upon
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were loosed, and he walked to
the most part Indifferent to the com- bouds
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grave, lowered himself Into It and
puny. Only when we became Inquls- the
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Itlve and approached too near did they was ready.
The victim's wife put a felt hat over
retire, and these animals were perfect
mouth as his request, and then she
ly free and unfettered lu their move- bls
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the elders to fill In the grave
meuts. It may read like a fairy tale, bellied
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but It Is solid fact."
' with six feet of earth.
THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.
TORTURED TO DEATH
Whet Great Britain Owes to Holland
and Pepper.
It Is curious to remember that wheu
England's commercial greatness was
a making her most serious rival was
Holland. But the enterprising Dutch
men ruined tbelr chances by their
greediness. Thero was a popular little
couplet which ran:
In matters of commerça the fault of the
Dutch
la giving too little and aaklng too much.
The whole course of English pre
dominance abroad might have been
changed if the Dutch bad not “asked
too much."
In the closing years of the sixteenth
century they had a trade monopoly
with the East Indies, and they “put
up” the price of pepper to such n poiut
that the English consumer “struck.”
A meeting of London merchants
made one December afternoon a deci
sion the importance of which to Eng
land canuot tie exaggerated. It was
nothing less than the resolution to
form a London East India company.
The petition of these merchants to
good Queen Beas waa grauted in a
royal charter of Incorporation.
The company, founded at first to es
tablish direct trade communication
with the east and lower the price of
pepper, soon took to Itself larger pur
poses. Fleets of merchant ships came
and went between England and India.
■ nd from the quarrel about pepi>er the
corporation of merchants was des
tined. through Clive and Its "nabobs.”
to give England a vast empire.—Pear
son’s Weekly.
The Horrible Fate of a Number of
Regicides.
The lot of the regicide when caught
is not usually a very enviable one. To
be hanged Is the least he can expect.
Perpetual solitary Imprisonment Is a
far more dreadful fate. It drove Bres-
ci, the assassin of King Humbert of
Italy, to suicide, and It transformed
Luccblni, who murdered the empress ot
Austria, Into a hopeless Imbecile
Among the plotters Implicated lu the
murder of the late shah of Persia one
was tortured to death iu prison, while
another was Incased In wet plaster ol
parts, which on setting slowly crushed
the life out of him. Three of the ns
sassins of a previous shah were tallied
alive Io huge copper caldrons.
So late as the year 1831 the two
Mavromicbaells, who slew Count Capo
d’lstra. the first president of Greece,
were Immured within close brick walls
built around them up to tbelr chins
and supplied with salted food, lint no
drink, until they died. Damlens, who
attempted the life of Klug Louis XV
of France, was first barbarously tor
tured and then tom to pieces by wild
horses. This punishment was carried
out In one of the principal squares of
Paris March 28, 1757. Bavulllac. who
assassinated Henry IV. of France, suf
fered a similar fate.
The murderer of Selim Hl. of Turkey
was publicly Impaled, lingering five
and a half days In dreadful torment.
Those who did to death bls Immediate
successor, Mustapha IV.. were tortured
and starved on alternate days and de
prived of sleep by night until death
came to tbelr relief.—Chicago News.
Th» R»a»on.
It was Washington's birthday, and
the minister was making a patriotic
speech to the children of the secondary
grade.
“Now. children,” be said, "when I
arose this morning the flags were wav
ing and the houses were <1 railed with
bunting. What was that done for?"
"Washington's birthday,” answered a
youngster.
"Yes." said the minister, "but last
month I, too, had a birthday, but no
flags were flying that day, and you did
not even know 1 had a birthday. Why
was that?"
"Because," said an urchin. "Washing
ton never told a lie." — Philadelphia
Ledger.
Mussels of Philippine.
During August aud September as
many as LOGO to 1.500 sacks, each con
taining nearly 200 pounds of mussels,
are dispatched every Wednesday from
Philippine alone.
Holland. Belgium
■nd France are ths beat customers of
the Philippine mussel farmers, but
quite a uutnber of the cherished shell
fish find their way across the channel
from the Dutch beds to the Britishers'
dinner table,
In Philippine mussels
form, one may say. the staple food of
the population, They are consumed In
every possible manner—etewed, fried.
In soaps. In gravies and with particular
relish alive.—A. Pitcairn Knowles in
Whls World Magazine.
A Retreating Ct.in.
Nothing weakens a face mor* than a
retreating chin Unfortunately compar
atively little can ba done for It. It can
I* remedied to a certain extent In
childhood by nibbing from the throat
up and out. bolding the head well up
during the pnweas
Sometimes, too.
the trouble may be caused b.v the way
the Jaws close on account of the post
flop of the teeth, and a good dentist
may often be of help. Bandages worn
round the chin at night, so placed that
the lower Jaw la forced forward, will
lometlmea remedy the defect slightly,
especially when tie gun on quite young
children.- Exchange
TODD & CO
Clothiers and Furnishers.
“The Store That Makes Good
A LARGE STOCK OF MEN’S GLOVESj
Consisting cf Horse Hide, Calf Skin and Buck Skin, for
Working and Driving.
A fine line of Gauntlets of all kinds just received.
Broken Lines in Shoes, Hats and Underwear at
Greatly Reduced Prices.
TODD & CO., Tillamook,
ECONOMY IN ITALY.
Roman Season the Only Time
When Real Luxury Is the Rule.
During the greater pait of thy J'eai
we have only the servants that arc
necessary—my husband s valet.one hut
ler. the porter who stands at the eu
trance to the palace and a general
utility country boy who In the after
noon puts on a livery and acts as foot
man. The women servants are a cook
a scullery maid, a laundress and two
maids besides my own personal one
This list is riot as extravagant as th«*
same would be In America.
Wages are nothing by comparison.
One can get a good lady’s maid for $10
a month, a competent butler for $10
a cook for $10. a chambermaid for $0
Their fare would seem coarse to the
spoiled servant of America, consisting,
as It does, chiefly of bread, soup, mac
aronl and fruit, with tea and coffee of |
an Inferior grade and fresh meat once |
a week. We spend nothing that we i
can possibly help until the Roman sen
son. Then we have enough surplus to
get an additional number of maids and
a long row of footmen (these for th"
most part young women and meu from
the village of our own estatei. aud
both In our country villa and In our .
Roman palace we open all the rooms
that for eight months have been closed
and for four months live In luxury.-
An Expatriate In Everybody's Maga
zine.
The
The Angler Fieh.
A singular superstition about the
angler fish is entertained in some parts
of Sweden (Bobuslan*. according to
Malm and Smitt. “It is so feared by
many that the tackle Is cut as soon as
the 'monster' reaches the surface, aud
its captor hurries home in order to get
there, if possible, before the misfor
tune portended by the inouster over
takes him." The extreme of misfor
tune—death- Is believed b.v some to be
indicated. Nilsson tells that the Swed
ish fishermen on the banks "believe
that on board the vessel on which an
angler is taken some one Is doomed to
die soon. They therefore never or
hardly ever take the angler on board
but prefer to cut the line and thus lose
the hook with the fish.”
An anemometrical faculty Is attrib
uted to the angler lu Massachusetts
According to Storer, "among the fisher
men In some parts of the bay there
is n common saying, ’When you tnke a
goosefish, look out for an easterly
storm.’ ”
An Ancient Susa Canal.
It la certain that In ancient times a
canal connecting the Mediterranean
and lied sens did exlat. Herodotus as
cribes Its projection to Pharaoh Necbo.
tlOO B. C. The honor of Its completion
Is given by some to Darius, by others
to the Ptolemies How long this canal
continued to be used we do not know,
but. becoming finally choked up by
sand, it was restored by Trajan early
In the second century A. D. Becoming
again useless from the same cause. It
waa reopened by the Caliph Omar, but
was finally closed by the “unconquer
able sands" about A. D. 7G7. In which
state It has since remained. This an
cient canal, from Suez, to Bubastls. on
A Human Foot Warmer.
the east branch of the Nile, was ir.’
It la Interesting to leiirn that Julius
miles long, from 108 to 100 feet wide
Caesar found our Celtic ancestors Just
and 15 feet deep.
suffocating themselves with smoke.
Glraldus. the early Welsh historian,
His Prayer.
describes a family as sitting round
O’Connell bad got a man off nt one
their smoky ceutral fire by day aud
time for highway robbery and nt an-
lying round It by night.
But they
other for burglary, but on a third oc-
could have bad little comfort from it.
melon, for ateallng a coanting brig, the
for the same historian tells us that one
task of hoodwinking the Jury seemed
of their princes eked out his tire with
too great for even his powers of cajol
a human foot warmer. This officer’s
ery. However, he made out that the
duty was to keep his master’s feet
crime wan committed on the high seas
warm by cherishing them In Ids bosom
and obtained an acquittal. The prison
during meals.
For this ptirtHwe he
er lifted tip Ills hands aud eyes to heav
en ami exclaimed. "May the Lord long squatted under the table, and no doubt
It "did him proud" so to nurse the roy
apnre you. Mr. O'Connell, to me!”-
al moccasins-T P 's London Weekly.
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or
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Spare minutes are the gold dust or ;
time, the portions of life moat fruitful
In good or evil, the gaps through which
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temptations enter —Mrs. Thrall.
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Tintuare,
and Crockery.
Did You Ever Try
Why He Wa- Angry.
Thoucht He Was Smart.
“You made a mistake lu your paper,"
The Man With the Gnu tbouarfully
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HARRIS'S NEW FEED AND
and cynically»-1 have l>een engage! to »aid an Indignant man. entering the ed
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MZI!?„'T!ln,'’"’l7",v",m,l’'«>,*’«’lle. Rotary
at least a doaon girls. Miss Sweet Girl itorial sanctum of a dally Journal
LIVERY BARN,
bhuuleor i Suaib-Tlm-nd tCAotaamcAp
«looking annoyed«—And always t>een was one of the competitors Ht nn ,th
«•••vit’S Machine write to
unlucky In love, eh? Ho—Ob. I don’t letle en’ertalnment last night and you
THE NEW HOT' SEW’NB iViACH’lE COMPANY
If not, give him a cal’.
referred to me as the well known
know I've never married any of them
Orange, Mass.
lightweight champion.
What?— Philadelphia Inquirer.
Everything first-class. Second
quality, but th»
u lloHie.snia.ie to weat.
"Well, are you not?' Inquired th"
Oui vuamty never runs out
sportlug editor.
Net Attractive.
fcold bj Ni<ihori4<-»| dcRlerw only.
block South of P O.
"No:
of tne
the kind."
"Was It a case of love at first sight?"
..... I'm
. u> 11 n ithlus
Hums or
kind. " was
Ft’« SALS HV
the
angry
restions*,
"and
It
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.-oufound
asked the sentimental girl.
I.. 1 • IIA1 TON’, Agent.
“It eottldn t have been.’* answered edly awkward, because Pm a CO.il
w. G.
arris Prop.
Mies Cayenne
"When they first met dealer "-Philadelphia larger
Deafness Cannot be Cured
be was wearing football clothes and
7 ’"v«1 •pplwatioti». a. they c»nnof reach the • j H. GESSNER
she had on her motor car costume."—
Thought He Was Going to Shave.
diwsuxijwtion of lheeii There ii
W. WOLFE.
Washington Star.
The new rubber In the Turkish bath
had formerly been a barb, r
The Sign of Wedlock.
Thus It was when his first patron
Rhe What la the proper formula for came In that the new rubber looked
a wedding announcement? He-I know him over and said pityingly. "Wash
wbat la ought to be. 8be-What? He- yourself sometimes, don’t you?"—Louis
“Be It known by these presents.”—Bal ville Courier-Journal.
timore American.
1 Agent for Acme Paints, Van
Don’t imagine you are a good con
verssttonalist Just because you talk a
good deal -Atchison Glebe.
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Bargains in All Lines.
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CLOTHING, HATS, SHOEs\
and FURNISHING GOODS. |
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Useless Money.
Languid Mnnlgxn-After all la said.
pal, money ain't everyt’lng
Dry Dee
gan—I knows It frum experience. I
wuuet found a Ove dollar bill near de
center ut a prohibition stat«.—Puck.
Mm men ar» drowned In the bowl
than in tbe eoa.-lriab IvoraeU
Getting Him Out Into ths Opsn Fsr
the Camera Man.
I have seen a barefoot boy when the
alligator refused to respond to bls call
wade In the mud to his waist, explore
with bls toes till be felt the wiggle of
the gator beneath them, then worry
him to the surface, grab him by tb
nose before he could open bis Jaws at»,
tow the creature ashore to be photo-
graphed. When an alligator that we
were hunting crawled into his cave 1
held a noosed rope over his mouth
while the boy poked a stick throug’-
the mud until It hit the creature iu bls
biding place, aud soon 1 bad hiu
snared, ready to be draggl'd out ou the
prairie and tied, to be kept till tb,
eamera matt «’as ready for him; then
we turned the reptile Icose on a bit ot
prairie, and the boy and I. armed with
sticks, headed him off wheu he tried to
escape, ublle the camera man. with bi.-
bead In the hood of bls Instrument, fol
lowed the creature about, seeking fot
evidence in the case of reason versus
Instinct. When the camera man was
through with him the alligator w as set
free, a final shot lielug taken at him ns
lie walked off Our hunter boys could
never be made to comprehend our ren
sons for restoring to the creatures their
freedom
They understood the photo
graphing, but w hen this was done wh,.
not collect a dollar for the re| lie's
hide? Tbelr manner implied that to
th!.’ question uo sane answer was pits
slide.— A W. Dimock lu Harper's Mag
azine.
On* ">1“<l'«l Dottar. for
nishes and Brushes.
d for
sold by liiitSi'i?’ * CO '
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, --------- tve Painthouse in Tills
m«»ok County.
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