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WILD ELEPHANTS,
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THE MYSTERY OF MARS.
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A Herd's Successful Raid on a Granary lid but Unsolved Problem, I* There
In Csylon.
Animal Life on the Planet?
With a planet so old as Mars and so
Some soldiers stationed at an out­
Purf. of the Tiny Firefly post In Ceylon, says a Colombo paper, far along in the process of life ex­
to protect a granary containing a large tinction the conditions of life would be
Mighty Comet.
quantity of rice were sent off a few severe, aud only a highly intellectual
miles to quiet some unruly villagers, and scientifically developed race could
.H JttLDS THE SECRET. only two of the party remaining be­ endure and master them. The engi­
hind. No sooner had the soldiers de­
parted than a herd of wild elephants, neering skill and constructive capacity
to Science, and the Man which bad long been wandering about to control the annual Hoods from the
• to Penetrate That Mya- the neighborhood, appeared in front of poles, store the waters aud build the
In a Position to Revo- the granary. Its walls were of solid thousands of miles of huge canals *
brickwork, very thick, and the only would require scientific knowledge be nr
atlaNlaa Vki* Planet of Our*.
opening into the building was In the yond that possessed by us at the pres
Thia la notan Aesop fable, although center of the roof, w hich was reached ent time and financial resources in ex­
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a
ta*. a moral.
by a ladder. On the approach of the cess of those we have yet accumulat
There are two things tn whose pres- elephants the two men clambered up ed. The natiou that finds the digging
Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors, Window
ice acienctf atauds wondering and Into a lofty banyan tree to escape In­ of a little ditch at Panama so great a b
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little glowworm (or the jury. Screened by the thick foliage, task would be helpless In the face of
Sashes,
yet tinier Brofi.v- an.l the mighty comet though unseen by the elephants, they such a problem as these thousands of
arching the Sky with Its glimmering easily saw all that went on below. miles of Martian canals, if. Indeed, ca­ a
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train. Each of them bolds the same The sagacious animals
began opera­ nals they be. Yet. In view of the
secret—how to make light without tions at the corners of
greater
life
age
of
Mars,
such
higher
ill' heat The man who gets that secret Two powerful elephants, tile building, intelligence would be nntural In tin-
after putting
will revolutionize the planet.
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forth every effort, but in vain, to make regular process of development, as
The late |tmldem -f tin- ib-y-ii As an impression on the building,
were suming that it has ever beeu the abode
tronomical Society --f iir.-et l'.ru.H.-i
of Intellectual life.
referred to the value of the comet's forced to retire exhausted. A third
Scientists are in the main In a re
came
forward,
and.
applying
bis
tusks
Agents for the Great Western Saw.
secret in his retiring address. lie
ceptive state on this subject. They
as
levers,
he
at
length
succeeded
in
thought thst we do not sufficiently ap-
are not ready to admit that the exist­
dislodging
a
single
brick.
An
opening
1 'wit. »reclat» the wondrous spectacle of a
ence of life on that planet lias been
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comet's tall. It shows us hundreds of once made, others of the herd ad­ proved. They do not deny It. but call
_a
vanced.
and
soon
an
entrance
was
ob
­
billions of cubic miles of space slmul-
for greater proof than n plausible the
tained
sufficiently
large
to
admit
them.
The Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County.
j H Ci taneously glowing with luminosity
ory. Among others than scientists
As the whole company could not be there is in the main a disposition no'
. whose origin is a mystery.
w.
' ' It la a gigantic experiment In a accommodated at once, they divided to accept the Martian human life
txp;r branch of physics of which we as yet into small groups of three or four. theory or the theory of life on nuy of
g . .know very Httle. The comet Is itu- After satisfying themselves they re­ the thousands of spheres that wheel
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1 mersed In What we may well regard tired and gave place to others until and glisten in illimitable space. They
as a vacuum: at least It Is a far more i the whole herd, upward of twenty, bad seem to think that such a theory con
Corrects
made
a
full
meal.
By
this
time
a
shrill
~ perfect vacuum than we can produce.
filets with religion and dwarfs uian
Irregularities
‘
Yet the persistent glow of the comet's sound was heard from one of the ele­ and his Importance in the sclienn* of
wyu tall shows that there is no real vacuum phants, and those still in the granary creation.
’ Do not risk having
there, but a vast quantity of extreme- rushed out and Joined their compan­
This seems to be a very narrow view
it Bright’s Diseasa
HN, ly attenuated matter which uo doubt ions. One of the first divisions, after to take, since It appears to set bound
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or Diabetes
leaving
the
building,
had
acted
as
sen
­
la the cause of the luminosity.
upon the Infinite power and creative
a at. We ought. Professor Newall tliluks. tinel while the others were taking their desires of the Almighty, whose greal
to awake toLthe Importance of this turn. He had perceived the troops scheme of mortal and Immortal li*e is
IS. it hint. "Who knows." he says, “wheth- returning from the village and gave not necessarily confined to n single
er. If we could discover a method of the signal for retreat, when the whole planet or the few billions of human
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disrupting gases and vapors In ultra herd, flourishing their trunks, moved beings who are born and die upon h
vacuous spaces artificially maintained rapidly into the jungle.
As to dwarfing the Importance of mini,
The soldiers found the animals bad a few billions more added to the liil
[S, Min earth, we should not have a meth
od of artificial illumination as econorn- devoured the greater part of the rice. lions on earth would make little differ­
----- teal as that of the glowworm and as A ball from a fleldpiece was discharged ence. Man is at best a small mid hi
— "brilliant as Is needed for our nocturnal at them in their retreat, but they only significant creature, but If all embrac­
wagged their tails as if in mockery ing wisdom, power and love takes so
B 111 life?”
I ■' This thing may really be within our and were soon bidden in the recesses llcltous note of him It would be limit
I Htreach. although at the present time of their native forests.
ing those infinite qualties to say th.-n
one planet must be his abiding place
no ,-we cannot even suggest to ourselves
_.'exactly how It Is to be attained. B it
Therefore the question of human ii:
DAYS OF THE WEEK.
1 "the tendency of recent investigation is
telllgence on Mars or any other planet
1In that direction. As Sir John Her- At On* Tim* They Were Designated of the solar system or the other great
id«,~scbel said of another discovery which
systems in remote space should be
Merely by Numbers.
UiiiwuWaa just at the door. “We can feel it
Formerly the days of the week were purely and simply a scientific one. t
• .¡trembling along the farreacblng line numbered one, two. three, four, five be accepted as true only when proved
JTW(j of our analysis.”
and six, beginning with the Sabbath but not to be rejected through semi
There are not a few men. who are Even now the custom still prevails merit or for any other reason wbatevei
regarded by their harder beaded seien-
certain modern Greeks, the except lack of proof.—St. Louis Star.
jHOIShfic brethren as "dreamers," who pic- among
Slavs and the Finns. Many old fash­
■ein ture to themselves a fast coming time ioned and orthodox Quakers, particu­
An Oriental Blessinj.
Jlj when we shall not only obtain light at
A well known representative from
larly in the north of England, still bold
al HmSS Cheap a rate as the firefly has It. to this custom, which was the common China, who was a guest at a wciidf":
(¡«Abut when we Shall have tapped the ex- one in the days of the apostles and in a capital city, was approached aftci
hanstlea Stores "f energy ili.it sleep down to the fourth century as well as the ceremony by the best man and
..¿’,,.?all around Us in nature.
usual among the Jews and the Arabs. Jocularly asked to go over to the
JJa.W» are like one in a dreant sus­ The
orthodox Quakers use the numer­ young couple and pronounce n parental
pended In the midst of a vast work-
ical
system
In preference to the ordi­ blessing. The obliging dignitary com
*hr>p crowded with mu’111 ml In--us ms
nary
on
the
ground that the gods and piled with pleasure. Placing his hands
r<>riwa,hlnes. all Whirling and fluttering in
goddesses, from whom the names were on the blushing bride and shaking
to oirA storm of energies, but which be can
bridegroom, be said: “May every new
'‘"(•“■either control nor understand. If taken, were not of the highest respecta­ year bless you with a man-child off
T,‘>e could set th ese things they might bility in point of morals.
The week was originally only a con­ spring until they shall number twenty-
m*iHterrify us, as the dreamer is terrified
venient
quarter of the lunar month; five in all. May these twenty-five man
":i|lLby the whirring belts and spinning
hence
it
began on Monday, or moon children offspring present you with
T°°i wheels of his Vision, seeming to grasp
day.
The
Italians still call Monday twenty-five times twenty-five grand­
I r.iCt his life.
the
first
and
Sunday the seventh day children, and may these grandchil­
----- If the actontlflc investigator needs
of
the
week.
Tuesday Is derived from dren”—
----- to establish a kelson d'etre In the eyes
But the little bride grew hysterica'
the
Norse
Tlw,
who corresponded to
which cannot follow
about this time, and the oriental hie ­
Mars,
the
god
of
war,
a
most
disreputa
­
es or bls results, he
ing was ended amid the laughter of
nt to the fact that the ble person in the eyes of Quakers. the guests.—Ladies' Home Journal.
only
al discoveries of mod- Thursday was Thor’B day. Thor being
come out of the labora- a god warrior who was morally no bet­
A Cowboy Spider.
gs as Incomprehensible ter than he ought to be. Wednesday,
“Faking aside,” said the nature stu­
'o the uniti ■ted as so much magic. It again, was Woden’s day, Woden being dent, “there is in New Zealand a cow­
Í» a well ki WWn fact that the growing the god of battle rage, The Romans
k/Utt Of <Mftnany springs from her called this day Mercury’s. Friday was boy spider. This creature throws a
supposed to be the luckiest day of the coll of web like a lasso over its prey’s
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tO “pure research.”
bead, then odds more and more coils
' again to the pregnant hint week—for women. It was called after and when the prey is bound hand and
the
Norse
FrIJa.
the
goddess
of
love,
the coinet Professor Newall is
foot devours it.
ht tn saying, “Here is a and is the best day for weddings. For
"There is a Borneo spider that In
I Should stir up the most the pagan Romans it was also the day the spring days plays a fiddle. It is a
Kulr-ommomiol mind in the support of as- of Venus, though the Christian Romans
common thing for a lovesick spider to
nevi iwBomy.”- Morrett P. Serviss in New called it the day of ill luck because dance before bls girl, but this Borneo
Christ had been crucified on that day.
Amer
Saturday was called after Saturn, and boy my drawing bis arm across bls
id to*
-
Sunday was known to the Christian* turn produces a sweet, clear note.
Ml Cart of New York.
Whenever he sees a good looking
■j.cars of New York carry as resurrection or sun day.
young lady spider be stops and gives
The
week
of
seven
days
was
import
­
ng m mk B Un• as different a nationality
her a tune, hoping to win her by mu­
it
If each t Mtoged to a different coun- ed from Alexandria into Greece and sic.”—Philadelphia Bulletin.
into
Italy
about
the
time
of
Christ.
•-Cigbth avenue line there
The Greeks had previously divided
M Inara* Freedom From Cancer.
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wwtfce’ Btored people; on the Sixth their month into sets of ten days, the
JLare largely Americans, if
“Miners never have cancer. In thir­
Mtkmericans in New York: Romans into sets of eight days, three ty-five years' practice in a mining town
■tray cars there are styl- and a half sets being equal to one I haven't had a single cancerous pa­
New Yorkers; on the month.—New York World.
tient.”
MMrlsli and Jewish people
“And to what, doctor, do you Impute
An
Author's
Initial*.
K -on the Second avenue
this immunity?”
Of
Initials
are
sometimes
the
resort
¡Mtn. Hungarian. Swedish
“Miners are singularly cleanly. They
¿while on the surface cars the writer who is anxious to conceal bathe every day. They rarely smoke.
Avenue A yon see his Identity, and a glance through any They are a temperate and regular set.
nationality under the one of the 700 volumes that comprise Above all"—
ded—New York Press. the catalogue of the British museum
The physician smiled grimly.
reading room will discover some
“Miners.” he said, “die young,
strange instances. A theological book, cer is an old age disease. And there
in Regrets.
ffin lacks courage and entitled "Inquiry Into the Meaning of really is the reason of the miner's can­
Demonlacks In the New Testament” cerous Immunity.” — Cincinnati
is attributed to T. P. A. P. O. A. B. I. qulrer.
hlmr
C. O. S. Its real author was a certain
say that?”
was courting my wife Arthur Sykes, and the initials reveal
Not th* 8*me.
t her. If be had had bis position as "the precentor and
“Excuse me.” he said as be entered
rage and energy— But prebendary of Alton Borealis in the the public library at Pegantic, “but do
of talking about it church at Salisbury."—London Chron­ you have any social registers here?”
icle.
Plain Dealer.
“No, we baln't" said the librarian,
with considerable hauteur. "This here
Revenge.
ules the World.
VIERECK
bulldin’ t* bet up by steam, and we
Mrtrs uetue* * *,*
I
“That organist Belle jilted for the baln't got nothin' but radiators, and
n caused the names of
Men who connol I . slop
for a rainy doy - wiH
to be Inscribed on the aged millionaire played a spiteful trick we don't allow no aettln' around with
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find the greatest
s pillar, some one crlt- at her wedding.”
your feet on to them neither The near­ Tillamook Bakery,
During
tho
past
35
years
no
rem
­
comfort
and
f
“
What
did
be
dor
'a mere bit of Imagl-
est thing we got to a social registry In
of bodily movement
edy ha* proven more prompt or
“Instead of playing them up the aisle this town Is the postoffice stove."—Lip­
Is true.” replied Na-
more effectual in It* cures of
in
— —
OPPOSITE THE ALLEN HOUSE.
agination rules the r lth the wedding march, he struck up pincott's.
•Old Hundred.’ "—Boston Transcript
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Mamma— What are you doing with SPECIALTY IN ALL KIND OF CAKES, than
many homes it I* relied upon as Im­
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was complaining of
“I see you got married yesterday. that string. Lola? Lola (aged five>—
plicitly a* the fiunlly physician. It con­
uniform.
Tyfn' It on my finger, mamma, so If I
Chloe. Are your proepects brilliant?**
OILED CLOTHING
ALL KIND OF BREAD.
tains no opium or other narcotic, and
declared, “the coI­
"Yaa*.
Mah busband's friends ferget anything I'll be sure to 'member
may be given na confidently to a baby
SLICKtRS’JQO WITS‘30®
m's spple so hard iTought me fo' mo' washin’s.”—Circle It.—Chicago News.
a* to an adult. fr\cu'2bc-, large elzeOOc
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lt.e vqr> ol the fish
«
That experience which does not
Quoranleed voier proof *
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to yonr only true
This world Is to the sharpest, heaven make us better makes ns worse —
a j t&w/fi» ro tovo*« v i a
to the most worthy—Hamilton.
Holmen.
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