T illamook headlight , august
the pillory .
English Writer’» Reflection» Upon
hgps one of the few really demo-
rt, ln»tltuti"nfl ever created was the
iinrr 1 do D0‘ “v th*“ “ W8“ ° hU'
P „Tln’tltutlon. though it was cer-
mOre humane than our system
, . innt imprisonment. But being hu-
has nothing to do with being
®*\.ratlc. You may have humane
Inhumane democracies, Just as
TOO maj have
““ humane and inhumane
dXt8polnt 1» that the pillory was a
~.l appeal to the people. If It was
Li it was because the people were
iL or perhaps Justly indignant. The
^Dle threw dead cats (the less hu
Unitarian. I believe, threw live cats),
kin they could throw bouquets and
of laurel if they liked. Some-
tunes thev did The argument about
the old public punishments cuts both
, The publicity was an additional
rtsk for the government as well as an
iddltlonal risk for the prisoner, and
tbis Is specially true of tbe executions
fortreason. It was no small thing that
half a million meu might possibly treat
Ht martyr a man w horn the king was
treating as a murderer, that the prince
bjj to concede to every obscure ruf-
tan exactly what that ruffian probably
rmted most-fame.—G. K. Chesterton
In London News.
THE KANGAROO.
It! Hind Legs Are a Most Formidable
Pair of Weapon».
Tbe kangaroo seems poorly provid­
ed by nature with offensive weap­
on« His powers of biting are not
formidable, and his fore paws are so
weak ” to seem almost rudimentary
members of little use. His hind legs
ire muscular and strong, but are ap­
parently of use only to assist flight
from bls enemies. On these hind legs
Is found, however, a most formidable
weapon In the shape of a long claw as
bard as steel and sharp qs a chisel—as
terrible to dogs as the scythe chariots
of tbe ancients were to their enemies.
When run down the kangaroo, plac­
ing a tree behind him to protect his
rear, will seize in bls fore paws such
indiscreet dogs as rush up to him
■nd. bolding them firmly, dlsembowl
them with a sweep of his sickle-like
claws.
Even the hunters themselves thus
caught in tbe vlsellke grip of an “old
man’’ kangaroo of tbe larger breeds
hare sometimes suffered in like man­
ner and have now and then taken their
owa turn at being bunted as the en­
raged animals turned upon them and
attacked their horses with blind fe-
roclty.—St. James' Gazette.
The Colossus of Rhodes.
The gigantic Colossus of Rhodes
•is one of the seven wonders of the
rrld. It was erected in honor of the
urn by Charles of Llndus, a disciple
of Lysippus, and was thrown down
by an earthquake about 224 B. C.
The figure stood upon two moles, a
leg extended on each side of the har­
bor A winding staircase led to the
top of tbe figure, from out of the eyes
ot which were visible the coast of
Syria and the ships sailing on the coast
of Egypt. The colossi were the pe-
eullar characteristic of eastern art
md were of common occurrence, many
of them being over sixty feet in
height. The most celebrated Is the
«tatué of Metnnos, on the plain of
Thebes, described by the historian
Strabo.
A Skeleton In Every Closet.
The expression "There is a skeleton
’ every closet” is said to have its ori-
t> In the fact that a soldier once
rote to his mother, who complained
her unhappiness, to have some sew-
f done for him by some one who had
> cares or troubles. At last tbe moth-
found a woman who seemed to have
1 troubles, but when she told her
Alness the woman took her to a clos-
■ containing a skeleton and said:
Mam, I try to keep my troubles to
JWlf, but every night I am corn­
ed by my busband to kiss this skel-
»to who was once bls rival. Think
H then, i can be happy?"
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M*nx ‘ B’nknote..-
Speaklng of the curious Manx bank
Ing lore of tbe past, the Liverpool Po«t
«■ajs that a singular state of affairs
was exhibited in the island” a“t£
W Se|°|fLtb‘‘ Ni^oleo“‘c wars. Trade
was brisk, money was UM ,e freely ad
ventured, and all sorts of prlvau Mr-
sons began to Issue notes. There was
no occasion whatever to have sterling
against them. All you had to do was
to get some one to take them and pass
the1“ h°" i 5he fnshioD 8rew till even
the humbler traders issued card
promises to pay,” th» values most lu
aud evLn“ brl’1B 5 8b‘ni“gS' “ sllllliu«
and even sixpence oIKe an adv*
cate from Castletown went to Peel to
collect a Judgment of £3.",0 from the
himT-iH
Tbis WOr,h* PaW
him -.<04 card notes, many of them
worthless. They took several hours to
examine and count, and their trans­
port was an item of extreme difficulty
Finally they were put Into a big sack’
half shaken to one end and half to the
other, und the whole sluug over the
back of a horse. The lather of the
horse, soaking through, »polled nearly
nnlr
1..I
half Uin
the <■»»,
cards!
Clearing the Atmosphere.
In bls capacity of dramatic critic
Mr. J.
.1. Cornyns Carr, the author.
author, wrote
a notice of the play of "Charles L," in
which Irving played under tbe man
ngement of Mr. Bateman. His produc­
tion deeply incensed the manager. In
older perhaps to find the opportunitv
of informing the critic of his disap­
proval. the manager Invited him to a
supper at tbe Westminster club on the
second or third night of tbe produc­
tion. Wheu lie thought the fitting mo­
ment bad arrived Mr. Bateman led the
conversation to the point at Issue and.
emphatically banging the table with
his list, declared in the loudest of
tones that be did not produce his plays
at the Lyceum theater to please Mr
Cornyns Carr. There was a moment’s
awkward silence, which Mr. Carr con­
fesses he did not feel quite able to
break, but which was released by a
wit of the company with the happy re­
tort. "Well, dear boy, then you can’t
be surprised if they don’t please him."
Sight Lost and Restored.
A farmer's wife who had bad much
trouble with her servants was accosted
by one of them.
"I fear I shall not be able to work
much longer. I think I am going
blind.”
“Why. how is that? You seem to
get along pretty well with your work.”
“Yes. but i can no longer see any
meat on m.v plate at dinner."
The farmer’s wife understood, and
tbe next day tbe servants were served
with very large and very thin pieces of
meat
"How nice!” the girl exclaimed. “My
sight has come back. I can see better
than ever."
“How is that, Bella?” asked the nds-
tress.
“Why. at this moment," replied
Bella. “I can see the plate through
the meat.”—London Scraps.
The Cold Water Cure.
r you feel a cold coming on. drink a
glass of cold water, not iced, and re­
peat at half b. ur intervals until relief
felt, if hot water Is easier to take
It can be substituted for tbe cold, par-
tnularly in the morning and at night,
taking an abundance of liquid matters
more thau its temia-ruture. it is there
wuere the patients fall short. They
wul drink a glass or two of water
then declare they can take no more
and, ceasing, decide water cannot drive
out a cold. This water cure is not so
modern as the most of us think It. In
an old prescription book of a famous
physician of more than a hundred
years ago this curious remedy for a
cold is found: "Let ye patient who
feels a cold coming on eat of n fine
big salt herring Just before going E
bed. This will make ye patient drink
plenty of water.” If you have not
Strength <>f puriM.se to drink freely of
water for the cold’s sake, make your­
self thirsty as best you can—only take
all the water possible.-PhUadelphia
Press.
His Passport.
.
Mer».
The Press Agent Prcpoee».
"Your pulchritude Is peerless Ton
are an astounding aggregation of fem­
inine faultlessness Be mine"'
Th"’ *n,wared Miss Cayenne.
“Sure”' responded the girl
ner •
Tb. U th* hpro of the book?"
iblhh Û".n who has undertaken to could resist that press agent Ian
guage."-Louisville Courier Journal.
'‘"-'W ashington Star.
Bllgglns hM wrltten a hlgtorical
lest
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Hanged For Violating Smoke Law.
XLL KINDS OF
Professed politicians who have re­
duced public office to an exact science
find the independent voter a sad stum­
bling block, a fact which is amusingly
disclosed by a story found in the life
of the late George Monro Grant, the
eminent Canadian educator and clergy­
man.
Toward the end of Sir John Macdon­
ald's life he and Principal Grant, then
the head of Queen's college, met at a
dinner at the house of the premier's
brother-ln law, Professor Williamson.
“How I wish,” the premier said to
the principal, “that you would be a
steady friend of mine.”
“My dear Sir John,” the principal
replied, “I have always supported you
when you were right.”
The premier's eyes twinkled, and he
laid Ills hand upon the shoulder of the
principal.
“My dear man," said he. “I have no
use for that species of friendship!”
The transcendent power and fame
with which great genius has at differ­
ent periods endowed various men do
not always Insure them from after
misery and shame. This was striking­
ly exemplified in the cases of the four
greatest of military conquerors—Alex­
ander, Hannibal. Caesar and Napoleon.
The general Judgment of mankind has
conceded them the first place in the
lines of action for which they were
severally distinguished. Yet they all
met with melancholy deaths. Two of
them suffered for years the keenest
humiliations which a total destruction
cf their hopes could bring. Two per
ished at the zenith of their power. Just
as they might have expected a long
enjoyment of the fruits of their tre­
mendous achievements.—Exchange.
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Is there any compensation in money
Brutal Indifferenc».
“It seems since bis marriage Jack for a starved, stunted, dwarfed mind?
Thornley has developed into a perfect Can lands and houses, stocks and
bonds, pay a man for living a narrow,
brute.”
“You surprise me! What has be rutty, sordid life? How much money
would match the wealth of a trained
done?”
“Why, the other night while his mind, of unfolded possibilities? Is the
_ regailing
_ him with all the capacity for the appreciation of the
wife was
particulars of that choice ' erlfast meaning of life, of the lessons of civi­
scandal she noticed that he seemed lization, worth no more than one’s
Alphabetical Time.
very quiet. And what do you thin,. bread and butter and roof? Can any
“ English firm, Higgins & Dodd, He was sound asleep!"—Cleveland one conceive of greater possessions
than an intellect well trained and dis­
log that there were twelve letters Plain Dealer.
ciplined. than a broad, deep, full orbed
,^r_narae> Placed a great clock
mind responsive to all beauty, all
Nearing the Limit.
” their door with the letters on its
good?—Orison Swett Harden in Suc­
« instead of numerals.
An old lady was going down in the
in a Cornish mine. She looked cess Magazine.
JI waited anxiously for days, cage----------------
hoping for
f_____
___ with apprehension at the rope, and
some ______
return, _ but
Optimistic.
* * soul took notice of the clock. At asked the miner anxiously: "M.v man.
"My wife is a very optimistic wo­
' «mid excitement behind the of- are you sure tbis rope Is qu.te safe.'
_ window, a man was seen to halt “Well, mum,” was the cheerful an­ man.”
"Indeed she Is.”
’street and gaze at the clock, puz- swer, "these ropes is guaranteed to
•Noticed it, have you?"
last exactly six months, and this ain't
"Yes; wheu I was talking with her
carae to the door, entered due to be renewed till tomorrow.' — yesterday she said that if you ever
orswied "Say, is it half past Hlg Birmingham Mail.
died she would marry again '«cause
.
a quarter to Dodd?"-T. P.’s
she felt sure that she could do better
eekly
The Real Trouble.
"I'm afraid.” said tbe lady to a dl next time.”—Houston Post.
Wl«*_n
Mer
mlnutlve applicant, “that you are too
Triumph» of Travel.
in« r Oh' thls *8 awful! These cur small to act as nunematd to my chil
"Now he's bragging about how he
.... fr>( at *he bargain sale don't dren."
„ ,
-Oh I'm not too small.” replied the did Venice."
a wT furni‘ure Hubby-Return
"What do Jou mean?"
I should say not—cheap as applicant. "I guess the trouble is your
"Most tourist» «pend a week In ' on-
must have some new children are too larg«."-( hkago fee. He did « ,n • day."-Kansas City
rp st once!—Cleveland Leader. News.
_______
Journal.
Un no
1 lllamook
Lumber Manufacturing Compj
furious and little known facts about
the house fire were mentioned by E
H. Blake, addressing the surveyors'
institution on warming and ventila­
tion. Fires were at one time a great
luxury, he said, and even the right to
use the fire had been bequeathed. Thip,
the will of one Richard Byrchett (15161
read:
“I will yt sayd Nell my wyfe shal
have ye chamber she lyes ’ in and
lyberte at ye fyer in the house; all
yese tbyngs shal she have so long as
she ys wldo."
Coal, continued Mr. Blake, was first
imported into London at the end of the
thirteenth century, but the smoke pro­
duced by burning ft in improperly con­
structed grates caused such a preju­
dice against It that in 1306 a law was
passed making it a capital offense to
burn coal in
’ the city. The Tower rec­
ords give details of a man’s trial and
execution for the offense. — London
Graphic.
Greatness Not Free From Shame.
On one occasion Gustave Dore, the
artist, lost bls passport while on a tour
in Switzerland. At I.ucerne he asked
to lie allowed to speak to tbe mayor
to whom he gave his name.
“You say that you are M. Gustave
Dore, and I believe you." said the
mayor, "but.” and he produced a piece
ot paper and a pencil, ‘'you can easily
prove it.”
Dore looked around him and saw
some peasants selling potatoes in the
street. With a few clever touches he
reproduced the homely scene and. ap­
pending Ills name to the sketch, pre
sented it to the mayor.
“Your passport is all rl rht," remark
ed the official, "but you must allow me
to keep it and to offer you in return
one of the ordinary form.”
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His Miefortune.
“Who's that a-hnllerln down vander
Tbe Poet—Poets are born, not made
vid man, got your
tbe branch?"
. Th» Girl—I know I wasn’t blaming
'
Stted up yet? Tom-Not tn "That's
tbe prodigal son The old you -Boston Transcript
,
Go yon know Where I can man's a wailin' thunder out o him > t”
^^idlng toothbrush?—Boaton runnln' away ¡"-Atlanta Constitution.
There are certain flowers the per­
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“Is that horse you bought a ki ker?'
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