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athletic training . man in isolation | ., Acquire an Excess of Muscle May Provo Injurious. Kotblng could be more elusive than lje idea that by a period of athletic Lslalug a man caa *“? ln a stock of mlth and strength upon which he can L,» later while engaged ln a seden- ury occupation. The truth Is that the L muscles and hypertrophied heart Lf tbe athlete are perilous possessions L. the man who no louger has the Loe or the Inclination for using them, ffben be stops the exercises by which I de gained them. Instead of simply re turning to their original size they suf fer oue or another of the many forms of degeneration uud become Incapable of performing their original services. It is not quite true that all exercise for its own sake Is harmless, for It is nil to be prepared for the meeting of | life's little emergencies as well as its ordinary and daily demands, but It probably is true that, the emergencies iprrt, every man does euougb in going ibout his customary business and pleasure to keep himself ln the condl- poo which that business and pleasure demand and that anything besides is gperfluous or Injurious. That athletics ate one Into the open air Is less a (cmmendatiou of athletics than an in- i jjctment of our bouses, offices and gores for lack of adequate ventilation. Kall tbe air we breathe was pure air ve could get along well enough with out any open air at all. Any man who has tbe muscle he needs for doing the things be wants to do and should do his all the muscle he ought to have. To acquire more is a silly waste of toe and perilous besides.—New York Times. FEET OF SEA BEASTS. Thsir Appearance When the Skin Is Stripped Off. Of all the feet that 1 Lave looked at I know only one more utterly rldicu- lout than the twisted flipper on which the sea lion props bis great bulk In front, and that is the forked fly flap I which extends from the hinder part of i the same. How can it be worth any least's while to carry such an absurd apparatus with it just for the sake of getting out Into the air sometimes and | pushing oneself about on the ice and being eaten by polar bears? The por- i poise has discarded one pair, turned the other Into decent flns and recovered a grace and power of motion in water which is not equaled by the greyhound on land. Why have the seals hung I back? I believe I know the secret. It lithe baby! No one knows where the I porpois® and the whale cradle their newborn infants—it is so difficult to pry Into the domestic ways of these tn people—but evidently the seals aanot manage It, so they are forced loreturn to the Innd when the cares of mternlty are on them. Have called the feet of these sea touts ridiculous things, and so they tie ub we see them. But strip off the •tin, and, io, there appears a plain foot, with Its five digits, each of sev eral joints. tipped with claws, nowise essentially different, in short, from that with which the toad or frog first let out in a past too distant for our Mrm Imagination. Admiration itself II paralyzed by a contrivance so sim ple, so transmutable and so sufficient for erery need that time and change wold bring.—Strand Magazine. prompt justice . Ho 1» of Little Coniaqutnc, and ( Barrier to Progr»,,. is not an easy thing fur eparate bimseif from tbe thought and activity aud purpose of tbe community - »Web be lives ami to pursue teohted disconnected and selfish part, uud if ue be in tries . e cau t do it. indeed, -viva i it he will only reduce himself to a ('llilinn z,- .. -‘.’hAr or Mowing block. Tue com- munlty will get ’ somehow, fur it ffiust but if it ha» many lue member? of this kiud it will be dull, heuv ---- , -».-vy aud uuprogressive. Man in Isolation is of little . CODR6- ?.u,'llce('ue!ii t0 i;,a , His a5Slx associa- tion with others, th« inspiration be . celves from others? draw'mn 'his^owu Po«ors. "The state." to this day. as c®2ee‘ved “• remains "a product f tulud. Out of tbe action aud Inter action of currents of mind, affected and even directed by variant views or opinions, comes tbe whole progress of man. of society, of tbe human race We want wbat Burke described as tUat action aud counteraction which iu tbe natural aud political world, from tbe reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draw out the harmony of the universe.” 'the most isolated man cannot sepa rate himself from tbe situation he Ilves iu. If such Isolation were general or could be general it would be the nega tion of civilization.—Portland Orego nian. SUBMARINE RIVERS. Cold Water Current» Flowing Along the Deep Sea Bottom. The bottom currents of seas and oceans, such as those which possibly bring amber to our shores, are strange ly disposed. Tbe seigneur of Sark some fifty years ago was shipwrecked in bis yacht near the island of Guerusey. He lost, among other things, a well fas tened. strongly made chest containing silver plate. It was found a year later iu deep wa’er off the coast of Norway and restored to him. In tbe really deep sea over a thou sand fathoms down there are well marked broad currents which may be described as rivers of very cold water (only 4 degrees or so above freezing point). They flow along tbe deep sea bottom and are sharply marked off from tbe warmer waters above and to tbe side. Their inhabitants are differ ent from those of the warmer water. They are due to tbe melting of tbe polar ice, the cold water so formed sinking at once owing to its gieater density below the warmer water of tbe surface currents. These deep currents originate in both tbe arctic and antarctic regions.—Sir Ray Lankester in London Telegraph. Habit From the Dungeon. Convicts who were forced to drag about a ball and chain at the galleys could often be detected wheu released by their habit of trailing one foot after the other. John Boyle O'Reilly, condemned to convict life In Australia for his Fenian sympathies, had also in after years a habit which told a like sad story. One who knows him said: When walking abstractedly and me chanically he always went a short dis tance and then retraced bis steps, no matter how wide a stretch he had be fore him. It was always three paces forward, turn and three paces back, exactly like the restless turning of a lion in a cage. One day I asked him. “Boyle, what was tbe length of your ceil when you were ln prison—how many paces?" “Three," he said. “Why do you ask?" "Because when you are absentmind ed you always walk three paces for ward and then retrace your steps.” A Willing Scot. Dean Ramsay has a story of that border hostility between English and Scots which used to go to halter lengths. A Scottish drover was re- taaing from the south in particularly W humor with tbe English, haviug done poor business, when he saw in Carlisle a notice offering a reward of ® to any one who would volunteer | tor the unpopular task of hanging a A Lesson In Physiology. toodemued criminal. Seeing his chance Tbe school superintendent was In ! •» make up for bls bad market and the habit of dropping In to the differ Wotting himself with tbe thought ent class rooms and demanding a re that be was unknown there, he did cital of lessons from tbe pupils. One | to* Job and got bls fee. As be was day her active mind hit upon physiol ¡raring he was taunted as a beggarly ogy as tbe study for examination. I ^t, doing for money what no Eug- It happened that the teacher did | Iktuuan would. But he answered, with herself uot like the study of tbe hu I * cheerful grin, “I'll hang ye a' at the man anatomy and therefore bad not price." drilled her scholars as she should have done. But the little girl to whom the Ways to xn Untimely End. first question was put so bewildered Tbecatalogue of the ways and means the superintendent and made her lose “¡Ployed by otherwise sensible people her patience that there were no more to Incur the risk of disease and an questions of a similar nature asked. utlmely end Include runniug to catch "Tell me." said the superintendent, •Wiley cars, breathing rapidly through “what a skeleton is.” tie mouth Instead of deeply through tbe The little girl thought for a short eating too hastily and overeating, time. "•touching” instead of standing and “A skeleton?" she asked. "A skele »•lltlng in an erect attitude, using un- ton? Why. a skeleton is a man with c*pe8sary stimulants, falling to exter- his Insides out and bls outsides off.”— toitute tbe pestilential housefly, which New York Times. blithely about carrying the germs ’’ disease; sleeping ln 111 ventilated Wanted Them Labeled. J*’®’ and falling to protect food from There was a certain maste. of fox , and other Insects by proper screen- hounds ln oue of the English shire» ®<— Philadelphia Press. who was greatly angered by tbe awk wardness of one of tbe gentlemen who invariably rode over tbe bounds. At Hard Luck. Bob Footllte (actor) — Failure? I one of the meets the M. F. H. rode up ■ould think It was! Tbe whole play to tbe awkward hunter and in the most ruined. She—Gracious! How was chilling tones said. "Mr. So-and-so. Bob Footllte—Why. at the end there are two dogs In the pack today. tbe last act a steam pipe burst and Snap and Tatters, which 1 am espe cially fond of. and I would esteem It ®**ed me off the stage. a favor if you would avoid killing or maiming them with your horses The Telegraph. T^flrst royal speech transmitted by hoofs." "Certainly, my dear fellow, wgraph was that delivered by the replied Mr. So-and-so: "but. as I do not * Queen Victoria when she opened know them, will you be kind enough to Wtllament on Nov. 15, 1837. Tbe put tags on them for me?” “"J of transmission was flfty-dve Father's Revenge- „ a minute. "Here is a telegram from papa." savs tbe eloping bride. "He says for A Useless Effort. Isitor-i suppose you men Io pubttr ns to come right home and live with I? *elgh your words? Senator— him and mamma." "I didn't think he would be so vin the use? Some newspaper fsl It sure to come along and mookry dictive as all that." sighs the eloping bridegroom.—New York Life. the sc ales.-Judge. M.gi.tr.t. w»» F,rm .nd Tri.d to Be Genial. th. r'ne of Byerly." Mas,, tbe followlug uneedute is related <,f tl good Juatiee uf (be jieme in tbe old co- luma t me«, o« .. .,,!d ulghl lu wllller h , ru ' e , ler ealle U W* »»use for lodg. ing. Tbe ready hospitality of tbe Jus e was alsiut lieiug displayed wlieu . m ,r*^ler uulu, k|ly »"ereil a word »bli b bis boat considered profane. L'pon this be informed bis guest that li" "as a magistrate, pointed out tbe nature of the offense and explained I the D-s easily of its being expiated by > Bit- ting au hour iu tbe stocks. Remonstrance was uuavaillng custom at that time allowed the m: Lstrate to convict and punish at on.e. arid in this case he acted as accuser, illness, jury, judge aud sheriff, all iu oue. Cold as It w;s. our worthy Justice, aided by bis son. conducted tbe travel er to tbe place of punishment, an open place uear the meeting house where the stocks were placed. Here the trav eler was confined in the usual manner, the benevolent executor of the law re mainlng with him to beguile the time of its tedium by edifying conversation At tbe expiration of the hour he was reconducted to the house and bosplta bl.v entertained till the »text morning, when the traveler departed with, let ns hope, a determination to consider Ills words more carefully before giving them utterance In the hearing of a con scientious magistrate. JAPAN'S PAGODAS. They Are Built to Resist the Shock of an Earthquake. A remarkable fact iu Japan is that pagodas built hundreds of years ago embody the principle of the moderu seismograph, which is to minimize the effect of earthquake motion by the combination of au inverted pendulum with an ordinary pendulum, or. in other words, by the union of a stable and au unstable structure to produce a neutral stability, which renders the whole building least sensible to earth quake shock. in the hollow well of every five sto ried pagoda a heavy mass of timber is suspended freely, like an exaggerated tongue, from the top right to the ground, but not in contact with It. and nt the shock of an earthquake this large pendulum slowly swings and the structure sways and then settles back safely upon Its base. This is also the principle followed in the construction of all bell towers throughout Japan, where the bell acts as pendulum, and the roof, supported by posts, forms an Inverted pendulum, as in the seismograph. When an earthquake occurs a pagoda or a bell tower may be rotated or dis placed. but it cannot be overturned as a whole.—Wide World Magazine. Peeling a Snake. 11 Is difficult to skin a dead snake, and the skin is ofteu spoiled in the course of the operation, while, on the other band, it is a simple matter to skin a live snake, and the skin thus gained is north much mure. Dead snakes bring from 2 to 5 cents, accord ing to their size, aud live ones from 25 cents to $1. Gue of tbe largest snake skin companies has factories in Sumatra. When a snake is received from a hunter it is seized adroitly by an operator, one hand squeezing tbe neck aud the other boldiug the tail, It Is then attached by the neck to the trunk of a palm tree, an assistant bolding It by the tail. With the point of a kulfe the operator cuts tbe skin just below the bead and, pulling with all his strength, peels It from tbe writhing reptile in tbe same way that a woman peels a pair of gloves from ner baud.—Popular Mechanics. Two Point» of View. "Good morning. Jones!" "Good morning. Brown! Any news today?" ■'Why. yes. You know tny brother who work’s at tbe bank? Well, he went to business tbe other day mid found £1.000 on tlie counter. And what do you think he did? Stole the money and tripped off to Canada. And when tbe news reached my father it broke tbe old man's heart." "That's funny! You know, my broth er works at a bank. too. and when be went to business the other morning he found £1 000. And what do you think he did?" “Wbat—stole It?” "No: took It straight to tbe man ager's office. And when the news reached my father, do you know, it broke tbe old man s heart!"—London Telegraph. Stream of Light. One night we were iu a dense crowd watching a parade when during one of those unaccountable lulls which so of ten occur in large crowds a little fel low who was perched high up on his father’s shoulder shouted: "Oh. papa, vou ought to see! Way In the street they are just squirting light all over tbe people.”-DelIneator. Successful Publicity. The king of successful advertisers was given an Interview "My methods are very simple." be said "1 learned them from watching a girl trying to keep her engagement a secret"—Newark News. Encouragement. Artist-Yes. I keep pegging away Sometimes I get dlacouraged and say to myself. "What's the user Friend - Don't give up. old man. You can’t do worse than you've done, you know - Excbange.______________ Education is a capital to a pre* man Change yourself and fortune wilt and an interest to a rich man -Horace Eibaustlveobaervatlon Is an rlewefft change with you.- Portuguese Proverb Mann *TeT7 great achievement.—SpeW- I NOISES IN VENICE The Way They Crash Upon the Nor mal Quiet of the City. Willi all the water traffic and with not a horse or a cab or a wagon to wake the echoes, the utter silence of Venice is the thing that first Impresses the traveler. Yet because there Is no undertone of city noises in which occa QUALITY sional uoises may merge the Grand caual at Venice seems to the sleeper at Tenth and Morrison, Portland, Oregon 8 8 A. P. Armstrong, LL.B., Principal night the noisiest place in the world, Old in years, new in methods, admittedly the high-standard for every little noise crashes into commercial school of the Northwest. Open all the year. More one’s sleep, and the most wakeful hours of our six weeks in Italy were calls for help than we can meet — position certain. Class and spent on the Grand caual lu Venice. ndividual instruction. Bookkeeping from written forms and by The bells of the churches probably do office practice. Shorthand that excels in every respect. Special not ring louder uor more frequently than they ring in other cities, yet be penmanship department. Write for illustrated catalogue. cause Venice is so still these bells clang through the night like the alarm of a continuous and ever increasing fire. The bawl of a lovelorn human calf carrying borne three drinks and a throbbing heart, a noise that may be PKOPKIBTOR heard by the attentive listener any place on earth after 11 o’clock, in Venice becomes insistent and demo niacal. The common quarrel in the street enters the bedroom at night with nerve racking distinctness, and the morning song of the market gar Boiler Work, Logger’s Work and Heavy Forging dener bringing bis wares to town in bls silent boat smites the sleeper’s Flue Machine Work a Specialty. ears like a call to arms. If Macbeth really did murder sleep, the crime was done lu Venice. There are, of course, considerable acres lu Venice—Islands—where the streets are paved and where commerce goes on In the ordinary way, except that there are uo horses or carriages In the narrow ways.—William Allen i White in Emporia Gazette. THE SCHOOL OF A. K. CASE, Tillamook Iron Works General Machinists & Blacksmiths TILLAMOOK, OREGON ! Look! Look ! And then look deeper into the V ! QUEER BURIALS. Uncouth Methods of the Nomads of Queensland. Of all the modes of burial ever prac ticed by creatures in the shape of hu man beings the method of the Queens land nomads Is certainly the most un couth. After drying the corpse in the sun and knocking out its teeth for keepsakes they deposit It on a frame work of rough poles and bury It under a few armfuls of rushes and old kan garoo skins, leaving the bush wolves to sing its requiem. No member of the dead man’s tribe will settle within a mile of bls grave for fear of being haunted by the spooks making the burial place their midnight rendezvous. The metaphysical opin ions of the Australian aborigines prove indeed that savages can be afflicted with an abundance of supernaturalism without betraying a trace of anything deserving the name of religious senti ment. They believe in evil spirits whistling In the blasts of the storm wind and try to exorcise them by spitting In the di rection of the sky. but for the concep tions of the Deity, of future existence, of repentance, atonement and con science their language has not even a definite word. From somewhere in the land of their forefathers-eastern Asia perhaps—they have Imported a notion faintly resembling the Buddhist doc trine of metempsychosis and believe that animals may be reborn as men and men as human beings of a supe rior rank.—Loudon Answers. Not Sc Bed as It Sounded. In a downtown cafe two old college friends met by chance. They bad not met before in several years and were properly delighted. In tbe course of conversation one. who had been long absent from town, bethought him of a mutual friend. "Tell me.” said he. "bow I can reach Jim. I'd like to look him up tonight.” "My boy," said the other. "If you want to reach Jim you’ll have to tele phone to —, an undertaker od Sixth avenue." "What! You shock me. Jim dead! I —lam sorry Indeed to bear It.” “Dead? Who said he was dead. He's a friend of tbe undertaker and has rooms near by. He lias no telephone, but has an arrangement for using tbe undertaker's, as the place Is open at all hours. Just telephone the undertaker, and the message will be carried around to Jim."- New York Globe. Taps Over a Soldier's Grave. The custom of sounding taps over a soldier's grave originated with the late Captain John C. Tldball, U. 8 A On the retirement from the peninsula In August. 1802. Horse Battery A. Sec ond artillery, was serving with the rear guard, and on reaching Yorktown one of the cannoneers died and was burled there. Not wishing to stir up the enemy by tiring three rounds from the battery guns, as was customary. Captain Tldball substituted the sound Ing of taps, lights out. which impress ive ceremony has since been observed at all military funerals at the close of the services.—Argonaut. Barring the Part/. "Pray. Mr. Canning.’ said a lady to tbe English statesman, "why have they made the space ln the iron gates at Spring gardens so narrow?” "Ob. ma'am." replied Canning, with the delightful absurdity for which be was famous, "because such very fat people used to go through.” A Social Botanist. Guest—He seems a very nice young man. What's bls profession? Hostess —He's a social botanist Guest—And what Is that, pray? Hostess-Ob. we Invite him esper-lally to give attention to our wallflowers —Boston Traascript. Th» Moi.ture. “Doe» your wife cry when she gets angry r "Yea.” enawcred Mr Meekton “It Isn't tbe beat of her temper that dia- tressea me so much u tbe butaiiUtj " —Washington Stag. ____ w 20th CENTUARY WONDER THE ALADDIN MANTLE LAMP, A marvel in light and simplicity. It does not burn oil or gasoline, but gas generated from kerosene (coal oil). Gives at least five times tbe light of au old fashioned lamp. It will save half your light bill and give better satisfaction than any light now in the market. Anornu- meat to any home. Carried about the house or stoi* tile same aa the ordinary lamp. SEE H. F. RODDY. At HOWARD WHALEN’S Jewelry Store. § Winter Reading. ¡ These long Winter evenings you will put your eyes to the test. Do not work them too hard if you value them. If you have a pair of properly fitted glasses you can hardly work them too hard. ALL WORK GUARANTEED Dr. Henry E. Morris Salvation Without Works. TO EDITOR OF TILLAMOOK HEAPLIGHT. There are but two ideaB, one is that salvation is a reconi[>ence for good work» and the othor is that it is a free gift through God's mercy. Every person will have to decide for himself whether he is to build the •ower of Babel of good works and thereby he able to reach heaven, or accept tbe gift of God by pleading his mercy. Those who tielievein works quote the Bible, but there is so little Bible to sub’ ■tuntiate that theory that they all quote one verse every time. While there are hundreds of verses to prove the doctrine of mercy, whether a person lielieves in works or mercy does not depend on intelligence, but which one he conceives to be right from llie beginning. If we start out to gain heaven by works there is always something to lie done, we can never come to rest in thia life The debt is bo great that the interest will accrew as fast or faster than we are able to pay But if on the other hand we accept God’s mercy and wave our claim for giMxl works, we comi* to reit at once. free from works. Works harden the tieart, but mercy s' »f tens. Two churches of the same denomi* nation. One advancing the mercy of God is filled with »inner» seeking God's mercy, The other, advocating works. is abandoned, again the same church will change from a live thrifty condi tion through appealing to God’s mercy to a dillapidated state by ini|*osing ip ^ m J works. If the churches of Tillamook would take the mercy of God fur their text ami stick ¡to it, they would wield a far greater influence than they do by cling ing to the old Jewish d«»ctrine of works. My experience is that the Bible counts , for nothing against a man s will, if he chooses to build on works he will do s<>, i or if he cbooaes God’s mercy he will 1 trust it regardleaa of the consequences and you might as well quote an almanac to him as the Bible. The old adage •• Wl»ere th*re’s a will there’s a way.” J C. Govt MEYSKHWEYOIM m . »__ Ml-x —aiaUti»» Rlnnl TILLAMOOK ROAD TALKED. E. II Virgel la Enthusiastic Over Highway From Portland. E. H Virgel, formerly of Portland, but now of Woods, Tillamook County, is here to look alter his property interests. Mr. Virgel is still urging the construction ofa wagon road between Sheridan and Tillamook City, and says the prospects for getting the road through next ¡vear are encouraging, it will cost only |HU()0, he says, and Tillamook Count] in ready to appropriate its portion of the $8000, he declares, but Vamhill, which benefits equally with Tillamook, so far has de- dined to join in the construction of this new road. Mr. Virgel urges the im portance of thia road both to Portland and the two counties and points out that even now there is a heavy travel over the road in itsjpreaent bad condi tion. "Construction of thia short stretch of road,’’3»"id Mr. Virgel, "will ennhle automobiles to make the run to Tilla mook in a short lime through one of the finest scenic districts in the state, besides opening up the district for general traf fic. We will get it yet before very long.” —Oregonian. ______ How to Cure a Cold. Be sb careful as you can. you will occiihionally take cola, and when you do, get a medicine of known reliability, one that baa an established reputation and that la < .ftairi to effect a quick cure. Such a medicine ih Chamberlain's Gough Remedy, It Im» gamed a world wide reputation by its rerriArkabla cures of thia most common ailment, and can always l>e d'pended upon, It acta on nature's plan, relieves the lungs, aids expectoration, open the accretions and aide nature in restoring the system to a healthy condition, for sale by Lamar's (drug Atore. For Chapped Skin. Chap|>ed skin whether on the hands or face may be cured In one night by apply ing Chamberlains Salve, It is also unequalvd for sore nipples, burns and scalds. Fur sale by Lauiar'sDrug Store The Bed-Rock of Success U m in a keen, dear brain, backed by hi domi table will and* reel »11 hmm energy Such power cornea from tbe aplendid health that Dr. King's New Life pilla impart. They vitalise erery organ and build up brain aud IxMly J A. Harrnon “ I V
