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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Such a medicine ih Chamberlain's Gough
Remedy, It Im» gamed a world wide
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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
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Such power cornea from tbe aplendid
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