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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 2, 1909. One of the Curiosities o( the Mineral Kingdom. PUZZLE TO SCIENTISTS. |ft Has I" Soms Peculi,r )due,d This Rars Form of Carbon j Than Thrown Away ths Secret th. Process—Found Only In Brazil. 4 term "black diamonds" Is some- , jokingly applied to ordinary coal ,b we burn in our furuaces. but “black diamonds" of com- s are among tbe most unique mln- nroducts of tbe world, and they , a purpose in tbe Industrial world makes them of great value. Tbe k diamonds are pure carbon and to Do outward appearance resem- .be diamonds wbicb we are accus- , to wear as ornaments. They nightly harder than the crystal or diamonds and. lb fact, about tbe mt substance known. ick diamonds, or carbons, are ig tbe greatest curiosities of the ■ral klugdom. They are without alllne form and are found In lr- ¡*r pieces, ranging lu size from , carat up to three, four and live red carats. They are dark gray, j or brownish In color and opaque, real diamond of the jewelry trade so pure carbon, but translucent crystalline In form. Two objects like In composition could not be d so opposite In appearance as . two forms of carbon. other peculiar thing about tbe j diamonds Is that they arq found In one locality In tbe world. They from a very small section of Bra- ot more than 225 miles square In Outside of this limited territory rare black diamonds have ever found. tat peculiar freak of nature caus- he deposition of tbe black dla- ds In this section of the world and here else is one of tbe mysteries :b science has failed to explain, t of them has been found In tbe t Kimberley diamond regions, re the crystal form of diamonds i for so long been mined. e whole origin of tbe black dla- d Is. therefore, a scientific euigma. irally tbe question Is raised, "Of t use Is a black diamond?" No would care to wear one of these rands, wbicb resembles a piece of more than a real diamond, and so no one has popularized tbe black i as the black pearl has been, irtbeless the black diamonds serve st important and useful function e Industrial world. is pure black carbon Is not only er than tbe real dlamoud. but her and not so brittle as tbe gem. »queutly it Is of great value for y mechanical purposes and partic- ly for boring with diamond drills, ilamond drilling the tips of tbe • are studded with carbon, hr k diamonds, and when tbe bores deep tbe pressure la so great that ¡cm diamonds would be crushed In process. But tbe carbon resists continued pressure and slowly down Into tbe rocks. diamond drill work tbe carbon is I d circular pieces of soft steel or 1 called bits, and these bits are at- il to tubing. Armed with these diamond teeth, the drills push way down under severe pressure depth of five and six thousand cutting through tbe hardest kind ■k. Some black diamonds are birder than others, and there is y to determine by tbe color tbe ice in the degree of toughness. 1 diamonds or pure carbon are any means cheap, and the own- tbe mines In Brazil where they tbered are making a good thing their monopoly. There Is no i tubstance that can take tbe of carbon In drills in boring for Uver, copper and other mineral L Before tbe black diamonds II were discovered It was lm- 1 to make borings. 1 tbe carboo was first lntroduc- °ur Industries it was used In I d »aws for cutting atones, mar- ■> similar substances. Tbeu the advanced so that the carbon was loo costly for such use. and bort stftuted for stone cutting. Bort ' an imperfect crystal or _ gem L but It Is too brittle for use I Consequently bort has tak- place oV black diamonds for Atting, and tbe latter have been *d almost entirely to diamond * purposes. average size of black diamonds • the drills ranges from two to ,r,’A but tbe larger specimens •»^Better results. They cost "t they last longer. Conae- ' there is a greater demand for ** P**ces of pure carbon, and * * sometimes run up to pre- "** unusual specimens. "• that tbe supply of black 1 some day gi»e out and diamond drilling industry •*ated prospectors to syste- y* for new deposits, but so “J* not been successful. On f “*t- scientists have been **•* study of tbe chemical • ’hlch have produced tbe •J“4*- but their manufacture •’■J'about as difficult as the «etn diamonds. It to certain conditions to d —J’’” DOt ln ”i®clent I * oomtnerctel value Na- fyculiar way has made . ,Dd then thrown ,Fences» away. If any ^7* *nlock or find that se- f «use a panic in tbe dla PUZZLE OF THE AIR. WASHING DISHES. Changing Currents Shown by the Av tion of Birds In Flight. The average per sou regards nir much as he regards water—as much lighter, of course, but like it otherwise. Calm air is precisely to him as calm water iu a pool. If there Is a wiud be pic ture.! the air as a flowing river. And just so long as all men looked at it so, just so long tbe birds kept tbeir mo nopoly, for tbe only state in which water approaches tbe condition of air Is when water forms a maelstrom. Even then water In Its wildest turbu lence falls far short of the unstable. In cessant agitation of tbe atmosphere, air is never still. It is filled with «'arm waves ascending, cold waves descending, and through It race cross shoots and diagonal shoots, with cork screw whirlwinds wandering hither and yon as they list. Tbe warm air off a cornfield creates one kind of a disturbance; off plowed land it cre ates another. A layer of cold air may hold down a layer of warmer air. Consider what happens when the warm air breaks through its envelope as a millpond bursts Its dam. A flow ing stream churned to and fro and round uud round and up and down would give a feeble idea of tbe air's Inconstancy. Now. u bird, clrrllng with fixed wings, floats on a risiug column of air. It maintains its altitude as to tbe earth, but It is constantly coasting down through the air’s ascending vol ume. Once the bird loses tbe air col umn it has to flap its wings, and it flaps till It finds another column, when It goes on wheeling again with fixed wings. Moreover, when it flies the wind comes toward It ln waves, rising and falling like tbe billows of tbe sea. It meets them, and then it does pre cisely what a boat does—goes over them or goes through them Tbe Wrights learned all this, and when they’d learned they were about as near to flying as you and 1 would be to writing Chinese philosophy when we’d just learned the English alphabet. Furthermore, there were no teachers, living or dead, that could help them more than u few steps along tbe way. —Everybody's Magazine. Only Ono Timo In a Woman's Life When She Enjoys It. Xt e never kuew but oue woman who professed that she liked to wash dish es. aud from that moment our faith in her veracity melted like soap la hot I dishwater. The only time we wish we were a man Is after a hearty dinner when he can eujoy a siesta or discuss the pa pers. while we must atteud to the in evitable dishes. Can any oue wonder that girls get tired of the mouotonous round of dish washing. which must be done three times a day for tbe 3G5 consecutive days? Think of it. ye gods, and tear your hair and weep for the woes of our sis terhood! There is a short time ln most every woman’s life when it Is a pleasure, but that is wbeu we are too small to reach upon the kitchen table without a chair aud are permitted to wash the cups and saucers to keep us out of mischief Wheu we are older aud have it to do alone the soup tureeu would not hold tbe tears we shed over It. How we have dreamed over the blue pictures on the old fashioned dishes— pictures of Impossible temples aud cas tles. built lu unhealthy proximity to “clear lakes." and lu girtish fancy wan dered to uubeard of lands to dwell In those "castles in tbe air.” There should be uo dishwashing there. But hark! Tbe shrill voice of our mother rings out clear and sharp: “Matilda, what are you doing?" with risiug inflection on tbe last syllabic of our name. All tbe house knows that "Till" is dreaming over the dlsbpan again, and reverie Is not permitted iu our active household, which was conducted ou the “whoop her up" system. When we see ladies going mad over ceramics we wonder if they served their apprenticeship polishing tablefuls of china.—New York Weekly. FOUGHT WITH HIS BOYS. D R. À. D. RESIDENT DENTIST. Office in Sturgeon’s Building. All Work Guaranteed. TILLAMOOK. Knew Her Style. Cost no more than others. Don’t buy until you investigate. I.et us send you our catalogue. Ask us about the 1910 automobiles— you won’t regret it. OFFICE: TILLAMOOK HOTEL. I__ Automobile Salesroom, Chapman and Alder Sts, PORTLAND. Wagons and Buggies. J 330 E Morrison St, PORTLAND. * : LOOK OVER OUR NEW LINE OF FANCY AND STAPLE JEWELRY, We have Jewelry suitable for Gifts for all occasions. The latest in everything. i an t XRgeiMtion on the part of the poet, if at least does not apply to men. The man with a single hair would not draw worth a cent, onh-ss as a curiosity. People to look their best need hnir, they need all they evei have. If tbe hair begins to go it is time to use IMPERIAL HAIR TONIC. Tbi« preparation saves hair. It stimulates th« hair bulb«, cleans the scalp of dandruff or eruptions, and promotes new growth. Try it how. Price 50o. and $1.00 a bottle. i EUGENE JENKINS. The Reliable Jeweler Repeated Appearance Premonitory o< Disease. “Some years ago. early ln the sum mer." says II. Addington Bruce In Success Magazine. "1 dreamed that while out taking a walk 1 was sud denly attacked by a huge cat, which clawed ferociously at my throat. That was all there was to the dream, or, at any rate, that was all I remembered on awakening lu the morning, and, natu rally enough. 1 dismissed It from my mind as nothing but a dream. "But when I found myself dreaming tbe same dream again aud again I be gan to wonder what significance It would possibly have. Usually It varied greatly lu mluor detail Always, bow ever, tbe climax was tbe same—the cat bad me by tbe throat and was bit ing and scratching viciously. Alto gether I dreamed this dream not lesr than a score of times tn six months. "Shortly before Christmas I took a cold, which settled In my throat, af fecting it so badly as to require the attention of a specialist. Much to my astonishment. It was then dis covered that a growth bad been developing for some time and that an immediate oper ation was necessary. "Several weeks later, the operation having been performed successfully. It suddenly occurred to me that I was no longer being troubled by the phantom cat For the first time the meaning of the singular dream dawned upon me • "It had been a genuine premoultory dream Cousciously I bad been in ut ter ignorance of tbe dangerous growth ln my throat. It had not progressed far enough to give me any pain or even to cause discomfort At the same time the organic changes It Involved had produced sensations plainly felt by what psychologists call tbe subcon- scious and manifesting through tbe subconscious to the conscious In tbe form of a symbolic dream.” ________ ________________ » a a « k « ».a..*« « « a ■ at STHE POET SAYS* n “ Beauty draws us I by a single hair.*’ •j I. «. • ..«i «. a. a a ■ v 1 i This ite»» ms like something of CHAS. I. CLOUGH CO., Reliable Druggists and Prescription Experts ■ * • ■ Ü.B • » < A DREAM CAT. For Real Estate, In School. Teacher—Bobby, give me a sentence In which tbe verbs "to set" and "to slf are used correctly Bobby—The United State« to • country on which tbe sun never sets and 00 which no other country ever sit».— Judge. BIG BARGAINS IN FLOUR. W. C TROMBLEY. BAY CITY, OREGON. CLEANING & PRESSING j neatly dona at the TOGGERY I Pure Cane SUGAR, $5.80 a sk. Extra Fine irry Granulated SUGAR, *9.60. See our goods and gt»t our prices before buying your winter s goods. We curry Bran, Shorts, Middlings. Wliest, Barley, whole and Caked Corn, Alfalfa Meal, alio a full line of Canned Good# and Dried Fruits, Did You Ever Try HARRIS'S NEW FEED AND LIVERY BARN, If not, give him a call. Everything first-class. Second block South of P.O. RAY FEED CO W. G. HARRIS, Prop. Look ! Look! Look ! And then look deeper into the a 20th CENTUARY WONDER 13.5(1 Cima COI1 THE ALADDIN MANTLE LAMP, 2. KU \00 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 the light of an old faetiiousd lamp. It will save half your light bill and give belter satisfaction than any light now in the market. An orna ment to any home. Carried about the house or store the same as the ordinary lamp. SEE e H. F. RODDY. At HOWARD WHALEN’S Jewelry Store. r.v,n.n lirvsfn wa IHCOBFUMAT«O b . PORTLAND. OREOOri arra» aovu: s a . M. u » ». M. »«u,»,. »wi. HARNESS, COLLARS, etc. You Use Them. We Sell Them. THE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIN6 MACHINE W. A. WILLIAMS & CO., Next Door to Tillamook County Bank. $ Winter Reading V* 8 I — HEE — Now is the time to buy your Winters w o Flour . xwvci, Snow Drift Flour, $5.60 a bbl.: 1.45 a sk. bight house Flour, 5.10 a bbl. 1.35 a sk, 8 Better Late Than Never. Orinda His Own Meal. “1 hope this proposal of mine hasn't “Pa. whit 1« a dentist?" taken you completely by surprise, dear- *A dentist my »00. to a man who p® * * "Well. yea. it has. I long ago aba»- j uses other people's teeth to feed him »•If."- Boston Transcript dened all Idea of it "-Life. OREGON. J. R. HARTER. WAGONS, UCCIES, Real Estate and Financial Agent. AUTOMOBILES Insurance. An Amusing Passage Between Willich and Rosecrans. There are times when tbe so called “red tape” of the army gives way un der the stress of circumstances. At the battle of Chickamauga. General Willich. who was commanding a bri gade. Incurred the displeasure of Gen eral Rosecrans, the commanding gen eral. by some very slight omission. General Willich was sent for and in formed by the general commanding that be must consider himself under arrest for tbe present. "General." said Rosecrans sternly, “consider yourself under arrest and leave your sword here until your case Is tried.” “Yes. general, I will consider myself under arrest.” was the reply, "and shust so zoon as dis fight's over I'll come and fix bim up.” "But, sir,” said tbe astounded Rose crans. “1 want you to consider your self under arrest now.” "Of course I do," responded Willich promptly, "and so zoon as I get off dis fight I'll be up aud settle him.” "But, sir,” expostulated tbe com manding geueral. “I can't let you go into this tight. You are under arrest 1 will send an officer to your brigade." "You send an officer to fight my boys!” cried Willicb indignantly. "He can't do It. They don’t know him. Me they know 1 teach them. 1 fight them, and none of the boys would know bow to fight or what to do only when I go with them. My boys be long to me; yes. me. General Willich. 1 command tbe brigade, and I must fight tbe brigade." General Rosecrans gave It up. Gen eral Willicb was requested to return and "fight his boys." which be did most successfully. And that was the No Port In a Storm. end of tbe matter.—Youth's Compan Tbe most dangerous of all places j ion. when a thunderstorm rages Is proba bly a powder bouse; consequently ft Is > They Don’t Like Rain. a rule In explosive works that all tbe Tbe tortoise shows a greater dislike workers shall leave their "bouse” at to and fear of rain than any other ani toe approach of a thunderstorm. So mal. Twenty-four hours or more be far all is well. But very often when fore rain falls the Galapagoe tortoise the thunderstorm has passed snd the makes for shelter. On a bright, clear men return and open the cake presses morning, when not a cloud can be severe explosions have occurred. Tbe seen, all tbe shellbacks on a tortoise reason of these accidents Is that In the farm may sometimes be seen headed process of manufacture black powder for tbe nearest overhanging rocks is placed ln tbe cake presses lu alter- When that happens tbe people know nate layers of powder and ebonite. that rain will come down during tbe This acts as an electric pile. Just like day. and, as a rule. It comes down ln tbe pile of coppers and disks of zinc torrents. The sign never falls. with which boy» amuse themselves When the pile Is disturbed tbe elec Told the Truth. tricity "sparks.” and up go building. j "Wby are you sore at Miss Skreacb- workers and all.—London Answers. err "When she was urged to sing some How a Moos« Eats. thing at tbe party last night she said, Of all peculiar sights 1 think that 'Oh, I can’t sing!’ ” that of a moose eating grass la tbe . “Well?” most extraordinary. The neck Is so "Well, she went ahead and proved short and tbe legs are so long that tbe it."—Cleveland Leader animal usually kneels ln eating grass True. It does not attempt It very of | Her View of It. ten. for grass to by no means a staple | “There was a time,” said the old In habitant. “when that piece of property with It. but even a moose likes a change of diet Tbe appearance of sold for a song ” this huge and awkward creanire In "Really!” replied the grand opera prima donna “How very expensive!" this devotional attitude Is not only In terestlng, but laughable.—St. Nicholas —Washington Star. Suitor—But you haven’t asked me yet whether or not I can make a liv ing for your daughter. Father—Never mind. Henry If yon marry her she'll see to that—Chicago News. PERKINS, * * s These long Winter evening« you will put your eyes to the test. Do not work tlwm * 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. 8 I Tüt It'« MCM liw«» MACWIil C0Mn«V Orsnu*. M < Arw 1, ««.«a •<M»
