Tillamook headlight., May 26, 1910, Image 5

TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. MAY 26. 1910.
HÍO Bi SHARK
A PAIR OF GLOVES.
lale’t Terrific Battle With a
School of Thrashers.
AWE INSPIRING CONTEST.
Unequal Fight Was Ended by th«
ith of the Courageous Mammal.
• Was Tom to Shred* by Her
ecioue Assailants.
ly one mortilug while vugaged In
lug new quarter« for Ibe light-
’ keeper »1 Break era Maixl. near
eel. Western Australia, the euti-
•r anil III. men until ed a bull
•- with a cow and ,-alf. lauwlug
slatid Home distance off
They
ail them w ith Intervet for aw title,
t the liiniienxe size of the two
In and the methodl- al regularity
wlneb o-luimu of waler rime
their blowhole* and then rewiiiii-
I
Hr lalaira.
hour or *o hlter-alHiul II o'cloek.
exaet the men were Htartled tty
ainiordlmtry noise. tipiMti-ni ly
K from tile etlHIern end of the I k -
a Itolee unlike anything they littil
[heard la-fore.
Dropping tlieir
atal «taring toward the east,
(a-lteld aileb a Hight an It fullx to
>1 of few |>eople Io wltneHS
, nol MO yards from the shore,
eltii* wtprnl fl lalllln lo Ilin death
III tail ween the great eow whale
inly seen and a sehtKtl of thrash
rks. The <-alf was «wiinniliig
diatm-'leilly. tail tile old bull
uipfa-tlred. having basely desert-
HI Ulf HFM ll|>|iH*fll'h Of
Tha Impudent Store People Wouldn’t Did You Ever Hear the Fane Cheer
Take Them Back.
Him For His Work?
Mrs. Pinkerton's first question was
There I k one unique phnKe connected
about tbe gloves.
wltb the life of tbe umpire which |«er
“Did you exchange them?" sbe asked. ha|»< han never occurred Io tno-,1 lov
“No.“ said Pinkerton, “t dldu V
er* of iNKelmll. You have often In-eti
“There.” she complained. “| might to a theater and w-cu tbe lien, or hero
have knowu you would forget It. How [ Ine—yes. even tbe villain—win round
careless; 1 told you tbe very la« thing after round of applause for some ex-
before you left tbe bouae to be sure to cellent bit of acting
attend to It. Really. I don't see bow
Yon have l>een to a fnotlatll gane
meu can be so t bought less.”
and beard some taill gladiator cheered
“1 didn't forget,' suld I’inkertou. “1 to the echo for making a long nni th it
tried to change them, but they resulted in a touchdown or for a fly
wouldn't take the things back.”
I ing ta< kle that prevented Imminent
“Wouldn't—take—them—back?” sbe defeat. Wlieu some player I k iujltrvd
said "Why not?"
they convey tbelr sympathy io him by
cheering his name
"They said they were soiled.”
You have been to a ball game and
“Soiled? Well, of all things! If they
are they got soiled In tbelr owu store, heard the fa us cheer some crack
I didn't soil them. I have never had pitcher Itecnuse lu a pinch he fauivd
them ou my bands I couldn't get some mighty batter. It's just tbe nat
them ou. They were half a size too ural way of the Ameritan to show ad
small. They gave me the wrong num­ miration and appreciation.
ber. Why didn't you tell them so?"
Hack your brain, think your hard
“I did.”
esl. recall every game you have evet
"Whom did you tell?”
attended, then see If you can remem­
“Tbe clerk aud tbe floorwalker and ber a time when I he umpire drew ap­
everybody who would listen to me.”
plause for hi* work
Have you ever
“And what did they say?”
board the fans cheer tbe name of the
"They laughed.”
umpire after he has worked n fifteen
‘The Impudent creature«: I'll never Inning game which fairly bristled with
buy a cent’s worth In that store again, dos« and unusual playa and gol away
you see If I do.”
without a kick? If vtiu can recall such
"That's Just what I said." Pinkerton an Incldeqp I uh I dot it down In ytjui
put In. “I said you never would.”
notebook ilmt you were preaent at a
“And what did they say jq that?”
very, very unusual hap|>enlng.
“They laughed flgMa."
Do they cheer the umpire's name
“Will, I hilt settles it. I never will wbeu he atop« a foul tip with bis sbln
buy snytblug there now. Where are or lias a swift shout bount-ed off his
the gloves?”
mask? Yes. they do-not. Any Injury
“In my pocket."
to the umpire usually gets a rotiud of
“Let me have them, please. Soiled. derisive ’3'agbter from tbe crowd.
Generally. If he has been going bad.
Indeed; I'll see if they ar»,“
Ml* Pinkerton unwr»— '
nomo leather lunged Individual re
Aa sk- ■
. ped the pack- quests that lie be killed or chlorofonn-
r
took out tbe gloves she
ed Of course there are mauy people
aa« ashed slightly.
In the stands who sympathize with the
“Well." she said.
umpire
Their sympathy I* usually
“Well?” echoed Pinkerton. “What's
silence That Isn’t much balm to his
wrong?”
Injury or feelings.
“N-nothiug much.” she said, “only
Applause would sound ho strange to
this is an old pair of gloves. I cleaned
an umpire’s ears that he would proba
them last week with gasoline I made
bly Itecome *o thoroughly frightened
a mistake and sent them back instead
he would Jump the hack fence.-Billy
of the pair I bought yeaterday.”—New
Evans In New York Tribune.
York Herald.
•iKh mci I iik In »<•-
prt*«*<iii<*wir<i plan.
Hurnniii«|«<d i I h * two
aud. apparently rvaUzing that
; was io |>e feared from the
neeidnited all their efforts upon
I. Attain and attain they • hiirg-
i|H>n her. tlieir Jaws anappliiit.
•I her mighty sldea until tin-
* red with bbssl. Meanwhile
' lashed her tall furihualy. hurl
THE BLACK BASS.
sheets of reddened water aud
tally crushing down with ter­ Mysterious Habits cf ths Fish That
ree upon one of her vornelous
Puzzle the Naturalist.
H*. Maddened with pill» and
Why tbe black bass bites on one day
bbe dashed this way and that. and refuses every bait tbe uext; why
■hark* hung to her side with n
be takes helgrnmlteH aud only bel-
bey and fena-lty that made the gramites on Monday, grasshoppers on
ed oulookerH shudder
Now
Tuesday and frogs uu Wednesday;
in the wildly laahlng tall w ould why be bites ouly on dark days for a
»e of the assailants, driving It fortnight and then shifts his biting
the waves—no doubt killed or humor to days bright and breezy; why
I—but the remainder ruslied Hi you find bitn today on sandy bottom
lyed. tearing viciously at t ta­ and tomorrow on mud aud the day
i’* bleeding flank* or butting after on the rocks, are battling traits
of tbe bass that relate merely to bls
1 the force of battering rutua.
itly the spelltstuinl spectators sporting relation* wltb tbe angler.
two facta— first, that the raff But there are other mysteries that
ppeared in the melee mid. see- puzzle the naturalist aud bear ou tbe
organic life of tbe flsb.
t the tortured whale was mt
Up In Maine are two bass rivers not
y becoming weaker. It war
that the unequal ntrui eh- far apart. In oue tbe flab run ofteu
ive only one ending.
Still. to four, even to five, pounds; In the
she fought ou doggedly, win- other rarely above a pound aDd a half.
In one of tbe largest lakes of New
liratlon and syinpalhy by het
I of ho|*dess courage. Alter- Hampshire the writer's score for a
íctica, by a supreme effort she whole season once ran up to 338 flsb.
•r whole great bulk dear of Food was evidently abundant, for tbe
' for a niomeut. and the tascl- boss were ''chunky'' and tbe vises res
I look era beheld • li»- «tairk* thick with fatty tissues. Yet tbe post­
from various part* <>f her mortem showed lu tbe stomach, ouly
; body by tlieir aerra teil teeth, glutinous, unrecognizable white mat­
iwn she weut aitai» «H h it ter. and tbe largest bass of tbe whole
;e thunder, and fur Hit lUKIUIU season drew the scales at but a pound
,nd shark* were burled ninid and three-quarters. What did those
Of foam, heavily colored with bass live on. and why didn't they grow
- mammal's llfrbl<s>d. Itlsing bigger? Again, lu tbe uplands of Con­
e essayed another change of necticut are two large takes some eight
ling for lite rxM-ks ami desper» miles apart. In tbe one bass are of­
ten caught lu winter Ice fishing: In
ring to rub •IT the clinging
tbe other lake almost never In winter,
Calust their edges
But the
though in its open summer waters
were equal io the occasion
bass fishing la tbe better. Remember­
•Se ou the outside mamtailied
ing that the bass are supposed to hi­
, the other* dived umler IIn-lr
bernate and tn fairly deep waters,
d Charged Iter anew, lettrimt would not tbnt fact argue tn tbe late
jhale'a side In Uli
•»! season darker outward hue* and deep­
that was bloodcurdling to wit. er bronzes? Yet tbe bead of a large
bass hatchery ban observed a silvery
and more feeble grew Itif change of tbe base at tbe approach of
trugglea. and at last, to I be winter when bis habit and ha bit st
relief of the spectator«, h»r would Imply tbe exact reverse. Bucb
fight had I wen terrible to I*
are a few of tbe anatomical enigmas
great body turned over and of tbe black bass that make him and
eath llie red tlulrd waler,
hl* paradoxes an Interesting study for
ual battle was over, having that open minded angler who blends
ioi 0 o'clock until noon. a*
the naturalist wltb tbe sportsman.—
ring a contest a* man was Colliers Weekly.
lleged to witness. Tie- meu
h to their work greatly in,
Ellhu Vais’« Grave.
r the unique sjie.-taelr. and
Ellhn Tsle. from whom tbe college
i of sympathy for the whale
tn New Haren took It» name, sleeps In
on every side
It hour* afterward the the graveyard at Wrexham church,
ly. whk-b bad in the mean- near Chester. England Tbe following
Inscript loo (restored some veers ego
e distended wlih ga«. new
by tbe council of Vsle> Is to be found
'ace and exphaled with a
a miniature powder umgn* on one «Ide of bls tombatone:
IV with
suum *
lug the startled fsnqde to
- shore to fftarover wluti had
On easmlunths» of the ro­
wan discovered that every
the outer flesh of the whale
torn off by the sharks, who
less gooe off tn repeat their
■o some other hapless levin
or Pitt Kelbley In St Ixmlfl
teh
Born In America, in
rica traveled. In
Where long be lived
don dead
Much good, some (11.
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THE UMPIRE
Europe bred. In Af­
Asia wed.
and thrirad: In Lon­
THE TELESCOPE.
Rude Instrument the First
Used In Astronomy.
The flrst telescojie was (minted to­
ward ibe sky on Jan 7. Idin, when
Galilei first tried his rude Instrument
and was rewarded by discovering Rome
of the moons of Jupiter. No great
magnifying | tower wan needed for th I k .
as at least one of tbe miatua I k large
enough to be Keen by the naked eye
did not the nearness of tbe brilliant
planet prevent this. Lenses bud iteen
known for a long lime aud were at
that time In common use by near.
sighted persons.
Tbe uame of tbe real dtacoverer of
the telescope seems to be unknown,
but the accepted «lory now In that
two young sous of a Middebury op­
tician named Llppemley some time
between IdOo ami IfiOti. while playing
wltb some lenses, happened to bold
two of them at n distance from each
other nod were surprised ami delight­
ed to find that the weather vane on a
neighboring tower seemed to come
nenY them when looked at through tbe
two lenses.
In April. 1IM9. a little
telesco|>e made In Holland was offered
for sale In Parts.
Tbe uext mouth Galilei,
fessor In the university
heard of this Instrument and realised
at once Ita Inqiortance In tbe study of
astronomy
From the description of
tbe Dutch Instrument be bad one
made at once, and In August lie as­
tounded the |>eople of Venice by show
Ing tbetn from the lop of Ils- cam­
panile persona en I er I ng I lie doom of
the church at Murano This spyglass
wa» less than two Inches In diameter
and magnified three times From this
crude Instrument of Galilei Io the
monster telewoiies forty Inches In
diameter of tbe present day I k tbe de­
velopment of only three centuries —
Argonaut..
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