T illamook headlight , august 25. 1910 EXPLODING A THEORY. A WINNING TRICK. PERSONAL MAGNETISM. The Practical Method Adopted by a French Scientist. At the beginning <»f the nineteenth centurj' the French Academy of Sei* en< cm offeriM t<» give u prize to the tirst peiMou win» would Mdhe the fol lowing problem: If you lake h vhmc full of water «nd put h Hivoe or any Nimlhir liody In H the wmer will flow over. If. however, you put into it a fish the volume of whh’h lx equal to that of Ihe alone. It will not flow over Explain Iliix phenomenon. (.eiirm*d eHXuyx on the aubjert pour- rd In from all quarter«, but I he prob- irm wax m»l witixfactorUy aolved In uijv of thrill, and ronxequriitly the prize 'V iim not awarded. In the follow Ing year the xiime qiicx tion wax again pro|Hjiinde(l. and Cor five yearx aiixwerx con tin net] lo pour in to ibe a« iidrmy. Then It suddenly iM'ciirrrd to one of the academiciana Hi.it. eftrr all. the problem might lx* ImaiNible ot aolutlun. and be drier* mim'd to make a teat foi liiinxrlf. Filling a vase with water, lie put a alone into It iiiii I sow- Hint the water Thru lie look out the flowed over, alone, hlhil the vase lignin with wn- Irl and put lutu It n flail. the volume of wlikh wax the Kame ax that ot the atone, and xnw. to lilx xiirprixe. that lhe water again flowed over. IJr (old the a<-ademy of h!« dlsrov- cry. and llm rexiilt wax that the offer ut II prize wax at oner wiilidrawu. Ho Loot All His Bets and Mede Money by Doing So. The cnptaln of one rather old and slow steamer of years ngu. Uiidhig that be would have to be u long tune in Cblua before be received a full cargo of tea aud would have probably to re turn lo ballast, began. Io every oue a iistoulshment. to say that, owing to the repulra that had been done I*» his eugines. he hu|M*d to make a racing pu»edge back lo Englund. Thru. »HU inure to the astonishment of the <-ap- luluu of the fast steamers and the world nt large, he commenced to ba. K tilmseir to make the tautest passage home. Ill such very considerable sums of money did lie wager that la-ople be gan Io think there was something in It. aud the merchants Rent their ten almost entirely to Ills ship, arguing that as the captain atimd to low I2.‘ai the repairs lo hla steamer's engines bud probably put him In n position to bet almost 011 11 certainly. (Jf course the steamer, whose great est speed was eight knots an hour, ar rived in England weeks after the oth ers. and the captain l*"*t tt’.Mi. but In stead of having to lie lu China wall ing bls cliauee of cargo coming In from the Interior, a probable delay of weeks, lie had cleared In n few ilavs after Illa bets became known to the public with 11 full ship. Ilins recouping to Ina ownera. who, of <-ourw. piild Ilia betting loaaea. a considerable uunila-r of thouaanda of |a>unds profit.— Black wood's Magazine. A Great Asset In Business as Well as In Society. There bare been great adv.icatea st the bar whose «•harming manner, like Ibe prvaeu*-e lu court of some of the world's faumua tieuuties. M-ouid so sway the Jury and the Judge an to en danger aud aomcllmes ii«-tiuilly divert Justice, says Orison Swell Harden it, Rwcesa Magazine A grachms. genial preseia-a. a ¿•harming personality, » refined, fnwluiitlug manner. are «el Kime « here mere Isnuty b* denied ana Where mere wealth Is turned nway They will make a better InipressKm tliau the lieet education or tile tilglieat attaliiiiieiila Au attractive |>er*Hial>- ty. even without great ability. often advances oue «lien great i a im t and ape* in I training will not. There is always a premium U|«>n a Every pusliie»* charming prewnce. i niau likes to la* surrounded by |a-opie ot pteasliig |iersouaiity und winning manners. They are regarded as splen did assets. What Is If that often enables one lierwm to walk right luto a istsltkui and achieve without difficulty tout wliicli another, witn isrliapa greater ability, struggles in viiin to sonni plisb? Everywhere a magnetic per sonallty wins Its way. Viung men aud y*mng women are constantly tiring surprised by olT.wn of excellent |ssdtl<>lis which come l*i them because of qualities and <*liaiac- terlstk-s w hich |ierliai>s they have nev er thought much aland—■ fine man ner. «•ourtesy, <-heerrulneas and kindly, obliging, helpful dls|s»*ltbius. LONDON CABBIES. And th» Lost and Found Department and Scotland Yard. "That lost mal found pto|»‘rtv de- luirliiieiil nt Seotlmid Yard la one ot till* heal things they lune lu London." said a ivomnli u ho tins sp«*nt much lime tn Eiiglnml "luist summer I hud experience iiltli It. "I fell Into ii sort of halilt of losing •Mugs. I l'hst li Mila il viiiiinlile Ulu telili I li Id imt miss It notti I gol to >y hotel nlìcr mi iitter llieuter aup|s-r. . Illi »«♦<• f ’ moro I li g I lumie my hiialumd in tIle llieuter limi Ibe tw*> vlii-re Me tulli beeu tlm .ill before. Ant M'lthollt result. "iiieu mi Anierlcnn friend sliggeslisl Kcotllllld Yard I ivcut there, ami there It Maa II limi been turned In liy n ■ nh driver "Twice iifterwnrd I lost Hint, uiii- brelln mid got It hack in llm same fuahiou. vac I, Huie lenving us u renani fur III«* i-iili driver n tier lent of the value of lilt* iimbrellu. na requii'ctl Tlieii otic night I leal n tine pair ot opera Klaases, mid I got them buck. "It Is mi excellent syutein the police over there time of eueoliruglllg tlon- esty. A culi driver who tlmla miythlng III tils vehicle is required lo I urn II In. mul he knows thm if the owner duluis It be Mill Is* rewurdrd.”—Exchange. An Old Welsh Custom. The kindling of Ismflrea on hills la the simplest ot celebiiitkina al any time. The llrulils made four great Urea nt their festivals In February. Muy, August mid November, Wales serins to have lieeti h <amntry e»|ie- einlly I tenaciuua ot this custom. Each family usisi to iniike Its own tire, and uh It wiia dying out euch member won l<l throw a while stone Into It. the Ktones living marked for future ¡den- tllli a I Ion. Tlivti nil said their pray- era uud went lo bed. nud lu the morn ing they tried to limi all the stones ngu In. If liny atone wan missing It betokened that the owner of It would die within a year. Some stipend It Iona lire pretty ntid pivtiiresque and attrae- live. Jills ivus one of the many which were cruel as well as picturesque It would take but a slight accident to emise a fright that might Is* actually dangerous to a auiierstliloua jieraon. mid It «ould not tie hard for un ene my of such a person to cause tbut fiq-lit liy stealing tils stone from the tire A Roman Dinnar. A Roman dliiuer nt ihe house of a nenliliy iiiiiii consistisi chleflv of thrve txuirae». All sorta ot stliiiulmil» lu thè iip|N-tjie «ere tirai aerved u|i. and eggs «ere IndiaiKMiaahle Iti thè tlrst courae Amoiig thè vnrloiis disile« Me iiiuy In Mmiee thè gultieu lieti. |dieasunt. night- (ligule nml Ihe thruah na lilrda luost In repule. The Itoman gorinmids held pc.ieo.ka III urenl twllmullou. esp.alnl Iv ttii'ir loiigiitm. .Maeroblua atntea tliut tlic.v nere tirsi enlen by Hortenalua. thè orntor. unii ucqulrt-d sudi reputo limi a aliigl«- pentss k wua sold ter Mi deniiril. thè dennrtus tmlng equal to m»mt dghipeu <• halfpenny of Cagliali money —4'haiutiera' Journal. S>,«d by His Wits. i tic Duke ot Wellington ouce met bi Hcctiiciii an uttieer lu a state ot In- «■bl let y ••Usik here, str.' »aid the Iron Duke. "Wliat wiiuld you do it you met our of your iis-n tn Ihr i imdltion In whk b t lind you?” Ilie oitterr dren himself up. gave the mllliury anlute and replied «Uh great gravity. "I nuuld mit condeweod to »(»•ak to the brute.** Illa wit «ansi lilni tils coninilsslou. Apprvc lallen. “Father" »a kl little Rollo. "was George Washington a greater loan than Mama « Ians»" "I won t say. my non. that he was greater, but be has prut rd much feaa eviwuelie"-Washington Klar Unanswered. "Ray. pop. may 1 ask you a quew Hour “Yaw Teddy. What la It?" "When » man's Hnlshed milkin' a vow. bow dors he tarn off the milk»" Our life I« «(met but to eipend that •l«n to vs«t elerotty fa vlrtiw's work. • Ntutae^poaro. A DANGEROUS TRAITOR. The Result ot Pechantrv's Plot to Kill the King. Probably no well meaning p<s-t was evel more laketi by surprise than Wil» M Pecbaiitre, u gentle uud mild iiiau- uered I'rench dramatist of the seven- teenth century, who was one day ar rested fur high treason na be was leacefully eating bis dinner at a vil lage luu. The landlord of the Inn where he was lu the habit of dining discovered oil n table a piece ot paper on which were written some unlntidllgllil** phrases mid ladow In 11 plain, bold baud. "Here I will kill the king." The lu milord consulted with I lie chief of police. I'lenrly thia clew to n con spIriK-y ought to tie followed up. ’1 lie lieraoii who had left the pn|ier hail al ready Is'cn remarkHl for Ills .llweiit air and gloaming eye. That inmi was Pecha nt re. The chief of police Instructed the landlord to semi for him the next time the conspirator came to dinner When Peeliantre was shown the evl- deuce of tils guilt he forgot the a «till charge against him mid exclaimed: "Well, 1 am glad to see th.it paper. I have looked everywhere lor It. It Is part of a tragedy I am writlug. it Is the climax of my hest scene, where Nero Is to be killed. It comes in here. Let me read It to you.” And he took a tbk'k manuscript from Lils pocket. "Monsieur, you tuny tinisli your din ner mid your tragedy In tieai-e." said the chief of isillce. mid he lieu I a busty retreat. Honest Mistake. The story is told of a little New Englund girl ltie workings of whose l'lirituti cutiMcleuce Involved her In dit- ilcultlea on one wcaslou. She was studying mental aril li met le at school and took no pleasure In It. One day she told her mother, with much depression of spirit, that she had "fnlled aguin In mental arith metic." mid on being asked what prole letn had prin ts! her uudolug she sor rowfully mentioned the request for the addition of "uliie aud four." "And didn't you know the auawer. deur?" asked her mother. "Yea'm." wild the little maid: "but, you know, we are to write the an swers on our slates, and before I thought I made four marks and count ed up. "LV11. ’leveu. twelve, thirteen.* and then, of course. 1 knew that wasn't mental, so I wrote twelve for •be answer to be fair."* Th* Cautious Kind. Before the customer paid bln bill the hotel stenogmpber tore aerernl imgee out of her notebook and bunded them to him. “Only the notes of bin let ters," she said to the next customer. "He la one of the cautious kind. There aro uot many like him. About once In alx months somebody comes along who keeps such a watchful eye on his cor respondence that be won't even let a stenographer keep hla notes. Of course It Is nothing to us. and we slwsyw give them up when ssked to. I dou't know what the cautious folk do with them lies troy them, maybe. Anyhow, there in uo record of foolish utterances left In the stenographer's books.'*-New York Sun. Little Werrlea. lo Chesterton « "I rrmend ua Trifles" Is this: A friend of mln« who «ss vis iting a poor aouian lo berraieiuent ami casting about for some phrase .if conoolatluu that should not be either Insolent or weak naki nt lust: "I think one can live through I hear great nor rows sod even lie the better. What wears on« is th« little worvhw." ■'rhat’n quite right, mum." answered the old woman, with euiphanla. -and I ought to know, seeing I've bad ten of ’em." T T T FT « Rosenberg Bros AGFNTS FOR PURE WHITE AND EVERETT FLOUR. BEST /Z^x\ BOTT8 at -L aw . A ttorney Complete set of Abstract Boob in office. Taxes paid for not Resideuts. Office opposite Post Office. Both phones. Best on the Market. STAPLE STAPLE & & FANCY GROCERIES. O We carry a Full Line of Feeds. (6SV) d/ARL haberlach , Grass Seed a Specialty. ATTORNEY AT LAW, GIVE US A TRIAL Jleittechcr ^iYuohut, 7 Office across the street und north tro, the Post Off,«.. Q.EORGE WILLETT, A ttorn hy - at -L aw . Steamer Next to Tillamook County Bank, “ Sue H. Elmore T illamook (CAPT P. SCHRADER) H. GOYNE, MOTOR STEAMER OSHKOSH A ttorney - at L aw . Office : Opposite Court Houst, (CAP. T. LATHAM). T illamook , O regon . T. BOALS, MD, Tillamook & Portland. ABSURD COSTUMES. Outcome of a Curious Wager Made In England In 1806. A anger wm* nimle In IMIrt In the cnutlv yard. York. Englund. liMwwfi Tboinus HodgMi’ii uinl Samuel Whins beud aa to ivbk-h atmuld auii ee*! In aa HUinliig the IIKIHI alngular clmrui ter Utuplrea «ere »ele*qe*l whore duty It n-nu lo decide ii|aiu the coui|Miratlve abuunllty ot the coatuniea In «i nk b tlie two men were to njqieur. Mil lhe uiqHilnted day Hi»lgaon came liefore tbe umpire« dei-oriitiul with tuinknotea of vurloua valuea, hla <-<>at and vent being entirely taiveivd nlth them Be- nlifen thene he hud a row of five guinea plecea down hla bark, a netted purse ot gold around hla bend and a placard on tils luu-k bearing (be legend. "Jo^a Bull." YVbltehend came on the acene dreaa- ed like it woman on one uliie. one half nt hla face painted and a allk atrn'klng uml allpper on one bait and leg l he ottier half of hla face wnu blackeimd so ua to resemble a negro. On the rori re»|M>u<llng Hide of bin tiody he wore a gaudy long fulled linen coat, hl* leg on that side being Imaged In halt a juilr of leather breeches and a boot with a spur, ne wore a «’lg of sky blue braided down hl» bock nod tied O regon . - PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, TILLAMOOK. Office- Olson Building. Sail Every Tuesday and Saturday. Residence: Mrs. Weiss’ house, sesto! Mrs. Wulkerf. Couch St. Wharf, Portland M. KERRON, That’s All.” PHYSICIAN & C oncrete SURGEON, B uilding . Tillamcok, HARNESS, COLLARS, etc. You Use Them. We Sell Them. ■ R. I. M. SMITH, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Office over J. A. Todd Sc Co.. Tillamook, Ore. '^^7' W. A. WILLIAMS & CO., Next Door to Tillamook County Bank. BAY CITY, OREGON. THE ALLEN HOUSE, R. BEALS, J. P. AUUEN. Proprietor. REAL ESTATE, Headquarters for Travelling Men. F inancial A gent , Special Attention paid to Tourists. Tillamook, Oregon. Comfortable Beds and Accommodation a HttagftfK Invective« seemed to bare pluyed a proiulueut part In the plain- titT'a married life. The htiRbaiid was on the stand un- ■tergoluK a grueling crow examination. The examining attorney said "You have testified that your wife on one occasion threw cayenne pepper In your face. Now. Hr, kindly tell us what you did on that occaRlou." Tbe wlrneas hesitated and looked confused. Every oue exiiected that be was about to confeas to some sb*wklug uct of cruelty. But their b*ipea were shattered when he Anally blurted out: "I sueezed?"—Everybody's. c- HAWK» PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, The Best Hotel. A First Class lable. Oregon. R A. D. PERKIN8, — RESIDENT DENTIST. Office in Sturgeon’s Building. C. S. Rtkinson. All Work Guaianteed. OKEGOi TILLAMOOK. MOWERS McCormick RESIDENT DENTIST, RAKES, How He Remembered. A dlffdent young Koaeville man went to a fmrty If you are diffident your self and know Imw hard It Is to re- member names when you meet a crowd of strange and lovely ladles you will be able to understand why It «'lie that 1 be young man's deuce card read as follows: L Twomep-Helen. I "«He—Hkrry’e friend. 1 Twoetep—Tall girl. «. Walt«- i lol«» s. T«-oelep-8«ell eye«. «. Wall»—Fluffy heir. I. r«roeiep— utile 01 u« a W ah«-beauty »pot a Twoetep-Jin« rlbOOM. H l Walts-Helen. - Newart N«wa. J~}R. P. J. SHARP, and V Office across the street frotr th Court House. Dr. Wise’s office. Osborne Tidders, STUDEBAKER, WAGONS AND BUGGIES, SAROHET. L . The Fashionable T m I Cleaning, Pressing and Ref* ing a Specialty. GRAIN WHITE RIVER FLOUR. Ths Bast Bread Store in Heins Fhotogfpl1* Gallery. Makar cn the Market » L and O f pick B usinbm A SPBCIAl-rT. /-AOWING Courting a Bella "WouM II be any barm to deceive her about my age»" Inquired the elder ly millionaire. “ITobably not." “I'm sixty.. How would It do to cow fess to fiftyr "I think voor chance« would be het- ter with her It you claimed Seventy- fire."— Kansas city Journal The Pleasanter Route to Ruin. "Dvoopertty has ruined many a man "No doubt, but If | «ere siren any choke In the matter I'd rather tie mined by pmoperlty than by adverui ty The proceea la more enjoyable."-. Chicago Boot Truth. In troubled waters you can scarce Th. Tnt «* Salesmanship, •re your face or see It very little till Anybody can sed gruida uvervbndv ibe waler tie quiet and stand still. Ho want*, hot ft take. * real nMlMn tu la troubled time« you can *.«■ lit its I dlapi-we of -.rnwom« that evewhodv truth When time« are quiet »nd set ought to want.-Detroit Ere« Cren tled. then truth apt «ears Neklen C, S. ATKINSON, R oom 334 W o » c «» tkw Bciimsv, T hi «» *sn CM* * m Next to the U 8. Land • )■«*• FOR I LAN D, OKf*’01'' 1 rporanroa j General Machinists & Blacksmiths. 1 Boiler W«rk. Ucger’fl W»rk art He.ry Forgim». ___ < • th lamook , Work a Sgeeialty. OREGON. i S. WHITEHOUSE • SON, INSURANCE. FIRE. MARINE. ACCHW1’ BONDS, Etc- • T illamook Both Phones < Tillamook Iron Works <!? < LAWYERS. Both Phones 3 . & |LICIA PH : » GRADUATE M RS^ MRS. PAGE’S TILLAMCOK, t H