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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JULY 13. 1911 THE GOOD OLD DAYS. 1 'van th. World’* Most Anci.nt BoMi Lament* That Th.y Hav. Fl.d. A priceless manuscript of eighteen ages, found In an Egyptian monu- >eut and published in facsimile in 'rance ubout the year 1847. is thought j be the oldest book in the world. Procured at Thebes by Priaas Aveunes and presented by him to be national library at Paris, it to sually called the “Papyrus I’rlsse.” rom the name of the donor. As tb. (innuscript was found In a monument f the eleventh dynasty. It must be nn- erlor to the shepherd kings and there- ore older by many centuries than th. line of Moses—older even than the late usually assigned to Abraham — nd so of all existing hooka It would >e the moat ancient. The words of •very page, though believed to have een written 4.000 years ago. are In t-nsely black to this day and In a bold, ■ound band. By a curious Irony this echo from he very childhood of the world la- nents the good old times that bad inxsed away. The author, who was a ■rince of the royal blood, gives warn- ng to the young and declares that the words of ancient wisdom should be the lally food of children aud grown men tllke. Humility and obedience he makes to be the foundation of all Tir lue.— Christian Science Monitor. PATTI STOOD PAT. Th. Diva Wouldn't Cut H.r Rate*. but kugg.*t*d an Alternativa. Patti once was waited upon nt her hotel by a famous minstrel magnate. Colonel J. H. Haverly. whose ambition had been aroused to secure the diva for a concert tour under tils direction. Madame received blm most graciously, nnd the two began discussing the de tails. "May 1 ask your terms for fifty nights, Mme. Patti?" Haverly asked "For convert or for opera?” the diva asked. "For concert," Haverly replied. “Four thousand a night, or $200,000 J for fifty nights, one-half to be de pos ited ou signlug the contract,” was Patti’s deliberate response. Haverly tried to appear composed, but It was too much of an effort. "Two hundred thousand for fifty nights! Heavens, mudame. that is just four times as much as we pay our president of th. United States!" he cried. “Well." the divine one answered, ‘•why don't you get the president to sing for you?" Haverly fl«>d.—Robert Grau lu Mu- •leal America. FRIED POTATOES» "T Sold on th. Str«.t* From Pushcart* l«a Part* of Fran«. i The street vending of pom mes trite*, or French fried potatoes, is peculiar to the northern part of France. Pou>- mes frites take the place of peanuts and popcorn and are sold in much the . same fashion. Not only to this trad, carried on in some Insta news as a regu larly established business, but work men wishing to Increase their earnings come out on the streets in the evening and sell these fried potatoes from pushcarts. Their profits often exceed j their day’s wages. | The pushcarts are of the ordinary (type, but covered. A coke brazier is ¡ Inserted through the flooring, over which Is placed tb. large iron caldron bolding the fat obtained from beef suet. Raw potatoes, nfter being pared, «re pressed through a special cutting machine, coming out In long, narrow, four sided pieces. These are immedi ately put iuto the boiling fat and in teveral minutes are thoroughly cooked. They are then salted and sold in small aaper cornucopias holding 1 or 2 cents' wort h. Pommes frites have the advantage that they supply a satisfying and nu tri tive meal for a few cents. This is »specially appreciated by the mill em ployees during the noon hour, as they are thus enabled to have something hot with their otherwise cold lunches. Rather than go to the trouble of pre paring the dish, to say nothing of fill ing the bouse with the odor of boiling fat, many families prefer to purchase the freshly cooked tubers from the nearest vender. These fried potatoes are not sold merely at mealtimes, but during the day. and are eaten like pop corn.—Consular Reports. BULL ANTS OF AFRICA. El.phants, Lions and Ev.n Man Him- ••If Fl.. From Th.m In T error. In the vast equatorial forests of Africa the most dreaded of animals Is the great bull ant. Unlike other ants. It carries n.thlug away; everything Is eateu on the spot. Every kind of beast aud reptile—elephants, lions, gorillas, snakes and man himself—flees before this terrible Insect These ants march through the for ests lu a long thin column, two Inches wide and mile* in length. If they come to an open space where there are no trees to shelter them from the sun they burrow underground and form tunnels, through which they march on It often takes as long as twelve hours for one of these armies to pass. Any creature overtaken is at one. attacked with irresistible fury and In stantly devoured. The strongest and the weakest, the most fierce and the S.eing Is Doubting. most timid of creatures are alike Seeing is believing, ell?" said nn their prey. oculist. "Well, no saw win ever more Natives overtaken by them seek abaurd than that. You see a horse's uge in the nearest river or j>ond. head and a flour barrel, and you he even when the ants themselves ar« ller. the barrel is longer than the drowned their strong pincers refuse horse's bead, don’t you? Well. It Isn't. to relax their hold upon any flesh they The horse's head from the tips of hl* may have attached themselves to, and. ears to the end of his nose la longer though their bodies are torn forcibly than the burrel by a considerable away, their heads remain. distance. Architects have to deceive Certain barbarous tribes, when a the eye in order to make It appear man I* condemned for witchcraft, that their buildings are symmetrical. fasten him to a tree- and leave him to They make walls lean In that they the ants. When they have passed a may appear vertical. They make win skeleton alone is left to tell the tai..— dows wider at the top They make 1'earBou's. columns thicker In the middle thnn at the summit or base. And the top Spoiled H.r Romance. lines of a building, in order to appear I was blessed with a romantic brain, plumb to the silly eye of man, mnst lie Rnd a quiet, even state of things could raised up quite a lot In the center. not satisfy me for long. So the thought "Seeing Is belle« Ing. Indeed!"—Ctn suddenly entered my bead to have my cluuatl Enquirer. husband madly In love with me. One i evening as we were promenading the Appl. Pi. Without Apple*. bank of the Vistula, under those ven A guest at an old fnshluiied home erable trees which shaded the less un dinner was eulogising apple pie and sophisticated loves of the beautiful I her hoatess when Knottier gUMt who Nlarle d'Arquln. I brought round the had been a California pioneer, recalled conversation to eentlment. I main the “apple" pl. glveu the cblldreu of tained that no happiness was possible 1SO2 to appease their homesick crav on this earth except In a reciprocal ings wheu apples were a dollar a I attachment, both lively and enduring |K>und It was made by breaking four My husband, after listening to ma In soda crackers into an earthern bowl dulgently for a little while. looked at and pouring over them a pint of cold waler rendered v.ry tart by citric his watch, called my attention to the lateness of the hour, otieerved that our field. When soft the crackers were laid on a pl. plat, on the undercrust. cousins were becoming very tiresome and that It was time to go tn I— From Over them were sifted two table I spoonfuls of light brown sugar and a Counteea I'otocka'a Memoirs. little allaplc. and cinnamon A pretty l>erforated top crust was added, nnd In a few mluutes a perfect apple pie was taken from the oven to delight young and old.—New York Suu STOPPING A NOSEBLEED. By This M.thod It I* Simply a Matter ef Imagination. In many experiments carried on dur ing the last few years it has been as certained that the mind controls to a wonderful extent the flow of blood to any particular part of the body. The following experiment has been tried as many as ten times by me and has not failed one*. When the nose start* to bleed. Im mediately persuade yourself to believe that you are running with all your mlgbt up the steeliest flight of steps you can think of or up a high bill; that Is, just think of doing either of these things and doing It fast Think at the same time that you are carry ing a heavy piece of baggage with both hands and add thoughts of any other bodily exertion You will be sur prised at the quickness with which your trouble ends. The explanation to that when we really start to run more blood is given to the arteries supplying the muscles of the legs than they were receiving while at rest. This has been proved. As the same thoughts in the mind pro duce approximately the same bodily effects, if one merely thinks to run. but does not run. the blood will go to the legs anyhow and away from the head, as desired. There are many common experiences of secretions started by thoughts. If one look* at a lemon and thinks of sucking It hto mouth immediately waters, and I have no doubt that many people who read this will have their mouths watering from the simple reading—La wrenc. Hodges in Chicago Record-Herald. OVERLAND MODEL 52 WITH FORE DOORS This car for $1,750.00 t. The easiest riding ,rs selling from $775 A guarantee 40 horse power, car in this or any other town and up. Come and take a ride before buying. BUFFALO TONGUES. Th. Blackfret Indians Used te Turn Th.m Into Hairbrush»*. “Walrus whisker toothpicks and buf falo tongue hairbrush«!" the explorer cried. And he displayed a packet of black toothpicks tied with a strip of red raw hide and a flat black hairbrush that seemed molded out of rubber. "These two articles,” said the ex plorer, "are of strictly native man ufacture-native American manufac ture. Take the toothpicks first. They are made by the Indians of Alaska. The Indians, whenever they kill a wal rus. pluck from his face his long and stiff whiskers, cure them and ship them to the Chinese. At every fash ionable Chinese dinner you will see the stately mandarins between each course picking their teeth with these walrus whisker toothpicks. “It's the Blackfoot Indians who use buffalo tongue hairbrushes. A buf falo’s tongue 1» rough. The spines on It make very good hairbrush bristles. And these bristles in a Blackfoot brush don't come out. for the Blackfoot sim ply skins his buffalo tongue, cuts It in hairbrush shape, cures it, aud there you are. Every Blackfoot in the past had his buffalo hairbrush. But those days are gone—gone with the buffalo herds— and where In the fifties you could buy a good buffalo tongue brush ou the plains for a ladle of puppy dog Rtew 1 doubt If you could get one now for a keg of flrewater.”-Waxhlngton Post. When Empress Eugeni. Was Young. I was so lost In admiration of tills wonderful Empress Eugenie that In dancing In the royal quadrille with the Russian consul I forgot to make the usual steps. Everytblug was symmet rically perfect In her, the slender, graceful figure with the beautifully modeled shoulders, which were en hsneed by tb. white dress she wore, profusely embroidered with pearls and silver. Her exquisite shape attracted me perhap. even more than did the classically beautiful head, with the noble regular features and the auburn hair, upon which sparkled a royal diadem. Her charming smile bewitch ed me as much as did the few friendly words abe addressed to me In her me lodious voice —Princes, von Racowit’s Autobiography. Th. Tsrp.do Fish. The torpedo fish, known to scientists as the Torpedo elect rlcuR, are the elec tric catfish of th. Nile. They can give an electric Miock similar to that of nn electric Leyden jar This Is useful to the fish In stunning prey and In con founding their enemies Thia shock. Ilk. any other electricity, may l>e eon ducted through a metallic subatanc and Is often unpleasant, though not dangerous. It is conveyed through nn Iron spear or knife, so that the person bolding either of these Implements may receive a shock when It comes contact with the fish.—St. Nicholas. Explained In Italian. A woman approached a pollreman ♦ on Fourth avnnne the other day and •aid. pointing to • wlsetied. forlorn looking Italian. “This mao ha. asked me the way to Fourteenth street, but The Difference In Speed. The professor of shorthand In a local I I can’t mak. him understand bow to get there” business college adduced this unnn “Sure. I'll explain to him In l-taUas.” I swerable argument In au address to a said th. polto.n*an “Look-a here. new class the other day: I “We are told that it took Gray, au Michaels. you walk-a right on-a thia thor of the well known 'Elegy In a ■treot a two block-a tlll-a you com. a Country Churchyard.' seven years to to a beeg a. wide street-a. and that to write that famous poem. If be bad ret." Giving Th.m Th.lr Du.. known stenography he could have done "Grail.!” acknowledge th. Italian "It was simply a question of verse- It in seven minute*. W. bar. gradu gratefully "M. find* bremr-Naw Ity between us," «id tb. oldest In hah ate. who have done that same poem York Pre«. Itant “H. said I was a liar. and I In that length of time"—Cleveland «Id be waa ou«.“ rialn Dealer Th. S.n.itlv. J.«t»e. I "Humph"' rejoined th. village post "Ito Woos, .«-.med to get msd be master That's th. first time I ever H. Would Indwd. esua. 1 didn't laugh at that wreaered hen rd of either of you telling the W bat's this word, paY" asked jok. of hl«“ truth."- London Mall. Willi*, pointing It out Io bls Iwok “Humor him when you can. Too are. "Pbroomenou." replied p. |>.- Woos. I* tb. sort of humortot that Th.:r View, .f It “Wall, what to thatY' ripwta somebody to smash tb. bans Hff—IHd you see the plvnsed ex pre “That, my son, to visctly what res drum every time h. chert to* a pun“— •ton oo her fare when I told her sb* would b. If you oov.r disturbed y«BT Cleveland Plain I to. tor I dldu’t look any older than her daugh father with quretlooa," — CitMb ter’ Rhe—No; I was looking at tb* Standard and flute. exprwwIon on her daughter* face - Detroit Pre. Prena. DLDSTYLE WHISKEY the highest type of a pure straight whiskey hlend. aged in wood complying with both the United States and State Pure Food Laws straight whiskey—all whiskey Id whiskey AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. Distribute Astoria w. J. STEPHENS, Distributer for Tillamook, Ore HEADQUARTERS FOR DAIRYMEN’ AND S SUPPLIES STEEL STOVES & RANCES We carry a Large Stock of éí® Hardware, Tinware and China, Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors. Window Sashes Agents for the Great Western Saw 4 ' KIDNEY PIUS for backache, rheumatism, kidney or hl,4*. . .. Foley Kidney Pill* are tonic in action *• t50ub'e’ and urinary irregularities. Chac I ’ “*"5'«ssfa. Reto. Chas, i. Clongrf, Tillamook. Right tn your busiest eenaon when Big Aa. tioa saie. tittir to* parr you -re moM hkely ,ake , Tillamook an«. Iu«e several <Ia,» time. unlc-- that vou have Chwmbrrlain'a Colic OPPOSITE THE ALLEN HOUSE. < holer. .«nd Diarrhoea Rented« at „ - — <4ce«n-1 hand i*txt take a <lo*r on the firM »•y at Hc>nio,k. 7>H - be sold ,t| Corner Stillwell Axe. and Fire appearance of the (iiacaae. For rale »h'ÄÄ' - -—1 on July J by Umar* (trim Store. V emi huvr the I Wh.n H. Buy* Chip*, tant always patriótica Bakery, The Star Theatre chantres ’ I every night. i ^t- West, and both Phone*. FcOIALTY IM ALL KINO OF CAKE* ALL KIND *F MEAD.