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7 T illamook headlight AN SAVAGES t Treacherous of All the juth Sea Natives. OF HEAD HUNTERS non Islandara Kill and Eat namiss aa an Incident of «¡rd Religious Rites—Storm- luse In a Treetop. le Tapuan is that given to skinned people wbo inhabit >r number of Islands in tbe be Pacific ocean known as and Melanesia and whose ers. as it were, are in tbe jd of Papua or New Guinea, is description come tbe ln- of tbe Solomon islands. bns been the reputation of oo Islanders lhat until quite ;bey were carefully avoided, Ittle was kuown about them, re tbe name of being tbe clierons of all the south sea et, considering tbe treatment r received In tbe past at tbe white men. this is not to be at Indeed, the wonder is allow any white mau at all ountry. But now that they a chance of seeing some orable specimens than tbe lumanity who formerly drift south seas they are mucb aud a mau who treats them t, as a rule, go among them tar. eu now there is a beautiful y about the life of a south '. One day he may be sur- y cringing natives who obey word. But some night, if eated tbe Papuan too gross- ls murder in the moonlight, ■ader is never heard of more, rvever, there seems to be no ■ tbe natives turning against i. It is simply that they ob- vlng a trader in their midst turn his goods and end by omon Islanders are as keen ters as tbe Borneans and tr. except where they are leek by tbe British govern- out on bead bunting raids simple. Although cannibal- 111 practiced In tbe wilder the group, it is nowadays religious ceremony and not if diet Tbe islanders do not kill and eat people for en- >ut either because their re- lands a human sacrifice or bead is needed for some The Motto on the Clock. The old Temple clock in London 1911 RAILWAYS IN JAPAN. il, one of the largest islands mpn group, the natives build the highest trees to escape ittacks of head bunting par- ometlmes come as far as 200 leir search for skulls. One iuses was built in a tree 150 All tbe lower branches had off, so that the stem was i until tbe platform, some it from tbe ground, was feccess was bad to the house ty ladder composed of rungs a stout pole with rope of ne. When an nttock 1s ex- > women end children take bese bouses, while tbe men i. They warn each other of ch of a fleet by a curious once heard to never to be These houses are substan- . as often the Inhabitants rlthstand a long siege In I will be taken care of.” floor is made of plaited I "Oh, sah.” said tbe negro, whose eyes d on a layer of bark which were popping from bls head, "did you tbe platform. The walls want to know who the head 'nigger That's me."—Allentown boo, and the roof to thatcb- waiter* is? ige palm. Tbe particular ¡CalL bleb I have referred meas- Where Bluebeard Lived, 15 feet and forty persons Most of our readers bave heard of inown to take refuge In it. icking party loud and tbe Bluebeard, tbe enterprising gentleman >t resist them successfully who made a bobby of marriage and scend to the tree bouse. A had a way of his own for getting rid of 'ge stones is always kept superfluous wives. Probably very few mergendes outside tbe door people, however, know that tbe story tform. and these the men has any sort of basis in fact Yet on on their foes. Sometimes, the banks of the world famous Bos le enemy construct a shelter porus near Constantinople there Is hlcb they can work away situated a picturesque old medieval > tree down, and they have fortress known as “Bluebeard’s cas known to ascend tbe tree tle” and which to said to bare been Inhabitants were off tbelr tbe abode of a terrible old pasha, whose playful little ways gave rise to let Are to the bouse. the story.—Wide World Magaxlne. I. however, bead bunting to only on special occasions, First Calculating Machine. id. when a bead Is required Tbe flrat calculating machine was Ives notice of tbe fact to t tribes and offers a reward Invented and constructed by Blaise n>e chiefs of the villages PaacaL a Frenchman, in KM2. in 1. and if In any of them i which year he was but nineteen years istlve wbo has made blm- of age. It was made by him with tbe >nable for any reason they aid of one workman and waa present bls head shall come off and ed to tbe chancellor of France. Dur Ing tbe revolution It was found in a be earned. Tbe victim to junk shop at Bordeaux and at present his Impending fste. but to ia tbe property of M. Bougoain of stched by a man wbo has that city. AU of tbe four simple math to secure bls bead. He ematlcal operations can be made with try movement of bls vlc- en s favorable opportunity IL *elf quickly and remorsa- Flow sf »stid Metals. bltn. cuts off hto bead and Metals flow Into each other just as tbe chief, wbo pays for It g*„.. «nd liquids mix. though more «T. This even happens ta .¡owlr If • cube of toad to placed lf they bare made them- Ht one of gold, tbs surfaces of contort '«tor. Money ia paid over being kept smooth sod clean, and left I »bleb goes io join tbe for a month a email quantity of gold ■tlon.—John I'»’.« Frazer wilt be found to bare penetrated tbe Trtbutx f-sd. _______ Gilbert’s Witty Comment. Sir W. S. Gilbert's wit and humor He was a Bne •.▼ere always ready raconteur and a good after dinner speaker. Rutland Barrington, the old Savoyard, said that "staying in Gil- bert's bouse was like living In a lit erary Breworks factory.” Barrington played the Captain In “Pinafore." At rehearsal oue day Gil bert. wbu was an autocratic and mag nificent stage malinger, told him to cross tbe stage, which represented the deck of H. M 8 Pinafore, aud sit on a skylight "in a pensive attitude.” Barrington obeyed orders, tint unfortu nately the skyligbt bad only been rigged up temporarily, and the portly Barrington crashed through it. •That's an ex pensive attitude." said Gilbert in a flask. Wanted ta Cenvvrt Utopia. When tbe “Utopia" was first publish ed It occasioned a pleasant mistake This political romance represents a perfect bu: rtiioaary rrpsbSc in an tola nd supposed to have been some where In tbe Atlantic, near these west em shores “As this was the age of discovery." says Granger, 'the learned Budaeoa and others look it for genuine history and deemed It expedient to send mis elouaries thither toronrert lite people.” . -Hook of Queer Tilings" Chattal Mortgages. A man wbo gives a chattel mortgage ebou'd always examine It rsrefnlly to make sure it to not “on demand" Mlkarp money lender« who toan funda mb .-battel mrwleaeea often try to have thl« clause loaer.ed and when It I« Hie iy io furt «tih bi* bom-aer rfeattela at alns*t sny moment It I* • trick by «hic* «dtaetage to often take« af tbe eaaary Both phones. C arl haberlach , ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, gcittecltcr ¿KbLuHuit, Tillamook Block. The Reliable Route Steamer EORGE WILLETT, A ttornky - at -L aw . Sue H. 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It otfere couraoa In Agriculture, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engln eerlng. Forestry. Domeetia. fclence and Art, Com merce, rbarmacy and Mualc. The College opena September 221. Catalog free. Addreae: REGISTRAR. OREOOI AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallla, Oregon. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Office over J. A. Todd & Co.. Tillamook, Ore. c - hawk , PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, THE MAN’S JEWELRY. bay city , O regon R. BEALS, REAL ESTATE, F inancial A gent , Tillamook, Oregon. p^R. P. J. SHARP, DENTIST, RESIDENT Office across the street iron’ tbe Court House. Dr. WiM’s office. May not I m ? ho costly or so varied as that of my lady, but lie is-—or ought to I m ?— particular about having it of the best quality, exclusive in design and neat in appearance. We cater to the dressy man’s jewelry needs andean please him in variety, quality and prices. We solicit a call of inspection to post you on our offerings in rings, fobs, scarf pins, tie-clips, etc. SARCHET, r . Tbe Fashionable Tailor. Clea.iing, Pressing and Repair ing a Specialty. Store in Heins Photographic Gallery. Eugene Jenkins, Reliable Jeweler, Next to the Post Office <*eut«ch*r Jlbvokat. Tillamook-Forest Grove STAGE LINE. 213 Tillamook Block, T illamook SURVEYOR, T illamook .... O kkgor joi Tillamook Block. Main 441. French Specialist. i Importeli Herbe, and avilh mi bande ao-<alted magneti» treatment«. ! wiil cure thè CONSULTATION OFFICE FREE. HOI KS. » TO U A. M. TO 1 P.M. Office over Ed's Garage, Tillamook, Oregon. O regon CIVIL ENGINEER AND A. SANBURN, I trrat «uc< c»»fully all Cbronac D im - umu <d Isdli - M. AUSTIN, Leaves Daily at 5 a.m., arriving at Forest Grove at 6 p.m. FARE, $5.00. Mica «ith J. CLAUSSEN, LAWYER, E • OVER *0 YEARS EXPERIEME. To live ion« Tillamook Block. Next to the Post Office. moet alubtx.rn caaM wilhout lite use ol thè fenile. I Wwty -Ckerv A ttornkt - at -L aw Complete set of Abstract Books n office. Taxes paid for non Residents. Monk's Studio, L. I t . Borre, • Just as our portraits of adults possess strength and character. We are experts in lighting and posing, and our equipment is complete. Come in aud see our line. one who studies his employer’s busi ness, who reads its literature, who is FEAST. on the watch for every improvement which others in the same line have General Lee Showed Hie Officers the Way to Enjoy it. I adopted and which- his employer has not, wbo to always Improving himself General Lee in the drawing room during bis spare time for larger things. was a dignified and quiet gentleman, very kindly and gentle, especially with women and children. “On the field." Labrador's Short Summon. How brief is the summer on the says Major Ranson in Harper's Maga highlands of La brad or I Bays Hesketb zine. “he was the general, the com Prichard in the Wide World. Snow mander In all essential points. Rut In does not melt till July, then with a other points be could be as sympathet rush midsummer comes. Grasses and ic and considerate as he was at borne. "In the latter part of December a leaves grow almost visibly, tbe wild cotton soon flings out its little white barrel was delivered at our camp pennons, millions of berries ripen on marked ’General Lee and Staff.’ We the ground, the loon cries, the ptarmi opened It and found ft was packed full I gan calls, and you may even see a of turkeys. We sent word to General butterfly balancing in tbe warm wind. Lee. and he rode over to our camp. But then also wakens tbe countless There was snow on the ground, and army of hunchbacks, lean aDd gray we had laid the turkeys out on a board mosquitoes, piping blithely for blood. on the snow, the biggest in the middle So summer reigns. Then suddenly and the others tapering off to the one day at the end of August, after the I smallest at each end. There were sun has sunk behind the barren crags about a dozen of them. "General Lee dismounted and Joined I - through a balmy warmth of evening, one may wake up to And everything the group gathered round the present, i transfigured and the first snow of an carrying his unslung and undrawn sword In his band. He was told lhat other season already falling. the big turkey in the middle was his He stood looking down at the turkeys Found Out His Man. A southerner who was visiting 8t for a moment and then said, touching Louis wandered into the dining room tbe big turkey with tbe scabbard of of the hotel and, seeing a negro servant bls sword: “This. then, to my turkey? I don't who had all tbe Importance of an army officer standing near tbe door, asked know, gentlemen, what you are going Ultn who the "head nigger” was arouud to do with your turkeys, but I wish there. The negro stretched himself to mine sent to the hospital In Peters bis full height and pompously replied burg so that some of tbe convalescents that "there ain’t no niggers In St may have a good dinner.’ "He then turned on his heel and. i Louis, sah. We is all gem-men of col walking to his horse, mounted and or.” “Well,” said the southerner, drawing rode away, We looked at one another a 1100 bill from bls pocket and finger for a moment and then, without a . ing It. ”1 expect to be at this hotel for word, replaced the turkeys In the bar some time and want to make sure that rel and sent them to the hospital” A TURKEY H Child Portraits Made by Us are Child-Like. bears a curious Inscription, tbe origin of which to ascribed to a chance re Filthy Cars and Dirty Stations In a Land of Cleanliness. mark. ‘The railway journey from Kioto to Some 200 years or so ago a master workman was employed to repair and Yokohama, despite tbe fact that most put in a new face upon the clock. beautiful country is traversed, is not When his work was nearly done he the pleasantest of experiences.” de asked the benchers for an appropriate clares a writer in tbe Wide World. motto to carve upon the base. They “One buys a railway ticket in Japan in Installments. promised to think of one. Week after “The ordinary ticket only enables week he came for their decision, but one to go by a train covering the mini was put oft. One day he found them mum distance in the maximum time, at dinner in commons. so an extra express ticket is pur- “What motto shall I put on the clock, | chased, which means that the engine your lordship V he asked of a learned moves a little more quickly toward its judge. j Ippolnted goal. ’’Oh. go about your business.”’ bls | "Next a platform ticket must be pro honor cried angrily. cured to enable one to board the train, "And very suitable for a lazy, daw and filially one has to tight one's way dling gang!” the clockmaker Is said Into a first class carriage. Why do all to have muttered as he retreated. It j the passengers In Japan take their lug is certain that he carved “Go about gage into the already painfully small your business” on the base. carriage Instead ot leaving It In the The lawyers decided that no better van? And why. again, does a nation warning could be given them at any that Is a password for cleanliness the hour of the day, and there the lnscrip world over possess a train service so tlon still remains.—Harper's Weekly. shockingly dirty In every detail? "We once In a weak moment looked ! Into a station master's room at a large The Exceptional Young Man. The exceptional young man. says statiou. and for pure dirt It could hare Orison Swett Mardeu In Success Maga ¡given points to a dust heap' 111 the zine. Is the oue wbo looks upon bls ■ tralu carriages the floors are covend employer's interests as be would bls with the dirt of ages, cigarette ends. own, wbo regards his vocation as an I orange peel, sandwich papers. At In opportunity to make a man of himself, ' tervals a porter saunters In with a an opportunity to show his employer ; brush and leisurely sweeps all the tbe stuff he is made of. and who is al j refuse into a corner, having first care- ways preparing himself to fill tbe posi | fully closed every window, so that no atom of discomfort or lufectlon shall tion above him. Tbe exceptional yonng man Is the one be lost "Finally he departs, leaving behind wbo never says, “I was not paid to do that,” “I don't get salary enough to him the rubbish and an atmosphere work after hours or to take so mucb charged with germs and angry wonls. pains.” He never leaves things half Truly a Japanese porter's definition of clearing up 1s removing rubbish from done, but does everything to a finish. Tbe exceptional young man is the one place to another." Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy Duriti« ih* part aft year«nw ram adv haa provan mora prompt or mora affannai lo ito coma of Coughs. Colds and Crot-o Ikon Ctoamtroriatn a vouffh Mamaur fn many bomaa It to railed upon aa let. plteUiy aa tha family phyaiclM I. 'aa- lalaano opt in. or ar.bar Barrotto, and may bo ffivoa aa oouAdaauy Ui a baby aatoaa ad<«M. Frrne aBu. lanre *u< MM