Tillamook Headlight, Maf«h 7. 1Ô12. In Japan ths Rich Pay Mors. A common i-omplaiui mad. by tour­ ists In Japan is that they arc <>l>!lgvd to July f»r ererytblug tar higher prices than the native» are cliHrged. or. In itlier word», that because they are for­ eigners they are la-lug fleeced. but ■ glance at the social conditions by which the people have been educated would reveal the curious fact that throughout Juicin'» long period of Isolation it was • n accepted principle that the rich must live for the sake of the poor, and prices have always been based upon Ibe purchaser's rank in society or upon his presumed ability to pay. This un­ derstanding remains largely In force today, being fully recognized and acted upon by all favored classes throughout the empire. The occidental, coming from lands where the reverse practically bolds good—the poor living for the sake of the rich—naturally complains of being robbed, as from his point of view he really Is. but it is not because he is a foreigner, but because, being a tourist be Is presumably wealthy.—Arthur May Knapp in the Atlantic. They Sink Backward. The Island of St. Hsiang. St. Helena nag beeu so Island of tragedies—tragedies that have been lost night of wailing over the Cor­ sican tin the secoud day of my visit the goveruor took me by carriage road through the turns over the Island. At one point of our journey the road. In winding around spurs mid ravines, formed a perfect W within the dis­ tance of a few rods. The roads, though tortuotiH mid steep, were fairly good, and 1 was struck with the utuouut of labor ft must have cost to build them. The air on the heights was cool snd bracing. It Is said that since banglug for trivial offenses went out of fashion no one has died there, except from falling over the cliffs tu old age or from being crushed by stones rolling on them from the steep mountains! Witches at one time were persistent at St. Helena, as with us In America in the days of Cotton Mather. At the present day crime is rare in the island. : , . , 1 "Hippopotamuses are the only wuiar animals that sink backward when Be­ ing under the surface of the water." said a kee|>er In the Central park uaaa agerie to a group of visitors In frost of the HUlmals' tank. “Aquatic animals, as a rule, dive Into the waler head drat and make more or less splashing But the hippo gore down so quietly that If a hunter were sinndiug near the edge of an African |sx>l the big river horse would disappear without attracting attention. They keep up the custom lu captivity. where there is no necessity of guard­ ing against enemies. As they go down they throw up their noses and fill their lungs. I have timed this spool- men aud found that she can stay un der water for five minutes. She thou comes up with a snort and takes a fresh supply of air. Perhaps she could stay down longer If she was trying to avoid danger.'*—New Tort Sun. The Ancient Dragon. Believed In Closed Window». The pterodactyl, whose fossil re­ A b old Yale man, giving bls remlnio- mains have been found In the chalk The advanced Piano selling methods originated in at Cambridge. England, and elsewhere, cences of President Noah Porter, re­ Cillamook by the store of Jones & Knudson makes a Saved ths Crown Jewels. with a very varied spread of wings, called a talk the kindly gentleman >ig saving in the price of a Piano to each customer, be- A very romantic adventure once be­ which In the largest specimens must gave to his freshman class. "Young ause we save them the Portland jobber’s profit and fell the Scottish crown Jewels while have reached twenty-five feet, is al­ gentlemen.” said the president, “the they were deposited for safety in Dun- of New Haven is especially heavy he BIG AGENT’S COMMISSION. Besides there is . ottar castle. This stronghold was be­ most Identical with the dragon of air fable. A batlike creature, with an and damp at night, owing to the prox­ sieged by Cromwell so hotly that the elevated body and long neck ending in imity of the city to the sea. and I wish little garrison decided to surrender. On an absurdly small bead with a por to advise you always to keep your win­ the eve of yielding the wife of Ogilvie, tentous beak, it could run very swift dows closed at night; otherwise your the commander of the beleaguered cas­ ly. was a fish eater and could swim, health will be likely to suffer.” That tle, managed, with the aid of the wife or it flew by means of huge membra­ was the advice of the president of the of the local minister, to elude the be­ nous wings, which connected its long institution. It Is significant of the ex­ siegers and get the jewels away. The fore quarters with its hind legs. The tent to which Ideas change with the In dealing with your own home merchant, whose ' latter were burled under the pulpit in pterodactyl evidently existed down to : years. Now everybody is for out of irord regarding the quality of the Piano he is selling the parish church and lay there till a comparatively recent geological peri­ doors air. and the person who followed the restoration, though the minister and it Is not nt all improbable that ; the advice of President Porter would rou can be safely taken in perference to an agent’s and his wife were tortured to disclose od. the traditional dragon Is described tie condemned out of band: and yet. if tatement, who perhaps you will never see again, We the place where the jewels were hid­ from the last living specimens as met we are not mistaken, that gentleman den. Ogilvie was afterward reward­ with by primitive man. managed to live out bls threescore listribute direct ed with a baronetcy, and Keith, who years and ten and do them about stoutly declared he had seen them in eleven better. He was born In 1811 Simplified Spelling Effects. the possession of the exiled King "We tiud In the letters we receive." and died in 1892. He believed In closed Charles II., was made an earl But said the correspondence clerk, "some < windows.-Hartford Courant. _____ ____ the faithful minister uud bis wife went marvelous examples of simplified spell­ i unrewarded. Whistler Was a Dandy. ing. some ot these unconsciously pho­ If taking Infinite' pains with his ap- i netic. some evidently deliberately In­ i Old Superstitions. I A new pearl in the crown of the world’s best tended. some that, though they serve i penrnnee means dandyism, then Whls- It is only when we begin to Investi­ their purpose wonderfully, verge on I tier wits a dandy. The very word ’ianos is the reliable S. W. MILLER, the most desired gate the origin of certain old customs comic. For instance, we received pleased him. and he used At often, in f all good home Pianos. The S. XV. Miller Pianos and superstitions that we gain any the yesterday a letter from a man who Amerlcnu fashion, to express perfec- 1 real idea, of bow deeply rooted in starts off in this way: tion or charm or beauty. Never was nd Piano Players represent a naeu's miuds during the dark and mid­ "'What fx would follow'— aud soon. any man more particular about his per­ dle uges was the fear of the supernatu­ "Of course the meaning of that was sop and his dress. He was as careful ral and particularly of evil spirits. To perfectly plain, but the bookkeeper and of his hair as a woman, though there j this day in a certain country the cot- I bad to smile over it for a moment, was no need of the curling tongs with . lagers after the Saturday morning aud when we showed it to the stenog­ which he has been reproached: the dif­ scrubbing take a piece of chalk and ficulty was to restrain .his curls and I draw a rough geometrical pattern roun'd « rapher he said that the man who could keep them In order. The white lock For their manufacturers, distributors and pur- I the edge of the threshold atone. This write words like that ought not to stop gave Just the right touch. However simplified spelling— lie ought to go nasers, as like a good violin they mellow and improve they do. not knowing that their ances­ at right ahead tiud Invent a new short­ fashion changed, be always wore the thought it a sure way of keeping muslai be and little Imiierfal which ith age and there is a complete absence of that tinny, tors the devil from entering the bouse. An­ hand system."—New York Sun. other West Point men of his genera­ letallic tone so often found in the class of Pianos other custom, ofteu noticeable in conn- tion retained through life. Even bis Chinese Idioms. sually sold by traveling agents. The much talked of try iMtrisbes. IS the reluctance to bury thick, busby eyebrows were trained, When a Chluese writer wishes to ex ­ the dead on the north side, of the and they added to the humorous or churchyard. This is because evil spir­ press that the wealthy parent of the sardonic expression of the deep blue heroine has set Ins uffuira In order In its were always supposed to lurk on eyes from which many shrank.— Pen­ that side of the church precincts.— her favor before dying his Idiom Is. nell's "Life of Whistler." "He has settled his plums.” "To have London Spectator. plucked the kwei ,cassia) flower" slgnl Welsh Bulls. Are the envy of agents who are trying to compete flea galniug the muster's degree at the Th. Gentle 8.x. Ireland's position as the country In triennial examinations. Their idiom lith us, but on the other hand the S. W. MILLER A d eminent English statisticinn has which "bulls'* blossom best Is being calculated that of two children, a boy for "Let there be no backsliding” Is. IANO is the pride of every owner. seriously challenged. It was a Welsh and a girl, born on the same day the "Let there be no absorption of sweat" member .of parliament who crushlngly boy will have only seventeen fhances A runaway wife is said by Liu Chia remarked to an opposition member: against eleven of living one year, while Chu to "carry her guitar to another the girl will have twenty-one chances door.” When you wish to say that you 'The honorable member has attempt­ against eleven. From five to fifteen have secured a vindication, you ex­ ed to throw a bombshell at tbs gov­ there appears to be but little difference, press it "My adversary has been ernment. but In the hands of the of the exchequer It was By paying more for any Piano than the price we but from fifteen to nineteen the boy forced to paint my front door.” When chancellor will bare 269 chances and the girl 277 a great man dies they say. "A corner turned Into a cocked bat long before ik you for the S. W. MILLER, for there is no better chances of living against one of death of the city wall baa fallen.*’— J. 8 it was thrown.” It was also a Welsh member, though ome Piano today on the market, and ue kindly If a thousand ablebodied men and a Thompson's "The Chinese.” not the same one. who, speaking thousand ablebodied women be armed kite you into our store to make us prove it to your against a proposal to fortify London, and equipped for battle and ordered on Green Turtles. itire satisfaction. The green turtle finds Its home In began earnestly with: "Our navy la I a long, weary march more men. says ! this authority, would probably reach the coral reefs lying to the north of our outy defense. If our navy tom ! their destination, while more women Jamaica, though It la found in other porarlly left the sens"— And then be would be found exhausted, hilt more parts of the West Indies. The creature had lo »top Delighted members, with men would be found dead by the way is enugbt by the employment of ex­ vision» of battleships swooping over aide.—New York American. tremely strong nets, which are Inter­ green fields or climbing over house laced between the rocks Once caught top», were In a roar, and It was some A Connoisseur. the turtle is taken to Kingston, where minutes liefore business could pro ' A great iwlnter wua asked by big lit- It Is kept iu special sea water pens on ceed — I-ondon Answers. ' tie sou. "Falber. what Is a connote- the seashore When In the pens the turtle Is provided with rt peculiar kind i sour?” lent Ars Very Small. The smallest piece of matter Is called ' "Well, my eon.” the father answered. of sea grass, which it likes very much. It is so small that a person ■did you notice that tall, white haired Curiously enough, wbeu It la taken the Ion away from the West Indies It refuses could not Imagine that anything could geutlemon at my studio tea y ester to eat this grass Indeed. It will die tie »mailer It Is so small that Its Iden­ day?’ 1 "The one.with the sable lined over­ of starvation sooner than touch the tity is lost In It» effect it 1» the point coat. father': Uh. yea. I noticed him " grass, however carefully preserved It where solid mutter resolves Itself into takes eight itounds of flesh to make a a form ot electricity. Now. think Low • "Well, my son. be Is a connoisseur I small tlnit Is from this experiment: If i "But how do you know he's a cou- single quart of soup. I the Ion» In n toy lailloou. full of gas i uolsseur father?" I were counted out nt the rate of a bun Timsly Answers. "By hl» actions, my sou." "Do you remember bow buDgry I dred per minute It would take 100. "But. father, he acted like every one SYNOPSIS OF THE ANNUAL STATEMENT OF THE____ tXXI.USt persons 4.000.000 years to count was at seveu-tblrty last nightY” else at the tea. dldu t tie?” UNITED STATES HEALTH * ACCIDENT INSURANCE COMPANY them The fact that the human It.tal "I should say I do. ” Certainly ‘ "Certainly not. my »on: Saginaw, in the State of Michigan, on the list day or December. 1*11, mad. to "Do you know how I appeased my leet can discover this fact Is quite na Insurance Commissioner of the State of Oregon pursuant to law: , not! The uflwni drank my Riissisa startling as the fact Itself This seems CAPITAL. _ tea. ate my foie gras snndwk'he-« mid hunger In a half UourY' nount of capital paid up.............................................. to l»e getting on the edge of material pic- “No; what did you doT' took leave But he lie bought a INCOME, creation, and if the Ion could lie fur "Eight a clock." 29W.215.24 tore!" femiurn.« received during the year (net cash)....... , 17.71745 terest, dividends and tents received during year.. “That's nothing Do you remember ther divided we would have to get over 137.277.00 Mcy fees required by application*....... ..................... bow unlucky 1 was at the raffle at Into the spirit world to do It. for tberu A Biting Retort. 1.509.94 tome from other sources received during the year fsnslbly Its last analysis only can ba Lady Wort ley Montagu, on* of Eng­ twelve-thirty?" S1.1M.7MM Total income .................................................. . rem lied.-Ohio Htate Jourual land's most brilliant women. Incurred “1 certainly do ” DISBURSEMENTS, Pope’s undying hatred tn the following “Well. I wasn't so unlucky a half sses paid during the year including adjustment expenses, Over ths Rheno. itc..................... ........................................................... manner: The poet. who was deformed hour later " ridends paid du year on capital stock...................... "He hasn't slept all night, doctor.” and very dark and addicted to ques ­ "No? I'm glad to know that What mmisNions and paid during the year.................. said Mrs. Blinks over the phone, de tioning everybody, once n»ked tier to did you win?" xes, licenses and fees paid during the year........................ scrlblug Iter husband's symptoms. "Und liry fees retained by agents.................................................. define an interrogation mark Rhe de "One a dock."— Lippincott's. kount of all other expenditures............................................. this morning he complains of aebeu In fined it as "a little, crooked black bls lames and a general headachy feel Total expenditures ............... . ........................................... ! thing that asks questions.” Lashing In Official Zeal. n Actual Added Advantage prom rKuin J FACTORY TO HOME MAKER TO USER. Typical Tone Triumph S. W. Miller Pianos ones & Knudson TILLAMOOK, ORE. rect Factory Distributors for Tilla mook County, AMITA Io» of real estate owned .............................................. Jogjnf stocks snd bonds owned.................. ——........... Isn* on morta*«>-s and coUatersL etc........ . .............. ph In banks and on liand................................................ emlbms In course of collection snd In transmission |»r»st and rents due and acciu»d ................................. Total assets ............... . .................................. . ........... s, opeclal deposits In any stale 4If any there bet Total assets sdmllted In Oregon ... ............. LIABILITIES. in*** f'Ukin* I orbf * unpaid,.............. ................. Itount of unearned premiums on all outstanding risks Is for commission and brokerage ................................. ) other liabilities ..................................... ..................... Partieulsr Woman. Judge-Rhe insisted on haring a wo­ man lawyer men. • her divorce. "Why was abe so particular?" •She did not want to go contrary to .hat portloo of the marriage ceremony that rends. Let no man pot aeon der’"—New Tort Herald. S 77H7 74 IH.tt? TJ 27.47« » U.IMÎJ D * r g n * 2*1.22» •» 210.574 54 ; Total UaMlltlea .......... ........ . ...................................... Sal premiums la force Dec 4»n»b*F 11. 1,11................... BUSINESS IN OREGON FOR THE ¥1**. K*l risk* written during the rear................................... premium» rwtrHv <«r1 during I he year ....................... tmiurnu returned durin« the year. ....................... •» •••- B**n nai4 during the year - —...............• •........ . *•**’ incurred durtn« the year .. ......... ........... . . -■____ Sal amount nf mkm out»«am»mt • M Kteber. r* to ■ 4Y “I thought abe exhibited verre and aplomb.' said Mrs. Oldraetle “Did you?' replied her bosteas "Jostab said she had nerve, but was a peach.” -Chicago Record Herald. Touching. Jennie- Everything he tourbes seems to torn to gold Jim-Yes: be touched me today for a sovereign - tondoe •Malea rotors Tbe truest wisdom Is a msstate de Red Tsps and a Murdtree. This Is a tale of n self confroseil mur­ der» < who wished to l><* Hiicsted. as related by a writer lu l.e Matin. I'urla. Borne time ngo n innti uniued Berges Was stabbed to dewth ut Algiers. Three men were arrested on suspicion but as they proveil their innocence they were released it ltd the matter was shelved. A few days afterward a umn Called nt the office of tile local police commissary and »aid to that official: “My name Is Marius Yvorra I kf'cd ■»rges. aud this 1» bow I did It." Tbe commissary listened to tie ■Sta a confession and said: "You bad better see my secretary ” Tbe secretary also listened to ibe Man's confession aud after a Uttle re- •ectloo Mid: "Now, look here, my good man; this to not the way to get arrested. Yon ■ust write ua a letter confirming tbe cral atatement made to ua. Then we ahali be able to attend to you. Now, •M along.” , Tbe man left the office, and perhaps because be was not a good writer ho tom not oeen seen since In Algiers. Wu Ting Fang’s Good Cheer. Among the most intimate of the Chl- ■eee friends of tbe late Sir Robert Hatt was a high official, Wu Ting Fang, who pr'Jed himself on his alert mtut- ■er. wblcb made blm appear much younger than be was. and boasted that be luteuded to live 200 yeara. He onctf explained bow this feat was to be ac- ceuipilstied. "Tbe first thing, natu­ rally. 1» diet.” said he. “Tbe man who would cheat Time should live on nuts like tbe squirrels. Under no condition should he touch suit, and he should begiu and end each meal with a tea- spoonful ot olive ot). 1 have Ituug scrolls In my bedroom.” Wu Ting weut on to explain, "with these sentences written upon them In English and Chi­ nese. 'I um young, 1 am healthy. I utu cheerful.' Immediately I enter the room nt.v eye falls U|ton these precepts. I any to myself. 'Why. of course I um. and therefore I utu!"—Loudou Cblou- k-le. Ono View of ths "Terrible Turk.” Speukiug or the Turk, uu English resident in Turkey writes: "The Ulan 1 like best is the pure, uncoutiimluiited Turk who hits never seen Europe. He is wondertully hospitable, amazlugly kind, essentially n man of peace aud a fervent religionist. He is u Moslem, has been reared In Moslemlsm und be­ lieves I d his religion. He is honest and atralgbtforwurd In bls business deallugs, and Illa word is his bond. I do not suggest that every Turk pos­ sesses all tlie»e qualities which I have attributed to tbe race, uor am I paint­ ing him lu too rosy a color. I liavu made utauy voyages into the Interior of Macedonia and Asin Minor; I have entered Turkish villages high up on the snow, stockaded against tbe bears, where the Inhabitants bad uever aeon a European before, mid my truat in tbe kindness and hospitality of these tneo has uever failed me.”—London Graph­ ic. Suspended Animation. As we descend in tbe scale of animal life we find tbst what kills the higher animals does not injure tbe lower. Cut • polyp I" two aud you have two liv­ ing polype Instead of one dead polyp. Break off a lobster’s claw aud another will grow. You may. it baa been Mid, freeze a fly, but you cannot freeM it to death. There are infusoria called "wheel animalcules.” These rotlfeoa have many curious qualities, among wblcb la that of auspeuding sulmatlOB foe an Indefinite period without ccuslng to live. Colonies of rotifers may bo desiccated and rendered apparoBtiy lifeless, and In this condition they umy be kept for mouths and yeara and pos stbly centuries. A siugle drop ot wa ter will restore them to life, and tbe wheel bearers will Instantly reou..,e their functional activity preciaoly at tbe |Klint where It was broken Off - Harper’s. Bank Cheeks In Austria. Ranks of Austria are exonpt f. ■> liability fur payment of cbei ks a., I bills of exchange to parties who Livy have acquired unlawful po-ero betas stolen und cashed with forged Indoro- meiit. leaving tbe uwuer witbout to- dre»s A check or bill of exebanse. therefore, though payable to order and not Indorsed Is a dangerous fegm fur tbe remittance of money LiaMllt7 for psynienl ou a forged liKlorseinent 40 Incurred l>y a hauk only when It Is gr.- sumed tu have knowledge of tha payee's »Ignnture. as In tbe ease 'jt well known cUruta Rest Estate Intergrime Here Is one wey a piece uf Innd toby ba made profita bls: Find a clay bole and make bricks BBt of th. clay Ing. Is there anything 1 can do?' Cat tbe Ice In tbe bole In tAo wlatsr Just then the wires crossed with the if yoo cso get swey with it phone connection of the dog fancier Get money from tbe city to Ui tbe •Rurer came the response. "Bring bole so a dumping ground. blm In this afternoon and I'll ent Ms Pot a top soil over all asd sell tbe •ars for you."— Pittsburgh Press tot for a menufacturiog site,—Cbleo*e Twe Bvlls. There are two things lo life that a sage moat preserve at every saertflen— tbe costa of Uls stomach and tbr ensa el of bls teeth. Rome evils sdmlt of consolation«: there are no comforter» for dyspepsia and the toothache -BM- wer-Lytton Mean Thlttg Maybelle—Bee tbe beautiful engage ment ring Jack gave me last night Botello—Gracious! . Has that Joel gst around to you?-Toledo Blade BnMbmto with caertlon hot act with decisión ylekl with grectousnaoo or