Image provided by: Tillamook County Library
About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1912)
Tillamook Headlight, September 1Ô, 1Ô12. imeo the built •amatic Incident of Pionesr Days In Tennessee. STAGECOACH ADVENTURE L Thrillins Scene When the Terribly t.lm Str.nser Cowed th. Insulti«« 'oeeperedo, as I» V/„ Described W Henry Clay, Wh. Witneoemi It Toon a certain occasion in his early -Dbood Henry Clay was traveling ta ■nubile BUigeeoacb In Tennessee. Hie ■hew passengers were a young lady ■a her husband—the latter evidently K invalid and a man In the front ■rner so muffled up in a fur lined Kak that bis features were concealed. K appeared to be rather under than ■rer tbe medium size and was evt- Kntly enjoying a refreshing slumber. ■ bv and by a big, brown faced, ■awnv Kentuckian got into thin Kacb, smoking a rauk, coarse grained ■gar. He gazed around fiercely, an ir. ■¿„„yh be would impress upon the ■inds of bls new companions that be ■ould chew up and swallow any one ■bo dared to Interfere with him. In ■„rt he was half horse and half aid ■>nr with a goodly sprinkling of pan Ker aDd grizzly bear thrown tn. He Buffed forth huge volumes of smoke ■ithout the least concern for tbe com- Krt of bis companions. BPresently the lady, who seemed te K growing sick, whispered to her hus- Knd. and the husband, in the polltest tanner possible, asked the stranger if te would not throw away his cigar, as Kia smoke greatly discommoded his ■¡rife. With an impudent, swaggerin« Stare tbe fellow replied, interlarding ts speech with several oaths: ■ “I reckon I’ve paid for my place, ■'ll Bmoke as much as I please, and I’d Kike to see some one try to stop me.” I He looked dangerous as he glared ■»round, and it was very evident that [he was used to quarreling and strife, land, furthermore, a struggle with him Imlgbt have been a deadly one. The (young man who bad spoken to him Isbrank back and was silent The lady (lowered tbe sash by her side for • (breath of fresh air. [ Mr. Clay felt every gallant instinct (of bls soul aroused. He considered for la moment whether he should Interfere land found himself reluctant to draw lupon bls own head the brutal violence I of the gigantic ruffian. In that then lawless country he knew that his life might be sacrificed unavenged. He knew himself to be physically un- ! equal to the contest, and he thought, [after all. it was not his duty to risk I bis life in some quixotic manner. Clay was settling back with pity for the Insulted and disgust for the insuiter when suddenly, but very quietly, the cloaked figure in the corner assumed an upright position, parting the burred mantle without a particle of excite ment. thereby revealing the small, well knit, muscular frame of a man plainly dressed in a .closely buttoned frock coat, with a face rather pale and a pair of bright eyes that gleamed like pol ished steel, and those strange eyes quickly attracted the attention of the ferocious Kentuckian. With a terrible calmness this man passed his hand under his collar at the back of his neck and deliberately drew forth a long, glittering and ugly look ing knife from a sheath in that sin gular place. "Stranger.” he said. “my name In Colonel James Bowie, well known in Texas and Arkansas, If you do not put that cigar out of the window in less than fifteen seconds I’ll put this knife through your heart as sure as death!" Clay said he would never forget the expression of the colonel’s eyes at that moment. They told, as unmistakably as signs can tell, that the threat would certainly be fulfilled, and this convic tion evidently impressed itself upon tbe mind of the offender. During a very few seconds his eyes met those of Bowie. With all bls brute strength he was tbe weaker man, and be quailed. With a muttered curse he threw hi» cigar away, upon which Bowie coolly returned the knife to its sheath and. without another look or word, refolded his cloak about him and lay back as before. At tbe next stopping place tbe Ken- tu.-klan got out and took a seat with tbe driver —New York Telegram. The Proper Retort. At a dinner a married man praised the tieauty of the Atlantic City girls Then, with a foollab chuckle, he added: T bad an awful bunch of them after •ne when I was down there on my ve rs tion." The lady beside him looked at him “oldly and retorted: T»eHr me: They must have been an awful bunch.”-Exchange. The Bettor Name. So you are thinking of calling your sby boy Peter. I wouldn't; I’d call him Paul.’’ "IVhy ao?" "He would have a better chance tn ire Peter, you know, who is «1- robbed to pay Paul."—Bents* r,?in»cript Brawl Posit hra. rr»wford-Do you think to’s ben rented? CrabntMkW—He nerer meo- Noned it. but I’vg noticed that the t«*t»ait» over his maotelptoea are ’boae of bis wife's folks.-J nd«. I COLOR ILLUSIONS. 6H0STS OF THE LIVINGL ARABIAN JUSTICE Curious Effects From Rod and Blue ea a Black Background, If on a screen of black velvet placed at a distance of ten feel from tbe spec tator large letters are pasted, autuo blue, some red. they will not appear te be at an equal distance from tbe eyes. To some persous tbe red letters will seem nearer thau blue letters, while to other persous tbe cuuirury effect will be manifested. To produce this effect both eyes must be employed Wbeu one eye Is cloaed the letters ure all seen at tbe same din- tance. On opening the other eye one set of letters Immediately appears to take a position in advance of the others. Tbe explanatiou offered for this effect is that a sort of stereoscopic illusion la produced in the eye itself, depending upon color. The image of a blue object is shifted by the eye toward one side and that of a red object toward tbe other side. If on looking at blue and red letters on a black background placed ten or twelve feet away you see the red letters nearer than tbe blue, screen off one- half of tbe pupil of each eye on tbe outside and you will see the red let ters retire behind the blue ones. If you screen the pupils on tbe side toward the nose you will see tbe red letters advance apparently still farther ahead of the blue ones. If, on the other band, you naturally see the blue in advance screen the in ner side of the pupils of your eyes and the red will come to the front Beautiful effects are produced with one eye alone when, instead of letters, red or blue rings are pasted on a back ground of the opposite color. Placing red rings on blue paper and using the right eye with the Inner side of the pu pil covered the appearance is that of circular red hillocks resting on a blue ground. To produce this effect in its highest degree the paper must be held to the left and sloping In that direction. Wbeu the outer side of the pupil is screened the red rings will become cir cular trenches in the blue paper.—New York Sun. * Csss That Throw« Light on ths Problem of Apparitions. It Is uot at all necessary to resort to the nuperuatural us the ouly sufficient explanatiou of aptuiritious. lu truth, there Is one lusuriuountable obstacle to regarding them us ^jperuatural manifestations, aud that 1» the simple elreu instance that the ghosts wear clothes. It is quite conceivable that there really may be ghosts of persona, but nobody who gave the matter a sec ond thought would contend for a mo ment that there can be ghosts of clothes. Nevertheless apparitions are always clothed and sometime, te gar ments of such modern eut that they were unknown at tbe time the pores« seen as a phantom lived on earth. Aside from this, there is tbe Inter esting and by no means unimportant ctrcumstance that houses are some times haunted by apparitions not of the dead, but of the living. I knew of one case In which a gentleman en tering a drawing room nt 4 in the afternoon saw seated on the sofa a young lady with "reddish gold’’ hair, who appeared to be reading a book. There were two other persons in the room, one seated beside her on the sofa, and the visitor was surprised to find that they did not offer to Intro duce him to the young lady—did not, in fact, seem to see her. Later a guest at a week end party saw tbe same ap parition in the same house, and tt was seen a third time by one of tbe serv ants. | No light was thrown on tbe strange affair until, a year afterward, tbe wife 1 of the son of the family arrived from Australia to pay a first visit to her husband’s relatives and was Immedi ately Identified by the servant as the figure she had seen. The two visitors who also had seen the apparition sub sequently made the same Identifica tion. | Since It Is incredible to supixxee that . a person can be In two places at the same time—so that a lady can be both I In Australia and In a house thousands of miles from Australia—it Is a leglti- . mate inference that phantasms, wheth er of the living or of the dead, are de- 1 void of objective reality, are, that is to say, always and only hallucinations. —Metropolitan Magazine. Convicting a Thief by the Ordeal at ton Redhot Knife. A SYMBOL OF FREEDOM. Ths Liberty Cap Dates Away Back to Early Greek Times. From very early times one of the dis tinguishing marks of a slave, both in Greece and oriental countries general ly, was the lack of any covering for the head. Accordingly tbe cap came to be considered tbe insignia of liberty, and when slaves were given their free dom they were presented with a cap as an emblem of it In Sparta the helots wore a cap of dogskin, and this was reckoned a badge of servitude, but upon gaining their freedom this was replaced by a cap of a different material, of another shape and ornamented with flowers. A similar custom was observed in Rome, where the presentation of the pileus, or cap, was always a part of the ceremony of manumitting a slave; hence arose the proverb, “Servoa ad pileum vocare.” Also on medals tbe cap is tbe symbol of liberty and Is unsually represented as being held In the right band by the point When a cap was exposed to the people's view on the top of a spear, as in the case of the conspiracy against Caesar, it was intended as a public in vitation to them to embrace tbe liberty that was offered them. The Goddess of Liberty on Mount Aventine was represented as holding a cap in her hand as a symbol of free dom. The Jacobins wore a red cap during the French revolution, and In England a blue cap with a white bor der Is used as a symbol of liberty. The custom which prevails among university students of wearing a cap te said to have bad Its origin In a wish to signify that tbe wearers had acquir ed full liberty and were no longer sub ject to the rod of their superiors. NERVE WON HIM LIBERTY. Tbe ordeal of the redhot knife to thus deecrilHsl by Abdullah Mansur lU. Wyman Bury» as he HHw It lu "The Laud of Us.” The ease was oue ot theft from a caravan. Two young tuee were implicated. oue u palace aiave. tbe other a young Arab, a uatlve of the oasis. Each accused the other, with many oaths aud much mutual vtllttea tion. Flually both luvoked tbe ordeal of the knife. In due course s venerable Arab ap peared. bringing tbe lustruuwut with him His family for geueralioua bad possessed the hereditary right to ad minister the ordeul. The knife seemed a very ordinary place of hoop Iran shaped roughly Into a sort of blade about eighteen Inches long. The same and attributes of Allah were engraved upon IL and It was Sited with a plalu wooden baft An attendant brought a bowl of water and a brazier of live charcoal. In which the knife waa Inserted Tbe Arab youth received tbe ordeal first He repeated bls assertions of Innocence and. rinsing out his mouth with water, put out bis tongue, which was seized at the tip by the owner of the knife. The Instrument, glowing dull red. was drawn from the brazier, and with It three light blows were struck upon the victim’s tongue, which was then In spected It merely showed slight white marks where tbe hot Iron bad fallen. The slave’s turn then camo, and whether be tllnclied at tbe «-outset of the but Iron or had failed to keep hte tongue sufficiently moist 1 cannot say but the heat of the blade picked off a small patch of skin and showed a bleeding surface According to th«1 rules ot the ordeal, that proved bls guilt, and be was led away to durance vile. No Fettod CoW. Bride (bock after elopMDOo«-Well, bere we are. pa Won’t you give os yoor btoaslng? Her Dad-Yes. dangb ter: no trouble sbont the t.Usala’, but beard and lodato- will be at wTar sates - Boston Transcrita ’A mebica ’, F inest Fic: \ WHY? Illentl Flour TRAIGTTT v—• Astern .Hard Wheat flour has its uses. ì has straight Soft \\ heat flour. But to get roults from the hard wheat flour, it must be thoroughly kneaded. lhe housewife finds this too arduous, rurtnermore, were living in a labor-saving age. Vet, Eastern Hard Wheat flour has desirable qualities that cannot be ovvil.-oked in • ui Pr°Juct,on the best breadstuff. Bakers realize this, for invariably they combine Hours themselves, made of Eastern llarj Wheat aid Western Soft Wheat that is to aay: B lind Them. the two must not be mixed haphazardly, as the superiority of com bination depends wholly on a proper balance. Before offering the public their product, the F ishfr F iguring M ills C ompany made exh«u»> tive tests to determine the exact proportions of each flour re quired to produce the blend of highest efficiency. The formula finally adopted, in actual liaking competition with all other well known brands on the market today, has re peatedly’ demonstrated its excellence. You get this scien tific combination in buying ■ Fisher s Blend Flour Peculiarity of the Ring Mountains of the Moon. Tbe moon Is really aud truly a great planet ot mountains, its whole visible surface being «lotted with elevations ot curious Hhu|s*s uud of extraordinary height We say "its whole visible sur face" and hasten to explain that we moke this statement simply bei-ause the eye of man has never seen but oue side of the surface of the moon What we see couvtnees us that the little planet Is extremely mountainous, for on the “end" exposed to our view there ar# no fewer than 30.000 peaks, varying In height from 2.000 feet to four miles. When we consider the fact that this lunarian world Is only on# thirty-second part as large as the earth we can easily see why It deserves the title of the ’’planet of great moun tains ” There Is a peculiar thing about these 30.000 moon [teaks Each and every one of them has a ringlike form, the open end of the conical point tsdug of greater or lesser diameter, according to the height of the mountain In iF low- grade telewope these [teaks resemble true volcanoes, but when viewed through a high grade glass It Is seen that the depression In the center of th# queer "ring mountain” Is often so great as to be below the general level of the surrounding country. The depth of these depressions Is calculated In a ,-urious manner, by flg tiring on the relative shadows they cast when the situ Is shining full upon them The dhimeter of these “ring moun tains’’ varies greatly, some of the larger ones Itelng fZ>. 100 or even IfiO miles, while lhe smaller look like post holes when viewed through a good tel- escofs- Happy Deyn. Safer. “Of course I don’t want to criticise but I don’t think tt was altogether right for David to say ’all meo are Mars'" “Well, at any rate. It was safer than to pick out one man and say it to him -Philadelphia Ledger lhe exception of co«*, of postage on paper* and euflt of to CITIZENS OF OREGON, forty I * lykRSll Y COU RSEb by MAIL. Ability to profit by the coumee se lected is the only requirement for enr -liment in the Correspondence de partment. Courses are offered in the department of Botanyt Debating» economics, Education, Electricity, t nglish Literature, English Compo sition, History, Mathematics, Mechanical Drawing, Physical Education, rnysic8, 1 hysiolo^y, Psychology, Socio'-ogy, and Surveying. Write to the ^ec'etary ut the Correspondence School, University of Oregon, Eugene, for information and catalogue. Course« in residence at the University prepare for the Professions of Engineering, Journalism, Law Medicine, and Teaching. I*ali semester opens luesday, Sept. 17. Address the Registar for catalogues descriptive of the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, the schools of Education, Commerce, Law, Medicine, and Music. LUNA’S MIGHTY PEAKS. Quick Wit and Daring R ubs of a Rus sian Revolutionist. Nowhere outside of the pages of fic- • tlon would we expect such an incident as the following from the personal story of the Russian revolutionist Na-1 rodny: Narodny had Just Jumped from - a window to escape the police “When 1 I scrambled to my feet I discovered myself In the yard and among half a dozen soldiers. I was without over coat and hat—a very suspicious figure —and, having neither, I could not es cape even could I get by tbe soldiers who surrounded me,” he said. “I Jerked a card from my pocket— to this day I do not know what It was —and handed It to one of the soldiers. ‘Here is my card,' I said rapidly. ‘I am a member of the secret police. One of these revolutionists is trying to es cape. I am after him. Quick! Give me your coat and hatf “He automatically obeyed. I slipped on his coat and hat and to all appear ances was a soldier of the czar. I walked past the guarded gate of the yard out into the street. Before me were thousands of soldiers. I saw my friends being brought down from the hall and put Into the black vans, about which stood guards of Cossacks. I marched through my friends (all of that group are in prison today save only myself and the friend who es caped with me) with the air of a sol- I Straw Hat*. dler on a very Important message and Tbe afniw (mt W a relative newcomer pressed on through the mass of other In the world of dress It was not until soldiers that filled the street” 17.H4. a<-<-<ir<litig to l-es Nouvelles. that tt first npiteared. and Its adoption waa Ths Change of a Word. originally exclusive to women Men “Spanking” did not suggest chastise- , did not make use of tt until the Water The Bird of Death. ment originally. It was unknown to loo year, and the foundation of th# In New Guinea there is said to be a Johnson In this sense To him a great Alsatian Industry was only In venomous bird called the bird of death. “spanker” meant "a person wbo takes IBM. when the first Mg factories were It la about the size of a pigeon, with a long steps with agility.” Rapid mo erected Our <*ontem|torary adds that It tall of extraordinary length ending in tion seems to be tbe root Idea of tbe Is Dot generally known that many so a tip of brilliant scarlet It has a word “spank.” which Is not merely called ’straw” hats are made entirely sharp, hooked beak and frequents representative of the sound of the act of wood But they are none the less marshes and stagnant pools Tbe ven as “slap” and "smack” are. Th# low efficient ns protectors against tbe ef om with which it Inoculates Is dis German “pakkern.” or “spenkern,” to fe'-ts of glare aud sunshine. tilled In s set of organs which lie in run and spring about quickly. Is close the upper mandible. Just below the to the original meaning: hence a Homs Trsstmsnt. openings of the nostrils. Under them, “spanking pace." a “spanking breeze” "Flere." ttegnn a woman known to in the roof of the mouth. 1s a small and a “spanker.“ In tbe sense of an the writer In the Canadian Courier- fleshy knob. When tbe bird sets its active and sturdy person “here’a an article In th# evening papT beak tn tbe flesh of a victim this knob ot: 'Women's Work For the Feetl-’ receives a pressure which liberates the No Immsdiats Danger. Minded ’“ venom and Inoculates tbe wound. The Parson (about to improve the Her husband grunted, being In a re golden hour)—When a man reaches actionary m<s>d "I’d like to know," he your age, Mr. Dodd, be cannot In the srld. "what women have ever done for Baby Seals. Baby seals are at flrat snow white, nature of things, expect to live very the feeble minded " which makes them tnvtalbia on the much longer, and I— "They usually marry tbeas. Baar.” re The Nonagenarian-1 dunno, parson white ice on which they are born plied bls wife sweetly. Their eyes and noses are, however, I be stronger on my legs than I were black, and when the little ones are when I started!—London Opinion. Practical Conaideeette«. suddenly alarmed they close their eyes, "Tou have no magnificent min, eneb bury their noses and lie quite still. It Mistaken Idee. as we have Io Europe" “It may be laid down as a broad te only when they grow and begin to “No." replied Mr Cumm«. "I taonght seek their own food that they become proposition," said tbe professor of po of putting up a few, tint I ■>»» tt op litical economy, “that you cannot get dark and aleek. They ’re mighty artistic I stain« but something for nothing.” they’re too hard to keep te rape|r *~ “ I once got tbe measles for nothing, Too Full For Uttoronco. Washington Star. “He invented a dandy story to tell professor.” Interrupted tbe young man with the wicked eye -Chicago Tribune. Ms wife when be got home after mid night" “Good one. was it?" “A peach: It would satisfy any wo man." “Did It satisfy ber?' “Tt won Id have, but be couldn’t toll It"—Houston Post. THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL Fred—Mamma, our prlnrtpnl sa ya Ma erbool days were tbe napr** Bays of bls life. Do you belteve rbet? Mam ma-Certalnly He woalda’t any •> If It were not trne Fred—WeB 1 eat» poe# he played tiookey a«d «Mdntt Bet caught _____ __ Ft tea« Tbee you bed a •ttotosta»» Witting to Oblige. Nervous Visitor-Will your dog bite aeeson? Tiicetrtral Msnarer-Tery Tw ef m,’little boy? Eager Little Boy—If o-tr rn-eX antagonistic cvttfite ÄÄ want to see I can sick Mm on you. , FISHER’S BLEND, Manufactured by the FISHER FLOURING MILLS CO., SEATTLE, U.S.A, A GRANDMOTHER may not be as spry ar|d>e|u»e'f to be, but she is in close tol ch with her world for ull that. The telephone enables tier to tnake as many calls as ahe pleases, snd in all sorts of weather. little ± Formal gatherings have their place, lint it is the many intimate visits over the telephone .that keep people young and interested. «FT" Grandmother’s telephi te visits do not atop with her own town. The la>ng Diaiati -e Service of tin- Bell Telephone takea her to other towns, an I allows relatives and friends to ciiat with her although bum reds of miles away. THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. HARPER FAMILY RECIPES. The valued family re* cipes for cough and cold cure, liniments, tonics and other remedies have *» careful attention here as the most intricate prescrip tions. Our fresh, high grade drugs will help to make these remedies more effec- tive than ever. Right prices assured. are CLOUGH. Reliable Druggist also Whiskey is a good friend but a poor master. Used in moderation it cheers, inspira and strengthens men. For sociability use HARPER. *’*‘1 ED. McLAUGHLJN