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
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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
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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.
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It were not trne
Fred—WeB 1 eat»
poe# he played tiookey a«d «Mdntt Bet
caught
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o-tr rn-eX antagonistic cvttfite ÄÄ
want to see I can sick Mm on you. ,
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