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Tillamook Headlight, MANLIKE MANATEES. TYtsis The Biggest In the World Are to the Utah Desert WONDERS OF WHITE CANYOW, Th»«« Maaaiv« Towering Archoa, Ma jestic In Their Rugged Grandatee. Span th« Lonely, Picture»qu« Gorge« Far From th« Beaten Paths of Ma*. I Quttr Creatures Ara Linked With the Mermaid Myth. In semitropical waters of America there disports a memlter of that family of aquatic mammals to which has t>een •scriteHl the mermaid myth. Related to the dugong and the now extinct I rhytina, we still have the manatee. I This name is preferred by some to manati. under the impression that the latter is the plural of the Latin “mana- tus" (furnished with hands), though the name is probably of Mandingo orl- I gin. The manatee is a herbivorous mam mal inhabiting the shallows about the coasts of Florida, Mexico, central America and the West Indies. It is not known to attempt the open sea and does not possess the ability to come •shore. This animal is somewhat whalelike in shape, with a horisontal tall fin. It is from eight to twelve feet in length, the laxly being scantily cov ered with hair. The only limbs are the fore fllpiiers, low on the side of the body. This flipper has no finger*. It dees possess, though, three flat nails and has a free motion in all direction* from the shoulder. The elbow and wrist approximate the human anato my in movement. With this crude re- Mtnblance to an arm the manatee has been said to carry its young. While the statement is not authentic, it is quite believable, its possibility being Touched for by all observers of the •rm in motion. The head of the manatee Is divided from the body by a slight indication of neck. The upper lip Is extraordl- narlly flexible—so much so that each side can protrude Independently of the other, and, thus separated Into two lolies, the upper lip can perform the complete operation of grasping food ■nd conveying it into the mouth, in each jaw aVe twenty pairs of two With this formidable ridged teeth, equipment the manatee is not. how- ever, ferocious, but browses tranquilly on the water plants of its habitat. In some views the head is surprisingly manlike, though far from beautiful, and no specimen has ever sat on the rocks and combed its golden hair.— Harper's. Í I II *11 I 3 «>| t* fi THE UNERRING SUN An Atteok of “Buck Agu«“ Mad« a Fool of the Hunter. What the "buck ague" Is like la de- •crllied in "The Journal of s Sporting Nomad." by J. T. Htiulley The au thor's first attempt against the caribou result«! In humiliation. He tells that Johnny, his Indian guide, suddenly dropped like a stone into the wet grass and muttered "Stag." an«f there, sure enough, strolling along the front was By the Aid of th« Wonderful Sun Valve a tine caribou. “I sat dowu, resting It Lighta th« Ao«tyl«n« Beaoona aa It my elbow on my knee, waiting until Seta at Night and Extinguishes Them be should put in an appearam?* my •a It Riaaa In th« Morning. side of the rock. 1 bad the rifle to my shoulder, and at last the grand beast The sun is the most trustworthy of walked Into view, not more than 100 lighthouse keepers. The sun or the yards away. He stopped, looking heat from it lighta many hundreds of about him, and I drew a bead on bis beacons along our coasts and water- shoulder. Uselessl The rifle wabbled , ways evening after evening and ex- all over the place, and for the life of I tluguisbes them punctually every morn me 1 could not keep It still nor hold ing. They are guides on land and sea my breath. My heart was In my i I that are never touched by human bands mouth, and all the time the rifle trem- from one month's end to another. The ble«i and shook. The caribou moved way in which the United States gov on a few paces, and 1 determined that ernment. through its lighthouse board, If I meant to shoot at all I must obtain has utilized the services of the sun and better control of my nerves. I still made that great lamp of heaven • covered him with the sights, or thought faithful and unerring servant is most I was doing so. as 1 pulled the trigger interesting. on the beast that was standing broad The discovery of acetylene gas was side on with bis bead turned from me. the first step toward retiring the lonely "I was using a fine rifle, and It was keepers of the little lights in faroff the work of an instant to pump an places. Modern magic was not slow other cartridge into the chamber and in recognizing the fact that by the ap fire again. Still no move on the part plication of certain well known aclen- of my target. He faced the other way tlfic principles the llghtlug of the great nonchalantly, listening with Interest to chains of beacons that girdle the coasts the echo of the rifle In the distant can of the two seas and the gulf and cover yons. I was getting desperate now the great lakes and every navigable and could hear tbe Micmac muttering stream in our huge country could be all sorts of Imprecations behind my much simplified. back, which only made things worse. The Uulted States did not become in 1 flre«i five more shots at that caribou terested In the acetylene light and its as he stood as though carved in wood, automatically generating gas buoy until [«ersc-verlng uutll he turned off calmly about the year 1IXMJ and did not adopt into a tielt of timber. it until llklS. Then the engineers of “This story is an absolute fact I the lighthouse board devised some would not have credited It bad I not wouderful Improvements, among them b«*en tbe one to make such a fool of | the utilization of tlie sun. myself. My feelings can be more | The self lighting and self extinguish readily Imagined than described. 1 ing acetylene beacon is a very simple could have cried with vexation and thing, but it depeuds almost entirely shame. Johnny took tbe rifle, looked on the "sun valve." which is one of the It over, patted it as though he would I most wouderful but least complex of demand of It whether the fault lay | the achievements of modern science. with It or tbe user, and I tried to In the first place, the source of light make excuses to myself for myself.' for these lone beacons is dissolved It Is Uncle Sam’s Most Reliable Lighthouse Keeper. NEVER FALTERS IN ITS WORK. Among the wonders of the weat wblcb tbe government bus taken un der Its care are tbe remarkable natural bridges of Utah, which are. so far as la known, without a peer lu 11*18 these three bridges, the Caroline. Au gusta aud Edwin, were set aside as na tional monuments, and later certain caves and springs near by were added to tbe reserved area. It Is difficult to give an adequate idea of these stupendous arebes. and so far they have been seen by few persons, for It Is a trip of days acrosa the desert to reach them, but accurate measurements have been taken and convey some notion of their size and shape. Tbe popular way of reaching these curiosities Is from Bluff. Utah, where one can obtain a guide nnd out fit Thence you proc«?ed through dry washes, old stream bedB and sage cov ered mesas to tbe great bridges, which loom up in White canyon far from th* tieateu path of man. The White canyon Itself Is many miles long, and the bridges spring from Its steep, light buff walls, the three being wltbln a disutn-e of five miles They seem carved by Titanic forces, for the largest is 222 feet high and U5 feet thick nt the top of th* arch. The arch is 28 feet wide, tbe span is 2G1 feet, and the height of th* span is 15“ feet. Tbe Natural bridge of Virginia la a baby I d comparison with any of tha three Utah formations It is to be re gretted that these wonderful bridges are not easier of access Figures giv* little Idea of their Immensity, auff words but suggest their beauty. Tbe first account of them given 1» the world was that of Horace J. Long, who visited the bridges In 11)03. Ixmg was an engineer and prospecting in Incident of an Old Time English Par liamentary Contest. Utah. One day he fell in with a cattle In the days before the Institution of Th« Former Mor« Diatinct at a Dis man named Scorup. who was familiar tance Than th« Latter. with Utah and in particular with tbe the secret ballot, when the candidate There is a tendency on the part of with the longest purse usually won an region lying around tbe San Juan river Scorup. after some preliminary c«re- election, a former Lord Dundonald, rallronds to adopt signs with white versation. said thnt be had seen some who refused to give bribes, contested letters on a black background, not re remarkable bridges so Immense and Houlton, but was beaten by an oppo alizing that the black letter on a white wonderful that be disliked to talk about nent who paid his electors at the rate background Is easier to read and can be seen at a greater distance. Thia them for fear he would lie accused <>f of £5 u vote. Then tbe unsuccessful candidate follows in an interesting way from the manufacturing tbe story. He added that though, tie hud seen them in isiffi conceived this brilliant plan, says the structure of the retina of the eye. The impression of a letter at the he had always desired to go bnck and writer of a history of tbe Dundonald If Long would accompany him and take family. He announced to bls friends limit of vision is received on the ends photographs he would guarantee to that be was quite determined to win of a sms 11 bundle of nerves which con the seat next time without bribery. vey to the brain a sort of mosaic im guide the engineer to tbe place. Accordingly tbe two tnen set out with Then he sent the town crier round tho pression. A nerve can only transmit pack horses aud provisions, and after town to announce that all who had to the brain Information as to whether a lonely trip through deserts and voted for him in this first election might or not a ray of light is falling upon canyons aud wide stretches where no repair to his agent, from whom they It. and when a nerve la partly tn the light and partly In darkness the aensa animal was to be seen they descend«Hl would receive £10. As comparatively few people had tlon la the same as though all of it waa Into the gorge of tbe White canyon, the sides of which are filled with deserted voted for 1dm, this was not a very ex tn the light It follows, therefore, according to cliff dwellings Two «Invs later they pensive process. And at the next elec came to the wonderful bridges, the first tion Lord Dundonald was elected by the Scientific American, that all nerves of which, of pink sundstone. Mi-nrup an enormous majority. After the tri on the dividing edge lietween any called Caroline in honor of his mother umph several people came to him and black and white area transmit the sen Long was fairly dazed at the lieanty delicately suggested that some reward satlon of light so that all white lines and white areas appear wider and all and size of this natural wonder The was due to such loyalty. black lines and black areas appear “Not a farthing." was the reply. piuk walls were streaked with delicate “But, my lord, you gave £10 a head narrower than they really are. colored lichens and stood out In tend Black letters grow thinner ■ t tbe relief against a sky of blue. More than to the minority at the last election, nnd this, both men felt that tlie.v were gas the majority have been counting on limit of vision and are still recognlz Ing on one of tbe wonders of the world something handsome on this o«?casion.” able, while at the same distance white “Perhaps so,” said the clever candi letters grow thicker and cannot tie die They pushed rapidly down the <-s* .von and came to another an-h. more date. “My former gift was for their tlngulshed. There are circumstances symmetrical and more beautiful than <llslntereste«l conduct In not taking my when It la necessary to une white let- the first, with a lightness and griu-e and opponent's brllie of £5. For me to pay ters. but in such cases legiblllty will charm of coloring that made it a spies them now would be to violate my own lx> Improved if they are made with a thin stroke «nd strongly lighted. Black did work of nature. Loug named thia principles.”—Pearson's Weekly. letters are more distinct If made with the Augusta after his wife and man a heavy stroke. aged to get a fair photograph. The Thermometer and Gulf Stream. sri-h was so nigh that the trees of Cal Investigators have observed that th« “Doing th« Trick." Ifornla would seem dwarfed tieside it thermometer is not necessarily a sure Kean played Brutus to his son’s and the men took what nieasureiu«*nta indication of the gulf stream; that the they could by climbing and clinging to strongest current does not necessarily Titus In 1 "Brutus, or the Fall of Tar- the canyon's sides. coincide with the highest temperature. qulu." , As may be Imagined, the ben They found tbe Edwin, or Little The warmth of the water only Indi eflt was a bumper. There was over bridge, several miles down the canyo*. cates its tropical origin, and it may £300 in tbe bouse. Kean, invigorated the arch In reality of Immense di men or may not be accompanied by a cur- and strengthened by his holiday, play «Ions, bnt small In comparison with rent. Thus the warmest water off ed magnificently. Charles supported those that they bad measnr«*d AU Cape Hatteras is the result of a very him extremely well, and Kean's deliv «round these bridges are crags and gentle flow coming from the trade ery on his son's neck of the lines, "Pity strange formations, cave dwellings, wind region outside the West Indies. thy wretched father,” stirred tbe au springs and other objects of Interest The gulf stream itself is between this dience to their very depths. Tbero but tbe center of attraction Is and will warmer water and the 100 fathom was not a dry eys In the house, the applause was frantic and Kean whia- always be these three towering arebre curve.—Shipping Illustrated. pered to his son, “We are doing the which span tbe White canyon , trick. Charleat”—Armstrong's "Century Undoubtedly these bridges are of Against Speculation. great scientific Interest not alone ha The bead of a big trust said at • din -of Actor«." i cause they are so far as known the I ner In Boston: A Blunt Monarch. largest natural bridgea in tbe world "I have always been against specula I James I., being requested by hta old but tiecause th^r are extraordinary as- I tion. To try to get rich by stock fluc ample« of stream erosion. An snetent tuations Instead of by honest work for nurse to make her son “a gentleman,** river probably carved these great I the common good is to be an undesir answered emphatically: “I'll tnak' him baronet. gin ye like, luckle. but the arches, which may have been known to 1 able citizen. Probistoric dwellei- of the desert wart. "Besides, these fluctuating invest de'll bltnael' couldns' msk' him a gen —New York Sun. i ments are very risky and uncertain. tleman.” James I. was the flrat to create baro It’s s wise stock, you see, that knows nets (101 i>. H» it was. also, who said Its own par.”—Exchange. Th« Crowded Way. of the wive« of bis law lords. “I can "The late General Booth." «aid ■ Sal ' make the carls lords, but I canna' vs tlon Army captain of Philadelphia. _ _ Wiee Prevision. make the csrllnes ladles." "naed to admit freely that tbe bad man “Bllggins says be has the smartest bad more fun-at least while carrylna youngster In the world." Neighborly. on his hadtiena—than tbe good man "Of course." answered Mr. Growcber, I Hh<»—I have not seen yon for an age Stroking bls white tie*rd be pat tbe “Every parent feels that way, and It’« Herr Doctor. notwithstanding that we matter In a neat epigram one nlgM In a wise provision of nature, in every live only a few streeta apart here In Naw York. human being s life there ought to be I learned, with much rennet. Berlin They any the way of the tran« • time when somebody thinks be fai Herr Itortor- that you've been III. grezsor |* bard.’ be said At aay rate •mart.”—Washington Mar. Who told you that? Hbo My brother •t certainly Isn't lonely.' " wrote me from India.-Fliegend« Blat- His Tint«. ter. “When I last saw him J abbs was A O<ffieult O»*«r ""11, (at table«-I w,a. m, p«* green with envy, yellow with Jealooay. ! "What liecame of vour anti antea ■ nd* °°W' * ’*'û '* w*°t any oM meat white with fear and red with rage.” "What a highly colored life his must movement?" Esther laternlyt — Yon keap yonr b*"'—Baltimore American. J ,rWe couldn't hire beare band« sod mouth abet and eat jvat dlnaar —Bea megaphone* tn popularte« It without ten Transcript. Aneth«r Optimist. being InconalMeBL''— Washington »tar. Tammy-Pop. wbat Is a* optimist? Tty my's I’op— An optimist. my so*, to a «Jinn wh.> 1« married sml glad of to.— ^kMaAali Hui H— ..rd ELECTION STRATEGY. il 1ÄISSIHG A CARlffOU. 1912. December 2ö, BLACK LETTERS AND WHITE. AN IRON WILLED MONARCH, On« Man Rul« as Exemplified In Frt A« •rick th« Great. Frederick was «u intensively actfhe 1 highly capable, strong willed and «lol reliant commander, lie eoucentru"Sil all power In his own hands. redu< !•'!■■] his ministers to clerical work and ibol generals to the duties of (wraonal Ifcw ij tenants. Below him the Prussian a < 1 ministration was a thing of si Iff an <1 mechaulcal obedleuce. lacking in lul 1 tiatlve and individuality. ; Several of Frederick's military I ohm >J ware due to the fact that he gave hlJ generals such minute orders and ivnal so severe In case of disregard of 1 > 1 structloii» that they did not date tod use their own judgment when unfnrJ seen conditions presented tb.-niselvesJ Ha personally foresaw and provided Her everything, and he inspected freff qnently and thoroughly. His dlsdpUnJ was Bevere. his organization good, htA calculation accurate and limited td What was possible. His movement-«! which were skillfully disguised, wer.l rapid » Bo superior was Frederick to his opffi ponente in strategy that they we.ti Obliged for safety to keep their tro"->-re la so concentrated a form thnt thcr-J was not sufficient space for etfeetiv.ffi maneuvers. He was more capable ill marching and maneuver than in bail tie, more capable In battle than 1« siege 1 His great defect as an administrate® lay In the fact that he dwarfed th® growth of those below him anil so edu® rated no talented corps to lx*ar th® political and military burdens of th® state when he should be obliged t«® lay them down. He apparently conk® do things only through himself, llnv® Ing a supreme contempt for the capaci® ties of most mortals, he had no mint® to make experiments which might havtfl changed his opinions. Although li«fl knew for many yearn that Ills sucees® •or was to be a man without ability® be handed down to him a system whirl® roqulreil a Frederick. We may saytha® be brilliantly administered n systeufl which was badly organized Edwar«® D. Jones In Engineering Magazlna. FLUNG FROM A WINDOW. acetylene, which is stored under pres Horrors of a Death Sente oct -In th! Middle Age* In Bohemia. sure in steel cylinders. One of these How many people know what refer* cylinders can be charged with enough gas to last a small beacon three years. sstratlon insane? Yet it was once I Usually, however, in the case of float popular method of executing criminal ing buoys, a six months' supply is all and waa the mode of capital punlsll that Is necessary, as such buoys are ment used in Bohemia in the mkldll overhauled and painted twice • year. ages and Inter. Defenestration menu] Knowing the size of the flame aad its "throwing from a window,” but thi] hourly consumption of gas. ft 1» very did not always include all the arrangJ easy to compute how long a cylinderful meats made for the doomed maul | will last and how often It will need to exit from the world. In Prague In 141» the council ebuuffi be visited. That is all the care the light will need. The sun valve doe* ber of the hradsebln, or town ball, w.-J ■aed as the place of execution. Therfl the rest. The scientific principle upon which In the presence of the assembled nA the sun valve depends Is that light bles, their invited guests and the dlfl waves become transformed in different nltaries of the city, the unhapt® degrees, according to the nature of the wretches were east from a wiudo® Intercepting body. Sunlight upon dark eighty feet to the courtyard ls>low. ■ If his crime was an ordinary <® surfaces 1s converted Into heat, and bent produces expansion. This expan fense the prisoner was merely «Iropp® sion Is especially perceptible In certain on the stones and allowed to lie the® bruised and broken until death put ® metals. In a carefully sealed and substantial- end to his sufferings, succor being f ® £ ly inouuted glass Jar nearly a foot blildcn. But If he was guilty of treason " high nnd about one-fourth thnt in di ameter a thick black rod Is placed per any act of violence against a noble he pendicularly through the center. It is fell oi^tbe sharp spears of a squad of supported by three slenderer rods of soldiers or dropped to the tender mer highly polished copper. The big black cies of a pack of fierce dogs spechilly rod Is of copper also and Is coated with truln«Ml for the purpose, or he might lampblack to make It absorb light to be flung to wild boars previously en the greatest gxissible degree, The anp- raged by being pricked with spear*. Tb«. last time defenestration wss porting r«xls reflect licht without ab- sorbing It and do not expnud or con practical was Just before the Thirty tract tn the hu me extent an the largeat Years' war. when the imperial com- mlasioners brought an unwelcome me* rod. The thick l»'a<k piece of copper In sage to Prague ami were promptly the center of the Jar Is extremely sen thrown from the window. Thia pro sitive to light nnd bent. As the auu clpitated the war ami alxillslied thè appears aud the atmosphere grows custom.—New York I’resa. warmer in the morning thia rod length ena. It pushes down Into the metal Executioner Sets a Fashion. chamber In which the glass Jar rest* In Englaml fashions have li<i«n kill- and touches the end of a lever. It ed at executions, but in France ever a presses down on this lever, which is century ago fashion In men's attire controlled by a spring aud cuts off the was set by Sanson, the public execu flow of the gaa to the lamp. tloner. Sanson, who had high Mens of When the aim dlsapiwara from view the dignity of his oflh-e. was famous In the evening and the temperature of for the richness of his attire when offi the nlr falls the process lx reversed i ciating on tbe scaffold Just before The rod contract« and releases Its pres tbe revolution he was forbidden to sure on the lever, allowing the gas to I wear blue, tbe nobleman*« color, and flow upward to the lamp. The gas Is by way of protest he made himself Ignited by a little pilot flame that Is even more gorgeous. He took to green, never extinguished. Thus the beacon •nd that color, as well as (lie pecullur Is lighted at the proper time and Is put cut of his clothes, was adopted by out when It is no louger needed, al many of the young dandies <rf tbe though along desolate coasts It may court never gladden the human eye for month* at a time. Breaking Scotch Idols. The engineers of the lighthouse board No less an authority thru Kir Aleck say that the precision of this device la MacKenzle declares the fiddle Is Scot almost incredible. It can be used with land's national Instrument nnd lays equal certainty In equatorial bent and no claim to the bagpipe In polar cold, for It responds with the Another high class ex|>ert asserts the utmost accuracy to small variation« In bagplfte was born among tbe Seljuks, temjierature. It la used on lonely Is the ancestors of the modem Turks. lands In the Pacific. There are nearly Weel. waal! a hundred of these sun valve beacons Next thing It’s likely some «part In Alaska. In summer they are aids will tell ua that lh<- Welanders were to navlgntlon. snd In winter they guide not the Inventors of bare knees. f'Uva- the travelers on dog sledges over the land Plain I waler frozen wsstes Harper'« Weekly. Deadly. “I nnderatsn«1 that a number of wo- tnen have teamed to smoke cigars.” said tlie frivolous observe» “I don't Isiilevr It." replied Mr. Meek ton. “The kind of cigars that women buy nolmdy i ool«l «moke'' Washing ton Htar. O«« Fi«h«r«ran'a Id**- Flrat Angler l.«Kik' This fish was al most csugiii before: w I he broken He <md Angler b«»ik in Its m«HHh It shetlld fame hud u>n«e enough to st«M»r dear of hook« after that First Angler -Oh. come, you mn'l rx|«e»t a fisti Io eihlblt more m * c e thsu ■ bo man being Itoxtioi Trurs ript •■resati* Cause and Ef*«^- Foftly—I'd have you to understand "He spoke very highly of you «Ir. that I m not such ■ fool sa I look monti) ng«» " Rarcnat-W’ell. then, you hav« much to •"Ye*. I fand Just l<'«uc'l Mia $1»’* "But t<»lay he >snn»< thtok «Í he thankful for enough har»h thing« to rev ahmii «a«.- "True I aU«i»l«*»4 blu» »n Ih»’ *'•* Illchee are like water, the more -^- >y «mi aakud «Un- *• h you drink the tktratte» you be"» ' r. univers«. It is re*M.v mnmw • trinity, tlxiiii-h It possesses the ties «<t ma I ter-mass, mmneett nelle ; energy and probably CbrlsNau Herald JJt, ^¡egg«r«' Day In C««’» In lloxin Hirn the teqj,i.r« areg«- « leg<-«l [■ hiirm-iera ■rtr'Tiiextey-IBS* M th« « nix >»' > .»-«I that ds« of the **aB In »hi *> I" io - v from xfi*q> to alter I* Is ifie ' ixiom fur b-uiineaa houasx I« prepare I >' the <v«*ekly viali af Ma atendí'-»ni «nd to hsud over to tkaffi sni ill ■ olii« <<r articles of llttla vaiaa. In some Instances where merrBaafiaw Is given sway ths lieggani |ieddla N nte'iit I he isxirer qusrterw ond si v-tw a few ceuta apiis-e.—Arguaa* “1 was Just thinking.” mA weary traioD-io another. yKb «• *-*fX«- long Jouniry In front of them T ->at bail ronda and the womlera a.’ arte This earth Is spinning roaao fa/ Tg s railway train behind lima "Well, we ain't fell off vat “No. but think o' wbat a conv«*4»wa It would tie If we eonld ba»« place to grab on to while tlte »irriase! slid under our feet uotil tbe pte« Wh wanitsl U> gu to earn* atoaff!" The Turhiah Paa. The Turk's devotloa to tba Ml b clearly explained by Duckett Ferrtiaaa "The prejudlca against tbe hat reata • s religious Inula. If the ramas 'fc<teM prnyen la rightly .performed tha head must torn li the ground. Th« MB of a bat <>r tlie peak o? • amM» prevent tilla "• lx>ndoa UlaB* iwteitaat. Kill« lu-r art th«- river altra? Harker — Ne «W la Hip.irt riuHigh o«‘t t«1 fact up «<• k® (he (Irr hl'«I»«Hf í New Kart •*" Orlai Me«»«». Hokiia-I a III tell you. for at»|*’tidlclrta I« no fa«ke. hot It II were H »"• Hug one. l ife hjiT * I« JtHiea ««tiart »«--■•• i| '