Tillamook Headlight. January 1, IÔÎ4. ■& LEARNING A LANGUAGE. NDER THE OCEAN It la an Easier Task ths Younger It Io Token In Hand. *hang«s In the Sea Floor From Shore to Shore. HE BIG MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE. I ; Starts at Iceland and Bisects ths Ocean Down Almost to Capo Horn. In Placea It Risco Above ths 8urfaca, Forming Groups of Islands. i , The time to learn a language Is when you are young, tbe younger tbe bet­ ter. We learn our owu language us children. Tbe older we grow the hard­ er it Is. because it means uot merely learning by heart a great many words, uot merely tratuing tbe palate and tongue to produce different sounds, but adopting a new attitude of mind. Nothing definite has been discovered as to tbe localization of faculties in tbe britlu. therefore nothing certain is known, but It has always seemed to me and to others whom 1 have con­ sulted that when you learn a new lan­ guage you are exercising aud develop- Ing a new piece of brain. Wheu you know several languages and change from one to another you seem definitely to cbauge the piece of brain which actuates your tongue. You switch off one center and switch on to another. You will always notice iu yourself and others that there is a definite pause when the change of language Is made. Now It becomes every year more difficult to awaken an unused part of the brain and bring It Into ac­ tive use. and to begin at twenty three is late.—Atlautic. RAILROAD COMEDY SHOES FOR LIFE. Tibet's Perileu« Bridges and the Way They Are Crossed. In 'I'iliet they have not yet pro­ gressed fur tie.vond the primitive. Es­ pecially when it comes to engineering tbe Tibetans are nt nliout the stage reached by Europeans six centuries ago. At that time in Switzerland they QUAINT'RIGHT OF WAY RULES. useil a long cable and swinging carrier for tlie transport of heavy weights, even of caiiiiou from one inounlniu to On th« Western and Atlantic When another a little lower down Trains Met Between Station» and a Now. iu Tibet they do uol try to Dispute Arose the Conductors Decid­ build bridges across Hie Mekong river, ed Which Trsin Had to Back Down. but where there are high cliffs a cable is stretched to tbe other side of the A most interesting exhibit of the river, aud for a tritiiug fee the person early days of railroading in this coun­ who wlsfies to cross clings to a thick try has been found by tbe Kailroad bark carrier and slides dowu. boldlug Age Gazette. It is a schedule for pus up his feet at the point where the wa­ seuger trains aud rules for tbe conduct ter uears tlie iierilous bridge If be wants to cross back be must go of eugiuemen aud conductors ou the Western aud Atlantic, which was at farther up or down the river to a point the time and still is owned by tbe where another cable is stretched from state of Georgia. Tbe table is dated a high cliff to the other side, and again he performs the "slide for life." March 1. 1862, and was Issued by Wil This may uot be a very comfortable 11am M. Wadley, superintendent, fa way of crossing a river, but it Is easier tber of George D. Wadley, the latter than swimming across, esiiecially If for many years manager of tbe Cen­ •Jiere are rapids in tbe stream, and it tral Railroad of Georgia. Is tlie favorite »i>d cheap way of build­ The schedule shows a picture of an tug bridges among the Tibetan».— eugine and cars at the top. Under It New York World. tbe numbers aud names of the sta tious, the times for arrival, the times MAKING OF MAPS. for departure and tbe time tnkeu to run tietween stations as well as re marks about passing sidetracked The Firzt Attempt Wai by Anaximan­ der About 560 B. C. freights are all carefully tabulated. Aiiaximauder. a pupil of Thales, In Hie rules for enginemen nud con diiitu.s are many which seem quaint about 5tit» B C.. sketched the first map. in this age of colossal railroading. Of It was In the form of a disk. Democ­ course the road had only one track, ritus of Abdern. about 100 years aft­ aud rule 14 for passenger conductors er. witli n wider range of knowledge, shows that there must have been some drew :i new map. giving the world an dispute when trains met ns to which oblong form, showing extension enst train had the right to keep on its way and west rather than north and south. The first application of astronomy to uninterrupted. This rule says: “As a general rule, when trains meel geography was made by I'ythens of between stations the train nearest the Marselth's about 32U B. C.. he having turnout will run back. Au.v dispute us made the first observation of latitude. to which train Is to retire Is to be de Hipparchus of Nicaea, 1<>2 B. C., first ternilned nt once by the conductors determined latitude and longitude. without Interference on tbe part of tbe Mariuus of Tyra, about 150 B. C.. was enginemen. This rule is required to lie the first to make use of Hipparchus’ varied In favor of the heaviest loaded teachings In representing tbe countries engine or worst grades if they meet of the world Claudius Ptolemy of I’eluslutn. Egypt, near the center." Rule 7 gives the conductor directions alxiut 102 A. D., was In reality the tirat for reporting on the number of passen scientific mapmiiker. Notwithstanding gera who are paying mid the number errors I ii boundaries and locations, tiie The Romans of ministers of the gospel who were to method was correct lie charged half price when ou busl contributed nothing to mapmaking. uess connected with1 their calling. Tbe No Improvement was imide in It from same rule indicated that tlie governor the time of Ptolemy until the thir­ of the state and the general superin­ teenth century, when a map appeared tendent of the road were the only Indi In Italy which was constructed with viduals who had a right to give passes the aid of a compass -Exchange. Tbe conductor was ordered to in spect tbe running gear of bls train at Old Time Football. every station and In rule 13 was ad In the twelfth century London en­ monished uever to leave Atlanta or joyed football. Fitz Stephen, clerk to Chattanooga without the mail or with­ Thomas a Becket, tells bow after din­ out first sending to the postoffice after ner tbe youths of the city would "ad­ It. Ruie 17 says that a train stopping dress Ihemselves" to football. These at iuiy station at uigiit must Invurlably sportsmen were fastidious in their be ruu on tbe turnout so as to leuve way. The scholars of each school had the main track clear, and that strict a ball peculiar to themselves, ns had. watch bad to be kept |u all cases Indeed, most of the particular trades. where a train stopped at night The fathers of the players, too, were lu the regulations for pussenger en “as youthful as the youngest." for. glnernen there are a number which "their natural heat seeming to be re­ seem almost humorous In this period vived at the sight of so much agility," of railroad management For instance, they sprang from their stands into the tbe engineman was Instructed that If arena In Inter days, too. the excite­ his train killed auy stock and threw ment of the-game Ims tieen known to In­ the cow or cows in such a position as fect the spectators. Somebody wrote of to endanger the safety of the next a game in 15!I8: “'These two men were train he was to stop his train mid see killed by Gold Gunter. Gunters sounes that tbe track was cleared. aud ye Gregories fell together by ye Passenger trains were not to exceed years at football. Ould Gunter drewe tbe speed of their schedule except his dagger and broke booth« their when behind time, in which case tbe beads, mid they died bootbe within a speed might be Increased three miles fortnight after.” an hour generally. In passing turnouts (tlie turnout evidently was tlie switch Lightning Shuns Women. ing track) tbe s|>eed had to l>e dim In Statistics ap|>ear to show that men islied to six miles an hour. are more likely to be struck by light­ Rille 0 might lie put in force today ning than women, more than two men with good effect and to tbe delight of being killed by it for every woman. a much Jolted traveling public. It Blit a l.omlon Journal points out that reads: the man's occupation Is more likely to "In connecting and In starting with bike him Into the open when lightning his tratn tbe englueman will be ex Is about, it has been observed, how eeedli.gly careful In the management ever, that In a group equally com[»os of tbe throttle so that the ears may not ed of Isitli sexen lightning seems to tie injured or the passengers annoyed prefer the men. and we may theorize by tlie sudden violence of the start ” at pleasure as to whether It Is the This paragraph Is fouud at the end conifmrlve height that doe» It or some of the regulations for eugtnemen: protection afforded by the woman's "For any violation of the above dress or n difference In condiictlhillty rules, for running off at turnouts, for between the sexes. Tlie fact that chil­ killing of stock by daylight if nd for al dren are Heldotn killed by lightning otlier irregularities the general sii|>er supports to a certain extent the first fntetident will Impose such fines as h of these theories. deems Just and called for by the mi tare of the offense." Let Down the Blind. The freight trains took two day» t< A youngster had Iteen to tbe theater, make tlie 137 miles between Atlanta atal u|win Ids return his mid« asked and Chattanooga The stops at the him how he liked the piny. stations varied from ten to sixty mln "Oil." he replied, “the play was all Ute«. One of the rules for freight con right, but I dklu't see nearly all of Itf ductors shout keeping a certain dis "Why. how till] that happen?" asked Lines from the trains ahead of him his uncle. and behind hltn shows that there must "Because." answered the youngster, bare lieen a delightful uncertainty "the roller must have been broke, for about the provisions for changing tlie window blind fell down two or meeting points In rase trains were de three times "—London Express. layed. It is evident that there was no telegraph commuaicatkin along the Hi« Idea of It line, although this was eight years “George Washington." rend the amali after Morse had demonstrated that he l«iy from his history, “was born Feb could send messages over the wire from Washington to Baltimore Sev­ 22. 1732. A D " "Wbat does A D.' ata lid tori" In­ eral months before Charles Minot also had made use ot the telegraph In quired tbe teacher Tile small lsse of killing fish for between 2.000 and 3.000 fathoms; tbe food. In the castle of Itosenlierg the Wmiilnlug 7.5 per cent Is still deeper. kings of Denmark have long possessed M "At tbe foot of the continental slope a magnificent throne made of tusks of Be« an illimitable plqlu of a uniform this cetacean. These tusks are harder Bull. grayish buff color, flat and fea­ and whiter than ivory. tureless as tbe desert, and only dlve^si- Bed by an occasional as yet uncovered Author Who Wrote Legibly. BollM>y «1 i:.e top of his writ ■tsec-ts tbe Atlantic, extends from Ice­ lug class. His ropy was always "gaftor. which was fortu­ •f south latitude, with a slight and I nate. for there was always the great­ quite inexplicable break lust under the est difficulty In getting him to correct Wiuator. Tbe ridge runs almost parallel the proofs of his reviews I have the With tbe eastern contour of North and manuscript of one of Ills later |s«ins. ■outh America, which, iu turn, as tbe which a child of ten could read with ■Tdinarv map will show, roughly cor- ease, though It Is written partly In ■»ponds with tbe western contour of I ink and partly Iu fieis-ll and carefully Ejurope and Africa. From time to time stuck together wlier:- N'W have ls*en the ridge rises above the surface of the snipped out with sdssiuc rie was ■nter. as In tbe Azores group. St. prolaibly the only writer of gent.« who ¡Mill's rocks. Ascension. Tristan da used |«nny exercise books as mana­ ■pubs and Gough Island. script pu|>er. — I.oudoti Xias-tutor. ■''Having ascended the eastern and Kecended tbe western slope of this Tennyson and a Talaseop* ■Id-Atlantic ridge, we should again Sir Hertiert Beerlsihin Tree in ■averse plains of grayish oose far and Afterthoughts“ fella ■ore extensive than any level land "Thoughts U|act known to geographers, and as we this pile of I-ord Tennyson: The poet ■Bproacbed tbe American coast we was Invited to a carta In country house, Mould gradually pass through, in re- ■and all tbe neighboring luminarle» of I *rse order, tbe zones of life traversed the couuty find been inviteli to meet After dinner Ids boat asked Mien leaving Europe. On tbe eastern him Hast of America tbe slope la much whether he would like to look nt the Tennyson toot up the «ele- Bore gradual than on tbe western stars. scope and. forgetting all else, gazed Bust of southern Europe and Africa." for twenty minutes at the wonder» of the heaven» "Well, what do you Told th. Truth. think. Mr. Tennyson?" Inquired his [A Few days after the new farmer host “I don't think much of oik id purchased a borse from a thrifty county families." Tennyson replied. hot be returned in an angry mood. ■ ou told me thia horse bad won half Tumblers. [dozen matches against some of tbe Drinking gl»«»r« •■ailed tumblers owe art horses hi tbe country. He can't tbelr name to the fart that they are bt a mile In six minutes to aava him Hf You lied to me!" be denonrtced. I the ww'reicmm of the llti'e round di­ rl didna lie. It was in plowin’ I rer laiwla. a» fterfectly I ml aweed that, I Now, What Did He Give Her? ■ tehee ba took sax prteew" calmly whl-li ever way they were lipped alaHit on the table they tumbled Into 1 Cen’t Do Beth. A particular old gentleman. (Hilling Ipllt-d Sandy poslthm again arui there remained w’th something out of hl« »Hip timt «hou Id “I'op, you an' inn have got me gne»» the rim upward. not have been Iwloded airsutg the I»’." I other "Whnfa the mailer, son?" Ingredients, tho« addressed bls "Ma leih* me to always sfienk the rook "Josephine. I am much obliged Fairly Lazy. for your thoughtfulness. Imt nest time tritt*, hh ' ytm tell me to »Iwny» lie p*e j “fa Jee lazy*" kindly give It to me la a ks-ket lam Itte. Now. wbhh shall I do?"—Hot*»- "1u*z>'« ■»• Marne for It. Why. he'll tou I’oet. go Into a rei.-lvlng >nud Judge Never suffer couth tn lie an e«r«»e The eroi ut Ion of llie race, for Inadequacy nor age and fame f» reform t* an ex«iew few tadolenee. - Benjamin physhwlly. nmrally or mentally, bau been thus acromplbbrtl - Auou. K Uay*>a ONE WAV TO VISIT ________ BUILD OF THE BABY. Normal Weights and Measurements Up to Three Years of Ags. A loit.v should weigh at birth seven pounds, nt three umutlis eleven pouuds. at five mototlis fourteen pounds, ut on» year tweuty-oue pounds, at two years twenty six ismiids aud at three years thirty-one iiouuds The length of a NEVER STARTLES HIS HOST. baity at birth slamld be twenty and one-half Inches, at three ^jptuhs twen­ ty two Im ties, nt live mouths tweuty He 1» Too Politely Deliberate For That three and a half inches, at oue yeut and th« Compliment la Faithfully twenty eight Im ties, at two years tblr- Returned—Ceremonies In the House ty-two nud n half Inches aud at three Have a Rather Abrupt Ending. years thirty-five inches. Its client measure nt blrtti should lie For a barbariau the Tarahumare is I thirteen and a half Inches, at three a very polite personage. In bis language mouths fourteen mid a half Inches, at he even has a word "reke," which | five months sixteen luclies. at one yem Is tbe equivalent of tbe English eighteen inches, at two years nineteen "please", and which he uses constant­ Inches and at three years twenty ly. When speaking to a stranger or Inches. leaving a person, he draws attention Some babies are built very small. to his action by saylug. "I am going." and. if well, even if lielow these fig­ As he grows civilized, however, be ures, there is no cause for worry. But loses bis good manners. if a baby Is about normal size and In spite of this he is uot hospitable; does not come up to these figures Its tbe guest gets food, but there Is uo diet should be carefully looked Into, as room for him In tbe house of a Tara- evidently it is not being properly nour­ bntnare. A visitor never thinks of en­ ished. tering a house without first giving the Tlie growth of linby's laidy Is very family ample time to get ready to re­ Important See that tbe teeth come tn ceive liim When he approaches a properly and that tlie legs grow friend's home good manners require straight and strong The babies should him to stop sometimes us fnr as twen­ be carefully watched mid developed ty or thirty yards off. If he Is ou naturally -Rural Farmer. more Intimate terms with the family, he may come uenrer, and make Ills MAGIC OF A MAGNET. presence known by coughing; then he sits down, selecting aome little knoll Makes a Chain Rigid Enough For a from which he can be readily seen. Man to Climb It. In order not to embarrass his friends A Berlin correspondent of the Scien­ he does not even look nt the lionse. hilt remains sitting there gazing into tific American describes an Interesting vacancy, his back or side turned experiment that was made nt the works toward the homestead. Should the of one of the large German manufac­ host be absent the visitor may thus turing firms with oue of their lifting sit for a couple of hours; then he will magnets A chain, fastened to tlie ground aud rise and go slowly away again. But under no circumstances will he enter carrying an Iron ball lit Its free end, the home, unless formally Invited, "be­ was raised to a vertical position by cause." he says, "only the dogs enter the approach of tlie great lifting mag­ net suspended from n crane. houses uninvited." Tlie HttructJon of the magnet wns so Never will the woman of the house commit such a gross breach of eti­ strong flint tlie chain remained in n quette as to go out and Inform him of perfectly vertical position. A grown­ her husband's absence, to save the up workman clliiilail up the chain caller the trouble of waiting, nor will without disturbing Its rigidity In the she. If alone ut home, make any state­ least. The chain seemed to float In air. ments as to his whereabouts. The magnetic pull on the ball wns The Tarahumare never does any­ greater than the griivltiitiounl pull on thing without due delllieration: there­ the man. fore he may for a qunrter of an hour This remarkable experiment show» discuss with Ills wife the possible pur- tlie enormous power of attraction ex­ |K»rt of the visit before he’goes out to erted liy tlie lifting mngnets thnt are see the man. They peep through the used hi Iron and steel works to carry cracks in the wall at him. and If they about iron material of every descrip­ happen to be eating or doing anything tion Tbe magnets enable the opera­ they may keep the visitor waiting for tor to seize iron material nt any point half an hour. desired and convey It to nny other Flnnlly the host shakes out the blan­ point within the range of tlie crane. ket on which be has been sitting, Incidentally the use of lifting magnets throws it around himself, and. casting has greatly diminished llie risk of acci­ a rapid glance to the right and left as dents in the moving of heavy masses he goes through the door, goes to take of Iron. a seat a few yards distant from the caller. After some meditation on Subtle Advertising. either side the conversation, as In more A successful hotel nmiiager pointed civilized society, opens with remarks to the advertisement of u hotel ut n about the wenther and the prospects fashionable resort. The advertisement for rain. read: When this subject Is exhausted and "Special rales to single men.” the host's curiosity as to where the "The proprietor of that hotel.** said man came from, what he is doing and be, “disserves to succeed, lie Inys in where he Is going Is satisfied, the for­ his advertisement n subtle trap for mer may go back to the houso and mothers with marriageable daughters. fetch some meat and pinole for the They rend tlie ndvertlHement and they traveler The object of the visit not conclude flint, glveu lower rates ut tills Infrequently is an Invitation to take hotel, single men will be plentiful. part In some game or foot race, and as They therefore decide that there Is the the men are sure to remnln undis­ place undoubtedly to take their daugh­ turbed they generally reach some un­ ters." derstanding. Then. InugliIng. lie ccnclilded: A friend of the family Is, of course, “These mothers quite correctly lie- finally Invited to enter the house, and lleve that iis fur iis tlielr daughters' the customary »nliitntion Is "Assngu!" clninces of matrimony are eoiieerned (“Bit down."* In this connection It may tlie more the murryer."—Washington be noted thnt the Tnrahumnres In con­ Mar. versation look sidewise, or even turn tbelr bucks toward the person they Not Immune. ■peak to Mrs. Martin met an acquaint» nee one After having eaten, the guest will morning while out »hopping. carefully return every vessel In which "How Is Mrs Callaway, that Ilves the food was given to him. and when be near you?" asked Mrs Martin. "Of rises lie hands back tlie skin on which course you know she Ims a child very he was seated Should occasion re­ III with scarlet fever?" quire the host will say: “It Is getting "Oil. yes. Indeed." replied tlie other. late Hnd you cannot return to your "I know it. Imt I don't dure io go and home tonight Where are you going to see her." sleep? There Is u good cave over yon "Why not?" Inquired Mrs. Martin. der.” "There la said to lie no danger of tak­ With this he may Indicate where the ing the fever, you know, after one Is visitor may remnln overnight. He will sixteen.'* also tell him where he may And wood "Gli. Imt. then, you know," repllis! for the fire, and he will bring him food, the ether woman. "I'm so young lu my but not unless the weather Is very feeling»!"— Lippincott's. tempestuous will he Invite an outsider to sleep In the house.—From Carl Lum- Novel Sight. boltz's “Unknown Mexico." A young woman from the enst wns conversing with ii Kentdcklna Hlsmt tobacco and tolmcco raising. Khe was Knew Where She Went. very pretty ilul a g"i» vastly Interested In her nil« til slie gave him a sudden shock by< 10th?“ queried tbe lawyer announcing. "I should love to .«ee » to­ •'Yes. »Ir,” replied the wltue»s. bacco field, especially when It 1» Just “And returned on the 28tb?" plugging out "—Argonaut. “Yes. air " "What were you doing in the tn terim?" Befor» and After. "I never was In such a place." she When a muli I h In love with a girl he replied Indignantly, wltb heightened boli!« iter blinda so tightly flint It color.- Boetou Herald. wo'ulil «reni he 1» trylng to keep h.-r from gettili» nwny. After tliey are marrled a wli Ile site ha» to bolli tils What She Did. Mrs Exe—While I was going down i-isittiiils to keep bini nt homo —lìurlds Times L'iilcn town on the car this morning the con dia tor came along and looked at me as If I hnd imt paid iny fnre. Mr. Exe- ’ Poor Papa. Well, wlml did you do? Mrs Ex»»-; "Karl, lei » piu,» and mamma. ksiked at him a» If I had —Boston ' FU lie iminima " Tran»rtpt "Oli. im Yon're iniK-h loo «tupld for flint You Le papa Fllegende Itlutter, The Tarahumare of Mexico Has a Style All His Own. Werth ef Newspaper». The careful render of a few good A Cemlng Man. new»|mpera can learti more In a year i iJrÌKKM- TI mmi )< hi «hrfi’t llar» do In tlielr gr*-n» ' Hliiirix* h * ’• «»Hiln» muti? H f I mk « X o , filH-nrlrti. F B Kiintsjrn but I wiHild if I wnn In «barge» nf ih« (Militent ini y HttMon Tniiwrtpt. Talor I» st» Bint y not of legs and srni«. Mu of courage and tlie r>nl — > After wo» ri ne«» com« rest, p» Monts Igoe. JO, |f n« lie worthy. N'swmon. -