TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, October 28, 1920 SQUALID PORTO RICAN TOWN TOOK TIME TO DO THINGS NATIONAL FLOWER OF FRAÄCE Beside Superb Scenery, Pone« Would Seem to Have Little to Attract the Tourist. In “Ox-Cart Days" Men of Genius Old Their Literary Work Leisurely and Well. Irl* or FIsur-de-Lis Was Ortgfnafly Called the Fleur-de-Loulo—Valued for Its Medicinal Purpose* Ponce. « city on the south cos st of Porto Rico, gl« - rhe fat-e imprvsal«Mi of being a larger city tlmt> the capital, loosely strewu as It la over a dusty, tint plain and overflowing In hovels of decreasing size uno the low foothills behind. It Is the most extensive town In Porto Rico, ami. like many of those aroumi the coast, lies back a tew uules from the sea. for fear of pirates In the oiyen days, with a street-car serv­ ice to its shipping suburb of Ponce- Playa. Airplants festoon Its telephone wires, and Its mosquitoes are so ag­ gressive that to dine In Its principal hotel Is to wage a constant battle while to disrobe ami enter a bath­ room Is a perilous undertaking, a«« cor«Vng to Harry A. Franck In th* Century. once nothing Ptterta de Tierra, more than rhe “Inml este" Its name Implies. Is almost a city of Itself, a pathetic town of many shacks built of tin ami dry good* boxes, spreading down and across -he railroad ro the swampy hay. Naked babies play In the mud. and mothers with pitifully small cup« «curry to milk shops In an effort ro get the precious food for their infants. How did they do It. those old fel­ low»’ Take a novel by Tlmekeray. for example, it Is monumental. Looks as if one of them would be a lite work, The mere penning of it appals a mo«l out ern man. volume after volume as if time and energy were Interminable And his No work was practically perfect, slovenliness, no carelessness, no haste, no guess-tlds-wlll-do-ncss. Today we have every accessory to speed, every time-saving device, all knowleilge classified and compendlumed and stored in convenient libraries, But where are the Thackerays? Or the Goethes. Dickenses, Hugos and Bal- zacs? Men of their day were compelle«! to waste time. A Journey of a few tulles took all day. or several days. A din­ ner Involved sitting up all night and drinking ones self under the table. A message to a friend was not a ten- word telegram, hut a beautifully penne«! and excellently expressed es­ say. Such letters were preserved anil handed down. Later they were put In­ to print. How many letters have you writt«;n which will be handed down? And how would you like to have the beat letter you ever wrote put Into print? Chances are that If you write more thnn two .pages you apologize. And you sign It, “Yours hastily.” The men of the ox-cart days did things thoroughly and well. In the days of the wireless, we “have no time."—Lynn (Mass.) Item. The Iris, or the fleur-de-M* fs th® national flower of France. It was originally called the flettr-de-Lonl* The ancients valued It highly for me­ dicinal purposes. A powder mode front» the mot. mixed with honey, was used for broken bones, ami It was also con­ sidered beneficial for snake mu) scor­ pion bite* A valuable perfume and oil was also obtained from the hi* The legend ns to how the flower re­ ceived Its name goes back to the Greeks. Iris was the messenger of the gods, and the rainbow was dedi­ cated to her. On her birthday. June Invited all the flowers to celebrate the occasion. They nil came In their prettiest frock«. Among them were three sisters. gorgeously dressed In gowns of purple, yellow and red, ami who were unknown. Since they had no name, they were called Iris, because their gowns were the color of the rainbow. Since Iris was the messenger of the gods, ami conducted the souls of dead women to their final resting place, th® Greeks decorated the graves of their women with purple iris. This flower was widely used In old Egyptian architecture. It signified power and eloquence to the Egyptian* and was, therefore, carved on the brow of the Sphinx, and upon the scepter* of their kings. | Mi WARREN G. HARDING Your Kind of Man and— FEW ESCAPED TAX GATHERER In Old “Merrle England" His Net Was Wide and Its Meshes Set Especially Close. i j i ■ | ' You BACK UP THE PRESIDENT! By Voting for for U. S. Senator. t 1 The Bulgarian bachelor who now groans under an annual tax. equiv­ alent to 8s 4d a year, has leys cause to grumble than many a British cell- bate who shied at the altar a couple of centuries or more ago. During the 13 years from 1095 to 1708 the man over twenty-five who shirked his matrimonial duty was called on to pay £12 10s ($02.50) for a duke, a tax which yielded to the revenue about £1.000 ($5.000) a weel* More than thi* In those good old times the Briton had to pay a tax when he took himself a wife, and an- other every time he qualified as fa- ther. Thus. a duke's nuptials cost him £50 4s ($252); hie heir, £80 2« ($152). and for each later male addi­ tion to the family hie joy was dlocount- ed by a payment of £25 2a ($127). The betietUct whose Income was lees than £50 ($250) a year bad to pay 2s fid (00 cents) for bls bride and 2s (48) cents) every time be became a father. NEW YORK GOAL OF PILGRIMS Their Original Intention Was to Found a Colony There, but Plans Were Frustrated. The Pilgrim Fathers might have founded New York If It had not been for the bribing of the Mayflower skip­ per by the Dutch, who persuaded him to keep the Pilgrims from the mouth of the great river, which they planned to settle with a colony of their own. The ancient charter of the Pilgrims gave them land which probably In­ The patent was cluded Now York. granted to them after they fled from the Virginia oompany. This grant was not exactly the Instrument the Pil­ grims wanted, because Of Us religious provision* The Pilgrims wished to get a patent that would permit them the fullest liberty of worship, but the king refused te give them a charter tn which a definite stipulation 'of relig­ ious freedom wta contained. So they were forced to content themselves with the Virginia patent. It being sug­ gested by fhelr sympathizers that In the wilderness they would probably not be disturbed. Musical Strset Crier* I d Charleston, even the chimney i sweeps are musical, and as their tiny faces appear at the top of the chim­ ney they are sweeping, you bear: “Roo roo" sung out over the sounds of the street below. Also to this tribe He drives i the charcoal boy belongs. Into town a tiny donkey hitched to a tiny two-wheeled cart. The cart and load nre black, the donkey Is black, the boy Is black and the only other color that you can see In the whole outfit Is the whites of the hoy's eyes as he rolls them nround and calls the long-drawn-out “Clinr-conl !" eerie. You wonder which Is the sadder and hlackest. the driver, the driven, ca rt or contents, as they wend their soil- tary way .onward, crying ever that sad. minor wall of char-coal 1—Charleston News and Courier. Little Known of Frog* Along the rivers and streams In some parts of Texas, and nround the margins of ponds and lakes, we meet with great beds of the water hya- cloths, says the American Forestry Magazine. Their dellcnte white flow- ers and dark green leaves present a picture of floral luxuriance not very easily forgotten, Where they grow, one should be on the lookout for va- rlotts species of reptiles or batra- chlans. and their habits and appenr- ances In nature carefully observed We know very little about some of the forms, and science will welcome any new facts In regard to them. Some of the frogs and toads, for ex­ ample. are not only very rare In collec­ tions. but we are practically lacking In any field notes upon their exact distribution and habit* HEART REVIVED BY MASSAGE Dr. Petti of Buenos Aires Perform« Remarkable Feat on Woman Patient Who Recovers After Long Fight, j Doctor Petti of Buenos Aires war shocked on making an Incision In * woman's abdomen to find that no blood flowed and that his patient was pulseless. She had Collapsed under the chloroform. Artificial respiration hnd no effect. Caffeine was Injected both under the skin and Into the vein* with no result. The surgeon then extended the 1*- clslon he had made. Inserted his hand* and took bold of the woman’s heart to massage IL Be squeesed the heart with both hands, but at first It did not respond. All at one« a powerful co»' traction was felL followed by other«. The massage was stopped, but hap to be resumed at once. The «Mtrastlona reappeared but the massage was con­ tinued and inhalations of oxygen were- given. At last the patient was out of danger. She remained unconscious for a long time, and when she recovered had no Idea how close she had been to passing out. Her recovery was very slow, being complicated by violent de­ lirium, but she got well at last. Great Statesman’s Hobby. Gladstone In Ills day was quite a® axman. The great Englishman uaed to slip away from the cares of stat® and hie himself out to his estate at Hawarden, seize the haft of his trusty ax and let the "chips fall where they may.” To him the exercise afforded the most complete mental rest that h® could find. With cont off and shirt­ sleeves rolled up the prime minister would tackle a tree several feet In di­ ameter, and keep at It until he bad re­ duced it to cordwood. He was forever consulting his friends as to the ad­ visability of cutting down this tree or that one on his estate. So proud was he of his wood chopping ability that he even had himself photograpb- ed with hls favorite ax at his beloved pastime; and so great was bls reputa­ tion and no ardent his admirers that he war frequently being presented with an ax as a mark of esteem. At one time he had more than 80 In his collection. Oldeat Confection In the World. The greater part of the black stick licorice consumed Is derived from Spain, where it Is made from the Juice of the plant and mixed with starch to prevent It from melting tn hot weather. The licorice plant la a shrub that at­ tains a height of three feet and It Modern Cereals Superior. grows wild where Its roots reach the The wbent and barley of today are It flourishes especially on the water, I much larger and finer grains thnn the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates wheat and barley which have been It Needed Attentlew. Since the valley of the En- found In ancient Egyptian tombs and river* He had been sent to a certain phrates contained one of the enrllest in the burled cities of Greece, As civilizations In the world, the prob­ for rice, which feeds more than one- urh to tune a piano. He found the In­ ability is that licorice Is about the third of the human race, there are strument In good condition, and net in oldest confection In the world, and the now a number of varieties (developed the least need of attention. A few days later his employer re­ taste which the hoys and girls of to chiefly by the Japanese) which are day like so well was enjoyed by the far superior to any that were known celved a letter from the owner of the piano, a Indy of would-be musical pro­ youngsters of 3.000 years ago. even half a century ago. clivities. stating that the piano hail not All of our grains, excepting maize, been properly tuned. It wus no bettor seem, to have originated In southern than before. Armenian an Ancient Tongue. Asia. Consumption of rice, the great The Armenian tongue, however, much After receiving a reprimand from hl» It hus changed in the course of centu­ Asiatic cereal. Is now growing rapidly employer, the hapless tuner made an­ ries, Is descended from the language tn the United States, most of our peo­ other trip and again tested every note, that Priam and Hector spoke. The Ar­ ple having learned only recently to ap­ only to And us previously, no futdt menians hull, like the Homeric Tro­ preciate It, and how to prepare It for with the instrument. This time jans. from Thrnce, which subsequently the table. told the Indy so. became Incorporated In the Byzantine “Yes,” she Said. "It does seem Freak Newspaper* or eastern Roman empire. Erzerutn, r ight, doesn't It, when you play It, In Germany there Is a newspaper ns soon ns I begin to sing it gets all capital of Armenia, has retained the deathless name of Rome. It was that Ims nothing In It but stories about of tune."—London Tit Bits. founded In the year 415, by Theodosi­ rheumatism. People having this trou­ us. a sebastos, that Is. emperor, of ble write tn their experiences, doctor« Proper Shade for the Eyes. tell new ways to get ri«l of It and It eastern Rome. He called It The«* While better working condition« co® doslopolls; but Its native name Is Erz­ seems that everybody there having tie attained by properly steading mid rheumatism subscribes to this queer erum, or Armenian Rome."—Ernest Installing the lamp, much can be ac­ Hartwltz iu Asia Magazine. newspaper, Some years ago a Itus- complished by shading the eye. But slnn editor started a postcard-siae 1 like lamp shades, eye shades may he newspaper, the print of which was so good an