«ne TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT MYSTERY OF GREAT LAKES CAUGHT BY JUICY BIG WORDS WHOLE WORLD IN HIS DEBT WHALE BIT OFF TOO MUCH •dentists Unable to Explain ths Rias and Fall of ths Water Along the Border. “•l-mul-ta-no-oualy* Had Moro Effect en Yacht Waiter Than Fat Tip Would Have. Demise of General Gorgas Removed Ono Well Called a “Soldier of Humanity.” Atts-npt to Make a Meal of Pacific Cable Proved End of Spor- tivo Creature. Why does the water In tbe great lakes that lie between a large portion of the United States and Canada rise and fall In periods which average sev­ en yean? This natural phenomenon has been a puzzle since the days when France held sway in Canada 21 »J years ago. In an unpublished diary of an Eng­ lish traveler who voyaged up the St. Lawrence rtver to Niagara. Ontario, in tbe summer of 1785. is the follow­ ing reference to this mystery of tbe waters: “A remarkable circumstance was told me by Mr. Pan see, our con­ ductor, who had been constantly en­ gaged In this navigation for nearly twenty years, and which he advised me Is a matter of fact both from his own observation and that of the old­ est Inhabitant. Each year the St. Ijtwrence river settles or falls a little until rhe seventh year, when It Is visi­ ble that It has sunk between three •rd four feet, and then for the next seven years It continues to rise in the same proportion. The river Is at this time at Its greatest elevation (July L T85). I took pains to gain some In­ formation of this uncommon phenom­ enon. I find that the lakes have the same appearance.” Careful government records were be­ gun about the year 1830 and since then It has been found that the periods be­ tween high and low water are some­ times as low as four years and some­ times as high as nine years, although they average seven years. This year the water is again at its lowest in the lakes and river, and freight car­ riers are having trouble In various harbors.—Christian Science Monitor. The caterer who fed the reporter» three time« a day on the destroyer 'Joldsborough at the cup races had a »tall of negro waiters, one of whom I had a weakness for words, strange wordA remarks the New York Evening Sin. Reporters warned to seek him out and win his favor by bringing him ■•whoppers." “Unctuous” must be that waiter'» name. For unctuous he was as be brought the breakfast milk—"cream." he called it optimistically. “Yoh kin have all de cream, yo wants, gemen.” he said, and some m'srook the quality of hl» soul and of­ fered him mopey. Naturally be took It. And he boomed a thunderous thanks that called the attention of all diners and compelled them likewise to offer him money. But the waiting soul of Unctuous re­ ally flowered only when be heard a gigantic word. Solemnly one reporter came in and standing ceremoniously with a hand on the back of his chair before sitting down looked straight at Unctuous and as one intoning a for­ mal greeting slowly gave vent to the single word, “simultaneously." “Si-mul-ta-ne-ous-ly." repeated Unc­ tuous. catching it perfectly and sep­ arating each syllable with reversed pomp. “Si-mul-ta-ne-ous-ly,” he kept murmuring as be bustled exclusively about the man who had brought h.m the new word gem. Tbe death in London of General Gorgas removes one to whom had be-n given tbe unofficial but deserved title of “the world's ptysician.” says the New York Times. His epoch making work tn Cuba and at Panama gave him fame in all civilised lands as a master of sanitation and of scientific method. Hfs genius in finally tracing the yellow fever germ to Its true car­ rier and in devising and developing the sure means of extirpating It broaght about tn bis lifetime the ful­ fillment of bls own prophecy that cases of yellow fevA would become a medical rarity. It was Inevitable that after bis amazing and complete success tn Cuba and at the Canal zone bis skilled services should be sought by other governments. In Guayaquil be demonstrated again his ability to rout yellow fever in one of its historic lairs, and In South Af­ rica he brought his knowledge and devotion into play. No one in hts time approached him In the number of victories which be won over trop­ ical diseases. It was a dream of General Gorgas that the tropics might be made safe for the development of white civilization, and he did an Im­ mense deal to hasten its realization. The wide recognition which came to him while living and which Is feeling­ ly renewed now that he Is gone, was less of hfs scientific attainments, great as they were, than of his achievements as a soldier of humanity. The direct descendant of the whale that swallowed Jonah dapped bis huge tall through the tranquil waters of tbe PactBc. off Mexico. He was hungry— hungry for a new sensation. All rhe thrills In that neek of tbe ocean were on land, where the Mexicans were con­ quering Mexico. Idly be shot a column of water through bls nos* Into the air. What with the submarines out of the sea. life had lost all seat for a whale. The submarine Idea fla-hed through hfs brain and tickled his ambergris, What a jolly lark, to be sure.' He would dive below and scare the sau- cer and octopus Into a fit. Down he went. Now, the All-American Cable com­ pany, which took over the Mexican Telegraph company, has some valu­ able rubber-wound copper wires iy- Ing on the bottom of the ocean off They met the Mexican headlands, gaze of our hero. He seized the long tflng In hl< mouth. It stuck. History has never recorded any whale who ever attempt­ ed to eat a Pacific cable and got away with It Our hero was no exception. He struggled, and finally wound him­ self up In several thousand dollars' worth of Interrupted messages. When the cable repair ships hove to and grappled for the cable to find out what had Interrupted communication be­ tween Vera Cruz and Valparaiso. Chile, they dragged to the surface a very dead whale, wound up in sev- eral hundred feet of hopelessly com- plicated cable. Chief Engineer .Tames Mowrat. who went ashore, and lives In New York, says this Is the first whale he ever heard of that tried to eat a cable. And other members of the crew of bis ship vouch for the story. MANDOLIN IN SECOND PLACE Italians In New York Now Exhibit a Decided Preference for the Phonograph. Many an odd note creeps Into the American process of the melting pot; often there Is a queer mlxrore of th* modern with the old-established na­ tional customs. Probably nowhere in Brooklyn is there a better Illustration of this than In the big Italian colony lying In tbe region between Browns- vllle and east New York. There nightly you hear the Italian's love for music loudly expressed. not through tbe tinkling mandolin or gui­ tar of Napiee, but through the ultra­ modern phonograph. Tbe mom beams down brightly, and perhaps damsels as fair as those of sunny Italy peep through shuttered windows, but tbe serenade below is one by proxy. Caruso and McCormack. Martinelli and Slezak. Galli-Curci and Farrar vie with each other In vocal flights through horns of brass and fiber. Naturally the beloved mandolin, oft­ en brought with the btmdte of clothe» from far-off Sicily or the Neapolitan hinterland, is cherished stBl. but the native tunes and airs are confined largely to the barber shops or the sadly-altered wine cellars.—Brooklyn Eagle. Had a Record. The only way it would move was down stream with the current. The owner had worked on it all afternoon. In the evening another bout came up. "Having a bit of trouble?” came the question from tbe new arrival. “Yes." replied the owner and went on working with the engine. “So you own this boat? What did yon have to give for her?" asked tbe new arrival. "Thirty-five dollars,” replied the owner. “That's not a bad price, but that boat has been around Ravenswood a number of years and I've known tt to sell for $25," said the new arrival. “Bnt yesterday It made a new record: it was sold for 113.”—Indianapolis News. STRANGE WINDS OF CHANCE French Artist and English Novelist Mixed Up in Romance of the Marquesan Islande. In one of tbe New York art gal- ' leries there Is now on view a primitive­ ly-fashioned dr«r decorated with the figure of a Tahitian belle. This door has been brought from the far-away lands of the southern Pacific. And “thereby hangs a taie"—a tale that leads to one of the far Marques­ an islands where Paul Gaugin “madly painted his very life's blood Into a series of astounding canvases, prac­ tically living on narcotics at tbe end because he felt that be must, at any cost, give bls message to tbe world." W Somerset Maugham, In bls endleas search for the endless sucreaslcci ef plots for his novels and plays, dng up tbe story of Paul Gaugin’« trail hot­ foot from Paris to Tahiti, and even carried off a door from Ms cabin. Thus was written "The Meun sod Six­ pence." Gangin died In his adopted borne, his passing noted only by a few ar­ tists. Then the playwright's visit to the Island, then the book—and Imme­ diately there Is a general gathering of artists, writers, photographers, etc, on their way to Tahiti. Mr. Arens has made an article of unusual Interest in tracing the pe­ culiar course of this rather extraor- dlnary Uterary volume.—Harper’s Ba- zar. Two Different View». “Well.” cried Mrs. Henpeck, 'our son is engaged to be married. We will write to the dear lad and congratu­ late him.” Mr. Henpeck agreed (he dare not do otherwise), and his wife picked up her pen. “My darling boy.” read the son. Your father “what glorious news! and I rejoice In your happiness. It has long been our greatest wish that you should marry some good woman. A good woman Is heaven's most prec­ ious gift to man. She brings out all the best In him and helps him to sup­ press all that Is evil.” Then there was a postscript In a different handwriting: “Your mother has gone for a stamp. Keep single, yoc young noodle.” Calling Back Birds. Tn tbe devastated areas of Belgium Loop-Elevated Aerials, Northern Prance tbe birds as ‘'An extensive research on radio and as tbe human inhabitants lost transmiss <>ns and reception with vari­ well homes. Their nests and nest- ous types of aerials has been In prog­ their Ing places were destroyed. ress at the bureau of standards. Wash Now: they have been Invited back; ington, D. C, says the Scientific for the matter Is not merely one of seb- American. One of the most Interesting i tltnent, Inasmuch as the birds are need­ questions at the present time is as to * the relative advantages of the antenna, ed to *nt the bugs that devour the or usual tjpe of elevated aerial, and fanner's crops. With this object In view, areas of the smaller coil aerial or “1< op." This question Is answered by the studies of woodland are being set a’ide and as possible to the bureau. The small coll aerial has made as attractive It Is expected many advantage«, but Is usually not so feathered creatures, that by such mean | ' olonles of birds po"erfui a transmitting and receiving device as the antenna type of aerial. will soon he establls.* -I. and that, with proper protection, they will multiply It may. however have so much lowet reotstnnee than the antenna that It U and become as numerous as ever be­ equal to It In transmitting and receiv­ fore long. ing value, -.’¿4» Beetle« Worry Telephone User«. When telephone girls In California Walting for It to Move. find their wires "shorted.” a bug may ‘ An old Ornish woman who had be on or In tbe wire, for California am er before traveled by rail went has a wood-boring beetle that goes to a country station to catch a train. through wood and also through alloy­ She sat herself down on a seat In the ed sulwtance considerably harder than stntion. and after sitting there for lead. The beetle has put hundreds of about two hours, the station-roaster telephone« out of commission by bor­ came up tn her and asked where she ing holes tn the (Hides that carry the was r’iog. On her telling him. be wires. Water enters the cables, mak­ •aid: ing wire connections useless until tbe “Why, my good wotnnn. the train bored places «re found and repaired. lias just gone »nd there Isn't another The problem of control of thia meta I- for a long time!" boring beetle Is still unsolved, accord­ “Why. lor’!" say» the old lady, “1 lug to tbe bureau of entomology of the thought the whole consarn moved !" United States department of agricul­ —"Humours of a Parish” (John ture and It will be difficult to find a Lane). practicable way. It Did. sn'd the girl “HI be your “Ye« buddy." My sweet roeebuddy," declared tbe mao. And didn't that malte a hit I ) Notice Notice is hereby given that the un­ dersigned Is the no)« owner of Loll's M rket and that it is In no way con- nc ted with or any part owned by tl.j Tillamook Meat Company L. E Loll 11-4 tl Nursing an Investment. •‘You very seldom go away from home.” "No n>e rent boa bee nraised «gain and we re trying to come ns near get­ ting oqr money's worth as posottdo." DR. J. G. TURNER Eye Specialist Permanatly Located in Tillamook Private Office In Jenkin's Jewelry EVER READY TO HELP BLIND Americans Noted Everywhere for Their Generosity—Humorous Lit- tie Happening In Philadelphia. In every nook and corner of the globe one visits, tbe natives do not fall to tell yon of the generosity of the American. The native will give a beggar a two centavo or two-ceotlme piece, while an American will probably give 50 centavos or centime«. And Americans are not only generous, but ready to do a kind act. Right In the city of Philadelphia a person often sees a man ar woman helping a blind person across the street. Probably you would have done the helping If tbe other person bad not been a few ssepg In front at you. Tbe other day a geoclotnan saw a blind man walking in a circle and fait sorry for him. Walking promptly op. the good Sa­ maritan said: "Is there any way in which I can help yowl” Stopping in bis tracks, tbe blind man replied: "Yes; you can take me to a restaurant and fill me up."—Philadel­ phia Record. Charlemagne Relic to Relme. The Reims treasure, so severely Im­ periled during the German bombard­ ment, has been enAched by a precious jewel of the ninth, or maybe the eighth century, a generous gift of the Em­ press Eugenie, says Le Monfteur de la Bijouterie in an article by the “Jew­ elers Circular." The matter In ques­ tion is tbe reliquary of Charlemagne, a round capsule of gold encircled with precious stones, in the middle of which, made out of two hollowed out sapphires, a piece of the trva cross Is Inclosed. It was found on the neck of the great emperor and the clergy of Alx-la- Chapelle (where Charlemagne died and was bnried in 814) gave it in 1804 to Napoleon I. What is less well known is that Napoleon HI. preserved this magic talisman, which assured, he said, the empire to Its holder, in his bed chamber at the Tuileries, at the head of his bed. Artistic Gem Recovered. Tn June artention wa« called to the exhibition and subsequent sale of a picture catalogued as by Rembrandt entitled “Heraclitus and Democritus.” the property of Capt. Alston-Rob- erts-Wsst. says the London Times. The picture was covered with such a thick coat of old varnish that Eng­ lish dealers wore afraid to risk the chance of cleaning. Many good Judges were convinced that It was a genuine Rembrandt. an