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FAGEFOT1 Œillamoofe ; } THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT cplty, be wade to burn, while th* •hade that it cast* prevents inflamma A Weekly Paper Published Every ble grass from growing near the pro Thursday by the tected stem. It is thought that it is owing to Headlight Publishing Company. Inc. this peculiar system of self-protec Tillamook, Oregon tion which the pine seedlings have developed that the growth of the ever Niagara Traveling Backward. green oaks in Florida has been re Leslie Harrison Managing Editor Floyd W. Parsons says In the stricted in regions where tires have World’s Work: raged, while pure pine forests have “Niagara’s total practical energy taken their place. Both Telephones equivalent Is In excess of 6,000,000- horse power. This stream of energy American* Have Prettiest Feet. Entered as second-class matter In Is kept constantly renewed by the ac What country possesses women with the postoffice at Tillamook, Oregon. tion of the laws of nature and it finds expression through the medium of the largest feet? This question arose noise. The fulling water at Niagara from an Inspection of women’s feet Subscription Rates presents a grand spectacle which is In Bond street during the busiest hour One year ......................................... *2.00 viewed each year by less than 1 per of the morning. Women of taany na Six months .................................... 1.00 cent of the population of the country. tionalities passed, displaying ^under Three months...................................... 60 But this spectacle, though grand. Is a standing*” that varied considerably Payable in advance traveling show, for the falls have re in shape and size. “Dutch and German women have ceded 955 feet since the first survey the biggest feet in the world,” said was made in 1764. Robert Wortley, court chiropodist. British women have the longest NEWS CARRIED BY DRUMBEAT COULD NOT RELY ON SUNDIAL feet, but they are narrow; Japanese African Natives Have a Really Won Garden “Clocks'* Were Always Mor* women have the smallest feet of all, and Americans the most beautiful, of an Ornament Than Kept for derful Way of Communicating because they are well cared for from Any Practical Use. Over Long Distances youth. “After the American foot I award The sundial became a popular gar- News is carried by drumbeat in Af the beauty honor to the French wom rica at a rate as fast as the telegraph, den ornament in the sunny parts of an, whose foot is a triumph of grace, writes a correspondent. The natives Europe in the Fifteenth century, while dancing has given a special at There were older time recorders, of Central Africa have a wonderful traction to the Spanish feminine There were hour-glasses, candle* system of signaling from village to vil foot.”—London Dally Express. lage by drumbeat, lie says. Generally that marked the time by-their burn the property of the chief, these official ing. Lamps that indicated the hours Watch Would Be Useless. drums, which are many, forming a set by the amount of oil consumed, and of varying size, are, as a rule, of the the water clock, which was the most Not long ago a number of masons reliable of all these time-recording species known as incision-drum. 11118 left Scotland to settle in this coun 1» a long, narrow hollow cylinder, devices. When the sundials came Into try. One of them wrote to his wife made from a tree trunk, with the ends vogue they were bought by rich men shortly after bls arrival and instruct closed. By relay a message may who could well afford to have a clock, ed her to sell their household property travel a thousand miles in little more the cost of which was less than the and to take passage out to him. than the velocity of sound. The drum cost of an ornamental sundial. The The good wife had a neighbor who telephone depends upon an .elaborate peasant who could not afford a clock came to help her with the packing. did not need a sundial, because he code ot sounds. European travelers In the midst of it they fell upon often order their dinner and night’s could tell time, or nearly tell the Thomas' watch. The neighbor exam the lodging at the next village by a drum time by looking at the sun, or by ined it flosely and then said: message. The villager* use It as we slant of his own shadow. “It’* a grand watch, Catherine. The south of Europe fashion of the Ye'll be takin' it wl’ ye?” use postal, telegraph and telephone the sundial spread to England with service—and there are no charges. To "Na, na 1” was the reply. “It wad a European the rhythm of a drum ex fashion of the formal or Italian gar be o’ nae use oot there, for Thomar presses nothing beyond a repetition of den, and when English, Irish and tells me in hl* letter that there Is the same note at different Intervals of Scotch gentry fled to the colonies, or some 'oors o’ difference between the time, but to n native It expresses much simply emigrated to the colonies, they time here and in California, so I need more. To him the drum can and does took with them the idea that a gar- na' be takin' useless things.” speak, the sounds produced from it den was not a garden without a sun- forming words and the whole measure dial, any more than it could be Made Vsll In Institution. of rhythm a sense, Thus, at a dance a garden without a box hedge, a bor- The women of Persia—like the of "companies,” In one measure they der of Jonquils, some arbor vitae trees, Mohammedan women of every other abuse the men of another company a gravel walk and a rustle bench. In the older settlement portions of country—go about their duties when . . . then the rhythm changes and the gallant deeds of their own com Maryland and Virginia and Including called into the streets with velia pany are extolled. All this, and much the District of Columbia It Is not un which hide their faces from the eye* more, is conveyed by the beating of usual to find these sundials, or the of passersby. Tradition tells us that drums, and the native ear, trained to “stump” or base on which the dial one day when Mohammed was with detect and Interpret each beat, W rested, In the gardens of old homes. his favorite wife, Ayesha, who was Yet it Is a fair assumption that on unveiled, as all woman then were, a never at fault. every pluce where there was a sun stranger happened to see her lovely dial a clock run by wheels and face, became enamored of her, and SOMETHING MORE THAN GAME weights ticked away in the manor offered to buy her at the price of one house, or in the mansion house, and camel. It Is said this so angered Ingenious Pastime That Is Designed t* that every land owner who could af Mohammed that the prophet decreed ford to have a sundial In his garden that women, thereafter, should wear Give Participants an Idea of carried a gold watch or silver watch veil* to hide their faces from the Character Reading. In the fob pocket of his “small gaze of other men. Health Affsnt-a hv Emotion*. Training In character analyst* la ciothas.” Any emotion that gives pletisurq made possible by a game just put on acts h^plthily on the heart and other the market, says a New York Times writer, In playing It two contesting PLANTS GUARDED BY NATURE organs, the circulation becopies more brisk, and appetite and health im sides are respectively called "char- acter readera” and "face builders,” Aa "Infants," the Sapling* Ara by No prove. Love, hope and happiness all Means Defenseless Against In produce these emotions and, contrary some one not taking part In the game jury From Fire. to the accepted notion, the ardent being selected as the subject to be lover ought to enjoy his meals tlior- studied, The character readers write Young long-leaf plants protect them oughly. upon a slip of paper those charac- Despair, grief and fear have quite teristlcs which they think best fit the selves against forest fires In a most subject, The face builders then pro interesting and remarkable way. For another effect. They make the action ceed to construct a likeness of the per four or five years the stems of the of the heart slower, and enfeeble the son from a number of cardboard pieces infant trees attain a height of only nervous and muscular system, often on which different types of features as many inches above the soil. Dur upsetting the digestion as well. Anger causes the heart to act vio are stumped. These sectional blocks ing this tlm* their bark Is extraordi provide a mup of the face studied, the narily thick, and that alone gives some lently, working upon both physical and blocks representing the three chief protection. But In addition the long mental powers. The muscles for the facial types, deslguated as convex, needles spring up above the stem, and time being are taut and tense, and concave and plane, with many lnter- then bend over on all sides in a green the secretion of bile Is increased. A S'e which falls to the ground in reaction follows rapidly, when the medlute gradations. le about the seedling. muscles become flabby and a feeling Wlieu the representation is com of weakness pervades the body. pleted by putting the blocks togelhef, a key number on each block gives a green parrlMLS4»i 11th- AIS’ ref< nee to a description of the char acteristics revealed by that particular kind of feature. Each characteristic named by the character readers which agrees with the corresponding charac teristics found by the face builders scores one point for the character renders. Instead of studying a person present, a photograph may be used with equally good results. Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation. In the sixty-eight years of tlm ex istence of the Cherokee nation west of the Mississippi river, teu men were called, at various intervals, to till the highest otllce in the gift of the Chero kees. When the constitution of ll>e Cherokee nution was adopted Septem ber 12, 1830, it provided that the su preme executive power of the nation should be vested In an official who t title should be "The Principal i/ble» of the Cherokee Nation.” The ten pi In- clpal chiefs were: John Ross, Louis Downing, William P. Ross. Charles Thompson, D. W. Bushyhead. Joi B. Mayes. C. J. Harris, 8. H, Mayes, T M. Buffington and W. C, Rogers Oi these only two were fullblool*. Ad the chiefs, with the exception of I» Ing and Thompson were of mixed white and Indian blood. John Ross and Louis Downing were the only one- who had ever filled the office of as- slstsnt chief, John Rosa had been principal chief of the old Cherokee nation east of the Mississippi river. K»«p Up Old C«r*mony. A quaint little ceremony which has been vINK-tcd on the second day ot February for more than 200 years maj be seen In the cherchyard of Wot ton. nea< I lurking, England. It sn.se out t th* bi-quest of William Glenville n member of the Inner tempi*, who left l>y hl* will ■ sum *f 40a. for ttev boys of Wottoa. rtv* of tk*m were required to stand bareheaded sa the morning of February 2. a*d sucres* Cnlly reclt* (fom memory th* lord's Prayer, the Ten C'omtaavdmeats, wnd the Apostles’ Creed, read I Csrtathtams, chapter 15, and write legibly from dic tation two verse» frvua the same paa- sage, Then the 40s. Is distributed to them. A boy may succeed only once. The Gidlel*«* Yokel. Finland’s Climats Healthful. The climate of Finland is rigorous but healthful, marked by long winters and short, hot summers. It lies with in the ione of cyclones and anticy clones, which pass over northern Eu rope from west to east at intervals ot two or three days throughout the year, and give variability to the winds and weather. The mean annual tempera ture varies between the southern and the northern boundary from 40 to 34 degrees Fahrenheit, ranging from 20 to 8 degrees Fahrenheit in January, and from 64 to 62 degrees Fahrenheit In July. The extreme range of tem perature Is about 110 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit. The prevailing winds in winter are from the south and southwest and in summer from the north, northwest and west. The amount of rainfall varies from 10 inches in the northern to 25 Inches in .the southern part, being greatest during August. y James R. Howard, president of the Farm Bureau federation, said Washington the other day: “The farmer is going tomarket his own product hereafter. The farmer of the pust, «ho let the middleman collar all the profit of the farm, was more guileless than Cornelius Husk. "Corn Husk, you know, came to New York to see his uncle. He got off at tiie Pennsylvania station and asked a policeman how long a walk It was to his uncle’s place. ’“You’d better take the elevated,’ the policeman said, handing back the card with the address on it. ‘ It's It’s a seven-mile walk to where you’re going.’ " Well, by crlnus, I'll walk her, ‘Seven anyhow,’ said Corp IIu»k. miles, though 1 Say, ain't there no short cut across the fields? W ’ Memorial for Baxter Dog*. At the summer home of Governor Saxter pt Maine on Mackworth Island, C mco 6aK ar* butted b ) t - I owned by him which have d | 1887, say* a Boston dispatch , New York Times. The go* 0 » having made a bronze table? Z?** the names and record of thou. ’ f1’1®* This will rest on the fara ar I granite bowlder, around who? bl* dogs have been burled. k 1 tl>« The dogs were all of the . Ily and strain of Irish -ette^* first and great grandmother core, given to the governor In i bls father, the late Jam... p „ b7 of Portland, Me. ‘ The governor has raised about sev. enty-five of lhese dogs, unil has sold a few, most of thosJ h *?* not kept have been given to frlen^ I Turned Down. Closeman—Sorry to refuse y0B man, but my money likes company * Burrows—What do you mean? Closeman-lt can’t bear to' b. . Ioan.—Boston Transcript. " ou’ve Struck It Right when you Light a CAMEL Your taste will tell you that! For Camels have the flavor and fragrance of choicest tobaccos, perfectly blended. They’re smooth and mellow- mild. And there’s NO CIGARETTY AFTER TASTE. We put the utmost quality into this one brand. Camels are as good as :p. it’s possible for skj11 ana nreiong knowledge of fine tobaccos to make a cigarette. That’s why Camels are THE QUALITY CIGARETTE. amel *. J. REYNOLDS Tobtet» Co, Wúoloa-Salon, N C, HEAVY SCHOOL SHOES LESS THAN COST! We haven’t room in our new store for all our shoes, 75 pairs of heavy school shoes for less than cost. We guarantee these -shoes. Come and see them and saye-money. Yours while they last! MORRIS SCHNAL Popular Price Clothier FOR CUTTING YOUR WOOD SUPPLY A'l Ready boys—new Winchester tools for working up the winter pile of wood. Out in the wood lot Winchester cross ent saws bite their way quickly through ‘ougd. knotty logs. Wincheser axes fell trees in record timed For the householder who wants to “warm up’' we have other Win chester fixes, and wood saws made to save his muscle and nerves. Winchester Axes—t harp cutting edges, thinly ground—Perfect balance Second growth hickory wedges, Single "’T bandies. Patented Interlocking wedges. and double bit axes. A SNAP! A brand iiew Mitchell Six 1921 tn ode 1 for eale at Wholesale Price, $1571.80 Inquire Headlight Office Winc*L!»ter Cress Cut Saws—H*gh grade steel. T*eth well- sharpened and correctly set. Blade thinner at back than at tooth edge prevents binding WFDÍ.IES, MAULS. AND ALL WOOD CUTTING TOOLS King-Crenshaw Hdw. Co THE ¡TORE ATTENTION In- coiqunction with the Tillamook BFair board it has been to close all buan.OM houses ay. September 15 from 1 to 4 . m. This is the big day at the com ing county fair, when there will be I special attractions. _ P- Band wi" ior,B the K. H P. Hall at 1 p. m. and march to thq fair ground* and it is desirous that ill baaiae* and professienal met form tn line behind the band and march to th* ground* in a body Thia ia your fair so get in linegnd DE A txMfStEE. Tillamook Co Merchant« Credit Aaan. by W. F. Baker, **c_ HEADLIGHT 42 PER YEAR
