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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1888)
f SCHO^AND CHURCH. —Secrot socirtie« at Pinceton Col lege hare been abolished, and fewer jobs are put up on the professors. —Prof Palmer, of Harvard, finds that one-third of the students there spend under $700 a year, one-half un der $1,000 and three-fourths under $1,- 200 —The latest statistics give ths Evangelical Lutheran church in the United States an aggregate of 950,000 communicants, making it numerically the third in rank among the Protes tants of this country. —G. W. McCormic, a wealthy citizen of Thomasville, Ga.,who is not a mem ber of any church, surprised the sev eral white pastors of the different churches in that city recently by presenting each of them with a house and lot. In executing the deed he mentioned no other consideration than that the preachers’ lives had been spent in “going about doing good.” Savan nah News. •—Captain G. W. Lane has forty Sun day-schools of his planting among the families of fishermen along the coast of Maine For many of them his visits are the only reminders of the interest of Christians in their welfare. Last year he was obliged to make his jour neys in a little boat eighteen foet Jong, where he cooked, ate and slept. This year his friends in the Sunday-school propose to raise tne money to buy him a new and more suitable boat. —Chicago Advance. - The Church Army of the Church of England, which is at work among the poor by methods modeled, to some extent, after those of the Salvation Army, has brought forward for con firmation over three thousand adults, mostly gathered at the street corners and from public houses; has one thou sand more adults waiting confirma tion. and has over siy* thousand adult cominuuicants, who aro hun^ble speak ers and laborers in tlAs cause of CmrisL — Indianapotlis Journal. —A funny incident in connection with the work of women on the New York school board is told. A janitor of one of the schools came one day with a complaint to the principal. He said that ho had been janitor of that building for nineteen years, and no one had ever asked to see the basement until (»no of the women of the school board came and said that she wanted to make an examination, “and that basement wasn't in a fit condition fur any one to see,” he added, plaintively. ----- • — — RICH MEN’S SONS. Victim« ef th* Fopulnr Ides That the Mole l *e of Money Is Amusement. A wealthy broker of New York be gan life as a farm-hand in New Jer sey. He had the craving natural to a poor boy for fine clothes, a splendid house, luxury of every kind. To acquire these, he worked hard with brain and body. As ha rose in life, he was thrown in contact with educated men, great financier*, rulers of commerce^ artiste, teachers, scientific men. His own intellect, strengthened by its work, was bold and broad enough to appreciate them all. By the time he was fifty, he cared little for the phys ical luxuries which his money could buy for him. His pursuits, apart from his business, were noble and elevating those which belong to a many- sided, enlightened American, who keeps abreast of his time in its great movements. His son, on the contrary, was born in the Inp of riches. Luxuries, the lack of which urged*his father to inces sant activity, were as familiar to him as the air and daily sunshine. Fine clothes, rich food, amusements of all kinds, gave him little pleasure, they were matters *of course. He knew no life of which they were not a part. He did not work at sch<»ol or at college. Why should he? Other men worked to make a place for themselves in the world. Hu place was already mads for him. He neetkM no more millions than his father could give him. He had literally nothing to do but to amuse himself. Now, there is 1 ut a lim ited number of amusements in the world, and after a certain time the senses, the nerves, the whole body, grow jaded with e ich of them. By the time this young man reached the age of twenty-five, he was as sated with pleasure as a gray-haired de bauchee. Cards, wine, sport, travel, bored him; his physical strength was exaiisted; his mimi though still imma ture, was almost imbecile. When a sudden attack of illness carried him out of this world, nobody in it was sor ry; himself, perhaps, least of all. The story of this rich man and his son has been repeated countless times in the lives of our rich men. The “gilded youth ” of our great cities grow weary of 'balls, of steam-yachts, of even the theaters, gambling and drink. Their jaded appetite# crave stronger diet. In the great centers of riches and follv some of them crowd in the small hours of the morning to dens unknown to the police, to see brutal combats between prize-fighters. At a recent light between a woman and a dog the ring was surrounded by men worth millions. “ The only real sensation I have enjoyed for years,” said one of this cla^s lately, “was in China last July, when I saw the execu tioner chop off five ’»eads in an hour.” At heart those la<'s are made of as good, manly stuff as others. They are victims to the popular idea that the sole use of money is amusement. Even when weighted by huge fortune, as Na poleon Bonaparte once wrote to his Marshal: “Surely wp should endeavor to do something; to say that we have lived; to leave some impress of our lives upon the sands of Timo.”—FoiUA’s Ccmuaniun. —Wet, muddy feet and legs are ful ly as injurious to the lower orders of animal life as they are to men. In- fStlflrt tvftoht» tka «nhfltaAin a of nature to avoid such unwholesome ex posures, but man has obliged them to grovel in such miserable places and is therefore responsible for the results.— SI. Louis Republican» —It is said that in the first ages of Christianity Satan sought to destroy the church by persecution and failed, but that when he joined the church and patronized it with worldly power and prosperity, he succeeded in well-nigh smothering the life out of it. It looks much as though he had succeeded in retaining his membership in some of the churches of the nineteenth cen- t ury. — II ’ords a nd We apons. —Dr. Mary Taylor Bissell, sister of the president of Vassar, who is in charge of the girls’ gymnasium in New York City, is interested in the project of a college of physical training for girls. Whenever the college is ready to receive pupils they will be measured on entering, and an average gain of two and a half inches about the chest, five inches about the waist, one and a half inches about the arm and an inch above the forearm is what is looked forward to as the desirable result of the first year's bodily training and exercise of the typical slim girl of seventeen. SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. - «-In Russia 255,000 persons are en gaged in the tobacco industry. —The petroleum refiners of the United States consume about nine mil lion pounds of sulphuric acid per month. —The subject of premature baldness is one in which a vast number of per sons take a direct and lively interest. According to the Lancet, there is little doubt that such baldness is increasing, and it is difficult to give any satisfac tory scientific explanation of the fact. That journal dues not attribute much Importance to the suggestion that ti fht hats are injurious, but it declares that harm may be done in time by washing the head every morning, and neglect ing to replace the oily material thus re moved.— N. T. Leda er. FREEDOM FOR HENS. tlnw th. Ordinary Farm Crop Is AtTortad by Ko.ln, Knwli. uveu greater then the introduction of fertilizing elements: for although under the proper conditions the latter will increase the quantity and value of the rrops, too much w iter will effectually prevent us from drawing any crops at all. Nothing, therefore, can ever be done with land anywhere, if it be not properly drained where there is too much moisture, or properly irrigated where the necessary natural water sup ply is. not forthcoming. It is because of the vital importance of this question that we are thus em phatic at this early stage. To ascer tain whence an excess of water pro ceeds is not by any means a matter of difficulty; a very damp climate, a spongy and retentive soil, the existence of underground springs—all these, or any of them, may be the causes of dis astrous effects, which can be easily remedied by those possessed of such knowledge as wo have attempted to describe. In the first of the cases named, the evil may be overcome by ordinary surface drainage, but in the second it is only after ascertaining the true composition of the soil that we can effect such mixtures with other soil, or combinations with lime or sand, as may suggest themselves as neces sary, while in the third case, the con struction of deep under-drains alone will carry off the water from the sub strata without allowing it to reach the surface. Wherever there exists a faulty or careless system of drainage, no correct estimate of the agricultural value of a property can possibly be formed; for although from its excessive dampness a soil may remain unproductive, it may, nevertheless, contain all the necessary elements of fertility.— Hyatt's Modern High Farming. Who could live for a number of years in the country without hearing this re frain from the farmer's calendar? April—••We're sowing oats—shut up the hens!" May—"We’re planting corn—shut up the liens!" And so on through the long summer months. Their natural propensity to scratch for a living makes the hens seem to do a great deal of damage. During last spring we either had to stop and build a poultry-yard fence, oi- let out the fowls. In this locality farm help is necessarily scarce, for our near neighbor gives men one dollar and seventy-five cents per day in his quar ries. So, in self-defense, we let forty fowls "run the farm” for us all sum mer. Unwilling to trust them in the garden, we made one at a distance from the house. The fowls watered themselves at the spring, and fed themselves from the field, with t,he except on of a quart of grain eaoh night They went to the field as soon as the drill and scratched away as if determined not to leave one oat They followed the plow to the corn lot and ran opposite to the har row in pulverizing the so 1. After planting, they stayed there much of the time, but the corn came up re markably well, the acre near the barns best of all. No field within range escaped their notice. They gathered th&^^l< Ion fruit in the plum orchard, n ndqL'l iked up all the Red Astrachans each morning. appleX 1 by daylight _ _ They picked the cherries from small trees, and preserved the currants and red raspberries, The expense of keep- ing was slight, All that they really —The Louisville high school has destroyed was some fruit Profit opened a post-graduate com so* for came when the labor item was left young womon in typo-writing and out. The past season has been a sober one stenography. It will strike a great/ to many farmers A serioi s drought many people that this is more sensiHfi ------ Gul in»» «■»>! rheravrtAsvwry Shing but wee^>. wort al p , —How» easily some of the acjnws most every crop we have has been a „ After being costly one. Looking forward, it seems members take cold! that we must increase our income by -.vanned in a good praycr-meoting^hey increasing productiveness or reducing afterward sit down in a draft of world expenses. On a small scale, I have ly conversation, and before they know done both in my poultry-yard by giving it they are chilled through.— Indianap olis Journal. the hens their liberty. —The disestablishment of the Ro How they did lay! Such a commo tion and rivalry among the hens! Such man Catholic State Church at Pondi a rejoicing by the Spanish tenors! They cherry is now an accomplished fact, began to lay early in the season, and and the ecclesiastical affairs of the an ronti Hied steadily until the fall fashions cient capital of French India will hence came, and they ordered new suits. forth be administered by a foreign mis When the berry crop was a partial fail sionary society, independent of looal ure, and the prices way dow n, it was a control and free of cost to the Govern little solid comfort to liavo so satisfac ment.— Chicago Advance. —Rev. and Mrs. William H. Gulick, tory an income front the fowls. To those who have fancy poultry who have for some years been mission houses. well-fenced yards and plenty aries of the Americau Board in Spain, of money, this summer freedom may are attempting, with the approval of seem a venture; but to the many who the Prudential Committee, to raise have little time and money to spend, ♦100,000 for the school for higher edu it will be satisfactory to know that the cation of girls at San Sebastian, of- ordinary farm crop is improved rather which they have for some time had than harmed by the depredations of charge.— United Presbyterian. the fowls. Strictly fresh eggs are —The Bureau of Catholic Indian Mis easily sold for nr ore than market sions has issued a tabular statement of prices; a few plump fowls can be dress Catholic schools among the Indiana ed and sent to market any time at a There are twenty day and thirty-five fair price, and chickens are always in boarding-schools, with 2.190 boarding demand. pupils and 870 day pupils. For these Let us fence in our gardens or find 3.060 scholars the Government allows new places for them, and when the ♦231,880. besides ♦40,000 for subsis warm spring weather comes, and you tence, clothing, etc.— N. F. lndepond- start whistling for the field, call back ent. your orders with the new refrain— —The discovery ot a new gas is a "Let out your hens!"— Cor. Country rare and important event to chem Gentleman. ists. Such a discovery has been an nounced in Germany by Dr. Theodore SOIL ASSISTANTS. Curtius. who has succeeded in prepar ■Tow to Form a Correct Estimate of the ing the long-sought hydride of nitro Value of I.and. gen. amidogen. diamide or hydrazine, The acquirement of knowledge will as it is variously called. This remark naturally induce ua to seek by art to able body, which has hitherto baffled assist or even to improve upon nature, all attempts at isolation, is now shown and well considered preferences will be to bo a gas. perfectly stable up to a very accorded to certain cultures and breeds high temperature, of a peculiar odor, of cattle, while into the soil will be in. differing from that of ammonia, exceed troduced thoae elements of fertility in ingly soluble in water, and of basio which it has been proved to be defi properties In composition it is nearly cient. Sufficient attention will be paid identical with amnaorfia, both being to drainage, the necessity of freeing compounds of nitrogen and hydrogen. the land from an excess of water being —Public Umnion.
