THE TILLAMOOK WEEKLY HEADLIGHT
HISTORY OF MONEY
SHOWING KINDS OF MONEY USED IN
DIFFERENT STAGES OF CIVILI
ZATION.
Gradnal Evolution From Skins, Fishhooks
Sholl., MUi., In Hunting Stag, to «liter
and Gold In Prount Commercial Stage.
Cows end Sheep m Cult, of Value—De
tho first regular coin of western Europe.
It soon tiecamo the recognized unit of
value in oonnnerce and was replaced
only by the English sovereign, which
has since remained the standard unit of
value for international trade.
The commercial world has chosen
gold as money because, all things con
sidered, it is better fitted for this pur
pose than any other metal or substance.
It owes iu position entirely to ita
EVERYE^Y
living in Tillâitiook County or v. ! •>
has pi • pc ty locateti ln:u vant» :•
Etc., and Why Nreteatar,-<«.ld and Mi
FirstC I ;i.>s County Paper
ed—Moot Modern Nations Haro Paaae.l
A paper co< t lining nil the county
news, .1 I In evei y nay iu touHi
wliitli all the varied iudustrien and
Interests of the county. Such a
paper is that la the
Through tho Silver and Are In the Gold
Stage of Civilisation.
A study of ths growth of money may
be useful just now in order to give a
more definite idea of exactly what
money is and to learn why certain arti
cles or substances have been discarded
and others retained. The natural and
general tendencies well undemtood, we
have only to judge of the future by past
experience to prediot what will and
what will not be the principal money
metal of the near future.
lÀeaòlidbt
The Headlight if the oldest paper
pnblishe.! in the county, aud has
done mote to advertise the county
and call attention to all its various
resources and interest capital in its
development than all oF'er news
papers ccmbi ied. It h 3 never
failed tod«» alt ill its power for the
good of the country. In return for
this the people of the county bave
bestowed upon it a most generous
patronage. The Headlight has to
day
Hunting and Fishing Stage.
The Pastoral Stage.
Man early tamed the doincstio ani
mals Tho sheep und tho cow being the
most useful, they naturally, with their
■kins (and aomo-
tiniei with their
milk), formed
tho currency and
the unit of value.
Our words foe,
pecuniary
and
capital como
from tho use of
cattle ax money. Similar words in nearly
every language testify to the once gen
eral use of cows and sheep ns money.
A man's wealth was estimated by his
herds and fiix-ks.
It was in this stago that conquerors
■topped eating captives because it was
discovenxl that they were worth more
as shepherds and carriers of water,
wood, etc. Ilenoe also slaves often fig
ured ns money.
Agricultural stage.
In tho agricultural stage man owns
land, has fixed habitations and is pos-
«eased of a far greater variety of proper
ty than when lie was a nomad. Though
he continued to use cattlo, slaves, etc.,
ns money, yet ho sometimea added sta
ple farm prtxlucta and began to use met
als, especially copper and gold, which
at first wore usually estimated in terms
of cattle and were meiwunxi roughly
instead of being weighed.
Wheat, barley and oats are now, M
they have been for 3,000 years, h medi-
urn of exchange
in Norway and
other r e m o t o
parts of Europe.
Matsu, or Indian
corn, once form*
«1 tlie currency
of Mexico, Cen
tral America and
■ome of the early
colonic* Tobac
co formed the
priticqial money
of Virginia aud
Maiyland.
It
was legal tender
in Maryland in
17.13
Tho price
of wives varied
from 100 to 160
pounds uf tobac
co. Dried codfish
was ouct> enrreu
▼ twnixx corn vt. ro-cy in Newfound-
BAixxi. vil. ooDnsM. land.
Sugar,
rum, ginger, olive oil, egg«. Indigo and
1» tuoliMwcs are some of tbo pnxiucts Unit
Double
Of any other newspaper, ill the
county. And all this is spite of the
fact that other papers have been
given away for nothing in order Io
Jessen the Headlight’s circulation,
The Headlight doe* not need to beg
people to take It or plead lot
a chance to enter their homes as a
special favor as a premium given fd:
something else. It is a ligitimate
newspaper, and it
CIV. POMANO-CAJirANIAX COIN. XV. COLD
XVI. MEXICAN S1L-
so !. idvs or J ulias ’ ii.
VEH DOLLAR. XVII. E RNUIJSII GOLD SOV-
E11KION.
Irinsic worth. It has needed no special
legislation to sustain it, nor has the al
most unlimited special legislation in
the interest of silver and other metals
and substances been ablo to make tbeui
"as good as gold” in any modern civi
lized country. It has come by evolution
and will not go eve n by revolution. We
liavo passed the fishhook, wampum, to
bacco, iron and silver stages of civiliza
tion and have entered the goldcu stage.
Each year sees some progressive country
stop experimenting with tbo fickle and
fluctuating silver standard and declare
for tho stable nml world recogniz, d gojil
standard of value. Possibly wo may, by
foolish legislation, make silver legal
tender for awhile and drive gold out
of circulation, but our coninierci.il in
terests will continue to use gold, and
soon all interests will bo glad to drop
Mexico and China and to return to the
society of civilized nations.
B i ron W. H olt .
£>tandg cq it? Own fjewit
The Headlight bus every week
nearly twice as much home news as
auy other paper published in the
county.
It is all home print.
It has a fine staff of correspondents.
Jt covers the entire county.
It has a fine standing everywhere.
Il belongs to no clique.
It is broad and progressive.
It is able and up to date.
It is also tho
County Official Paper
Iliff Prices For Farmers* Products.
The Chautauqua News of Sherman,
N. Y., contains in its latest number an
advertisement which we copy free ot
charge:
It was fo designated last February
by the County Commissioners, who
at that term passed the following or
der:
In th« matter of selecting a news
paper under the provisions of an act
of the Legislature approved Feb. 21st
I8»7-
*'0n the ad day of February, 1897, it be
ing a day of the regular term of this
court for January 1S97, this cause
continued to this time for filing of
pro>fs by the newspapers contesting
herein, conies ou to be heard and
the pub’sher of the Tillamook
Headlight having duly filed a certi
fied Ust of its bon fide yearly sub
Fcribersliving in this county, anil
no <>t »er pub idler bavin* so filed
fuch l'st, and the Herald Publishing
Co. having appeared by its attorney
W. I.. Rroi k- a'id expressly waived
the filing of such list or further con
test herein it is hereby ordered that
theTill muok Headlight l.e ami he.<.-
by is seleCied as the newspaper pub
1i.-h.-d in Tillamook County,Oregon,
having the largest circulation with
in said county and wherein shall be
publish the proceedings of the court
as requited by the provisions of an
act of the Legislature of the State of
Oregon, approved Feb. 21, 1891.”
WAR PRICES.
Jn order to assist those who bclievo in the
“white metal’’ I will pay the following price»
hi
MEXICAN SILVER IM»LLAR3
(no change given) fur live stock and product
delivered ut Kherman :
BU'ers weighing 1,(XX) pounds
or over, fine und f it.......... 6 cents per poun<
Heifers weighing IM) pounds
or over, fine and fat..........3 cents per potine
Sheep, fat and heavy............ 5 cents per puun
Lumba, fat and hoary.......... 7^ cents per puun*
Veals, fine and fat.................8 cents per puuni
Pigs weighing 100 to 150
pounds................................... 5* kj cents per pount
Best Holstein milk cows...... ieu per Lead
No. 1 creamery butter.........28 cents per pount
Fine factory cheese...............10 cents per poun<
These dullnrs contain more pure silver tliai
the United States dollar.
5f7*Those who deliver stock in druvet
should bring an extra horse to draw homt
their money.
Dated Aug. 1.
A. n. SHELDON,
Mr. Sheldon is ablo to ùo wluit ht
promises to do. He is giving the farm
era of Chautauqua the benefit of the in
Anted prices which tho advocates of a
50 cent dollar desire and is doing it
without asking the United Stales guv
ernnu nt to become a repudiate* and t*
swindler.
Double Staiiil.nl Maple Sugar.
The Mohawk valley was nettled hr
the Dutch, as your lenders know. Whei
tho country wnn new, Yankee peddler-
came through the settleuients and pur
chased the crop of maple sugar. Ou oui
occasion u gn cit Dutchman sold a Yau
kee his maple sugar far below the mar
ket prioo, and liis neighbors teased him
for being deceived. Ha said in reply
'You vait and I will vix him uex'
year.” Tho next spring he sold hi« crej
of sugar to tho same Yankee nt the «aim
price. When his neighbors railed him,
ho soldi "I am no fool. I made tho sap
that sugar was made from of half spring
water." The green Dutch farmer had
just as much common dense as tliost
cranks who urm rt that 60 cents' worth
of silver and an equal amount of watei
w ill make a dollar worth 100 cents hi
gold at the preaent standard.—F. Q. iu
New York Sun.
On. N.«lwte<l Drtail.
“No, sir, ” said the man who was
chewing a long straw, "I ain't satisfied
yet. I don't think ary one o’ them con
ventions went fur enough. ”
"1 themght you reganksl the future
very hope fully."
“I did fur a time. But in the elcite-
mont we overlooked things thet orter 'a'
beam done. It never occumxl ter me at
the time, but we made a big mistake by
not liaviuu plunk put Inter the plat form
niakin it ag'iu the law fur it ter rain
on a man's hay when he’s gon«'ter town
te r'tend a p’litical meetin. "—Wash
ington Star.
"More money” is the delusive cry of
tho silverites in their campaign for
cheap dollars. But they do not attempt
to show how a 18 to 1 free coinage law,
which would put our •800,000,000 gold
at a premium ef nearly 60 per cent and
drive it all out of circulation, could pos
sible give ns more mousy than we have
now.
How the Beginner l-esrned to Bld. Hix
Silent Steed.
ter nt First Estimated Roughly, Then
Weighed Accurately and Finally Stamp
bent wire wore substituted for real
hooka Wampum was the currency of
the more civilized Indian tribes in Now
England and on Long Island. It con
sisted of white bends, made from the
ends of a periwinkle shell or black
beads made from a clam shell arranged
iu stiings or belts. It became tho offi
cial money of New England and New
Amsterdam und lost its place as money
between 1050 and 1700, when tho
“Smart Alecks” among tho whites be
gan to dobuse it by leuving tho l«>ads
unpolished or unpiorced or by making
them of bone, horn, glass and even of
wood. The colonists legislated much
trying to fix prices, and to save wam
pum from declining in value, but it was
being produoed too cheaply.
Natural
law was against it, and it had to go.
The use of shells ns money is still
common on many tropical coast«. Their
wide uso is probably dno to tho strong
passion, common to primitive man, for
personal adornment. This gives shells a
pormnnont value. Besides they uro very
durable, comparatively light and am
convenient for small change. Whales'
teeth, arrowheads, beads, tusks of ivory
and engraved stones are some of tho other
money materials of this und later stages
of civilization.
PATHOS AND BATHOS.
[Modeled npen an approved pattern.)
It stanchi in the corner, alone and forlorn.
The old parlor sofa so th road bare and worn.
The chints that bedecks it might causo the
cesthete
To shudder and flee with a yell to the at reef,
For there are arranged, on a background of
green.
Enormous ehrysantlxemnms ultramarine,
But ever by me shall be fondly adored
The old parlor eofa where grandfather snored.
Tho only help I got *“
to..^
th. bike was (rom my wife, lho little
X would grab hold of tbo framework
usl o7er tho’runr wheel ..nd maintain my
ana rounds of iieerless manhood whllo I
¿"’keS re"her Ld told her what to do and
monetisation of Tohaooo, Skins, Bronso,
The kind of money in uso in any
country indicates the degree of civi
lization attained. Man probably first be
came a trading animal in the hunting
and fishing stage. Weapons of war and
the chase, together with skins and furs,
were then the most important kinds of
pioperty. Hence we find that the moro
useful, stable and portable of these
articles were first used as money and
are so used today in barbarous countries.
Beaver skins or “beaver” was tho
unit of value when our forefathers
traded with the
Inilinnu. Thus 1
beaver equals 1
brass kettle; 1
beaver equals 3
shillings; 6 bea
vers equal 1 gal
lon brandy, etc.
Fishhixika form
ed the currency
on the northern
shores of tho In
dian ocean from
Persia to Coy Ion.
I. BEAVKti skin . n. nsn-Latterly, how-
HOOK. in. WAMPUM, ever, picc<,B of
mastering the bike .
«
The City Official Paper
and publishes all the proceedings of
the City Counci', al* ordinances an
alt official notices. It may save you
lots of trouble and expense to knew
what the ordinances are and to keep
it> formed on official matters. The
Headlight has the reputation of being
one of the
_ll_
Begt Local papery in Oregen
and it spares no pains nor expense
to keep up its reputation. We have
just put in a water motor to run our
presses, and have now oue of the
most complete country offces is the
state. The Headlight also has the
i fingst tfoß Printing
You may jeer, you may sneer, you n\ay gibe
at it, too
(But sit not upon it whatever you do,
For all who abruptly sit down on its seat
Repent it with language I dare not repeat).
Its springs may be broken, uncertain its legs,
But mourning affection affectingly begs
A tribute of tears, such us grief may afford,
For the old parlor sofa where granilfuther
snored.
How often, recumbent, he lingered there long
(His legs being weak, though his language was
strong).
Ayo, call me unmanly and weak if you willl
I cling to the sofa devotedly still,
Aud many a jugful cf tears Ixave I shod
On the antimacassar that covers its head.
(And haven’t you ever encountered before
A ballad like this one of grandfather’s snore?)
--Pick Me Up.
Three of a Kind.
“We’ve got now babies at our house.”
“Indeed? How many?”
“Twins—and another one!”—New York
Journal.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
Anybody can I mj a martyr if tbore aie
enough people to look on.
Fate is circumstance’s “You’re not so
warm!” to the man who thinks he knows
it all.
No girl ever had a sick headache that'
was too bail for her to get up and try on
her new dress.
A man can never look as proud and
haughty ns he wants to when he has on a
shirt that feels wilted.
Y’ou never know a man till he knows
you.
After a woman gets beyond a certain
age her skin never fits.
A gdrl will always deny that whon she
sleeps alone sbe puts her arms around her
self.
The New Baby.
After a woman is 35 the hatred she has
Tho Minister—Woll, Bobbie, how do you always had for deceit Is given to the bugs
like your new brother.9
on her geraniums.
Bobbie—Oh, purty good.
Every married man practices acting as
The Minister—I suppose, then, that you if be wasn’t jealous In a way that will
are glad ho camo hore instead of going on make his wife think he la.—New York
to Mr. Green’s?
Press.
Bobbie—Yes, but tbey’s one thing both
Trade Was Ruined.
ers me.
♦
The Minister—What is it, Bobble?
Drummer (at Moonshinoville)—Good
Bobbie—Blamed if I can see how the morning, Mr. Crossroads. How's busi
doctor got him into that little bit of a ness?
satchel of his without breakin every bone i
Storekeeper (disconsolately) — Mighty
in his body.—Cleveland Leader.
pour, mighty poor. You see, a new store
started up in opposition to me, an, of
His Note.
course, I couldn’t stand that, so I jest
They arc pressing Kipling s “Vampire” gave my frien’s the wink, an they com
poem Into service every where. A Georgia menced killin off ids customers, but he
girl who had jilted a poetical lover who had more trade than I kalkerlated on, an
had presented her with it handkerchief, a w’en his customers began to shoot back it
ring and a lock of his hair received the made a purty even fight, an both sides
killed each other off so fast that now there
following note from him:
Since you have deemed it a wire tiling to spurn ain’t either of us got any customers.—
me,
New York Weekly.
Blighting my life while its morning was fair,
I wish you’d look over your gif.a and return
uio
My rag and my ring and my hank of hair.
Any other paper claiming to be the
County Official paper does so without
shadow of tiuthor authority. No
other publishes al! the county offic
ial matter. The Headlight is also
1
remonstrated with her for not doing wbpt
I thought sbe ought to do. I do not be
lleve sny one else could have hriped mo as
much as she did. You see, I could hardly
have talked as freely to any one eise.
The last time she helped >“» my oonver
sawon ran something like this:
“Now give me a go,si start. Hang on!
Holdup! Great Soott! Are you trying to
I
run me Into tee dltchf Jane, pay attem
tlon to what yon re doing, iou 11 kill
me! Don't let me wabble so. Look «“‘I
I’m running into a rock-can t youi see
am? There! I told you I would. It was
„11 your fault. I should think you would
have some Bense by this time.
[
I did not Stop hire, but I have to make
a break in the report of my remarks to say |
that just here u young lady of whom I ain
rather fond in a paternal sort of way, nml ■
whom I familiarly call Puss, rode up on J
her own whxel and went along with me,
although some few yards away for safety s
sake
I did not stop talking to the little
lady, though. By this time I was too mad
to oare for appearances. So I turned to
Puss and continued:
“Did you ever see such ft fool woman.
Why can’t sbe hold this blaniod tiling
straight? Here I am wabbling around
like a drunken man.”
Puss merely grinned ami showed her i
pretty teeth and gurgled a delightful little
girlish laugh. That made me all the mad
der, and I began nt my wife again.
“Now, Jane, do use some sense. Hang
on! Put some muscle In it. How would
you like it If I let you skin around like
this when you were learning? Look out!
Ouch! I’m going over. No, I ain't. Yes,
I am. Push! Pull! Move the blamed
thing along. Stop her, stop her! Can’t
you see, you groat, great goose, that Pm
running into the fence? 1 11 be killed!
My bicycle will be smashed to pieces. Stop
me! I’m gone up! O-o-o-o-o-o-c-o-o-o-hl”
And, crash, bang, I went into the fence,
just as I had predicted. I picked myself
up, and after an examination found that
no bones were broken. Then I examined
my wheel ami found that it was all right.
Then I looked around to find my wife and
give her a piece of my mind. There she
was, threo blocks up the street, just at the
point where I started, sitting on the curb
stone and laughing so loud I could bear
every “Ha, ha!” And, worse and more of
It, Puss was immediately across the street
dismounted and also sitting on the ourb-
tono and laughing just as hard.
Then I saw it all. I had made the whole 1
distance all alone by myself, and I had '
been talking, directing and protesting to
the circumambient air. No wonder the
girls laughed, but I forgave them. I had
learned to ride the bike.—Now York Truth.
Perfectly Natural.
“Did your friend die a natural death?”
Inquired the tourist, addressing a Mon
—Atlanta Constitution.
tana man who had charge of a coffin at a
little way station and was waiting for the
His Last Resort.
train to ship the body away.
He lifted Ills mncklLnw from his glow
“Oh, yes,” he said frankly. “They
ing brow and nervously dabbed bls hand found the extra card in his sleeve after
kerchief at his moistened hair.
ward.”—Chicago Times Herald.
“Heaven help me,” he murmured,
“this Is my last resort!”
The Earthquake.
Then he added in a constrained tone:
In the course of a sermon a negro preach
“All the other landlords know me.”__
er in Georgia touched on the subject of
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
earthquakes. He said:
“Oh, my sinful hearers, a yearthquake
The Very Latest.
is nothin mo’ ner less den dis—hell done
“Was your husband accustomed torse got tired waitin fer you en goneter sleep
intoxicating llquora to excess?” Inquired en wake up yawnin!”—Atlanta Constitu
the insurance adjuster.
tion.
“Well,” she said reminiscently, “he
An Embarrassing Question.
never used to paint things red. but occa-
eionally he would get out a pink supple-
Schoolmaster (to new boy)—What is
ment.”—Chicago Times-Herald.
your father by trade?
Boy (perplexed)—Must I tell?
What He Was Doing.
Schoolmaster—Yee, you must.
Boy (after a great deal of hesitation)—
“Here, young fellow, I want you to
Please,
sir, he’» the bearded woman at the
keep your horse off my lawn.”
"Say, you’re a hard hearted old bloke.
circus!—Tit-Bits.
“What do you mean?”
“ Why, dat p«x>r old horse Is just a-prac-
New to Him.
tlclif de Kneippoure, dat's what.”—Cleve
“Papa, how do tho people in the weath
land Plain Dealer.
er bureau find out what kind of weather
we are going to have?”
It
How It Turned Out.
“I didn’t know that they did, my «on«
Chollle—Algernon’« father threatened —Yonkers Statesman.
to disinherit him. and Algy vowed that
he'd break the will. What was the out-
Dead to AIL
come?
“What is apathy?”
Regy—There wasn’t any will to break.
“It’s a strange and dangerous condition
Algy Broke hie father.—Up to Date.
that a man sometimes falls into—a condi
tion in which he has even been known to
Bta Blasted Youth.
lend his bicycle.”—Chicago Record.
“Your little Jimmy cries a good deal
nowadays.”
Where They Were.
' Ves. Somebody gave our oook one of
Miss Antique—He savs there are lies In
those knives which will take a cake out tho Bible.
without leaving any sticking to tbo pan.”
Min Caustique—Why, did you let him
—Chicago Record.
sco your birth register?—New Y’ork Sun
day Journal.
offer west of Portland. We have all
the appliances needed and there is
nothing in the line of job printing
that we cannot do Jost as well as yon
can get it done iu Portland. We
have no com petit leu in this county
in jab work as no other office is pre
pared to do good work.
Not at All New.
Frank—Some genius in Birmingham
has invented a buttonleas shirt.
Billy—Why, that’s old. I’ve worn them
ever »Ince my wife learned to ride a bike.
—Tit-Bits.
Shopping Incident.
“No, madam, we can’t take back that
waist. You have worn it”
“What if I have? You advertised It as
‘changeable »ilk.’ ”—Detroit Free Pre»«*
Our Work Tells
Too Much of a Gvcd Thing.
“I ain’t see why you object to young
Softly. I’m sure he is constant.”
“Worse than that—he's perpetual.’ —
New Yprk Truth.
Ch« •«aMight.
Farmer Rakehav—Of oonrre Beuoepbo-
1WJ may look funny I cAy folk«, but he a
• darn light «tvunger than a hoax an aln i
half » cvatly —New York Journal.
About TI bm .
“They say Bujuntcr has finally braced
up ’’
“Well, be’» been taking tracers enough*
—Detroit New».