THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 27
I
HE 4LTH u
1 \ TROPICS
lllVllLO.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
I slept in a barn one night, remote !
oui any
anv camp,
camn. where
wh.n. I I could
...... i . i have
i...... at
from
—
least partial peace from the fear of
! ß L. EDDY,
Fearful Ordeal Through Which
soldiers watching to entrap me to my
¿J
One 1’uM.ed.
»J
death. It is marvelous that I was not Northerners May B.‘ Made as Safe
§
By WILLIAM W. JEFFORDS-
g
stark mad by that time. The next
There as at Home.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
P. ALLEN,
morning as I wa. getting out of the
barn I saw several infantry soldiers
T illamook , O regon .
Proprietor.
WAS the first sergeant in company out foraging. My actions had roused A Question That the War with Spain
their suspicions.
Has Brought to the Front-
D, Seventh Pennsylvania, in the
First class accommodation
Tropical Colonisation of
spring of 1863. 1 was one of the thou I wrote on my slate that I was a con
Q. O. NOLAN,
White Race«.
at second class rate.
sands of soldiers under Grant and federate peddler named Freeman, on
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Sherman fighting our way northward my way to Jackson to get new goods
for
selling
to
the
boys
in
gray.
The question of the white man’s
toward Vicksburg. Spies were neces
BEST MEALS IN THE
O, that won’t do." said one of the ability to conquer the tropics and to Deputy District Attorney of Tillamook
sary and 1 was called upon to do spy
County, Office in Aiderman Hotel
soldiers.
“
I
’
ll
bet
he's
another
Yank
make for himself a permanent home
CITY.
service.
Building,
in those delightful regions ¡6 one that
Col. Raymond said he wanted 20 spy-”
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Then
I
learned
from
the
conversa
Tillamook,
Ore
has hitherto possessed a purely aca
young men who had nerve, and who
Headquarters for Forest Grove Stage Line.
would go into the enemy’s lines, ready tion of my captors that two of the demic interest for physicians in this
spies sent out from Grand Gulf at the country, but the fortunes of war and
H. GOYNE,
to die if necessary, without whimper
time I was had been caught and hanged projects of annexation are making it
ing or divulging of secrets. He also two days previously.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
probable that this will soon be
informed me that several confederate
I was taken to Gen. Kirby Smith’s
spies had recently been hanged at teut. The general was informed that I changed. Puerto Rico, the Sandwich
Office: Opposite Court House,
Corinth and that the enemy would had been arrested without a pass, and islands and the Philippines are all
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surely retaliate on federal spies. I that I was suspected of being a spy in tropical islands, and if they, one and
all, come under our flag, doubtless
agreed to go.
the guise of a deaf and dumb peddler. many of our citizens will go thither to
That afternoon each of us was in
Gen. Smith said nothing.
seek their fortunes, and the question
structed in the particular information
Two or three officers in his tent went
0LAÜDE THAYER,
“v
he was to get, and the respective part and whispered to him. I knew they of acclimatization will at once become
he was to play as a civilian in the ene were devising schemes to catch me if I a most practical one.
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
We find in the British Medical Jour
my's camp.
were a spy in disguise.
nal of April 30 an interesting account
I was given the task of observing
One of the officers wrote me a mes
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some topographical facts and seeing sage on a bit of paper. While I was of what is therefore for us a most time
what artillery Gen. Johnston's army writing an answer the man started ly discussion on this topic. The dis
cussion took place in the rooms of the
ASTORIA AND
had. I was instructed to be a deaf and ejaculated: “Lookout!”
Royal Geographical society, in the
mute. The surgeon on Gen. Grierson’s
I wonder noiw that my hand did not presence of many of the best-known yy
TILLAMOOK.
J. may ,
staff had been the head of a deaf and start involuntarily. The officers and
authorities on tropical pathology.
dumb school at Cleveland, and he spent others were looking at it closely.
Most of those taking part in the de
I
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
several hours in drilling me as a
For some minutes there was a con bate held that There is no reason what
dummy.
versation on my slate concerning why ever why the white man should not be
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I was to go over to Jackson with a I had no pass in the confederate lines,
satchel full of «hoe blacking, shaving whence I came, and where I was going. able to adapt himself to the new con
ditions of life in the tropics and pro
WILL RUN THE
soap, paper collars and notions, ap I could see it was al! done to disarm
tect himself against the diseases that
(J. J. DAI.Y,
parently earning my livelihood by sell me of any fear I had.
¡OSCAR
HAYTKB.
prevail in those regions. The popular
ing my wares to confederate soldiers.
An officer came forward and said: belief that the white man cannot suc
J) ALY & II AYTER,
A pencil and slate were my mode of “This poor mute looks tired. It’s a
cessfully colonize the tropics is dis
communication.
shame to keep him here." Then turn proved by the fact that he has done so.
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
Will make trips every five days, the weather permitting, between Astoria and
I started out from the Grand Gulf ing to me he smilingly said: “Are you It is undoubtedly true that many
late on the night of May 5. I knew hungry?”
Tillamook City, carrying freight and passengers.
northerners who go to equatorial re
D allas , O regon .
that I would be suspected of being a
It was a pretty ruse, but I simply gions contract disease there and d’
spy, and that the least indication that stared at his epaulets.
but in the majority of such cases the
ELMORE, SANBORN & CO., ASTORIA ; or COHN & CO.,
my hearing was at all good would for
Then he tried to make me pale, and it man is the victim of his obstinate un ROBERT A. MILLER,
TILLAMOOK, AGENTS.
feit my life.
was a frightful test.
willingness to change his habits in re
I was within the enemy's lines by
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
I was given a sent while Gen. Smith spect to eating drinking and clothing
noon the next day. I ate under a cow turned to other business, apparently and to conform his mode of life to the
O regon C itv , O h E gon .
shed while the rain drizzled down.
forgetful of me. The other officers sat new conditions.
ARE YOU THIRSTY 1
Land
Titles
and
Land Office Business a
In the afternoon I was going along n near me and smoked and chatted.
The chief diseases, both acute and
Specialty.
road near a hamlet known as Griggs- Presently they b< gan talking about chronic, of tropical countries—those
ARE YOU TIRED!
bys. I heard a troop of cavalry com some new orders that had been issued which formerly caused such ravages
WILL YOU TAKE SOMETHING?
ing down the road behind me. I put on to hang every federal spy immediately among the white settlers and gave rise
GAMES McCAIN,
¡A. W. SEVERANCE.
a blank expression and trudged along upon conviction.
to the prevalent theory that Euro
with my black satchel over my shoul
They talked about how two spies peans could live only in the temperate ^JcCAIN & SEVERANCE,
der.
that had been hanged two days pre zone—are all microbic in origin and
A lieutenant rode up to me and viously had acted as they squirmed in consequently preventable in great
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
called:
JS THE PLACE TO GET IT.
death, and how the officers were look measure. We cannot, of course, ex
T illamook , O reoon .
“Hello, here! where are you going?” ing for more spies to hang on the same pect to see them absolutely wiped out
I had had time to prepare myself for spot. My brain was in a whirl. Every of existence, at least this side of the
CLARK KEEPS THE BEST.
this test. I started as if at the appear thing swam'before my eyes, but I sat sanitary millennium, but their sting,
COME
AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
ance of the horse under my eves, and with my face turned up to the military like that of smallpox, can be extracted J) AVID WILEY, M.D.,
looked vacantly up at the cavalryman. diagrams and rules of camp on the by means of an improved public and
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON AND
He repeated his question. In a sec tent wall before me.
private hygiene and other prophylac
ond I had my pocket slate out, and
ACCOUCHEUR.
More whispering followed. I wrote tic measures. A comparison of the
handed it courteously to the officer. on my slate: “I am hungry and tired. healthfulness of the West India islands
All call promptly attended to.
The others in the troop laughed and Why do you keep me here?”
under enlightened British rule with
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said:
A colonel wrote: “We think you are that of the two until recently under
“O, he's a d—n fool dummy.”
deceiving us. If you are it will be death Spanish misrule show’s what can be
The lieutenant wrote on my slate: to you.” He watched my face as I read done by sanitation to convert a pest 0 E. HAWKE, M.D.,
“Who are you and where are you go the lines.
hole into a paradise. Indeed, as Dr.
S trict attention given to outside orders .
ing?”
I wrote in reply: “I have a very hard L. Sambon, in opening the discussion
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
D ying cleaning and renewing a specialty .
I wrote that I was Daniel Freeman, time in getting a living in this war. I above referred to, well said, sanita
W ork called for and delivered .
and that I was peddling for a living.
am with the confeds with all my soul. tion has within the last two decades
Office at Allen House, Tillamook,
Several of the troop remarked that Please may I go?”
wrought wonderful changes in all
All
work
guaranteed to be first class,
it was foolish to waste time on such a
In an hour I was taken to a shanty tropical countries, as regards health Oregon. Telephone No. 7.
dumb mutton-head as I, for I'd be like affair and locked in. A youDg man conditions, and the changes have been
caught anyhow, and the troop gal in federal uniform, was lying on the so great in some places that regions
yy a . wise ,
loped away.
floor when I entered. He rose and which were once considered most
I saw a camp of fully 1,000 confeder looking at me, said: “My goodness deadly are now’ even recommended as
DENTIST,
ates down in a valley. I knew that my gracious, have they got you, too?”
health resorts.
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presence would be reported at head
I looked vacantly at him. I wrote
Dr. Patrick Manson, than whom
quarters by the cavalrymen, and it that I was mute.
there is no greater authority on the The Dekum Building, Third and Wash
would be folly to go past a camp if I
Then the stranger laughed and said: pathology of equatorial regions, be
ington, Portland.
were really seeking trade. I was “O, it won’t do you any good to keep gan his remarks with the confession
stopped by a sentinel about the camp. that trick up longer. We're going to that in former years, under the influ
I wrote for him my name and business die together as union spies, and why ence of early teaching, he shared in
of
on my slate. He growled something not be resigned to it? I’was caught the pessimistic opinions then current
x tz
about lunkhead dummies wandering day before yesterday, and I've been about tropical colonization by the
about in war time, and, catching me by sentenced to be hanged. Now they’ll w’hite race. In recent years, however,
the coat sleeve, led me to the officer of wait for you to go with me. Ha, ha, his views on this subject had under
the guard. The sentinel explained that we'll show the rebs how Yankee boys gone a complete revolution—a revo
General Banking and Exchange busi
I was deaf nnd dumb, and went away.
lution that began with the establish
can die game, won’t we?”
The officer h ad evidently known that
I wrote on my slate that I was a ment of the germ theory of disease. ness interest paid on time deposits.
the role of dummy was not uncommon mute, and that it was useless to try He now firmly believed in the porfsi-
Exchange on England, Belgium, Ger
with up-to-date spies. “Stand over to communicate with me except by bility of tropical colonization by the many, Sweden, and all foreign countries.
there a second, till I finish this," said signs or writing. But the stranger white races. ITeat and moisture, he
he to me in the most artful off-hand, talked right along, and tried to appeal contended, were not in themselves the
TILLAMOOK, ORE.
to my love for the union cause. He direct cause of any important tropical
easy manner.
My knees did move slightly, and I would suddenly fling a very natural disease. The direct cause of 99 per
G. W. KIGER,
cent, of these diseases are germs.
almost stepped a foot. But I eaught quesiton at me.
DKALKR IM
Along in the middle of the night When these germs and their habits are
myself while the cold chills chased up
EXCHANGE AND MONEY
and down my spine at my almost for when I was purposely breathing deep known fully, victory will be within
Most micro-parasites
SECURITIES.
getfulness, and 1 resolved not to risk and regularly, I heard some one enter. man’s grasp.
mv neck so easily again. "Your hand It was pitch dark. I was all attention, when they are once within the body Collections Receive Careful and Peompt
Attention.
is bloody,” said he. turning carelessly but still breathing deep. I heard a are fairly safe. But these game para
BAY CITY, OREGON.
to me. I stood like a post, looking va pistol drawn from his holder. Crash, sites. in order that their respective
bang. The weapon was fired an inch species may keep in existence by
cantly at him.
“He’s about as dumb as they make above my face. It seemed as if light spreading from one host to another,
must at some time or another leave
c. A. BAILEY,
’em,” said the officer of the guard, ning had struck me.
At the same moment a dark lantern the human body, and during this nec
when it was seen how obvious I was
DEALER IN
to all their tests of my hearing. “Isn’t was flashed in my face and my coun essary extra corporeal state they are
STUDEBAKER
WAGONS,
eminently
vulnerable.
To
kill
them
is
it strange that such a poor cuss should tenance studied.
OSBORNE MOWERS,
I slowly opened my eyes at the light simply a matter of knowledge and the
go peddling around the lines of war
FOLLOWING IS OUR LIST OF PRICES :
application of this knowledge -that is Buggiee, hay rskes, plows, and other
fare. He’ll get over the Yank lines and and rolled over as if to go to sleep.
farm machinery. You can eave
COMMON ROUGH LUMBER at
00 per thousand feet,
The pseudo union soldier went out to say. sanitary science and sanita
it’ll go hard with him some of these
money by dealing with me,
SHIPLAP at *9.00 per thousand feet,
with the confederates. I could bear tion. —Journal of the Military Service
days."
SIZED
LUMBER
at
W
00
per
thousand feet,
Special Prices 011 Buggies «nd Spring
Institution.
Two days later I was seven miles them whispering about me and what
FLOORING. No 2, ai «12 00 per thousand feet.
Wagons.
reason
there
was
to
suspect
me
as
a
farther in the enemy’s country. I had
How Crlasloala Are Ma.e.
FLOORING, N o . 1, at »1« 00 per tliouaaud feet,
C. A. BAILEY, Tillamook, Ore.
met hundreds of confederate soldiers ■ •py-
RUSTIC No. 2, at «12.00 per thousand feet,
The following note of how criminals
F J •
. T . I was
At
seven
o
’
clock
next
morning
RUSTIC, No. 1, at «IR.UOO per thousand feet.
>, but
UUl the A«V
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-
on the way.
fact . that
had
are made readies ua from a clergyman
No. 1, FINISH. at ♦ 15.00 per thousand feet,
.utlving
ramp
all
right
was
]
e
d
to
the
cook
tent
and
given
a
meal.
who has been conducting a mission in
passed an ou.._.—o
,
_
.t
_
a
r
...a»
-J
rronninp
fnnl
«•
cnt/iiipl
was
restored
to
me.
A
MOULDINGS. Uc per foot, per inch in w idth
My
satchel
was
restored
to
me.
A
an indication that I was a genuine fool
1 one of her majesty's prisons. The pris
ALL 8IN. PLANKING at »7 per 1000 feet
colonel came and shook me by the oner's story, which is given in his own
dummy.
I was standing in the door of a hand. He looked over my few remain ' words, suggestr that there is an aged
shanty cookhouse in a camp, and with ing soaps, etc., and bought A little. ' as well 1» a juvenile offender's prob
GEO. COHN, pRrMihKNT ;
out a moment’s warning down came Then turning to me be asked: "How lem. and it reminds us painfully of the
JOHN BARKER, VP ano M oil ,
about five gallons of cold water over much are the»?" I believe my lower 1 harsh nnd hidebound administration
jaw
did
move.
I
was
caught
off
my
B. L. EDDY. SlKKKTAKY.
mv head and shoulders. I shudder now
' of justice which amateur magistrates
guard
for
a
trice.
But
I
never
spoke,
too often indulge in: "I hare been
when I think how near I came to cub
and
the
colonel
was
not
looking
at
my
SHAVING,
ing the confederate soldiers who stood
locked up three times. As long as I
face.
was in work I was never in trouble,
HAIR CUTTING,
about to watch me.
He wrote me a pass in the lines about then I got out of work, and everybody
Instead of saying a word I gurgled a
Jackson,
and
just
as
he
banded
it
to
SHAMPOOING,
!
preferred
putting
on
younger
men.
I
lot of inharmonious sounds of fright,
and looked the more like a thing of me he turned and said: “Let me see was hungry—did you ever know. air.
that again." My hand almost moved wbat it was to lie downright hungry?
wood.
...
to obey such an agreeable gentleman, Well, I liegged at a door. I knew it
In another camp I was squatting on but
instead I folded the paper and
the ground, mechanically showing my started on my way out of -amp. know was wrong, but I begged, anil I got EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST CLASS
locked up for it. When I came out I
soaps and tobaccos, and playing deaf
ing that I was watched covertly by said: 'I won't do that again.' So I
to the thousand and one queations art
OUR MOTTO :
I
scores
of
eye«.
got some leather and cut out a pair of
fully put to me. when I saw by •
I reached the Grand gulf at dawn on bootlace», and tried to sell them.
««
dier's eye that some test of my hear: ng Mav 11 I was thankful for the Infor-
Then I got run in again for hawking
wr « to be made.
■nation I had got for my army, and a 1 without a license. When I came out I
IAIIU MO IÀIIQIEHEI
That moment I heard the click of. month later I was first lieutenant in
raid: ‘I won't do that again.' And I
pistol being brought to ««^k. ™
SHAVING,
HAIR CUTTING,
my
company.
' walked and 1 walked, and could get no
weapon wa. discharged within three
Of the 20 men who went at «pies at work, nor And food, either. I was
SHAMPOOING,
ETC.
Specialties for this uueek :
inches of my ear.
♦
that time four were eaptured and
I never had to hold myself together three were banged. One man was shot dead beat, and I lay down under a
Moba Roast Coffee—Royal Cream Flour-Maple Leaf Butter.
more than then. I slowly turned my dead by a sentinel.—San Francisco hedge—then I rot locked up for Bleep New Building, next door to Fuel Office
ing out of doors.-—London Chronicle.
head and looked inquiringly about at
Call.
the e-rk.- r f the discharge.
| TESTING A SPY. |
lyien floiige.
I
Reduced
Fares!
6.00 ROUND TRIP.
3.50 ONE WAY.
> JS
Steamer W. H. HARRISON
or R. P. ELMORE.
CLARK E. HADLEY’S New Saloon
Tillamoolç Laundnfl and Dye [iou^e.
J. W. Atwater,
Manager
"My Kingdom For a Horse."
WELL, WE’VE GOT IT ANI) MORE TOO
C. & E. Thayer
If 37-cvL "^TZ’a.xxt to ID I -©
ZLTcle G-exxtle Hors®
To si ZSTio© Easy 'S-o.g'g'y,
Come to Oixx Sta/tole axxd.
GrOt It.
The Tillamook Livery and Sale Stable.
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON.
WHEN YOU WANT LUMBER,
Remember that we keep the best of
everything in Stock and at prices as
low as the lowest-
CHAS.
'
PETERSON,
Barber
Tillamook
FOARD
Hot and Cold Raths.
EDGAR LATIMER,
&
Lumbering Co.
STOKES
COMPANY,
ASTORIA, OR
UUe Buy and Sell Everything.”