TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT,
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SHOOTING THE SUN.
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ELIJAH AND THE RAVENS.
(implest Way of Locating a 8hip's *, story which Did No» Fit This Par-
Position at 8es.
titular Ministar’s Caso.
North Carolina probably never pro
! The average transatlantic traveler
How Men Feel and Act With 1 display? very little Interest in the nav duced an abler preacher than Dr.
' Igatlon of the vessel beyond watching Francis L. Hawkes, who once was
Death All About Them.
I the ship's officers, sextant in hand. pastor of Grace Episcopal church, New
' making observations, says a writer in York. Short, thick set, swarthy, black
Magazine. Very few have any eyed and black haired, he was a strik
THE STORY OF A PRIVATE. Travel
Idea of the process by means of which ing personage. He was not only a
I the modern navigator is enabled to ac- great pulpit orator, but considered the
I curately place the ship's position at best reader in the New York episco
With the Beginning of ths Fight
; a stated time on the chart. Out of pacy. His rather luxurious family de
Comes Fear, but That 8ocn Passes
sight of land a ship's geographical po terred him from accepting a bishopric,
Away In the Eagerness For Killing. sition 13 determine«! either by keeping | which would have otherwise been
Varying Effects of Wounds.
a careful record of the course steered tendered. One day a delegation from a
A narrative of the battle of Solferl- and the distance run. known as dead Buffalo church waited upon him and
no as told by a veteran survivor to reckoning, or by the combined use of invited him to accept a pastorate in
chronometer and sextant—that is, by that city.
Robert Shackleton appears In Har
observation of the heavenly bodies.
"Well, gentlemen, other things being
per's. It Is, word for word, a chapter The operation of finding the latitude satisfactory, the question of accept
of history as seen by a man In the and longitude of observation can be ance narrows down to a business mat
ranks. Incidents which Impressed him performed In a number of ways, of ter." said Dr. Hawkes. “What salary
which the simplest and most conven do you offer?”
are curious:
“Dr. Hawkes.” said the spokesman,
"We baited, and a Tyrolese lying on ient Is by measuring the altitude of the
the ground cried out: ‘I am dying. gun above the horizon at noon, as is “we recognize that you have a high
Give me to drink.’ Whereat my com Indicated on the vernier of the sextant reputation and are willing to be lib
panion stooped to offer him a flask, and spoken of at sea as "shooting the eral. Our recent pastor received $2,-
and as he stooped the Tyrolese struck 3ua.” An arithmetical computation by 500, but on account of your standing
savagely at him with his bayonet, but the aid of logarithms Is thus quickly we have decided to offer you $3,500.”
made which shows exactly how far
“My good man,” cried the doctor,
my companion Jumped back, an 1 It
the ship Is north or south of the equa- “do you know what salary I am recelv-
missed him. and he said. 'You Tyro
I tor. or. In other words, the latitude.
Ing here?”
lese. you said you wanted a drink be II
Finding the longitude, however. Is a
“No. sir.”
fore you died, and uow you shall die
somewhat longer process. An observa
“I get $15.000 and this parsonage,
without the drink.' And he stuck bis
tion is made either in the forenoon or and. as I have an expensive family, I
bayonet througti him as a boy would
afternoon, the chronometer time of the do not see my way clear to accept your
stick a pin through a fly.
horizon contact of the sun's image be offer.”
"The fighting soon began again, and
ing noted. A calculation is then made
The spokesman looked rather sheep
It was very fierce. It was soon that which gives the exact time at the spot
ish. but made another essay.
we came to know that we were to cap
where the ship happens to be, and. as
“If we had known that. sir. we
ture a little village and the hills about the chronometer carried atioard shows
would undoubtedly have looked else
the village. The village was named
the exact time at Greenwich, the prime where, but you should remember that
San Marltlno. and there were walled meridian of longitude, the difference
the work of the Lord must be done,
Austrians
barns and gardens, and the
between the two expresses In hours and, as for providing for your family,
were very strong there.
and minutes (easily convertible Into you know the story’ of Elijah and the
"The bursting of the shells was very degrees and miles) the distance east
ravens.”
bad. Sometimes all of us close by or west of Greenwich.
“Now, my friends.” responded the
would Le thrown down and be cov
Having thus, roughly speaking, found clergyman quizzically, “I have made
ered with mud and earth, but most of the latitude aud longitude, a dot placed
the Bible my study ever since I was
us would Jump up again, not wounded, on the chart at the exact point where
twenty-eight. I have read It through
but always there were some who the lines of latitude and longitude
carefully and prayerfully over 100
would not Jump up ng iln, because they cross denotes the ship’s position.
times. I remember the raven Inci
were wounded or dead.
dent perfectly, but nowhere can I find
At the beginning of a battle a sol
any reference to the Lord's providing
A MAN’S HAT.
filer feels afraid. At the beginning of
for young Hawkes."
this battle I felt afraid, and 1 know
that other meu felt afraid, though it Why Is It Always Regarded as a Fit
Subject For Jokes?
was not our first battle, and we knew
THE CHARTER OAK.
“I wonder why it is,’ says a youug
what It was to be under fire.
“So It was that at the beginning gentleman who spends most of his lei Bells Tolled and Funeral Dirgoa Played
When It Fell.
we commended ourselves; we felt like sure time studying human nature at a
death, but soon that passed away, and populous street corner, "that a man's
The charter oak of Hartford was a
we thought no more of death, but only hat is always regarded as a fit subject white oak. The story goes that when
for jokes? Anything that happens to James, duke of York, ascended the
of the killing of the Austrians.
"All around me inen were killed. bls shoes is a serious matter, aud. al throne of England and sent Andros to
There were heads and arms blown off. though his vest, especially if It is out take away all colonial charters Con
and men flew Into pieces like the of the usual In desigu or color, is necticut alone refused to surrender
smashing of a Jug. But we did uot sometimes made the subject of pointed hers. Andros was furious over this
care. We thought nothing of It. I remarks, disaster to any other garment defiance, and Oct. 31. 1087, he returned
do not know that we even knew we Is regarded as a matter of sympathy. to the assembly ball of Hartford with
“But if he goes to church and puts a body of soldiers and demanded in
saw such things, but some of them
come to me as I sit with you and talk down bls bat at the end of bls pew. stant surrender of the charter, which
of that long day. We did not notice, where somebody kicks a dent in it lay in a box on the table. A hot dis
and we did not think that at any mo and knocks It five feet down the aisle, cussion followed.
Finally Andros
inent we too might have our heads or If he places it carefully beside him stretched out his hand to seize the
blown off or be smashed into little in a lecture room or theater and a disputed paper.
Then the candles
pieces like the breaking of a Jug.
preoccupied young woman comes in were suddenly extinguished, and the
“Once, when we rushed over the big and sits down on it people laugh wltb- people who had gathered on the street
gtins and killed the nn n who still out seeming to feel the slightest sym- outside rushed In a disorderly crowd
fouglit with us, we turned the guns pathy for him or his sky piece.
into the hall. There was a period of
to fire on the Austrians us they flew
"A man chasing Ills hat through the ' wild confusion in the dark, and when
away, but they had driven lilts of steel street on a windy day will always at the candles were
------ *—
Anally relighted — no
into the touchholes, and so we could tract a grinning, unsympathetic crowd charter was to be found. It had been
not Are them. They were of a cour ready to lay bets on the distance the removed by Captain Wadsworth and
hat will travel before he catches up concealed in the oak, which ever after-
age, those Austrians.
“Only once In all that battle did I or on the amount of damage It will ward bore its name.
think much of what I saw or heard, sustain before it 1» finally recovered,
The oak was even then old. "When
and that was when there was the and so Irritated does the owuer be the first settlers were clearing their
terrible screamlug of n captain who come when he finds his vicious dabs land the Indians begged that it might
had his foot shot off He twisted and and grabs at it greeted with Ironical be spared. ‘It has been the guide of
turned as he cried out. and It was a applause that he generally forgets to our ancestors for centuries.' they said,
very bad sound. But It Is Just as it thank the man who stops it by stamp ‘as to the time of planting our corn.
chances. I saw many men who were ing on it aud hands It back. I be When the leaves are the size of a
hurst worse than that captain and lieve Joe Miller perpetrated Jokes about mouse's ears, then Is the time to pot
many who were blown Into little bits, chasing the hat, but the heavy felts seed into the ground.’ The Indian*’ re
but 1 did not trouble about them. It and cocked hats of Miller's time did quest was granted, and the tree, after
Is Just if It chauces so
not lend themselves readily to joking ward becoming the custodian of the
"It Is very often that a man does purposes, for when those old fashioned lost charter, became famous for all
not know that he Is hurt. I remember headpieces were blown off they drop time. It fell in a windstorm Aug. 21,
that once there was a man near ms ped to the ground and stayed there. 185«, and so deeply was it venerated
with a great hole tn his forehead, but A panama, a stovepipe or even a derby that at sunset on the day of its fall
he ran right on with us with bls bay may run and fly by turns from Broad the bells of the city were tolled and a
onet. and I thought, 'He will fall dead.' way to the postoffice and attract as band of music played funeral dirges
But after that I saw him no more, for much attention as a runaway team.”— over its ruins.
there was always the lighting.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
At the time of its fall its circumfer
"The storm and the blackness, they
ence one foot from the ground was
made of us a great mixing Yes; It
8oldiere In Battle.
twenty-five feet, and It was estimated
was a very great taugling. for ull lines
Those who have taken part tn a bat to be over 600 years old.—Kansas City
were lost, and I know that sometimes tle have confessed that were it not for Star.
Austrians struck at Austrians and the shouting and the noise they would
sometimes Italians struck at Italians, lose their nerves and run away. There
Both Guilty.
for we were in a very great mixing Is always an Interval of cowardice lu
The man who prided himself on his
and very fierce In the blackness of that the soldier, but It Is quickly overcome, keen perceptions watched the witness
storm.
and he tights grimly, unmindful of Im on the stand with Intensity and nodded
"We were told to lie down and sleep pending death. Bands were, of course. his head vigorously at the doting
So we lay dowu whore we were, among Invented to raise the spirits of sol words of the bewildered witness.
the dead and the wounded, among the diers. Martial music, whether from
“That man's concerned In it," Bald
Italians aud the Austrians.
the drum or the bugle, has done a the keen observer to his friend. "Didn't
"And we slept. Yes; we were tired, great deal In saving campaigns. No- you notice how bis eyes shifted
for we had fought hard for all that t>ody can tight In a cold blooded man around ?”
long, long day. and on that hill that rt ner, and In the excitement of a gen
"How about this next one?” Inquired
last we bad gained we slept, and we oral engagement the most nervous of the friend.
gave no heed to the dead men or the fighters recover wonderfully.
"He's guilty of something." asserted
wounded.
the keen observer. "No man stares at
"The wounded they made very great
Smoothing It Over.
people In that bold, defiant way If he
cries, and there were men seut to go
Irate Individual—I'm going to square has a clear conscience.“’—Youth’s Com
among them with lights. Some were matters with you right now! You’ve panion.
Surgeon*, and some were men to carry been telling It around that I lie!
them to the field hospitals, Hut the
The Other Man—Nothing of the sort
A Model Servant.
most of us we lay there and slept, aud All I have said about you is that you
Master—Here—er—has my whataer
we were very tired, and we knew that are habitually unveradous.
name come?
with the morning there might be au
Irate Individual (calming down)-Oh.
Man—Yessir.
other fight"
I don't mind that. If that's all. I ac
Master—Yes—well. then, hop over
knowledge I do get that way once In to th—er—that club with the silly
The Hungry Author.
awhile But how can a fellow help it name and tell Mr.—er—Thingummy I
The following Is an extract from the when everybody Insists on treating shan't be able to flx up that—er— nm
notebook of an author:
him ?—Chicago Tribune.
d’you see? And then get hold of that
"Roae at 5 and had a sonnet and a
book—er—with the yellow cover and
glass of cold water for breakfast.
look out a train to—er—to er oh yon
A Scrap of History.
"Retired early In the evening, with
“General Washington, the aoldlara know!
out supper, as 1 feared the neighbor»
Man—Yeealr -Punch.
of the Continental army are
would be annoyed by the rattling »f Iron," exclaimed the Marquis men of
de
La
the knives and forks."—St. Louis Re
fayette In admiration.
Two Wise Onto.
public.
"And as a consequence." remarked
The young man carefully removed
the great commander with a sly twin the cigars from bls vest pocket anT
Failed to too.
Toor man!" said the kind lady. kle. "they are bard at work pressing placed them on the piano Then be
redcoats." —Woman's Home Cotn opened bls arms. Bnt the young gtrl
the redcoats."
“How did you go blind?"
panion.
did not flutter to them. “Tod,* she
"Well, mum." answered Tired Tread
said coldly, have loved before."-CM-
well. "de foist time dat I noticed It
At
the
Barn
Party,
cage Record Herald.
was when 1 was out lookin' fer work."
"These country dances are enjoyable,
Chicago Record-Herald.
after all. aren't they?"
"I tell you, the old fashioned dancaa
Put a little more In than you take
are the reel thing "-Baltimore Amer
eut, and your puree will sorei fill
ican.
NOVEMBER 5, 1908
He Evidently Had Ona.
"What la a pessimist. pa J”
"A man who has a note to meat.*—
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