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T illamook headlight , june THEEJIMOT« How We Are Whirling Around and Through Space. THE INFLUENCE OF THE SUN Without Its Attraction That Draws ths World Toward It In an Elliptical Course Our Globe Would Wander on Forever In a Straight Line. THE CANNON BURST. NEW GUINEA COURTSHIP. Tragedy In a Celebration to Honor President Tyler. In 1M4 an accident took place in the American uavy—the explosion of a big gnu, the Peacemaker, on board the frig ate rrlnceton. off Broad bay, In the Potomac river, eight miles below Washington. Those killed were Abel Upshur of Virginia, secretary of state; Thomas W. Gilmer, governor of Virginia; Commodore Ketnon of the navy, Rep resentative Sykes of New Jersey. Rep resentative Maxey of Maryland and Mr. Gardiner, un ex-member of con gress from New York. The severely wounded were William Wilkins of Pennsylvania, secretary of war; Miss Wickliffe, daughter of the postmaster general; Colonel Dade, Colonel Benton. Judge Phelps of Ver mont, Commodore Stockton, command er of the Princeton, and nine seamen. On Feb. 28, 1844. President Tyler, the members of his cabinet and their families and many other prominent persons, said to number over 400, were Invited by Commodore Stockton to spend the day on the frigate Prince ton. which was lying at anchor off Alexandria. After the guests were on board anchor was weighed for a short sail on the Potomac, and the ship pro ceeded down the river to a point be- low Fort Washington. On the trip down the heaviest piece of ordnance on the frigate was fired several times, presumably as a matter of entertain ment for the company. The gun had been constructed from a model made by Commodore Stockton, and Presi dent Tyler expressed a decided inter est In tlie weapon. At 2 o’clock in the afternoon on the return trip the Princeton anchored off Broad bay, and the company was invited to luncheon In the cabins below the gun deck. After luncheon Commodore Stockton proposed that the gun be fired once more ns a salute, he said, to the mem ory of the great peacemaker, George Washington. President Tyler, his cab inet and a number of gentlemen re paired to the gun deck. As the gun was fired the breech end from the trunnion's back was blown off, and this section was split in twain. One-half of it fell on Secretary Up shur. Two sailors removed it, but the secretary expired In a few moments. Governor Gilmer had been struck and killed by this section of the gun be fore it felled Mr. Upshur. The party on the gun deck was scattered, and the whole ship shook under the force of the explosion. The excitement was great, The bod- les were removed from the Princeton, taken to Washington, placed in hearses at the wharf and carried to the White House, where they lay In the east room till the day of the funeral—a day of general public mourning.—Exchange. All th* Proposals of Marriage Are Mads by Women. Away off in the strange Island of New Guinea it is leap year all the time in one Important sense, for out there all the proposals of marriage are made by the women. It is consid ered beneath the dignity of the male inhabitants of New Guinea to even notice a woman, and consequently the women perforce must notice the men and must start any idea of weddings, etc. So when the island belle of New Guinea becomes in love she promptly sends a piece of string to the sister of the lucky man. If he has no sister she sends it to bls mother or to some female relative—this because the man and his male relatives are assumed to be above taking any steps toward acquiring a wife. Then the sister says to the man in volved: "Brother. I have news. So- and-so is in love with you.” If in clined to matrimony the man makes an engagement to meet the enamored lady. When they meet it is alone, nnd they either decide to wed or drop the entire proposition at once. There is no courting, for the man is not al lowed. theoretically at least, to waste any time on a woman—not even enough time to make love to the lady or to allow her to make love to him. The betrothal is announced, and the engaged man in New’ Guinea Is brand ed on the back with charcoal, but the woman’s mark of engagement to wed Is actually cut into her skin and is never allowed to completely vanish, If either one decides to break tlie en- gagement nothing can be done by the offended party. If the girl decides that, after all, she sent the little piece of string by mis take the man is apt. however, to catch her some time alone and beat her. If the man jilts the woman her relatives often hunt him up and administer a sound drubbing. Blood, however, is seldom shed, ns the breaking of these women made engagements is not deem ed a very serious matter. Though the women propose the wed dings in New Guinea, the condition of the wife is miserable and unjust In the extreme. The girl is merely the property and slave of the husband, He can beat her unrebuked nnd even kill her with Impunity if she Incurs his enmity.—Atlanta Constitution. There are those who think much of moving from one point to another of the eartb—travel they call It—and yet pay little heed to the wonderful jour ney of the earth itself. Many, again, go to seek a climate while the hurry ing earth Is bringing to them one ill- mate after another In endless succes sion. Those who have not hitherto taken much notice of the earth’s prog ress—who have not, so to speak, looked cut of their carriage window as they are whirled along—might find a new Interest In doing so. Look, for exam ple, at the apparent size of the sun. Casual observation shows that it ap pears larger In the winter heavens. Aud exact measurements tell us that It Is largest on Jan. 1 aud smallest on July 2. The size of the sun thus marks the earth’s nearest approach and greatest distance from tlie sun. Accu rate astronomical measurement of the sun's dlntneter might even determine the day of the year, for the dally vari ation in the apparent size of the sun Is some nine-fiftieths of n second of an- gultir measurement. And astronomers profess to measure the second decimal of seconds. There are three ways In which we are journeying with the earth. There is, first, the dally revolution, which car ries us through a complete circle in twenty-four hours at a rate varying from rather more than a thousand miles nn hour nt the equator to noth ing nt the poles, whore no one. by the way, has ever been. Then we are trav eling around the sun cnee a year at the rate of eighteen miles a second. Thirdly, we tire Journeying through stellar space, for one of the most re markable facts which modern astron omy has brought to light is that our solar system, the sun with all Its plan- ets, is on n journey toward the con- stellatlon Lyra at tlie rate of ten miles a second. As we sit In n train nnd are whirled along it sometimes appears as If the scenery were flying past us rather than we past it. So the dally revolu- tfon of the earth—a thousand ntlles an hour at the equator—makes the sun rise acd set, nnd our yearly Journey makes the run apparently travel through the constellations of the zo diac. If we move round any stationary Just Before the Spanking. object cn the earth we see It with a “Pop, doe3 a chicken come from an constantly changing ba kgr< und now (» ever 9” a windmill, now a cottage, now a “Yes. my son.” wood, now a church, etc. So as we “And does an egg come from a travel round the sun we see It with an chicken?” ever changing background of stars “Yes." now those of Arles, now of Taurus, "Well, If n chicken comes from an now of Gemini, nnd so on. The posi egg, nnd nn egg comes from a chicken, tion of the sun among the stars marks which"— the stages of the earth's annual Jour “Now, see here, if you are going to ney. And ns the earth arrives at dif prolong tills line of thought you can ferent points of Its orbit the times of go right to bed.” the risings of certain stars vary. These "But. pop!" Indications of the earth’s progress "Well, what?” hnve been taken ns murks of the sea “How does n chicken come from an sons. Thus when Sirius rose with the egg?" sun It was known that the dog days "Oh, any hen can sit on an egg and had begun. Early astronomers watch hatch It." cd carefully for the rising of the dog "Gee! I'm glad I ain't a hen. It star. The Egyptian astronomers look must hurt to sit on a hatchet !" (Hasty ed for the helical rising of Sotlils to exit.)—New York Times. proclaim the new year. it Is the earth's yearly journey round Ths Old Ones. the sun which enables us to determine “ We ’ ll have to give up the idea of tlie distances of the stars. The method puttin' pictures in the parlor, Jane,” is precisely that adopted by surveyors for determining the position of objects remarked old John Turnipseed as he on earth. The direction of the object threw the bridle under the table. “Why?" asked Ills wife. whose distance is to be found Is ob “Too dear! Why, I priced one In served from two points a known dis tance apart. The rest Is mere calcula town today, and the dealer sez. sez he, tion. in tlie case of the stars tlie direc ‘That’s an old master; it's price is tions are observed from two extreme £500.' " ‘Wliy,’ sez I, ‘it looks like a second points In the earth's orbit Instead of front the two ends of a base line. The hand plctur’.' " 'Yes, It Is,' sez be. process Is called triangulation when “Then, thinks I, if a secondhand applied to earth measurements, and everybody understands what it means. plctur’ costs that much it's no use to When applied to the stars It Is called price a new un. So. Jane, I reckon we’ll parallax and remains a mystery to have to hang up a few mottoes. 'God most |>eople. Such Is the obscuring Bless Our Home' and the like, nnd let the plctur's go.”—Pearson's Weekly. power of a word. The "little more” and the “little less” City of Snow White Domos. of Browning are forcibly Illustrated tn The little city of El-Oued. with its the direction of the earth's Journey round the «un. An elliptic course dif population >f 8,000 people, at th# ex fering very little from a circle, com treme south of the province of Con bined with a tilt of the axle, gives us stantine. in Algeria, la unique even for the seasons. But If till« difference and a Mohammedan city, because of the tilt did not exl«t there- would be no great number of its snow white domes seasons nnd one climate would rule or cupolas. So extraordinary is the the year If, agnln, the- course were great number of these cupolas that more elliptic, then for the hemisphere many writers have referred to El-Oued whose winter occurred at the earth's ns "the city of a thousand cupolas." greatest distance from the «mi there The homes of the residents of El-Oued are constructed of white plaster and might be a glacial period. "The straight line," says Miss Helen were it not for the whiteness of the Keller, “symbolizes duty. It Is a dull domes would be tnken at a cursory thought drawn ent endlessly." And glance to be a city of coke ovens — this seems to be a reflection on what Popular Mechanics. we had thought was the earth'« path As Good <■» His Word, of duty round the sun. for this |>ath Is lie- I always make It a point to the curve known as the ellipse. More over, the thought makes the »un a prod t by r the mistakes of others She 1 got weary of George Brixton tempter of the earth front the strict path of dnty, for the earth, we learn because he never seemed to know from our Newton, If left to Itself when to > go home. He then bade her good night —Olere would wander on forever through space in a straight line It Is the sun land Leader Which draws It from this dull course Ons Masculina Trait. into the pleasant curve of aubjection Gwllllams Mm. Bingo always strike» Yet the sun'» victory Is only partial, the earth's actual path being a combi m** as being such a masen tine woman. She cant nation of It» own straight line of tn-' Mrs. Gwtlllams She Is ctlnatlon and obedience to the pull of stand the least bit of pain without tbs sun And ao Instead of tbs “dull linking a big fuss over It -Chicago thought drawn out endlessly" we have ( Tribune. tlie beautiful thought of the changing I Death is a frlrnd of ours, and he seasons, the flowers and fruits of ths earth, wltb Its ever varying weather.1 that Is not ready to entertain him Is sunshine aud storm, beat and cold. | not at home.—Bacon. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. Her Summary Method of Snapping Official Red Tape. When Florence Nightingale came, in stantly a new intelligence, Instinct with pity, aflame with energy, fertile with womanly invention, swept through the Scutari hospital. Clumsy male de vices were dismissed, almost with a gesture, into space. Dirt became a crime, fresh air and clean linen, sweet food and soft hands a piety. A great kitcheu was organized which provided well cooked food for a thousand men. Washing was a lost art In the hospital, but this band of women created, as with a breath, a great laundry, and a strange cleanliness crept along the walls and the beds of the hospital. In their warfare with disease and pain these women showed a resolution as high as the men of their race showed against the gray coated battalions of Inkerman or in the frozen trenches be fore Sebastopol. Muddle headed male routine was swept ruthlessly aside. If the commissariat failed to supply requisites, Florence Nightingale, who had great funds at her disposal, in stantly provided them herself, and the heavy footed officials found the swift feet of these women outrunning them In every path of help and pity. Only one flash of anger Is reported to have broken the serene calm which served as a mask for the steel-like and reso lute will of Florence Nightingale, Some stores hud arrived from Eng- land; sick men were languishing for them, But routine required that they should lie Inspected by a board before being issued, and the board, moving with heavy footed slowness, had not completed Its work when night fell, The stores were, therefore, with offi- cial phlegm, locked up and their use denied to the sick. Between the needs of hundreds of sick men and the com forts they required was the locked door, the symbol of red tape. Florence Nightingale called a couple of order lies. walked to the door and quietly ordered them to burst It open and the stores to be distributed!—Cornhill Mag- azlue. Dolly Madison. Mrs. Dolly Madison, the wife of the third president, is described by Gris wold In this way: “Dolly Payne, born In North Caro lina, hns been educated according to the strictest rules of the Quakers in Philadelphia, where at an early age she married a young lawyer of this sect named Todd; but, becoming a wid ow, she threw off drab silks and plain laces and for several years was one of the gayest and most fascinating wo men of the city. She had many lovers, but she gave the preference to Mr. Madison and became his wife in 1704." The Mistress of the House. "She s(>ends all her time In the library "Ah, she is literary?” "Not especially. But the cook won't allow her In the kitchen, and the maids don’t want her about the halls or par lors.”—Pittsburg Post. Deduction. "Tell me what yon ent. and 1 will tell yon what you are.” boasted an amateur «age. "Well, I ate a welsh rabbit and a lemon pie last night.” "You’re a fool.'*—Kansas City Jour nal. 24 looo. VOSBERG WILL GOON TILLA MOOK RUN Steamer Will Carry Both Freight and Passengers Down Coas;. Major Weitzel, Registered No- 33271, Commencing today the steamer George ■ R. Voaburg will be operated between Portland and Nehalem and Tillamook, in the freight and passenger trade. She will be the first steamer that has over been placed’on this route, and the oper ators of the new line are confident of the mill be in Tillamook City about July loth, venture proving a success. The craft will 1909, and uuill remain as Uong leave tonight on her initial run in the as Business Justifies. service. Accommodations for passengers have Coine early and look over the horse, his breeding j ust been fitted up, and a Government and the honors he has won aud book your mares. license issued permitting her to carry 15 The Major is now finishing a very prosperous season people. Heretofore the Vosburg has over the same field for the fourth year. been operated as a tugboat, and she will continue to take schooners in and out For further particulars consult the posted bills or over the bar at the other end of the line. write to But it is said this work wdl not inter DR. E. F. ROGERS, V.S.D., fere with her maintaining a weekly schedule out of this port. On thedown Ouuner and manager, SRUE1W, Ore. trip she will carry general merchandise and return with farm products, such as is carried by the Sue H. Elmore and First Class Roon, Argo. She will make the third steamer Centrally Located. nag»» running regularly out of Portland to ful. Tillamook. Until a few months ago the Elmore took care of the entire traffic « niff down that way, a fact cited as illus trative of the growing importance of The Only First Class Hotel in Tillamook, Ort the i> that section of Oregon. A Modern Hotel. Traveling Men’s Home. Tourists' Headquarters. Uw Captain C. P. Rorvik, recently master j. p. RAMSEY, Pro. X of the steam schooner Yellowstone, is in er gu command of the Vosburg. He says this ?e an is one of the best short runs out of Port-i nt ng land. The skipper explains that the the « new railroad being built from Portland itrles to Tillamook and Nehalem will make ea ere i of | business unusually brink by the water reds route during the next few months. Be ■intbs sides, it is pointed out the summer re galle sorts there are proving more popular, iaxlm which will greatly benefit the passenger travel. The skipper is authority for the state li era • and ment that on a sand spit near Nehalem live a great quantity of beeswax has been IgMti uncovered. It is believed to have form jraltn ed a part of a cargo of a Spanish ship t tw< wrecked there more than 100 years ago. on», Old fashioned candle sticks have also of ov been found in the collection. An effort sens is being made to recover as much of the mllei rtlng buried treasure as possible, The opera. vest tions are necessarily slow, as the spit is alneni CHEESE, Tillamook to Portland inundated by high tides. «; gut Captain Rorvik expresses the opinion Tuuins, 12g Cents per Cast that Nehalem is destined to become one of the greatesr seaside resorts on the idem Trips, 15 coast after the new railroad has been »i «» ope. completed. In addition to its other at nlnen frod tractions he says that vicinity provides the best fishing and hunting in the state. F. P. BAUMGARTNER, Agent Couch Street Dock, Portland, Oregox He declares that it is the home of count B. C. LAMB, Agent, Tillamook, Oregon. cb less thousands of wild pigeons.—Tele- le hu g ram. — —— - - - jbefo The Iowa Bred Prize Winning Standard Bred Trotting Stallion, HOTEL RAMSEY, Tillamook. Oregon. Pacific Navigation Co’s STEAMER SUE H. ELMORE, The ONLY Freight and PASSENGER^ Boat making regular trips between TILLAMOOK AND PORTLAND. FREIGHT, $3.00 PER TON. Women Should Tran Nerves Their We hear women talk of '• nerves! nerves!" as though they looked upon them as their greatest foes, All the physical pleasures of life are brought to os through our nerves, and even the higher joys of the intellectual and the spiritual life we become aware of only through the medium of feeling, and for this reason alone it Icehoovesone to keep one's nerves in a noimal, healthful and responsive condition. The fact that the nervous system is amenable to training and that its hab. its can be unerringly cultivated at one’s own will, and under one’sown direction or with outside assistance if necessary, is a fact of growing importance. This is so because the recent work of scientific men is showing us to what a minute degree nerve habits can be controlled and also because, especially in America, our cli mate and our modern civilization are making greater demands upon nervous force and contribute to the unconscious formation of detrimental nervous habits. The time has come, prophesied by Mr. Oilman's '• neolitic man”: We’re going to wear great piles of stuff Outside our natural skins, We’re going to have diseases And accomplishments and sins. Worry, ill temper, hast, laziness, over work, selfishness, egotism and distrust are in many cases l>ad habits of the nerves.—Anna Sturgea, in the Delinea tor for June. Making Children SelfReliant. Women Who Are Envied Those attractive women who 1» cwu lovely in face, form and temper arete * °PP' er.vv of many, w ho might lie likeIhm WWI A weak, sickly women will be nrri(«>wini and irritable, Constipation or Khi*!l of a poisons allow in pimples, blotches, hi ring eruptions and a wretched cotnplrii« Igrles, For all such. Electric Bitters work»», jn ders They regulate Stomach, . Kidneys, purify the blood; give nerves, bright eyes, pure breath, velvety skill, lovely complexion. Mu'“- “ charming women owe their health wk beauty to them. 50c. atChas. I. ClougbilOII» « Mr. William R. George, the founder, discovered through experience that the only way to make boys and girls self-re liant and independent was to throw them on their own resources, and that the only way to teach them respect for law and order was to have them create and execute that law themselves. So, in the George Junior Republic, at Free ville, N. Y., and in other junior republics which are being established in various bu ----------------------------- parts of the country, the boysand girls MA80NIC L0 DOB dSMl become “citizens’’ ot a minature dem No. 57, meets on thirdSiw ocracy, wherein they perform the same dav of each month «perfet duties and bear the same responsibilities that will be bound to fall on them, when I.OO.F. Hall, at 7;80 p.*Brea. they become of age, in the great repub rt rea F rank S everance , W,M. lic. Here, in this little community, ex poustl E rwin H arrison , Srt- isting conditions are frankly accepted, and the youthful inhabitants learn to ject R. A. D. PERKINS, rd» in live in the world as we find it today, and not in some ideal state. The plan which Mr. George organized RESIDENT DENTIST. was not launched in its entirety, but is Office in Sturgeon’s Building. the result of years of experience in con nection with fresh air colonies. Here the All Work Guaranteed. children were having everything given TILLAMOOK. OHEG05 to them—clothes, food, etc.—and when needing correction were whipped in the good (?) old-fashioned way. What was the result ? Increase in tendencies to ward pauperism and greater antagonism I have some new and second against control, with no higher respect ladies’ and gent's wheels at a bargain- for the rights of other. Here, certainly Will not be undersold by W* was need for a change, and Mr. George, firms. desiring to do the best he could for the Come and see my stock. I »■ k , children, decided to do the most reason- pared to build you any kind ot able thing. First, they were to earn at short notice. fit their clothes, and then finally their food Bargains never before seen in ^“‘od ba as well. At first there was rebellion, mook for cash. Old bicycles taken. but Mr. George curbed his sympathy and simply waited. When the young- sters discovered that there was no other AT THE OLD STAND way but to work for.what they want ed and needed, they started in one alter Notice of Appointment of Adn** strator. another, and herein was founded the motto that the republic holds today. N oticb is H brbby G itbn ,— That tj* designed has been duly appointed w» Nothing Without Labor,1' . •trator of the Estate of MARTHA J. Men Past Fifty in Danger. Men past middle life have found com fort and relit in Foley's Kiclnay Remedy, especially tor eidaiged prostate gland^ which is very common among elderly men. L E. Morris, Dexter, Ky„ writes; •'Up to a year ago my father suffered from kidney and biadder trouble and several physicians pronounced It enlarge - menl ot the prostate gland and advised an operation. On account of hie age we were afraid he could not stand it and I recommended Foley's Kidney Remedy, and the first bottle relieved him. and after taking the second bottle he was no longer troubled with this complaint.''— Of Interest to Farmers and J. 8. Lamar. Tillamook ; Hawk A Miller . i k-a. __ r------------J Mechanics. Bay City. karmer and in<-cliaiiici< fr.quently meet wni. «light and injuriesVhfch mjurie/wlud, M'. 1!'.." 1!*1'1 accidents and cause them much n.moyancS.nd I.Ji nf Trouble Makers Ousted. When a sufferer from stomach trouble time. A cut or bruise may t«. cured ¡n takes Dr King'» New Life Pills he's about -ne-third the tim/ u.un|lT re mlghtv Riad to we his Dvspepnia U„J quiredby applying Cliamberlam sLini' Indigestion fly, but more lie's tickled nei.t as so (n aa lhc („jljrv ,g »<"-prams. over hisnew, fine appetite, strong nerves Jirei Mlnofn',t9 1,150 healthy vigor, all because stomach, liver iXi! 11 fieri i ’’nd rll’’un'"‘» and kidneys now work right. 25c at I I lire is no danger of blond Ubas. I. Clough s. »n tnjn y when .hnmberlain's Liniment i. 'd Everynnv wouldjhe benefited by taking Foley a Orit.o Laxative for constipation ‘e Uo,,r* I>rug stomach and liver tronble. as it sweetens Store. the stomach and breath, gently stimu Jriftingto- I a tea the liver and regulates the bowels wilEVZ and is much superior to pills and ordi wards Bright» disease by ne<rl«m;.. nary laxatives Why not try Frier's Orino Laxative todav ?—J. H, j ,m'„ Tillamook Hawk St Miller. Bay City ‘ Bioycles. ED. SNODGRASS, KINS, deceased, by the County Court ’ State of Oregon, for Tillamook Co« • Now. therefore, all persons having 5*?^ against said estate, are hereby a Present them to me at Tillamook City. iliamook County, Oregon, wit" vouchers, on or before six months from date hereof. -Aj Dated the 21st dav of Tune, 1909. C. N DREW. rf, Adminstrator of the Brt*. j Martha J. Haskins, NOTICE FoR PUBLICATION DepRrtment of the Inferior. United States Laud office. Portl— March J’rt Notice is hereby riven that WiX G DUNGBY. of Tillamook. Oregon. March list, 1909, made application Ki try, No. 01T&7. for W of He j township 1 North, range 9 Weat. Meridian, has ft rd notice of make final timber proof, to < f —> to the land above described, I Cooper, V 8. < ommUaioner at Oregon, on the 30th day of Aui""’ Claimant names as witnesses . „ 1». E Goodapeed. of Tillamook. Egbert 'modspeed, of Tillamook "r*rnfd C. Bewley, of Tillamook. OrafO®- Martiuy, of Tillamook, Oregon A lgebnob S. DaissE"' Re» S