TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, APRIL.
WAR WARM WORK
MILITARY PUNISHMENTS,
SCIENTIFIC MYSTERIES.
Times When Rebellious Soldiers Gam­ Th* Probtom» of Mind, Lifo. Gravita­
tion and Elootricity.
bled For Their Lives.
A moat remarkable state, condition
In times past the military code In
The Fhrase “Heat of Battle” Not England was no less stern and uncom­ 1 or point in nature, tbe absolute zero
promising than the civil. Sentence of i of temperature, baa been reached to
a Mere Figure of Speech.
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death was readily decreed and as within three degree«. This Is cop-
promptly executed.
Where offenses slilered to be a great iwieiitific achieve­
Hydrogen gas was solidified
multiplied and wholesale executions ment.
FIGHTING FIRES THE BLOOD. would have weakened the army nu­ Into pure white ice. nnd this was em­
merically decimation—the slaughter of ployed In tbe process of cooling he­
An Old Veteran’s Story of an Early every tenth man—was the rule, or the lium. and all works of tbe baud of
troops gambled for their Ilves by cast­ tuau were surpassed The temperature
Morning Attack In Zero Weather and
ing dice upon a drumbead or druwtug i sunk lower and lower until a point
the Change the Skirmish Wrought in lots under the gallows tree.
' only three degrees from absolute was
Hie Half Frozen Body.
Lesser penalties—not capital, but rea< bed. but the obdurate helium did
“The expression 'beat of battle' Is physical, and causing pain with per­ I not even liquefy.
more than a mere poetic figure of manent degradation—were maiming, 1 The imagination, however vivid, can-
speech descriptive of the tierce glow of branding the cheek or forehead, bor­ not encompass what this Intense cold
It may tie the death of the
emotion the soldier feels when In the ing the tongue or cutting the nose and implies
midst of conflict," said a southern sol­ ears. These last named were retained activity of matter—that Is. a state of
dier who was an officer under Colonel upon the military statute book until rest so far as chemical reaction is < oti-
Mosby. "It describes exactly the sen­ the reign of Queen Anne, The "trap- i i-emed Thus If the true zero of na
sible. physical condition the soldier pado” was a fiendish device by which ture can be reached It may obtain that
high by a ; mutter will put ou new aspects and
feels, no matter what the temperature n delinquent was hoisted on
I rope fastened to his arms and then Hitherto unknown pro|,ertfes. nr It may
may tie.
dropped down by a sudden Jerk that expire. Iiei-ome chemically Inert, total
"That this Is true was evidenced by
often dislocated his shoulders. flnug- ly devoid of heat atul lifeless.
my own experience during the war be
Ing by the thumbs, sometimes calle. I
Still even then the standing mystery
tweeu the states. It was lu February.
"picketing." was also practiced. wld'e
IfitM. and Colonel Mosby, with some tile body was raised to such a height ever confronting man. always await-
lug explanation. gravitation, will a-I.
hundred of us. was cumited ueur Ip
that Its whole weight rested on one
pervllle, a village in Virginia about toe. and that again on n sharp (diluted ■ Nothing known can a ITeel the uní­
forever directly as to
thirty miles south of Harpers l-erry.
I versal attraction,
spike.
mass, whether hot or cold.
Lute one afternoon our lender received
To "ride the wooden horse" was to
However, the three degrees
a dispatch from General Lee to make lie mounted on a razor edge, with
never be overcome, or. indeed, they
a forced march ttiat night and attack ‘ weights fastened to the extremities.
a body of Federal troops that was sta- I Running the gantlet, or “gante- may. for It Is now thought that science
tloued on Ixiudon heights, which over ■ I lope.” was as old as the Cromwellian has no limits, the scientific mind being
look Harpers Ferry The weather was | ! army, and It Is thus described In an capable of solving all problems—so
bitter cold, the coldest that had been i army order about 1(M9: The culprits snlth some mentologists.
The capital problem is first to dis­
known lu that Bectlon for many years I (who had been guilty of blasphemy ns
The mercury was coquettlug around well as deer stealing) were to be cover what mind Is. then life, next
zero, a six Inch fall of snow, half melt­ "stripped naked from the waist up­ gravitation, next electricity, and reach
ed and frozen again, made the roads ward and a lane made by half the a climax In finding how it is that gase­
almost Impassable, and h stiff north lord general's regiment of foot and ous musses glow nnd issue light when
wind, ndded to these oilier evils, made half Colonel Pride's, with every man existing In frigid voids at zero abso­
the outlook for a pleasant dash of a cudgel In his hand. They were to lute.
There is no solution In sight for any
thirty miles a most dismally Itnprob
be run through In this posture so that
able one.
every soldier might have a stroke at of these perplexing problems and har­
"It was about sunset when, muffled their naked backs, breasts or arms assing. No progress whatever has been
made In finding what mind Is. the rea­
to the eyes against (lie biting frost and wherever it might alight.”—Pearson’s.
son being doubtless that mind Is un­
bitter wind, our column left camp at
able to think of itself. On trial it will
Uppervllle. For lhe first ten miles our
GETTING TIRED,
be soon discovered that one Is unable
squadron, made up of veterans Inured
to all manner of hardships, did not Fatigue That Follows Monotony of to set up a train of reasoning regard­
ing bls own or another’s mind. "His
suffer much, and occasionally someone
Work or Exercise.
own" Implies an owner, but no fact as
would even essay a Joke. Hut lu lhe
It is said that for horses the hardest to who this owner is has ever been
seeoud teu miles the cold, that had road out of London is the most level
slowly eaten Its way through oven-oat one. There are no bills to climb and discovered. Humans are not perfect
and Jacket and shirt, begin, It1 lilte Into descend, and the tired horse has no — Eilgnr Lucien Larkin In New Y’ork
our bodies. To restore life to our numb chance to rest one set of muscles American.
legs we would take our feet from the while another works. Monotony pro­
Belled the Boundary.
stirrups and let them hang until the duces fatigue, and because this par­
“Artificial boundaries" are generally
circulation was restored—an old trick ticular road Is one dead, monotonous
with those compelled to ride lunch In level more horses die ou It lhau od Invisible. But a highly artificial one
forces itself upon the notice of the
, the cold-and we would keep mit­ any other leading out of London.
traveler by rail between the Lake of
bands aud arms in some measure
We can even take a charitable view
warm by lient lug them ngalust our of the time taken dally by the type­ Lugano and Lake Maggiore. The fron­
bodies or clapping them severely to- writer uirl for the arrangement of her tier between Italy and Switzerland Is
followed for a considerable portiou of
getber
hair
Her fingers are congested by the journey, and It Is marked by a
"The
i ne second ten was bad enough. I
the work of writing and tired by con­ loft.v barrier of wire netting hung with
say. but the Inst was-well, a polar tact with the tin rd keys of tier inn-
bells for tin* puntóse of preventing
nightmare. The vitality seemed to be chine, and the different feeling of her
smugglers from getting Into Italy
frozen out of man mid beast. For hair and the little plays and move-
without attracting the attention of
hours the horses stumbled through ments of her tlngers In adjusting It
nrmed defenders of Italian' revenue,
the snow bearing a troop ns silent as are it distinct stimulation and relief
lit extreme contrast with this Is the
the dead save for an oei-aMlinuil
Fatigue following long continued ex­ natural boundary tietween Italy and
thumplug of some poor devils half
ercise Is really a mild form of Illness France provided by Mont Blanc, which
frozen arms against his able us he
which arises from overexerting some In spite of Its mitumliiess Is so vague
•ought to restore life to lite deadened
one [tart of the body. In writing, for that it Is still undetermined, though
limbs. When I took my feet out of
Instance, the lingers move up nnd scarcely worth disputing, whether the
the stirrups to help lhe circulation I
down hardly more than a quarter of summit of the mountain Is Franco-
would have to tnke iny hands and lift
an Inch ns they travel across the page. Italian or all French.—London Cbrou-
my legs up to get the feet back In
Yet this Is hard work for their little Icle.
place, so lost to all sensation were
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muscles mid burns up tissue In the
they.
Mortification Well Earned.
fingers very fast if rest Intervals are
"At length about 3 o'clock tn the
An Englishman, alone with Klchard-
morning we saw the lights of the en­ too short and Infrequent, there Is not
time for the removal of the waste son. tbe novelist, said to him. "I mn
emy's picket fires and could dl«tln
gulsh the muffled forma of the sentries products of this destruction through litippy to pay my res|>ect.s to tbe au­
is they paced their beats. There was the normal cbaunels of the body and thor of Sir Charles Grnndisou.' for at
The feeling of Paris, nnd at The Hague, aud. lu fact,
i small strip of woods that ran to congestion results.
within a hundred or less yards of the ftUlgue or pain that follows long con­ at every place 1 have visited. It to
Federal camp, and In this we formed tinued use of any of the muscles Is much ndmlred."
Itlchardscu appeared not to notice
for the attack. My hands were so due to the Influence of such poisonous
■old that 1 was unable to cock the material, ns well ns to the stretching tbe compliment, but when nil tbe com­
lammera of my revolvers with my of the tissues caused by the pressure pany were assembled addressed the
numb, but was com (tel led to effect It of the blood which settles there.—Pau! gentleman with, "Sir. I think you were
saying something about 'Sir Charles
W Goldsbury In Atlantic.
With my teeth, holding the pistol Ise
Grand Ison.’"
ween my numbed fists mid drawing
“No. sir." he replied. "1 do not re­
Puzzled ths Englishman.
*ack the hammer by gripping It in my
A I’tilladelphinn who bad been enter­ member ever to have heard It men­
eeth and pulling it back until it
taining a friend from Ixindou for sev­ tioned."—From Orvine'a "Cyclopedia of
■aught.
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“At length all was In readiness As eral days noticed that his guest ap­ Anecdotes."
sst then*, tut rely able to grasp my peared to be In deep thought at dinner
«volvers, the 'Charge" rang out. and the other evening. "What's the mat­
Remarkable.
he next moment we were In the midst ter?” he asked, fearing that tile Eng
“One of the astronomers claims that
f the enemy, who were too astounded llshman was III or worried or home be has charted tD.dotl new worlds."
t an attack on such a bitter night to nick "I'm rawtber puzzled, old chap."
"By George. It's remarkable?'
ffer much resistance nnd for the moat replied the Londoner "I really cawn't
"Not so very when you consider the
•art fled down to Harfiers Ferry to make mil what the blawated bounder fai t that he has the use of the largest
lie main body. Some of them, how
meant. I was lost In your div the telescope In the world."
ver. put up a stout fight for men other day. and I dropped Into an aiatrt
"I wasn't thinking of that. Wh it I
wakened from warm sleep to fight to uieut house to ask my way A fellow consider strange Is that with so many
he death In the bitter night air. and was loading freight ou a bally lift I other worlds Iu existence the lady who
nr a couple of minutes we had nil we awskml him. 'Me good man. t-nit vou la acting as stepmother for niv chil­
mild do. but It was soon over, and tell me bow far down is Hpruts street? dren had to light on this oneChi­
♦e were tn poaaeaaion of the camp.
Ami that fellow said. 'I don t Know cago Record-Hera Id.
"When I rims to tu.vaelf I found I old top; my elevator only ruus to the
•as sitting with one leg thrown over basement.' Now. what the dickens did
Memory Resents Distrust.
ie pummel of my saddle, my over- that blök» meanF*—l'blladeiphlii
I remember telling the bishop of Itl
Ke.'
net and fncket flung wide open, while ord
pon that I envied him bls splendid
ly shirt, opened to the last button.
memory
"I seem to rvmenilier a
Bowed n grateful zero zephyr to play
thing quite well." I told hint, “then I
Largest les River.
pon my bare »wentlng breast
In
The great antarctic river discovered get frightened "
ty hand, from which I had pulled the by l.leuteuant Nhaekletou la the largest
The bishop said- 'That's the worst
love, molat with «west. I was hold
Ice river known and represents the thing vou can do Memory I« s very
la my hm. with which I was vigor
only visible outflow from tbe vast lee delicate organ sttij resents dlntnist."-
lair fanning myself
sheet of the soutbem continent Thin t Kllen Terry In McClure's Magazine
..“And less than five minutes before I the Ben rd mor« glacier desceuds 0.000
id been so chilled Hist had I been tn
feet between raodatene bills nod Is
A Matter of Luck.
comfortable house with a physician
IW mile» long by 60 wltlr Tbe Mai-
"Bad luck I h aomelltiHHi good lu, k "
’ hnnd he would haw tilled me full
aspliia glacier In Alaska cover» nearly
“lilillcuious!"
? hot drinks, wrnpissl me In blankets
<••• square mil««. Himalayan glaciers
"Not at Mil |Md you ever get a club
id kept me In bed a couple of days.
reach a length of twenty iullea. and to fill a heart flush and afterward dis
“No." concluded the veteran, the
tbe longest Alpine gtaclev to sixteen cover that some one else had a full
eat of hat tie* la something msv
miles.
house?“-Detroit Free 1‘raaa
imn a mere figure of speech."—New
,nrk Time«.
Harking Beali
A Legal Camplimtnv
"Von were tetlin« MI m Gausaip this
“V<*s, young Coke baud I. st the case
Fill» 1» Rr»v»nt Esrthqu»»»»
morning that yee were going to bo magnificently. He proved heyond the
“I rwurmh-r says Addison In the
married again, waraa't yo»r aaM the possibility of a doubt that the accused
H» hundred atul fortieth Tatter, shrewd man
msn wasn't guilty."
rben our whole Island was shake«
"Why. yea." the wMower gasped in
"Rut he was guilty, of coursa."-
|lth aa earthquake some years ago
surprise
'How did you toowF'
Cteveland 1*1« 1« liealer
ere was an Impudent mountebank
"After you left her ahe began to
ho sold pl I la which, as he told the
count oa her •agora.’* — Philadelphia
Keen Scaw of Small.
antry people, were '»cry
good
l*raae
The aborigines of fern >nn In the
( a last aa earth quake 'Letter is
darkest night and In the tbh-kest nooHe
hh I vu Saturday Review
dletlngiilah respectively
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a uegro and one of their owe race by
’*ve made It a prac’l.-e to put all
the sense of smell
*• worries« dow n In the bntl Ma of »»
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