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Tillamook (Headlight. February 1 1912 OLD SHIP CLOCKS. BOOST 1 BOOST! BOOST ! illamook County will Double in Population Crude Devices Mariners Used In Reckoning Time. the Next Twelve Months. SANDGLASS MOST POPULAR. Send the Tillamook Headlight, the Pioneer Newspaper of the County, to your Friends he Headlight is the Old, Reliable Newspaper of Tillamook County. If It Were Carefully Attended to the Skipper Could Tell the Days Fairly Well,' but It Was Often Juggled—The First Ohronometers. Tillamook HEADLIGHT and Weekly Oregonian, $2.25. The Booster Newspapers ■ r. HEADQUARTERS FOR AIRYMEN’ AND S SUPPLIES STEEL STOVES & RANCES We carry a Large Stock of Hardware, I Tinware, Glass and China, Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors. Window Sashes, / 1 i&.. - % I—':' --4.-X . - ’ Agents for the Great Western Saw ALEX McNAIR CO The Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County v. FOLEY KIDNEi PILLS IS JL for backache, rheumatism, kidney or bladder trouble, and urinary irregulariti«* Foley Kidney in results. Refuse, substitute*. ney Pills are tonic in action, . quick _ Chas. I. Clough, Tillamook * W. T. STEPHENS, Distributer for Tillamook, Ore LIFE ON A. BOER FARM. JAPANESE STRATEGY. The House a Chamber of Horrors, the Housewife Hopelessly Dull. An Americau woiuau traveling in South Africa was detained by floods ■mil compelled to spend a mouth on a Boer farm. "The first night's monoto ny." «lie writes, "was broken by the rourlng of tbe ostriches under our win dow. We thought It was a tame lion. "The farmer and bls family lived eliiefly on sour breud and sour skim- milk, and 1 was therefore tiuugry most of the time, and tbe ripe tigs banging lu clusters were pretty allur- iug. After pushing back tbe skin of the fig and eujoying tbe soft fruit, with its tropical taste. I bad a refresh ing uigbt’s sleep, only to awaken in the morning pretty well scared, for my tongue was so swollen and black that I could uot talk. "Tbe Boer wife laughed and enjoyed uiy discomfort and explained that tbe skin of tbe fig bad numeroua fine thorns and I had not been careful to remove them when eating. "When I told tbe farmer's wife that I liked buttermilk in quantity I uo- tlced that 1 bad a cupful or so given me. but she threw It by tbe pailful to the |ilgs. They were of far more con sequence to her than I. for they would stay longer with her and were her fa- miliars. I was not. "Then, again, when 1 was hungry for butter on my brend a white, clammy substance made from sheep's tall t*t was handed to me. and I could net al low the farmer's wife to see me galeae. She sold her butter in tbe village etoae by nt 75 cents a pound, more or lean Sour bread and green strawberries (plenty of them) were considered goo* enough. "This Boer family was one of tbe wealthiest of their kind. There wee not n ripple of fun or exuberaat Mb in anything but tbe live stock. CM- versation was a dead language SB kooifti. "Tbe women are mute beings, ae- ceptlng tbelr destiny with deep sML ness. Tbe wife gives up her straw*«* to tbe limit, and dies after giving MN* to a dozen or more children, to make way for wife No. 2. wbo gives aaaMae dozen children to her country. Bae adobe house, with its dirt floor make of ant hill clay mixed with beef ga*. Is a chamber of horrors to an Aaafi* can traveler. "The farmer depends upon bla tea * eighteen children of all sizes to be** hlin. A Kaffir ns an employee is aakb pendable ns the winds that blow, let that Kaffir is tbe hired man la tbe mines and elsowbere In South AfHS*. The white man as a day laborer la a general failure. He cannot be worbe* In droves like tbe Kaffir from tbe IB- ti-rlor. whose language, in clicks aa* vowel sounds, is hardly human. "The Boer is not long lived. One seldom met an aged Boer of tbe al* stock Oom Paul Kruger, wbo was seventy-five yenrs old when he dte*. wns an exception. Hatred toward tbe uitlnndcr nnd the lust for gold aa* power were what kept tbe Area of Mb burning nt white beat within Mm."— Health Culture. Ibgeaious Tactics That Marked the Siege of Port Arthur. Much of tbe slaughter that marked Me siege of Port Arthur centered about •he capture of wbat was kuowu as 203 Meter hill. Tbe Japauese wauted that eminence, uot to plaut guns on it. but te observe tbe ¡lositlon of tbe Russian Warships anchored lu Port Arthur bar ber. Before the capture of the bill the Japanese fired into the towu and tbe harbor with an alarming and puzzling att une y. although the gunners never aaw their target. After a time the Russiaus learned Mat a Chinese fisherman was partleu- IbMy fond of a certain spot iu the bar ber. They watched him. If a shot fell beyond a particular ship he moved his beat hi a corresponding direction If a shot fell to the left the simple Chi- Bese found the fishing better in that direction. Apparently lie had no mis- dlou in tlie world except to find the best fishing ground. Finally It dawned upon the Russians that bis movements could be observed by Japanese field glasses. Fishing in the harbor was prohibited, and the Japanese tire went Wide. After a time the shots began hitting their marks with the former accuracy. The Russians looked for Chinamen. They fouud one. He liked to wade Into tbe shallow water, apparently looking for crabs. He bad a white bncket and a black one If a shot fell short or went beyond the mark tbe white bucket moved In sympathy. If it went to tbe right or left tlie black bucket was affected only, if a hit was made the buckets came together. Possibly it was by using tlie simple Chinese tiiat the Japanese succeeded In mining tlie entrance to Port Arthur harbor. On April 13. 1904. Admiral Makaroff came out nt the head of his fleet, bis pennant flying from the Petro- palovsk. The flagship struck a cable that connected three floating mines. One mine swung to port, two to star board. in a few minutes Makaroff and bls ship went down. The fleet turned and fled into port—Scientific Ameri can. To ascertain the time when at sea is now a matter of tbe utmost simplicity. But such was not the case in tbe old sailing days, and In order to acquire even tbe vaguest Idea of longitude and time the seaman bad recourse to curl ous devices Crude as these devices appear com pared with present day instruments, they save the mariner from chaos and destruction, and even If be could uot mime the hour with any degree of cer tainty he at least kuew the day of tbe week. Eclipses of tbe moon and tbe post tions of tbe stars afforded a little guide to tlie skipper, who was. nevertheless, greatly handicapped b.v his lack of as tronomical knowledge nnd tbe Inferior quality of bis spyglass. Moreover, eclipses could not lie arranged for ev ery night in tbe week, and there were dark nights when the stars could not be seen, so various devices bad to be pressed into service. Tbe most popular form of old sea I clock was the sandglass. Many of these glasses were timed to run twen ty-four hours, and prior to tbe ship leaving land the glass was set exactly at noon. If it were carefully watched and turned as soon as the sand ran down tbe skipper could reckon tbe , days with fair accuracy. i Side by side with tbe large glass were placed half hour and minute glasses, Tbe man at tbe helm carefully watcb- ed this old sea clock and announced the time at regular intervals by strlk- . ing a bell. It was customary to estl- ' mate tbe duration of any incident by so many glasses. "To flog tbe glass" \ was an operation very congenial to lazy seamen. It consisted tn turning ! the glass before all tbe sand bad run down so that tbe watch was appre- , clably shortened. When the twenty-four hour glass was employed a little Juggling was in dulged in for tbe purpose of finding tbe longitude Tbe difference between tbe twenty-four hour glass and the time by the sun was estimated nnd tbis difference was held to represent tbe longitude east or west, according as tbe sun's time might be before or , after the time returned by the glass. "Taking the sun” was a weird and ! wonderful operation. Clumsy quad rants were utilized, and toward mid- ¡day the cnptnin appeared on deck to J perform his solemn duty. After much screwing of eyes mid waggling of the quadrant the captain would bawl out to tbe mate, "Make It ----- bells!" tbe number varying according to [lersonal idiosyncrasies. Oratory No Longer Soars. A demand for a more satisfactory "Oratory Is a lost art.'" said a Ob**- device for estimating time at sea was land man the other dny. "I used to go .responsible for experiments being down to tbe courts Just to hear tbe made with pendulum clocks, though lurid speeches. Nothing doing In that with little success. The Interest of line any more. The lawyers do not Inventors was aroused wbeu tbe Eng talk about flowers, rainbows and saa- lish government In 1714 offered £10.- 000 to any one Inventing a method of beiitns today. "There was a lawyer in Cleveland reckoning longitude to within a de gree, or sixty miles; £15,000 if witbin years ago—Bill Robinson was his name -whose addresses to a Jury alwaya at forty miles and £20,000 If within thirty tracted a crowd. I will forever remem miles. John Harrison, an obscure Yorkshire her one of his sentences. The maa bn was fighting In the salt had a repats carpenter, who bad achieved a local reputation by repairing and cleaning tlon as something of a miser. " 'Who Is this mao—wbo Is be?' tboa clocks, came forward with a cbronom ‘You know aa* I eter which at once attracted attention. dered Robinson. Through the Influence of Dr. Halley be know that he bolls his potatoes la Wid ows' tears.' waj enabled to make a voyage in a “This phrase caught tbe Jury, aa* government vessel to Lisbon, where be Robinson won his cnse, but one *eaa succeeded in determining tbe longitude not hear any sneb 'oratory' an that to within I degree 30 minutes. For this achievement be was grant nowadays.”— Casa and Commoat ed £500 to enable him to proceed with The Real Trouble. bls Invention After thirty years’ hard "Ob. doctor." sighed the psttoat, “I toll he produced a chronometer on which the present mnrine chronometer am so glad you have come. I bant Is based His Invention wns shaped dreadful, and 1 don't know what la the world Is the nistter with me My like a large watch, and in 1701 Hnr husband says it is nothing but aara- rison's son embarked for Jamaica in order to carry out testa On tbe voy ous Indigestion, but bls mother Io poat- age out the chronometer was only 6.1 tlve I am going to bare append* Uta, seconds in error, nnd during tbe whole and my mother declares I bare labor millent fever. nnd my slater says ■ trip from Portsmouth to Jamaica and back the variation wns only 1 minute looks to her like creeping paralysis, aa* Aunt Henrietta says I've got tnalafM 54.5 seconds The accuracy of the chronometer What do you think I've got. doctnpl" "Weil." frowns the pbyslclaa. "fbum thus enabled tbe longitude to tie deter these symptoms I should say offbaak mined within eighteen miles, a result that you hove too many relative*"— which exceeded tbe admiralty's most sanguine expectations After farther Chicago Post demonstrations an act of parliament wns passed tn 1705 awarding Harrison Dancing and Kissing. The old time ballroom smarts* of £20XNK*. half of the money to tie paid Without It the dance wen an soon as be explained how bls time the kiss keeper was constructed and tbe re Incomplete It was claimed as a right. mainder when the government was And given freely. The very Men ad convinced that these timekeepers could such an omlssioo won Id have cause** strike, an these linos foretold: be made by others Despite tbe ful HI Intent of these conditions. Harrison Hui sums reply Whet foots would naaaaa It thst when dsunce Is doono bad to wait several years before tbe It* may nos have st ladye'e llyo money was paid over That which In dsunce he wooer Ijircum Kendal, who had been Her- — Ixiudoo TaUnt. lson's apprentice and who was ulti mately his successor, followed on tbe Jolting His Lawyer. lines laid down by bls master and pro Church-What was the aaaas yea duced a chronometer which was Used called your lawyer? by Captain Cook during bls daring Gotham-Necessity. voyage In tbe Resolution Of this "Rut ihat's s funny name. Why *» chronometer Cook wrote. "Our long! you call him Necessity?” rude can never be erroneous while we "Bec ause he knows no low "—Vaa- bare so good a guide as Mr Kendal's kers Statesman watch ” Various borcilodsts bare Introduced A Matter of Fractions. so many improvements that little trace Rlrra-My half brother is eo*a*MM of Harrison's model is to be discerned my wife's half sister Diggs— *M In tbe modern chronometer, though to will they tie mad« ono?— Bostoe T*a* him must be assigned tbe credit of w-rlpc pointing out tbe way. Ao evil speaker only waste | k > h unity to become aa svlMoar Ulto. ORNAMENTAL DRESS. The Kind of Clothes Washington, Han cock and Adams Wore. John Hancock, thin in person, six feet in stature, was very fond of orna mental dress. He wore a wig wbeu abroad and a cap when at home. A mau who visited Hancock one dny at noon in June, 1782. describes him as dressed iu a red velvet cap lined with fine white linen, which was turned up two or three Indies over the lower edge of the velvet; a blue damask gown lined with silk, a wtiite silk stock, a white satin embroidered waistcoat, black satin small clothes, white silk Blockings und red morocco slippers. Washington nt his receptions In Philadelphia was dressed In black vel vet. Ills luiir was powdered and gath ered behind in a large silk bag. Ills iinnds were incased in yellow gloves. He held n cocked lint with n cockade on it nnd Its edges adorned with n blade feather, lie wore knee and shoe buckles, nnd at Ills left hip appeared a long sword In a polished white lenther scabbard with a polished steel hilt. John Adums on tlie dny of Ills inau guration was dressed lu a full suit of pearl colored broadcloth, and his hair was powdered Chief Justice Dana of Massachusetts used to wear In winter a white corduroy surtout lined with fur nnd held his hands In a large muff. The Justices of the supreme court of Massachusetts wore until the year 1793 robes of scarlet faced with black vel vet in winter nnd black silk gowns In summer. At tlie beginning of tile Inst century powfier for tlie hulr became unfashionable, tying up tlie hair was abandoned, colored garments went out of use, buckles disappeared, and knee breeches gave place to trousers—New York Press. Interested. This Is a real conversation It might have taken place almost anywhere In the city, so why ahould we tell real na tnea? "Do you know, dear," says Mrs. En- ■ywun. “I think we are paying alto gether too tnueh for our church pew. considering its location.” “Do you think so?" replies Mr. Enny- wnn "Well, we must attend to that at once. Er -where Is it located? I want to make a note of it” “No «8 C.” "Tas— how stupid of me. And—ah — wbat church?” — Cleveland Plain Rlohneso of Walnuts. •Tbe percentage of food In walnuts,” says the Txindon Ixincet, a high med ical authority. "Is very high. They are very rich In fat. containing ns much as n per cent, while tlie proteins aaseuat to nearly 10 per cent. It has boas calculated Hint thirty large wal- BM kernels contain ns much fat as two aad three quarter pounds of lean MM. aad yet the walnut is often used aa a supplement to a square meal!” Met Much Difference. *Maiy-I’op, wbat is tbe difference iMweea table d'hote and a la carte? fbMMy’e Pop—At a table d'hote, my Bk, yon take wbat the waiter brings M* without ordering, while if yon dine a Ik cane you order first and then take tMst tbe waiter brings you.—PblladeP fMk Bscord Likely Enough. "**s»y brags that be to a self made t*eagbt bo was a little baggy st Mess "-Baltimore American.