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.
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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.