Tillamook Headlight, April
17, 1913
have three sworn enemies
he drunkard, heavy drinker,
e man who craves rough,
, high-proof whiskey
Cyrus Noble
WOMEN OF DENMARK.
TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK,
Tillamook, in the State of Oregon, at the close of
business April 4, 1913.
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts ...........................
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured
Bonds and warrants .............................
Stocks and other securities..............
Banking house .....................................
Furniture and fixtures..........................
Other real estate owned ...................
Due from banks (not reserve banks)
Due from approved reserve banks
Checks and other cash items..............
Cash on hand...........................................
$300.112.08
366.12
35,874.42
319.14
36,492.79
3,200.15
4.500.00
215.14
105,363.55
10.542.02
21,396.67
$518,382.08
Total
LIABILITIES.
Capital stock paid in
• $ I 75.000.00
5,500.00
Surplus fund
103.18
Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid
130.00
Dividends unpaid ......................................................
263.38
Postal savings bank deposits ... .....................
5,000. U)
Deposits due State Treasurer ............................
Individual deposits subject to check ............. 319,987 00
2,995.50
Demand certificates of deposit...........................
13,327.89
Certified checks .....................
.................
34,154.79
Time certificates of deposit
.................... -
Savings deposit..................
.................................. 61,918.34
2.00
Liabilities other than those above stated -
. ..$518,382.08
Total
State of Oregon, County of Tillamook, SS.
I, Erwin Harrison, Cashier of the above named bank, do
mnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of
knowledge and belief.—E rwin H arrcson , Cashier.
■ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of April,
191® - Myrtle O. Mills, Notary Public.
■Correct—Attest : M. \V. Harrison, D. Fitzpatrick, Directors.
Keep Abreast
of the Times
IN
OLDEN DAYS, when I vying
a cook stove, people would buY
the one they could get the cheaj *<•
that’s because there were only' *
few makes on the market a ?<i
were all practically the same i *
construction and material.
/fi "Different
Now I There
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-------- are close to a thousand different range*
on the market today—good, bad and indifferent. Wise people use a little
foresight in selecting 1’ieir range, and they make no mistake in selecting
T he R ange W ith a R eputation —■the range that is recommended by
txdy user; tbe range that has stood the test—
The Great
Aa a Rule, Th*y Ar* Wage Earnara
Evan Though Marriad.
There Is an outstanding point of dif­
ference between the activitiesAof wo­
-
men In Denmark and in other coun-
tries. In Denmark tbe sole alm ts
economic Independence for women
throughout their Ilves.
Thus in Copenhagen more than 1,000
married women work as clerks In of­
fices. By far the majority of actresses
are married
In order to enter the
school of the corps de ballet It ts nec­
essary to be of good family. Tbe
greater part of tbe busbands of ballet
dancers are In bigh positions.
Three hundred and fifty to four hun­
dred of the teachers In the free schools
In Copenhagen are married. They re
reive exactlv the same salary as the
men teachers—that Is. £04 yearly. A
head teacher. man or woman, com­
mences with fltiO and rises to 1208.
In tbe gymnasiums and secondary
schools many of the professors are
married women, who also form a con
slderable proportion of tbe prlvat-do-
eenten In the universities. The mimic-
Ipal council of Copenhagen has several
women members.
In brief. In Denmark it Is the mle
rather than the exception for tbe mar
rled woman to be economically inde­
pendent through her own labors.—Lon­
don Spectator.
WATCHING WATER FREEZE.
An Easy Way to Mak* th* Growth o*
Ice Crystal* Visible
it ts not commonly known thnt fresh
water may Hometimes be "colder than
ice" and that the growth of Ice crystals
may be,made plainly visible. An In
terestlng ex|terituei)t to show this may
easily be made.
Fill a clean pint bottle with distilled
water. Make a hole In the stopper
large enough to let the thermometer
The kind of ther
pass through it
mometer used In physical laboratories
Insert the stop
is most convenient
per In tbe bottle and let tile thermome­
ter reach nearly to tbe bottom
Pack snow or Ice and suit round the
bottle as you would pack an Ice cream
freezer
If tbe bottle Is not Jarred
the temperature may be seen to drop
several degrees below the freezing
point without freezing the water
If the stopper and thermometer are
now removed and a small piece of Ice
free from any trace of salt is Inserted
tn tbe bottle afid pushed down into the
water crystals of Ice may be seen to
I
shoot out in all directions from it
After this experiment has been tried
you will have some understanding of
the network of Ice girder* which is be­
neath the ice coating of «mall pouds.—
LoDdon Telegraph.
Thackeray at tha Minstrtls.
When the Christy minstrels cam* to
London In 1857 Thackeray was en­
chanted with them. “1 heard not' long
since,” be nay* in od * of bls letters, “a
minstrel who performed a negro ballad
that, 1 confess, moistened these specta­
cles I d a most unexpected manner I
have gazed on thousands of tragedy
queens dying on th* stage and expiring
In appropriate blank verse, and 1 never
■anted to wlp* them. They have look-
a
be It said, at many «cores of
ed up. —
without being dimmed, snd.
clergymen
••bond, with a corked
heboid, a vak
sings s little song
face and a banjo,
• which sets tbe
and strikes a wild not.
nity.” Glad
heart thrilling with happy ,
of lb*
•tone. too. was an admirer
b*
Christy minstrels and was often u
seen listening to their songs with rapt
attention.—London Cbrooicl*.
Almanac*.
and we can prove it!
lex. McNair Co
t
Almanacs were not allowed In the
hands of the common people of (tome
ontll atwwit 300 B C. Until that time
all knowledge of the calendar was en
tlrely In tlie custody of the priests. I fld
one wish to know the date of a feast
day. the boors of the sun's rlstog or
setting or when there womd be a new
moon be must consult the prtesL a*
these occult laws were only to tie re
reeled by , him But one day a pre­
sumptuous ,'aymsn named Flavine, sec I
artery of
'Ius Clendlns, obtained Ibe i
secret either by stealthily oMaiuingec
'ess to the d< ramenta or by .•epeate.lly
consulting ths priests He engraved bls
records nr, wk ite tablets and exhibited «
them ofwnh to the tomra ami so he
came the pr, tub her of the Oral almana.
-Harper's
Buildings
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The Lost Atlantis That Was
Swallowed by the Sea.
A NATION OF MANY LEGENDS.
Plato Got Hi* Story of th* Continent
• nd Its Ruin From Solon, th* OM
Lawgiver—Tha Thaoriaa That War*
Built by Ignatius Donnally,
Far out beyond the Pillars of Her­
cules, where tbe Atlantic ocean
stretches broad and deep today, men of
Imagination like to believe there lies a
buried kingdom. The sea washes over
Its once fertile plains, and creatures of
the deep float In and out among Its top­
less towers. Seaweed and silt have
buried its temples for 10,000 years.
Here, scientists of a romantic turn will
tell you, lies the lost Island of Atlan­
tis, where once there ruled the richest
and most powerful of the earth, a
world power while wolves still howled
upon the seven hills of Rome and tbe
glory that was Greece lay yet un­
THE ZERO MARK.
dreamed.
But today all that remains of the lost
Origin of the Mathematical Symbol
kingdom is a little group of Islands,
That Stand* For Nothing.
the Azores; mountain tops these that
It Is the peculiar trliiinpb of the were not wholly overwhelmed when
mathematicians who constructed the the proud island sank into the sea.
Hindu Arabic numeriils that they were Many years ago an Irishman, Ignatius
led <o Invent a symbol for "nothlug." Donnelly, who possessed an active Im­
The Invention arose out of the ditttcul- agination and a mind which worked
ty which was encountered when cal­ along interesting and unusual lines,
culations were transferred from the wrote a book about Atlantis, in which
ancient aliacus hoard and became a he proved, to his own satisfaction at
least, that the lost kingdom really ex­
written operation.
On the abacus board, which mny per isted and was not a fable.
Tile earliest authentic Information
baps be seen still In Infants' schools,
the rows of beads or couutera repre­ about this mystery laud we fiud In
sented the numerals 1 to 9. but each Plato, who averred he had it from bls
counter or bead In the row above rep­ grandfather. Solon, the famous law­
resented ten times as great a value as giver. who had spent some years
In the row below Thus 591 could be among the Egyptians. Plato told of a
transferred from abacus board to pa great continent whkfli had existed 9.000
per without difficulty, but 5 (0> 1 taken years before lying to the west of the
from the abacus might tie 51. since tbe Pillars of Hercules and making war
upon the nations to the east Only
vacant place was no longer Indicated.
Accordingly mathematicians were led Athens aud Egypt were able to with­
to Invent a character for the vacant stand the onslaughts of the Atlantans,
place. The Invention of this symbol and then suddenly, “In a day and a
for “nothing" with the crowning, tran night" the Island was overwhelmed
scendent achievement In the perfection and sank Into the sea. This was thb
of the decimal system and lay at tbe story Solon had from the Egyptians
base of all subsequent arithmetical and which his grandson wrote down,
progress. Among the Hindus tbe sym and the legend has persisted ever since.
Diodorus Siculus, a Roman writer,
bol was at first a dot. but It was soon
tells
how the Phoenicians discovered
superseded by a circle. O Its symbol,
says Professor E. R. Turner In a mag­ “a large Island In the Atlantic ocean
azine article on the numerals, has va­ between tbe l’lflars of Hercule», sev­
ried greatly, and its uatne baa a pedi­ eral days' sail from the coast of Africa.
gree of its own. Tbe Hindus called it This island abounded in all manner of
sun.va—void. In Arabic this became riches. Tbe soli waa exceedingly fer­
tile. The scenery was diversified by
slfr.
In 1202 Leonardo Fibonacci trans­ rivers, mountains and forests, it was
lated It zepblrum. In 1330 Maximus the custom of the Inhabitants to retira
Fla nudes called It tzlphra. During tbe during the summer to magnificent
fourteenth century Italian writers country bouses, which stood in the
shortened it to zenero and cenro, which midst of beautiful gardens. Fish and
beenme zero, now in general use game were found In great abundance;
Meanwhile it has passed more nearly the climate was delicious and tbe trees
In Arabic form Into French as chlffre bore great crops of fruit at all seasons
and into English as cipher, taking on of the year.
Soundings made by British nnd
new significations.
American vessels have shown conclu­
sively that surrounding the Azores
WILLING TO GIVE CREDIT. there is a submerged plateau, which It
does not require much Imagination to
Jefferson’s Admirer Wa* Mixed, but H* Identify with the "rich plain" mention­
Roa* to th* Occasion.
ed by Plato. From this lost continent
Jefferson was the most delightful Donnelly lielieved that ridges of land
story teller I hnve ever met writes ran to the present coasts of South
Mary Shaw In the Century, describing America and Africa, originally, »<> that
The Human Side of Joseph Jeffer before tbe time of which Plato wrote
son." Ills varied life and experiences the enstern and western hemispheres
Uuce were connected by land Thus be ac­
were wonderfully Interesting
we were In Terre Haute. Ind., and the counted for mnuy similarities In the
theater was near a hotel. We got out plants and animals of the two hemls-
of the cab and were strolling through pherei which otherwise are very dif­
the hotel corridor when a very pom ficult to explain.
polls man came up to Mr. Jefferson, as
The continent as described by Plato
persons frequently did, and. extending was mountainous, but was surrounded
bls hand, said:
by vast fertile plains. It was rich In
"Mr Jefferson, yoo do not know me. precious metHls Hnd bad numerous tem­
but I know you very well, and, sir, 1 ples and statues of gold and silver and
am very glad to nee you In our city Ivory.
You are a great actor. I have seen
In the sudden and violent destruction
you ever since 1 was a little boy”—he of Atlantis. "In ene dreadful day and
Icmked fully as old as Mr. Jefferson— night." Donnelly believed he saw the
"and I have always looked forward to origin of the legend of the deluge. >JO
your visit to this place.”
universal among the followers of all
He went on praising Mr. Jefferson,
The Biblical deluge, the
religions
who presently said;
flood in which the Greeks believed.
“I thank you very much. You are from which only Deukalion and Pyrrba
very kind "
etna[>ed. the overflow which Chaldean
Upon wblcb tha old gentleman want
legends tell of all these. Donnelly Le­
on:
Reved, had their foundation in the de
"I tell you everywhere In this town
■traction of Atlantis
people are glad to see old Josh Whit
Plato tells us thnt the race of the
comb ”
Atlantan» hnd fallen from their high
There was a moment of silence, and
eatnte and committed »Ins, and tlia
then Mr Jefferson said:
Zeil» determined to overwhelm them.
“1 think you are mistaken. I play
An earthquake preceded the sinking
Rip Van Winkle
Yon must mean
of the land, and there cam® n great
Mr Tbornfmon
He plays Jonh Whit­
storm which brought Ibe sea rashing
comb "
In over the on>® fruitful Intid.
The effusive gentleman paused long i
Before this deluge Atlantis was th*
enough to collect his wits and then
I greatest power In the world. Donnelly
said cheerfully:
anld. Not only hnd It made war against
“Oh. yes! Ko you are the old fellow
'-<» played Rip Van Winkle? Well, (he Infant nation* of Europe, conquer-
¡Ing France nnd Kpaln nnd Africa a*
w 11.
’•»nd too.”
[far aa the Nil*, but colonies were c*-
you re
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! tabllahed In Mexico, In Central Amer-
« Portland Vaa*.
'lea and along the valley of the Missis­
Tha Famou
.
» iamoua Portland sippi The mound builders were colo­
Tbe material of tb.
-so engraving, nists from Atlantia After the d«-str\*
vase Is glass, with can.
layer* of tlon of the fin rent continent the «ast­
'Hie vase Is composed of two
ern and the western hemls|di<Tea lost
. over dark
J-Th blu*
glass, white
away by band 50 all remembrance of each other, a* Isith
» bit* was
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.
as to leave th* design Io white upon „* them at ln»t forgot tbe great Atina-
the blue background. It la one °f ,be tla. vf
remembered at all re-
tragedies of the British museum that nii-mlierffl It only an a legend, n faint
tills priceless treasure waa aoiaabed and sbrtdowy tradition.
to pieces by an Insaua visitor It baa. ; Only a few of the thousand« of In­
however, been repaired with greet «kill habitant* of Atlantis enraped. hut then*
snd la now guarded with extra care few carried to Europe tlw seeds of th*
Thia beautiful specimen of Greek art white man'* civilization. They a*ttled
1* ten trxbe* in height, with a diame­ In Egypt and In aaatem Europe and
ter at Its broadest part of «even were the forbe*r» of tbe Arj«n r»r*.-
Inches Ila present name cornea from Kanazs City Star.
th* fact that It waa once owned by
th* Duke ot Portland. who loaned It
Never too poor, too ugly, too dull,
to tb* British muaeutn In MHO.—Ex
too sick, too friendless. to lx uaaful to
soma on*.—Kato Gauuvtt Wall*.
Bottled at drinkin? strength
Report of the Condition of the
A LAND OF WHITE HOUSES.
In Barmud* Ar*
Whitewashed Coral.
All
of
The most striking things about a
Bermudian bouse ar* its color and ma­
terial. White does not begin to ex­
press tbe vivid, radlaut. peuetratiug pu­
rity of Its smooth, unbroken surface*.
In tbe Intense sunlight tbe dezz.ing
roof* glv* forth a halo of reflected tight
where tbe roof line Instead of standing
out sharply against tha sky blends lm
perceptibly with it
Bermudian bouses are built to*’,.i;, k •
they were centuries ago, of cortl
blocks literally sawed out of the I U
sides. A Bermudian quarry is a queer
Institution. For convenience it la usu­
ally located on tbe side of a kill where
only a thin layer of soil covers th
coral. The blocks are sawed out
negroes with long, coarse toothed Land-
Baws and cut in uniform sizes meamr-
Ing about two feet long, one foot wid*
and six Inches thick. The roofs ar*
covered with overlapping slabs an inch
thick.
When taken from the quarry ct-ese
coral blocks and slabs are very soft,
but after being piled up for a monta
or so and exposed to the air they n*-
come hard nnd firm. Even then, hows
ever, the coral Is porous, so thnt aB
Bermudian houses are covered with ■
thick coat of whitewash or lime a quar­
ter of an Inch deep. This bides all
cracks and Joints and gives the sur­
face a beautiful, smooth finish. To
keep the bouses In good condition a
rout of whitewash is applied each year.
What little wood is used for floors,
verandas, Interior trim and shutter*
can be obtained from the cedar tree*
that grow on tbe same hills where tb*
stone ts quarried. With material *w
handy and ready for use with so lift*
work It does not cost much to build In
Bermuda. In some of the older bouse*
and churches the cedar tieams are lock­
ed Into the masonry exactly as a ship­
builder would do It Big chimneys,
sloping roofs to catch th* rainwater,
Btone porches and windows filled with
green shutters that push outward ar»
features common in many Bermudian
houses.—Country Life In America.
PERSIAN RIVERS.
They Taka a New Nam* at Every
Town Upon Their Bank*.
In Persia a river la generally called
by ths name of the town on its banks,
and therefore changes Its name at eat h
town It reaches. "Till*." write« Colon,. 1
Stewart In “Through Persia In Dis­
guise.” “makes It very difficult to l*«rn
tbe right uames of the rivers.
"My groom wa* an Armenian and
very much more Intelligent than ordi­
nary Persians, since he bad been edu­
cated nt a mission school at Ispahan.
One day he was swimming about In
some water we passed, and I said to
him, ‘No doubt you learned to aw’m
In the Zaycudeh Rud’—the river that
flows by Ispahan. 'No, air,' h* rcplkd,
‘I did not learn to swim In th* Zaven-
deh Rud, but In th* Ispahan rtv.
lie actually did not kuow that ill*
large river passing his native town
was called the Zayendah Rud, or. In
other words, that tbs Ispahan river
and tbe Zayendeb Hud wen- one i -><J
the name
“Another instance of th*« confnstsn
Is shown by what people ci..
Abrlshtnl river. The name of 'i* •
In tha Kai Mura, but the luajon:. of
Persians and also Europeans cr .
't
on the main post road between Me«,.c-1
and Teheran by a bridge that W-S
built by a silk merchant and fl it 1*
called 'Pul-Abrlshml,' or the -liken
bridge; so they cal) the river th*
'Abrlabmi' or tha ailken river, which
Is certainly not Its name, The river,
which flow» by Kbusf, although at thia
point very slightly bracklab, lower
down becomes very salt Indeed and
finally la loat In the desert.
"Karez, or underground canala, car­
ry the water of this river In every di­
rection over the country. I think the
wonderful patience shown by the Per­
sians In the labor of excavating tha**
underground channels for water la sur-
prlslng
Every drop of water har to
be (wired for nnd tunneled through
nd'- -ind miles of ground before ’>»
pre lull* liquid reaches the crop for
which It Is Intended "
Arabia's Orang* Grevaa.
lb Onia there are groves of data
palms . overIng an area of sixty mile*
long 'r.<! averaging two inllea In width
In the eoaat country known as the Bah-
flnuh, an estimated half million tree*
In the Wadi Rematl. large grove* at
llostock—In fact, everywhere that wa­
ter la to be obtained this wonderful
plant la cultivated, and In the entire
country there ure probubly no fewer
than 4,000.000 trees.
A Mean Man.
“Why are you weeping, ar ehlldr
»aid the auftervlaory relative, "Has
your husband hurt your feeling* V
“Terribly! lie »aid that If I marched
In the suffragette proceaalou I would
look a* funny a» he did the da h*
wore s Ixirrowed ti til form and rode a
h»r*e flint whs ordinarily occupied lu
hauling brick*."—Washington Star.
A Chang* *f Heart.
"Peek Isn't happy. His wtf* Is <*»■•
tlnually saying «harp and snappy
thing* to him "
I "Why. he told me Ixfor* be married
her thnt »11 what be admired moat
•bout her."
“Yea. but be conal<ler*d It Wit then.“
— Boston Transcript
Vary Plain.
The Rix Reasons Glrt-Too ask ma
to marry you. Can't yo* a** my aar
awar in my far*? Th* Hon. B*rtla
(ah*antly>—Ta*. If* vary pUln.-Lo»-
dou TaUac.
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