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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. FEBRUARY 28. 1918 FOUND ACONTINENT The TILLIMOOK HEADLIGHT ■ñj *■ A Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer in Front Rank of Explorers. Makes Clubbing Arangement With Stonington, Conn., Was Birthplac« of ■rave Sailor Who Was th* First to Discover Land in Great Antarctic Ocean. The Oregon Farmer Offers Unusual Opportunity to its Readers American sailors have in more than »nr Instance proven, while following their pursuits, to be explorers of the flrst magnitude. Thia fact ia recalled In the case of Capt. Nathaniel B. Palmer, a native of Stonington. Conn., a port that once supported a prosperous fleet of mer MONG our large circle of readers there are a great many who are in terested directly or indirectly in fruit growing, dairying and other branches of farming. AH of these naturally wish to keep in close touch with ag ricultural activities throughout the state; and to know about any fight which is being waged for the measures Oregon farmers want and against all sorts of schemes that ar* detrimental to the people and agricultural interests of this state. A chant vessels. Captain Palmer, when twenty years »Id, discovered the Antarctic continent. Today •’’aptaln Palmer’s old home In the quiet seashore town of his birth Is a place honored by resident and visi tor alike, while a few miles from It, at Noank, a famous old shipyard, bearing still the name at Palmer, Is pervotuat- ag the traditions of the locality by urn I ng ent ships for the new merchant aarino, under the eonatmettoo pro fram of the United State« stripping soard. Captain Palmer was an active, strong, aggressive character. When as « lad of eighteen ho made a voyage on the brig Bersilla as second mate. It chanced that he was landed at the Falkland Islands to kill wild bullocks for meat, while his ship sailed away In search of an island of which ths Yan kee captains had heard vague stories, but had never seen. We have, therefore, . made ■ tmecra l clubbing arrangei arrangement with THE OREGON FAR MER whereby an/ farmer or fruitgrower, who hi eao of oar regular eobocribera and who la not now a eaboeriber to THE OREGON FARMER, will bo entitled to receive THR OREGON FARMER in combination with this payer at the hum rate aa for this payer Tkte offer apptie* to ail thorn who renew er extend tbdr aubacrfotioM as wefl aa to afl MW subscribers. If you are interested di rectly ar indirectly in Oregon agriculture, do Mt mins this unusual opportunity, bat ■end your order in bow . » THE OREGON FARMER is the one farm paper which is devoting itself exclusively to the farming activities and 1 interests of Oregon. It has a big organization gath ering the news of importance to farmers. farmers, dairymen, fruitgrowers, stockraisers and poultrymen; and it has the backbone to at tack wrongful methods and combinations and bad legislation, and support honest leaders and beneficial measures. We are confident that our readers will congratulate us on our being able to make this splendid and at tractive dubbing offer. TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, 1 yr $1 50 OREGON FARMER, 3 years - $3.00 $4 50 By Our Clubbing arrangement, both for $1.50 A Prosperous Community ’EPO’.’S community is the result of a great many people in the location being prosper ous. If every farmer and salaried man or woman would place in the bank a part of their incomes and if every wage earner would deposit a part of his wages, prosperity for this vicinity would be assured. No financial difficulties could come that would injure the local credit. The bank is the best place for money because it is organized and equipped for the safe keeping of money. 4 Per Cent Paid on Savings and Time Certificates. Personal and Household Checking Accounts. TILLAMOOK COUNTY BANK Established in Tn )*>0 •hw-c-,4 nTihe Hersilf« an Ar vessel, the Espirito Santo, tonched at the Falklands for water. Tier captain told young Palmer that he was bound for a place where there were thousands of seals. The Argentlno sailed away before the Hersllla came back; but on his vessel’s return, young Palmer Insisted that she put after the Espirito Santo, In hope of finding the strange Island. This was done, and after many days’ walling, the Yankee brig found not only the vessel she had followed, but Is lands to that time unknown In North America, the South Shetlands. In 1821. Nathaniel Palmer, as com mander of a Rronlngton sl-a>p. the Hero, sailed again to the South Shet lands for seel». Finding the seals near ly exterminated there, he sailed far ther and farther In search of new seal ing grounds, slopping only when he sighted land not laid down on any chart. There were numerous Islands, and beyond them a wild coastline and dim mountains. One night the Hero lay becalmed In a thick fog that enveloped her like a blanket. After taking the deck at mid night for the middle watch. Captain Palmer was aatonlahed when his man at the helm struck one bell, to hear the sound repented twice. The same thing happened at two bells and so on through the watch. Superstition had not left the seas In those days, and the men of the watch deck were alarmed. At seven hells the fog lifted a little, and two men-of-war were seen not I more than a mile away. After the United States enslgu was run up at the main peak of the Hero, one of the warships sent a boat alongside with an Invitation from Commander ReHIng- haunen of the Russian navy for the captain of the American sloop to come I on board hla ship. Captain Palmer went Just as he was dressed—In sea boots and sou’wester. The scene was one of Impressive con trasts when Captain I’almer stepped Into the commander’s luxurious cabin. The polished, accomplished Russian commander Insisted on sitting down to luncheon with the rugged young Yan kee In sea hoots, a meal that Captain Palmer found elaborate, after the fa re on the Hero. The Russian officer had been two years on a voyage of discovery, He examined keenly the chart and log- book of th Hero, and questioned Cnp- taln Palmer at length concerning the land he had found. I Finally the commander arose, placed his hand upon the young cnptnfn’s head, and said : "I name the land you have discovered ‘Palmer Land’ In your honor: hut what will my august mas I ter say, and what will he think of my cruising for two years In search of the land that has been discovered by n boy. In a sloop only a little larger than the lannch of my frigate?” Islands named for Peter and Alexan der are still so designated on charts of that part of the Antarctic; hut the land found by the hoy captain of Ston ington appears on every chart of that part of the world as “Palmer Archi pelago.” It was nearly 20 years after Captain I Palmer’s discovery that the rim of the Antarctic continent was explored, by an Englishman. Sir James Ross, of the famous Erebns and Terror expedition. gentine 1902. Tillamook, Ore. LI W. A. CHURCH, Room No. 2 Commercial Bldg., Tillamook. Nothing But Insurance flüEX. McNfllR & CO, Women Gain on Men. Professor Phillips of Amherst col lege believes that the American wom en of today are physically much liner and stronger than the women of yes terday. ami that If the womeu continue th.-lr physical Improvement In the suc ceeding generations as much as they have tn the last generation, It will not bo many centuries off when the Amer ican women will be as physical equal and lit as the American men. GENERAL! HARDUUARE Kitehen Ranges and Heating Stoves. WOULDN'T PART WITH ‘CHAW Economical Seaman Decided to Walt Until Some Other Day to Have Hla Picture Taken. If there Is a general Impression thst America Is slow to fall Into the routine of economy and conservation the belief has not Impressed Itself uiain a veteran photographer to seamen, whose curb stone studio is somewhere along the river front, writes a New York corre spondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. Recently he hud a hard five minutes with a Yankee subject, and he decided that certain traits of the Scot are de veloping In these United States. The photographer piped the man of the sea rolling along the street and besought him to have his picture taken, assur ing him that the loved ones at home are not to be forgotten and that these days a striking pictorial memento Is of especial value. The seaman. Just off A "If he ever gets to the front. .Titn will be hit the first thing with a shell," "What makes you think so?" "The law of natural affinity, he’s such s nut" i i ) Man Apt to Be Frightened by Little Things. funds, somehow, and so the photog rapher was at great pains to get him suitably posed and ready for the per manent record of bls afternoon ap pearance. Tbs last detail bad been ar ranged and ths seaman was standing flatly and determinedly against a feacq whet» ths camera man started to press the bulb. “Walt,” said the subject, getting out of pose. “Hl be hers for a week and I'll see yer again for a pic- ter." “Well, why not now?" “’Chose.'' answered the economical seaman. "1 got a chaw of terbacceh In me face ter day. I’ll be along agin toward the end of the week—some day when I ain’t got a chaw Io me mouth.' HAS ONLY IMPULSE TO RUN Many Get Stage Fright When Called Upon for a Speech, But Would Battle a Lion. Law Small Patriot's Rebuke. Far From Ideal. Abstracts. Real Estate Insurance. Both Phot lea. TILLAMOOK—OREGON. of Brick and Stone. All Fire Places absoluteiy guaranteed not to smoke or money re funded. Brick work of all kinds done on short notice. We make a specialty of re- pairing smoking Fire Places. "It certainly la a queer thing,” ad mitted Gamboge, “and doubtless we’d have to go back to the stone age to And an explanation. "Man is afraid of many things' which shouldn't scare him for a min ute. People who know me well must admit that' I am no poltroon. Produce your fjyraen tiger, yonr rugged Bus- Man bear, and my flrm nerves will never tremble. I have officiated as Judge at a baby show and bad a doseo disappointed mothers seething around me reaching for handfuls of my whisk ers, and I was a. calm as I am at this hour of going to press. 1 don’t know what fear Is tn the ordinary sense; yet I can't face an audience and make a speech to save myself. ’Td give a farm If I could rise eas ily and gracefully and take a fall ouf RALPH E. WARREN, TILLAMOOK ORE p OBERT H. McGRATH, C ounskllor - at L aw , ODDFELLOWS’ BUILDING, TILLAMOOK, OREGON. P orti and O ffick 1110 W ilcox B ld . Whan Under Influence of Fear, Horee of the welkin when I am celled upon Has No Othsr Idea Save That of for a few timely remarks. But when I Blind Flight. The other day I answered a knock at the door and encountered a small boy. who Immediately tried to sell me a choice assortment of knitting nee dles. “But, sonny, I don’t knit.” said I. thinking to close the matter. He looked at me reproachfully for n moment and then: "Lady, aren't v i going to do anything for your < try?”—Chicago Tribune. 7 Tillamook Title and Abstract Co. i get to my feet and look around ’non a sea of expectant faces, my Insides It was pathetic to see the terror of seem to give way and I feel faint and London horses when the tank passed sick, and the next thing I know Home- through the city recently, writes a cor body la stooping over me with a palm respondent. Many of them sighted the new-fangled contraption at a distance leaf fan, and somebody else Is pouring and stood with ears pricked forward, ice water on me. "Why should n man be afraid to eyeballs starting and nostrils distend ed, and had to be held and screened stand up before his fellow citizens and until ft passed by. It was, of course, turn loose his sentiments? Probably the same In the early days of motor some ancestor of mine, back In the In ing. but despite his tendency to panic terglacial times, was swatted over the the horse Is Intelligent If given a I head with h spiked club while discuss chance. When bicycles were novelties ing the living Issues of the day at some —an acquaintance tells me—his horse. crossroads schoolhouse, and the shock In a Cheshire country district, showed affected all succeeding generations. "It Is but a little while since dentis great fear until a bicycle was one day brought to him and held beneath his try was In the same c I bhh with black nose so that he could Inspect It In de smithlug. Men who are waxing old can tail. He never minded them afterward. remember when a visit to the dentist’s According to Romanes, the horse “Is office was something that appalled the the only animal which under the Influ stoutest heart. It was the last resort. ence of fear loses the possession of A victim of toothache would suffer ur- every other sense In one mad and mas til the last limit was reached before tering desire to run." This pathetic he’d consent to have any dental work falling was utilized by our men In the' done, and no reasonable person can recent advance on Cambral, when at blame him. “When I was young the village den one point. It is recorded, a squadron <>t cavalry dismounted and stampeded, tist manhandled me two or three times, their horses, which fled panic-stricken extracting teeth with a hammer and In the darkness toward the enemy lines, cold chisel. My own boys have such a and so drew the German Are.—Man dread of the dentist that I have to get chester Guardian. the police to help me when It Is neces sary to take them to his office. There is no apparent reason for It. The mod “Uncle Sam.** The popular term “Uncle Sam,” as ern dentist makes tooth pulling a lux applied to the United States govern ury. It Is better than an outing in the ment, originated In Troy and Green woods. “I suppose it will tske several thou bush. N. Y„ during the war of 1812-14. Elbert Anderson. Jr., one of the con sand years to educate the fear of den tractors supplying the army of the tistry out of the human rsce. “About a million, years ago a dog north with provisions, tn October. 1812. advertised for proposals for pork and threw itself down In the grass and was beef to be delivered to him during the bitten by a snake. Ever since then flrst four months of the following year dogs have turned around several times In New York. Troy. Albany and Water-' before lying down. This fart may ex ford. Among those who contracted to plain, in some measure, why Jim Sml- furnish him with beef, packed In bar- ■ lax was scared at his wedding.” rels, were Ebenezer and Samuel Wil-1 Russian Prisoner*« Escape. son. the latter familiarly called by Tro jans "Uncle Sam." As the beef was j The record of escapes from war delivered Hi Greenbush barracks from captivity has been claimed for a Rus- time to time the Troy soldiers referred elan prisoner who recently crossed the to It as "Unde Sam's" beef. The other ■ Dutch frontier In his twelfth attempt soldier«, not knowing who “Uncle ' to escape. Three times he fled In the Sam" was, thought that the term was direction of Luxemburg, twice he made applied to the letters U. 8. stamped | for Switzerland, on several occasions upon the barrels by the government. he took the road to Poland and again officials. Consequently it was not long to Denmark, but In every ease without before the term "Uncle Sam.” mean success. This was the flrst time he ing the United States, was in common had tried his luck In the direction of use. the Netherlands frontier, and after be ing two months and twenty days on the road success crowned his persever Japanese and Malays. The Japanese hat resembles much ance. the Malayam So also does the Japa nese umbrella. The ancient Japanese Migration of Caribou. helmet was adorned with horns of From Dawson, Yukon territory. Do animals. Similar helmets exist in the minion of Canada, comes news of the Malayan archipelago. The old-fash migration of caribou, says the Chris ioned weapons of the Japanese police, tian Science Monitor. Great hordes used In particular for catching thieves, are in the vicinity of Forty Mile river are still used by Malayan policemen. and at various other points. The to The custom of catching flsh at night by tal number of auimals moving south torchlight prevails both In Japan and ward In search of food is estimated In the Malayan archipelago. An ordeal1 at 1.01X1,000 head. It is characteristic with boiling water, a spacial sort of of the time that the migration would football game, the popularity of cock hardly have been known outside of tights and the custom of keeping sing-1 Yukon territory had it not been neces- Ing Insects In little cages are found sury to explain officially thnt occu- both among the Japanese and Malays. All this, asserts a writer, speaks in puncy of the roads by the caribou lu favor of the descent of the Japanese ■ terfered with the carriage of tile mails. from the Malays. A John Leland Hen<leraon Set. retary Tress., Attorney J Law and Not r ary Pllb|ic. "I went to see Jim Smllax get mar ried,” said Loper, according to the Chi cago News, "and he was a pitiable spectacle. He was all wilted, and the sweat ran off him In streams. Had he oeen In the hands of the execution er he couldn’t have been seared worse. It’s a queer thing. Smllax has more cool courage than any man I know, «nd he’d face a polar bear without displaying cold feet, but a little thing hla vessel, stopped. He was a very like getting married was too much for grom-hy seaman, but one likely to have him.” His Fate. THE BEST STOCK OF HARDWARE IN THE COUNTY. See Us for Prices Before Ordering Elsewhere. H. T. Bott., Pre». at-Law. AVID ROBINSON, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON , ! NATIONAL BUILDING, TILLAMOOK OR ECON. T. BO I ib ’ ATTORNEY-AT -LAW. Complete Set of Abstract Boi ks in Office. Taxes Paid for Non Residenti. T illamcok B lock , Tillantoo* .... Oregon Boti) Pilone». J ELAND E ERWIN PIANO INSTRUCTION, Diploma from Chicago Musical College.—Beginners receive the same careful training as the most advanced. Terms:—$4.00 per months Instruc tion. AH lessons given at Studio. 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