TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, JUNE 10, 1920
PARTS OF LOST CONTINENT?
HUMMING BIRDS HAD “SPREE”
Writer Telle of Debauch of Which He
Was Witness While Traveling
In South America.
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I have been reading a book on the
South seas which says that Uhere are
reasons to suppose that In some in­
stances the numerous islands In the
South seas were at one time parts of
continents, What reasons are there
for such a supposition? asks a corre-
spondent.
The only reasons that we are fa­
miliar with are the character of the
Inhabitants of the Islands and their
language. It is reasoned that these
islands bear marks of very early habi­
tation by man. Navigation was fn its
Infancy, as only long boats, propelled
by oars, were known, and they would
not be safe for voyages over rough
seas to search for unknown lands. This
fact and the resemblance of some of
the South sea islanders to our race
lends reasonableness to the supposi­
tion that these places were Inhabited
while they were still a part of the
mainland which in some subsequent
age sank In places below the surface
of the seas. Such a supposition is,
moreover, strengthened by discoveries
from time to time of ocean levels that
seem to have been at one time islands
or parts of continents. These discov­
eries have been made In different parts
of the several oceans. It Is not so long
ago that a vast submarine bank was
located by Cnpt. J. K. Davis of Doc­
tor Mawson’s Antarctic ship Aurora,
during an oceanographic cruise. Cap­
tain Davis reported that for about 100
miles south of Tasmania the ocean bot­
tom deepens to 12,488 feet; it then
rises again to the crest of a ridge 150
miles long by about 100 miles wide,
standing over 11,000 feet above the
general level of the neighboring sea
floor. It has been concluded that this
ridge was without doubt a frugment
of a lost continent
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WESLEY READ ON HORSEBACK
And Many Noted Writer» Took Their
Walks While Engaged In the
Perusal of a Book.
Reading on horseback—one of the
rarer accomplishments of man, accord-
Ing to Mr, Fisher—was sedulously
practiced by John Wesley.
“History, poetry and philosophy,"
Wesley relates, the Manchester Guar­
dian recalls. "I commonly read on
horseback, having other employment
at other times.”
Wesley maintained that this prac­
tice made for safety on long country
rides.
“I asked myself; How Is it no horse
stumbles when I am reading? No ac­
count can possibly be given but this:
Because I throw the reins on his neck.
I then set myself to observe, and I
aver that in riding about liMl.OOO miles
I newer remember my horse (except
two that would fall over heels any­
way) to fall or make a considerable
stumble while I rode with a slack
rein.”
Shelley used to read when out wnlk-
Ing and frequently collided with otlier
walkers because his eyes were fixed
on a book.
Macaulay was also 1 pedestrian
reader; so was Southey, who gives a
long list of books read while taking
his evening walk. These range from
"a batch of volumes relating the events
of the last ten years in Spain” to “the
Nibelungen in its original old Ger­
man."
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Coaxing You to Smile
I placed upon a form while the usual
restoratives were applied.
Suddenly a little girl stood up and
persistently called. "Teacher! teach­
er!” in order to attract the attention
of one of those who were attending
i to the unfortunate Invalid.
At last the little one was heard,
1 and the teacher, turning round, ask-
! ed. in a somewhat hasty manner:
1
"Well, what is it?”
"Please, teacher,” replied the child
1 "my father makes coffins.”
What has become of the old-fash­
ioned Democrat who used to blame
the high cost of sugar, beans and
boots on "the robber tariff?”
The Sultan threatens to resign in
protest against the terms of the
peace treaty. When the Sultan has
resigned everybody else will be.
Very likely the Democratic stand
Maybe if It didn't take twice as
ard bearer will not say this year long to move a freight car a mile
that a Democratic platform is not as it did before the railways were
Just sugar to catch flies, because he McAdooed the car shortage wouldn't
will not even dare mention sugar.
seem so acute.
came the
e found a
He Was Boss There
Not long ago. the story runs, u
traveling salesman visited a certain
small town and sold the proprietor of
its general store an order of Jewelry.
When the Jewelry arrived it was not
us repiesnted. and the merchant con­
sequently returned it. But the whole­
sale house ne vert bless attempted to
collect the bill, and drew a sight
draft on the merchant through the
local bank, which returned the draft
unhonored.
The wholesalers then wrote tp the
postmaster about the financial stand­
ing of the merchant and the postmas­
ter replied laconically that It was O.
When Mr. Leo E. Miller was co!
lecting specimens in the mountains of
Colombia for the American Museum
of Natural History he observed a
curious Incident tlrnt he describee In
his book, "In the Wilds of South
America.”
As he was working one morning a
chorus of chirps and screams attract­
ed his attention, and he followed the
sounds, which led him to a tall tree.
A number of California woodpeckers
had drilled holes In the tree trunk,
from which an Intoxicating sap
trickled In small streams, and a dozen
or more buff-tailed humming birds ap­
parently had come for a “Jag."
Arriving In a bee line, the newcom­
ers flew against the trunk and clung
there like so many moths to drink the
sap. Their antics as they reached the
different stages of Intoxication were
most amusing. Some twittered, fought,
turned and tumbled In the air, while
others dozed on small twigs or flut­
tered exhausted toward the ground.
The performance continued dally for
a week; then the sap suddenly ceased
to flow, and the tree was deserted and
silent. The capricious band no doubt
sobered up from Its debauch nnd went
bnck to Its normal and more profit­
able pursuits in life.
An Estimate on
Nothing,
Everybody knows the safety, con­
venience and practical utility of elec­
tric light and household appliances.
Everybody wants them.
Then why isn’t everybody's house
wired ?
BLOWPIPE SIMPLE IN ACTION
Let us talk these matters over be­
forehand—tell you of the economy of
Tool of Immense Power Simply the
housewiring—and show you how
Application of Elementary Sci­
simple it is to do the work without
entific Principles.
the slightest inconvience to you.
An oxy-acetylene or oxy-hydrogen
blowpipe Is composed of a very light
conical tube, slender and slightly
curved at the end whence the flame
Issues, and provided at the other ex­
tremity with two nozzles, to which
the indlarubber tubes from the oxygen
and aceytlene or oxygen and hydrogen
cylinders are attached.
The principal point about the most
up-to-date apparatus lies In the fact
that the two gases, instead of being
separated up to the very point of ig­
nition, are thoroughly mixed In the
Interior of the blowpipe, in such pro­
portion as to bring about complete
combustion. All danger of explosion
has been avoided by giving to the gas
a speed of delivery greater than that
of the propagation of the flame, In ac­
cordance w-lth a scientific law laid
down by a French official commission
which Inquired into the subject of
fire-damp.
As an additional precaution against
accidents, an appliance called a “safe­
ty-mixer” has been Inserted at the
Junction of the oxygen and hydrogen
pipes, the mixture then passing to the
blowpipe by way of a single tube,
which greatly facilitates the handling
of the tool.—From “Cutting Ships in
Half” in the Wide World Magazine.
New Hebrides Customs.
In spite of the white man's efforts to
civilize them, nntives of the New Heb­
rides cling tenaciously to their old
habits and customs. Superstition anil
precedent are so firmly rooted In their
minds that any new Ideas are looked
upon with distrust. The sacred men of
the tribes are sternly Jealous of their
power and ward off encroaching clvill
ration by terrible threats.
The Islander of the New Hebrides
likes visible reminders of his religion
and superstition. Sacred objects are
guarded by evil-looking carved figures
Rich Undeveloped Region.
and a departed chief of a tribe Is kept
The Amazon valley Is said to be the fn mind by setting up an effigy In a
greatest undeveloped region In the conspicuous place. There Is never any
world today; on every side there are doubt as to the Identity of a figure. a<
natural resources of immense value, the head of the effigy Is the chief’s
with commercial possibilities, which skull covered over with clay and mold­
are as yet untouched. The soil Is said ed and painted to resemble the depart
to be extraordinarily fertile. The for-, ed one. The rest of the figure is rather
ests offer woods In Inexhaustible vari­ like a scarecrow, with a painted clay
ety, many of them cabinet woods of body and very few clothes. While this
rare value. Of vegetable oil nuts, a effigy remains In the public view, there
tenth part only Is known to the out­ Is no danger of the chief being forgot­
side world. Resins, gums.splces. medic­ ten. His memory is ever green, and he
inal plants, fibers, abound in Infinite Is fittingly venerated.
variety. Kapok grows along the banka
of most of the main rivers, but not a
Deeper Than the Ocean.
pound of It is exported to the United
Geologists have discovered a number
Stntes, although Americn Imported 7,- of suboceanic canyons or drowned
dUU.lNit) pounds last year from far- rivers, along the east coast of the
away Java. There are mineralized United States. Roth the Hudson and
areas said to contain coal. Iron, gold, Delaware rivers are in this class, as
silver and precious metals of many well as Chesapeake bay. The St. Law­
kinds. They have not yet been pros- rence river in-Canada. and the Congo.
peeled.
In Africa, are also deeper, near their
mouths, than the ocean.
The Hudson river, worn by the flow­
Relish of the Right.
Whoever has so far form« d his taste ing stream, is considerably deeper than
ns tt» be Hide to f-'el —< relish the the offshore part of the Atlantic. Tt Is
beauties of the old masters has gone flooded by the Intruding ocean. The
a great way In Ills study; for merely boy and lower river compose what
from a consciousness of this relish of would be called In Norseland a fiord.
The whole east coast of the United
the right, the mind Is almost ns pow­
erfully affected ns If ft had itself pro­ States has sunk a good deal In the
duced what it admires.
Our hearts, course of ages, owing to the enormou«
frequently warmed In this manner by weight of material brought down by
the contact of those whom we wlsli te the rivers nnd deposited out In the
resemble, will undoubtedly catch some­ ocean off shore. Rut geologists say
thing of their way of thinking; and that the melting of glaciers has largely
we shall receive into our own bosoms to do with the phenomenon.
We'll give yon
for honest work.
will bring our
talk it over with
an honest estimate
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some radiation nt least of their tire
and splendor. That ditposuloa which
Is so strong in children still continues
with us, of catching involuntarily the
general air and manner of those with
whom we are most conversant.—Sir
Joshua Reynolds.
Conservative Customs Die Hard.
In spite of having a well-equipped
mission hospital In the city of Tai­
chow. China, where men and women
can receive the best of medical care
nnd treatment, the native doctor or
witch still flourishes. He sits at the
street comer and the ignorant Chi­
Inexplicable.
nese flock round him, especially on
“I can’t make out what'a the tustter market or festival days. No method,
with John,” complained the newly wed-1 however painful and drastic, deters
ded wife of the new civilian.
United Brethern in Christ.
the believers in his powers of heeling
"Wlmt's he been doing?” Inquired —Indeed they expect to be made to
her neighbor.
Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 P- m-
suffer acutely In order to “expel the
“He’s broken twenty-seven pieces of original pain." Or they are held up Subject for morning discourse: “The
our best china trying to fasten two to the ridicule of the mob because their Mountains of Bible.” For evening:
plates together with his fork.’’- The disease portends the possession uf an "Car! vary.”
Home Sector.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
evil spirit
Basaren Church Service»
Not* we'll just u* how serious thia
alleged labor shortage is. A Stockton
(Kan.) Jeweler adverlieea for a aalee-
THE
Local Atm
10 a. m.. Sunday school, conducted
by Wnt. Fletcher.
11a. nt., preaching by the pastor.
Rev. A. F. Ingler, subject: "The Two
Sauls, their failures and successes.”
7 p. m„ Peoples meeting, led by
Jay Honey. All welcome.
8 p. m„ evening sermon and spec­
ial solos.
Mid-week service on Thursday at
7:10 p. m.. for Bible reading, song,
prayer and teotlmony.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
at 8 p. m.
We had a splendid audience last
Sunday School. 10 a m.
Sunday at both services. We invite
Morning Worship, 11 a. m.
you to attend our services.
Our Children’s program will be
B. F. Wriggle, Pastor.
given. The winners in the member­
ship contest in the Sunday school
will announced and the prizes will
be awarded. Th« ones who donated
the prizes have been asked to act as
the Judges of the contest.
Evening Worship. I p. an. Subject:
"The Cost of Not Being n Chrtazu^
Everybody always welooano.
Presbyterian Church