Image provided by: Cape Blanco Heritage Society; Port Orford, OR
About The Port Orford tribune. (Port Orford, Or.) 1892-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1917)
N um ber 3 ▲ GHOST TRAPPER. rateg r r \ GN T >0* ttto k - daar. that M I jy would be alee to spend our Chriet- 1— • mas to Florida ?" Mr. and M rs W h ittie r were sitting In their cosy beck parlor. As she spoke Mra. W h ittie r turned to her h u e head w ith an anxious look o f Interro g a ta il “Never." exdnlmed W hittier. “ Why. we couldn't afford It. W h at an Idea! I cooldn't dream of eneb a thing. Flor ida! I Should say not!" “1 meeely mentioned the m e tte rà CAROLANO. B la b S e m tk C m to ry . A fte r the advent o f the bouse o f Haw- over the favorite games a t court w m o “quadrille," an Im pruveuieut o f “ ma- hre,” and "comiucree.” The gains and losses o f the Mugs ew*l queens were, as a rule, restricted to foO guineas, but ea i T w e lfth Night It waa customary for thousands lo change bands. O b one occasion Lady Cowper, a lady In wait- I log. refused for the sake o f her cbll- I dren to take part In the game, as none A il necessary operations in writing, billing or Statistical work are accomplished from the key board of the light running, easy adion Model 10 (Visible) £200. About the year 1740 a rage for •w hisk.” or whist, set In, but a t first K was considered toe wise a game for ladles to Join In. H u m * the historian, •e v e r went to bed w ithout bln w b le t and eveu the great Johnson regretted that be bad not learned to play cards, to I74J “H orry“ Walpole finds It eboo- lately oaecMMiry to learn “ w b lik ," "having waited In vain fo r Ita being le ft off.“ W e And him la another let- circulars that for the past week she bad bean surreptitiously collecting. To ge to Florida had bean the dream of months. And now It was ruthlessly shattered. S till, Mrs. W h ittie r did not despair. ~W eli, if we don't do that." ebe said at last, "we must have a nice Christ mas dinner, mustn't w ef“ The thought of a dinner brought W h it tier to himself Instantly. “ You b et!" be said, rubbing Ms hands. “W e'll have the beet the country can afford." "1 sometimes wish," aald hfrs. W h it tier, after a moment, “that wc had a houseful of children It teems a pity to alt down to a Christmas dinner nil alone." “W ell, why should w e T * eald Whit-' tier.' “Can't we ash some ore !« * • Mrs. W h ittier looked eff Into epace wtb her eysbreve closely halt, as If the problem were too rreet for tev to master on the lnstar.t. A t last she said slowly “How would It do for you to ask Aunt Jane? She's getting along In years, and It may be our Inst ebaace to pay bar any attention.“ W h ittie r thought a moment. “ I guaaa you're right.’ be said at last " I w m looking forward to a Christ mas dinner by ourselves. Still, Aunt Jane le a good eld soul, and I gueee we'd better ask bar. But (here's Cousin Em ily, I suppose sh ell have to come, too." "Tee," responded Mrs. W hittier. "We Shan, of course, have to ask Emily. W e couldn't nek one without the other." There wee a pause. Finally W hittier spoke again. - I suppose." be said. " If we ask Aunt Jane and Em ily, that Unde Henry and Georgiana w m fee » « .“ There waa soother pause. M r a W h it tier at last looked meekly up. “Therv'e another thing, der.r." ebe said, “that had occurred ton.«. * "W hat's th a t!" -W a ll, yon I now there's my Annt Bally. Annt Sally Is so seuetUve. If IFYOU "V •t- * “■ TOUCH y o u r tongue to A LU M W h et In B e. There le Comfort In the knowledge M often expressed. t'«at D r. Kilmer's Swsmp- Reol. the great kidney remedy fulfills every wish in curing rheumatism, pain to the beak, kidneys, liver. t ladder and every part of the urinary r a u f s . T r M n o c tl taeMRy to hold water and scalding pain In passing It, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine nr beer, and overcomes that unpleasant n ar aeaHy of being compelled to ge often during >hs day, and to get up many times Z»rl..g the night. The mild end the extra ordinary effect el S w a m p -R o o t la toon rea’lxed It elands the highest for Its won- derfnl curaa of the rr. .at diatresaing roam. If yoe need a medicine you should nave the uo»t. Sold by ot ajgtsts in and$j. and look in the glass— you will see the effect— You can’t help puckering— it make» you pucker to think o f tasting it By the use o f so called cheap Baking Powders you lake this puckering, injurious Alum right into your system— you injure digestion, and ruin your stomach- . You may have a sample bottle of this wonderful dlaoovery dMFT AVOID ALVH aSsrp plainly- Nothing has ever equalled I t Nothing can ever surpass i t Dr. King’s New Discovery A Perfect Curst Pe» Alt Tkroal ai Leng Tkoabics- Spanish traditions located the land of El Dorado, "the glided man." a po tentate whom country waa so rich' IB gold dust that he, had bis body anoint ed w ith oil and sprinkled w ith gold ev ery morning, no th a t he ebone In the snn as though glided. I t to a curious fact th a t the country In which tradition locuted this marvelous being has never been explored by a w hite man. T e m y th a t »very man baa h tt price to to deny the existence o f the greet men who have died fo r their faith and their country. Nonaeoael “Tie the last plea of a knave sod issues out of the mouth of a fool. T he storting strength of man end woman rebukes It every where. - Schoolmaster. B e L m I m B T e r t . Royal is made from pure, refined Grape Cream of Tartar—Costs more khan Alum. but. you have the profit of quality, the profit of good health. flajr eefigom^f/twi te a Ka curafk Natur« alotoff wwa’t 4a iL it Heeds, help. -w anted“ put him under areeot? w tt* to eomlng. shell fes! It." the words. “Tou ore wwatod a t hand- W h ittie r sighed But (he Justice of quarters.“ “Tee. J knew ." refitted the the a r t m m i appealtd to him. thief quickly. “I w m arrested lent "T e e ," he raid M last. “1 suppose night and was balled out this morning. that's eo. It's nothing more then fair, ! You a r t te e slew.“ “t t does look th a t if my people eome. that yours should, i w ay,” M id the crestfallen policeman too. But you have a Cousin Rufus, and ; an be told th» th ie f he could ge. eff aa Uncle W illiam , haven't youf" which permission the th ie f lost ne It was Mrs. W hittier's turn to sigh. time In tra ilin g himself. Later, to hla "Moro then that.“ she sold. "Don't chagrin, (he policeman found that the you remember Aunt and Uncle Ruby- th ie f bad not been previously arrested. ton and their children T" W h ittie r got up n)ervouely and paced tbs floor. T . I* . oe to te N e ll- H e wrote a lovely poem to Ma- O u lM f lived through the moat •eeab- ful periods o f modem France. H e wag bora to 1787 amid th * mntteringa o f the revolution. Oulxot’e parents were m ar ried by a proscribed rroteetant pastor, and hla birth waa never legally regis tered. H ie father, who w»s an advo cate, used hie talent for public speak- lug In the interests o f the persecuted Proteetanta and became a marked m an M ld (lie a m v llle matron. A fte r living for several weeks In d a n - ' —r - per of his life be was a t last arrested. - T^ H , - , t * , , , a || |a the bet unw illingly enough, by a gendarme whe , 0B „ kIH , rattleeneke to get knew mid re, pccted him. . , rattle fo r the baby!“ -A tla n ta Con- •'Shall I let you e s c ap e r M id th« -,i,„ » i^ . “A re you u is r rie d r replied M. Otst- BuL “Yea 1 here two children." “ A nd so h a re I . ” replied (he prisoner, “but you would hare to pay for m a Î /T S Ö 5 » L*t ue gn co." They went on. and M. Gnlsot died on the scaffold a few days falter. A t this Base PrflBimts. the fu tu re eta I reman? Who was »ho elder o f the two children, was elx gad a h alf yeare old and al ways preserved the pecollcci;oo o f go-' tot so m o Me (Other in prison, or what «res euphemistically called the I m u m of The Com edian-1 Iboogbt yon and lita s Poser were to be married thia week. I« Il pootponed. The H eavy—Gad. sir! 8 h * actually One of the strangest ways yet on record of making a Urine ha* be«n followed tor tha laat (ew y e a n by a n a n In eastern Pennsylvania. Following la the Interesting story of sone of his experterftle be to ld a correspondent ot the ChlcaffO Tribune the other day: i “ I took up the business quite by ac ciden t The owner ot a large, lonely place in the mountains, a few miles from here, died and there was a lew suit shout the win, which kept It un occupied. I t etood tor two o r three yeare, stripped of its furniture aud without oars. A fter the suit waa M t- tied the nephew who inherited U put in a caretaker. He only stayed one night, tor nt 2 o'clock In the morning he was terrlfled to hear a heavy chain being dragged along the hall ana stairways. Others followed k in , and one even stayed a weak, but a groan ing sound fig h t In bln bedroom sent him flying In only half hla elotbM to the nearest cottage he could And. I t was then the advertisement ap peared th a t drew m y attention. I t rend: “ ‘The owner of Rutland Orange on the Ralston road w ill give a reward of J200 to anyone who w ill reside In th a t house and solve the mystery ot Its being “haunted.“ ' “ I went to the house and did not And much trouble In solving the rid dle. The place had once been we’,; stocked with game, and now the de serted groun Is were running over w it. game of all kinds. I t had escaped tree passers evidently, until lately, but Investigation showed that numbers ot fresh scares and Irapa had been set. •Poaehere' evidently was the meaning of the mystery. I got two men and posted them ameng the bushes. “Good heavens! ” he exclaim ed a t la s t “W h a t are we going to doT i r e aw ful to dwell upon. We simply have got to ask them all. W hy. It wUI cost a m int to entertain all thia crowd." He grew more excited. “It's a fearful thing,” he aald, “to have relatives. We'ro In for It, I gueee. We can't lop say of 'em off. W e ll!" he cried, turning to Mrs. W h ittier, “have you nothing to suggest ’ You got us Into ft. Can't you get ns out 7“ Mrs. W hU tler waited a moment before M m replied, kaoo “Just the thin g!” be cried. “W hy didn't you M y eo beforeT“—Town Top- O rtgta of the ChrlstnuM Tree. The Christmas tree is supposed to have originated In Germany, but each la not the c o m . In reality the Chrlst- mae tree le from Egypt, and dates from a period long antecedent to the Christian era. The palm tree is known to put forth a shoot every month, and a spray of thia tree with 12 shoots on It w m used IK Egypt at the time of the winter solstice aa a symbol that the year w m complete Egyptian affections of aa early date still Unger with the Chris!mas tree The first, Christmas tree w m Intro duced Into England aad thence Into America by some Gorman moraboats room where 1 waa to sleep, kept the lamp alight fo r h a lf an hour, extin guished it, and crept out of the house Z t h a lf past I t o'clock. I beard foot- t > t s , and a man earns along carrying What looked like a long pole. “ He got on a wail, hoisted the ‘pole* —really a long tin tube—so that Its mouth went ln u \t h < open-window ot the room where he thought I was asleep, and then began to groan through IL But I t was a loud yell ne gave when 4 Mixed bint firm ly by the ankles. “ W ell, I sat on my man and blew a whistle, when up came my assistants, w ith another whom they bad taken while he was In the net of visiting the traps, calmly smoking * j ipe The pair had just started la -to n. u « a goon thing out of the plaoe, and had .aid shMts, phosphorus, and othes-thlnga nt the top of the bouM. w ith which they bad Iwea frightened away the successive caretakers. “T h a t Job brought me not only the »200. but a fresh com m ission . Thm tim e a summer hotel that w m left w ith a small to n e during the w inter months waa haunted. The M rvanto were being terribly frightened by mys terious knoeklcge that were beard now. and iheu ui^ht, Go ng to the hotel, I went to bed cn the y .-uuad floor, hut bad to w ait two or throe nights be fore the mystorlou* sounds whre heard. “One night, after we had been b a r ing heavy rains all day. the knocking began right underneath my room , “ W aiting until daybreak, w ith help I took up the flooring end found that a small bay. long forgotten, but once used for storing boats, ran back under the house. In Ib is v u flyetlog an empty mlnere) v o te r craft. Then, was a lock In the river below th e Sri tel, and every night when the lock gates were shut the river rose. Tnc previous evening there also bad been much wind and rain, so that the water got high enouf.h for the crate to bump asalnst the floor, thus producing the noleee. "T hin account, Ilka the first. got 'n to the papers, and soon I had more w >rk I won't take all toy cases of ‘gn at laying," but w ill pick out one or tw There was a country plass that for a 'long time waa aroldetl because It got the reputation of h ating a epe- W it t In a woek I saw It twiea, g illie ble for die to c a v h . Than I put on white cloak myself sud trlod hsnn'ln the ghost This rues succeeded r frightening the sprarltloa, aa, wueo we met face to face ona night. It vs the other ghost that fled Who tt fellow waa I should have never heard probably, as be w m so fleet thn: 1 could not orertake him, only that in hla flight somewhere he fell and hurt hla leg. and when he consulted me doctor the whole story came out. H ’ WM a neighboring farm er who w aui\u‘ to get hold of the adjoining property and hoped by giving tt the reputation of being haunted to depreciate th* Value enough to buy it at a low price. "On another occasion In the garden of • big farmhouse 'to rent' I rushed Into the ghost who had t o n seen there, and be made off. In the dark ness I Ir t t lig h t o f Mm end he fell over soie«tbii.K gad I-shouted: 'Keep M ill; yotr've upset a beehive. Keep yonr head oovered or you'll ba stung “ Ha w m Mmpty a practical Joker, and In m ost o f th e case« which I have There le a legend In Germany that „„earthed where It Is net SJw.cbody when Eve plucked the fatal apple, toe- „ho haul something torrelA by playing medlatnly the leave« of the Ires ehrtv- ghost It waa ueu.i^l.* watebody Who Med Into n«edle pointe and Its bright WM enjoying h lu x i f by ptAviog on green turned dark. I t chanced Its u ,, fe>„ „,.,j - ^ j n l i t y . era. 1 nature, end became the evergreen, to hM(1 OM trag,„ ,«gM of spsc’. te diking all M nkoM preaching the story of „glch w m the rtSr.It of a a ,a a h . u i ■
