Cloverdale courier., October 02, 1915, Image 5

Cloverdale Courier
Published Every Friday by
Frauk Taylor« Editor and Publisher.
An Essay.
W ritten by a pupil in th e Cloverdale
High School.
Outline— 1, startin g for berries; 2,
•‘E ntered as second-class m a ile r, N >v- getting lost; 3, finding the old house; 4,
etnber 1 3 th ,1905 a t th e post office at Clo­ going in and getting in the tra p ; 5,
verdale, Tillamook County, Oregon, un- hearing ghosts; 6, th e escape.
de'r Act of Congress, M arch 3rd, 1878.
Ohe day I decided to go blackberry
S u b s c r ip t io n R a in s
picking in the woods near my hom e, so
One Y ear, in ad v an ce........................ $1.0C taking a basket I started out. I did not
Six M o n th s...................
50
Three M o n th s............................................ 25 have far to go but I d id n ’t find as m any
Single C opy................................................05 berries as I expected eo I went farther
in the woods. I kept going a little
A d v e r t is in g R ates
farth er but failed to find any berries.
Displayed A dvertisem ents, 50 cents per
Being rath e r discouraged I was going
inch per m onth, single colum n. All
r ocal Reading Notices. 5 cents per to sta rt home when I was startled a t the
line for each insertion.
fact th a t I did not know which way to go.
Fini her land notices
$10.00 But it was getting late in the afternoon
Hom estead notices
5.00
Political A nnouncem ent Cards
$10.00 and I knew I ’d have to go one way or
the other so of couree J went th e way 1
J ob D epartm ent
thought was right.
My Jo b D epartm ent is com plete in every
I walked and walked u n til I was
respect and I am able to do all kinds nearly exhausted, when all a t once I
Commercial Job P rinting on short
came into a little clearing. In this
notice a t reasonable prices.
clearing was an old house. I t looked
like it m ight have been a good house a t
FRID AY . SEPTEMBER 24, 1915
one tim e but now it was only a ruin.
The com m anders of subm arines are The roof had fallen in, th e windows
suspicious of those wire nets th a t E n ­ were broken and tall weeds had grown
gland ha3 been hanging out in the up all around it.
It did not look inviting but I went in
channel. _________________
to see w hat was in it for finding it the
An exchange says the hatching of way I did.aroused my curiosity.
eggs by artificial h eat has been prac­
There was a hall through th e center
ticed in C hina and Egypt since pre­ with two rooms on each side, all of
historic tim es, huge brick ovens being which were em pty except for a few
used in the la tte r country.
pieces of old broken chairs and other
furniture.
A t the end of th e hall
A woman told a divorce judge th at
was
a
door.
I t opened in a very dark
her husband gave her a gold ring bought
room,
th
eir
being
no way for light to
a t a ten cent store. Until she found it
come
in
only
through
a 6inall window
out she was as m uch pleased as any
near
th
e
ceiling.
woman. I t bears out the old saying
I stepped in to look around and as I
th a t where ignorance is bliss, it is folly
did
so the door closed w ith a bang th a t
to be wise. The m istake m ade by the
scared
me alm ost out of my wits.
husband was in letting his wife get wise.
This m ade the room darker th an ever.
I tried to open th e door but couldn’t.
SOME" WAR' LESSONS
Some of the lessons tau g h t by the I wondered w hat I could do. There I
European war, w hich by the way are was fastened in a place like a dungeon
n o t accepted as final by the U nited w ith no way to get out only by the
States, are th a t treaties have no validity window up above my reach. I t was
and can be broken a t convenience; th a t any th in g but pleasant.
I began to th in k I m ust starve there
sm all nations have no rights th a t great
nations are bound to respect ; th a t a n a­ and the thoughts m ade me shudder.
tion can reject arb itratio n and insist
Then all a t once I heard a slight
upon w ar, and still suffer nothing in the m ovem ent in th e room, then a faint
estim ation of m ankind.
groan. I was horrified. W as th is old
house haunted?
A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT
H olding my breath I crouched down
(John L. Stoddard)
in a corner and heard someone say,
“ We m ust place our hopes for the “ W ake up lazybones, you’ll be late for
betterm ent of this world largely upon
breakfast.”
the rising generation. I t is chiefly a
I opened mv eyes and found myself in
m atter of education. E nlist the sym ­
m y own room w ith the sun shining
pathies of children in behalf of anim als
brightly in th e window. In an instant
and half th e battle is won and their fu­
I realized th a t it w as all a dream and
tu re character determ ined.
jum ped out of bed and began to dress.
“ May we not Bee the day when ‘H u ­
E th el M ewbiter—English A.
m ane T re atm e n t’ umy have its chair in
every university and when th e beauty THE SLAB CREEK SAGE SAYS
and necessity of kindness will be ta u g h t
in every school? There is no doubt
H appy is the m an who lets himself
th a t th e learning of facts may make the
owe no m an and lets no m an owe him.
intellect keen h u t m ay have no effect
Tell a boy to do as he pleases and he
w hatever upon th e m orals of the student.
W ith o u t a wholesome ethical training will do it w ithout a m urm kr.
we miss the most im p o rtan t asset of
D eliberate long before doing what it
l»oth family and state—a noble charac­ is im possible to undo.
ter. The longer I live the more it seems
Lots of m en who preach charity wait
to me th a t there is but one great virtue
for
other m en to practice it.
—kindness, and b u t one vice—cruelty.
In th e last analysis everything re­
A bout th e only tim e a woman ever
duces itself to these.
overlaoks a bargain is when she selects
“ To have m ade th is sad world h a p ­ a |h usband.
pier for any creature and to have re­
W hat a m other lacks in skill she
lieved the sufferings either of helpless
m akes ud in enthusiasm when she a t­
children or of our dum b faithful friends
tem pts to clip her boy’s hair.
in th is great realm which we could
Many a man has discovered after m ix­
make so m uch less painful if we would,
ing
politics w ith his business th a t ha
will he perhaps our surest passports a t
Mas
poor politics and no business.
the gate of h eav en .”
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TAYLOR REAL ESTATE AGENCY
Cloverdale, Oregon.
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