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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1916)
LURING AN AUDIENCE. Jukt a a L it t le T w i s t In S h a k e s p e a re T it le D id th e T r ic k . There was once a traveling theatrical company, so the tale of venerable age and long Improbable veracity goes, that was booked to play In a town a melodrama considered as suitable to the prospective audience. By accident the necessary scenery and costumes were sent ahead to the next stopping place, which was the capital of the state, where a Shakespearean play was to be presented at the governor’s spe cial request, and the costumes and ac cessories for the Shakespeare perform ance were the ones that arrived. There was no time to right the mistake, but there was time to rush a uew set of posters advertising the uew play. “Come one, come all!” they Invited the public. “Do not miss the oppor tunity of a lifetime! The great comic, historic, romantic, emotional drama ‘As You Like It, or the W restler's Sweetheart!’ as trium phantly perform ed before the queen of England at the Globe theater. London, with the dis tinguished author iu the cast!” Naturally the public inferred that this interesting performance had taken place before Queen Victoria during the last London season rather than In the presence of good Queen Bess some 300 years before. Naturally also the gym nastic suggestions of the ingenious subtitle were not lost upon them. They turned out in force. The town attended almost to a man. They did not think much of the melancholy Jaques. but they would have endured him another seven ages for the saae of Rosalind!—Youth’s Companion. A FLOATING FORTUNE. The R i g h t K i n d o f W h a le Is H e a v ily F re ig h t e d W i t h W e a lth . THE CANARY ISLANDS. In A n c ie n t D a y e T h e y W e re T h o u g h t to F o r m th e R e a l H e a v e n . i You know, of course, that the Canary islauds are northwest of Africa and that they belong to Spain. You may huppeu to remember, too, that three very interesting things have been giv en to the world by that group of is lands—Canary wine, the Canary dance and the lovely little yellow song bird that has a place in so many homes. To be sure, they are the Canary islands, because that ia where canary birds come from. But hold! The horse is behind the cart. The birds got their name from the place of their nativity, and the group of islands took its name from I the largest and most important mem ber, Gran Ct-naria island. Curiously enough, the name means “big dog” in stead of “little bird.” There was a time when these islands were of far more interest and impor tance than they ure now, a time when they called forth a special government edict. It was the senate of Carthage that passed a law forbidding the citi zens to make those islands the objec tive point of their summer vacation. From time Immemorial the world had believed that somewhere beyond the pillars of Hercules there was a group of islands so beautiful, so replete with everything to make men and wo men happy, that they constituted the real heaven. They were called “Is lands of the Blest.” When the Car thaginian fleet returned from its first expedition to the Canary islands there was danger that all the population of Carthage would emigrate to that realm of song birds and tempered sunshine; hence 'the edict.—SL Louis Globe-Uem- ocrat. Quality Counts In ever line of Merchandise, but none more especially than in HARDW ARE Our large stock is in every instance the best that oan be had and our aim will be to keep the high standard up. Builders’ Hardware, Tools Shelf and Heavy Hardware Stoves, Hanges, Farm and Garden Tools And everything usually kept in a first-class hardware store, and all goods are of the best quality. Alex McNair & Co., Tillamook,Ore. I I K n if e D u e ls In M e x ic o . A duel between cattle herders on tho Mexican plains is about ns savage and deadly a manner of fighting as one could possibly imagine. Each opponent extends his left arm, and a third party who has been selected to act as ref eree binds their wrists together with a thong of rawhide, lie then places a knife in the right hand of each, and the fight is on. Needless to say, it does not last long. Every stab may be cal culated upon to do damage, and it of ten happens that both duelists receive fatal wounds. Yet, in spite of the se vere rules of the game, there are men who become experts and terrorize a whole neighborhood. They pride them selves on being able to strike so quick ly and so surely that they can kill an opponent with the first blow and get away unscathed.—Exchange. First let us dispel the popular idea that a whale is n fish. It is not a fish, but an animal. It feeds its young with milk. And even though it lives in the water it can be drowned. A fish ex tracts oxygen from the water and takes it through its gills. But the whale has to rise to the surface and get a supply of oxygen from the air. When it does this it spouts water to make room for air. and the fishermen say, “There she blows!” A whale has a large, flat tail, about eighteen feet across. Every fish has an upright tail. That is because fish need their tails only to act as rudders. But a whale, when he needs oxygen, has to beat down the water and get to the sur face in bounds. That's the reason his tail is flat. The baleen, or whalebone whale, car ries all the whalebone in his mouth. F. R. BEALS It hangs down from his upper Jaw in a vast network, ile eats the smallest sort of Jellyfish, etc. Having no teeth, he swims right into a shoal of things that form his food, and the network of Write for Literature. whalebone acts ns a huge fishing n et Whalebone is worth $10,000 a ton, and TILLAMOOK. - - ORRGON one whale may carry one and a half tons of it. Besides whalebone, we get tons of oil from the whale. It is used for ointments and very fine caudles. And from a certain species of whale Manufacturers we get ambergris, which is worth from $10 to $30 an ounce. The whale is a floating fortune.—Milwaukee Sen All Kinds of tinel. Rough and REAL ESTATE The Evening Telegram, daily, and the Cloverdale Courier, both papers one year for 83.50. (T H E C O O P JUO QE: L E A R N S F R O M T H E HIRE.P man ) ( ' d i d Y O U H AVE a n y H E LP , V ^a P LITTIN iq T H A T * J. M. WEISS & SONS LUMBER H e r B u sin e ca . Patience— Don’t you think she knows her business? Patrice—Well, if It’s knowing everybody else's she does.— Yonkers Statesman. P r e t t y S m a ll. Hewitt—W hat sort of a fellow is he? Jew ett—Well, he will never have to say to his conscience, “How you have grown!”—Judge. Finished Your bill for House or Barn will receivo careful attention and lumber ready promptly on time. Leave Orders with Henry Kamp. at Cloverdale Hotel. A LL around you men are talking about it. You, L yourself, are probably telling friends about W-B CUT Chewing—the Real Tobacco Chew, new cut, If-vit shred. Get a pouch! Notice h o w the salt brings out the real tobacco taste; how it satisfies without grinding; how long it lasts. Made by WLYMAN BRUTON COMPANY, 50 Ueioe S^n.re, New York City