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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1916)
It Is not an uncommon occurrence for two youngsters who are chums to agree that if possible the one who dies first will appear in the spirit to the otlwr. I dou't think such agreements are as apt to be made now as formerly, for belief in the reapi>earance o f those wt»o have died is not whst it was when I was young. Scientists have taken up the matter, but the laity don’t feel much Interest in i t I made one o f these agreements with Dick Atherton when we were eighteen years old. Dick became a sailor, and on one o f his voyages the vessel he sailed In was wrecked, and all on board were lost. A t any rate, if any o f them escaped death he was never heard from. I took to the water, too, but not in the same Hue as Dick. I began on river work and eventually came to own and run a steamer that I usually laid up in winter, but ran as an excursion boat in summer. •'ll»« season I had contracted to take a party o f excursionists out o f Boston harbor around Cape Ann. For several days before our sailing everything went wrong. The government inspec tor took it into his head to find fault with a lot o f things which be required me to Improve, and I knew that if I didn’t attend to them myself I wouldn’t l*e ready to keep my contract for the excursion. The consequence was that I got uo sleep for two nights and a day before we left Boston. I had several hundred persons aboard and, rounding Cape Ann. preferred to rely on m yself rather than on any one else. I was passing Thatcher's light when I began to feel so drowsy that I feared to fall asleep, notwithstanding the fact that the lives o f so many hu man beings were dependent on my keeping awake. I was tired, too, and when I had a clear course ahead o f me I sat down on the sent behind the wheel, reaching forward to take It whenever required. This I should not have done. A man may go to sleep on his feet. H e is much more liable to do so while sitting. Slumber got me, though, at Inst. I must have slept quite awhile. Sud denly I awoke, frightened out o f my wits, for I knew what it was to go to sleep at the wheel. There was a man standing between me and it, turning it rapidly. Whether he was really hazy or not I couldn't say. lie certainly looked so through my sleepy eyes. I tried to wake myself enough to get up and take the wheel from him. but somehow, considering that he was there. I couldn’t do i t “ Go to sleep. Tom,” he said. "Y ou ’ re not in fit condition for a pilot." Whether I was not entirety awake, whether I was dreaming. I couldn’t make out, but the voice was certainly Dick Atherton's. Then I dreamed that I said to him: “ Dick, have you come back to keep your promise when we were young sters?" " I ’ ve come back to keep you from running full headway against Folly point,” was the reply. I have said that I dreamed this, be cause that's the way it seemed to me. W bat it really was might be another matter. I woke up again later, looked ahead and saw that there was clear sailing. Thompson, one o f my steersmen, was at the wheel. ‘ ‘Great heavensr: I exclaimed. “ Can it be that I ’ ve been asleep ?’r "Reckon you have, sir." “ IIc w long have you been at the wheel ?” “ About ten minutes. 1 happened to look ahead, and the boat was heading for Folly point. I ran up here to see what was up and found you asleep and a man at the wheel who was sheering off. He gave me the wheel and left the pilothouse." i “ A man?" “ Yes, sir. he was a man. Why do you think he was anything else?" “ What did he look like?" “ I didn't notice him very particular ly. I was too much upset by the nar- j row escape. Rut I remember that his i hair was red " Dick Atherton's I: tir was red. When he was a boy we < ailed him Reddy. So horrlGed was 1 at my narrow es cape from saoHlicing a boatload o f ex cursionists that 1 had scarcely time to wonder about Atherton or his ghost I asked Thompson if he felt sure he could attend to the wheel safely, and when ha replied that he could 1 told him I would go below and rest a bit, for I was completely knocked out by what had occurred. Leaving the pilot house. I walked aft through the crowd of excursionists— they were Ignorant of the frightful doom they had escni>ed | —and was about to go down the stern : eompanionwny when I felt a hand on | my shoulder. Turning, there stood Dick Atherton. He was ten years old er than when I had last seen him. but I recognized him at once. He was looking mighty serious. Putting a fin ger to his lips, he said: “ Don’t get broken up over It, old man. Only 1 and the man who relieved me at the wheel know about it.” Dick then briefly explained. H e had ! escaped the wreck o f his vessel and spent a year in the east, mostly Japan, j Returning, he had seen an advertise- j ment o f the excursion on my boat my name beingr mentioned ns master. He E»d eonufaboard without making him self known and had gone up to the pilothouse to surprise me. but instead It was I wbo had surprised him PROFESSIONAL CARDS Tillamook Abstract Company Titoa. C o a n w . I’uraUAiitNT. Cl > .« !* ! « T B I TAKE S U M O » A S U T IL A C T or S TILLAMOOK C I T Y , I THE WHITE! AUTO ORROOK. T.H. QOTHE, J ATTORNEY AT LAW STAGE Conveyancing, Etc. Opp. Conrt'House, Tillamook, Or*. | Tillamook Undertaking Co. FOR- ! Tillamook- , 1 Cloverdalei i HOOKA o o c im , vshooh . R. N. H E N K E L , Proprietor. Night and Day calls promptly attended. Next Door to Jones-Knudaon Furniture 8tore. T IL L A M O O K . - - OREGON -A N D — All Way Points F. R. BEALS R E A L ESTATE w Safe and Comfortable Leave Cloverdale d a ily at 7:30 a. m , arriving at T illa mook at 10 a. m — iu time for morning train to Portland. Leave Tillamook i t 9p. m , arriving at Cloverdale at 5 p. m. J M. T R A X L K R , Prop Write for Literature. T IL L A M O O K . vXH r - - OREGON ox# «x» vx«*«x# * x * • W. A. WILLIAMS MELTABLE HARNESS MAKER FRANK TAYLOR, Notary Public » Vk* Cloverdale, Ore. M «*• «V« » « V The Cloverdale Courier $1 a year. R u lla tili N o. 5 The Bethlehem Steel Company’s Offer to Serve the United Slates A t a time when the expenses of the Government are so enormous— Isn’t it wortli while fin d in g ou t the actual facts before plunging ahead into an expenditure of $11,000,000 of the people’s money for a Government armor plant? T o clear up the whole situation, and to put it on a basis as fair and business-like as we know how to express it, we now make this ofTer to the Government: T h e B eth leh em Steel C om p a n y w ill m a n u fa ctu re arm or plate for the G o vern m en t o f th e U n ited States at actual cost o f operation plus such charges fo r overhead expenses, in terest and depreciation as the Federal T ra d e C om m ission m ay fix. W e w ill agree to this fo r such period as th e G overn m en t m ay designate. The House of Representatives voted down a proposal to empower the Federal I rude Commission to determine a fair price for armor, and allow private manufacturers opportunity to meet that price before the Government built its plant. Is n ’ t ou r proposition fa ir and ou gh t it not to he ueeepted i The measure is now before the United Slates Senate. CHAS. M SCHWAB, Chairman EUGENE G GRACE. President f Harness and Saddlery » Pullman Tires and Tubes—Best S, on earth. $ Tillamook, Oregon. 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