THE TILLAMOOK
WEEKLY
HEADLIGHT
THE GIRL IN WHITE
Eggs 25 eta, a doz at Cohn and C<
; puzzled,” he added. “Szmebody in rob
bing me of my ideas. ”
'Twixt girls in pink and girls in blue,
Our corre«|Kmdents will do us a favor
When my ><*rt is wiw, un I’m like tae creet,
"Get out!" said Mr. Burubam.
And girls in green and yellow,too1
Ail a’
bitter that aince wus sweet,
if they will please remember that if the
An life's |. «d hard lae my weary feet,
“It'a true,’ «aid Mr. Perkins. “A
’Twixt girls in red andev’ry hue,
items are received later than Tuesday
I foist sing a wee bit sang.
To choose Is more than I cau do.
half dozen times witbin tbe last three
weeks I have found myself face to face evening they will be too late for th
Nee laverock I fur the warld tae hear.
'Twixt beauties who mv heart invite
Nae Untie tender, nae mavis clear.
with evidence that my private papers paper.
In all the rainbow hues bedight.
I can Juist gie a dicp, but vb-i days are have been tampered with."
How < au I choose? I have it—light
Over Shirts. Night Shirt«, Aprons per doz...................... 40c
At this time of the year a cold is very
di ear,
“Frenis incredible,” said Mr. Burn- easily contracted, and if left to run its
Under Shirt«, Drawers and ! Shirt Waists, and Skirts, per
Dawns on me with the girl in white.
There’s joy in a wee bit sang.
f ham.
Under Vests, per doz... .36c < doz............................................1.20
Since white combines all colors, who
course without the aid of some reliable
For, rineln, my t.-ars forget tae fa’,
Handkerchiefs, Sock«, Stock Dresses and Wrappers per
" Yes, but it’s true. ”
Can wonder if I in you—
An tl.e deid an the change«! an the far awa’
cough
in
*dic.
’
ne
i
>
liab'e
to
remit
in
th«t
ings, Napkins per doz ...8c doz......................................... 1 00
“Suspect anybody?”
Cor io back, an the r<sal's no’ hard at a*—
Who go in white the summer thro’
dread d.sense, pneumonia, We know of
Chemises,
Towel« per doz .................... 18»; Night Dresses,
“Yes.”
Me a help is a wee bit sang.
The charms of all, my pretty Prue?
Table (’loth«, Shertfi, Pillow Drawers, Combination Suite
no better remedy to cure a cough or cold
Perkins lang tbe bell.
W’h< n poortith conus un the cupboard's Istra,
and
Waists
per
doz
...........60c
Slips,
Roller«,Curtains
Plain;
“George,” be said, "tell Miss Phillips than Chambei lain’« Cough Remedy. We
Ulu ur there used tae be a' thing an tae .¡sire,
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People
eat
and
.sleep
well
who
1 that I waut her. ”
I tub my crust, an it’s dainty fare
have uwed it quite extensively and it has
When munched tae a wee bit sang.
ROUGH DRY
"Hold on," said Burnham. "I don't given entire satisfaction.—Ohignh, Ind. Vita Remedies. Read ad. No cure,
a
Wash and dried per doz 20e
like
this.
It's
all
wrong.
Just
excuse
no pay.
When the fowks in brawn frac thent-arby town,
Ter. Chief.
Washed, dried and starched per dozen 30c
me. ’’
Ecorn iny hodden gray an tny muckle sh<s,n,
This is the only remedy that is known
Kune but Vita Medicines cure Blood
1 ea. e nuo iiuiir than tlu- man 1’ the moon.
"Sit down,” said Mr. Perkios.
If yon don’t have a dozen pieces of any
I d.you are
I Juist sing a woe bit sang.
charged fn the number of pieces yon have at same rates.
The stout man sank back in his ehair. to be a certain preventive of pneumonia. Diseases. No cure, no pay. Read ad.*
Any pieces that are not in this list go at regular list price.
Aye, I sing when I'm happy, 1 sing when I'm : Then the door opened, and Alice enter Among the many thousands who have
Vita Medicine« cure all sick people
sad.
ed. She cast a nervous glauce from Per used it for colds and giippe, we have
I may my Rin cheer when there’s nane tae be kins to Burnham. Her ebeek paled a never yet learned of a single case hav No cure, no pay. Read ad.
had.
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little, but her lips were firmly com ing resulted in pneumonia. Persons
Life can never 1» n’th**gither l»ad
pressed. Perkins watched her narrowly. j who have weak lungs or have reasons to
While it leaves me a woe bit sang.
After hearing some friends continually i
—Torquil MacLeod in Boston Transcript.
“Sit down, Miss Phillips,” he said.
I fear an attack of pneumonia, should keep praising Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera |
“I have called you in here to ask you
a few questions. Somebody bus been the remedy at hand. The 25 and 50cent ami Diairhoea Remedy, Curtis Fleck, of i
Anaheim, California, purchased a bottle
tampering with tho privute papers in . size for sale by 8. J. Sturgeon.
of it for his own use mid is now as |
my desk, Miss Phillips.”
Mr. Robert Perkins entered his pr'.
„7»^ enthu«ia«iic ovei its wonderful work as ‘
The girl started, but she returned his
thing to patent? Protect your ideas ; they may
vato office with a disagreeable frowu. gaze fearlessly.
bring you wealth. Write JOHN WED DE R- anyone can be. The 25 and 50 cent size« j
H<! tossed his hut at the nearest hook
“Yesterday afternoon this unknown BURN <fc CO., Patent Attorneys, Washington, for «ale by S. J. Sturgeon.
and dropped himself into his swivel was ut work again. The tampering ' D. C.. for their $1,800 prize oiler.
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chair. Then ho lifted his knee iu the must have taken place while George
air, clasped his hands about it nnd was absent from She office. You, I think,
gnawed at his mustache. Ordinarily were here until he returned?”
Mr. Robert Perkins was u good looking
“J wus here.” Her voice was clear
< sample of manhood. He wasn't at all and steady.
attractive at the present moment, bow
“Did auy one enter the outer office
I
er, r. That’s what the fair haired girl during that time?”
at the typewriter tn the outer office
“Several men came to the door and
thought. She could see him when she inquired for you. Mr. Burnham is the
railed her eyes above her copy, and she only one who entered.”,
Will keep tbe best liquors in the market including the celebrated
wondered wliat disturbed him so.
“Did you sit where you could see my
Z/’s
Magnolia Whiskey and Weinhart’s Lager Beer
The fact is, he was a very much dis private door?"
gruntled man. He bad cause to bo.
“Not all the time. I moved my type
Soiuebcdy was spying upon liis move writer table to the window and put tbe
ments. Somebody was even prying into screen about me. ’*
his private affairs and stealing informa-
“May I ask why yon did that?”
tiup that was of great value to him.
Tbe girl hesitated, but her gaze did
Mr. Robert Perkins was a real estate not flinc h.
operator, a man of big deals, whose
“Because—because of Mr. Burnham’s
mime, in spite of his two and thirty attentions. ’’
years, w as ulready a pow er in the street.
“Come, now. I protest”— began the
Up to within a few weeks he liad bu n stout mail.
singularly successful, Lut now some
“Sit down,” said Perkins.
body seemed to Le blocking all his im
He looked back at the girl. There
portant moves. Only the day before he was a deep flush on her cheeks.
had prepared in a sketchy way the plat
"Yon mean that Mr. Burnham paid
of an extensive tract he had meant to you attentions that you thought were
secure, and now ho had just discovered out of place iu a public office?”
that the price had been jumped on him
Mr. Perkins' voice was cold and bard.
to un extent that meant an outlay of Tbe girl compressed her lips.
$10,1)00 more thuu lie had counted on.
“Yes," she murmured.
He knew that his breast wus the only
“Hang it all, man," sputtered Burn
gnarditin of this proposed deal—his hum, “wliat has my saying a compli
breast und his desk, for in the hitter mentary word or two to a pretty girl
wus locked the precious plat.
got to do with your alleged robbery?”
25c 50c
DRUGGISTS
Mr. Perkins pulled out his desk key
The« girl turned her head and looked
m.
and ti’.rtist it into the keyhole. At least at him, nud there was something iu the
he attempted to do so, hut something look that made tbe heart iu Perkins'
interfered, something which stubborn
bosom leap for joy.
ly resisted the most violent effort. He’
“I have questioned George,” he said I
— - Keeps on Hand a Complete Stock of--------
draw out the key and fraught forth his hurriedly, as if tho business had begun
knife. A few minutes of energetic pry to nauseate him, “and he corroboraies !
1
ing und^wistiiig dislodged the obstacle. your statement. He saw Mr. Buruliam i
It was a hairpin;
stoop and murmur something to you—
ONE GIVES RELIEF.
A tw isted hairpin of bronzed wire. and—and you blushed.”
Mr. Perkins instinctively turned in bis
“By George,” cried Burnham, "this j
chair and looked toward the fair haired is dencedly unkind!”
girl at the typewriter, She was bend
Peileina did not notice him. Ho was I I
ing over lur work and did not see him. looking ut the girl.
Mr. Perkins knew that the fait haired
“Yes,” she slowly said, “I remem
girl used hairpins of bronzed w ire.
ber. I will tell you wbat he said.”
Somebody had tried to pick his desk
“It is not necessary,” said Perkins. 1 I,
lock with u hairpin, the same some
“Certainly not,” cried Burnhnm.
body who had been making mischief
“Do as you please,” said Perkius.
for him right along. Could it bo that
“It was only a simple request," tbe
iuiioocnt look nig young woman? bho girl went on. “He said”—
handled Ins letters; she wus to some
“I protest,” cried Burnham.
extent familiar with his private busi
“Go on,” said Perkins.
ness.
"He said that he wished to clean an
Mr. Perkins opened his desk w ith u ink well, and he naked me for a liairpiu. ”
bang. Then he struck sharply on n call
Burubam laughed boisterously.
bell that stood at his elbow. A boy ap
"You see,” lie chuckled.
peared in the doorway.
Perkins arose and fumbled in his vest
‘‘George,’’ said Mr. Perkins, ‘‘shut pocket.
the door."
“Is that your hairpin, Miss Phillipa?"
When tho lad's back was turued, bo he asked. “I found it iu the keyhole of
looked at the hairpin again and sight<1. my desk this morning.”
Then he thrust it carefully into his vest
Burnham arose. His face was livid.
pocket. When tho boy approached him,
"Just a joke, a practical joke,” he
ho was gazing intently nt the pint muttereff thickly and turued and rushed
where it lay, upisireutly undisturbed, from the room.
in the desk.
"I knew it was that cur the instant
no. ~rt U pul up elw.pl, to eraliry th. nalnrrnl pnrail domand for a Ira prtM,
George," said Mr. Perkins, "do you you entered the room,” said Perkins,
remember that 1 left early yesterday but his voice chuuged as the girl arose.
afternoon ?’’
“Just a mo-moment," he stammered.
"Yes, sir,” said George. “You went “I—I waut to ask you oue more ques
away at 8 o'clock with Mr. Tompkins tion. ”
iu a carriage."
Tlier .1 is a new typewriter in the Per
“Did you leave the outer office before kins outer office, but as Mrs. Alice
I
closing up time?"
Phillips Perkins herself picked her out
"Yea, sir. I went to tho poatofllce it is believed that she is a thoroughly
for stumps, and 1 cnuie buck by the competent aud trustworthy succi asor to
wuy of Lawyer Briggs’ office and hit that esteemed lady.—W. R. Rose in
A lways has on hand
that abstract. *’
Cleveland Plain Decler.
“How long were you gone?"
Sind Fite Cent» to T he R ifanz C hemtcax C omtant , N o . to
One of l.lncoln’a Dtapatche«.
•’ 'Bout half an hour, sir."
Spruce St., New York, end they will be sent to you by mail; or
"Was Mus Phillips iu the eflk-fl
In his “Campaigning With Grant,”
A lso a complete line of
12 cartons will be mailed for 48 cents. The chances are ten to
when you left?"
in The Century, General Horace Porter
one that Ripans Tabules are the very medicine you need»
“Who—Miss Alice?"
tells of General Halleck's fear of trou
“Yes, Miss Alice."
ble from the enforcing of the draft and
It was a pretty name. It was the first liis desire that Grant should send troops
time Mr. Perkins bud spoken it, nud lie to the northern cities. Gernral Porter
thought it a very pretty name, nud says: On the everting of Aug. 17 General *
than his fingers closed on the hairpin Grant was sittiug hi front of his quar 9
Lunches from ID Gents up.aBH^^^
auil his heart hardened.
ters with several staff officers about «
"She was hem when 1 left and here liim when the telegraph operator came
when I coma back, sir."
over from his tent and handed him a
“Anybody else hem?"
dispatch. He opened it, and as he pro *
"Mr. Burnham was in just before I ceeded with tile reading his face became
w it at a ■» a • a
left Ho was talking to Miss Alice, suffused with smiles. After he bad fin
TRIP
sir "
ished it he broke into a hearty laugh.
•Talking to Alice?"
We were curious to know what could
There wus something hi bis snappy produce so much merritm tit iu the gen
toue that carried the intimation that eral in the midst of the trying circuni-
Mr. Perkins didu't like this iuforma
slancr a w hich surrounded him. He cast
tun.
his eyes over the dispatch again and
“Yea, sir, talking confidential like. then remarked: “The president has
When I looked umnnd, he stooped dew n more nerve than any of his advisers.
ami said something real low, ami Miss This ia wliat be says after reading my
Alice kind of blushed. "
reply to Halleck's dispatch." He then
“That will do,* George."
read aloud to us the following:
Au the boy opened the door Mr. Per
“I have ewi ear dispatch «-xprvaaina your
unwillingn-sa to break r«au- hold wln-re \ oa
kins called him back.
"Step nerves the hall to Mr. Bum Sn- h'.-ltli.-r am I willing. Hold on With a
build.« grip and chew ami <-h.>kv as much as
hum's office and tell him 1 waut to see possible.
"A. LUKXMJI."
him. ”
T»booe<L
Two minutes later Mr. Tom Barn
ham puffed in. He was a short, stout
"When I waa in the lightning rod
-------Will Run The
mail, with a double chin and a laughing bus.mas,” said the drummer, in a rem-
a
tarsi.
iuix-ent mood. "I"—
"Waul to see me. Bob?" be cried as
Bui the smoking room bad suddenly
ba took a chair.
emptied, and be wae an on toast among
Will make tripe every five day«. the weather penaitttag, between Astoria and Tnitfflcok Cttj
"Y.-s," replied Mr. Perkina.
He the traveling men thereafter.—Hard
carrying freight and passenger*.
paused a mouieui "l*m worried and ware.
ELMORE, SANBORN A Co., Aitoria, or COHN & CO., Tlllamoo*. Aflte.
A WEE EIT SANG.
TillamooIçLaundry and Dijeflouse.
Price List for Families
J. W. ATWATER, Manager.
A HAIRPIN
WANTED-AN I DEA
Che (Corner Saloon*
BRINN BROTHERS PROPS
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delete
an indisputable fact,
you may search this county
with a. lighted candle, and
wont find another store where
can buy so cheap as at the
Eieos.
Racket Store.
If You want anything in the
line of Tinware, Notions, Staionery
School Supplies, etc, come to
g
CANDY
CATHARTIC
The Racket Store.
CURE CONSTIPATION
THOZMZZPSOlSr.
ŒPurnifure Store and
^Cabinet Shor
Furniture. Matting, Wall Paper, Window Shades ar
Floor Oil Cloth.
All Kinds of Cabinet work-Turning- Scroll sawir.g et<
etc. done on short notice.
Screen doors and Windows made to Order.
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ufù.xe 37‘OVL tired'?
“\7\7‘ill Vcu. tcxTze soxxxetlxing
THElWlS
Don’t Spend a Dollar
for
Medicine
until you have tried
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You can buy them in the paper 5-cent cartons
Ten Tabules for Five Cents.
If you don’t find this sort of
AND RESTAURANT
Ripans Tabules
At the Druggist’s
FRESH BREAD, PIES AND CAKES
:
Canned, Fruits, Nuts, Cigars, Tobacco
and Stationery.
Best ZszEeals in. tlx© Cit^r
•
Wm
We* print!
Anil everybody says
TXT©
Do
It
Well.
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Reduced Fares!
Astoria and
Tillamook
pacific Jlavigatioq Company
Steamer W. H. Harrison,
or R. F. Elmore,