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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1898)
............... THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 20, 1898. ..... said Mrs. Johnson, picking up a dilap A LOYAL AMERICAN GIRL idated horse from the debris of toys on the floor. 1 Gladly Gave the Flowers from Her “Na-na,” dissented the child, waving Hat to Remind the Boys of it aside. Home and Mother. at pretty tail wagging.” But no, the horse was but wooden. "hen the soldier boys left for the It could not glitter like a little disk of south there wa» one bright-looking girl sunshine. The bucolic-looking doll, the tin en standing on the depot platform, says gine, even the railway truck—more the Denver Time». She wore one of tiie Oh! they are loyal, brave and true. dearly loved for its lack of wheels— fashionable hats which appear like a And fair the red, anti white, and blue, That in a nation's colors rise, could not compensate for the vanished garden of flowers. As she stood there, Shine in their cheeks, and brows, and eyes, half-penny. They were but the com with the tearscoursingdown hercheeks, And glow upon their banners. panions of earth, the well-known she saw the other girls burying the From ocean shore to mountain crest; brave boys in literal forests of flowers. From north, and south, ar.d east, and west; common joys of every day; the half- From all the bright and beauteous land, penny was vision, miracle, no earth One of the soldiers stepping up to her asked: They come, a blessing-laden band, ly thing. And singing sweet hosannahs. “Please, may I have one of those flow ‘Tin afraid he’s not very well,” said With cheering words from such a mouth. Mrs. .Jameson, anxiously; “I don’t like ers on your hat?” As thine, ch! daughtt r of the south! She took his hand, and in a voice most bim to look so heavy about the eyes.” And love from such a loyal breast, womanly said: "Yes, sir, and may God Yes, and don’t you remember he bless As thine, oh! daughter of the west! you.” The sons cun never falter. looked like that just before he had the Then she told them all to come and se And while in north and east sha’.l stand measles ?” added Caroline. The earnest, helping, sister band, ‘‘He’s been so quiet all the morn lect a flower from her hat. The boy», Sweet Freedom’s day shall know no night, wits hands grim and bronzed fromcamp ing,” said the maid, ‘‘it’s not like him.” But ever shall the flame glow’ bright life, carefully culled them from the Upon the country’s altar. ‘‘Gi-gi!” cried the child. straw frame until they were all gone. —W. L. Vissscher, in Chicago Times-Her At this point Mr. Jameson entered, ald. Then she put on what w as left of it, and, and attention was diverted toward stepping back toward the car, said with O ................................ dinner. This was of the usual wash emotion: day order—a discomfortable spread of Boys, I wish there were more. I remnants, eaten haphazard to a scent hope you will come back again, and that of soap suds. The hungry man glanced those flowers will remind you of the impatiently around, a slight shade of pleasant scenes of home, and guide you By RANN KENNEDY. annoyance passing across his features. as your dear old mother would have The male mind cannot readily grasp taught you to go.” ................................................... .................................... the inwardness of wash day, and Mr. There were several girls standing close Jameson was no exception. “Why can by who whispered: “I wouldn’t ruin A LL the morning people were bust- not these things be altered somehow?” ling about the house, this way he thought. “Never mind; one of these my hat t-hat way,” but the wiser heads remarked: “There is a loyal American anil that, “up to the eyes” in work. days!” woman — God bless her.” — Denver The maid and a temporarily engaged The dream brightened his face once Times. assistant superintended operations again. He bent affectionately and over a steaming Tub; Mrs. Jameson kissed his wife. FUNERALS IN ARABIA. and her sister Caroline lent them Sister Caroline, poor, ugly, helpful an occasional hand, devoting the re old sister, looked on and sighed quiet Their Extreme DolefulaeM a Marked mainder of their time to cooking, ly. She, too, had had her dream. Characteristic—Wailtnff Ei- scouring, cleaning and the hundred texida to the Doifs. After dinner the busy wash still con and one matters of domestic neces tinued, but by now its back was well sity; tradesmen, with that unerring broken, and signs of its eventual sub “One of the strangest and most af instinct of their kind which always sidence were in the air. The white fecting sights in an Arab town,” says prompts their visits on the most in linen was all out on the line, drying a Tunis corrrespondent of London convenient day, made frequent de as fast as a steady breeze and fair sun Sketch, “is that of the funerals, which mands upon the door; the children, could manage; the “coloreds”—that may be met at any street corner. The home for awhile, were busy too, for distressful after-dribble of wash day’s corpse is merely wrapped in a mat of this was washday in the house of tide—were well on to completion; the esparto grass and carried either on a Jameson. tradesmen were less frequent, and, bier or on men’s shoulders. The mourn The baby sat solemn and silent in his surest sign of all, there were hints of ers lounge along, some in front and tiny chair, securely tied thereto by a potato cake for tea. Even wash day some behind, crooning verses of the disused pair of his father's braces. can find compensation in potato cake. Koran in melancholy tones, which haunt Scattered on the floor around him “And the little mannie shall have a one for days afterward. were toys and picture-books, on his wee brown cake all to himself!” “This wailing is, however, nothing to lap lay a slice of bread and jam, a crooned Mrs. Jameson, imparting to that which goes on in the house of the broad red trail of the latter indicating baby’s dumpy body an affectionate deceased. When I was staying in the a direct path over bib and chin toward wriggle only known of mothers! country near Tunis I heard it kept up his mouth. He turned a large and “Gi-gi!” The glistering eyes still during a whole night in a neighboring listless eye upon the surrounding held the dazzle of that sometime glory village, and I can conceive nothing bustle. more desperately depressing than these they had caught. “Baby is quiet to-day,” said Mrs. “I’m sure he Is sickening for some strains of lamentation wafted through Jameson once, glancing casually to thing,” said Mrs. Jameson; “I don’t like the darkness by the breeze. My dog stood it even less well than I did and ward him. this flush on his poor little cheeks.” "Yes; he's thinking of something— The child moved restlessly. His head felt constrained to join in the doleful pot even eating his bread and jam.” ached and there was a hot sense of dis chorus until I was half-tempted to put “Did um sit and finka-fink?” This to comfort about his eyes. All day he had a bullet through his head. Perhaps the the child, with a seductive waggle of felt ill, but not being able to correctly strangest of all the funerals I saw was sort out his little sensations he had re at Bizerta. It was that of a baby, which Anger. But baby sat motionless, gazing cow lapsed into that pathetic abstraction was being carried to its grave in au es like with his eyes. He did not even which seems to be the refuge of baby parto basket.” hood under such circumstances. Then say "Goo-goo!” JUMBLING THE SERVICE. At that moment the maid came in had come the glitlering coin—an incar from the scullery’, bearing with her nate thing of desire, giving point and 111 under. In the Marrlaae Vow. Made a steamy atmosphere and an unwhol« - form to his distress; and now. amid the by Both Bride and some odor of soap. In her arms was feverish restlessness that was growing Groom, —< a ponderous basket of damp linen upon him, it still shone out in fresh from the wringing; this she de determinately upon his imagina A Hampshire clergyman recently re tion as the thing hoped for, the posited with a thud upon the floor. the resolution of lated some of the blunders he h “I've done this lot, ma'am,” she dream goal, Child epitome of heard made in the marriage service said, “an’ I'm almost ready to start his suffering. on the coloreds. I'll put this here a grown mankind, he little guessed his persons of the class who have to pick minute while I go and get my line kinship with every woman that bore up the words as best they can from out. Hope it’ll be a flne day for the babe, every poet that ever sang from hearing them repeated by others, says breaking heart, every weary worker, the Weekly Telegraph. He said that in drying.” Mrs. Jameson stood at rest for a mo man and woman, that ever lived, and his own parish it was quite the fashion ment and surveyed the bulky basket desired and struggled and seemed to for the man, when giving the ring, to before her. She sighed. It was the lose; nay. he did not know that at the say to the woman: “With my body I thee wash up, and dream of her life that at some happy portals of his tiny heart were beating far-off day her good man should earn the strong wings of the Son of God with all my hurdle goods, L thee, and thou.” just that little more-than-enough Himself. He said, the women weTe generally Presently the woeful wash subsided: which would warrant her in putting out her washing. But now she was all the clothes were gathered in from better up imthis part of the service than middle-aged, and the dream had not the drying, ready for the mangle; the the men. One day, however, a bride startled yet come; when it came—years later kitchen, freshly cleaned and sanded, —it had lost its value, for her good became cheerful once again, and the him by promising, in what she sup long looked for tea time arrived—po posed to be the language of the prayer man was gone. book, to take her husband “to ’ave and “No, don’t put the basket there.” tato cakes and all. But baby by now was ill indeed, and to ’old from this day fortni’t for bit Blie said, “it's in the way. Put it terer horee, for richerer power, in sig- where baby is, and move him into the the doctor had been sent for. It was not a very serious ailment, only one gerness health, to love cherries, and to corner.” bay.” “Did urns have to be put in a corner of the tinier tragedies of babyhood, What meaning this extraordinary like a bad boy?” said the maid, as which mean a few days’ hectic cheeks. I vow conveyed to the woman*» own she followed out her mistress’ instruc a cough, a tired mother’s sleepless mind, the incumbent »aid, it baffled nights—little things, yet these little tions. him to conjecture. The baby remained as impassive as things press sorely upon the heart. “ Gi-gi! ” Still the plaintive cry. VERY NEAR^TO DEATH. ever. It was a short time after this that Suddenly a miracle occurred. The Mrs. Jameson, having occasion to go The Narrow Escape That a Chicago lamp-oil roan having arrived and de livered himself of his odoriferous bur once more to the small box of nhang«’ Family Man lind From a Pre in the cupboard, brought out the very mature End. den, it became again necessary for half penny of the child ’ s desire. In the Mrs. Jameson to pause from her la lamplight* it shone like a star. Baby bors to pay him. For this purpose she “What a narrow line divides life from went to the cupboard, wherein she had refined every other offering in death!” said the man that got on at ended to divert him: with motherly kept the sundry little boxes that Oak.Park, report» the Chicago Times- served her for bookkeeping.and.draw- craft Mrs. Jameson made one other Heraid. ing one forth, she presently poured venture. “Been reading something?” asked his “See, baby.” she said, holding up the seat mate, with a quizzical smile. into her hand a tiny shower of change. This comprised several coins of the gleaming treasure, “see. a pretty half “No. Actual experience. Do I look smallest sort, but one of them stood penny!” like a man who nearly died last night?" The child turned a slow, large eye out royally from the rest—a bright “Certainly not. You’re the picture of coppery beauty’ flashing with the upon the brightness; lifting up hi health.” sunshine. It was a new halfpenny. hand he took it feebly; for a momeni "Well. I did. After dinner I laid on The child’s eyes glistened de he seemed to waver between desir« the lounge for a few minute»’ rest, and weariness, then, with a petulant when one of the children »lipped a piece sirously. of candy in my mouth. I cracked it with “Gi—gi!” he said, which, being in gesture, lie put it away from him. “Na-na!* he said. my teeth and at the same moment terpreted, is “Give.” The evening drew on. The hurry- coughed »lightly. It ««' • little cough, But this remark remained unheard amid the bustle; and it was not until scurry of wash day was over, and the but somehow I drew my breath, and the lamp-oil man had received his dne. household had sunk to rest, but dowr. went a fragment of candy into my and the coins—bright halfpenny as through the long hush of night an anx windpipe. “The next instant I was strangling. well—had been restored to their little ious mother sat watching over a rest box and cupboard that Mrs. Jameson less child. The firelight flicker half My wife aixJ children flew around in became aw-are of the child s restless illumined the room, showing around distraction, but could give me no relief. the cot wherein tossed the tiny suf My throat puffed out in my efforts to ness. "Halloo, little mannie! What 'oo ferer, a few scattered toys an»! pic draw a breath, my face grew purple, ture books, whilst in their midst, un and knot» of sweat stood out on my want now?” touched. unvalued, no longer desired, forehead. I suppose th»t’» the way a “Gi-gi!” This with an imperious lay a pathetic little coin.—London drowning man feels. Anyhow, it was wave of hand. Weekly Sun._______________ ______ J* •omething awful and indescribable.” “Gi-gi? Oh. he wants his picture "Ar.d then the doctor came?” book. Give him it. Caroline.” The Weight of Aafbority. “There was no time for the doctor. I And Mrs. Jameson, turning away, An excellent story was told at a char j^ld my head down and coughed, and began to scour a saucepan. ity dinner. One day a man was brought the piece of candy was dialodged. I But baby had no joy of his picture into the accident hospital who was breathed again. Bleased breath! The book. On top of his bread and jam it thought to be dead. His wife was with revulsion wa» something wonderful, lay unheeded, its crude, gaudy illus him. One of the doctors said: “He ia and in two minutes I was myself again. trations seeming as naught beside dead.” but the man raised his head and No. I can’t laugh over It yet. I will that golden glorious something he said: “No. I’m not deed yet,” where never be so near death again until my had momentarily seen flash across bis upon his wife admonished him. saying: end comet, and then I pray to Heaven it cosmos. ••Be quiet; the doctor ought to know will come »ome other way.” “Gi-gi!” he cried plaintively. best.”—Pearson’s Weekly. “Perhars it's his gee-gee he wants." DAUGHTERSJDF AMERICA. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. Ring out, ye bellH, your sweetest chime«; jjing, all ye po.'ts, dulcet rhymes; Shout loud, ye crowds, in strongest praise; Shine out, fair sun, in softest rays, And dance ye rippling waters. For Freedom’s sons will sing a song. 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