THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, MARCH 2, 1899
COME TO TILLAMOOK COUNTY
Timber, etc
The Soil Surprisingly Productive.
Fine Schools and Churches.
The Land is Cheap.
Crop Failure Never Known
Good Class of People.
Stock Alway Fat,
GRASS IS KING I
lie Acre of Land in Tillamook County will raise three times the amount of Grass to that raised in any other secton of Oregon
It grows and keeps green the year round, and is the ideal pasture for dairying.
TILLAMOOK BUTTER AND CHEESE
Owing to its fine quality, is at a premium, bringing the Highest Cash Price in the San Francisco and Portland markets.
Xo county in Oregon offers better advantages than Tillamook, where the industrious Home Seeker is bound to be successful.
PROVED MORE POTENT
A Case Where Tar Was More Effi
cacious Than Prayer.
DON’T GROWL.
Us Farmers in the country, as the seasons
go and come,
I Ispuaty much like other folks—we’re apt
to grumble some!
The spring’s too back'ard fer us, er too
for'ard—ary one—
We’ll jaw about it anyhow, and hev our
way er none!
The thaws sets in too suddent; er the
frosts stayed in the soil
Too long to give the wheat a chance, and
crops is bound to spoil!
The weatherseithermost toomild.er too
outrageous rough,
And altogether too much rain, er not
half enough!
Now what I'd like and what you’d like
is plane enough to see;
It’s jest to have old Providence drop
round on you and me
And ast us what our views is first, re
gardin' shine or rain,
And post 'em when to shet her off, er let
her on again !
And vit I'd rather after all, considerin’
other chores
I’ got on hands, a'tendin' both to my af
fairs and yours—
I'd ruther miss the blame I'd get a-rulin'
things us thar,
And spend my extra time in praise and
gratitude and prayer.
MY MA, SHE KNOWS
■What a queer thing is our soldier hat!
■Who ever dreamed of a title like that
■To deck the head of a soldier boy—
■The battle’s hero and artist’s joy ?
■Where are the feathers, buttons and braid
■Wherein our forces were once arrayed—
■The gay kepi, the bearskin cap,
■The fancy helmet and jingling strap?
■ »one where the woodbine used to twine—
■ »one like a trout that broke the line—
■Like the Spanish fleet—or last year’s
J snows—
■ »one where all the rubbish goes!
■For the Yankee today isapractical man,
■Who goes to war on a practical plan.
■The militant Yankee’s plain felt hat
■Looks odd ; but it doesn’t roof a flat.
[Do you remember, in sixty-one
■When the late unpleasantness begun,
[The togs that were worn? What a
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masquerade!
[A target excursion on parade—
[Big zouave breeches, gilt tasseled boots,
■Silk-fogged jackets, rainbow suits!
■But those lads saw fighting—bled and |
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died,
■And learned to put fuss and feathers aside.
■There’s something rather businesslike
|ln that dull gray slouch within a spike;
[its warm against the winter’s snows;
[It keeps the sun from eyes and noes;
[And, wet or dry, it is devil-may-care,
p\ith a very taking bulldog air.
pou may poke it up or flatten in out,
[Roll it, streatcfi it, or throw it about;
|In fact, it’s a rough-and-ready hat,
[T he Yankee himself, for the matter of that
|ls much the same, when it comes to style,
[As his simple, useful, capable tile—
pie marches and fights in a “git-thar ’
way,
[And where he lights he’s safe to stay.
P<>fle shooting’s his national game—
K’n land or sea it’s all the same.
[Anri a German helmet or Russian cap,
f’r French contraption with fancy »trap.
Fany other foreign fakir
pill find, if it runs against this Quaker.
P bat the slouch hat’s built to stand a
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nicely back of a rifle-sight,
“On one occasion,’’said a clergyman
from Kentucky to a Washington star re
porter, “I was makings circuit of some
preaching places in the mountains and
at one of these appointments I stayed at
the house of Sister Runnels—Reynolds,
as you might call her name—who was a
most exemplary Christian woman. Her
greatest earthly burden was an utterly
worthless husoum1 who had tried her
patience sorely for many years and whom
she had not yet been ¡wrsuaded to turn
out of her heart and home. He was not
visible when 1 arrived and when he did
not appear for a day I casually aBked her
where John was.
“ ‘He’s been off fer three days now,
down at the grocery, and goodness
knows what he’s up to,’ she said, half in
sorrow and half In anger.
"‘Has he ever been away as long as
this ?’ I asked, sympathizingly.
“ 'No. He generally gets back before
night.’
“ 'Perhaps this is a turning point for
him, and when becomes back he will
see the errors of his ways and tnrn from
them.’
“ 'Hardly, 1 reckon,’she said, with a
hopeless shake of ner head.
“ Oh, dont. be despondent,’ I insisted,
encouragingly. ‘He may be saved yet.
Let us pray for him. ’
“Her face flushed and she arose and
walked angrily to the door.
•' 'Pra’r wont phase him,'she blazed
out. 'Nothin’ll letch him but tar an'
feathers, and when he gits back here
that’s what he’ll git, and when I'm done
with him and got him turned out in the
road fer him to go his way and me mine
you wont want *o waste na pra’r on
him, shore. I'm done with him and he
ain't gain'to forgitit very soon, neitb,
er. ’”
She went into another book shop,! this
time for some pens. A stupid, half grown
boy trundled himself forward to wait on
her,
“I’d like some pens. ’ she said briskly.
“What—kind—uv—pens?” with half
shut eyes and heavy jaw.
“Pigpens!' flashed the girl, and, whirl
ing around, she was out of the store in a
second.
Rooms 1, 2, 3, 12, 13, Up Stairs,
She says she didn't mean to do it, but
N.E. Corner Third and Stark Streets.
the temptation was too strong, and Bhe
has been chuckling ever since at the ex
pression which came over the lioy’s face.
She is always bringing home some
choice bit of humor from the various
praying meetings, aid societies and Ep.
worth League meetings which she attends
One which she gathered in at a mission
ary meeting is of especial interest to per
sons of the Episcopalian persuasion. It
was a home missionary meetings and a
women from a small town was given
her experience.
“We ain’t done much durin' of the
past year,” site said, “but we're a-hopin’
for success to crown our labors in the
end. They s lots of Episcopalians in our
town, and by the grace o’God we mean
to put our bands to the plow an’ see ’em
all brought to Christ before another y«ar
rolls ’round
Civil and Military Tailor,
Entrance 88V2 Third Street.
STURGEON’S
Drug Store
PATENT MEDICINES
DRUGGIST’S NOTIONS
Prattle Of The Youngsters
A
Fine Line of Jewelry
STATIONERY, BOOKS
Freddie’s mamma had a caller one day,
who several times during her stay said:
“Now I must go,” always resuming her
seat, nevertheless. Upon another rep
etition of the remark Freddie said, sol
emnly: “Don't you believe it until she’s
gone, mamma."
A Baltimore women took her little girl
to Sunday school last Sunday. When
An eloquent Detroit prencher tells this all the childen inarched up the aisle sing-
among his early experience in a rural ; ing a processional the 4-year-old follow-
parish: One of his parishioners was very | ed and sang with much unction, altho’
ill and finally sent for the mirister, who i the mother was sure the child had never
found the man rather reticent, and fin j heard the hymn before. After service
ally asked if there was anything he could , the mother asked her how she enjoyed it.
do.
“Oh, 1 liked it ever so much,” the child
“Person,” was the answer, “sleep , said.
would make me well, bnt the doctor can’t
“What were you singing? Yrou didn’t
niake me sleep. I wonder if you'd preach know the hymn, did you?’’
me that long sermon I heard last July.”
•’Oh, no, ma’am, I diden’t know the
I one they were singing, but I wanted to
sing, too, so I sang ‘A Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight!’”
A bright girl in one of the New York
public schools applied to her teacher for
leave to be absent half a day, on the plea
that her mother had received a telegram
' which stated that company was on the
way, says the Youth's (Join pan ion.
‘It’s my father’s half-sister and three
boys,’* said the pupil, anxiously, “and
1 mother duan't aye how she can do with
: out me, those boys al ways act so.”
The teacher referred her to the printed
list of reasons which justify absence and
, asked if her case came under any of them.
•‘I think it might come under Ids head,
The daughter of a Methodist minister i Miss Potter, said the girl, pointing as
created consternation the other day, re she spoke to the works, “Domestic atll
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lates the New York Sun, by walking into iction. ”
a book shop and saying meekly:
“Do yon give clergyman's discount on
playing cards?”
‘On what?” demanded the salesman.
“On playing cards.”
“Clergyman's discount, did you say?”
“Yes."
"Well, we’ve never been asked for It,”
with peculiar emphasis, “but I suppose-”
“Because I’m a clergyman’s daughter,”
said the young women, “and I always
get a discount.”
“Oh, very well,’’ said the salesman, i
trying to keen a sober face.
The young women bought tlw card«, \
paid the price, minus the clergyman’s ,
discount, and went out of the store. '
The joke was considered the b -st of the I
season among the book salesineri. But
the Methodist girl tells it rather apolog
Regardless of the merits of the Roberts etically, and says site has done better.
Washington Society w quire a bit She has a fondness, it seems for having
cise,
fl.n with herself The other day shs had j
given to glaring at the gnat and winking
some wilhout any previous intention.
at the camel.
PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED
St. Alphonsus
ACADEMY,
TILLAMOOK,
OREGON.
CLASSES WERE RESUMED ON THE
FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER.
GRADED COURSE
OF INSTRUC
TION
ST. AI.PIIONSUH ACACKMY I n divided into
four department*, viz : Primary, Intermediate
Grammar, and Senior.
The year is divided into four terms of eleven
weeks each.
PETERSON
and Cold ßaths
EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST CLASS.