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THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, August 24, 1899 HARDWARE AND DAIRY UTENSILS STOVES & RANCES Large Line Charter Oak Stoves. Star Estate Ranges, Umpire Air Tight Heaters, Doors, Windows & Glass, Churns & Butter Workes, Milk Cans, Paints & Oils. HARDWARE. * We carry the Largest Stock of Hardware in Tillamook County. Before buying Nails, Windows, Doors and Sashes call and get our prices GROCERIES We carry a First Class Stock of Groceries and Provisions. Canned Goods, etc., which will be found complete in every line. We want your trade and will do our best to give satisfaction in all transactions. We keep in stock a nice line of China, Crockery, Glass, Tinware, etc. CHINA & TINWARE McINTOSH & McNAIR. Tillamook (Fillet monk Ljcnbligltt Fred C. Baker. Publisher. Official Paper, Tillamook City and County KATES OF SUBSCRIPTION (STRICTLY IN ADVANCE.) On year ................................. $i 50 Six months......................................................... 75 Three months ........................................ 50 Office at corner of Main and 2nd streets. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. [TO EDITOR OF TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT] M r . E ditor ,—I wish you would say in the Headlight that school officers should be elected for their ability or effi ciency, or for their good sense, and not because “it is Tom’s turn,” or "Dick wants it,’’ or “Harry belongs to our party,” or our church, or married my wife’s sister. That school directors have other duties than providing for impecunious relatives. That a good teacher is cheap and a poor one dear at any price. That babies should not always be sent to school to "get them out of the way” (for a good teacher may lie an indifferent nurse), neither should pupils be kept at home to do chores. That a building so full of dirt, decay, disease, discomfort, disagreeableness and discouragement as to be totally unfit for anything else, will not necessarily make a good school-house. That simply paying a man’sschool-tax will no more insuie his children of a good education, than paying a minister tax will give him a warranty deed of heaven There is a good deal of bovine wisdom ventilated upon the superior advantages of country life for the education of chil dren. There may lie an occasional patch of country where the conditions of a broad and wholesome training for youth are better than in the city. But, at present, we believe the best place for the training of boys, and especially girls, is not the lonely sphere of a run-down New England farming district, er the more isolated position of a settler in "the wild and woolly West,” or a dwel ler among the "old fields” of the South. Among well-to-do people the health of girls, esjiecially, is far better in large towns and the open cities than in the country; the opportunities for valuable cultivation of all kinds are concentrated in towns of 5,000 people and upwards. If the city offers greater temptations of a certain sort, it also attract the young by the wonderful power of its organized philanthropy and religion. In an age like this, when the city newspaper pene trates every nook of wilderness it is not certain that the boy who tends the plow, full of impatience to behold the wonder« of the town, with the vagrant imagina- tion on fire with its opportunities for Bohemian life, is not in condition of greater moral peril than the son of a respectable citizen, hedged about with inspiring influences of home, church, school, and the myriad town attraction« to a noble life. At any rate, our popu lation is concentrating upon towns, and the duty of every good man is to make every city a great fortress and storehouse for the defence of truth and righteousness and the furtherance of all good things. “No teacher should be allowed to te*ch who doesn't," is the handle to wh»«h a thousand and one blades may lx fitted, any one of which will be sharp enough to lop a fellow, as an unworthy branch, oft the trunk of the pedagogical profession. If all blades were fitted and used, nobody would lx allowed to teach. The precincts of pedagogy would be environed with such punctillious terror, that noKol «mid dare to rush in, or angel pees ii me to tread the sacred soli- tnfte« But then, what would the schools do for teachers ? According to the dicta of such educational jurists, yourcorrespondent. Monsieur Headlight, has been read out of the profession just four hundred and ninety-nine times that he is aware of, and the numlxr of times that he is not aware of is known only to the head opera- tor at the central station of the universe's telephone. He has heard the educational Elimination, anathema •it; but he wouldn't sit. He has been laid out as a beautiful pedagogical corp*,, waked, tettrierf. laid trader dull, cold marble, upon which was inscribed in pace requiescat ; but he wouldn t scat worth a cent! Fancying they had got rid of him, boards of education, with sonorous unction, w’ould say to him and others, Dornin us vobiscum ; and he came right back and made it animated for them in their own tent. Monsieur Head light, the process of evolution ha6 not gone far enough to construct a teacher to agree with the plans and specifica tions of some pedagogical architects. It is well to have a lofty aim and a grand and beautiful ideal; but, as the soldier said to his captain, “How can you expect all the cardinal virtues on $13 a month?” To fill the bill usually laid out for a teacher, the most perfect man would not be competent, and an angel would rattle around in it without making impression or noise. Granting scholarship and aptitude, what further is required to make you a good teacher ? Maybe asked by the pedagogical novice. Answer: Beaman,—unless you are a woman. It is accepted as an axiom with manv that while the State iu«j attend to the education of youth in the elementary branches, higher education should be left to private enterprise, and especially to denominational control. The truth is just the reverse. Sectarianism is by its nature unfitted for an educational agent, except in the line of its particular theology. So much effort must be put forth to perpetuate itself that little force is left to apply to secular education. So much material means is used up in oil ing the running gear of a church that little is left to apply to practical educa- tion. Colleges are successful in direct ratio of their secular character. Who has not observed the demoraliza- ' tion wrought by holidays ? It is bad enough for the morals of children to have Saturday and Sunday, but when Thurs day and Friday are holidays, the de moralisation is awful. In the former case children do not wake up till Wednesday morning, Monday and Tues day being almost lost for work We sometimes think it would be better to teach without interruption for two hundred or two hundred and fifty days and then take a vacation that would lie worth having. In such way the facul ties would be kept awake and violent 1 extremes of industry and indolence 1 avoided and the school term need not extend into the heated season. With ’ 1 such a continued educational pull more could lx done than by our present ‘ weekly jerks, in order to give which it takes two or three days to get a good 1 hold. G. A. W alker . 1 Why Balaam's Ass Spoke. Frank Day seems to consider himself a committee of one to defend Governor ' Lind whenever that gentleman is at tacked for some seeming shortcoming, says the Blue Earth, Minn., Post. His speaking for Lind reminds us of “some thing we just happened to think of:" A green looking country youth strolled . into a store in the city. The proprietor, who stammered badly, was considerable ofawag, and, observing the apparent verdancy of the young fellow, decided to , have some fun. He walked up to htm and asked: "S-s.say, ca-ca-can you tu-tu-tell me wh-wh.what m-m-made Ba.Ba-Balaam's a-a-ass speak ?" What did you say ?" asked the puzxled youth. “I wa-wa-wanted to know if y-y-you ca-ca-can tu-tu-tell me wh-wh-what m-m-made Ba-Ba-Balaam s a-a-ss speak said the proprietor, getting red in the face from exertion. “I don't understand you ?” said the boy. Then a very smart young clerk, with hair parted in the middle and with a rattle of cuff buttons, came forward, and, with a smile of superiority, said: “I see vou cannot understand '-be old gentle man. and therefore I explain it to you: He wishes to know if you can inform him why Balaam’s ass spoke, an incident we find related in the Bible." "Ob." said the boy. while a ray of in- telligence lit up his dirty face. “I shouldn ’t wonder if Balaam stuttered and he got his ass to speak for him." II. BROWN, 1‘HKSUIKT'. Falsehoods and Eacts HAMMOND’S TIMBER i L. W. H. COOPER, S ec . & T res . about the Fruit Products DEALS. of Oregon. It is stated on apparently good author D irectors : L. H. BROWN, II. G. DAVIS, G. W. TEFFT. PACIFIC LUMBER CO • j A state official who resorts to gross ity, says the News, that A. B. Hammond Manufacturers of exaggeration, not to say palpable false has quit buying timber lands on the hood, in an effort to disparge and sland line of the proposed Tillamook railroad. er the products of an adjoining state, It is claimed that his timber land pur especially when his own state can reap chases have heretofore been confined to no benefit therefrom, must be a man with the «pruce belt, and that he has bought TILLAMOOK, OR a very small and sour soul. This is the up the bulk of the spruce lands trom the mouth of the Necanicuin to a point case, apparently, with J. E. Baker, the and Finishing state horticulturist of Washington, if he east of Tillamook city on the Nehalem Fine lie correctly reported in a dispatch from slopes. It is also said that he is now a Tacoma published in a Seattle paper. I turning his attention to the fir belt and In this he is reported to have said that has hired cruisers to explore the Lewis Loeal Orders Promptly Rilled. Well Stocked “Washington has so far outstripped and Clark, Youngs and Klaskanine river Oregon in bidding for and placing fruits regions. Max Young, the cruiser, has Lumber Yard near Court House. in the Eastern markets that the latter the job in that country. Much mystery I and concealment at first surrounded state has practically little or no de mand for its orchard products outside | those purchases, but towards the last it of its borders. This is chiefly caused by was an open secret that they were made by Mr. Hammond for the “Astoria Com the Oregon fruit being almost universally pany,” a New Jersey corporation that infected by the codlin moth. The Hood holds the railroad subsidy. It is stated, river country, Mr. Baker says, supplies with a show of confidence, by those J. P. ALLEN, the only good fruit found in the state.” Such slanderous exaggerations as this who have some insight in the business, i Proprietor. that C. P. Huntington, J. Pierpont will not be approved by any of the fair and responsible horticulturalists of Morgan and John Claflin, of the H. B. First class accommodation • Claflin Company, are Mr. Hammond’s Washington. It is, in part, such a at second class rate. associates in that corporation. It is un "gross, open and palpable” lie that it derstood that Max Young's cruising job , will do Oregon no harm, and will be will last three months. MEALS IN THE repudiated by the fruitgrowers of our The s|>ecial value of the spruce timber CITY. sister state, whose interests are identical is due to the fact that it can be shipped with those of Oregon. A friendly emula Tillamook, Ore tion between the states, in this as well East from Astoria to greater advantage than fir. The Grays harbor and Willapa Headquarters for Forest Grove Stage Line. as in other matters, is not censurable; is i rather to be encouraged, but the spirit spruce belts are the only other large of bitter jealousy, prompting to mal bodies of spruce, and the railroads get a Rates, $1 Per Day. icious slanders and preposterous false better rate per thousand. The common Centrally Loeated hoods, is to be reprehended and despised point rates for fir shipjied from Astoria Tliin habit of disparaging and trying to leave Portland some advantage in the Eastern markets. Mr. Hammond has degrade everything done or originating south of the state line has become not bought up all the spruce in his ter ritory. It is estimated that he has some M. H- UARSEN, Proprietor». chronic with a few people and papers 80,000 acres on the south slopes of the over in the newer state, and a very small and contemptible business it is. Nehalem and some 45,000 acres on the An imaginary state line, nor even the north slopes and on the Necanicum Stage and Express Ottico. The Best Hotel in tli« city. No Chines* Employed width of a river like the Columbia, slopes. It is said, though, his purchas es have iieen shrewdly made so as to doesn’t change the character of soil or climate on either side ; doesn't surround isolated holders and cut them separate good from bad. The pro off from the market. These tracts are ducts of the river counties of Wash expected to fall into his lap when the Now Running Under New Management. ington are necessarily much the same as fruit is ripe. Many Astorians have been hoping EMMETT QUICK & FRED R. SMITH. Props those of Oregon, and when an official of Washington rates all the fruits of Ore that, When Mr. Hammond got all the First Class Ht-idquarters for Traveling Men. RATES from $1 to $2 per day. gon as bad, he befouls his own horticul spruce timber he wanted, he would let FREE BATHS FOR OUR BOARDERS. tural nest. It is true that the apple up on the town and give the people a orchards of Western Oregon are badly show for their white alley—let them TILL A MOOK. OREGON. affected with the codlin moth, and if the get some returns for their big railroad subsidy. Indications, too, have pointed orchards of Western Washington are coast, at least, than in portions of nearly in that direction. Active steps seem all the counties of Eastern Oregon. This to 1>e stirring for securing a sawmill j is the case in the Hood river valley and site. The visit of Gov. Stone, of War- | other portions of Wasco county, in the ren. Pa., and his examination for a site Walla Walla valley and along streams is thought by some to have been in in Umatilla county, in the Cove and sympathy with Mr. Hammonds purpose / a nd other localities in Union and Wallowa to start a great saw mill. The same counties, in large districts in Sherman idee is expressed about the visit of Mr Gilliam and Morrow counties, and in Gilchrist, of Michigan, and his trip over no inconsiderable areas in Baker, Grant the bay, with Hammond and W. W. and Malheur counties; altogether com •Curtiss the Albany sawmill partner prising a very large area, capable of sus of Mr. Hammond. All Kinds of Fine Merchantable Lumber. Dressed Flooring Lumber Specialty. LARSEN HOUSE, TILLAMOOK, OREGON. THE TILLAMOOK. Reduced Fares ! 6.00 BOUND TRIP. 3.50 ONE WAY. taining thousands of people, largely by (he production of winter apples, and through the Willamette valley does not | produce, as a rule, as sound and perfect apples as is desirable, it does produce an 3 immence quantity of good fruit, and ±4 several of its fruitgrowers also re ceived prizes for various kinds of fryit at the Omaha exposition. Southern Ore gon is an exceptionally fine fruit region, and its fame as such has long ago spread à to the Eastern markets. It was an Ore gon apple and Oregon peaches that took first prizes in the world’s fair, and it is becoming generally known and acknowl edged in Eastern cities that Oregon fruit, if sound and properly packed and ship ped. ranks as first-class. Oregon prunes Clotli are especially in demand, and the quant ity produced is rapidly increasing. In a Great difference is observable recent issue, the Chicago Wholesale Grocer said. in the quality of clothing ma “During the last few days a large num ber of Oregon prunes of the Italian va netv, in size 40 to 50 and 50 to 60 terial. We make a feature of have l>een offered in this market, and as most carefully selected the quality has l»een exceptionally fine, the a number oleates have l»ecn made, and cloths, and when made up in our this line is apparently meeting with the favor of the trade.” excellent style it’s not at all Within the last few weeks The Oregon ian has published many similar items strange that our patrons are about Oregon prunes There has l>een a hungry call for them from Eastern pleased. cities, and the demand, even at increased prices, at which prune growing is very profitable, could not be supplied. But in a few years Oregon will raise ten INSURE WITH times as many urunes of the liewt qua! The Tailor, Claude Thayer, ity as now, without any fear of lagging for a market for them In other fruits Agent for Fireman'. Fnncl and London No. 88)4 THIRD STREET, and in lorries Oregon is known to lie and Lancashire Fire Insurance . prolific, and the quality is generally • PORTLAND, ORE. e aual to that of any competing frtut. I Com panic.. CHARLES COOPEY, ASTORIA AND TILLAMOOK WILL HUN THE Steamer NV. H- HARRISON or R. P ELMORE. Will nmke trips »very Ova days, the weather permitting, Iwiween Astoria and Tillamook City, carrying freight and passengers. ELMORE, SAN HORN <t CO., ASTORIA ; or COHN <* Tll.l. A MOOR. AGENTS. CO., STEAMEN LÏJKLLA Freight handled with pispatch and at lowest rates. Fruit delivered in good order. Best Accommodations and Cheapest Route to or from Tillamook. Every attention paid to wants and conveniences of passenger. First class table set WILL SAIL FROM SAN FRANCISCO ABOUT APRIL 13th AND EVERY 10 DAYS AFTER. For further particulars apply to TRUCKEE LUMBER CO., No. 3 C alifornia S treet , S am F rancumj • or to A. W. H eader & Co.
