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.