THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. December 21^ 1899._______________ ==
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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
We carry the Largest Stock of
Hardware in Tillamook County.
Before buying Nails, Windows,
Doors and Sashes call and get
transactions.
We keep in stock a nice line of China, Crockery, Glass,
Tinware, etc.
CHINA & TiNWARE
our prices.
McINTOSH & McNAIR. Tillamook.
men grow beautiful and sweet ofcharacter
Stories About Women.
combined sales amounted to 25 cents. O11 the following dav
when told that they are beautiful and
I was the only passenger in the Fifth sweet of character the world wouldn’t
mother went out with sixty apples and sold them at the rate o
five for 2 cents, receiving 24 cents forthelot. Where is the avenue stage the other morning when, know half the shrews and fretters and
Dished Up and Logically Told in a Brief, Entertain Style.
at Fiftieth street, the door opened and a scolds who keep thingsstirreu upas with
missing 1 cent ?
man and a woman entered, reports the ■ a soup ladle.
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j To illustrate, just the other night a
Illinois is threatened with dire calamity.
Serveral of the
The rich old man wooes the mercenary younggirl. “Iain, New York World.
most gigantic trusts that now have their headquarters in Chicago he protests, finally, “aconsistent Christian------
Here the gir, There was no doubt of it, they were woman of 50 was sitting in a box at a
newly-married; the actions of the
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;|1' ’’ l” t'”' more hospit ibleshores of New Jersej and laughs derisively for religion cuts no ice with her.
“Scientist, woman showed that plainly. The man theater, sharing an evening's enjoyment
New York in order to thwart hostile legislation and escape from adds the old man, finishing his sentence.
It is at this point that was small, weazened and with a harassed with several playgoers, when a young
man appeared on the stage ami claimed
unfriendly courts. Among the trusts that are said to be heading the mercanary young girl throws herselfwith a glad cry upon the
look upon his face; furthermore he had
the Atlantic seaboard are the Steel and Wire trust, the Glu rich old man’s neck, deeming it likely that he will die about the the air of not being used to his clothes, her attention.
“I saw that man’s father play with
cose Sugar Refining company and tile Whisky trust. In announc first time he gets sick.
which were of the most expensive kind. Charlotte Cushman thirty years ago,’’
ing this threatening exodus oftlie trusts from Illinois the impres
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The woman, on the contrary, was stout, she remarked to the man who sat behind
sion is conveyed that this new departure will work incalculable
A Sioux Falls jury has decided that a broken heart is onlv florid, perfectly groomed and at least ten her.
harm to the state of Illinois, and especially to the city of Chicago. worth $500, while anotherjury in the same city lias fixed the value vears older than her companion.
"You must have been brought in on a
Asa matter of fact, the only thing to be removed are the offices. of a broken leg at $2000. Kicking must be more popular in South After a cursory glance they decided pillow,'' he answered.
that 1 was paying no attention and so
There is no intimation that the Illinois Steel works will be aban Dakota than sentiment.
Now, why in the world don't men culti
they continued their talk—that is, she vate cleverness like that ? Not one in
doned and the plant relocated where it cannot be operated profit
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ably, nor is it likely that the whisky distilleries of Peoria will be
The death of Dr. John W. Hicks, Anglican bishop of the talked. Her tongue rattled incessantly, forty would have the tact and quickness
dismantled and the plant now located in the Illinois corn belt be Orange Free State, just at this time is deemed most unfortunate, she called his attention to a spot of mud ' to have made that reply.
her new boot and reached out one
replanted among the cranberry swamps of New Jersey.
as he has a great influence over the Dutch as well as theologian on
ankle coquettishly. She wanted to know
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and had won a reputation in scientific circles even before he took if he liked her new hat, if he thought her
Stories About Preachers.
The official Libor bulletin of the commonwealth of Massachu orders.
gloves were not a little too large—she
The Boston Watchman makes mention
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setts for the month af October reports all breweries running full
had such a small hand it was so hard for of a minister who, when asked the reason
A student having ask the president of Oberlin college if he her to be fitted.
time aud i^gibout 75 percent of their capacity, with selling price
unchanged. On the other hand, the bulletin reports that in the could not take a shorter course than that prescribed received the Suddenly there was an imperious ring; or his resigning a pastorate in which he
was prosperous and beloved, replied sen-
manufacture of temperance drinks the demand last summer had reply : “That depends upon what you want to make of yourself. they had forgotten to pay the fare. He tentiously: “A bilious deacon!”
not been as good generally as usual.
Establishments have been When God wants to make an oak He takes 100 years, but when hurriedly produced his pocketbook and
began to search for a coin, but found
running full time, but only to less than one-half of their full ca He wants to make a squash He takes six months.”
“ I have noticed,’’ said Rev. Dr. Good
none. With a swift movement she placed
pacity. I11 the face of such showing, officially vouched for, we
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man, pausing in his discourse, "that
a
10-cent
piece
in
his
hand.
are tempted to ask, What’s the matter with Massachusetts? Is
A bride takes great pleasure in directing one of her wedding
two or three of the brethren have looked
water diluted with malt more profitable than wind diluted with invitations, to the man who she fully expected at one time would "It is a pity if ivv wife has to pay my at their watches several times in the last
fare!"
he
exclaimed,
pettishly,
as
he
water ?
few minutes. For fear their timepieces
propose toiler, and who didn’t.
dropped it into the box.
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may not agree I will say that the cor
She gave a coquettish giggle. "T1
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We may well ask, what it is that is coming, not alone over
rect time is 11:45. I set my watch by
This is what one of the speakers at the recent horticultural what you get by marrying a
the Aim rican people, but the people all over the world, that the
the regulator at the jeweler’s last night,
woman,
my
dear
fellow,"
she
said
passing from time into eternity is held so cheaply? It permeates convention said on the subject of fruit culture and those engaged He flushed and glanced up at me Die sermon will be over at 12.01. It
all classes from princely state to hovel surroundings.
The rich I in it : “ Horticulturists are the most blessed class of people on sharply to see if 1 had heard, but I was would have closed promptly at 12 but
as well a» the poor ; the respected as well as the neglected; the earth. Adam and Eve were driven from a paradise, the mentioned j looking out of the window. Not for b>r t*"s digression. Let ns proceed to
young as well as the old, alike catch the fever of fatality and go beauties of which were mostly in the horticultural line. We have worlds would I have increased his cons'der now what the apostle means
been usually getting back there as our fruits are becoming i punishment. As for the woman she was when he says,’I press toward the mark.’"
out to “Chatbourne from whence no traveler returns.”
better
every year.
again chatting volubly, and with her
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coarse nature she was probahlvnot even
In times gone, in Ireland, writesSenius
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eliccl? As far as the world is concerned, like the drop
Are bees taxable ? A queer question and one in which there aware of the stab she had inflicted.
MacManus, the Protestant minister col-
ping of «Monc into the water, which closes over it, hides forever seems to be a difference of opinion. It is made to turn on the point
the ,,arVeSt’ 'vl"'C the
rtf the stone, while its surface in an instant resumes its smooth as to their value. In the spring they are worth something. In In an informal little note an engaged 1fCteid ,titheS
h,S •tll*nds
girl wrote to her sweetheart; "Bring ^tJ’O,,C >,n^t gOt
face. How soon one is forgotten!
the winter, nothing. So, argues one apiarist, they have 110 pro you trap for me at 5 o’clock, and pray U,"stn’as’ Father Edward and Rev.
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’ . Sand-V Mont«om"y were one day nding
perty value and should not be taxed. It is a rule that could be be less stupid than usual."
The remedy? Here it was one preacher has said: “It is not applied along other lines than bees. The dairyman, for instance, This familiar little missive she slimied t*’gcther’ in their us"al
«ay.
into an envelope directed to one of the chrough Inver, and bantenng each other
decreed that poor human nature should dictate its own terms to because his cows go dry part of the year. There are others.
most formal great dames of her acquain- abo0‘ theIr. callings. “Here’s the Bacach
fate or destiny. Human experience confirms the universal pre
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tance reports the New York Tribune Rl,adh- ’ sa,d Father, “let us have Ins
valence of disappointment—of the vainity of human life—with
Dr. Tanner, who once fasted forty days and forty nights and The note the young man received was
Thc Bacacli Ruadh (or Red
nothing stable and perpetual on this side of the grave.”
Beggarman) was an arrant knave, too
got over it, will not be an enthusiastic turkev-eater this year, an answer to a dinner invitation
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though he still lives, i$ in good health and 77 years old. He is a There have been instances, however cfever to work while he could live upon
And beyond it? Only Eternal Silence. And vet, as Eng- vegetarian of the strictest sort. He also believes that a man can when the change of envelops is ¡»ten- ,he fat of the land without’ “J*"«"
land's sweet singer, Mrs. Felecia Hermans, once wrote:
live comfortably on 75 cents a week. There are those who have tional. A woman who alwavs manages Sald Father Edward to him, "if you had
“Alas for love, if thou wert all,
tried it, but not comfortably. Once—but The Moving Finger to get together the people she wishes at a son' would you sooner make a pnest
And naught beyond, oh, earth.”
trembles, so we forbear. The recollection does not engender her dinners said once she secured two I<>r “ mi"'stcr of him ?” “lf 1 had a
difficult and desirable people by sending i son’-Ter reverence’ 1 shou,d have h"n a
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happy thoughts for Christmas time.
to each the invitation intended for the '",n,sther ‘he harvest an’ a pnest at
Not long ago Dr. Summers of Missouri sent a bullet through
other. She knew they were naturallv l-llr'stmas-"
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liis b£ain instead of his heart that his wife might
know
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his last1
congenial.
Another
strategist
affirmed
A
grand
wedding
was being solemnized
throbs beai tor her and the dear ones he left with such ineffable
that she made the match between two at St. Peter’s, Eaton Square. London,
sorrow. At least, so he wrote in his good-by letters.
But why
of her Inends by changing the unsealed On each side of the strip of carpet that
he send a bullet at all, thus entailing life-long sorrow on a'
envelo|>es which she found on hei extended from the church door to ti.e
woman and a stain on the heritage bequeathed to his children?
mother’s wntmg table inviting both to curb was a crowd of well-dressed peo: le
Is suicide justifiable under any circumstances that may arise in
the same funtion She suspected an at- watching the guests arrive. In the wake
the course of a man's or a woman’s life?
tachment, but the man was shy and the of a procession of equipages oftlie most
maiden was coy.
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aristocratic
and well-appointed chsrac.
"This will necessitate a call and
The question has been argued by press and pulpit, bv poets
ter came a four-wheeled cab. dingy and i
planation," said Mis» Machiavelli,
disreputable beyond belief.
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in song and philosophers in prose: so we need not discuss it here,
she changed the notes, “and will give
"Here! here!" shouted the polieem»’»
save to say that a lite we did not create is a life we ought not to
them an opportunity."
in charge, "you can't stop here! Were
destroy, cither indirectly by becoming “a victim to the combined
The scheme evidenllv succeeded, for on
waiting lor
for the Bishop
of ---- ” ’’
I ,l„.
,
,
“a waning
bishop ol
cflects ot alleving, exalting, depressing and demoralizing drug,
Hie
night
of
the
dance
the
engagement
i
j i »i • .»S ot with
was announced.
The cabman
regarded
th» officer wit»
drink or disease,” or deliberately because of mental despondency
a triumphant leer, ns he climbed down
and disappointment.
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' Manv w,"n':n have « careless habit of trom his seat and threw a ragged blan
his skeleton steed.
Mrs. Havemver, widow of the once sugar king, has re
BOOKS, all kinds, from 25c. to $5 wnt,ng ’evcral d,ff"en‘ »"tes before ket "It over
’s all right, guv’nor," he said, I've
aptq
Putti"g them into their respective envei-
married.
1 he telegram announcing the wedding reads : “Her
«nd the fact that almost every one got the old duffer inside!”
widow-hood has lasted a whole year and she is verv beautiful."
who
writes
in this way has made blund-
Tile groom, a Mr. Frederick O. Beech, it adds : “ Is a remarkably
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS AND ers does m t seem to cure the fault. This
Disappointed.
handsome man." It is therefore a case o( beauty to the beautiful.
a purely leminine trick, lor a man in.
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Happy man. Since the bride is possessed of great wealth and he
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directs nnd seals an epistle be- One of the officials of the Canadian
(or was not) wealthy.
in Celuloid and hand painted. tore beginning another.
police at Niagara Falls tells the f1 llowjng
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If life is a school, time the infant department and man the Books
A German from Pennsylvania blew ■»
fair scribbler recently, as the fresh breeze
for the Babies.
A H t cla»», as a recent writer has remarked, whereabouts does
the other day and asked the officials if
caused a flutter among her papers.
the woman cum« jn ? Perhaps she is the teacher. There are Books for the Boys.
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What are you doing, Emily ’’’queried there was anything abont the pl*e
Books
lots ol lore not laul down in the books for her to teach.
for the Girls.
| the newcomer, seeing her surrounded bv i worth seeing;
a dozen open sheets of dorely wrjtten
Books for the Grouin ups.
"You sec,” he said, “it's shnst like dis
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note-paper.
My frients and frau told me I sko'dd
In the ideal rural V»,ne> says the Wisconsin Agriculturist,
‘■Why. I am drying my notes before take id in, nnd I vant to take ever/thing
the part played by horicuhml
,s alwaysconsj icuous.
lvll„Us. rme
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fields
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patting
them into their envelopes " re in der iss to see. Dey did ray der was -
oi gram, choice herds of cattle
jraproved farm machinery
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plied the latter. "I al wav» do it."
, someding great here, nnd I forgot id al-J
<**tabute to the ideal farm, but they
not constitute the whole I
"But why not rae a blotter?" suggest- reatv, und I haf walked all ofer and reef
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ot tne h«me picture. The vegetable gae^tli the strawlx rry plat,
CARDS,
cd the amused spectator.
nodings."
the apple uVes and the flowerbeds inclosing^ UUM|vst dwelling
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"Oh, it is too math trouble." replied I The visitor was at once taken to th<
novelties
arc what m.ik« »he country home-like.
Eindy. "They will be all dry bv the time finest view of the falls where he stood •
Gold Pens, Smokers’ Sets,
I am ready with the directions."
few minutes looking around.
Down in
"Well you certainly have an original! "Well?” sai<' Iris conductor at last.
SOME PASSING REMARKS.
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wav ot wntmg notes." commented her
"Yell, "-returned the man. “I “*
friend. "It is like hanging clothes on a ' ings.”
to dry. I should think you would
' Don’t you see the falls ?'
"VatI Dot vater falling ? Tss dot vat
•u awfully mixed.
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cum an
all die vays to a»',
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».„Id only remember that w, dripping
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