Tillamook headlight., January 25, 1900, Image 4

THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, January 25, 1900.
“Oh, I have noi seen Lottie,” replied
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. '
I the minister, and then he added: “Here
When all the sky seems biasing down and
comes Miss Armiger now.’*
In five years American trade with
sunshine curls the bricks
He passed into the hall, returning in Australia in leather goods has quad-
And General Humidity puts in his biggest
a few minutes with Mary Armiger.
licks,
• rupled.
I welcome to my eyrie with a moist and
“Why, Miss Sophia, 1 am so sorry to
According to chemical anaylsis, 75
dripping palm
hear of your accident,” she said.
1 parts of the flesh of fish have about the
A placid old philosopher who runs a little
She
had
soft
dark
eyes
and
a
low,
farm.
same nutritive value as 12 par^s of
Who says imagination helps a deal In keep­
sweet voice.
boneless beef.
ing cool.
“1 was just telling Sophia that per­
The oldest German coal mines were
And who to comfort other men makes this
haps
you
may
be
able
to
help
her
in
his simple rule:
first worked in 1195. They are near
her
present
awkward
predicament,
”
To talk of piping, biting days, and drifting
Worms. England did not begin to mine
winter storm
said the minister. “Martha’s mother is
Whene’er the weather pipes it up and gets ill, and she is going home this after­ its coal until the fourteenth century.
too thunderin’ warm.
A reasonably active man walks
noon.”
They’re better far than fizz or smash or
“Why, that is too bad,” said Mary about 297.200 miles, more than ten
juleps, sure’s you’re born,
The honest little narratives of Frigid
Ar minger. “How long will Martha be times the earth’s circumference, in 84
Weather John
years, just trotting about his house
gone?”
For though the sizzling summer time may
“A week at least,” replied Miss So­ and office.
boll and steam and hiss,
The rapid destruction of the spruce
Who’d ever, ever think of it while listening
phia.
to this?
“How would it do for me to come forests of the eastern United States
and keep house for you?” asked Mary, may be realized when it is understood
"I never see’d a winter have a darnder,
shari>er aldge
1 after a few moments’ thought. “Far that one daily paper used the growth
Than In the year of sixty-one, the year that
• ther and mother are going away to­ on 22 acres in two days, the wood hav­
I drove stage.
morrow for about two weeks. There’s ing been reduced to pulp and turned
I never had so hard a job attendin' to my
bis
! the Widow Mason’s daughter, Sarah, into paper.
For everything ’twas frizzable that year
w ho would, I am sure, be glad to come
It is a common experience among
you bet was friz.
mountain climbers to find butterflies
and do the rough work.”
At last I dore a caper that I hadn't done
“You would be doing me a kind­ lying frozen on the snow, and so brit­
for years,
I got a little careless and I friz up both
ness I should not soon forget,” re­ tle that they break unless they are very
my ears.
plied Miss Sophia, with surprising carefully handled. Such frozun butter­
The roads was awful drifted and I trod ten
eagerness.
flies on being taken to a warmer climate
miles of -now
And all the time that thund’rln’ wind did
In fact she was really delighted with recover themselves and fly away. Six
nothin’, sah, but blow.
the plan. What an opportunity it would species of butterflies have been found
Them ears of mine was froze so hard,
i afford to bring Mary Armiger’s ster­ within a few hundred miles of the
stuck out so bloomin’ straight
ling qualities under the observation of north pole.
I thought the wind would snap ’em off, It
blew at such a rate.
the minister! He was fully cognizant
Aluminum has just been used for the
And when at last 1 hauled up home, the
of her usefulness in the church, her construction of a new fireproof curtain
missus bust In tears
good
work
among
the
poor
and
suffer
­
And hollered: 'John, oh massy me, you’re
to be used in the opera house, Besancon.
going to lose your ears.’
ing of the parish; her domestic virtues The curtain is 60 feet wide by 54 feet
But I—why, land o’ goodness, I was cooler’n
could now l»e demonstrated to him.
high, and its total weight, composed of
I be now.”
Miss Sophia looked at her brother. aluminum sheets one-twelfth of an
And he passed his read bandanna up across
He
was
gazing
gratefully
and
appre
­
his steaming brow—
inch thick, will be 4,000 pound». Had
”1 Jest got out my hatchet, and chopped
ciatively at Mary Armiger.
sheet iron been used instead of the
two rakes of Ice
“No one in trouble ever appeals to
lighter metal the weight would have
And held ’em on my friz-up ears—'twas
!
you
in
vain.
Miss
Mary,
”
he
said.
“
But
Granny Jones’ advice.
increased to 11,000 pounds.
this is really something of an imposi­
I didn’t dare go In the house, but set there
The enterprising city authorities of
In the shed
tion.”
a small northern borough have been
A-holdin’ them two junks of ice to either
“Not at all. I shall be very glad in­
side my head.
deed to come. Only,” with a slight hes­ trying the experiment of sprinkling a
The chunks weighed fifty pounds apiece—
that doctorin’ didn’t cost.
itation, “I am afraid I should be obliged street with sea water. They find that
And so 1 got ’em big enough to take out
to bring Lottie, as there will be no one such water binds the dirt together be­
all the frost.
tween the paving stones, so that when
at home.”
My wife at last came out to see what made
it is dry no loose dust is formed to be
me keep so still
Miss Sophia’s brow darkened; the
raised by the wind; that sea water
And there 1 was, sah, sound asleep and
minister’s face flushed slightly.
snorin’ fit to kill.
does not dry so quickly as fresh water
“
By
all
means
bring
Miss
Lottie,
”
he
She got me In and gave me tea and helped
so that when salt water has been used
said, as Miss Sophia remained silent.
me Inter bed
With that ere ice a-frozen tight and solid
Lifting her eyes, one evening a week one load of it is equal to three loads of
to my head.
later, Miss Sophia saw upon the porch fresh water. The salt water which is
'Twasfzort of curl’s, I confess, but still I
quite
distinctly, for the moon was shin­ deposited on the street absorbs mois­
slept complete,
ing brightly, Mary Armiger and Char­ ture from the air at night, whereby the
A crystal palace on my head and soap­
stones on my feet,
lie Saunders. She stiffened in her chair. street is thoroughly moist during the
It wasn’t what you really call a calm and
Mary
and Charlie being together it fol­ early morning, and has the appearance
restful night.
lowed that Lottie and the minister of having been freshly sprinkled.
But when the ice peeled off next day them
ears came out all right.”
were bearing each other company.
SMOKELESS POWDER.
There rose before Miss Sophia’s mind’s
They’re better far than fizz or smash or
eye a distracting vision of Lottie, lovely
Juleps, sure’s you’re born,
Tiae Firing Said to Be Extremely Ter«
These honest little narratives from Frigid
in her white gown, with pink roses in
rttyinic to Both Men and
Weather John.
| her yellow hair. The next moment,
—Lewiston (Me.) Journal.
Horiea.
| however, all thought of Lottie, engaged
in luring the minister to return to his
In the British army the four-legged
4
r- V*
, former folly, was driven from Miss So-
recruits are drawn up in a rmg round
! phia’s mind, for Charlie Saunders had
an instructor, who fires a pistol. Some
placed his arm about Mary’s waist and
i take the flash and report very quietly
kissed her upon the lips.
and these are soon passed on to severer
Miss Sophia gasped in astonishment
trials, while the others have lesson after
ami horror. Could she have seen aright?
HE harrowing conviction was forc­ Mary Armiger, the model of all that is lesson until they are quite convinced
ing iUelf upon Miss Sophia's mind best in womanhood, permitting an in­ that there is no danger to them and be-
fore long you might fire a seven-pound­
that her brother, Rev. Harmon Pen nocent
­
boy to kiss her unrebuked!
er within a yard of them and they
dleton, ut the mature age of 44, had
As Miss Sophia sat bewildered the
would hardly look around. After this
actually fallen in love. This fact was couple moved toward her.
they are taught to face fire—that is to
in itself an offense to Miss Sophia, but
“Why, Miss Sophia, you are all in the
it was not ail, for the minister had dark; I’ll light the lamp,” said Mary, say, to gallop fearlessly up to a line or
committed the supreme folly of losing as she stepped through the low window square of infantry, blazing away with
their rifles, and to charge batteries of
his heart to a chit of a girl, and a most into the room, followed by Charley.
quick-firing guns.
Of course, only
objectionable young person altogether
Miss Sophia sat in grim silence until
blank cartridges are used, and so to a
in Mit»s Sophia’s ryes.
Mary had lighted the lamp. She fixed
“Now, if he hail only fallen in love her eyes sternly upon Mary. Certainly trained horse going into battle for the
with Mary,” mused Sophia. ‘ She is a she had never seen the elder Miss Armi­ first time there is no difference between
most estimable young woman.
But ger look quite so pretty before. There the harmless thunder of the maneuvers
that doll-faced, vain, frivolous Lottit
was a pink Hush in her cheeks and her and the death-dealing storm which
sweeps over the battlefield. The poor
and Miss Sophia groaned. “A man of his dark eyes were soft and bright.
age and a minister of the Gospel to lose
“Mary Armiger, did I really see that brute only learns what the difference
his wits over a pink and vv kite complex­ young man kissing you a few moments really is by bitter experience.
When smokeless powder came into
ion and yr.low hair! Oh, it is too bad. ago or did my eyes deceive me?” asked
If I only knew of some way to disen­ Miss Sophia, with uncompromising ab­ I general use It was found that in many
i cases horses which would face the
chant him.”
ruptness.
1 smoke of guns using black powder
Mary blushed, while Charlie, to Miss
Just then two girls and a young man
passed along the it reel. One of the Sophia’s intense indignation, began to without flinching flinched and shied at
the flash and roar unaccompanied by
girls was tall, dark-haired and stately ; laugh.
the other was pink-checked and yellow­
“1—I am afraid that you did, Mis* smoke. Continental opinion is some­
“You see, I what divided as to the moral effect of
haired.
Her hands were full of roses Sophia,” faltered Mary.
smokeless powder on men and horses,
and her laughing eyes were uplifted had just promised to marry him.”
in the face of the young man by her
“W hat!" gasped Miss Sophia. “That but the general conclusion seems to
worthless young scamp, who does noth­ be that in daylight it is not more terri­
side.
fying than black powder, although
ing but flirt with your lister.”
Misa Sophia snorted with disgust.
“Now Miss Sophia, that’s too bad!” some hold that to see men and horses
“Flirting, as usual, the shameless
piece!” she ejaculated. “A nice min­ cried Charlie. “Lottie and 1 never struck down by an invisible agency
ister’s wife she would make! Harmon's thought of such a thing. She knows must necessarily be so. But it Is gen­
that I’ve been in love with Mary for erally agreed that the use of smokeless
an idiot!”
powder at night has a much more dis­
Then Miss Sophia suddenly awoke to ever so long.”
the fact that the hired girl had been
Before Miss Sophia had time to col­ turbing effect than that of the old
left much too long at her own device», lect her scattered wits sufficiently to powder, because the flashes of the
ami rose hastily to her feet. In so do­ make a reply the minister and Lottie guns, unobscured by smoke, are a great
ing she tripped over a stool and gave entered the room. Lottie’s cheeks w ere deal more vivid. The fear thus inspired
her ankle a severe wrench.
pinker than the roses she wore in her can, however, be overcome by training,
A little later Rev. Harmon Pendleton hair, and the minister’s eyes were ra­ but there is another fear which must,
in the nature of the ease, be felt for the
returned home and found Miss Sophia diant.
For a moment Miss Sophia’s eyes lin­ first time on the battlefield, and that is
with her foot on u stool and her ankle
gered first upon the girl and then upon th»* often uncontrollable terror pro­
swathed in bandages.
“Why, Sophia, what has happened?” her brother, and she made a quick duced lu»th in men and horses by the
movement to rise from her ehair. The whistling of bullets and the screaming
asked the minister.
and banging of sheila. Some authori­
“I've sprained my ankle,” replied minister came to her assistami.
“I wish to go to my room,” she said, ties have, indeod, said that since the
Miss Sophia, with grim disgust. ”1
can’t so much as put my foot on the laying her hand upon her brother’s arm. introduction of kmokeless powder and
but keeping her face studiously avert­ the great increase in the range and ac­
floor.”
“Wlww, this is indeed bad!” mur­ ed from him and the other occupants curacy of weapons, it would be im­
of the parlor.
possible to keep cavalry in hand under
mured Rev. Harmon.
“I sup|H>se you will permit me to re­ the fire of modern artillery, but this is
“And it i« not all,” added Miss So­
phia. “Martha has just had word that main until you are married to that probably an cxaggeration.-^Fearson's
Magazine.
her mother is very ill and to come home doll." she said.
“Why. Sophia, surely you are not
immediately. What to do I can’t imag-
He Couldn't Help ft.
thinking of deserting me now that I
ITl«- ”
”1 am astonished to hear you say that
shall
need
you
more
than
ever?
”
ex
­
“Why, get another girl.”
Fraleman told you all these things; I
“You see if 1
“Since when has it become so easy to claimed the minister.
gave them to him in strict confi­
were
going
to
marry
a
woman
like
Mnrv
get help in Westonville at a motneut’s
dence.”
\rmiger.
now
”
—
and
a
suspicion
of
a
notice?” ejaculated Miss Sophia, with
“Yes. but he says you told them to
smile
crossed
his
lips,
but
was
quickly
supreme scorn.
him during your late voyage to Eu­
suppressed
-
“
I
should
not
require
any
­
“I met Miss Armiger down the
rope.”
street,” said the minister, with sudden one to keep house for me. Rut it’s lx -
“So I did. but what's that got to do
inspiration. “She intends stopping on ing Lottie makes it quite a different with it?”
her way home. Perhaps she can think matter.”
"Everything.
You can’t expect a
For a moment or two Miss Sophia
of a way out of the difficulty.**
man to keep anything to himself on his
“I don’t doubt it; Mary Armiger Is said nothing.
flrat (x-esn voyage, can youT’— Rich­
“Humph!” she at length replied.
a most superior young woman,” said
mond Dispatch.
“I'll think alvout remaining.”—Chicago
Miss Sophia, with emphasis.
■Is Idea.
“Yes, she is. indeed.** readily assented Times Herald.
Little Gtbe (in the midst of his read­
the minister.
Tw Wake •• tee Pnnltle«.
ing) Why. I didn't know that rabbits
“So ulrrly unlike her sister Lottie.”
An Ice poultice la made by mixing knew anything ab« .it 'rithmetle.
supplemented Miss Sophia.
racket! ice with sawdust, putting the
“Sts. they are quite unlike, certain­
Farmer Haw buca—They don’t.
mixture into a flannel bag anti wrap­
ly.” said the minister, quietly.
“But paw, it nay a here that rabbits
“Did you meet lottie. also?” asked ping thia In oiled si Ik or thin India rub- multiply with aatoniahin* rapidity
Miss Sophia, furtively watching her i»er cloth. It is sometimes used to re- Judge.
brother's far* “She pass««! with ('bar­ ’uce the temperature in children In
Wewegapera la Wnrweea.
lie Saunders making ayes at him a> • axes of fever when the head is hot.
The empire of Morocco is the moat
but
its
application
requires
great
care
usual.
What an audacious flirt that
important state that is atwolutely with­
—Ladies' Home Journal.
girl ka.”
out a newspaper,—N. Y Sun.
*
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HOT WAVE
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PHILOSOPHY.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
H HUDEN.
TILLAMOOK
MACHINE SHOP,
(Successors to L Hiner)
Practical Machinists
And Blacksmiths.
Steam Boat and Loggers’ Work and Heavy Forging a Specialty.
Estimates given on new machinery.
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T illamook , O regon .
w.
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ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
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Carrying U.S. Mail.
Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line.
JOHN BARKER, Proprietor.
Stage leaves N. Yamhill ‘daily exeept monday.
Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at
North Yamhill and Tillamook.
WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE.
SURGEON.
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TILLAMOOK,
Office: Over Todd's Store.
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S pecialist
for
R efratction
D efects of the E ye .
and
Will visit TILLAMOOK every three
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C.
Stage leaves Tillamook daily exeept Sunday.
AND
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IN
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OSBORNE MOWERS,
Buggies, hay rakes, plows, and othe
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Special Prices on Buggies and Spring
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EDGAR LATIMER,
Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort.
C. -E. HADLEY, Proprietor.
BARBER ARD HAIRDRESSER
SHAVING, HAIR CUTTING,
SHAMPOOING, ETC.
Agent« for Kopp's Brewery, the Brewer of the Finest Beer in the Northwest. Electric Baths nicely flitted up Good for
persons Buffering with rheumatism,
Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, privabl;
Building next door to the Post Office.
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Tillamook City,
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PROPRIETORS OF
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Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook
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Sprue« and Tillamook City, Or.
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