THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. DECEMBER 5,
1900.
I
uninteresting to Western Oregon, for the I
Pension Legislation.
sV
visitor who asks “How many inches of
Fred C. Baker. Publisher.
rain i. there in Tillamook?” in invaria It is expected that there will lie a good
bly told “ We measure the rainfall by the deal ot pressure for private fiension bills
foot, not by inches."
at the coming session of congress. Busi
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Dealers in
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ness was not very brisk in this last
( strictly in advance .)
The London school board is responsi- session, although much was really done.
One year........
$1.50
Si, months....
75 ble tor the education of a population It is said that there will be an average of
Three months
50 mor.' than double that of Denmark, of about three special pension bills to each
Gr.ece. larger than that of Scotland and senator and representative. Itis thought
only exceeded slightly by thatof Bavaria that the demand for a service pension
EDITORIAL notes .
Headquarters for Dairymen’s Supplies.
and Holland.
law will not be given a show, owing to
other matters of urgent importance that
Agent for CHARTER OAK STOVES. Western Washing Machines.
The United States has endeavored to
Charles B. Stuver of St Louis is the will require attention.
Large Stock of Paints, Oils, Varnishes and Glass.
be as humane as possible in carrying on latest millionaire to distribute his for
It would seem to be time that the an-
the in the Philippine islands, so much so tune during his lifetime. He has a hor-
nual crop of private pension bills should
that the insurgents have taken advant ror of family quarrels over wills and has
The Most Reliable GROCERY STORE in Tillamook
diminish, but the outlook for ‘lie ap
age of it. War cannot be successfully divided his money chiefly among his
proaching session indicates that it is
prosecuted when the enemy fail to recog children.
growing. It was during the last ses
nize the humane principles which actuate
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11 e attention of the overworked spell sion of congress, if we are not mistaken,
their opponents. War is war, and to l>e
that Senator Galli t. ger, chairman of the
successful must be prosecuted with all its binders of the recent campaign is called senate committee on pensions, called
We can live without poetry, music or art.
attending horrors. The United States to the fact that the surgeons have suc attention to the large number of private
We can live without conscience, and live without heart ;
has been humane with the Filipinos, and cessfully operated upon Billy West, the pension bills and urged greater care on
We can live without novels and even romance,
Lord Roberts was humane with the minstrel, for an affection of the mouth.
But civilized man cannot live without pants.
the part of senators in ascertaining the
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Boers, and instead of both these wars
merits of claimants liefore introducing
Rcligeon
by
injunction
has
failed
in
OUR LINE OF SAMPLES is complete and those who wish pants or suits for
beingjended, a guerrilla warfare is going,
such bills. There is a great deal of
Christmas will do well to order now.
on which is irritating to both countries, Iowa. At Sioux Center the court refused looseness in this respect and while some
WE HAVE delivered over a hundred pictures and we are going to deliver a
and the only way to terminate them is to grant an order asked by one faction of the private pension bills are meri
of the Reformed church to restrain the
hundred more before CHRISTMAS.
to treat the insurgents as bandits, and
torious,
not
a
few
of
the
claims
pre
minister from preaching in Dutch.
those who persist in continuing the fight
WE HAVE a complete line of frames on hand and they will make splendid Christ-
sented in them are utterly unworthy,
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should be shot directly they are captured
mas gifts.
Now's the time for people who have yet the latter do not alway fail.
That is war for humanity sake, for the wheels in their beads and cannot run
Of the prospective 1,200 or more pri
A BEAUTIFUL POEM is that of “Lucille.” More than once we’ve read it and
United States is loosing too many valua their own businesses successfully to be- vate pension bills which it is expected
cried over it, and more than once we hope to read it and cry over it again. But we are zkj
ble lives, as the appalling death roll from come conspicuous in proposing new laws will lx? introduced at the coming ses
not booming books—it’s groceries we are booming for the cooks.
the Philippines every day too plainly to govern the state.
sion, it is safe to say that at least one-
shows.
half will be without merit. Yet the
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The bug experts are knocking on the pension committees must take the same
It was high time for the silver republi pupular charity stunt known as the “rum care in investigating the claims of the
cans to disband their organization. In mage sale.” They find that the garret unworthy as of the worthy. Thus a
1896 the silver states of the Rocky moun bric-a-baac is full of microbes.
great deal of time is consumed by these ful or otherwise, he was developing him
tains—Colorado, Montana, Utah, Idaho
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committees which could be saved if self. He developed into an emperor.
and Nevada—gave Bryan a «total plural
Statisticians say over half the people greater care in ascertaining the facts Young men will please notice that fact,
ity of 261,26.5 votes. In 1900 Utah has of the world tire ruled by women, and were taken by those who introduce the and the fact that Napoleon worked and
PROPRIETORS OF
gone over to the republicans and the re even this calculation does not take into bills. This is a duty which both houses tried under adversity and monotony in
maining states have given Bryan a to account the married men.
should insist upon, but unfortunate^ stead of grumbling.
The newspaper reporter who does not
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tal plurality of a little over 50,000 votes.
are not likely to. It is impossible to
Returns from Wisconsin show that foresee when this sort of legislation get ahead very fast, the author whose
It was for this handful of impotent sil-
DEALERS IN
verite suffrages that the democrats were more hunters than deer were killed there will come to an end. It may not be for manuscripts are treated as were Napo
twice induced to abandon the principles during the open season, which lasts only a generation yet. But some restriction leon’s first efforts, may study w ith con i
of Jefferson, Jackson, Benton and Tildon twenty days.
may be put upon it and greater care siderable profit a young American writer
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named Richard llardiug Davis. That
to follow the jack-o'-lantern of 16 to 1
Shop next door to Larsen’s Hotel, Tillamook
While the farmers of Kansas refuse to taken to prevent unmerited demands
young man had been a reporter in Phila
into the morass of defeat.
smoke the cigar named “Flor de Rocke- upon the national treasury.
delphia for seven years when he went to
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feller,” their lamps smoke that brand.
work on a salary. He had written and
The reception accorded Kruger in
Don
’
t
Hurry
Young
Gentlemen.
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was writing some of his liest stories, but
France is certainly flattering to him per The Chicago Inter Ocean insists that
sonally and may be some consolation Secretary Lvman J. Gage is a democrat.
There are many young men on earth could not get ahead, apparently. Never
who fail because they lack ambition and theless he kept on trying, and developed
for the Boers as a whole. That it will What is a democrat ?
determination to advance, says the New himself. When other young men were
result in practical intervention, however,
York Journal. There are many more busy talkingabout themselves or deplor
no one for a moment believes. Europe
Will Prosperity be Easting?
whose trouble is hasty ambition. They ing their lot, Davis was writing and
has more troubles than it knows what
fail to realize their present chances in grinding away out of working hours at
to do withat present and neither France
Doubtless many capitalists and busi their hurried reaching out for something the effort to get out and realize what
Has Opened a Heuu meat market
nor any other country is at (all likely to
take any steps which will add to the ness men are asking themselves this better. You may see in any club, pool was in him. He succeeded, and now’
PAGE’S Second Hand
question. A prominent eastern financier room or other resort for wasting time leads probably as satisfactory a life as In
present burden.
said a few days ago that the result of crowds of young men smoking and de any young man in the country.
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A lew cases have been mentioned for
The St. Louis Republic says that John the national election has given every ploring their lack of success.
Mr. Barnes is a Practical Butcher, and will keep in
Bull's experience with the American mule body confidence to go ahead and he ex “ I’ve been working three years at the young men to think over. They are
Stock Prime Meats of all description.
in South Africa has been on the whole so pressed the opinion that the country is same job and the same salary,’’ one will selected at random. No young man need
worry
about
himself
so
long
as
he
can
Your patronage is solicited.
Prime meats at low figures.
satisfactory that he proposes a perma going to have enlaring prosperity. He sav, ‘ and I don’t see what chance I have
honestly say that he is doing his best.
nent alliance with the animal. “Birds pointed to the fact that the balance of for getting ahead.”
Highest market Price Paid for Cattle.
of a feather flock together,’’ and the trade in favor of the United States for The young man who talks in this way Being in the same place at the same
quality of stubbornness possessed alike ten months of this year has lieen $500,- does not realize that success depends on salary for seven years can do you no
CASH PAID FOR HIDES.
by bull and broncho forms a first-class 000,000 and that on top of an ecpial developing the qualities which are in harm, if you are developing during that
time
what
is
in
you.
But
you
may
well
amount
in
each
of
the
preceding
two
him.
He
can
develop
them
if
he
will,
no
bond of union between those two
years. The money in circulation is now matter what his place in the world. Once worry if you are drifting aimlessly, pity
“birds.”
above $2,000,000,000, all made secure he is ready to do good work, once he is ing yourself, making no effort. If your i
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ROUTE to TILLAMOOK
mind stays in the same spot for years, The DIRECT
Mrs. Mary Lease’s notoriety being on beyond question by the election. The developed, the work will find him out.
the wane she intends reviving it by ap increase in exports, the great increase
When George M. Pullman, who did so that is dangerous. But don’t worry
Carrying U.S. Mail.
plying fet a divorce. We wonder what in railroad earnings and the main, much for human comfort, was a young about anything else.
is the next fool thing she will take up tenance of industrial profits have gone man he was successful, but not as sue
Slang.
with ? As pugilistic encounters appears beyond the calculations of everybody. cessful as he meant to lx?. He knew that
“
This
is
evidence,
”
said
the
financier,
money saved was power. Instead of
to lx? the drawing card for notoriety, it
After all. slang is a pretty good thing
JOHN BARKER, Proprietor
is not too late for her to enter the prize “of a force which must be recognized. smoking and bemoaning his lot, he in its way.
ring—for women—after she has procured It looks to me like a gigantic impulse, stopped smoking entirely and decided to
Who could more expressively indicate
her divorce. Here’s a chance of a lifetime the effects of which no man can foresee.” improve his lot.
He once said to a the condition of a very destitute gentle Stage leaves
Tillamook daily exeept Sunday.
for some enterprising trainer.
The indications favorable to an in writer that his cigars in those old days man than by saving "He's on the bum."
Stage
leaves
N.
Yamhill daily exeept iYlonday,
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creased prosperity are abundant. All cost him only 5 cents each, but he deci Of course, it might not be strictly true.
If a bill ever deserved scuttling in con industries have awakened together. The ded that since he could do without them, The |>erson in question may 1« only on
Tickets must be secured the day previous from the Agents at
gress it is the ship subsidy bill. The demand for labor in the anthracite coal and since his plans demanded more the hog or oil his up|>ers, or he may be
North Yamhill and Tillamook.
big ship owners are no more entitled to regions exceeds the supply. There is money, it was his duty to give up what merely up against it, but “oil the bum,’’
lie subsidized than the dairymen of Tilla lack of labor in the iron industry of could be given up. He did his duty though a trifle slangy, means more than
mook. Should the bill pass and a large western Pennsylvania. Building has and went plodding along contentedly, the other genteel expressions. The man
appropriation lie made, it will be just revived in Chicago. New England but working hard. He succeeded pretty who eschews the glass when its contents
like finding that amount of money, to woolen and cotton mills, interrupted in well, as is know«.
foam is "on the ice wagon” or may be
say nothing about the iniquitous system September and October, are again run When Napoleon Bonaparte was resting “driving a sprinkler," which means the
OF SAN FRANCISCO, DEALERS IN
of robbing the country through the legis ning on full time. New enterprises are from his labors at St. Helena he used to same thing. How much more impressive
lative process.
being started and projected. Capital tell this story:
than “He is abstaining from the use o
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“One day on parade a young lieutenant fermented liquids.” Just think how nice
and labor are occupied as they have
stepped
out
of
the
ranks
much
excited
One of those war experts finds that not lieen for over a year. The first two
it would be to go home and hear your
“the lesson of the Boer war is that weeks of the second series of "McKin and appealed to me personally. He said wife say, '‘Harold, 1 am of the opinion,
marksmanship is more important than ley prosperity,” remarks the Philadel to me that he had lieen a lieutenant for however you may differ from me, that
drill.” To an ordinary observer, not phia Press, points to records in business, five years and had not been able to ad the lingering odor upon your mustache
versed in the art of war, the lesson ap product and profits, in employment for vance in rank. I said to him : “Calm arises from the absorption of spirituous
pears to be that an invalid ought to labor and return for capital, which will yourself. I was seven years a lieutenant, beverages." Or. “Did the tin horn gam
xnow Ijetter than to call a professiot al outdo the past three and one-half years. and yet you see that a man may push bier go broke?” Aw, say! Why, you
AGENTS STEAMERS W. H. KRUGER AND TII.I.AMOOK,
pugilist a liar.
could argue it out of her in about two
What are the grounds for this confi himself forward for all that.”
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Napoleon,
when
he
preached
this
lesson
shakes
of
a
tadpole's
tail
;
but
it's
all
up
dence ? In the first place the assur
J. E, SIBLEY, Mgr
And now somebody jumps up with a ance of the absolute security of the cur to the young dissatisfied officer, was the when she says, in a direct, grating tone Hobsonville, Or.
proposition that in future all election rency for at least five years. Whatever self-made emperor of the French and of a of voice : " You've been boozin' again,
officers must be able to read and write. monetary legislation may lie enacted great many other nations. He had come have v’ ?” Or, “You look as though you
Gently, gently I Let us all cool down within that time, the gold standard is to Paris a thin, hollow-cheeked, under got skinned at twenty-one last night and
from the heat of the conflict before we safe. In the second place the certainty sized boy from the conquered and des if you don't shake the gambling habit off
attempt to work necessary reforms for chat the policv of protection will not lie pised island of Corsica. He stuck in the the business will go to thedogs.” There’s
We might do something ruthlessly assailed. The next congress humble grade of lieutenant for seven all the difference in the world. You see
the future,
rash.
may deem it expedient to modify the years. When the time came, he blos the point right away and there’s no
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room for debate when a woman's on the
tariff
and we think it altogether proba somed out.
“1 don’t l>elieve much in wire-pulling.
We guarantee first class Wagon Work
ble
that
this will lie done, but it is need When he was lieutenant, he was devel war path. We'll gamble on that.
Democratic Govemor-elect James B C r
at low charges.
oping
himself.
He
studied
and
mastered
That's
why
we
say,
and
maintain,
that
congress
man of Colorado is reported to have said less to say that a republican
Shoeing, No. 4's down, $1.50.
i
Thus
the
the
art
of
war.
He
wrote
the
history
of
slang is a good thing in its way. It has
will not sacrifice protection. T!.. ‘
a few days ago. And he added: “I don t capital
WEST A TH A V EH,Proprietors.
that i. going * into ..¿J
new i indus-
----- -- ; Corsica, and no one would publish it He a great many wavs, by the way, and if
care much about politics as politics. I
,1 enlarging those
already i wrote a drama which was never acted, you dodge it coming 'round the corner
Work Shops :
trial
plants
and
t
1
-
want to give the stAte an honest, square
assured* that for at least He wrote a prize essay for the Academy it'll swat you in the back in the middle of
Next
to
(Joyne's Office, Tilla
established
is
I
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intelligent, business administration,
I of
. Lyons, and did
J - J —
*• —
: — the prize. On
il—
not
win
the block. W hen you remark to a friendly
five years the policy “"der which r,ur
mook
City, Oregon.
that’s all.”
the contrary, his effort was condemned enemy that if he doesn't shut up you'll
vast industrial system has been built
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as incoherent and poor in style. These "hand him one," he knows on the spot
A New York state cow swallowed se\ up will not lx abandoned. In the third were a few failures, enough to make
eral cartridges that had been left on ti e place there is an abundant supply ot your ordinary young man throw up his that whnt you intend to hand him isn’t
anything good to eat. But how onearth
grass where she was feeding, and now money and it is steadily increasing. hands and say : “I’ve done all I can do;
could he understand you if you said:
the hired man who milks her dares offer Finally, there is opening before us the now let the world look out for me ’’
no|violence further than “So! Boss.’ when possibilities of a foreign trade with in Just as he became hopeful about the “Sir, if you persist in your unseemly con
duct I shall consider it my dutv to visit
she kicks over the milk bucket or switch definite limits ol expansion, which will future, when he knew that he had real
upon ybu personal chastisement ?*'
enable
us
to
pour
the
surplus
products
es her tai! in his face.
military genius, he was dismissed from
You sec, the people have become so used
of our enterprise and industry into
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the army and his career seemed to lie to hearing it that slang is really a part
A Salt Lake man has been sentenced to world wide markets, preventing over
our language, and just as necessary to
ended. He made a thin soup, upon of
a proper understanding of the things of
three monthsin jail for stealing an empty production and the reaction which that
; which he and his brother lived. He could the "earth earthy” as is the finished
,
dinner pail. A man who will steal an i. liable to occasion.
Existing conditions, therefore, areas a lord to change his shirt only once a course in our highest colleges. Gee. Det's Agents for Kopp’s Brewery, the Brewer of the (ii.est Beer in the Northwest,
empty dinnerpail during these prosjier
Strangers can find here a place to write, attend to correspondence, privatdj
get out a dictionary of slang words an l
ous times when he might just as ensi'\ r. .„ruble and promising for an increase week. He said;
append it to Webster’s. But say. let's
confer upon business or social matters and generally feel at home.
of prosperity as could be desired and
“I breakfasted offdrv bread, but i bar golf profanity. It's too utterly ut-
take a full one is a ht candidate for t e
there appears no reason to think that bolted the door on my poverty.“
ter for introduction into our homes and
insane asylum.
t w71I not have a long contiouance.
He kept at it. and all the time, sueress- teaching to our children.
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The irrigation question is peculiarly
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Mjeibhgbt.
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mcnair ,
HARDWARE, TINWARE and CHINA.
STOVES, RANGES and HEATERS.
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LEACH & JONES,
Tillamook Meat Market
Fresh and Cured Meats, Hides, Wool, etc.
New MEAT MARKET
L
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BARNES,
Proprietor,
Tillamook & North Yamhill Stage Line.
Truckee Lumber Co.,
FIR&SPltUCE Lumber
BOX SHOOKS
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
And LOGGERS’ SUPFLIES,
Horse Shoeing and General Blacksmithing.
UUagon
UUork.
WINE AND LIQUOR HOUSE
Billiard Parlors and General Social Resort.
C. E. HADLEY, Proprietor
Tillamook City,
Oregon.