Tillamook headlight., October 30, 1902, Image 2

THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, OCTOBER 30. 1902.
DE WET TO HIS MEW.
1 strike, quit his job ? The employer says
he docs and theemplcyee suvs he does
not. This is now the burning question The F«moo« Boer General*« Remarli«
to Hie Soldier« After the
with those who cannot get back their
Sarreeder,
old jobs as a result of the late coal strike.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
We wonder what the board of arbitra­
An Englishman who was present
(STBICTLY IN ADVANCE.)
tion is going to do about it ?
when De Wet addressed the men and
women in a concentration camp after
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Wonder if the crown prince of Siam the signing of peace, sends a sum­
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brought with him a trunk full of multi­ mary of his remarks, says the Man­
chester Guardian. The speech was a
colored ribbons and fancy medals for remarkable and strong mixture, dis­
An Annexation Movement.
distribution among the members ot the playing at once De Wet’s natural cha­
If certain reports emanating from various committees acting as his hosts grin and his determination grimly to
Washington are to lie relied upon a during his visits to the UniteiT States ? abide by the promise he had given.
movement is organizing with the object He certainly should be as lavish with “Knowing.” he writes, “the Dutch as
well as I do, I could see De Wet still
of taking every possible step for the his decorations as was Prince Henry.
had injured feelings, although he gaie
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purpose of impeding the success of the
The scheme to supply Detroit with them (the men and women) a proper
Cuban government and of forwarding
talking to. He said. ‘Of course you
the annexation propaganda, both di- electricity generated by the falls and will all like to ask me the question:
Sault
Ste
Marie
is
a
pretentious
under-
rectly and indirectly. It is asserted that
‘Have we lost?’
In a word I must
those who were so active in speaking taking, which will lie watched with say ‘Yes.’ Our flag is fallen. It is
for annexation al the close of the last j more than ordinary interest by the gen­ dead and buried, never to rise again,
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session of congress only fired the first eral public- The long distance trans­ and we are now under a new govern­
gun in a campaign which will be waged mission of electrical power would solve ment whom we have to serve, not as
many serious problems that confront well as we served our own, but a great
without remorse.
deal better. Hunger,’ he went on.
There is no question that there is a our big manufacturing centers.
‘compelled me to give in, but I stood
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sentiment in this country favorable to
till the rifle was taken out of my hand.
The full run of salmon at Tillamook I could point my finger to a good many
the annexation of Cuba and it has more
or less Cuban support. Senator Elkins and Nehalem is unusually large and a cowards here who were going to shoot
of West Virginia is a prominent and heavy pack is anticipated; This will in­ the English in this way and that way,
earnest advocate of the idea that the crease the output of “choice Columbia but who never fired a shot and simply
United States should absorb the Cuban river salmon.’’—Astoria Herald. Astoria surendered. I, indeed, thought more
republic and give it American state­ is nothing but a fish town, anyway, and of you would remain loyal, as some of
hood. He does not propose any forcible for that reason we are not surprised to us did and were true to the last. But
as it is, if ever I hear of anything
step for the attainment of this, but that hear that Tillamook packed fish goes for I wrong among you (that is disloyal to
the Cuban people should be invited to choice Columbia river salmon.
the new government), I. Christian De
liecome a part of the United States, with
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W’et, will be the first to arrest you and
a guarantee of rights and privileges on
McMinnville has nominated a law* and have you well punished.’ ”—Manches­
a perfect equality with those enjoyed order ticket. That is a pretty good indi­ ter Guardian.
by the people of the states of the union. cation that the present city officials are
LICENSES FOR CATS.
Mr. Elkins is not alone in this position. not enforcing the law. What is wanted
There is a considerable number of in every city is a law enforcement asso­
▲ uthoritlea of Iterila, Gtrmsnz Im­
Americans who earnestly believe that ciation. No honest, conscientious, law-
pose Restrictions on the
Cuba ought to be a part of this country abiding citizan can logically object to
Feline Tribe.
and that ultimately she must lie. They the enforcement of the law. Where are
think that must be the inevitable result we at if the law are not enforced ?
It has recently been discovered that
of the close proximity and the necessary
there are about 3Û.000 cats in Berlin,
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and, full of their knowledge, the Ger­
political and commercial relations be­
Every once in a while we hear persons man Society for the Protection of
tween the two countries.
predict there will l>e another financial Animals, has conceived a thoroughly
The wisest cannot predict with abso­ crisis in the United States liefore many
Teutonic idea, says a Berlin corre­
lute certainty what the future will bring
years. Over-speculation will be thecause spondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean.
forth, but it seems to be unquestionable of it when it comes, then see the plun­ According to its carefully conceived
that at this time there is no general
gers and the corporations with watered plan, the town council of the city is
sentiment in favor of Cuban annexa.
stock suddenly peter out. However, a to take the matter in hand, and to
tion. We believe it to I)C to-day the
financial crisis may be a bugaboo to issue licenses for cats, just as they
practically unaimous feeling of the
do for dogs.
them, but not to those who are doing
Cats are only to perambulate the
American people that the republic of
business on safe and conservative lines
city when wearing their authorized
Cuba should be given the fullest and
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little badges, hanging, locket-like,
fairest opportunity to demonstrate the
If you want to know how to tell oleo­ from their throats. There is nothing
fitness of its people to carry on an in.
in principle to be said against the
dependent government and to establish margarine from butter, try this test • issue of the licenses, burt what puz­
Take
a
little
bit
of
the
doubtful
article
anil maintain themselves among the na­
zles reasonable people is the list of
tions of the earth. We do not doubt and rub upon a piece of glass. Then look penalties that these ingenious people
through
it
toward
the
light.
If
the
that it is the judgment of a great ma­
have drawn up. The owner of a cat
jority of our people that it is the duty of smudge forms a smooth blur, the article is to be fined if the latter “be found
is
butter
;
if
light,
with
bright
specks
wandering in the public gardens of the
the United States to aid the Cuban
government in every legitimate wa v to ands|M)ts through it, it is oleomargar­ city; or if the birth of a kitten, or lit­
establish its stability and to commend ine These are crystals of lieef fat stear­ ter of kitfens, be not punctually re­
ported to the authorities; or, if a
itself to the confidence of the civilized ine. Pure lard can lie distinguished front citizen’s pet Is discovered prowling
the compound in the same way. The
world.
about the stre! ts without its distinc­
We therefore think that any move­ lard will make a smooth blur.
tive official badge, etc.” This word
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ment looking to the promotion of Cuban
“etc.” sticks in one’s throat, after the
annexation is to lx* condemned, as in­
It is not often that an editor hears a enumeration of the previous offenses.
volving not only a wrong to the Cuban word of commendation, while, in fact, it
DAMAGED BY SEA WATER.
people whose independence we are in­ is the oppose that is so lavishly heaped
violably committed to, but also as inimi­ upon him from time <o time. Said a |>er-
cal to our own interests and welfare, son who is prominently connected with Steel R«ll« Snrenmh Rfvpidly to Cov.
roeion in the Tropieo Near
politically and socially.
the press iu Portland the other day : “I
the Sea.
consider the Headlight one of the best
Growth of Rural Delivery.
country newspapers in the state, for it
Mr. Bricks, one of the engineers in
The rate at which rural free delivery is is decidedly loyal to Tillamook and to charge of the railroads owned by the
growing is shown by the fact that Post­ the interests of tlie county.” One feature French government, recently read a
master General Payne will ask congress I admire is its outspoken and tearless at­ paper in which he said that sea wa­
at its next session inappropriate the sum titude.” Perhaps, while this was l>eiiig ter, particularly in tropical coun­
of $12,000,000 for its maintenance and said, some other fellow might have been tries, has a very destructive influence
on steel rails. A few weeks ago the
extension. For the fiscal year 1901 the giving the Headlight hell for the very same observation was made by Mr.
appropriation amounted to but $1,750,. thing it was being commended for. Any­ Delprar, the engineer in charge of
<HM). In the next year these figures were way we take them both as compliments. the Dutch railroad in Sumatra.
more than doubled. For the present
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This gentleman says that the short
vear the |x»stal officials haye available
It is preposterous to talk about over­ railroad at Port Emma, on the coast
•or this purpose the sum of $7,500.000 production of butter and cheese in this of Sumatra, which has lieen in opera­
It is estimated that there will I k * a deficit little kingdom ot Tillamook. Had this tion for ten years, and which occu­
of about $300,000. By |uly 1, 1903. county produced ten times the amount pies a position only a little above
there will lie 14,000 rural routes in oper­ the past year it would have gone like hot mean high title, has been greatly
damaged by sea water, the rails hav­
ation. It is estimated that it will re­ cakes, for the butter and cheese that is ing been largely eaten away by rust.
quire $9,000.000 to maintain the ser­ making Tillamook famous and the dairy­ The rails on one of the shorter
vice next year and that the other V».. men comfortably well fixed, is in great branches of this road, which runs
000,001) will lie necessary in making tlie demand, and is getting more so every* over a breakwater, have been dimin­
extensions demanded.
year, for it is the purr unadulterated ished in weight by about two and a
These seem like very large figures. A stuff. And as a result ot this, the manu­ half pounds for every three and a
jump from $1,760,000 to $12.0'10,0*10 in facturers of cheese are selling their pro­ half feet of the length of the rails.
three years means that the service has duct at 12HC. a pound in Tillamook City He says that every year these rails
grown immcnaely. There is no question to the wholesale people. And Tillamook are losing about four per cent, of
the weight of new rails. The width
that tire service is popstar with tlie farm­ dairymen does not buy mill feed for tlieir of the rail surface has been dimin­
ers, whom it is designed to benefit. The dairy herds either.
ished about one inch.
only question, theretore, is whether it is
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not growing faster than the department
A good many people complain that OLD-FASHIONED SURF BATH.
cun stand. But in answer to this olijee- some ministers anti diuretics are chronic
tion it is mgeil that the postolfiee de­ lieggars, but our curiosity is instantly
partment is very near a solvent showing untuned when we liear six h assertions,
and that in time the rural delivery aer- for we have an idea they are the very
vice will lie |ilaceil more nearly on a pay. parties who finger round in their ¡lockets
It is not so many years ago when
ing liasu by superceding fourth class •or a nickel when they know the plate is
surf bathing of a very primitive kind
olfiers, star routes and mail messengers, about to be (Muaed round, lor it is sur­ prevailed at the eastern end of Long
mid by bunging nlsiul an increase o prising the nunilier of nickel contributors Island and, for aught I know, at other
business. Al any rate tlierv is not likely there are who attend church and then points, say« a writer in Outing.
to tie n restriction of the delivery. Tlie go home ami complain alxiut ministers
Every Saturday morning or after-^
more it is extended the greater will lie tiring beggars. A congregation that is noon as the title willed, throughout the
tlie demands for new routes. Kray part niggardly in its contributions will never summer, big farm wagons trundled
ol the country w ill want to share in its «tMverd in build up a su«xesslul church down to the beach and were swung
benefits. Consequently, the expenditures home, heuce the continual appeal from around abreast of the line of breakers.
Old fish houses served the purpose of
on this account will lie a steadily iucieas- the pulpit for money.
modern imthing pavilions, and the sea
ing item tor some rears to come.
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costumes were those of last year's
Anyway, who cares wbether Spud village street. A long rope was drawn
from under the seats and hitched to
Editorial Chaff.
(»ear Hughes approves or disapproves
the wheel, and then some sturdy ex
of tlie »tew dredge built by the Port <»f whaler or life crew man, in
red flannel
As most fieopie expected, the moral !
Portland Commission. Because H uglies shirt and old trousers tie«! at the an-
crusade iu Portland was nothing but a i
c « hi I«I not tic the whole thing and (xvause kies, slipped his wrist through th»«
iKigus affair, and it ta not out of place
Ins I »rot I kt c«>mmi.ssio<K'rs saw lie had loop at the end of this primitive life
to inquire n hat kind of a game tlie LAvd
the ”lxg head,’’ it was iKvessarv, so as line, and, wading out, kept it as taut
(of Portland) was trying to play ?
to make a success of tlie dmlge, co ig. as circumstance« permitted, while the
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tK»<T the «xmtmisstoocr who thought he women and children hung to it an«1
We womler what Dun.lee Kenl was knew it all and the other mcmliers ot the revelled and wallowed and shrieked,
doing when the Ixnkersfiom the Kamern ( lK>anl were ignoramuses and should do rejoicing in th sir “Sat unlay tub.”
states were in Portlrnd a few weeks ago, I exactly us Hugtx*« told them. The next
Mkvarr Massifs.
or hod he forgotten that he had ¡tlanoed legislature will l»c failing in its duty if it
Some of the student« in Paris, when
a railroad to Tillam<xik without the all dors m>( drive the s | hi «I gear into Hughes perusing ancient books in the na­
im|M»rtant ilongh,”
and remove him from tlie K*onimission. tional library, protect themselves
« a a
tor he is no longer useful nor ornamental with muzzles. This is done to pre­
Does a man, when he goes out on a ou the txxard.
vent the Inhalation of dangerous mi­
crobes, said to infest old volumes.
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AND
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Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors, Window Sashes,
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Also all Sizes of ROUGH LUMBER.
Stories of Ready Wit.
The retort of all verbal coins the quick­
est to get into circulation and the read­
iest to pass from one hand to another.
Perhaps of all coins it is also the oldest,
relates the Rochester (N. Y.) Post-Ex­
press. In our English tongue we have
legends of the repartee of King and cour­
tier for well-nigh 1,000 years. The pun,
which is often a s|xcies of retort, goes
as far back as our language. To plav
on words, often in a very personal man­
ner, is the simplest form of retort. Old
Thomas Fuller made a witty as well as
a true epitaph for himself when he bade
them .write on his tombstone two words
only, “Fuller's Earth.’’ But Fuller him­
self got caught sometimes. The name
“Sparrowhawk/’ in which one of his
friends rejoiced, was too tempting to
the habitual punster, and so he asked
the unfortunate man who was afflicted
with it what was the difference between
a sparrowhawk and an owl. The an-
swer which he got was :
“An owl is
fuller in the head and fuller in the face
and fuller all over,’’ which was probably
more fuller than Fuller bargained for.
on rooks and crows, responded instant­
ly with the line, “The cause, my soul, the
cause.” To Charles Lamb, Henry Crabb i
Robinson, law ver and delighted compan­
ion was speaking of his first brief, when
Lamb said to him, “Did you not exclaim
‘Then first great cause, least under­
stood ” When Alfred Tennyson ap­
peared in the Oxford theater to receive
his D. C. L. degree his disheveled hair
and generally negligent state provoked
the undergraduates into greeting him
with the inquiry: “Did your mother call
you early, call you early, Alfred dear ?”
Sydney Smith perhaps despised pet dogs
as heartily as do some of us and this
may have given the sting to his answer
to the lady who begged from him a mot­
to for her poodle, “Spot/* “Out,damned
Spot !’’ was his suggestion, but it was
no doubt too near the truth to be ad­
opted.
One of the dullest of liis dnll race wm
the duke of Clarence, afterwards William
IV. of England. Lord high admiral, the
duke, went down to Portsmouth to in­
spect the naval establishment.
The first person he met was his jolly
old messmate and friend. Captain Jack
Dunning, the famous wit and lawyer' : Towers. The prince took him by the
was badgering a witness on one occasion | hand and laughingly said : “Why, Jack,
and persisted in asking him if he did not ; mv boy, they tell me you are the great­
live "in the verge of the court.” He was est blackguard in Portsmouth !” “Oh,”
probably a |ioor debtor, who in the then quoth Towers, “I hope your royal high­
conditiou of the English law did this to ness has not come down here to deprive
avoid his creditors. The witness was me of my character ?’’
forced to admit that he did. “And,
Penn had been long enough at court to
pray, sir," said Dunning, "for what rea.
son did you take up vour residence in manage a retort himself when he cared
that place ?” “To avoid the rascally to indulge in word play. To his sover­
impertinence of dunning," answered the eign’s question wherein their religions
really differed, the Quaker replied : “The
wiuness.
difference is the same as between thy hat
The perplexities of our English tongue and mine ; mine has no ornaments/’
gave a char.ce for a fusiiade of retorts in
a western court.
For Sale.
The judge was fond of indulging him-
A good single top buggy. Call soon.
, self occasionally in a joke at the expense
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W. E. P ace .
I of Counsellor B., a practicing law ver in
tlie same court, with whom he was very
Timber Claim For Sale.
intimate and for w hom he had a high
For Sale—160 acres fine timber land,
regard. On a certain occasion when
pleading a case at the liar Br. B. ob­ 9 miles from Tillamook. Address.
served that he would conclude his re-
M. K ing ,
marks on tlie following day unless the Columbus. Washington.
court would consent to “set” late enough
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for him to finish them that evening. 1
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“Sit. sir,’’said the judge, “not set ; hens
Sealed Bids will l>e received at the
set.” “I stand corrected, sir,” said the County Clerk s Office up to and includ-
counsellor, bowing. Not long after, <ng November 4tli, 1902. for the care
i while giving an opinion, the judge re­ and keeping per month of George Myers
marked that under such circunistan<-es a county charge.
> an action would not “lay.*’ “Lie, may
H ome * M ason ,
it please your honor,” says the coun-
County Clerk.
' seller, “not lav ; hens lay.”
Dated October Sth. 1902.
A debate once took place among tlie
By order of Countv Court.
memliers of tlie court of another state as
China seems to have become the basis
to how lung they would set to dispose of
the business before them. Three weeks of operations for counterfeiters putting
at last were determined on. “Why, in out spurious silver dollars tor circulation
the name of wonder.” inquired a wag nt in Manila, where chances of detection
tlie bar, “do they not set four weeks are supposed to be smaller than iu this
country. The overvaluation of the sil­
like other geese
ver in our dollar constitutes .a constant
Historic retorts aim«»st invariably i|. temptation to counterfeiters, and the
lustrate the quickness which is essentml 1 opportunity for safe prosecution of their
to the success of this species of wit. Jek- work afforded by conditions in tlie far
vll was as famous at the bar as was east are not likely to be overlooked. The
(binning for his brilliant repartee. Hear­ only effectual way to put an end to this .
ing that a very empty headed person had tort ot crime is to readjust our coins so
gone to Greece, he quoted at once : “To I that the silver in them is approximately
the Greeks. foolishness.” James Smith, worth the face value instead of bavins
w-xl.— doubted
— t.s. 1 _ as
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join with his , , l»rother
Horace of “Rejected ’ 1 ! ’ ate
<• value
.
—now by impress«ng
Addresses, ” being challenged (or a motto tmint stamp upon it.
Lap.
Red Shoe House
A large and well selected
S tock of B oots and S hoes for
fall and winter trade, just re­
ceived and more on the way.
All goods shipped direct from
Chicago, and of the latest styles.
No poor qualities in stock.
All faults repaired free.
It will pay you to call and
examine my Stock before pur­
chasing elsewhere.
F. F. BROWNE.
Agent.
T.
SARCHET,
Tailoring
E$abli$jnieni,
TILLAMOOK CITY, ORB.
G entlemen
Thanking
past favors, 1 W
to sav that I
moved into *"'
new store next to
C. Ben Riesla««1-
If vou wish to
see all the chon«
line of Suiting a""
up-to-date Pa"
ting's to choose from kindiv gi»e "J'*
call. All Suits cut and made in theW°p
at Tillamook.
P.S.—Pressing, cleaning and repam f
of all kinds done.
T. SARCHET,
Merchant Tailor.
A Watch or Clock that wont
keep time is useless, if you ha»«
one of this kin J bring it to me. I
will guarantee to make it keep
perfect time or it wont cost yos
anything.
I keep the most reliable tin*
pieces that are to be had at
prices in reach of all. if 'ou
ex|>ectingto liuv one. come a
see me before you invest, it *•
save vou money, time and worn-
c. F. Franklin,
THE UP TO DATE
JEWELER.