TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, January 1.
AN HONEsT PORTER.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
11» Hrlpml Himself to a Tip <»f Ten
■dollars «or Hr in« Accoiuuioda-
tirM and Honest.
The municipal expenses of New
York are approximately $100,000,000 a
year.
Of 23.000 children placed in families
“The tip-exuctlng Pullman car por
by the Children’s Aid society, only 60
ter« are the recipients of a good
have been arrested and sent to reform
many knocks from press and public,
schools.
but they are not the worst in the
While London has 47 telephones per
world,” remarked a commercial trav
10.000 inhabitants, Paris. 71; New York.
eler to a Washington Star man.
“They may-have a pretty fierce way . 150, and San Francisco, 706, Stockholm
reaches the figure of 980.
of drilling for tips, but when it come?
Berlin has its first female barbers
to the matter of honesty I know one
—the wife and daughter of a hair
of them that’s there with the goous.
dresser. In Bohemia, Hungary and
as the saying goes.
Scandinavia there are many women
“I left San Francisco, or, rather.
barbers.
Oakland, on the Santa Fe line for
In the year ending April 1, 1900, Ber
Chicago at 8 o’clock in the evening
lin imported from Italy 50 car loads
a couple of weeks ag<> last Sunday.
of cherries, 357 of table grapes. 245 of
The gang that 1 met in ’Frisco bad
been rather too enthusiastic in giv summer fruits, etc. In the following
12 months the business doubled.
ing me a good time of it out there
A Leipsic physician expresses the
on the day of my departure, so that
opinion that on account of their déli
when I woke up on 'the train along
cate sense of touch blind persons are
toward 7 o’clock the next morning
specially qualified for practicing mas
the sleeper bunk felt pretty warm
s-age.
In Japan this is done very
ind my coppers a whole lot warmer.
largely.
I'he nearest, in fact, the first stop
In the clear atmosphere the other
at which 1 would have a chance to fix
day Bostonians could see from Bos
those hot coppers out was Mojave,
ton two mountains. Wachusett and
and so I hustled into my clothes to
Monadnock —that is. those Bostonians
be ready to hop off the train during
who took the trouble to climb Mount
the stop at. Mojave for one of those
Bellevue. West Roxbury, could.
katzenjammer alleviators.
“I asked the Pullman conductor
If all the reports that have reached
the police within the past few days
how long the train would stop at
are true, diamond stealing by serv
Mojave, and he replied that the stop
ants has reached the proportion of a
would last ten minutes. I raced into
the station cafe when the train
mania in New York. Three young
women employed /n as many fashion
pulled into Mojave, and instructed
able homes in the up-town section are
the man in charge of the bar to rig
now under arrest on this charge.
me up one of those long, long damp
things. He went at the job in a pret
A Vermont town supports two pa
ty scientific manner, and the piece of
pers which live in friendly discord.
wet. work that he set before me was
The Herald printed a meaningless item
a rare thing to find right alongside ebout one Slaets S. Weneht. a Syrian,
of the California desert. It was such
and the News copied it. without the
a fine and effective creation, in fact,
formality of giving credit. Gleefully
that I asked him to frame up an
the Herald now points out that the
fictitious Syrian’s name spelled back
other one. and I got away with this
ward proclaims the truth, well known
with equal joy. Then I leisurely
strolled to the door to take a look
locally that “the News steals.”
at my train—and saw the end of it
curling away in the rarefied distance
WOMAN A PESSIMIST.
on its way tow’ard the land of the
rising sun. It had pulled out without
After a Certain A«e The-kr Face«*
notifying me. I hustled into the
SI m > w Signa of Mental Worry
ticket office to ask the man in the
and Distress.
window when I’d be able to corral
another eastbound train, and he said
The average woman is a dyed-in-
that it ’ud be along at 8 o’clock the
the-wool pessimist.
Almost every
next morning—the mate to the train
woman over 30 years of age looks
that had departed without me; there
distressed. Her brows are bent, her
was only one of the overland ex
mouth drawn into a tight line, and
presses per diem. So there I saw my
there are deep furrows down her
self stuck in Mojave, Cal., the most
cheeks. She looks exactly as if she
miserable little sand dune on the
were considering how to provide a
globe, for a full twenty-four hours.
dinner for 25 cents that will satisfy
“But that wasn’t the worst of it.
twenty-five small children, when in
i had left my Gladstone bag wide
reality she may have nothing more
ipen on my bunk, with my wearing
serious on her mind than buying 5
ipparel thrown around the section
pair of socks for George. No wonder
»very which way. and in the bag 1
women grow old faster than men.
lad placed, on the night before, $200
for they hug their worries to them
n gold coin, the stuff being too
and let them show in their faces.
heavy to carry around in my pockets
There was once an elderly servant
with any comfort.
who was superstitious to a degree
“ ‘I’ve got a chance of getting the
and who always expected the worst
bag back,* said I to myself, ‘but what
to happen. Did she find a needle on
the black porter’ll do to those $200
the floor, did a picture fall in the
in gilt money will be something
house or a bird fly into one of the
swoopingly scandalous.’
rooms, she was instantly plunged
“I had no idea on earth that I’d
into woe. “We’re going to have a
ever see a dollar of that money. I
heap of bad luck!” she would say.
figured it all out that the porter
and then she’d be lachrymose until
would corral the money and then
some one had the toothache or the
stuff my wearing apparel into the
cows got into the corn, when she
bag and hand it over to the conduct
would consider the demon luck ex
or. I knew then I wouldn’t be able
orcised or satisfied for a time and
to prove any such fact that I hail
grow as cheerful as it was her habit
$200 in gold money in the bag. and
to be. Some one once asked her if
T gave it up for gone. I told the
she did not, have any good-lurk signs.
station agent at Mojave about the
“Why, certainly,” she replied, “but
bag. and he immediately telegraphed
they don’t count—T don’t believe in
to the next station to be made by
the good-luck ones,’’ which, by the
mv lost train along the line, a place
by, is thoroughly characteristic of
called Barstow, N. Mex., directing
the sex.
that the bag be shipped back to Mo
Here is a woman who suffers—suf
jave on the w^est-bound overland.
fers is the word—from insomnia. “I
“The bag was returned to Mojave
can’t imagine why I don’t siren,” she
on the west-bound late that night,
says to her friends. “I’m sleepy as
and I eagerly opened it up to see
anything when I go upstairs, but
what I had left in the bag. Every
then I begin to wonder if my son
thing was there, including the stack
Arthur, who travels for a drug firm,
'»f gold money. I counted the gold
is on a train, and in a minute I see
roll, and it amounted to an even $190.
him just as plainly bleeding and
The porter. I felt certain, had appro
mangled in a wreck. When 1 decide
priated just one of the $10 gold pieces
that he is really dead. I think of
to compensate him for his trouble
John, and worry because he hasn’t a
in packing the bag, and I afterward
better position. Then Molly comes
found out that I was right in this
into mv mind, and I feel sure that
supposition.
one of her children must be ill. T feel
so blue about her. I fret over Lucy’s
“I caught the train east on the fol
throat a bit then, and bv this time
lowing morning, and when I got to
T’m wide awake. It’s the strangest
Kansas City I got off to take a bit
thing!
I don’t, understand why I
of a rest at a hotel. As I was get
should bn so wakeful!”
ting off I met the porter of the train
Her nhvsician does, hnw’ever. and
that had left Mojave without me. He
now he’s prescribing for her a course
was walking about the station, wait
of cheerfulness and of “looking for
ing to go aboard his car for another
the best.” It’s a medicine that most
western trip. He saw and recognized
women need—their faces show it-
me as soon as I recognized him, and
but there are few who are sensible
he grinned broadly when he saw me.
enough to take it.
“ ‘Boss.’ said he, coming over to me.
‘Ah suah did look eve’ywheah fo* dat
Drwth CaMed by Wnaqalte.
othuh ten dolluh gol* piece, but Ah
Mosquitoes are now charged with
suah couldn’t fin’ it nowheah.’ and
communicating erysipelas as well as
then he burst into a happy darky
malaria and yellow fever. A New
laugh and slapped his thigh joyousLy.
York physician has issued a death
1 told him how welcome he was to
certificate in the case of a 14 month«’
the $10 piece that he had pinched out
old babe, in which he says “Death
for himself, and I’m not certain that
was caused by erysipelas due to the
I didn’t give him another couple of
bite of a mosquito.” Tt is only fair
dollars to «how my appreciation of
to the mosquito to record that the
his honesty. Tt might not sound like
board of health officers refused to
honesty to speak of his swiping $10
accept the certificate until a coro
from my Gladstone bag. but under
ner’s physician had investigated and
the circumstances, considering the
concluded that there was no other
chance he had to grab it all. and con
apparent cause for the death than
sidering. too. the nature of Pullman
the mosquito bite.—Youth’s Compan
porters as they’re supposed to be. I
ion.
think he was a paragon of honesty.*’
“(offer lir«rS” 1a the I,«teat.
Chocolate Wafers.
One-half of a cupful of light brown
sugar, as much granulated sugar
creamed with one-half cupful of but
ter. one well beaten egg. one-half
cupful of grated chocolate, on? and
one-half cupfuls of flour, one-quar-
ter of a teaspoonful of salt, one tea
spoonful of vanilla. Mix all together
to a soft dough, roll nut a little at
a time very thin and cut into circles.
Bake in a moderate oven.—Detroit
Free Press.
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Medical examiners for life insur-
nnc** societies have added the term
“coffee heart" to their regular «lavei-
fication of the functional derange
ments of that organ. Jts effect is in
shortening the long beat of the
heart. Coffee topers, they say, are
plentiful, and are as much tied to
their cups as the whisky toper. The
effec t’of the coffee upon the heart is
more
lasting.
and
consequently
worse, than that of liquor. Dietetic
and Hygienic Gazette, London.
1903
ONE WEEK ONLY J
ONE WEEK ONLY J
Our Pre-Inventory Male begins Saturday, January,
3rd,and will run OVE WEEK OVLY.
All winter merchandise JI list Move.
First cost Will Wot
be considered.
Too many articles on sale to give a detailed de
scription of each, but take our word tor it, such an oppor
tunity was never before ottered you to buy IEW JI EK
C1IAVDME at such a trifling cost.
Merchandise on
sale has been placed on Bargain Tables, this will make trading
easy.
Remember the date the sale begins, Saturday, January,
3rd, and will run one week only.
Better goods for less
money, better quality
at less prices are induce
ments we hand out to
customers.
Real Estate Transfers.
STATUES HAVE SMALLPOX.
Furnished by Cooper & Botts, Ab
stracters.
Transfers for the week ending Dec. 29,
1902.
Epidemic of I)l»efl«e Among Broun
Figure» In Athena—HowTIiay
Are Affected.
I
Claude Thayer and wife to Nickolas Job.
Lots 3 & 4 block 49, Thayer’s 5th
addition to Tillamook. $110.00.
J. A. Monroe and wife and Louis Olson
to Elizabeth Mapes. Lots 5 & 6
block 11 park addition to Tillamook.
$120.00.
U. S Land Office to Mrs. Sophie Backus
Receipt no. 7732 for Se-Ne N x/i Se
& Se-Se 10-2 N-io.
U. S. A. to Jessie Bradshaw. Patent.
S. 54 Ne & lots 1-2 and 3 sec. 4 &
lot 4 sec. 3 tp. 3 N-6.
U. S. A. to William Schlotter. Patent.
E '/i Se sec. 19 & N. # Ne sec. 3c-
2S-8.
J. W. Cook & wife to Esther Cockerham.
¡
E.
Sw & Sw-Se sec. 12-6S-9.
$350.00.
State of Oregon to William Zimmer
mann. 8.72 acres of tide laud in
sec. 2 2N-10. $17.44-
One mortgage filed securing $50000.
Releasesof two
mortgages
securing !
$900.00.__________________
Robber in a Sleeper.
A most extraordinary disease, ex
tremely infectious and resembling
smallpox among human beings, has
broken out among the statues in the
Egyptian room of the National mu
seum here, says an Athens (Greece)
correspondent of the New York
Times. A few’ days ago the distin
guished politician and archaeologist,
Mr. Stephanos Skouloudes, noticed
some strange green marks on one of
the bronze statues of the famous
Egyptian collection presented to tht
museum in 1881 by Mr. Detnetrios, of
Alexandria. He at once communi
cated his discovery to the curator,
who called in experts to examine the
statue in question. They pronounced
the marks to be due to an infectious
complaint, to which bronze is liable,
and which gradually spreads from
the surface of the object affected to
the inside, till the whole crumbles
away into dust. The other bronze
statues in the same room were then
inspected, with the result that they
w.°re all found to be more or less
tainted with the disease, while five i
of them had taken it in a most ag- I
gravated form. These five are the !
statues of Anta, the goddess of war;
of Maout, wife 0/ Jupiter Ammon; |
of Isis, and two statues of Osiris, one
of them of the greatest value. Worse 1
that that, the infection has spread !
to the Mycenaean room, which con- 1
tains the results of the late Dr.
Schliemann’s excavations in 1876.
There a dagger, which was found in
the fourth and finest of the six
tombs, has fallen a victim to the mal
ady. Altogether about fifty statues I
are badly affected, and the loss will
be enormous unless the plague can
be stayed.
A
leading
Athenian
chemist pronounces the cause of the
malady to be the presence of salt in
the bronze of which the statues are I
made, and his remedy is to extract j
it by means of baths. Mr. Momphe- 1
matns. the minister tinder whose de
partment the museum com««, is tak
ing steps to save the bronzes.
L ouisville , Ky., Dec. 30.--Conductor
J. D. Keene, of the north.bound New
Orleans and Cincinnati express on the
Louisville & Nashville road, had a des- •
peíate encounter with a train robber |
early today us the train was nearing'
I South Louisville. The conductor, who
was shot by the robber over the left tem
ple, is confident he killed or mortally
wounded the intruder with a bullet from
a Winchester rifle.
The train reached this city at 3:20 and
at 1 o’clock a special train of one coach
and an engine with [xdice and a number
of Louisville & Nashville employes left
for the scene of the hold-up. Keene said
that while he was passing through tin*
Pullman car as the train was entering
the limits of South Louisville, he was
stopped l»v a man wearing a mask. The I
robber had jumped from a dark corner i
of the car, and with a drawn revolver
A strong runior is current in Menq bis
commanded Keene to throw up his hands announcing an effort to form a gigantic
Instead of doing so, the conductor grap combination of the independent tele
pled with the man. A pistol bail mom phone interests of the United States,
entarily stunned Keene and the robber with the Memphis Long Distance Tele
pulled the bell cord, but before the train phone Company, capital $100,000,000,
stopped the highwayman proceeded to and the Memphis Telephone Company,
rob the passengers in the sleeper.
He capital $400,000, as a basis. The
held up Jos. Redford, the Pullman car rumored alliance is said to be backed bv
conductor, and J. E. Moore, the only the interests mentioned, the Stromberg-
passenger, taking $25 from the latter,
Carlson Manufacturing Co., of Chicago,
As the train slowed down the robber and Harvey Meyers. of Covington, Ky.
jumped off, but whs followed by (Con The scheme is said to he an outgrowth
ductor Keene, who had secured a Win of the annual meeting of the independent
chester
The conductor hurried after telephone companies at <’hicago on
the robber, firing ms he went, and emp December H. The proposed plan involves
about $100,000,000. General Manager
tied his rifle at the fleeing man At one Warren, ot the Memphis Long Distance
of the shots the robber let out a yell of Telephone Company, admitted that the
pain. The firing aroused the passengers rumor was true, but stated that nothing
definite has been accomplished yet.
and caused considerable excitement.
Conductor Keene was removed to a
hospital. His wounds, however, are not
serious. He is said to l>e the strongest
man in Louisville, and was at one time
national champion in several amateur
athletic classes
No trace of the robber had been found
up to noon, although n night watchman '
in the vards of the Southern Railway re
ported that about daylight he found a
man bleeding and lying along the tracks
at Third and K streets. The man said
he had fallen from a train, and according
to the watchman’s statement two men
came along at this time and carried the
injured man away.
Sold
Lott
A note for $50. drawn in my favor by
Theo. Parks, between Garibaldi and my
place.
It is payable the fore part of
October, 1903.
G ustav T rimter .
in cana—
all airea.
Mad« > y
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