Tillamook headlight., December 19, 1907, Image 3

TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, DECEMBER 19, 1907
Hunting the Marlbau.
orders or a clearance and tell the bind
T. BOTTS,
Hunting the marabou la attended
men to give 'em the sign and saunter
with
great
difficulty,
as
the
bird
pos-
j
•
A ttorney - at -L aw .
back to the caboose before they got to
rolling. But to have seen the anima anuses wonderful cunning and often
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tlon with which he swung himself contrives to outwit the most skillful '
aboard the pay ear would have created huuter. With laughable dignity it I
J.
P.
flbbEN,
Proprietor».
nee That Hung About It In the impression that he was the only measures the• ground between Itself
in office * Taxes paid for non*
working railroad man on the division. and Its pursuer and takes very good
the Good Old Days.
Residents.
"At his side stalked Panhandle Dan. care not to exhaust itself by too rapid 1
Special Attention paid to Tourists.
the engineer, his face actually wreath­ flight. If the hunter moves slowly the
Office opposite Post Office.
CHING FOR THE YELLOW ed tn smiles Panhandle Dan had a bird at once adopts an equally easy I A First Class Table. Comfortable Beds and Accommodation.
Both phones.
chronic grouch from 12:01 a. m. Jan. 1 pace, but If the hunter quickens his i
to 11:5» p. m. Dec. 31, except for steps the bird is off like an arrow. It ■
BKe Appssrancs of the Brightly Ver- three minutes once a month. On the is very difficult to get within gun
^Ethed Gold Colored Palace on way to the pay car he always perked range of this calculating creature, but 1
H.
COOPER,
Kvheale Alwaye an Event on the up a bit and was even known to creek the natives adopt a novel means of
capturing
it,
which
the
bird,
with
all
:
a
joke
with
Old
Mau
Flatwheel.
After
Ktoed—Th. Preeent Check 8yetem.
PKOPZIKTOR
these two came the hind Aan talking its astuteness. Is unable to compre­
^^Railroading Isn't any fun any more, Incessantly with the fireman. Charles hend aud falls an easy victim. A
A ttorn ky - at -L a w,
commercial folk In Wall street. always was talking that way. He had tempting morsel of meat is tied to the I
end
of
a
long
stout
cord,
which
the
5
Kb never an idea in their noggins but an automatic tongue, which never ran
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■ invest money and make It pay dlvl- down. Half the time he didn't know skillful hunter flings to a great dis­
tance,
as
he
would
a
lasso,
the
bait
I
Kids, have Improved all the romance he was talking. His was what the
Kt of life on the rails,” writes a cor- doctors would diagnose as a reflex falling as near the fleeing bird as he
can alr it. He then conceals himself i
Boiler Work, Logger’s Work and Heavy Forging.
Kpondent of the American Magazine conversation. Frank, the fireman, was
arl haberlach
the only sober one. He, poor fellow, hastily behind a bush or crouches low
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k
K commenting on the present system was doing sums in arithmetic, trying on the saud. The marabou, which al­
If paying oft railway employees.
to figure out how on earth *58.60 could ways keeps its eye on the hunter, see­ 4
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
■•‘Ah. no! Ballroadlng isn’t what It be made to pay all necessary bills for ing him vanish, quietly stops and de­
Led to be. But if those Wall street a helpless father and mother, a wife vours the bait, when it is easily se­ ir w arar
ar ar ar ar ar ar ar ar ar ar
gkutechcr
Loney grubbers had only left us the and four kids, besides board bills for a cured by the hunter, who runs toward
Office across the street and north trom
Kay car all else could have been for- man who was obliged to be away from it, colling the rope as he goes.
the Poet Office
mven Do you remember how in the home half the time.
“Then there was the operator in
Carlyle's Recipe For Shirte.
Kood old days, the decrepit jokes about
shirt sleeves and careworn air hoping
nere Is an extract from a letter of
what was to be done when the pay car he could get back to his key before Thomas Carlyle, in which he asks his
Kame were taken out of the moth balls the -dispatcher lost hfs temper; the sister to make him some shirts and
H. GOY NE,
hlong about the 10th of the month agent, placidly smiling, and the two sends the measurements, now many
jtnd dusted off and put through coal heavers from the coal shed with women could make a shirt after them?
A ttorney - at -L aw .
their paces? How, toward the 15th a an expression of almost human intelli­
"My Dear Jenny—* • • In the mean­
feeling of sprightliness gradually gence struggling up through number­ while I want you to make me aome
'stole over every one from the wipers less strata of grime and whiskers. flannel things, too—three flannel shirts
Office : Opposite Court House,
In the roundhouse to the lucky dogs After thirty days of humping over a especially. You can get the flannel
who had passenger runs? How this scoop shovel In a choking smother of from Allck if he has any that he can
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exuberance swelled In volume as an­ dust they were now about to be recom­ well recommend. You can readily have
ticipation became more keen until to­ pensed with thirty seconds of bliss In them made before the other shirts go
ward the 18th everybody went about which they could fondle real money off. I have taken the measure today
With a broad grin and nerves all with their owu hands. After that the and now send you the dimensions, to­
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a-tangle, the way you feel when the storekeeper would do the fondling and gether with a measuring strap which I
orchestra is playing the creepy music feel bad because there wasn’t more.
bought some weeks ago (at one penny)
to accompany the villain's midnight
"You had presence of mind enough for the purpose! You are to be care­
assault with Intent to kill?
How, to float Into the pay car In the wake ful to scour the flannel first, after
A ttornhy - at -L aw ,
still Inter everybody drifted down to of others. There were nine In the lit­ which process the dimensions are
the depot about four times a day to tle party, and you knew by experience these: Width (when the shirt Is laid
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Ask the station agent If he had heard that the average time required to pay on Its back), 22U, Inches; extent from
anything about the pay car until he nine men was sixty seconds; also that wrist button to wrist button, 61 inches;
grew as crabbed as a sitting hen? Mortality would have ’em rolling be­ length in the back, 35 Inches; length In
how. abont the 22<1, the waiter fore the last man had scooped his al­ the front, 2514 Inches. Do you under­
T. BOALS, M.D.,
girls at the depot hotel would give lotted coin Into his trembling palm. stand all that? I dare say you will
you a saucy wink and bring you But in the presence of death or the make tt out, aud this measuring band
a great, juicy, melting, extra special paymaster one may live an eternity will enable you to be exact enough.”
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wedge of pie you didn't order for des­ in sixty seconds. How glad you were
Opposite the Post Offiee.
sert. along with the ice cream and nuts that you had not been rude and rushed
Began With "D” Anyway.
TILLAMOOK.
and raisins and fruit and pudding and In ahead of anybody, even the coal
"An’ when they gits to Italy,” goes
shortcake you did order? Those girls heavers!
Office:
01mm Building.
on Bill, growln’ quite enthusiastic, as
knew how to work a fellow for tips
"From the lithographs of Caroline you might say, over th' Idee, “he'U
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Mr«. Walker'*
about pay day, didn't they?
Miskel Hoyt on the wall to the little have th' time of his life ruminatin'
"At last, one day as you were letting hollows In the hard mahogany counter roun' them old palaces of the dogs.
’em down the hill into the junction, the worn out by the attrition of the *128,-
Rates, $1 Per day
“Dogs!” I gasped. "Palaces of the Centrally Located.
operator pulled his train order signal 000,000 In wages the paymaster had dogs 1"
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on you. Your heart leaped Into your plunked down on that spot since this
"Doggies, then, I s'pose you might
throat because you knew—well, you first pay car ever built had been com­ call it.” says he, "if you're so blamed
just felt it In your bones. You went missioned, you kept on absorbing de­ pertlklar, though it ain't spelt that
JVT - H. UARSEN, Proprietor.
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
down the side of the car without tails until your name was called. A way. It's spelt dogs, only with the
knowing how you did It and sprinted still greater rush of blood to your head *•.’ ”
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OREGON
for the switch to head 'em In on the caused you to gulp violently. Meehan
“Bill Gladox,” says I, "for an uned-
BAY CITY, OREGON.
Tho Bast Hotel in the citv. No Chinese Employed
passing track and then flew to the ically you lifted your hand to touch Jucated man you are th' most Ignorant
station on winged feet, leaving the the pen as the others had done and I ever see. Do you mean to tell me
engineer to hold ’em with the driver turned to go.
you ain't never hear of th’ dodges of
brakes or let 'em run out at the lower
" ‘Here! Come back and get your Venice that has been mayors of th’
'T^HOMAS W. ROSS,
end. as he chose. And the grumpy money.'
town for th' last hundred years or
old curmudgeon stopped 'em beautiful­
“When you came out of your trance more ?”
ly. without do-much as saying ‘boo,’ you were standing In the middle of
“No. I ain't,” says be, “an’ no one
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when on any other occasion be would the track, your eyes wandering from else neither. Ther’ ain't any such
have unloosed a torrent of vitupera­ some yellow objects in your band to folks there. Dodge ain’t an E.vetallan
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tion that would have set the ties on a nimbus of smoke and dust which name nohow. It b’longs in Connecti­
J
Office : Opposite Pott Office.
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fire, and would have followed it up was just tipping over the fail? to the cut. Not but what ther’s a few inebbe
by heaving a monkey wrench at you accompaniment of the diminuendo in New York an' Ilhode Island, but not
Residence : Allen House, Tillamook, Ore.
if you had been in range.
flutter of Moriarity's exhaust.
In Italy, not by a derned sight’’—
“There behind the counter was the
"But now! Oh, well! • After you American Magkzlne.
old man, looking over the shoulder of have washed up on a certain day in
the operator, who was spelling out the each month you trudge drearily down
R. BEALS,
The Bullfight.
Next Door to Tillamook County Bank.
order without breaking oftener than to the station all alone, walk in, and
We went to a bullfight and wished
every second word:
lolling on the counter affect to look we had stayed away. It Is quite as
“ ‘Trait, No. 7, Conductor Flatwbeel, Indifferent and say, ‘Hello. John!’ unpleasant as people say, and the
REAL ESTATE,
Engtneei Poundem, will meet pay car And the agent, after going over a cruelty to the horses turns one sick.
F inancial A gknt ,
special. Conductor Llnkenpin, Engi­ column of figures three times, replies, If It was merely an affair between the
neer Moriarty, at Emerson.'
‘Hello, Bill!' and gets up and goes to men, who are undoubtedly very skill­
"Buch an air of nonchalance as Old the safe and fumbles over some papers ful, and the bub, which Is probably so
Tillamook, Oregon.
Man Flatwheel did assume as he turn­ and hands you—
mad with rage as to be past feeling
ed away to discuss with the hind man
“A check! No jokes, no infectious much pain, one could shrug one's shoul­
the advisability of making a switch of sprightliness, no uncertainty to put a ders at the queer game and find some
J-)«- P. J. SHARP,
that through car of corn next the en­ wire edge on anticipation, no fleeting excuse, but for the torture of those
gine. to get it behind the way cars, so vision of brass and varnish and opu­ poor old blindfolded screws there can
we wouldn't be bothered with It at lence wreathed in a halo of romance be no shadow of palliation. After three
RESIDENT DENTIST,
Lyons In doing our work on those to leave a golden taste In your mouth bulls had been killed we had seen
heavy grades, and affected to forget for a day, nothing but a measly old
Office across the street from the
more than enough, especially as the
that be was getting orders until the check handed over a commonplace horses In the third encounter had al­
Court House.
operator called him over to sign them. counter by a man who lives next door ready been badiy gored in the second,
He was So alow about bls signature to you.
Dr.
Wise’s office.
and the third bull was uot killed neat­
that befoqp the dispatcher'*O. K. was
"Why couldn't they have left us the ly, but ran about bellowing for awhile
received you looked out of the big bay pay car?"
with the espada's sword sticking out
window and saw the section gang that
of bls shoulders.—Blackwood's Maga­
SARCHET,
was working Just beyond the Y throw
Letter Carriers and Tuesday.
zine.
down their shovels and run down the
“There's one good thlug about carry­
. The Fashionable Tailor.
track like a herd of stampeded steers.
ing mail," said an old letter carrier,
Forest of Natural Columns.
"There, just coming around the “and that Is that the hardest day of
There is in Bulgaria a group of nat­
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curve, was a glittering vision of brass the week is followed by the easiest ural columns much like the Giant's
and varnish, half bidden In a nimbus day. That sort of evens things up. Causeway In Ireland. On the edge of
ing a Specialty.
126 Fifth Street, Portland.
of smoke and dust. Two short blasts Monday Is ordinarily the heaviest day a plateau in the open country rises this
on a whistle greeted the gang; the of the week, leaving holidays or days forest of natural columns, which gives
Reference, Tillamook County Bank.
Store in Heins Photographic
vision hesitated for a minute, while following holidays out of considera­ the Impression of an antique ruin. The
the section men disappeared tn the tion. The reason la. of course, that columns, which are about fifteen to
Gallery.
nimbus and reappeared as suddenly as the great bulk of Sunday mall is not twenty feet high, are absolutely cylin­
If they had been shot out of a gup. and delivered that day. Then Tuesday has drical, and they are ofteu as much as
here came the vision gliding up to the the lightest mall of the week for the three feet thick. The stratification of
T^OBERT A. MILLER,
platform, with bell ringing and pop simple reason that few letters are the rock resembles Joints and vertical
valve sputtering ‘sotto voce.' like a mailed on Sunday, and many of those erosion due to rain has formed Doric
young lady trying to suppress a ticklish mailed Monday have not yet reached
A ttorney - at -L aw ,
flutings.
cough. It was the pay car. At this their destination for delivery.
By
Land Titles, Land Office Busi­
point you loot consciousness.
Wednesday the mall Is about normal,
No Use For a Label.
"Coupled to the engine was a wheel­ end It runs along practically the same
ness and Mining Law.
Shopman (to undecided customer
ed palace built on graceful lines tn the rest of the week until Saturday. come to purchases dog trough)—Would
PORTLAND,
OREGON.
freshly varnished yellow paint which It Is just a trifle heavier Saturday be­ you like one with "Dog" painted on it.
I
rivaled the braaawork on the engine in cause a good many business men try madam ? Customer—N-no. You see.
Room, 306 Commercial Building
brilliance The plate glass windows to get aome of their more Important the dog can't read, and my husband
were curtained with bright hued bro­ letters off in time for delivery before doesn’t drink water!—London Punch.
cade. Not a speck nor a flaw was to the week ends."—Cleveland Tlaln Deal
be seen. Even the yellow wheels bore
The Glad Ring.
only so much duet as had been gather­
The ideal state of love will never
ed on the day's run. Through an open
Aa Named.
come to pass until the wooer can nee
window came fragrant odors, while In
The banghty youth bad just arrived
; f
•he background a white jacket, sur­ at the tiny north Wales railway sta­ the glad ring In his voice and eave the
price of a diamond toward provlsiona
mounted by a black face, vibrated at tion. and the porter had fetched from
a JÜ.
for the first year in a flat —Spokane
tn t errata.
out of the guard's van a store of lug­
(Waab.) Spokesman Review.
"All this time Old Man Flatwheel gage. which Included many portman­
was heading a little procession bound teaus. a camera, fishing and golf tac­
Ha Didn’t Lika a Crowd.
toward the rear platform of the pay kle and oh. far worse than all besides
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Mrs Gotrox-Mabel, dear, are you
car at a gait which be assumed but —s particularly ferocious bolldog.
once a month. Flatwheel bad conaci-
“Aw. porta h." commanded
the sure Mr Woodby lores you for your­
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entlona arm (fl es aga^pst undue exer­ haughty one. “just pnt- aw my port­ self alone? Mabel-Yen. I'm sure he
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tion He always had the caboose stop­ manteaus cameraw, etceteraw, on • does, mamma. He Is always so rest­
less when you are In the room — Ex­
No as to make room for a large stock for Spring and
ped st the station platform so that cab. will yaw?"
Oy a ran toed
Waterproof
witboot dissipating hla enargiea be
The porter surveyed the forbidding change.
Summer Shoes that will shortly arrive from Chicano.
could sannter ha to gas with the agent locking bulldog dubiously
•3W
t wrywKore
Come
and
get
Bargains
out
of
the
largest
and
heat
selected
In January. 1*»!». one year after the
'Yea. sir." he said slowly "Er-Et
until the hind man announced that the
first
discovery
of
gold
In
California,
stock
of
Shoes
in
the
City.
work wan all done and that we were cetera» won't bite, will he. sir?"—
there were 10,WJ men mining there
ready to go. Then be would gat bls CkuMA
i AA1LWAÏ PAY CAR
The Best Hotel.
THE ALLEN HOUSE,
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Headquarters for Travelling Men.
A. K. CASE,
« Tillamook Iron Works
4 General Machinists & Blacksmiths.
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TILLAMOOK.
,
OREGON.
I have just opened up the most com- $
plete line of
jg
STAPLE & FANCY S
GROCERIES
f
in Tillamook, all new and Fresh. The
prices are no higher than others.
We most cordially invite you to
come and look at what we have and
get our prices, whether you buy or
not.
A.
W. M. MILLS,
LARSEN HOUSE,
HARNESS, COLLARS, etc.
You Use Them.
We Sell Them.
W. A. WILLIAMS & CO.,
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The Oregon Cheese Co., Incorported,
is prepared to buy all the first class
cheese that comes along. Spot cash
and highest price. Factory men will
do well to see R. Robinson, the mana-
ger, before selling. lie will be in
Tillamook a good part of the time dur-
ing the season. Only the best stock
wanted.
I THE OREGON CHEESE COMPANY,
NOTICE
TO THE PEOPLE OF TILLAMOOK CITY
AND COUNTY.
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INSURE YOUR HEALTH
COMFORT
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SUCKER
P. F. BROWNE, Agent.