TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT,
JULY 23, 1908.
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A MODERN MACAULAY.
A CASE IN POINT.
Yet Going Downtown In Madeira Is an
Wonderful Memory of an Old Tim. I
Exciting Evsnt.
Why the Postmaster Leaned Toward
Mi»»ouri Lawyer.
.Madeira
Is
populated, yet Is one of
th» Sheriff.
One of the most picturesque of the
There Is a town In northern New early lawyers of Missouri was BL J the quietest' as well as one of the moat
beautiful places In the world. Al
Hampshire where the families baxe In Campbell.’«bo came
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termarried to such an extent that It is 1*29 and opened an office In St though the roads are paved with round
Rhe was a girl of great depth of feel difficult for an outsider to make the Charles. He was a man of great abil beach stones, there Is nothing to re
ing. Her sense of duty was of the least criticism on oue person without ity. a classic scholar, an orator and a mind one of the fact, because, as Da
highest. So inteut within herself was the danger of offending some of his political writer of unusual power. But vid G. Fairchild, agricultural explorer
she that her friends never got very family «onueetlous. When an unfortu I be was Indolent careless about col ecu of the department of agriculture, ex
near her. Among men the featber- nate visitor commented on this fact to lug aud speuding money and so lazy plains In the National Geographic
weights — 1 meau mentally—let her Mr. Corbin, the postmaster, Mr. Cor that physical exertion of any kind was .Magazine, there are no horses or jolt
^tlvjy painful to him. He bad a ing wheels.
alone from choice, the heavyweights bin nodded violently.
All vehicles In Madeira are od run
because she was uot of easy approach.
"Bill Harmon, that's our sheriff, com most remarkable memory, as proved
She was twenty-five before she re plained of that no louger a„o than last ■ by the following Incident: Cattipbell, ners. If you go calling It Is In a bul
ceived a single offer of marriage; then week,” said be.
who was a Whig, represented his dis lock sledge with canopy top and com
it came from a practical, common
"You see, It took him more'n a fort trl< t la the state senate several years. fortable seats. If you move a bank
sense man of business He was tempo night to arrest Nate Giddings because Ou one occasion he was lying on a safe or a steam boiler It Is carried on
rarily thrown Into Intimate association Nate got wind that he was wanted on bench in the senate chamber, apparent- a ''stone boat,” or sledge of poles, and
with her aud discerned a great deal In a little matter o' selling hard cider, !v sleeping, when the Democratic mem you may have to get forty oxen to pull
her. When be proposed she took time and be went on a round o’ vis ts, bers came in to bold a caucus. They at It. If you are In a villa on the hlllsldo
before giving him bls answer, then among his relatives—aunts, nephew s-;
tempted to arouse him. but be ap and want to get downtown you take a
gave It in this wise:
In-law and I don't know what all-ami peared so soundly asleep that they de running car uud slide down over the
“Some years ago 1 received a letter •twasn't till he'd had his fun aud went
cobblestones.
from a man who was dying He told back home to bls wife that Bill could cided to let him alone. The next day a
Two strong men. each holding a
me that he had loved me without being make the arrest without seeming t< complete report of the proceedings of guide rope, pull your car over a bag
known by me. Being afflicted by a llu- kind o' butt in. as you might say, an 1 the caucus. Including a verbatim copy of grease to grease the runners aud
of the resolutions adopted, was pub
geriug disease, he had never sought spoil the reunions."
lished In the St. Louis Republican. A then give you a running shove aud
me with a view to declaring his love
"1 should think he would make a row followed, and the secretary was Jump each on a runner behind as the
Since It gave a dying matt comfort to queer kind of sheriff." said the visitor,
bribed to re- car shoots down at a breakneck pace
tell me of his devotion, he hoped I "waiting all that time for sentimental charged with having been ' the " caucus over the cobblestones.
port
the
proceedings
of
would not blame him for doing so. He reasons and tbeu arresting a man
The men yell, bens and dogs scam
carefully concealed hl. identity, and 1 when he went home just because his After the excitement died down some
what Campbell admitted that he had per. foot passengers cling close to the
have never discovered i it.
poor wife wasn't n relation!”
aud that he wall of the narrow street, the runners
“1 hare since been unable to shake
Mr. Corbin drew himself up and as been awake all the time
had done the reportorlal work entirely get hot and fill the air with odor of
off a sense of being : appropriated. 1 sumed a remote expression.
burning wood as you shoot round sharp
know this Is unwise, but I can't help
"That's as you look at it." he said In from memory.—Kansas City Star.
corners, down the busy thoroughfare,
it. 1 have analyzed my feelings for a chilly tone. "1 may be a mite preju
past gorgeous masses of flowering
you anil cannot tell whether
'
or uo I diced in Bill's favor, as be married my
A M’JFF BED.
creepers which hang over the walla of
should marry you. 1 am. however, son-in-law's youngest sister. Anything
willing to throw the responsibility on that concerns him concerns me, you Surprise of a Man Who Thought it the private villas that border your
road.
you and become your wife if you say understand.”
Had to Do With Sleep.
But. oh, the change when you get to
i
the word.”
A man who saw on a sign the words the bottom! You are obliged either to
He told her that he fancied marriage
"muff
beds"
and
imagined
that
a
muff
CONQUERORS CONQUERED. bed must be something to sleep In. a walk or take a carro. drawn by slow
to be practical sentiment. Iler feeling
moving bullocks, squeaking and slip
for the dead was sentimental senti
ment. The first pertained to the high Th. Fate of Alexander, Hannibal, brother or cousin or other more or ping over the stones.
less distant relative of the sleeping
Caesar and Napoleon.
est of all human Institutions, the fam
It Is a remarkable aud instructive bag. such as explorers carry with
ily; the latter was simply a canker
ORIGIN OF THE HORSE.
worm feeding on emotion. He would fact that the careers of four of the most them, found upon Inquiry that his im
agination
had
carried
him
very
far
have her marry him. trusting to the renowned characters that ever live
The Modern Animal a Cross Betwean
great unbreakable bond, family affec closed with violent or mournful death from the truth; that the muff bed Is
Two Ancient Bread».
In
fact
not
a
bed
at
all,
but
Is
the
Alexander, after looking down from
tion, to absorb all other sensations.
In Wlssen fur Alle Professor Koenig
They were married. The wife for a the dizzy heights of his ambition upon trade name for the inner part of a discusses In some detail the origin of
time appeared to be contented and a conquered world and weeping that muff, the body of the muff—In short,
the horse of today. He finds that the
happy, but after awhile showed that there were no more to couqtter, died the part you put your hands in.
The muff bed consists of a double horse of neolithic times was not spe
she was brooding. Her husband no of Intoxication In a scene of debauch
ticed the change, but did not refer to or, as some suppose, by poison miugled walled bag made In cylindrical or oth cifically distinct from the horse of the
er shape, accordlug to the style of present. While there Is no doubt that
It. ne knew that her "sentiment" was tn his n ine.
with her and that it could not be driv I Hannibal, whose name carried terror muff, and then stuffed with down, the the horse of that period was used >y
en away by open interference. He did I to the heart of Rome itself, after hav quality and quantity of the down de man for food, there seems to be no con
not consider his wife responsible for ing crossed the Alps and put to flight pending on the character of the muff. clusive evidence as to whether it was
The making of muff beds Is a busi domesticated or not. His own opinion,
its presence. He knew that It came the armies of the mistress of the world,
from some mental condition the nnture was driven from bls country anil died ness by itself. Some of them are sold however, Is that It was probably do
of which he could understand, though at last of poisou administered by his to the furriers in the simplest form, mesticated.
The horse of that time was closely
he bad not experienced It. He conclud own bands In a foreign land, unla Just the bed or bag stuffed with down,
the furrier putting In the silk or satin allied to the tarpan or semlwild horse
ed to wait for It to disappear. Doubt mented and unwept.
less the first child would drive It away,
Caesar, the conqueror of 800 cities lining when he puts on the fur. Oth that lived In southern Russia up to a
as the sun will dissipate a cloud.
and bls temples bound with chaplets ers are made with the silk or satin In century ago. This was a “hog maned,”
But children did not come. There dipped In the blood of a million of his ner lining attached, to be finished up short legged, large beaded beast. It
was still this intangible, psychological foes, was miserably assassinated by when the fur is put on. There is at seems probable that the domesticated
freak between the two to keep them In those he considered his nearest friends least one concern in New York that horses of the Germans df Caesar's time
a measure apart. It was never re
Bonaparte, whose mandate kings and makes a specialty of muff beds and were derived from this breed.
ferred to by either, but both knew of emperors obeyed, after filling the earth turns out many thousands of them an
The Egyptians had horses as early
Its existence. It was endured by both, with the terror of his name, closed bls nually.—New York Sun.
as 1900 B. C. These were long maned,
for the wife felt that It was wronging days In lonely banishment upon a bar
more like the Arab horses, and came
her husband, and the husband felt that ren rock In the midst of the Atlantic
from Assyria. Where the Assyrians
Wanted a Rebate.
It was sapping the happiness of bis ocean.
In a rural community In one of the obtained them Is unknown, but It was
wife as well as his own.
Such the four meu who may be con middle states dwelt a man who made probably from southern Asia, where
One day while searching In a desk of sidered representatives of all whom the a vow In 1850 that he would wear his this long maned breed has been devel
his wife for a paper he came upon world calls great and such their end hair and lieard untrimmed until John oped In all probability as the result of
the note that had been written her intoxication or poison, suicide, rnur- C. Fremont should be elected president long continued domestication. The
from her dying lover, Its finding dered by friends, lonely exile.
of the United States. He kept that modern horse Is a cross between these
brought aboirt a singular act. Taking
vow for forty years, at the end of two breeds, with a further mixture of
note of the handwriting, he wrote a
Pointed With Scripture,
which time he had nearly a half bushel the Arab horse. This Arab horae, too,
letter In the same chlrograpby to his
A bachelor rector of a western of hair on Ills bead and face. Then, was Itself a descendant of the earlier
wife purporting to come from the man church was alone In bis study when coming to the conclusion, toward which loug maned horse.
w ho had written the original, it stated his housekeeper brought him the card his mind had been gradually working
The origin of the long maned horse Is
that he had unexpectedly recovered of one of his parishioners, a spinster for a long time, that General Fremont’s a matter of doubt, but Professor Koe
and had since prospered: that he knew of means and charm.
death In the Interval had practically nig thinks It may have been from an
she was married. but In spirit she be
When the lady was seated on the op absolved him from his vow, he decided extinct Indian species.
longed to him. Did she reciprocate this posite side of bis study table the rector to have bls hair cut and his beard
feeling? If so, let her defy tne world looked at her Inquiringly, expecting to
shaved off clean. On his next visit to
Women Who Marry at Thirty-five.
and he would come to her.
hear something concerning parish the county seat he went to a barber
A German doctor lays It down as a
When the wife opened this forged work. In which she was active. To bls shop and was soon relieved of the hlr
well established fact based on close
letter one morning at the breakfast surprise an embarrassed silence eD-
sute burden he had carried for four observation that women who do not
table, the husband saw her turn pale.
sued, during which he vainly sought decades.
marry until thirty-five or thereabout
That evening when he came back for something to say.
“How much?" he asked.
Invariably achieve matrimonial suc
from business bls wife said to him
“Dr. Blank." began the lady at
“Have to charge you half a dollar cess. Why women of this particular
that something had happened. She had last In faltering tones, "do you think—
debated with herself whether she cau you fancy conditions under which for that Job." said the barber, looking age should make more successful mar
at the mass that lay on the floor.
riages than those who fall victims to
should tell him or not and bad decided
“Half a dollar!" he gasped. • Don't 1 love's young dream Is fairly obvious,
that it was better that she should not. a—a woman is—justified In proposing?”
“Why. yes." said the rector, after get auything for the balr?"
When a young woman marries be-
lie replied that be had full confidence some
deliberation.
tween thlrty and forty she either does
In her Judgment, and this was all be
"Thou art the man!” said the lady
Th» Actor and the Critic.
so for companionship, choosing her
said abov* the matter.
resolutely.
One of the near comedians who al mate accordingly, or from need. In
After this the wife showed plainly
She was right.
ways affect to be entirely careless of which case she also chooses with a
that she was under the influence of
newspaper criticism recently struck certain amount of care. She has no
some powerful emotion. Her husband
X
frfiui his list of bowing acquaintances wild dreams of unalloyed bliss.—Lon
A Ready Answer.
meanwhile wrote her another forged
The captain of a schooner that trades a critic noted for his candor. The don Lady's Pictorial.
letter from the same corresinndent.
She was Informed that her lover could between New York and Savannah Is player met the writer aud a friend
A Fr.ak of the Lightning,
no longer endure the strain of separa noted for his wit, and on every occa while crossing a park square and ex
A curious case of lightning destruc-
tion. He must see her. He bogged sion that offers he loosens his shafts of changed a few words of greeting and
her to send her husband away for a humor, to the chagrin and embarrass as he passed on heard this conversa tlon took place some years ago at Gat-
china, an imperial summer residence
certain evening, during which he ment of Its target. Sooner or later the tion:
"Who was that?”
not far from St. Petersburg, where
would call and they would concoct stinger gets stung, and this chronic
'
Oh,
that
is
L.,
the
actor!
”
pun
artist
Is
uo
exception
to
the
rule.
stood a stone column fifty feet high,
a modus vlvendl. He asked for this
On
one
occasion
when
about
two
“He does not look much like an actor held together by Iron angles. When
one Interview only, after which, If she
rain fell more or less water penetrated
so wished. he would never see her days out from New York he approach ofT the stage.’*
"Still les« when be’« on the itage ’’ the stoueu In the Interior of the monu
again. Simultaneously with bis send cd a group of sailors who were wash
ing this letter the husband Informed Ing the forward deck, and, singling returned the critic.-Argonaut.
ment One day It was struck by light
hls wife (hat he must be away on busi out a big, rawboned Irishman who
nlng. and Instantly the column disap
On New England Tombstone«,
ness on the evening he bad appointed. was experiencing hfs first taste of
peared from view, killing a lone sen
His wife clutched her fingers spasmod sailor's life, be gravely asked. “Can r/ 'iere. Ter<? MVeral eP|‘»l'b» which try on guard. The only explanation Is
yon
steer
the
mainmast
down
the
ta
t
J?
f
°
r
nwhllt
‘
'
e
'"
,!
>P
hs
»
“
e
ically. which be pretended not to see,
that the heat of the lightning instant
forecastle stairs?" Quick as a flash that of Solon Tyndall, Killed by a ly generated steam on coming In con
and left her.
ball
from
the
Main
topsail
Yard
of
the
came
the
reply.
"YIs.
sor;
1
can
if
you
At 5 o'clock on the evening he went
tact with some of the water and the
home ami was packing a valise pre will stand below and coil It up.”—Phil- Bark Amazon. In the Harlior of Bue terrific explosion followed.
udelphia
Ledger.
nos
Aires
on
March
12.
1850:
paratory to his departure when his
.,eaman did hl. duty well
wife came to him trembling and.
Tha Change of a Comma.
Mil
‘ •liPP*‘d and from “»ft he
Rough on tha Doctor.
throwing her arms about him. tagged
“Whenever she asks me to do any
Oue night as' a Canadian doctor who Fe". ten to rl.e .nd climb th. .hroud. on thing.” soliloquized Mr. Meeker pen
him to take her with him.
He bad accomplished an object, but Ilves In eastern Ontario was driving
*■*"?! hta
with . glad 'Ayo. sively. "1 always go and do it, like a
he did not yet feel sure that It was ac luto a village he saw a chap, a little
fool."
the
worse
for
liquor,
amusing
a
crowd
complished for all time. He told her
“Yes." said'Mrs. Meeker, who hap
“
f
.
^Tutors
with
the
antics
of
his
that It would tie Inconvenient for him
pened along In time to overhear him.
trick
dog.
The doctor watched him
■ tc take her. but she begged so hard
"Whenever I ask yon to do anything
that he consented. They dined togeth awhile and said: "Sandy, how do you
yon always go and do It like a foot”-
manage
to
train
your
dog?
er and after dinner took a train.
1 can't
Chicago Tribune.
Ttin husband kept hla own counsel teact mine to do anything.'
A Scramble.
Sandy, with that simple look In bis
The wife during the Journey oue even
Ths Baby Helped.
"All the world's a stage”
»yes. Mid. "Well, ,__
you ____
see. ____
doc. you
ing announced that she deslr-d bla as »?•«.
"What of It?'
Jones—Tea; our household now rep
sistance on -a matter that was dis have to know more'n (he dog or you
resents the United Kingdom. Smltb-
nothin? "
tressing her Then she confessed to can't learu him nothing.'
IIow's that? Jones—Why. you see. I
the letters she had received from her
am English, my wife is Irish, tbs
MS" ““"""OV-PtUMUW. nurse
An Ideal Husband.
Mippiwed to be dead lover and asked
is Scotch, and the baby walla.-
The Man-And you really think you
I hint to devise some plan to get rid of
I-ondon Express.
him without hurting hla feelings. The have an Ideal husband, don't you? The
„ Hì»
Point.
Matrvo l know | have Why. he
hnatnind took her In hla arms and con
The Stage Manager-He can
Changed.
treats me as If he were a candidate for dninken parta" batter than anr Play
teased that be had written the letters.
"t>o you believe that man and wo
man
From that time there w^s no offle and 1 was . voter.-Chlcago -» tbe^tage The Basine»
man should have equal rights T’
«hadowy lover between the two. and 'tWi.
-tea. but bea too fond of r.he.1,
“Well. 1 used to, but since I’vs been
-lllustrated Blta.
r*“*a™10« married 1 don't dare to say so.”—
■oon after children came on to
About
the
poorest
kind
of
a
mrrnt»
itrrngthen the union between husband
Cleveland Leader.
tlon Is the kind ■ man gets for lieing
, sad wits.
Fortune brine. In some botta that
sarcastic -Chicago Record Herald. *
J. ANTHONY T A INING
»1* not »teered.-Shakerare.
Men make bouses, bot women make
I ¿ A Shadowy Lover. J
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