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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT, MARCH 11, 19C9. E THIEVES OF JAPAN -Ingenious Rascals, Among the Cleverest In the World. ONE OF THEIR FOXY TRICKS. The Method by Which Tn.y Steal th. Shoe. Off th. Wom.n'i Foot In th. Publ io Strc.t.—How a Missr’s Money Chest Wa. Bared and Looted. A An Englishman entered a first class car of one of tbe railroad trains that run between Tokyo and Yokohama. He was a little red In tbe face and up- ently ruffled In temper. He bad t discovered that his pocket bad •n picked iu tbe station, and he ex claimed bitterly against thieves in gen eral and Japanese thieves iu particu lar ■ An American who had been engaged In Yokohama for a number of years noticed tbe Englishman's quandary. Turnlug round to me, be said: “Our iglisb friend seems a bit excited. If growls at having his pocket picked. What would he say If he had the shoes •toi lien off his feet?” ; “That is clearly an Impossibility,” I laughed. ■^*“1 don’t know about that,” be re- ^urui-d “It may not happen with our *iesicrii style of shoes, button and ^Kce: but. all the same, I have beard ami I know it to be a fact that tbe jKaixl:ils of Japanese have been stolen Off their feet." ^■“Well. bow Is It doue?" I asked. ■ “Very simply." he answered. “Sup- • a Japanese wouiuu who has a particularly line pair • ...... of ’ lacquered ’.«logs Is one of a great crowd that is watching a passing procession <r a re HBtelous celebration of priests In front Of a temple. Along comes an expert fflblckpo. hot— or pickfoot. I don't know - .iWhJch you want to call him. Hls ^Keen eyes, fastened on tbe ground, dls- *(,:Jtovcr those desirable clogs. There- np' :i he makes up his mind that he Wants them. ■ ""The first thing she knows the own er of tbe clogs feels an unpleasant ■ •ensntiun in her left foot. Naturally •he wants to stop It, and quite me- Mthanlcally and almost absently she /;Blips her right foot out of Its clog and begins to scratch that uncomforta- ^Fble spot in her left foot with her toes, he feels relieved. Forgetting all •bout the Incident, she becomes ab sorbed In the spectacle again. Soon the Irritation crosses over to a sim ilar spot In her right foot. Absently, once more, she slides her left foot out of its clog ar.d begins to soothe the troublesome spot with her toes.” “The thief was responsible for the Irritation and walked off with the clogs.” I said. .j “Certainly. Tbe rascal caused the trouble with a bit of straw or wire,” he returned. ' “But one would think that the mo ment the foot of the victim touched the ground Its clog would be missed • nd tbe thief would run the chance of being caught before tbe second could be stolen.” I “Oh, that is one of the cleverest parts of tbe trick," explained my friend. “The thief comes supplied with a pair of cheap wooden clogs costing but a few sen. and the owner of the lacquered footgear goes away with them and never notices tbe dif ference, at least not until it Is too late to profit from the knowledge.” I “Are Japanese thieves so very clev er. then?" I asked. f "Oh, very!” he returned. "Some time ago I heard of one of them who used to carry a handful of watch rings | to fit Into the stems of all sorts of watches that be might come by dis honestly. Once he lifted a watch In a train, and tbe owner, missing it, but not knowing who the thief was, set up a shout and had a policeman sum moned. The police, to satisfy the vic- ' tim. Insisted that every one In tbe train show hls watch. When the turn [ of tbe thief came he drew out of his pocket tbe stolen timepiece, and Its original possessor, not recognizing it on account of the changed ring, missed an easy chance to regain his property. “It was tbe same fellow, 1 believe,” a he continued, “who managed by tbe expenditure of a little money to have himself enrolled under different names in the various lists of different towns. When arrested he gave one of these various names to the authorities. Tbe police, on looking up tbe record of the name given, were unable to find any black marks against it. Thus he al ways managed to escape with a light punishment for hls first offense, com mitted I don't know how many times. "But I don't know that any of these 3 fellows were as clever as another thief I heard about You know many of the Japanese sleep on a sort of bed made up on tbe floor, called a fenton. Well, an old Japanese miser kept bis money in tbe bouse, concealed In a small chest of drawer«. In tbe daytime be never took hls eyes off bls treasure, and at night be had bls feuton pushed tightly against It, so no robber could get at bls money without awskening him. “For a long time a gang of thieves had been pnxsllng their brains to find a way of stealing the board without being detected. Well, on a certain night one of them entered the house and gently, little by little, pulled the bed on which the miser lay away from the chest of drawers. Then he quickly emptied the drawers of tbeir cur rency, sboTed tbe tied back to Its orig Inal position and made hls escape. “Several days passed before tbe un- fortunate miser detected bls loos."— . Chics go News. I HER MISTAKE. FREAK PAINTINGS. Th. Way It Was Explain«! to Her by th. Clumsy Man. Owing to the fact that the car lurch ed suddenly as be was passing along the aisle Bronson was deprived of his balance, with tbe result that in attempting to save himself from fall ing he clutched one of the shoulders of a handsome woman who had suc ceeded In getting a Beat. Moreover, he knocked her beautiful bat awry and with great difficulty avoided step ping on her toes. As be succeeded in recovering his equilibrium tbe lady turned toward him and said: “You contemptible pup! I wish you to understand that I am not a lamp post or a piece of furniture to be clung to for support. Y’ou ought to ride in a cattle train. You have no right to crowd in where you can tear other people to pieces with your big. awkward hands. You pitiful clown! You ought to be thrown out Into the street. You are not fit to be allowed to go where yon are likely to Inter fere with tbe comfort of refined ¡;- jo - pie. You unmannerly bumpkin! You deserve to be"— “Excuse me, madam,” Bronson man- aged to say. “you have made a mls- take.” “A mistake!” the lady demanded, her eyes flashing with wrath. “What do you mean?" “I am not your husband.”—Chicago Record-nerald. A Tiny Work of Art and Rosa's Trans THE CLERMONT. Passage by Steamboat From New York to Albany. In August, 1808—the exact day Is a matter of dispute—tbe steamboat Cler mont made tbe first passage by steam from New York to Albany. The dis tance, somewhat less than 150 miles, was covered in tblrty-two hours, a record bailed as a triumph in speed, for previously the passage between the two cities averaged four days. Robert Fulton had experimented with steam several years, but the Cler mont was the first boat he constructed on a large scale. As he could not get the engine he wanted In this country he ordered one from England. The Clermont was so reconstructed In the following winter that It gave more commodious accommodations to trav elers, and the year 1808, which was the first year of regular travel by steamboat, Fulton made It a point to start his boat precisely on scheduled time. Curiously enough, a portion of the public complained of this. It was not until well along in the summer that travelers got accustomed to It. Previously boats had been held for two hours at the request of passen gers who weren’t ready. Fulton's per severance won public approval before the season closed.—Anaconda Stand* ■rd. First Cleared His Doubts. A well known English gentleman engaged a tall and powerful high lander to act as gamekeeper on his es tate. Ilavlng been a considerable time at his post and not having caught any poachers, the gentleman suspect ed his gamekeeper of carelessness. So one dark night he disguised him self and went out with a gun to poach on his own ground. He bad flred only one or two shots when be was sud denly pounced upon from behind and his gun wrenched away. Then kicks and blows were showered upon him until he fell down half Insensible. The highlander then walked away quietly, and when the gentleman re covered sufficiently he crawled home and took to bis bed for two weeks. He has now no doubts as to whether the man can perform his duty or not. Home, Sweet Home. The old man sat on tbe park seat, rivers of tears flooding his clothes. A sympathetic passerby, noting the high tide, stopped and asked If be were ill. "Yes, sir,” said the sorrowing old fellow. “I've jest 'ad bad news from 'ome. Tbe 'ouse that 'as sheltered me for years is to be torn down, and I 'aren't a penny to my name to stop It. Everybody will be turned out, and goodness knows what'll 'appen to’em!” “Poor soul!” said the sympathetic passerby, bestowing a penny on tbe ■ad old man. “That Isn't much, but you are welcome to it. And where is this old home of yours, my friend?” “Up at the joll, sir,” replied tbe old man. “It seems very hard. I’ve lived there five and twenty years.”—London Opinion. formed Harpsichord. Specially prepared canvases and gild ed frames are not essential to tbe making of great paintings. This has been demonstrated by the artists who have painted masterpieces on scraps of board, shells, grains of corn and the walls of rooms and prison cells. Some of the most valued art objects belong to the freak class. The smallest painting In tbe world of distinctive merit was executed on tbe smooth side of a grain of corn by a Flemish artist. Ou this limited sur I face the artist painted in perfect de tail a mill, a miller with a sack of grain on his back, a horse and cart and a group of several peasants standing I In a road. The largest picture ever painted is ! said to be a panorama of the Missis I sippi river, executed by John Bauvard, an artist who died in Watertown, S. D., in 1891. The gigantic canvas was twenty-two feet high and nearly two miles long. It gave a detailed repre sentation of 2.000 miles of the Father of Waters. The largest of the old masters’ can vases la Murillo's “Appearance of the Christ Child to St. Anthony cf Ta- dua.” The picture is ten feet wide and eighteen feet high. It i3 related that a friend called on Salvator Rosa In Florence one day and found him playing on an old harp sichord. The caller asked the artist why be kept such a worthless instru ment. “Why, It Is not worth a scudo!” the I friend said. "I will wager,” replied Rosa, “that it shall be worth a thousand before ■you see it again.” A bet was made. Rosa immediately painted a landscape on tbe lid that not only sold for 1,000 scudl. but was ac counted a work of great merit. The celebrated St. Juhn'3 Wood clique of artists In London executed a series of large frescoes In oil on the walk of the studio of J. E. Hodgson, one of the members. The paintings were begun In the winter of 1SG4-5. Shakespearean subjects were chosen, and the figures were a little under life size. When Hodgson moved from his stu dio an unappreciative tenant covered the walls of the room with brown wall paper, completely hiding the paintings. The freseees were rediscovered by ac a cident forty years afterward and re stored.—Kansas City Star. FIRE The Entire Stock of BOOTS AND SHOES of The Price He Had to Pay For Expert Surgical Treatment. The famous surgeon Velpeau was visited one day at his house durlug the consultation hour by a marquis renowned for his closeness. Velpeau Informed the marquis that an opera tion was urgent and that the fee would amount to 4,000 francs. At this the marquis made a wry face and left. A fortnight later Dr. Velpeau, while mak ing bis rounds In the Ilopltal de la Charite, had his attention attracted by a face that seemed familiar to hint. In answer to his Inquiry it was stated that the patient was a footman of a nobleman In the Eaubourg St. Ger main. The «urgeou fouud that his case resembled in every particular the somewhat unusual one for which tbe marquis had consulted him a fortnight previously. He refrained, however, from making any comments. Three weeks after the operation, when the patient was about to be discharged, Dr. Velpeau called him aside and ex claimed: “Mousieur, I am extremely flattered and pleased to have been able to cure you. There is, however, a small formality with which you will have to comply before 1 can slgu your exeat—that is, you will have to sign a check for lO.OfJO francs In behalf of the public charity bureau of your met- ro[>olltan district.” Tbe patient's face became livid. “You can do what you like about it,” continued the doctor, "but if you refuse all Paris will know tomorrow that tbe Marquis de D. adopted the disguise of a footman in order to secure free treatmeut at this hospital and to usurp tbe place which belongs by right to a pauper." Of course the marquis paid.—Argonaut The Storm Noee at Sea. The picturesque name of storm nose (Gewltternasel Is given In Germany to the wave of high barometric pressure which often precedes a storm or a heavy squall. The barometer rises sud denly and then falls more gradually. It Is believed that this phenomenon Is responsible for sudden changes In the level of the sea. Observations on the sens surrounding Denmark have led to the conclusion that the change of level thus produced sometimes amounts to no less than three feet —Youth'« Com panion. How to Make a Cup of Cocoa. Take a tablespoonful of cocoa and put it In a tin cup. Add one teaspoon ful of granulated sugar and one table spoonful of boiling water. Mix well, so that there will not be any lumps of cocoa. Pour a little less than one- half pint of milk Into a saucepan and cook it, stirring all the time, until it is scalded—that Is. until a film Th. D.vil’s Kn.il. forms on It and It begins to bubble a Among the famous bells of Dews little. Stir the cocoa mixture Into bury. Yorkshire, England. Is one this and cook until it bolls up.—De known as “Black Tom of Sootbill.’' lineator. which was presented to the church tn expiation of a murder. “Black Tom” Businessliks. Is always rung on Christmas eve. Its The Beloved One—You object to solemn tolling as it strikes the first Horace because be'« not businesslike. tap at exactly midnight Is known nil Stern Parent—Certainly; he's only aft over Yorkshire ns the "devil's knell.” er you for your money. Beloved One It being the notion that when Christ —Well, pa. doesn't that prove he's was born the devil died. — London businesslike?—Kansas City Independ Standard. ent Shut Him Up. Net a Matter of Chance. Baldhended Gentleman (baring bi« The Vicar—Is ft true. Samuel, that hoot« polished In a hotel)—Confound It. your father allows games of chance to you take an abominably long time be played tn your house? Tbe Boy— about It. Shoeblack—Yes. sir. It start There ain't no chance about It. xur; done so quick as when you ’«• your they all cheats!—London Opinion. 'air cut!—London Tlt-BIts. Where there la much pretension Do you wish to find out the really much baa been borrowed; nature never sublime? Repent the I.tAd's Prayer.— prêt end».- La va ter Napoléon. the Red Front Shoe Store IS A CHARITY PATIENT. FIRE FIRE Is offered for Sale at COST Owing to the damaged condition of the store building am compelled to dispose of my stock at a sacrifice on account of the ¡ate fire. The public is invited to come and get lots of Bargains from a well selected stock of Boots and Shoes Remember the place: The Red Front Shoe Store. BROWNE, Salesman P F 1 HEADQUARTERS FOR DAIRYMEN’ AND S SUPPLIES STEEL STOVES & RANCES. We carry a Larue St< c k of n Hardware, Tinware, Glass —F71 Q and China, Oils, Paint, Varnish, Doors. Window Sashes, «JO Fine Line of Choice GROCERIES a 1 s Agents for the Great Western Saw ALEX The Most McNAIR CO. Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County ». V. i W i I . ' Cures Backacba * Corrects Irregularities I L Will cure any case of Kidney or Bladder Disease not beyond the reach of medicine. No medicine can do more. Do not risk having Bright’s Disease orDiabetes J. S. Lamar, Tillamook, and Hawk & Miller, Bay City. □RIND The Three Churches of the Bible. children of Israel were in bondage ami [TO THE EDITOR TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT | The old testament is devoted mostly to describing the old Jewish church and its customs. There has never been a better organized body of people on the earth, their laws and mode of living made them prosperous both financially and in number. We have no way of computing the number of people that claimed heirship to Abraham. The new testament treats of the Gospel Church of Jesus Christ, and was very poorly organized. Unlike the Jewish Church it depended on conver sions from other religions instead of birthright, although every Jew was cir. cumcised the 8th day. John introduced baptism by water, which has always remained the sign or token of the Church of Christ and no one has a right of recognition in his church who has not been baptised. The sacrament is for the full pledged Chris, tian. Go I promised that a remnant of Israel should be spared ami the Jewish synagogue is a modument of that promise to this day, and Christ said his church would stand forever, so long as time lasts. The third Church was revealed on the day of Prnticost and the Bible gives us very little light on how this church should be managed, for if it did, there would be no need of the Spirit. We read “ they were all with one accord in one place ’ Just as God promised Abraham that hie seed would be as the stars <>f heat an and thesaioh of the sea shore without number, and as he promised a Saviour that would re deem the world, the Holy Ghost was promised. Christ had told them that when he went away, he would send it They were looking for something they could not descrilw. relying simply on ti e promise "and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.” Nothing of this kind had ever been heard of before. This was seperate and distinct from any thing iu the time of Mow« or Christ. T.ie promise of God became a reality. Etery religion has its di awbacks. Th Christ and his followers persecuted, the world did not understand them, so with these people. " These men are full of new wine.’ What to me is the most sacred of all Go I’s »creation appeared to those who had not received the gift of the Holy Ghost nothing but a new wine drunk. People who are devoid of conscience are never effected by the office of thp Spirit any more than a person who could not read would be effected by the law of Moses or the gospel of Christ. There is a wide difference lietween a Church of th« Holy Ghost and a lunatic asylum, but if I were filled with the Holy Ghost I would terribly hate to truU my case with the decision of the popular preacher. I respect the church of Christ and the • Jewish synagogue, but unless there is a church that is dedicated to the gift and offi *e of the Holy Ghost I can have no place of worship, I would as soon meet to worship with a band of monkeys as with men who are'dumb to the com i munion of the Holy Ghost. J. C. Gori. ------------------ ■■ Stiff Neck. Stiff neck is caused by rheumatism of i the muscles of the r.eck. It is usually confined to one side, or to the back of the neck and on»* side. While it is often quite painful, quick relief may be had by applying Chamberlain’s Liniment. Not one case of rheumatism in ten re quires internal treatment. When ».here is no fev«r and no swelling as in muscu* |ar and chronic rheumatism, (’haniher ■ Iain's Liniment will accomplish morel than anv internal treatment. For sale | by Lamar's Drug Store S tate of O hio , C ity of T oledo , ( H H Laxative Fruit Syrup Pleasant to take The new laxative. Does not gripe or nauseate. Cures stomach and liver troubles and chronic con stipation by restoring the natural action of the stom ach, liver and bowels. <«fu»o aubatltutaa. Price BOo. J. S. Lamar, Tillamook. Hawk & Miller, Bay City. OUT OF DOOR WORKER Men who conno for a rainy day. find the greale comfort and fre of bodily movement in WATERPROOF ■ OILED CLOTHING SUCKERS'399 SUITS‘3®?' Every garment bearing the »ign of the fish guaranteed waterproof Calalog true . • -<7?**-* k 7 BOb’O. u s • Luc as C m s tv ■ F ink J Cheney tnskrs oath thst he is senior partner of the firm of E J. Cheney Mt Co., doing brndne«* in th« City of Toledo. Couu*y and State aforesaid and Inal «aid firm will i>ay the •umof OMR HUNDRED DOLLAMM for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the u*» of Hafl'a Catarrh Cnre FRANK J. CHFNEY Sworn to before and subscribed in my pres ence, thia 6th day ofIxrember, A l). i«S6. . . ‘ f ar. ai . I ’ I A W GLEASON, Notary Public. 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