T illamook
Jet.
TESTING THE TEACHER.
headlight ,
In bl« “Mirror of Stones” Camillus
Leonurdus culls Jet "black amber" uml She Was Once One of the Quaint Char
states that It |a>saeHMes the peculiar
acter« of Waahington.
property of attracting to It when rub-
Old. queer, sharp tongued Anne Roy-
In the town records of the city of
Boston there is a curious passage tKtl light auhMtawes of all kinds, He all. traveler, editress and interviewer,
lbe thin smoke pro [ was for many years a familiar figure
which records bow a schoolmaster was also tells us that
duced by this frit lion of rubbing was in the streets of Washington, trotting
examined and what happened. Tbe
used by the ancient Britain* fur driv indomitably about her business, very
manner I d which the visit ut ins|>ectiou
ing away devils and dissolving spells ; poor. very persistent, often trouble
is recorded makes one incline to the
“.let,” says Dr. Young, “appears to some. often rebuffed, but with quuli-
view that the unlucky sch«s>lmaster
be wood in a high slate of bltuniiniza ! ties of honesty and courage to be re-
may nut have had fair play, although
tiou.” And certainly jet often appears . spected.
if he was really inedh ient be may be
with traces of ligneous structure At . There is given in the story of her
said to Lave been judged by bis peers.
tbe same dine there are specimens of life by Sarah Harvey Porter a delight
In the record for tbe 22d of May,
bones which seemingly have been grad ful glimpse of her visit to ex-Presideut
1722. it is set forth that:
“Coll Pen Townsend. Jeremiah Al ually impregnated with and at last Madison and his wife. The contrast
len Esqr. A John Edwards together wholly replaced by this substance. between the gracious mature beauty
with tbe Select men. Vlssitted tbe Among the jet rock there is found a I of charming Dolly Madison, elegant In
wrighting School at the Southerly End liquid hydrocarbon somewhat resem : her rustling black silk, and the funny
of Boston on Tbirsday tbe 24th apll bling petroleum oil. which occurs in | little limping, shabby figure in anti
1722. aud Examined tbe Scholars un tbe cavities of ammonites, etc., and is quated skirts and ridiculous wadded
der mr Ames Angers tuition as to their also sometimes found in nodules. the bonnet, could scarcely have been en
proficiency In Reading writing Scy- presence of which is generally sup hanced.
posed to point to a rich vein of jet.
As usual, old Anne Royall bad tramp
pherlng & tbe masters ability of teach
From these and other observations It ed to save carriage hire: as usual, her
ir.g A Instructing youth bis rules &
methods therefore And are of Opinion would appear that jet existed as a errand, probably none too welcome to
That it will be no Service to the Town liquid substance and that this sub her hosts, was to secure an interview
to Continue mr anger in tbut Employ.” stance gradually permeated between and use a descriptive background. But
Whereupon It was voted tbut the tbe laminations of the shales, etc., cov !>olly Madison saw in the absurd, in
said Mr. Arnes Anger should not con ering over or in some cases entirely re quisitive. bespattered person before
tinue master of tbe “Said South placing any woody matter which it her neither the reporter nor the guy-
met with.-New York Post.
only an aged aud weary woman who
school.”
was her guest. She hurried to bring
it Is true that nothing is Raid of the
Snuff Spoons.
her a glass of water, then quite sim
methods of spelling Inculcated at tbe
All the world is familiar with snuff ply stooped and retied her loosened
“wrightlng School,” and it is also pos
sible that a clerk rather than the com boxes, but snuff . ...... ns are pretty lit shoe laces and wiped the Virginia mud
mittee was responsible for the errors tle refinements of which this genera from the tired old feet.
It Is small wonder that Mrs. Royall's
of tbe record, but there Is certainly tion has hardly heal'd. Very probably
something absurd in tbe passage as it they cattle into use about two years clothes were queer. She was scarcely
after Sir George Hooke’s <’X|icdltion to of a bent of mind frivolously to pursue
stands.—Exchange.
Vigo bay In 1702. when he captured the fashions had she had the time and
half a ton of tobacco and snuff from money, but she had neither. Her pa
THE BLUE WHALE.
the Spanish galleous. and snuff thus per. the Hunt">ss. of which she was
became a common article in England owner, editor and chief reporter, ouce
A Monster Skeleton That Is Eighty
One of the characters in a comedy published conspicuously on the edi
seven Feet In Length.
published at Oxford in 1704, entitled torial page a notice which is perhaps
What is claimed as the largest ani “An Act at Oxford.” by Thomas unique in journalism:
mal In the world is represented by a Baker, says, But I carry sweet snuff
“No paper will be issued from this
colosaal skeleton lu the museum of for the Indies," to which Arabella re- office this week. We really must take
Christchurch. New Zealand, says the plies: "A spoon too. That’s very gal one week once in ten years to fix up
Loudou Globe. This Is the remains of lant. for to see some people run their our wardrobe, which is getting shabby.
a large specimen of the blue whale fat Augers into a box is as nauseous Our next issue will welcome congress.
stranded on the coast of that country. as eating without a fork.”
This whale is probably the largest of
I d the forties and fifties of the last
WILD GEESE.
all living animals. The length of the century snuff spoons were still in use
skeleton is elgbty-seveu feet, and the on the Scottish border. They were of
head alone Is twenty-one feet.
The bone and of a size to go into the snuff They Never Feed Without Throwing
Out Scouts or Sentries.
weight of the bones is estimated at box. People fed their noses, ft was
Some of the common sayings con
nine tons. This gigantic whale gets said, as naturally as they carried soup
Its name of blue whale from the dark to their mouths. As late as 1877 a cerning birds are stupidly wrong.
"You stupid goose!” is an expression
bluish gray of its upper surface. The farmer at Norham-on-Tweed was seen
tinge of yellow on Its lower part has using oue.-London Saturday Review. constantly beard, yet the goose, wheth
er wild or tame, is most sagacious.
led to the unme "sulphur bottom." by
Wild geese, for Instance, never feed
which it Is known on the western side
A Tramp of Resource.
without throwing out scouts or sen
of the Atlantic. It is otherwise known
Much experience of thirst’- tramp«
us Sibbald's rorqual (Balenoptera sib- had caused the author of “Au English tries. J. G. Millais describes bow he
saw a Hock of geese feeding with sen
baldii).
Holiday,” J. J. H Issey. to foreknow
tries out and bow after a time one of
The chief food of this gigantic ani almost exactly what they would sa
mal Is a small marine crustacean to him. One day. when sending 111 the sentries went up to a bird that
(Tbysanopoda luertnlsi, known to the motorcar slowly along a shady Eng was feeding and gave it a gentle peck
whales as "kril.” Another species of lish road, be met one of this guild, who ou tbe back. The latter thereupon left
the same shrhnplike group has been accosted him with the preliminary its grazing and went off to take up
obtained in thousands from the stom touch of bto cap Mr. IIIssey antici guard, while the sentry took its turn
to feed.
achs of mackerel caught on the Corn pated him by exclaiming:
“Gentle as a dove” is such a com
ish coast. The nearly related opossum
“I be mortal thirsty! Have you. good
shrimps found In enormous uumbers sir. tbe price of a glass of ale about mon proverb that tbe dove has become
in the Greenland seas form the chief you? I’ve driven nearly tifty miles to the emblem of peace. Quite a mis
food of the common whale. Some of day. and since the morning not a bite take, for all the dove and pigeon tribe
are great fighters, and in tbe breeding
the thysanopodne are phosphorescent of food has passed my lips.”
season the cock birds indulge in bat
and contribute to the luminosity of the
The look of astonishment that tramp
tles royal.
sea.
gave me was a delight to observe. But
The foolish prejudice against all
this tramp was a man of ready re
birds of prey Includes that pretty little
After the Show.
source, anil, seeing 1 was a hopeless
A well dressed man. said to be an case, be rose to the occasion and hawk tbe kestrel. Now, if the kestrel
Englishman, has been arrested in promptly exclaimed, with what dig were known as tbe mouse falcon it Is
Montmartre, I’arlB, on a charge of ten nity he could command and with a possible that keepers would not in
variably shoot it ou sight, The kestrel
dering bad half sovereigns for dinners comically serious expression:
lives mainly on mice aud wire worms,
and entertainments, which reminds us
“If there were a policeman in sight
of the story about the touring com I would give you iu charge for begging, it is quite Innocent of killing par-
t ridges.
pany which has been doing very bad
that 1 would
In a game preserving district in
business In "the smalls.” While the
southern Scotland kestrels were prac
proprietor and sole resiionsible mana
Between Two Fires,
ger was standing outside the tempo
tically exterminated a few years ago.
She was desperately gone on them
rary theater (the Corn Exchange) a
What was tbe result? Over a tract of
iMjth. and she couldn't think which
•ountry of 1.200 square miles field mice
very small boy with a very large mel
one to choose. It was rather perplex
increased in such myriads that tbe
on arrived and proposed to barter the
Ing, uo doubt, for oue she was bound
grazing was absolutely ruined. One
fruit for a seat In the gallery. The
to refuse.
sheep farmer lost $8,000 in one year.—
bargain was duly concluded, and the
She gazed at them both In despair,
scene now changes to the Interior of
Exchange.
quite puzzled to know what to do. As
the theater after the performance.
soon as she thought about oue she
"Boy." says the manager severely,
The Wheel Problem.
eared for the other one too.
Which, at any given moment. Is mov
•‘that melon was rotten.” "That’s all
They still remained under her gaze,
right." returns tho youthful critic; “so
ing forward faster—the top of a coach
little recking the trouble they brought.
wheel or the bottom?
was yer show "—London Globe.
It really was hard to decide. They
The answer to this question seems
were both so delightful, she I bought,
simple enough, but probably nine |>er-
Difference In Time.
She couldn't say which one she'd sons out of ten. asked at random,
When It is noun at any given place have;
her efforts fell hopelessly flat,
would give the wrong reply. It would
It la Nimilarly noon at all other points
It's really exceedingly hard select-
appear at first sight that the top aad
having tlie name lougitudinul meridian,
Ing a new autumn hat.
bottom must be moving at the same
and the sun is In Its zenith where
rate—that la, the speed of the carriage.
meridian and equator Intersect.
Ho Told Her.
But by a little thought it will be dis
For business convenience every fif
Housekeeper—You promised that If covered that the bottom of the wheel
teen degrees of longitude evenly di vid
I'd give you a good meal and a suit is I d fact, by the direction of Its mo
ed from Greenwich has the same time,
of old clothes you'll tell me bow to tion around its axis, moving backward,
being the distance that the earth trav
keep the premises free from tramps.
in an opposite direction to that which
els In one hour, lu the United States
Tramp—Yea. mum. iiu' I'm a mao the carriage Is advancing and is con
we have eastern, central, mountalu
of me word. mum. an' 1'11 keep me sequently stationary in space, while
and Pacific time. Thus when it to
promise, although that meal wasn't no the point on top of the wheel is mov
noon at New York It Is 11 a. m. at Chi
great shakes an' this suit of clothes
ing forward with the double velocity
cago. central time; 10 n. m at Denver,
ain’t much of a fit. But I'll tell ye.
of Its own motion around the axis and
mountain time, and 0 a. m. at San
"Well, what course am 1 to pursue?” the speed at which the carriage moves.
Francisco. Pacific time. — New York
“Never give ’em anything, mum.
American.
Good day. inu m.”
NAME OF DIRECTORS—TIME TO SERVE.
No of
Diet. Three Year«.
1.—P. Brown.
Irate Stranger—Look here! I thought
Tou told me that dog 1 bought from
you bad a good many fine points. He
looks like he has been shot full of ar-
rows.
Mouutalneer Pete—Those be the flue
points, stranger He tackled a porcu
pine the day before you bought him.—
Loa Angeles Times.
On« Foot In tho Grov«.
"You aee that strapping, robust man?
When I saw him last night he had one
foot tu the grave."
"Extraordinary! Who Is he?”
"He Is playing the gravedigger in
’llnmlet' at the local theater."
Inconeietent.
"He vowed he would love me al
ways, no matter what happened.”
"Welir
"Aud got mad five mtnutea later be
cauae I bad a pin In my belt.”
Th« Part It Was.
Teacher— In this sentence. ‘The sick
boy loves his medicine.” what part of
speech Is "loves’" Small Roy- Please.
ma nta. lt'a (Ue part that ain't eo,-Ch>
tago Near».
|
Good and Simple.
Let It not be in any man's power to
say truly of thee that thou art not
simple or that thou art uot good, but
let him be a liar whoever shall think
nuytblng of this kind about thee, and
this la altogether In thy power, for
who Is be that shall hinder thee from
being good and slmple?-Marcus An
tonlus.
How Ha Raised It.
An Apt Simile.
Beauty to part of the finished lan
Sows men bare « career like a golf
ball. They are helped cut of one bole guage by which goodness speaks.—
only to get into snotber.—Lippincott's. Biot.
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A. Tinnerstet.
C. S. Wells.
W B. Smith
Wm. Schollmeyer.
W. H. Christensen.
M. L. Barber.
A. Bunn.
W. C. King
I;^es Williams.
F^M. Wakeley.
Charles Desmond.
H. L. Sherwood.
N. McMillan.
J. Rupp.
L A. Hdirar.
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W. Tubbesing.
L J. Redberg.
Chas’. Lee.
M A. Jackson.
Geo B Lamb.
Brick Glad.
S. Scovell.
John Hopfield.
Axel Nelson.
F. M. Shearer.
Gilbert Belleque.
C. A. Curry.
L. E. Whiteman.
Mrs. Lillie Edwards.
A. Arstell.
M. T. Chance.
Chas. Easom,
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A. H Beaty.
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Fred Kabbe.
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George Watt.
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U. Znrfluch.
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J. S. Davis.
Orley Kellow.
C A. Elliott.
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George Higgins.
John Fleck.
Mrs. Alvin Juhrs.
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J. A. West.
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O. W. Kinnaman.
Henry A Ely.
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S. Barber.
Mr». Row Crawford.
T. W. Lynter.
MuRRie lllinKvworth.
Win. Armstrong.
Mrs. Mina Follett.
George w Phelps.
— W J. Gilbert.
Alva Finley
(.’has. A. Swenson.
H. V Alley.
Mrs. Ruth Desmond.
E B, Cross
Mrs. S. McMillan.
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Tillamook.
Nehalem.
Oretown,
Netarts
Beaver.
Tillamook.
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Nehalem.
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Hebo.
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Hobionville.
W. R. Robedee
Woods.
Dollie Ward.
Oretown.
D. J. Dunn.
Cloverdale.
E. E. Webb.
Sandlake.
Cloverdale.
Mrs. Theresa Martin.
Tillamook.
Mrs. Dora Daniel.
Balm.
Tillamook.
c. J. Crook.
Hemlock
John Creecy.
Blaine
Geo. R. McKimens.
Nehalem.
Mrs. Pauline Batterson.
Balm.
Miss Lucy E. Doughty.
Bay City.
R. Y. Blalock.
Beaver.
James Goldsworthy.
Hemlock,
Paul Kingston.
Marx.
Paul Huhl.
Wilson.
H. J. Tohl.
Hemlock.
Mrs. Nellie Wallace.
Dolph.
Mrs. L. A. Elliott.
Tillamook.
Mrs Mary R. Boy akin.
Nehalem.
F. D. Mitchell.
Bay Ocean.
J. J. Hudson.
Cloverdale.
G. W. Eichinger.
Hobsonvllle.
Mrs. E. M. Johnson.
Beaver.
Chester A. Tooxe.
Otis.
Mrs. Albertine Zimmerman. Nehalem,
S. V. Anderson.
‘rillamook.
Mrs Jacob Nicklaus.
Beaver.
Mrs Minnie B. Ely.
Hemlock.
F. L. Lent.
Pitner.
Mrs. W. H. Hoskins.
Hobsonvllle.
W. S. BUEL, County Superintendent
rillamook
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The Most
A rare form of drinking vessel Is
the possession of the corporation
Hull. This Is a whistle tankard which
belonged to Antbouy Lambert, mayor
of Hull in 1609. This flue specimen
of old English silverware Is fitted
with a whistle, which comes Into play
when the tankard is empty and Is evi
dently meant to be used as a signal for
more liquor. It is said that only one
other whistle tankard Is to be found
tn England, so temperate is England
now!—London Chronicle.
“How on earth did you ever culti
vate such a beautiful black eye?” ask
A Good Alarm Clock.
ed Brown’s friend.
Ilusband—Why don’t you have the
"Oh." reput'd Brown, who bad unin
tentionally been Illustrating the fall of I rook shut tbe kitchen door? One can
man on roller skates. “I raised It from smell the breakfast cooking all over
the house. Wife— We leave it open on
a Blip.”—Everybody's Magazine.
| purpose The smell to all that gets the
family up.—Judge.
Shows No Improvement.
”1 don't see that her college cduca
No Terminal Facilities.
tlon has Improved her much."
“They say Harold Codlington has
"Nor
"No. She helps her mother with the brain fever.”
"Impoeslble! Could an angleworm
housework just aa tf she hadn't been
have water on the kneel" — Chicago
educated.”—Detroit Free I’reaa.
Record-Herald.
District Clerk.
______ One Year.
Two Years.
3.—w’. R. Illingsworth.
5. —E. H. Lane.
6. —Fred .Scherzinger.
7. —D. Arrance.
8. —E. K Gilbert.
9. — H T. Botts.
lo.—John Erickson.
1 1 —C. L. Alley.
12. —Janies Christensen.
13. —
14. —Charles Johnson.
15. —
H A. Miles.
16. —F. E. Norton.
James Taggart.
18. —F. D. Stalford.
A. Frasier.
19. —J C. Foster.
Ira Dimond.
21, —A. F. Brown.
22. —Frank Worthington. 1. D. A. Bailey.
Henry Rogers.
23 —T. J Bibby.
O. A Lommen.
24.—Albert Eas«»rn.
Frank Eklof.
25 —Frank Fraser.
I. W Hiner.
26. — G W. W allace.
E E. Rowland.
27. —J. J Hollett.^
George
Loerpabcl.
-Fred Zaddach.
29 -S. Barber.
John
M.
Bodie.
-Albert
E.
Nichols.
31.
W D. Glad well.
32. -W. N. • ays.
John Simmons,
33. -C. E Fearson.
M. L. Sutton.
34. -W. D. Winters.
A. V Brown.
35. -J F Reeber.
J
W. Gilmore.
-P.
Newberg.
36.
M C. Kellow.
37. -David Imlah.
J. H Hathaway.
38. —S. W. Elliott.
D. S. Bovakin.
39. —B A. Todd.
S W. Grabel.
40—J. A. Biggs.
Wm. Glick.
42.—E. A. Lane.
Alvin Juhrs.
43—M Cruniloff.
C. N. Johnson.
45.—L. F. Smith.
John Church.
47. — H. Swarts.
A. Zimmerman.
48. — V. rn. Zimmerman.
G Hanenkratt.
49. —Mike Abplanalp.
Jacob Kumm.
50. —Jacob Nicklaus.
E. T. Coulson.
51. —Mrs. E. T Coulson.
C E. Doughty.
53—Thomas Knobel.
W. H. Hoskins.
—lohn Hickey.
Ths Whistle Tankard.
As Repreeented.
28, 1009.
School Officers for the Year beginning June 21st, 1909
Tillamook County, Oregon.______________
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A Curious Old School Report Made In
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