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T i LLAMGOK HEADLIGHT, NOVEMBER 18. 1909. ENGLISH SCHOOLS. ier.tino a Furnished Flat In the English Metropolis. THE tricks of the agent . first Everything Is Pleasant, but Iftsr «he Place Is Taken the Woes t, ,M Tenant Begin With the Ad- ,art o< th* ln*»ntor* M,n- To the uninitiated American the rent . taruisbed flat lu London seems a ‘ «imple and remarkably lnexpen- muller Every one lu extremely .Ute. and your path is made easy. io sooner have you closed the ,f of your new quarters than you 1 beset by the bogy of "extras.” tulle vou «re taking a contented t st the uew domicile, congratu le yourself on the bargain and Hiking bow much more a similar .e would cost you In New York. L ■oslugs are Interrupted by the Hrsl of the man with the Inventory. Z business is to make an inventory , „ery blessed thing your flat con- * from a four post bed to a kltch- tn ¡1)000. At flrst you are vastly amused over * listing or such apparently lnslgnltl- t Items as "a llucrusta Walton the number of tiles in the flre- , e. the bolts on the windows, the id«on the doors, a description of the Lntlle* on the dressing chest and the umber of screws therein, but when ,,, hire lieeti dragged through every Lo going over these—to us absurd Lin you plunge from rage to de bar and finally collnpse when your ^mentor at last departs. For this iirrminment you have paid from half minea (about $2.<«h upward, accord- it to tbe rent of your flat. Hot tbe real power of the Inventory I<,oly felt when you take your de mure. You may be morally certain ut tbe only damage yon have done U been to break one or two teacups, r which you are quite prepared to ir an extortionate sum without a nrmur. You may be sure of this, but Mently you will receive a bill all utly written out and covering sev- il pages of foolscap and entitled Dilapidations." iou will And that in every room tbe ills have been "chipped," the enamel i tbe bathtub "slightly marred," a «Migrant on a napkin ring “scratcb- l" several saucepans "damaged.” a life batidle "bent." a number of lies “cracked." and so on. I am «Ing from a list of “dilapidations" «voted to friends of mine who bad ■spied a flat for two months, during ikh time, after strenuous cleaning >rts. they left the premises In much ter condition than when they went Tbe bill amounted to £1 18s. 9d.. ably about SOUS. R«e there Is no such fact recog- ivd as ordinary wear and tear on nlture. rnr tbe lease, which Is here called iwement." you have to pay from 10 lllngs up to 8 guineas and more, ac ting io rent. Then tbe government Lip affixed thereto, without which * document is not legal, costs you L bn If a crown («2 cental to a guinea ■ more, again according to rent. ■on may have taken your flat by I» month." but when your agree- Bi- In sent you And out It Is for every L weeks'. You will probably phone Bigent calling his attention to tbe Br. and he will Inform you It is cor ■ that way. B rvntlng an unfurnished flat, tbe Blent term for which 1« three years. B dincover that the electric light fix- v* «re not Included In the rental Best unavailing, you buy them ■ralf and pay for their installation. ■ mast rent also your own gas cook ■ «ove. You fancy tbe fenders for ■ tireplaces must have been over- ■kd. but not so; you must buy them ■»If! As you have been ao accus ed to a continuous supply of hot ■*r. It never occurred to you to in- ■'- Into tbe subject. You And you ■ obtain It only by keeping a con- ■* Are In your kitchen range. ■ tbe penetrating, clammy gray ■«of an English winter draws od ■bltn tn appreciate what It means ■»minus steam beat. Your only de- ■ «re the coal Area, romantic in ■ but totally inadequate to defy ■ marrow reaching, damp cold of ■ho. Ratbroom and halls remain at ■’ temperature, for the grate Area ■w radiate beyond a few feet, ao ■ ®«y »It close and burn or retire ■ romer and freeze. haring learned through pain ■ ’»iwrience tbe futility of struggle ■*' Rogllsb ways and meth ids It ^B»n«lng to watch the explosive ^Bhr«n. who in hotel office, at rail- ® "«lion and on steamships holds «« to the various things he will ■ "il-mlt to He is usually listened ■*i’b a certain exasperating defer- B" which the British underling la ■" mart, r But nothing Is changed^ ■ '• ha« ' submit and tbe «-«»orc ■ **"« G learned the more comfort- ■ * will be. ■ in»n'«rabie stolidity of the •» Ariton is not to be disturtwdl. B'** longer one remains in this ■'tf the more deflnltely one learns B1* English people have a pretty ^*kl klea of commercialism and ■ «m paying for tbe It sano.— J1* Cor New York Americas. 0"* Wish Unfulfilled. "Ton promised that if I would rt* my every wish should be M Husband—Well. Isn’t It? I wish 1 hadn’t married ™s<trsted Bits. ’ results usually aria» ‘••gers. - Herodotus. , Quaint Custom» Ths» Ar. Maintain'd With Religious Cere. Th. head master ot Manchester Gram mar school, in a speech at Rochdale. ' referred to a custom at Rugby school I which forbids a boy ot less than three years' standing to turn up bls trousers I and Insists ou bis doing so after that ’ period. Tbe custom's only a minor Instance of tbe quaint practices that exist at all the great public schools in Eng land and are maintained with religious care, though I d many cases their origin is obscure or unknown. The Shrove Tuesday tossing of tbe pancake at Westminster school, with its ensuing scramble for tbe largest fragment, which gains for its possessor a guinea from tbe dean, is perhaps tbe best kuown among them. A curious cus tom at Marlborough requires every boy to bring to school wltb blm a cushion, technically termed a "kish"- wltit tbe "1” long. This article is bla Inseparable companion lu school time and. In addition to tbe ordinary func tions of a cushion, is employed to car ry books from oue form room to au- otber. At Shrewsbury school, at the be ginning of each term, "bali elections" are held for the posts ot hall crier, ball constable, ball postman and han scavengers. Tbe genial brutality of youth often selects for the position of ball crier either tbe most nervous boy in the school or oue wbo is atUicteil with a stammer. Tbe new boy In the schoolhouse at Rugby is early called upou to take his part in "house singing." At this func tion. which is held in one ot tbe dor mitories. he has to render a song to tbe satisfaction of his audience, the penalty being the swallowing ut H mouthful of soapy water. Another ancient school custom Is the parade of tbe Christ's hospital blne- coat boys before the lord mayor at tbe Mansion House on St. Matthew's day. when the "Grecians." who correspond to "sixth formers" elsewhere, receive a guinea each and the rank and tile of tbe school are presented with new shillings.—London Mail. THE MAN IN THE STAGE. A Tragedy of the Olden Days In New York City. A good ntauy years ago, long liefore sky» nipers and rapid transit were thought of and New York was just a big growing town, they usisl to tell a story that was ghastly enough to cur dle the bliss] of (he moM skeptical and to keep people of uervous temper ament awake of nights. The tale went that of a summer (light a husband and wife, returning home from the theater, euit red u Fifth aveuue stage far downtown and for many blta-ks were tbe only <s-cu|utnts A little above Fourteenth street, how- ever, the stage came to an abrupt slop, tbe door was opened, and three young men entered. One of ibe three bad evidently been drinking heavily for bis cmnpauions were obliged to help faitn to bis seat. The d<s>r was dosed behind them, and the stage eon- tiuued Its Journey northward. About ten blocks farther on one of the young men rose and. bidding his friends good night, stopped the stage and alighted. A few minutes later the second of the three said. “Well, good night. Dick." pulled tbe strati, stepped to tile sidewalk and walked off through one of the side streets There remained In the stage only the busband and wife and tile young man who was obviously under Ibe inttu erne of liquor and who sat In a crouching attitude tn a corner ot tbe stage under tbe dim flickering lamp. After H time the husliHiid noticed that the young man's head seemed tn be drooping as If In sleep, and. fearing that be might be borne beyond Ills destination, be rose, tapped tiiiu on the shoulder and called attention to the number of the street they had Just passed. There was no respouse, anti the husband repeated his words, lean ing over as he did so. Then tie sud denly straightened up. turned to his wife aud said quickly. "We will get ont here." She began to protest, tiut he simply repealed the wolds, pulled the strap and helped her to alight. As they stood under the corner lamppost she turned qiiestlonlngly and naked him why be Insisted on tbelr getting out of ibe bus so far below their destina tion. Most of Them Made by Supposedly "Because." he replied, “tbnt young Respectable Mechanics. tuau's throat was cut from ear to ear.' Every little while, said a detective recently, the police arrest a man with a aet of burglar s tools In bls posses sion. and one naturally wonders where An Old Myth That Goes Back to they all come from. Greeks and Their Sea God. It Is easy to buy a gun of any de Of all the emblems for good fortune scription. and the most reputable per tbe borsesboe stands among the first son would not be ashamed to be seen purchasing tbe most wicked looking Everybody knows It Is unlucky to pass a borsesboe on tbe road without pick knife ever made. But who would know ing It up. it Is a luck emblem of the where to get a "Jimmy'' or a device greatest power. We are indebted for for drilling into a sate or any of tbe this statement to old tales centuries In many tools used by tbe professional age that have descended from father burglar in tbe pursuit or his calling? to sou. from mother to daughter, There are places In tbe large cities where these things are made and sold through tbe years. Tbe old tuytbs repay research The to the users, but such places are ex luck of tbe horseshoe bas a most re ceedingly scarce. It may seem a little strange to learn that most of tbe tools I spectable beginning. It is traced to tbe religion of tbe old Greeks aud their sea used In burglaries are made by me god. Poseidon, wbo was Identical wltb chanics who are looked upon as re the Boman sea god Neptune. spectable men in tbe community. To Poseidon horses were sacred, and When a burglar wants any particu to blm they were sacrificed. Poseidon lar tool made be goes to a mechanic was believed to have created the flrst who can do (he Job and pays bhn per borae wbeu he struck the ground with haps five times what It Is actually his trident and a borse sprang from worth for making tbe tool and keeping tne bole, which afterward Itecame a quiet about It. Many detectives can spring. Tbe sea god was the lord of recall cases of this kind that have springs To him all springs were come to light. ascribed. In the shape of a horse be One In particular occurred some sometimes wandered by the shores ot years ago when an escaped convict bls ocean domain, and where be struck named Williams went to a blacksmith his hoofs deeply there the waters gush and got him to make a lot of drills to ed out and permanent springs were be used In safe cracking lie |wrs,m found. This is tbe reason why horse ally superintended the tempering of shoes are reckoned lucky. Going to tbe tbe steel, but when the job wns nearly root of the matter, one sees a nature completed it leaked out. and Williams myth as tbe root principle. From tbe was arrested. In this instance the sea all rain comes, and to the sea all blacksmith knew nothing of thp use to springs owe primal origin, and to tbe which tbe tools were to be put. Most rain and the fresh waters, sea derived, of tbe tools used by burglars are se we owe all fertility on earth cured in the same way. —Philadelphia Tbe old Greeks therefore worshiped Inquirer. Poseidon as tbe fortune giver through hla springs. They gave him horses, bls Shoemaker'« Candle*. precious beasts, and they adored the 1 well remember some seventy years footprints of horses when they found ago seeing flat candles In use To them, for they might be the very foot produce what was known as the flat prints of the god blmself. candle, which was also sometimes When tbe horses came to be shod the called “shoemaker's candle.” two new transition of tbe luck emblem from tbe ly made "dips” were pressed clime l<> footprint Itself to the shoe mark, prac each other while soft and then again lowered into tbe hot fat. thus bolding tically tbe same thing, was easy. Pegasus, tbe winged borse. from them together as one candle with two whose hoofs tbe water springs gushed wicks. The size could then I* Increas copiously when be came to earth, has ed if desired. This flat candle wns been credited with the origin of the most generally used by shoemakers luck. and tailors, but wns mnde use of In horseshoe Tbe borsesboe was a speclflc against some households whenever an extra earthquakes, it would keep a house bright light for working or reading safe from harm by earth shaking. was required.—Cor. Dickensian. Again one perceives the sea myth— Poseidon was the shaker of tbe earth Ì Too Much Like Work. —Team Owners' Gazette. “Haven't yon a home?” asked the sympathetic citizen. Obeying the Autocrat. .............. Plodding Pete, "I “Yep. , ” . answered That flne old New Englander. Dr Mau a nice botne. but de flrst I'lng I had a t v...^. ...____ Z '' down '----- 1 the Oliver Wendell Holme«, ‘ laid knew k.l'-fl It I. had ...... a .. wood -•-----, pile and a garden rule that the law of the road entitle« - den - •• got •--- and a pump, and ft so much auu a ----- - , _ . , “■ Job -v dat -•-* I i resigned. roolr-nrsl ' — a man to two looks at every pretty like a steady woman. This fair and proper limit Washington Star. provokes no complaint In Kansas City, and It Is not commonly exceeded, Impossible. though we would have to go far »field “How do you overcome Insomnia?" to And a locality with more women •Hay tbe multiplication table up to worth looking at than are seen on tbe twelve times twelve.” streets of Kansas City every day — learn "But I can't get the baby to Kansas City Times it.”—Cleveland leader. BURGLARS’ TOOLS. HORSESHOE LUCK. Not Slept In. “Porter, this berth has been slept I assure you. sab! Mere- It’s tbe one over tbe ly occupied. __ wheels, ssh.”-Puck. "No. sab' Taking Him Dawn. Brown (very proud of bla firstborn) — Ah. eveo now my wife say* be la Jost Mbe me in many of his little way»! •«nlth (gravely)—I hopo abe correcta M b tor it Had All ths Others. “Were you ever In loveT' naked the sweet young thing. "No." replied the bachelor, “hut yon can’t mention any other fashionable disease that I haven't bad.''—Detroit Free Press. Wanted Harmony. Soda Fountain Attendant—What fla vor. please? Silly Young Thing-Have yoo anything In plok to match tbla gown?—Harper’s .Weekly. NEW HOME FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT. The PACIFIC SALVAGE CO. Now open for Business in the Mason Building on 2nd Avenue East, carrying a line of Parlor, Library, Dining Room, Bed Room and Kitchen Furnishings, Pictures. Stoves, Ranges, etc. N ote —We are experienced auctioner* aud appraisers. Will buy you out or sell you out. 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