TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. NOVEMBER 24. 1910
GRIDIRON HEROES.
GROTESQUE NAMES.
DEATH BOARDS.
burdan» That Innocent English Chil
dren Had to Dear.
Curious Custom That Provails In East
ern Bavaria.
HEADQUARTERS FOR
DAIRYMEN’S
SUPPLIR
In the eastern half of Bavaria, says
In England, as in utber countries,
thousands uf people go through life a writer in lAe Wide World Magazine,
Ones Who Never Win Places In cherishing a grudge against their par on the borders of Bohemia. Iles the so
cuts for giving them absurd or tneou culled Bavarian forest. This part of
the Football Hall of Fame.
gruous names. It was most natural tlie country, although It boasts beauti
that a demure and pretty girl in a ful scenery. Is seldom visited by tour
suburb should feel rcsentfu.' ists. probably for the reason that the
AND THEY WEAR NO “LETTER” north
when she bad to answer to the name charms of the region are little known
of Busybody, given In honor of the even 111 Germiiny. Tills part of Hitva-
These Practically Unknown Men Are winner of a race fifteen yearn before. ri.-i has bwn In many ways untouched
liy civilization, aud owing to its seclu
the "Scrub»," Who Htlp to Keep the Among tbe names registered at Som
sion from the outer world some very
Varsity Team on Edge—They Play erset House are Airs and Graces and
! Nun Nicer, which were Innocently strange customs are still in vogue,
the Game For the Gama's Sake.
borne by two little girls who found strongly reminding one of the middle
There is no royal road to a thorough them most embarrassing In after years. | ages.
Gue of these strange customs, strict
The appalling name of Wellington
knowledge of American college foot
ball. The preparation of the varsity Wolseley Roberts was borne by a ly observed by the populntlou. is the
way In which they keep alive the
eleven Is long mid hard. The mills of young man who. in disposition and ap memory of llielr dead by the erection
pearance.
was
anything
but
militant.
the coaches grind slowly, mil they
of what are called "totenhreiter." or
grind exceedingly fine. There Is noth ! nnd as little likely to win fame on “death Isurds." These lire wooden
Oils. Paint, Varnish, Doors. Wine
the battlefield as his predecessors Ar
ing In store for much of the good ma thur Wellesley Wellington Waterloo plunks cut in the h I iiiih .- of tombstones
Sashes
terial that In the eml must Is* rele i'ox und Napoleon the Great Eagar.
I ami roughly pnliitixl Sometimes tney
Ì
hey
gated to the side line. 'These meu.
bear
also
tin-
Image
of
a
saint,
However, even these names, inap
wrapped hi gray blankets, who line propriate aa they may be, are to be lire erecti-d—often in a row of thirty
Hu- low fence surrounding tfie field preferred to Roger the Ass. Anna (slc> and more-on the roadside, ill fields
mid meadows, near i-bafwls and cruel-
mi the day of.the big game, are the Domini Davies ami Boadlcea Basher.
Agents for the Great Western Saw
scrubs. or second team men.
To parents of large families the ad fixes. In the village streets In short.
There is a paradox In their situation vent of another child Is not always everywhere; they are eveu milled to
— their only chance for personal glory welcome, hut It Is scarcely kind to i houses nnd barns.
They do not mark burial places, ns
Iles In the defeat of the varsity eleven. ' make tlie unexpected child bear a tok
There collie» a time In many a big game en of disapproval. It must be rather might be sup|s>s<xl. As soon as a per
The Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County
when n com h. realizing that the day Is , terrible to go through life, for exam son lias died the corpse Is put on a
lost. Unit Ills varsity men have dime ple. us Not Wanted James. What An- bourd. mid there It Iles In state until it
their utmost to no purpose mi l are la- ! Other, Duly Fancy William Brown, or Is put Into the eotfili shortly before the
lug swept steadily down the field, will I even as Last of 'Em Harper, or Still funeral. These boards, theu. are the
throw Into the game scrub after ' Another Hewitt. Aud yet these are so called "death boards." aud lifter the
scrub, boplug against hope that these all mimes which tlie foolish caprice funeral they are cut into u suitable
men will piny Ix-tter than they really
sh.-i|x* und decorated with mi liiscrt|e
of British parents Ims imposed on In
have a right to mid ho turn the tale.
tion contnltilng the nume of the de-
nocent
children.
—
Chicago
Itecord-Her-
And even ten xi-conds in the big game
censed. his uge and In most cases
ald.
give the scrub Ills letter.
some lines of poetry.
So It Is In after years that one may
'These short poems, which are. of
OLD TIME GIRDLES.
point out many n wearer of the letter
course, meant in sober earnest, are oc-
who was uot nearly so gixxl a football
cusmually very amusing. Tbe boards
player as many scrubs. It has hap They Ware Indispensable Articles of are theu stuck somewhere near the
Wear In the Middle Ages.
pened. too. that n mini lies fought f< r
road or In tin- fields, where they some
In the middle ages at the girdle were times accumulate to uii alarming num
years In the hope of milking the eleven,
has improved slowly, if surely, lias hung the thousand and one odds and ber. In tbe poorer districts these
been sent Into the big game ns a flir ends needed nnd utilized in everyday boards are not always cut Into sha|>e
Manufacturers of
lorn hope and has played a game tile affairs. The scrivener had his inkhorn ‘mid painted, but are simply deposited
like of which has not been seen on the mid pen attached to it. the scholar Ills Just as they are at I he foot of some
book or books, the monk his crucifix crucifix, where they remain uulouched
field that season.
Even scrubs take their triumphs and rosary, the Innkeeper bls tallies until they molder away.
and their disappointments differently. and everybody bls knife. So many
There are uot n few who are proud to mid so various were the articles at
A REAL POISON PERIL
have been on the second team 111 the tached to it that tlie flippant began to
year that the first eleven swept all poke fun. In nil old play there Is men
before It. They have no varsity let tion of a merchant who had hanging Venom of the Most Deadly Creature In
This Country.
1er, but the discriminating know that nt his girdle a |Miuch, a spectacle case,
One venomous creature there Is In
they were better players than some a "punnlard." a lien and iiikhorn and
of the varsity men of other years. u "hmidkercher." with many other this country which may Justly be
There ale oilier scrubs who bemoan trinkets besides, of which a merry termed a public peril In the wildest
tile fait I hat they were not In college companion said. “It was like a hab sense. Proportionately to population
when the general average of the play erdasher's shop of small wares." In more victims full to it yearly In the
ers was low anil they would have another early piny a lady says to her United States than to the dreaded
been almost certain to make the first ■mild: "(live me my girdle mid see cobra in India. Some 12.000 Ameri
im. lie it said, however for the that all the furniture be nt it. Look cans are killed every year by its bite.
honor of the second team that In that pinchers, the peukn i',1, the knife Three huudred thousand more are
stances of the latter ty|ie are rare. to close letters with, the bodkin, the made seriously ill from the after ef
A scrub player learns the lesson of ear picker mid the scale be in the fects. Unfortunately the virus works
self sacrifice. It I h his but to lx* walk case." Girdles were in some respects so slowly that alarm is stilled. The
<-d over daily by the varsity, while like the chatelaines of more modern victims do not sicken nt once. The
most of the Instruction mid en iiuragi- times, but they differed therefrom In bite is forgotten. but feu days or two
The Best Equipped Saw Mill in the County.
meut lire lavished on said varsity.
being more useful, more comprehen weeks after the subject falls Into a
As a rule, however, there comes nt sive In regard both to sex mid to ar fever. Ills blood is poisoned within
New Macbinen Experienced Workmen and
least one week In the Henson when the ticles worn, mul when completely fin him. Eventually in extreme cases he
scrubs are pampered mid petti-d and ished more costly. It Is partly for this becomes delirious, succumbs to a stu
b irst Class? Lumber of the Best Quality.
made mill'll of The minify Is In the reason that we find girdles ts-qiieiithed por and dies.
Yet
because
there
js
nothing
horrific
throi-H of n "slump." Is lagging, dis as precious heirlooms mid as valuable
BIGURK ON
plrltid and sullen. It I h then that the presents Io keep the giver's memory to the sensation loving Imagination In
scrub team suddenly finds thm It green after death. They were uot in- the malaria hearing mosquito public
Inertia or Ignorance tolerates It with a
is being tmiglil In play the game Just frequently of great intrinsic value.
grin and permits It to breed In city
iih If It were to take the field as the
and country alike throughout the
first choice against the fix-. There Is
The Price of a Life.
length and breadth of the nation.
a comb for nlmoHt every man. there
According to Anglo-Saxou law, ev-
are words of encouragement, much ery man's life. Including that of the Compared with It as a real menace all
the combined brixxl of snakes, scor
valuable Inslrm tion mid a new esprit
king, was valued nt a fixed price, aud pions, ceutlpisles. tarantulas and other
de corps. Under the new Inspiration
uny
one
who
took
it.covld
commute
the
pet bugalssis of our childish romanti
the second team sweeps tin- Hugging
varsity off Its feet, humiliates the first offense by a money payment upon a cism are utterly negligible, are as fig
string players to the uttermost, « Idle fixed acais. The life of a peasant was ment to reality, as shadow to sub
for backache, rheumatism, kidney or bladder trouble, and urinary irrejuhntfl
the coaehea cheer the scrub mid ji-er reckoned to be worth 200 shillings, stance. It Is perhaps characteristic of
Foley’s Kidney Pills purify the blood, restore lost vitality and vigor. Refuse substitstd
the varsity. At least once a season it that of n man of noble liirth 1,200 shil our wryly humorous American tem
I m very gixxl to bo a scrub. fur at lings, and the killing of iu king involved perament that we should have invest
Sold by Chas. I. Clough
least once a season the scrub de the regicide in a payment of 7,200 shil ed the unlni|s>rtaiit danger with all
feats and humiliates tin- team that lings. It lias been pointinl out that the the shuddering attributes of horror
has proved perhaps a terror to all Its heir to the throne coulditlius get rid of ami have made of the real |>erll a joke
Notice.
outside rivals. Nothing has sueli n the existing occupant by murdering to be iierennlally hailed with laughter
N otice I s H ereby - 'G iven ,—
salutary effect on the varsity as Hie him and thereafter handing over the In a thousand thoughtless prluts.—Ev
Tluit the County Court of Tillamook
tine, according to the scale,, to the ex erybody's Magazine.
eating of humble pie once In awhile.
County,
Oregon, will receive bids
In late years the scrub Is getting chequer, when his offense'would be
for the grading to a width of 16 feet,
purged
and
Ids
money
would
come
more consideration than In the old
The Drummer.
in accordiince with the survey and
days. Yet the men play principally back to himself, for in those, days the
Drummers seldom pray npich. pny field Holes, that |K>rtion of what is
for the love of the game and In order sovereign receive,! all fines asipersonal their bills, usually bate shams, dodge known as the RoCk Road, which
to ¡iiuke the going as hard as possible lierqulsltes. There Is very little doubt touches, have warm hearts, quick wits, commences at or a lout Ore town
for the varsity. Slicer loyalty aud the that these rough means were practi much uerve ami more courage, but are school house and ruus thence South
¿XPORT BEER
tin III of battle keep them at It year cally applied In the rase of some rulers born scoffers. They bsve good mem erly to a point where the said survey
of
the
Rock
Road
intersects
the
pre
lifter year. They learn fixitball from of England In tbeiprecouquest period. ories. much humor and a fund of
KAISER BLUME
sent road at or alxiut the Commons
ground up. They see the big —London Telegraph.
stories limited only b/ time. They can place, now the Kodad farm.
■» from the side lines mid, know-
preach a sermon, lend in prayer, time
Unsurpassed Non-Intoxicating
Said Bids must include the fur
l" signals, have a |x-ctillar advan
Stavanaon Obliged.
n horse race, umpire a ball game, make nishing of all tools and equipment
tage over any other spectator. With
Robert Louis Steveuson once went a stump speech and have an oplulon by the bidder (except the County
MALT TEA.
a knowledge of the signals one tuny the followiug quaint letter'to an auto- upon every known subject from prize road grader which the aucessful
erltl, Ise the handling of the big team graph hunter:
fights to the nebular hypothesis. —Com bidder may nsel and should be
STAR BREWERY
made at so much per rod.
In the big game may more readily
You have eant me a »Up to write on. mercial Travelers Magazine.
Tl»e sueessful bidder will be re
uuderatand the strategy of coach anil You have »ent me an addressed envelope.
You have eent It me stamped Many have
quired to give a bond for the com-I
quarterback.
Firmness.
done as much bofore You have spelled
pletion of the contract if awarded
It I» this opportunity to aualyae the my name aright, and some have done
Special Brew
"When my wife makes up her mind.“ the same.
big games, coupled with the cbaucs to that tn one point you stand alone; you said Mr. Meektou. "there is no use of
All
bids
to
be
fied
in
the
office
of
get practically as good coaching as the have sent mo the stamps for > my postot- arguing with her."
the County Clerk of Tillamook Coun-
rtce not the »tempo for you» What Is
varsity, that makes excellent coaches asked
"But every woman chauges her opin
with so much consideration I take
BOTTLED BV THE
out of imtuy scrub players. Some of a pleasure to grant. Here, »Ince you ion sometimes."
value
It
and
have
been,at
the
pains
to
these »eruiis have gone back to college
"Yes. Ami Henrietta Is particularly
It by such unuauag attentions—boro
Tht County Court tenervi a the
and turned out freshman teams that earn
resolute wtieu she makes up her mind right
Io the signature
to reject any and all bids. By
liaVe been able to tight the varsity to
to change her uplulou"—Washingtuu order of the County Court.
ROBERT' DOUD* STKVKN8ON
n standstill mid so have aatiuilslie,) the
Star.
J. C. H olden . County Clerk.
very coaches who taught them Them
Calculating.
A Healthful Town.
have l-ven Instances of this at near
“Why doesn't Mrs. Fllmglt stop
Fine Dairy Farm
“If this town 1» as healthful as you
ly every big Institution In the east, quarrellug with her/husband a nd I get a
Suda Watrnt. Slplhoiu*, Bartlett Mineral
386 acrea, lying 3 miles from
say it la. why do there bap|x-n to be so
Fometlm,-» the aervleoa of these ex- divorce?"
Florence,
the
banking
nnd
shipping
many
doctors'
signs
Iu
evidence?
“
"She realises how,much more,of his
scrutai have been eagerly sought by the
of the district, with regular
They are nearly all the signs of eye center
veteran varsity coscbSB. and many a Income he would htave left after pay
Ixiat to Portland.
ony than*.
____________
thanyahe
now allow» ____
him doctors. The people are so healthy
man without a field reputation has ing alimony
i»i acres is dyked tide marsh, all
for car fan» andVluQcheK*'—Washing here that they stay up nights enjoying in grass nnd worth *3tX) per acre,
| roved to 1« no mean strategist
ton
Star
the
climate
am!
Injure
their
eyes.
“
—
41 a res tide marsh in grass and
It la really these ex scrub men who
Chicago Record Herald.
not dyked, worth $1H) |»er acre. 216
keep up the high average of Interest
Careless
acres rolling l«encli carries4 million
Iu the game. They are turned out
feet of virgin timber, worth «tltzi-
She—My little brother shot off his
Evidanca of Faith.
yearly at the rate of five or more to
at lix-al mills in logs nt »At») ,«.r
gnu
this
raomliyg.
and
the
bull*
went
Mrs.
Brooke
—
Have
you
any
faith
In
>-(v»ry varsity player The varsity man
thousand. Thia 216 acres after it ia
may low- Interest in tbe game In after through my h.-dr Ho— How careless life insurance? Mrs Uvnnr—Yaw. in logged, will l>e worth »KII per acre
of
you
to
leaw
It
Lying
around.-Ex-
deed:
I've
real
I
z,-il
»loo.OfiO
from
two
rears. but the scrub practically never
for pnsture nnd eqiple raising.
buslstnds. and they weren't very good Fresh water trout stream runs
it I» they who are tbe backbone of
/■ ■ ■
ones either —Judge's IJbrary.
through the tract. Fine building
the pilgrimage* to West Point, and it
A Previous Quaation.
site, but no building.
Only ;<i
I» they who talk football far Imo the
She— Papa askM what your luteo
minutes by motor boat to bank at
Descriptive.
night tn tbe club and chop house
Ilona-were last evening. George Ha
Imat
landing.
G u « m I
Stella- Weald you say »be was a wed Portland
I he acniba. I» a word, all uuhonored ll kin’t say anything about bls own.
school, church, stores, creamery
dressed
woman
’
Bella-No;
she
hivks
Boiler Wark, l.ngeer'« Work nnd Urnvy I orc*"*
»nd anaung aa they are. are tbe back did bo* Boston Transcript
like a YY all street lieur wh<> has cov null. etc., near building site. Total
***»• of ths gsme tn the college, »nd
pn-eent
value.
»7u,
.tn
I
want
to
ered Iu a desperate hurry - l*»ck
Fln* .M»<-hine Work a S|»»-ciaH.T-
sell and will take Cjnimn. with F»-
.mt of them They play tbe game and /If yntiyat angry with a man ar'aro
1 » “*•» «nd lailance tong time with
I hey watch It foe the games ««hr
TILLAMOOK.
OREG»'*
man ina» up your mind what entriate
Manufacturing sorrow to one of the 6 | mt cent interest.
t
New loch lYiot.
J .
and then dou't say tt
woret uf «lus
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