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J t "B Tillamook Headlight. January 25 1912 BOOST ! BOOST ! BOOST ! Tillamook County will Double in Population the Next Twelve Months. Send the Tillamook Headlight, the Pioneer Newspaper of the County, to your Friends. The Headlight is the Old, Reliable Newspaper of Tillamook County. Tillamook HEADLIGHT and Weekly Oregonian, The Booster Newspapers HEADQUARTERS FOR DAIRYMEN’ AND S SUPPLIES STEEL STOVES & RANCES We carry a Large Stock of [iQII Hardware, Tinware and China Oils. Paint. Varnish, Doors, Window Sashes Agents for the Great Western Saw ALEX McNAIR CO l he Most Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County. FOLEY KIDNEY PIUS H for backache, rheumatism, kidney or bladder trouble, and urinary irregularities Foley y Kidney Pills are tonic in action, ouick —y Pilla quick in result*. Refuse suhstifntea. substituted. Chas- I. Clough, Tillamook .4 the highest type of a pure straight liiskey blend. aged in wood complying w uh both the United States and State Pure Foo J Laws traigkt whiskey ail w niAev—old whisk __________ ' * AMERICAN ranci ¡»co IMPORTING CO Distributer* Astoria • J. STEPHENS, Distributer for Tillamook, Ore CLEMENS THE BOY I REED AND CARLISLE. SAVED THE NORTHWEST. Or. Whitman Kept It From Being A Verbal Dual in th* Hou** B*tw*«d Traded to England. th* Parliamentary Master*. Rut for the foresight, it is said, of a Following la nu interesting story of encounter betweeu Reed and Car missionary this country would have The Budding the an lisle as Senator l.a Follette reports it ’Traded off” to Great Britain that Im- iu his autobiography lu the American ■Dense territory that now forms two Terror of His ef the greatest states of the northwest Magazine: "Reed was one ot the ablest men In -Oregon and Washington. Marcus Whitman bad crossed the either house ot cuugress Some of hi* YEARNED TO passages with Carlisle when Carlisle plains and the mountains to Oregon was speaker were among the best ex •nd knew from a year's residence the Fishing. amples ot close forensic reasoning I value of tbe country. He also knew Cruising the Mississippi. Swimming and Marauding Struck have ever heard. Bulb were as tine that the Hudson Bay company was Him a* th. Ideal Life—The Stick He parliamentary athletes as were ever aaxlous to obtain possession of tbe to tie found. I remember vividly a whole northwest and had circulated Selected For Hi* Own Whipping. characteristic passage between them, tbe report that it was impossible for Mark Twain tbe boy was leader of it was near the end ot the session and •migrants to cross the mountains io a baud of young incorrigible*, accord 8 o'clock tn the morniug. Au appropri- «•gons. At a dinner given tn 1842. at which ing to Albert Bigelow Paine. Twain'* ailon bill was pending, Some one ot- secretary and biographer, who In Har fered au amendment, it It passed Dr Whitman and several of the com. per « tells something of their juvenile some advantage would accrue to 1 he ’ pan.v's chief officers were present, Democrats; it It failed, some advan ■ews was received that a band of goings on: His mother declared that be gave her tage to the Republicans. A point ot British emigrants bad crossed the more trouble than all tbe other chil order was raised against it. and Car mountains. Toasts were drunk In bon- lisle overruled the point. Reed was on •r of the event. ‘‘Now tbe Americans dren put together. I "He drives me crazy with his didoes bis feet—Reed. 300 pounds, six feet ' may whistle—the country is ours!" one when tie Is in the house." she used to tall. He was ibe leader on the Re of the Englishmen is reported to have I remember be bad eiclalnusl jubilantly. say. "and when be Is out of It I am publican side. expe< ting every minute that some one just two gestures, one tin impressive i But Whitman thought otherwise downward movement with bls extend Tbe next day he started for Washing will bring him borne half dead." He did. in fact, achieve tbe first of his ed Index finger, and In the other dur ton on horseback. He made tbe jour "nine narrow escapes from drowning” ing his higher flights tie held one ney in winter and with frozen limbs about this time and was pulled out of great clinched list blgb above Ills head, called on Daniel Webster, tbeu secre the river one afternoon and brought like some colossus. He was a striking tary of state. Upon his presentation of the situation Whitman was gruffly home in a limp aud unpromising con figure. dition When with mullein tea and cas "’I contend.' tie snld on the occasion toid by Webster that tbe country was tor oil she bad restored him to activ to which 1 refer, that the speaker is worthless and that he, as secretary of •fate, was about to trade that “worth ity she said: wrong. "1 guess there wasn't much danger. "Carlisle, standing there In the less region" for valuable concessions People boru to be banged are safe in speaker's place, answered. T shall be with reference to the Newfoundland glad to hear the gentleman from fisheries. water." She declared she was willing to pay Maine.' Finding that a treaty had already somebody to take him off her bands "Reed retorted. ‘The speaker is wrong been approved by tbe senate and was for a part of each day and try to teach for this reason'—aud put it in a nut awaiting formal ratification and proc him manners. lamation by President Tyler, Dr. Whit shell. Besides bls mother, who had to con "•Ab. but the gentleman from Maine man sought the president. When the tend with the bad boy. was bl* school Is tn error because'—and Carlisle stated missionary bad finished bis story the teacher. a certain Miss Horr. Mr. his contention without a superfluous president said: Paine tells bow unlike to a bed of roses word. "Sir. your frozen limbs attest your was her lot. ••’Yes,’ answered Reed, 'but Mr sincerity. Can you take emigrants Miss Horr received 25 cent* a week Speaker.' and for ten or fifteen min across the mountains in wagons?” for each pupil and opened her school utes it was parry aud thrust, thrust "Give me six months and I will take with prayer, after which came a chap and parry. Reed pressing Carlisle from 1,000 across,” answered the doctor. ter of the Bible, with explanations and position to position until finally the “If you can take them across," add tbe rules of conduct. Then tbe ABO speaker said: ed Tyler, “tbe treaty shall not be rati class was called, because it* recital "•The gentleman from Maine ia fied was a band to hand struggle, requir clearly right. The speaker is wrong In 1843 a band of emigrants undfer ing no preparation. aud reverses his ruling”’ the guidance of tbe doctor started from The rules of conduct that first day Missouri for Oregon. A deputation interested little Sam. He calculated from the Hudson Bay company met i SIGNATURES. bow much be would need to trim in to them on the plains, advising them that sail close to tbe danger line and still It was Impossible for them to cross the Little Things That Expo** th* Fraud avoid disaster. However, lie made a mountains in their wagons. Tbe emi to Handwriting Experts, miscalculation during tbe forenoon and grants decided to leave their wagons Forgery has a great attraction to a received warning. A second offense and finish the Journey on horseback. would mean punishment. He did uot certain element of the criminal world. As this course would have ruined Some are so skillful In this line of mean to be caught the second time, Whitman’s plan of saving the country work as to get past the most eagle but he bad not learned Miss Horr yet to the United States, he labored with and was presently startled by being eyed bank teller, but always when th* tbe leaders of the band until they con microscope is brought Into play it is commanded to go out aud bring a stick possible to detect the fraud, or, if not sented to follow tbe doctor's advice for his own correction. and guidance. The band did cross the This was certainly disturbing. It the microscope, then more modern mountains in their wagons, the treaty testing appliances nre used. was sudden, and then be did not know Here is a secret divulged by a man was not ratified, and tbe fertile north much about the selection of sticks who has made a study of bandwriting: west was saved to the United States.— Jane Clemens had usually used her New York Herald. hand It required a second command No person ever yet wrote his name to get him headed in the right direc twice alike. In some small or big de * An Odd Superstition. tion. aud be was a trifle dazed when tail one signature always differs from Therefore when the same A strange superstition is that of an be got outside. He bad the forests of another Missouri to select from, but choice was man's name appears twice alike—as It otherwise perfectly normal western difficult. Everything looked too big does In the course of business events, man who as a buyer for a very large and competent. Even tbe smallest when the forger gets after a little department store of the country has nis talent switch had a wiry, discouraging look I easy coin-there must be a matter of had marvelous success. Across the way was a cooper shop tracing. I It stands to reason that the seems to lie In reading the hidden with a good many shavings outside exact fac simile ot the one has been thoughts of men and In that way se One had blown across and lay Just in gained by the overlay or tracing pruc- curing bargains few others can ever seem to get. To a few of his intimates, front of him. It was an Inspiration ess When ■ man undertakes to write not his trade friends, be gives a weird He picked It up and. solemnly enter ing tbe schoolroom, meekly handed it anot her man's name In the free band explanation of this power. Wherever style of Jim the Penman there Is al- he can he says he drinks water from to Miss Horr. Perhaps Miss Horr’s sense of humor ways uoticenble to the practiced eye a the same glass as the person with- prompted forgiveness, but discipline crumping movement or a radical de whom he is about to do business, tak must be maintained. I parture from the way iu which the ing care to drink after him. There 1» "Samuel Langhorne Clemens," she name should be written Such a small not a doubt in his mind that there is said (he had never heard it all strung thing ns the particular position of the truth iu the old belief that if two together In that ominous wayl. “1 am dot above the “I,” for Instance, will drink water out of one glass the last ashamed of you! Jimmy Dunlap, go reveal forgery or the crossing of the to drink will know the other’s secrets. bring tn a switch for Sammy." And , "t" or the shading of up or down At all events this man says the test Jimmy Dunlap went, and the switch strokes A man will overlook the fact never fails —New York Sun. was of a sort to give tbe little boy an ' tbnt the name he Is writing when immediate and permanent distaste for written by Its owner always leaves Amulets of the Burman. school He informed Ills mother when the straight line nt a certain letter Highly prized by the Burman are the he went home nt noon that he did not and returns on another certain letter. following gems: Ruby, diamond or care fol- school; that be had no desire Some business men place nfter their crystal, pearl, coral, topaz, sapphire, to be a great man; that be preferred signatures on checks a period, some a catseye. amethyst and emerald. Col to be a pirate or an tudian and scalp ■ '•oimuu. some a rough star, others a lectively they ward off sickness or dan or drown such people as Miss Horr short or a long dash, making the genu ger The catseye is supposed to se Young Sam conceived the notion that ineness of the signature depend more cure invulnerability In war Incanta a pirate's life would be joyous and. niton this slight characteristic than the tions are muttered over some or all with a couple of pals, cruised tbe Mis name itself —New York Tribune of these stones, and the water in which i sissfppf I they nre immersed is drunk In order to Some of their expeditions were inno ! Beau 8rummel’i Impudence. secure Immunity from all evil. Kpells cent enough They often cruised up to Reau Rrunimel's favorite dish was are uttered over rubles, and tb«y are Turtle island, about two miles above roasted iiipou stuffed with truffles Inserted as amulets In the flesh of men Hannibal, and spent the day feasting When lie was living almost on the who desire to be Immune from wound* You conld have loaded a cur with tur bounty of Mr. Marshall be attended • ties and their eggs up there and there dinner party at that gentlemun'a Inflicted by sword, spear or gun. were quantities of mussels and plenty house, i taking with him. according to One of Tom Hood’s. of flsh Fishing and swimming were his most impertlneut custom, one of There was a noted brand of tobacco their chief pnstlmes. with general ma his favorite dogs. The Beau wus help raudlng for adventure Where the rail ed to a wing of roast capou; but. which the sailors of England chewed road bridge now ends on the Missouri -boosing to fancy that the wing was In the early years of the nineteenth side was their favorite swimming hole tough, he delicately seized the end of century—"pigtail.” And ft is commem -that and along Bear creek, a seclud it with a napkin covered Hager and orated in one of the most Ingenious of ed. limpid water with s|si-lul interest* thumb and |>assed It under the table Thomas Hood's punning verses. In of Its own. Sometimes at evening they to Id* dog with the remark. "Here. which he recounts the life, love and swam across to Glasscock's island, the Atout. try If you can get your teeth •orrow of a sailor, a Rrltisb sailor: rendezvous of Tom Sawyer's "Black through tills, for I'll be — it 1 can!” Hl* bead was turned, and so h* chewed His pigtail till he died Aveugi-rs" and the hiding place of Huck and Nigger Jim Once, though The lower deck today would be put- Mor* Likely. this was considerably later, when be '•They say she fell in love with him ■Jed to see the joke of that!—London was sixteen Sam Clemens swam across while be was tilling Iwr teeth." Tatler to tbe Illinois «Ide and then turned "No; that's a mistake. She wont to «nd «warn back again without land him to hare some of her teeth tilled, Brought the Wrinkle*. Ing. a distance of st least two mile* as but It was when he Informed her none On one occasion an actress grew tem- he had to go He was seized with a of them required tilling she fell In love geatnous with Perrin.the Parisian man- cramp on tbe return trip Hi* legs with him.”—Judge. •ger and gave him a stormy quarter became useless. aud be was obliged to M an hour. make tbe remaining distance with hl« "And what did you do. my dear rer Meeting Sorrow. •rm« It was a hardy life they led. Courage for tlie great sorrows of life un T’ asked Febvre. and It Is not recorded that they ever “I said nothing and watched her tnd patience fur th* small ones, and did any serious damage, though the, grow old." ••en when you nave acvumpllslied your narrowly missed It sometime* daily malt go sleep In peace. God I« He Knew. awake.— Vk-toi Hugo. A Cl**« R*lat>ea Tbe Malays have a queer marriage Re«« What do you think? Her aunt rsutom.” remarked the traveler. "The N aturally. brought Teas only a string of cheap "A friend of mine has invented * gwoni holds his noae against a small beads from Europe Jeaa-Well. what sew etectrk button '• Cylindrical object. I couldn't quite more could «be expect from a cloae re make out what it was"— "I* he lolng anything with It*” lation ?- Lippincott'* “A grindstone probably." interpoaed "Oh ia pushing it"- Baltimore Mr Grouch.-Exchange. Mbvru an Rlessednesa consists In the accani plishment of our desire* and In our Tear I* far more painful to cawardir* Comparison. more then reality. having only reputar desire*-8t An •"»an death to true courage.-Sir r thd Mke« men happy and caa mate the«» gustili. •ey Wreti hed.—Feltbani. Humorist Was Mother. HE BE A PIRATE FORGED