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Tillamook tìaadlight, April 25, 1912 PAYING THE DUTY. Custom House Officials Hava Some Queer Experiences. PASSING A SEALSKIN COAT. The Way the Matter Was FiaaS Up With an Appraiaer and the turpriee That Awaited* the Owner—A Beidat a Ring, a Hueband and a Blu*. The general impression is that IBS Sir of a customs inspector ie a rosy dull routine of hardship, but sort to not always the case. The average person believes that* to a little romance about the life aaff Bto questionably the tang of the sea, bat to almost never occurs to him that to to < e of the funniest businesses to the w o ld. The element of humor acvar ers into the general appreclattoa ef tL‘ customs man. but it exists aee*- tbeless. '• here Is a deputy collector l th. custom bouse of New York experiences in several years are NatoV humorous. He is a grave, solemn tast ing man. thus bearing out the tra ditions. but that does not prevent him from enjoying the odd lnddenta that bob up In bls line of duty. Speakto* of them, he Bald: "I bad an odd experience the attar day. A young man from an otoea to Wall street bad gone to Europe to be married. In London be bought hto wife a ring. He had put it in his dec laration at a value of $1,000. Bo brought his bride to me, and she held out her pretty little pink band that I might examine the ring. It flashed and sparkled beautifully, but the flash es and sparkles didn’t seem quite right, so I asked to be allowed to examine it more carefully. The bride blushlngly pulled the ring off and banded it to me. 1 showed it to an expert appraiser, who promptly declared that It was a 1: c piece of jewelry worth about $10. "I sympathized with the young man, atid when I got a chance I told him the truth. ‘Oh, yes,’ he replied, ‘I know. You see. I didn't have much money with me. so I bought this for £1 6s., but I had to ring in a bluff on my v.lfe. Don’t give me away.’ The poor fellow was willing to pay several times the value of the ring to make his bluff good, but we fixed it up for him with out bls bride knowing the truth. “Another laughable experience, but :■ e serious for the passenger, hap pened not long ago. When I boarded r. : :-j steamship from Europe I wasap- ¡>: . died by a man who Introduced l:l~'.»elf as one who bad formerly been c< '. tor of one of the most Important tern ports. I knew him very well by reputation. He was returning from abroad with bls family. He explained that be was very wealthy and did not want to evade paying all the duty nec essary. but be confided In me that he had a sealskin coat, bought in Paris for hfs wife, which he had not includ ed In his declaration, knowing that ;o: lsklns could not be Imported. Nev- e tbeless. Just because we were both members of the same fraternity, he wanted to know if there was not some way in which he could get the coat Into the country. “I would have been glad to help him, but didn’t see how it could be done. However. I told him I would put the question up to the appraiser at the pier and if the matter could be ar ranged I would fix it up. The ap praiser looked the coat over and told me to put it on the declaration as an imitation sealskin valued at $75. The w estern man was delighted. “ ’That’s what I call clever,’ he said. "A few days later I got a letter from tlito man asking me to call upon him st one of the moot fashionable uptown hotels. I went to see him and had luncheon with him and his family. When luncheon was over he made a 11 e golden cone on the table. It cam- si ed of a twenty dollar gold piece, a teu. a five, a three, a two and a half and a one. all in gold.' He shoved the stack over to me. '* ’Just a souvenir, a reminder tt your cleverness In getting that seal coat through for me.’ be said. "1 refused to take It, but be tried to press It on me and told me to give It to the appraiser, but I refused. Later, when bls family left os. I asked Mai bow much he had paid for the coat to Paris. He said he had paid $ljtoB. He could hardly believe It when I taM li'tu that we had not falsified tto declaration, that the coat waa an Iml- tr .on and that $75 was its ooSsMs < '.'ne. He called a bellboy then ttd i* -re and sent the coat to a furrtar to have It appraised. The furrier back word that be would sell M be wanted just like It for $flS Ota New York Herald. Mirror, Crystal and BwetaL The three symbols of the ImBtotol bouse of Japan are the mirror, tfcoofya- tai and the sword, and they ata ear- ri»-d In front of the emperor SB aB state occasions. Each has Its canee “Look at the mirror and tadM jf*yself." or. in other words. “Kaser t elf la the message of the tain*. * be pure and shine’’ to the crystals to- . jetion. while the sword to a featotor » . “He »harp “ REICHSTAG ELECTIONS. SAVED BY HIS BOOTS. The Method of “Running For Con- gross“ In Gsrmsny. For election to the relcbstag there to equal universal suffrage with secret ballot for all made citizens twenty-five years of age, there being certain ex cluded classes, criminals. painters. etc., while persons in actual military serv- tos have their voting rights suspended. Nominations are not made by regu lar conventions, as with us. Any man may put his name before the people, bet In practice, of course, committees to each election district make the nom- tBatlous for the parties, and the meth- ado of securing the nominations, by personal solicitation, by trades amoug the aspirants, by the influence of dom- toatlag personalities, are much the name as with us, for the Germans, too. have their "bosses,” and they are even Bow using the English word to express too fact One hears little or nothing of bribery la German elections, but the influence of the government, amounting prac tically to coercion of officials and the direction of their political activity by their superiors, is generally recognized aa going far beyond the "pernicious po litical activity” that has been so em phatically condemned and so nearly suppressed in the United States.— American Review of Reviews. Ths Way s Writer Dodged Death In the French Revolution. I d the French revolution a feuille tonist named Schlaberndorf. who pos se ;sed considerable ability as a writer, by heartily espousing tbe cause of tbe Girondists In all that emanated from his pen rendered himself obnoxious to E< besplerre and at tbe dictation of that fierce leader was Incarcerated. When the death cart one morning came to the prison for Ito load of those that were that day to tie butch ered Schlaberndorf s name was on tbe list of tbe condemned. The Jailer in formed him that such was the case. acJ the writer dressed himself for bis last ride very nonchalantly and—he was extremely fastidious as to his personal appearance—with great care. II!» loots, however, be could not tlud. Here, there, everywhere, assisted by his Jailer, he looked for them to no avail. "I nm quite willing to be executed." said be to the jailer after their fruit less search, "but really I should bo ashamed to go to the guillotine with out my boots. Nor do I wish to de tain this execution party." he added, smiling grimly. "Will It make any difference If my execution is deferred until tomorrow? By that time 1 shall probably succeed In finding my boots.’’ "1 don’t know that It will matter particularly when you are guillotined." responded the functionary, between whom and Schlaberndorf there had existed a sort of friendship. "Sup pose we call it tomorrow, then?" “All right." And the jailer allowed Schlaberndorf to remain, not unwil lingly. as. owing to his universal good humor, he was especially liked by all the jail attendants. Tbe following morning when the cart drew up before tbe prison door for Its batch of victims Schlaberndorf, dressed In his best. Including the boots, that had been found, stood waiting tbe summons of the jailer to take hto place therein. Meantime, however, a new jailer had taken the place of the old one. the latter him self having suddenly been displaced by reason of suspected disloyalty to the revolutionists, and Schlaberndorf s name was not called that morning. Nor was It called the next morning nor the morning after that nor, In deed. ever again. It was believed by all outside of his friends In the jail that he hud perished on the morning originally set for him. He remained In prison until the swav of Robes pierre had ended. Then he regained hls liberty, as did the rest of those prisoners whose heads had not fallen beneath the bloodstained ax. — New York Press. INSULTED HIS COLONEL. A b Offense For Which a French Sol dier Had to Dio, By deliberately Insulting a superior officer at a court martial a French oaldtor at Lille incurred the death pen alty. The Incident is a deplorable one. The fact that the officers had to con demn the man to likewise painful, but the military regulations were plain a»d left no alternative. A dragoon in one of the regiments at Lille was being tried before a court martial. Another dragoon of the same regiment, who was undergoing arrest for some other fault, was summoned aa a witness. When this dragoon en tered the room of the court martial he was asked by the presiding colonel to take off bls cap. The man took this in bad part and flung bls cap at the colo nel, following it up with a storm of abusive language. When be had finished, the colonel, out of sheer good nature, asked him to reflect and express regret for his ac tion, which be was willing to look upon as a momentary outburst of tem- p>r. The dragoon merely repeated bls insults. The court martial immediate ly deliberated and at the end of a quarter of an hour gave judgment condemning the dragoon to death.— Boston Transcript I I I Notice of Application tor License to Sell Spiritona Malt and Vinous Liquors and Hard Cider, Etc. H G ,—That ! a N petition presented in and to the otice is Twelfth Century 8kating. Skating must have been a difficult art before the introduction of steel blades, yet Ixmdoners used to go In for it as early as tbe twelfth century. Fltzstephen in his “Description of Lon don,” published in 11S0, records that "when the great feuue or moore (which wateret'i tbe walls of the cltle on tbe north side) is frozen many young men play on tbe yce; • • • some striding as wide as they may doe slide swiftlie; some tye bones to their feete and un der their heeles, and shoving them selves with a little picked staffe do slide as swiftlie as a bird flyeth In tbe airs or an arrow out of a crossbow.” Book Without Errata. A London publisher once determined to publish at least one book which should be faultless in the matter of er rata. He had the proofs corrected by his own proofreaders with the greatest care until they had exhausted their skill and patience and assured him that there were no longer any errors to be eliminated. Taking duplicate proofs of the last revise, he sent them to the universities and other large pub lishing houses, offering large money prizes for each error discovered. A few errors only were found, and after ev ery one had a chance to detect any ad ditional errors the plates were made, the book printed, expensively bound and sold as an absolutely perfect book and unique in all literature. For a long time this was conceded, but six or eight months after its publication a letter called the publisher’s attention to an error In a certain line and page. i,ater a second was announced, and before the first year had elapsed some four or five errors had been reported.— Charlee Winslow Hall, In National Magazine. How Natural! Wife—Howard, I want some money. Husband—All right, how much? Wife—About $50. Husband—I Just cashed a check for $100. Better take it all. You'll use It more wisely than I. Get yourself n new dress or something. I blow every cent I have loose. You’re the econo mist of this family. I am sure I don’t know how many times we'd be in bankruptcy if it wasn’t for you, dear. -New York Times. Natural Turkish Baths. Preston. Ont., about seventy miles from Toronto, enjoys natural Turkish baths. Near the town to a lake the waters of which are Impregnated with sulphur and other chemical properties. The lake to government property, and the cost to those availing themselves of Ito virtues to merely nominal, about sixpence being sufficient to remunerate the services of the halfbreeds prepar Ing the batb. This to taken in what to locally call ed a “sweat lodge.” The lodge is made by digging a bole four feet deep, lin ing It with small bowlders and cover ing It with an air proof tent A fire to then built in the bole and kept burn ing until the stones are thoroughly bested Water from the lake is sprin kled on the hot stones, and a steam arises which 1s laden with medicinal properties.—London Graphic. Nature. “We say that nature to blind.’’ says John Burroughs In tbe Atlantic, “bat eke has no need of eyes, sbe tries all courses She has Infinite time, infinite power. Infinite space, and so far as our feeble minds can see her delight to to play this game of blind man’s buff over and over to all eternity Her creatures get life and the joy and pain that life brings But what to augmented or de pleted or concluded or satisfied or ful •tied who knowsF* I I The Inlnrtes wo do and tl I Ask for Mokatil I ereby , Ton arv no bone.—New York & COUNSEL LOR-AT-LAW, Tillamook Block,Tillamook, Of. Room No. 361, T T Home Made at the Cold Storage. T. BOTTS, A ttornky - at -L aw . Complete set of Abstract Booka n office. Taxes paid tor nor Residents. Tillamook Block. Both phones. We Show to Advantage rf-i. HUH haberlacii , C arl ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Tillamook Block. Q.EORGE WII.l.ETT, A ttorney - at - law . Tillamook Commercial Building. Single and Double Sets of Harness T illamook O regon . that we keep in stock We can supply your Harness needs on short notice and we make for the very beet people in the locality. If GOYNE, we did not give them complete sitiefaction they certainly would not continue to patranize us. We A ttorney - at law do the very beat quality of work at a moderate charge, and solicit your Office : Opposite Court House patronage. ________ T.H W. A, Williams & Co T illamook , O regon . Vext Door to Tillamook Countv Bank. R. T. BO ALS, M.D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. TILLAMOOK. Tillamook Block. KER RON, M. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Tillamook Block, Now is the time to have that group picture made. Let us show you our special display of attrac tive new styles. We are perfectly equipped for making group pictures and will pleaae you with the quality of our work. Monk Tillamcok, w. Oregon. .. C. IIAWK, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, BAY CITY, OREGON. R. BEALS, REAL ESTATE, Studio F inancial A gent , Tillamook, Oregon. HARPER WHISKY The Bride’s Pio. The “wedding cake” of today wag formerly called the "bride pie" a od in some regions was regarded as so essential an adjunct to tbe marrlnge celebration that there was no prospect of happiness without it. It was always circular in shape, covered with a strong Mayor JainesC. Dahlman, Omaha, crust and garnished with sweetmeats. Nebr, often called the "Cow Boy It was the proper thing for the bride Mayor" writes of the benefit derived groom to watt on the bride in serving from Foley Kidney Pills and says, the cake; hence the term “bridegroom." "I have taken Foley Kidney Pills and they have given me a great deaf of relief, so 1 cheerfully recommend Not News to Him. them." Chas I. Clough Co "Ob. my boy. my boy! When I waa your age I bad never seen the inside M. D. Boardman, 573 W. Main St., of a theater. I bad never tasted a cock Helena Mont., gives an interesting tail. and I bad never lost money on a account of hie improved health bet of any kind.” through the use of Foley Kidney “1 know. dad. Grandmother save Pills. After giving a detail account you were the runt of the family and al of his case, he says, “I am almost ways very backward '-Chicago Rec 79 years old and have spent hun dreds of dollars for medi.ines, but ord-Herald. find I receive more Ixnefit from Foley Kidney Pills, than from all Gravity. other medicines. Further particu* A precocious child who bad been at (are sent on request” Chas. I, tending one of tbe public kindergar Clough Co. tens fell from a ladder. Her mother A Mother’s Care. raught her up from tbe ground in tar A careful mother will not give tar. exclaiming- her child a medicine without know “Oh. darling, bow did you fall?“ it is pure, contains no opiates, “Vertically.” replied the chUd with ing and baa healing and curative quali out a aeeond's hesitation.— Satire. ties. Such a medicine is Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for croup, whooping cough, bronchitia and all other affections of the' throat, cheat, and Innga. Best and 1 safest for children end grown per ‘ sons Contains no opiates. Chas. | tbe I. Clough Co. H. McGowan 1218 W. 2nd St. Lit tle Rock, Ark., aaya, "I suffered with severe |>aina across my back and the kidney action was irregular and ve>y painful. After taking Fol ey Kidney Pills for a few days the pain left my beck and the kideya became normal, I can gladly ,r re- commend Foley Kidney Pilis f I ____ for know they helped tt.i.. I. I lough HENDERSON L. ATTORNEY iven County Court of Tillamook County, Oregon, for a liquor license, is in words letters and figures and a full, true and correct transcript therefrom and the whole thereof is as follows, to-wit: In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Tillamook County. In the matter of the application of A. C. Vogler, for a liquor license „ To the Honorable County Court above named : We the undersigned, hereby allege and show to you the follow ing facts and petition you as fol lows : That we and each of us arejresi- dents and legal voters within Gari baldi Precinct, inTillamook County, Oregon and have been such for more thun thirty days next preced ing the date and signing of this1 petition, and the filing thereof, having been and now are actual residents and legal voters within said Precinct for more than thirty days next preceding March 28, 1912 That we hereby petition you to grant a license to sell spiritous, malt, fermented and vinous liqu- ots and hard cider, or fermented cider, commonly called hard cider, for a period of one vein from the date of the grantingo'f such license, within said Garibaldi Precinct, and! in and atLake[Lytle, therein to the, above named A. C. Vogler. Dated this 28th day of March, 1912. 1 i. A. Johnson, Garibaldi. 3. A. Smith, Garibaldi. J. W. Cook, Garibaldi. J S. McDonald, Garibaldi. Joe Foley, Garibaldi. If. Mitchell, Garibaldi. C. F. Alexander, Garibaldi. D. Johnston, Garibaldi. Grant Marshall, Garibaldi. H. M. Davis, Rockaway. Carl K. Loll, Garibaldi. F. C. Robison, Garibaldi. M. Adamson, Garibaldi. O C. Hawthorne, Garibaldi. Victor Brener, Garibaldi. Arthur Davie, Rockaway, Ore. Chas. Fonger, Rockaway. W. T. Newcomb, Rockaway. E. Krumlauf, Garibaldi. B. S. Thompson, Garibaldi. Chas. Morgan, Garibaldi. J. J. McCormick, Garibaldi. A. G Krumlauf, Garibaldi. Frank K. Strueby, Garibaldi. Frank Buckles. Garibaldi. E. Beelitz, Garibaldi. L. L. Smith, Garibaldi. J. G. Balmer, Garibaldi. C. V. Stoker, Garibaldi. Thomas Quinn, Garibaldi. Chas. R. Gatchet, Garibaldi. Andy Hayden Garibaldi. I. Sam Johnson, Garibaldi, Ben Johnson, Garibaldi. A. F. Goff, Garibaldi. Wm. Kennedy, Garibaldi. Wm. Dowd, Garibaldi. W. H. Derby, Garibaldi. Lloyd C. Smith, Garibaldi. Joe Snetsinger, Garibaldi. If. S. Henitt, Garibaldi. J. II. Smith, Garibaldi. Henry Jennings, Garibaldi. M. F. Bowman, Garibaldi. C. R. Sutton, Garibaldi. Roy Dunham, Garibaldi. w lapruis Oellig, Garibaldi. State of Oregon, County of Tilla- monk, SS. I, J-J. McCormick, being first duly sworn, say:—That I am one of the above named, and have read the foregoing petition; that all the facts and statements therein contained and set forth are true as I verily believe, and to my beet knowledeg and belief. J. J. M c C ormick . Subscribed and sworn to before me this 28th day of March, 1812. [ seal ] T. B. H andley , Notary Public for Oregon. ■N otice is F urther H ereby G iven ,—That said petition will be called up for action in the County Court of Tillamook County, Oregon, on the first day of May, 1912, and based on said petition; said A. C. Vogler, on aai<l last named date, will apply to said County Court for a license to be granted to him, to sell within said Garibaldi Precinct and in the town of Lake Lytle there in, spiritous, malt and vinous liquors, fermented cider, commonly known as hard cider, for the period of one year from the date of said license. Dated this 28th day of March, 1912. A. C. V ogler . JOHN •py. P. J. SHARP, DENTIST, RESIDENT Office across tbe street frotr tbe Court House. Dr. Wise’s office. 8 ARCHET, . The Fashionable Tai Io“ C.*a'jing, Pressing and Repair ing a Specialty. Its distinctive quality and rare delicious flavor suit the palate of the moat exacting connoisseur. S» rt in Heins Photographic Gallery. J. CLAUSSEN, LAWYER, Sold by JOHNSON A MCLAUGHLIN Pcutacltcr (Ab volt at. $13 Tillamook Block, T illamook D - O regon R. J. J. MURRAY, V S VETERINARY SURGEON AND DENTIST. Registered and Graduate Veterinary Surgeon. Office : Commercial Stables, Tillamook, Ore. Both phones DR I». S. ISAACSON, VETERINARY SURGEON AND DENTIST Todd .¡otel, T llantocka ç. g. enough, Druggist. Formerly with th“ urny trrnspart Dfs Graduate of Ontario Vrterfnsrv < ullage, cl.so 'al