Tillamook tíaadllght May àâ, lèlâ. *T A Certain Silver Sixpence His Tribute to His Wlfot Beau Brummel bad a very odd way The following obituary notice ORB of accounting for the and change which published in a German paper: took place in bls affairs at thia time. “Today red, tomorrow dead. I* B -He used.” observes one of bis friends was with my wife, who only ***** at Caen, "when talking about bls al­ days ago 'was springing over baosB tered circumstances, to say that up to and table,’ and was burled yestag^ff. a particular period of bis life every­ During her life she was a llv* thing prospered with him and that be man. who did not easily mlst.ibp *B attributed bls good luck to the pos­ X for a U. For that reason et*Q- session of a certain silver sixpence body can tell the extent of my eon**; with a hole in it, which somebody sa young and so merry, and ■** bad given him years beforj with uu buried. What is human life? I bar* Injunction to take good care of it. as said to myself repeatedly within tbe everything would go well with him so past few days, and also yesterday IB long ns be did and vice versa if he the church yard when I paid th* seo- happened to lose it. The promised ton, who will also keep the grave prosperity attended him for many mouud In order. So cheerful a wife I years while be held the sixpence fast; shall certainly never, never find again, Lut, having nt length in un evil hour and therefore my sorrow Is a rlghtaoa* unfortunately given it by mistake to one. I wish that heaven preserve* any a hackney coachman, a complete re­ mau frpm a similar sad fat*, and vel's« of bls previous good fortune took thanks for the flowers, as well a* the place and one disastrous occurrence Herr Cantor, the music master of th* succeeded another till actual ruin over­ choir, for the grave hymn, which west took btin at last and obliged him to ex­ through and through me, but was very patriate himself.”—Captain Jesse. well sung. Ackerman, Master LecB- smith.'* Origin of the “Throe R’s.” The famous toast to “the three It's— reading, ’ritlng and •rithmetlc"-was made by Sir William Curtis, lord may­ or of London, in the year 1795 and for many years one of the wardens of the tower. What made it more ludicrous was that be proposed it at a dinner given by the London board of educa­ tion. It was received with great ap­ plause and drunk amid much merri­ ment. At the time it was recognized as a Jest, but was afterward taken up in earnest by the mayor’s detractors, who have handed his name down to posterity as a blundering ignoramus. A writer has now come to his defense and says that when be was a boy an aged member of the board of .education assured him that Sir William knew better and that he really used his fa­ mous alliteration as a Jest. To many people, however, the story will always Bound better when It is based upon the belief that Sir William was really se­ rious. Not the Silent Partner. “I want to telegraph $25 to Chica­ go.” said a mon to the clerk in a Ban­ ton telegraph office recently. “The name, please,” asked th* i*- celving teller, a good looking young woman behind the counter, whose age might have been twenty-five. "It’s for Mrs. Mary K. Brown, 11* ---- avenue." answered the man. “Your name, too, please," again ques­ tioned the young woman. “My name Is Henry Brown; I’m th* other half of the firm," answered th* mau. “The money goes to the silent part- ; ner. eh?” good naturedly remarked the young woman. I "Not on your life she isn't!” answer­ ed the man. “Nothing silent about her. She’s made more noise for the last two weeks for this $25 than you can imag­ ine. She's the noisy partner of the firm, and she mnkes good with the title I too.”—Boston Traveler. A Record Hailstorm. The Giraffe as It Feeds. One of the worst hailstorms ever known in the United States occurred Sept. 5, 1898. in Nodaway county, Mis­ souri. The path of the storm was about three miles wide and eighteen miles long, its greatest violence being felt over a region of four square trlles east of Clarmont At one point in this region the fall of hail was so heavy that a drift unprotected by artificial means remained lying on the ground for four weeks after the storm. At the end of that time people in the neigh­ borhood were found gathering the hall for the purpose of making ice cream. During the storm cylindrical pieces of ice were picked up four inches long by about two and a half in dinmeter. The growing corn was practically all destroyed. In a field of eighty acres only one stalk was left standing.—Chi­ cago News. The singular shape of the giraffe is adapted to Its habits of life. It feeds on the young brunches and top shoots of the trees, and its long fore legs and neck enable it to browse at a far great­ er height than any other animal, says the Philadelphia Inquirer. In feeding It stretches up Its neck and with its long prehensile tongue, which it can protrude to a surprising distance, hooks down the tender shoots and leaves into Its mouth. But the crea­ ture's peculiar form, though enabling It to feed on what it likes best, is sometimes the cause of Its destruction. The fore legs are so long that to reach the ground it has to stretch them wide apart and bend down Its neck In a semicircle, and while drinking in this defenseless attitude the lion or leopard springs upon it nnd overpowers it be­ fore it can recover Itself. A View of Jefferson Davis. Very straight and tall. thin, with a clear cut. clean shaven, distinguished face, with a look half military man. half student, with a demeanor to all of perfect if somewhat chilling courtesy; by temperament a theorist, able with the ability of the field marshal or the scholar in the study, not with that of the reader and master of men, the hardest of workers, devoted, honor­ able. single minded, a figure on which a fierce light has beaten; a man not perfect nor always just, bound in the tolls of bis own personality, but yet an able man, who suffered and gave all, believed in himself and in bls cause and to the height of bls power labored for it day and night. Such a man was Jefferson Davis.—Mary John­ ston in “The Long Koll.” Splinters In the Fingers. When you get a splinter in your fin­ ger it is sometimes possible -to get at It by pressing the |>oint of a needle un­ der it, but unless you have deft fin­ gers or a pair of tweezers'you may not be able to pull it out even then. A new i>en nib is a very good substitute for a pair of tweezers. Lay the nib , over the splinter so as to hide it. Then press down bard enough to separate the nibs. If you row let the pen down level with the splinter and allow the nibs to close again they will take hold, and you can draw the splinter out. Remember that any metal thing that is to be applied to a wound, such as a needle, penknife or pen. should be passed lightly through a flame first, so as to disinfect it. A gas jet or a match will do.—New York Sun. Conquered. “No,” snapped the hard featured wo­ man, opening the kitchen door about six inches, “and, to be perfectly plain with you”— "You couldn't, marm.” gallantly in­ terposed Tuffold Knutt, lifting his tat­ tered remnant of a bat—“you couldn't be otherwise than perfickly harnsome with me!” “I was going to say,” she rejoined, visibly softening, “that, to be plain with you. there is nothing in the bouse I but cold victuals, but if you care to I try a plate of warmed over bash you can come in.”—Chicago Record-Herald. ' Love and the Drama. A periodical devoted to the drama pleads for playa based on some «mo­ tion other thau love The difficulty In producing such playa is that every play must have a hero, and in making a hero the playwright as well as bls audience almost inevitably adopts the view expressed 2.000 years ago by a scribbler on one of the dead walls of Pompeii. "He who has never loved a woman Is not a gentleman.”—Ex- char ge. Lucky B***i*. Having need of some small change, the mistress of the house stepped to the top of the back stairs. Didn't Tire Him. “Bessie." she called to the maid be­ He had taken pains when be applied for work to assure the farmer that be low, "have you any coppers down never got tired. When bis new em­ there?” “Yes'm—two,” faltered Bessie, "but ployer went to the field where be bad put the man at work he found him they're both my cousins, please. • ma'am."—London Punch. lolling on bls back under a tree. "What does thia mean?” asked the Before. farmer. “I thought you were a man I “You used to say.” she complained, who never got tired." “I don't,” said the hired man calm­ “that I was your sunlight; that the ly. “This doesn't tire me."—Exchange. world was gloomy when you were not In my presence " “J know," he sadly replied; “that Liquid Ones. They were waiting for dinner, and was before you had acquired the habit the virtuoso, who waa to play after­ of telling me candidly every few min ward at the muaicale, was whiling utes what you thought of me.”—Chi­ •way the time at the piano. “How cago Record Herald. Would you like a sonata before din- «•?" be asked. Of No Utility. Regardless of the fact that a* ed­ "Hardly," returned the host. “I bad itor almost always has on bls trousers, four on the way home." some people can’t get over the Idea that a penwiper Is a nice present for A Happy Ending. • your new novel a happy end- him.—Ohio State Journal. “Very. The judge a wards my hero­ ine Uo.rioo a year alimony In the cloe- 'ag chapter. "-Detroit Free Press. Thought Concentration. Professor Elmer Gates performs a very interesting experiment by im­ mersing his hands and arms to the elbows in separate vessels filled with water just to the point of overflowing. By withdrawing his thought absolute­ ly from one hand and concentrating it on the other he so expands the blood vessels in the latter by sending on ex­ tra supply of blood to it that the wa­ ter in the vessel in which it is over­ flows quite perceptibly. To further prove this power of thought concentra­ tion he transfers the thought from one baud to the other without chang­ ing their positions until the other ves­ sel overflows. Professor Bell, inventor of the tele­ phone, said that when driving in the provinces in extremely cold weather, when be was in great danger of having his feet frozen, he was able to send an extra supply of blood to them by­ concentrating his mind upon them and thus saved himself from a very pain­ ful experience.—Nautilus. HEADQUARTERS FOR S DAIRYMEN’ AND S SUPPLIES STEEL STOVES & RANCES We carry a Large Stock of Hardware, Tinware, Glass and China, Oils. Paint, Varnish. Loors, Window Sashes, Jamaica's Booby Eggs. Trade in booby eggs is one of the sights of Kingston, Jamaica. Long ago the British seamen gave the name “booby” to several of the species of gannets, because these fowls are re­ garded as stupid. The eggs are gath­ ered in vast quantities on the islets at certain seasons of the. year and taken to Port Antonio by thé boatload. The arrival of a boat with booby eggs Is the occasion of no little excitement •mung the negro women, who buy them by the box and then sell them by retail chiefly in Kingston, though they are also sold in other towns on the is­ land. Though sold mostly by the doz­ en to housekeepers, booby eggs are also peddled, bard boiled, on the streets of Kingston, salt and pepper being pro­ vided that the purchasers may eat the eggs at once. These eggs are about two-tbirds the size of an ordinary ben's egg and are quite palatable. Agents 1 for the Great Western Saw. ALEX McNAIR CO The Most V Reliable Merchants in Tillamook County. ■J! H «■» for backache, rheumatism, kidney or btaaaer trouDte, ana urinary irreguiartuw^. Foley Kidney Pill* are tonic in action, quick in result*. Refuse substitut*«. Chas. I. Clough, Tillamook. Th* Part of Wisdom. Notice of Sheriff’s Sale. with the prol/em of buying Harness, yo i will fiud it distinctly advanta­ geous to come and do your select ing here You will get the best qualities, the most thorough and conscientious workmanship, and be charged the most reasonable prices. We can Supply single or double Bulldogging a Steer. Perhaps there is no contest that is a Sets or any single ¡article that you greater tax on human endurance than may be in need of. that demanded by “bulldogging" a steer, and the "bulldogger" must go it alone. The pony is as great a factor W.A. Williams & Co as the man, for when once the lasso rests over the horns of the range ani­ Nrrt Door to Tillamook Conntv Bank. mal all depends on the rapid way in which the mustang wheels so that the trailing rope will trip the steer. When the steer is on the ground the plucky pony must keep the rope taut. The range rider leaps off and with a length of rope ties the steer's four feet togeth­ er. Time is then called. Unless he has completed nil these operations from the word go in less than three minutes he Is not deemed fit to enter the finals. As R. A. WAHLEN, D O. a matter of fact, one contestant cut the time to 29 seconds, a world’s record — Eye SightSpeoialist, Bunset Magazine. Begging th* Qu**ti*n. The phrase “begging the question,” er in Latin "petitlo principle” signifies the treating of a proposition as a fully demonstrated fact when it is actually only a premise or statement brought forward and not yet proved. In other words, to beg the question is to as- seme something to be true, tn order to evade the task of bringing forward th* necessary argument to show it* truth. —Uncle Remus' Magazine. Foley Kidney Pills VOOIC HI SCVIOK ■ QUICK IN KgSULV* Moe prempt teller from BACKACHB, K1DNBY nd BLADDER TROUBLB, BMEUMATIEM, CONGESTION ef he KIDNKYB, INFLAMMATION of (be M ADDER and all annoying URINARY UUUtOULARITIES. A positive bwa t* ■ IDOLS AGED and ELOBSLV Foiled. “A ma* tried to pick my pockets in FBOPLB and for WOMEN. th* street yesterday, but my wife pre­ ■AVI MI«He*T PCCOMMIMATIMI vented him.” A A. Davi«, 0T W*»bi««>on Ut, “Did she grapple with him or Just 1*4., I* in hUKlb J«ar. H. wrilM _ fobai. «uffnrwd n,ocb trnai siy bslo*(«s» eefeam’" dar Iba>lM,«r*b*Maudu>,rio*** •neither. Bbe wasn't there." ni to>> fr«c «ni, caa.ir,,- *>» lo lr bl.oint of begin ning, save and except three certain Notice. tractsto-wit: 1st, A certain tract hece- tofore conveyed to A. M. Hare; 2nd, To my friends in Tillamook, A certain tract heretofore contract­ ed to be conveyed to W. S. Hare; County, Oregon: and 3rd, A strip of land 10 fe t wide f wish to call your attention to off the South side of the Nortli Esst quarter of said section 13, reserved the fact that I have du>»olve