Tillamook Headlight, Septomber 23,
STILLWELL PARK CASE.
PRECOCIOUS PAINTERS.
City. Council Makes a Proposition to
Thomas Gillford Stillwell.
At the regular meeting of the City
Council on Monday evening, the mat­
ter of the suit against the city,
brought by Thomas Gilford Stillwell
to recover the 4/4 acres of land be
deeded to the city in December, 1909,
for a children’s park, claiming that
the city had not complied with the
conditions, came up and occupied the
attention of the city council. After
discussing the matter with City At­
torney Botts, it was proposed to
make XIr. Stillwell an offer, which
was to this effect: The city would
allow him to take judgment, provided
he d«eded one acre of the land to the
city without any conditions.
It is a question whteher Mr. Still­
well could recover the land if the case
went to trial, but the city attorney is
of the opinion that with the condi­
tions contained in the deed, the city,
was liabled to be sued at any time
hereafter.
It may be stated that when Mr.
Stillwell deeded the land for a child­
ren’s play ground he was sick in Cal­
ifornia and was not expected to live,
and it occurred to him that this would
be a good way to dispose of his prop­
erty. In regard to the deed, Mr. Still­
well wanted to deed ihe land to the
school district, but, it seems, he was
dissuade from doing so. Attorney
1 almage drew up the deed. There
was some little friction and jealousy
between the city authorities and the
s< hool board at the time, and there is
no doubt it was the intention to ig­
nore and snub the school board, that
the change was made. Mr. Stillwell
being sick in California, was
not
aware of the underlying motives in
creating a special board to administer
the children’s park.
Mr. Stillwell has partly recovered
from his sickness, and, no doubt,
needs the land, which he would not
have deeded had he known that lie
was going to recover.
Unfortunately, very little improve-
ments have been made on the park.
Several sums of money have been ex­
pended, and it was the intention of the
school district to expend $500 and
the city
council $100.00,
those
amounts having already been voted.
It will not be out of place to reprint
what the Tillamook Headlight said
about the gift at the time, which was
made in December, 1909. We
quote two paragraphs:
"We need a few more generous
persons in Tillamook like Thomas
Gilford Stillwell. He has set a splen­
did precedent for those who have
more than enough money and land,
and his name will be handed down as
the donor of this splendid Christmas
present, not because lie had an abun­
dance of this world's goods, but be­
cause he had little and wanted to
gladden the lives of the young folks,
where they can have innocent enjoy­
ment in a play ground they can call
their own.
"It appears to us that a mistake has
been made in creating another board
to look after the tract of land donat­
ed by Thomas Gilford Stillwell. In
our judgment its managament should
have been left with the city council
or school board, or, probably both.
X et it seems that even in a generous
act like that in which Mr. Stillwell
so magnanimously figured, some peo­
ple cannot bury their little prejudices,
and this appears to be the reason why
a special board was created instead of
the city council or school board to
manage anil look after the play
ground.”
Borne
Famous Pictures That
Produced by Moro Boys.
Wsra
Sir David Wilkie was probably the
most popular painter of bls time uud
one of the most deservedly so, and Ills
pictures today are almost nil in the
great national collections or In the pos­
session of the king. He was extieme-
: ly precocious nnd might be said to
bare been born with a palette in bls
j hand.
Wilkie painted bls famous and very
characteristic picture. "Pitlessle Fair,”
when be was a mere lad. It was a
local scene which he knew well, and
the 140 figures which it contains were
all sketched from Ids father's parish­
ioners, for Wilkie was a "son of the
manse.” As his father would have
been very angry to think his boy was
doing such a wrong thing as to ridi­
cule his dear flock. David had to use
bis models quite "unbeknown" to them
—in fact, during service. The young
artist got them all "under the book­
board" and transferred them to can-
vas at his leisure.
Everybody know^ that Millais wag
an “infant prodigy.” Did be not win
the gold medal of the Royal academy
when be was nine?
At South Kensipgton bangs a glow­
ing and masterly canvas entitled "Pi­
zarro Seizing I lie Inca of Peru.” How
many boys of fifteen know anything
of Pizarro or the Incas even if they
happen to know the whereabouts of
Peru? Yet Millais was only that age
when lie not only knew these things,
but could realize them in splendid
power in paint and get bls picture ou
the line at the academy, and be was I
only nineteen when be painted one of (
his supreme masterpieces. Judged by
some to be the greatest thing he ever .
did, "Lorenzo and Isabella.” which is
one of tlie treasures of the Walker
Art Gallery of Liverpool.
Holman Hunt was only twenty when
be painted Ills famous "Eve of St. Ag- I
nes" and still little more than a boy
when he painted his remarkable pic­
ture which be cnlled “Behold I Stand
at the Door and Knock.” but which Is
known to the world today as "The
Light of the World,” a replica of which
can be seen In St. Paul's cathedral.
|
Rossetti painted hfs lovely picture.
“Girlhood of Mary Virgin." when he
was twenty and hfs famous "Eece An- '
cilia Domini" tlie year following.
Landseer was amazingly precocious. ;
He exhibited Ills first aendemy picture
when be was fifteen.—Exchange.
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A Carlyle Retort.
An empty headed duke once said to
Thomas Carlyle at a dinner:
"The British people, sir, can afford
to laugh at theories."
Carlyle, scowling, replied:
"Tlie French nobility of a hundred
years ago thought that they could af­ I
ford to laugh at theorists too. But a
man came nnd wrote a book called
The Social Contract' This man was
Jean Jacques Rousseau. and his book
was a theory and nothing but a theory.
The nobles could laugl: at his theory,
but their skins went to bind the sec­
ond edition of the book.”
Aramaic, one of the languages which
iuv used in the Old Testament, was the
Semitic dialect spoken by the people
north of Canann when the Israelites
took that country. Prom the days of
the Babylonian exile Aramaic was used
as the medium of communication lie-
tween Jews and other Nemltic people
and gradually supplanted Hebrew even
In Palestine, where It became the com­
mon language about it. C. 200.
Rar* Attainment.
“Whit makes you think Miss Trtl-
ler has such a marvelous musical edu­
cation?"
“She actually knows how to pro­
nounce correctly the names of all the
classical selections she plays."—Wash­
ington Star-
Authoritative.
“Does your wife ever go through
your pockets while you arc asleep?"
"No. she does It openly. Maintains
firmly her right of search and seizure." I
—Kansas City Journal.
Not His Business.
“Conductor, this man is stepping on
my feet." said the lady inasenger.
“I have nothing to do with the traffic ;
regulations, madam," was the reply.— |
Yonkers Statesman.
Vsry Careful.
Hokus—Flubdub Is very enreful ’
about the training of his family. Isn't
Has one of the best equipped re- he? Pokua—Yes; he tries to bring up
pair shops for miking parts on the bls children In the way he should bare
Pacific Coast.
gone.--I'nek.
Mail and express orders promptly
Small axes fell grant tree«.—German
attended to.
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The tired father of a restless boy
orated as follows, not speaking to the
boy directly, but doing It in his pres­
ence:
“How true It Is that it Is never safe
to Judge by appearances!"
"Yes." replied the boy’s mother, see­
ing that It was her cue and answering
with another version of the cliche, “ap­
pearances are often awfully decep­
tive.”
"And so are Inanimate objects," con­
tinued the paterfamilias with marked
emphasis. "You would think, lui in­
stance, If you Judged by appearances,
tlint the heavy pair of school shoes I
bought for James the other day was
going to last for more than three
weeks, wouldn't you? And you would
never think tlint the fragile looking
arithmetic I bought him at the begin­
ning of the term would bid fair to last
forever. But look at ’em!"—Cleveland
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Aramaic.
Mr. Taft discusses woman suffrage
chiefly as it is, not as a principal of
abstract right.
There am- no profane words in the
Kickapoo language, but among the
aborigines why should there be when
every Indian had a servicable toma
hawk ?
Proposals to employ the Eastland
again as an excursion boat leads us
to suggest that it shomln't be tried as
long as the bastland imagines she’s a
can oe.
What has become of the old fash­
ioned reporter who used to write
"grew some find?" Or is its absence
due to the newfashioned copyreaders
blue pencil?
I emperature in New York was 92
last week and there were sunstrokes.
W e believe it has been called the
melting pot.
In return for Germany's consent to
permit the exportation of coal and
some other specified items to Sweden
live Swedish banks, according to the
Copenhagen correspondent of the
Exchange telegraph Company, have
agreed to make Germany a loan of
40.000,000 kroner (about $10,000,000).
I his money is to be used in payment
for goods bought in Sweden by Ger­
many.
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