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LLÄMOOK HEADLIGHT DECEMBER 30. 1915 I college classmate of mine in tin long The Progress of the Sev«nth-day ' ago. He was a city boy, with a "higli- Adventists. 1 class” u'd ancestry ot which he was ----- o----- 1 very proud. 1 was a "country Jake” Great enthusiasm was manifested Sister Sue, always December brings of unknown lineage, and he used to local Seventh-day Ad ventists to me rcmemberances of my school call me a "clodhopper” until 1 beat among learned of the unusual days in the city and the pranks the into his head with my fists the fact when they made by their denomination students used to play on each other that 1 was at least lus superior in progress during the past year, as given in a re when the first snowtali came. Ot strength and courage. He was high- port that has just been received from course we had to study nights to keep toned, overbearing. self-important the world’s headquarters of the i up with our classes, but we always and aggressive, and his personality so in Washington D. C. Extracts had at least one night each week lor disgusted me that 1 cultivated within church of this report, w hich was compiled rest and recreation. The first real myself characteristics directly the re by H. E. Rogers, statistical secretary snowfall we usually improved in verse of his. After I had punished of the denomination, have been sent sleighing out in the country and the him for his insolence he became ex broadcast throughout North America, I roads and roadhouses rang with song tremely patronizing to me, his man in order that the believers might and laughter. The roadhouses were j ner 1 being equivalent to the statement learn of the way their church has ad small, elegant country inns, usually 1 that, is.as much as 1 was his physical vanced. • of old style architecture, with spac superior, he would tolerate my exis One of the remarkable statements ious dining rooms, very handsomely tence, but that didn't worry me in the in the report is, that “The actual net furnished and kitchens that wouW least. From college I returned to the gain in membership for the year 1914 compare favorably with those of the farm, where 1 have remained, and am was greater than the entire member best city hostelries. One roadhouse 1 in no immediate danger of having to ship of the denomination throughout in particular was, or nearly every I Igo to the poorhouse. He went to the world as it stood thirty years evening of the year, a center of mirth . gambling on the future prices of grain after this movement had begun its and the dining tables were always stocks and bonds, is now very weal work.” well patronized. It was located in a | thy and also idle. His family of two The report says further: "At the beautiful place and was surrounded girls and three boys, all grown, are of close of 1914, the total membership by fine shubbery and fine forest trees the hothouse variety, have never done was 125,844, a gain during the year of under which one night was enacted a useful thing and have a retinue of one of the many little comedies that servants to wait on them. They are •1,287, or 9.85 per cent. The gain for 1913 was 8,¡80, or 7.16 per cent, and were of every day occurance there by simply rich vagrants. His form ...» has . patrons of the place. 1 and a school changed from that of a well-propor that was the largest gain ever record fellow of mine had just arrived in a tioned athelcte to that of a monstrous ed up to that time. The gain for 1914 sleigh and put our horse and cutter hog, and his utter contempt for peo was greater than that reported for under a shed when our attention was ple of the "common herd” is, if pos the preceding year by 3,107. The num directed to something which we sible, more intense than it was in his ber of baptisms during the year was ■4.999- The net difference between quickly understood and we stopped youth. I met him by chance on the the gain of members and the number I short and silently watched the move street in the city yesterday and he of baptized is 3,712. ments of a man, who was well known designed to stop and talk with me. “The amount of money raised as of- ' to us as an inveterate wag, who came He began by inquiring, quite inso ferings to foreign missions in the out of the hotel dining room carry lently, 1 thought, about my family North American division was $615,- ing a dish covered by a napkin. With and business affairs, and finally reach 56.5.95; the membership in this divis out noticing that he was being ob ed the limit of my patience when he ion is 72,015. This amount t is there served, he placed the dish on the began to boast ot his wealth which fore an average of $8.55 for ‘ each ground at the foot of a large oak tree (he hinted) he had acquired by work member. The significance of this last and then stealthily returned to the ing with his brains instead of with amount will be better understood hotel. We went over to see what the his hands, as farmers and mechanics when it is explained that the latest mystery was all about. The dish con have to do merely to keep their souls available reports indicate that for tained a broiled chicken, still hot, and bodies together, That nettled me, 1913 the average per capita contribu which he had evidently snitched from but 1 laughed and replied that his tions on the part of the members of a companion who had gone from his ideas reminded me of the philosophy all the Protestant bodies in the Unit table after having ordered it and ex of Benjamin Franklin, who said: ed States was 63 cents. The figures pected to find it there on his return. "The people have a saying that God ranged from $1.03. the highest, for Well, we ate the chicken, placed the Almighty is himself a mechanic, the the Moravian bodies, to twenty-one bones back in the dish beneath the greatest in the universe; and he is re cents per member for the lowest. napkin and waited behind the shelter spected and admired more for the For years the number of compan I of a near by bush to see what would variety, ingenuity and utility of his ies and their membership as well as Jfe happen next. Accompanied by anoth handiworks than for the antiquity of the number of baptized scattered be- ; 5 er practical joker, who was also well his family.” They think the negro Fevers have been shown in the report known to us. the purloiner of the was right when lie said: "De white but in harmony with the vote taken I chicken returned presently and we man make the black man workee, at the last session n of < ot the General ticneral < heard him say: “This time 1 am tell make de horse workee, de ox warkee, Conference, this inf formation has been | 5 ing you the truth. This chicken is make everything workee; only de hog discontinued. The aggregate com The above new plant thoroughly? Hygienic and Modern in every re- done a lovely brown. I snitched it He, the hog, no workee; he eat, he municants thus dropped out of the re- I from his table while he was over drink, he walk about, he go to sleep port would be approximately 15,000. 1 there talking to that strawberry when he please; he live like a gentle I hat is to say, the plan of ommitting spect, has been erected in San Francisco, Cal., to continue blonde.” Then the accomplice to the man.” That ended our talk. He did the membership of companies and theft picked up the dish, raised the not venture to reply, but laughed and scattered believers accounts for the the manufacture of your old time favorite napkin, and the next moment we saw walked away before I couid finish elimination of approximately 15,000 our unwitting benefactor rolling to what 1 wanted to say. What I had in communicants from all references in the bottom of the garden terrace from mind was that Franklin also thought this report. | a violent slap he had received in the that the typical American of his day "The number of organized churches face. It was more than we could do would be more obliged to the geneal at the close of J914 was 3,702, a gain to control our laughter, and we had ogist who could prove for him that during the year of 113, or 3.15 per to seek safety in flight, leaving the his ancestors for ten generations had cent. "This work is now carried forward 1 two jokers to decide which was the been working men (useful members of society), than if lie could prove in 87 different countries, by a force of 1 the worst fooled. that they were no more than “gen laborers comprised as follows: or Uncle Bill, 1 believe I have never tlemen,” doing nothing useful, livin'* dained ministers, 1,454; colporteurs, told you why 1 have taken such a idly on the labor of others, good for 2,076, secretaries, 292; total evangelis 1 dead set against weather signs, luck nothing, till, by their death, their tic laborers, 5,313. "Other laborers arc engaged in omens and supernatural things in estates, like the carcass of a hog, lines of wor kas follows: Teachers in making it possible for you to enjoy? the beer of your general. This evening I heard you would come to be cut up. mission schools, primary schools, and and the old darkey predicting snow within three days, because the squir 20,000,000 MEN WILL BE KILLED colleges, 1,616; employed in publish choice as heretofore. ing houses, 735; in sanitariums and rels were more industrious than usual IN WAR. treatment rooms, 1,696; a total of in gathering nuts and acorns, and stowing them away in their winter Civiliziation has Been set Back IOO 4,047 institutional laborers. If to this be added the 5,313 evangelistic labor quarters, and 1 haven’t got over Years, T. Wells Brex Says. ers, there is secured a grand total of laughing about it yet. As you know, 1 9,360 laborers engaged in all lines of was born in piorecr days, on a farm III. Dec 15—A special ca- denominational work, or one laborer Chicago, 111. in an unsettled country, 1 he small 1 e. ,o t*lr Daily News from Edward for every thirteen members. 1 population, consisting practically oi I'rice Bell, dated London says: “The total funds contributed for Indians and half-breeds, on forecast "T. Wells Brex, vigorous British evangelistic work by members of the ing the weather confidentially relied writer, declares that the war has al upon what they conceived to be the tered the social face of Europe as denomination during 1914 were $3,- One Person or Family may order 24 Quarts of Beer signs of nature, and they also believe much as the glacial epoch once alter 0140,484,.80, a per capita of $24.56. every four weeks. The price of the Beer must be remit in onions of good and bad luck, Ip to ed it physical surface.. What .Mr. This amount contributed is greater the time that 1 was 30 years of age, 1 Brex calls the "Hohcnzollern glacial than the preceding year by $223,757.- ted by certified check or money order to the believed in almost anything that had period” he describes as having set 40, the percent of increase being 780. a rabbit-foot appearance, and I was ha,ck civiliziation too years, crumpled Of the total amount contributed $2,- so firmly set in my behalf at super Europe's social structure, stunted its I 328,751.88 was from North America, natural things that I wouldn t walk arts and sciences and withered away or 75-35 per cent, and all other coun under a iaddz* nor drive a buzzard its web of travel intercourse for a tries, $761,732.92, or 24.65 per cent. "The amounts raised for the three from his carrion feast. Soon after century. general classes of funds were as fol mother and I were married we moved "In the view of this writer, the lows; Tithe, $1,818,436.08, 58,84 per When the here, and as 1 had a good deal of warring nations will be taxed by war cent; foreign mission offerings, $772,- and y?our order will receive prompt attention. building to do, I went to the city to debts, ‘while dreadful memories will 284.39, or 24.99 per cent; home and receiv- Beer is delivered the consignee (the person buy building material. The hardware keep a gulf between civilized Europe local offerings. $499,80033, or 16.17 be- ing the Beer) must swear to an affidavit dealer’s prices for nails seemed to me and the Teuton.’ per cent. The per capita for the mem to be too high, and 1 concluded to try “Twenty five million men have tak fore the agent of the transportation in North America was $32.33, to save something by getting them at en up arms,” continued Mr. Brex, bership for all the members out side North company and pay a fee of the nail factory, a couple of miles out ‘and 9,000,000 arc already slain or dis America, $14.15, an average of $24 56. I in the country. While walking along abled. The total destruction of life in five cents to such agent. "During the fifty-two years since the road leading to the nail mill 1 two years will be 20,000,000. This is this work has been organized, there i spied half a horse shoe. I snatched it combatant vraste alone. Nearly every has been contributed for evangelistic and put it in my pocket with a feel where the birth rate is falling and work alone, $31,675.76. ing of satisfaction. A little further on. death rate is rising. British births are ‘At the close of 1914, the total val-I I spied a whole horse shoe, and it, 40,000 a year fewer and death 50,000 uation of the t.449 church buildings ‘ too, went into my pocket. Still further a year more than in 1912. The net de was $2.226,561.88. an increase of $177,- on I found another half horseshoe, ficit is 90.000 litres a year, equal to the 750.37 for the year. Donations and in- ( and my hopes of success in getting total population ol a whole town like vestments during 1914 increased the t nails cheap went up a-flying In the Coventry or N*rtliampton. net worth of the denominational insti "Paris is iosing si.niliarly and Ber tutions approximately $500,000 A course of my w’alk I guess 1 picked up a dozen whole and half horseshoes lin and Vienna much more heavily. further expenditure of $484,682 55 was Then I reached the factory, and When the great war is over Europe made in the support of denomination found that it manufactured horse will realize that no plague in the mid al educational institutions, so that the shoes in conjunction with nails, and dle ag's ever ravaged it like the^black grand total contributions is for evan- ----- right there 1 made up my mind that I de* Hi that came from Postdam. gclistic work, the tncrea« sc<l valuation 9 was jinxed and had let my thoughts of church buildings, and the support make a monkey of me, so I hurried HOW APPENDH’.ITIS of, and investmet in, denominational the river and tossed everyone o’ the CAN B E PREVENTED. institutions during 1914 constitute a horseshoes into the water. Sin' c Tillamook people should know that grand total of $4,46!,202.86, an aver We shall always aim to protect our customers by? obtaining for them 1 am absolutely superstition s a few doses of simple buckthorn bark, age of $35.45 for each church member •F»'-------- mixed in Adler-i-ka, glycerine, etc , as it.ired *<ller-i-ka. throughout the world. For 1913 this often relieve or prevent appendicitis. average was lower possible freight rates. showing Mr. Curtis, as vou a* , ' ’ $3270, 'J* / '■ thus .................. - an » raising business,' he* e ln ll,e Poul,ry This . „„ simple ..... r such increase of f $2.75 per member for 1914. K mixture : removes -- ONE * this morning's na* e ls sometlllnK in surprising foul matter that you; "Sta,,er that will interest SPOONFUL relieves almost ANY I PERFECT CONFIDENCE. gro- ’ *J sh°w that the egg CASE constipation, sour stomach or ALLOWANCE ON RETURNED EMPTY BOTTLES. e country for one year gas. A short treatment helps chronic Tillamook People Have Good Reaso n & amounted t0 $280,000,000. The total stomach trouble. Adlcr-i-ka has eas- i For Complete Reliance. . J We will puy for RAINIER BOTTLES at the rate of 35c. per dozen targe value oi gold, silver, wool and sheep iest and most thorough action of any- 1 A --- * produced ¡n America during the same thing we ever sold. J. S. Lamar, drug- ' and 25c. per dozen Small bottles when returned in year «.mounted to but $272,434.3’5, ————— being $7,656,685 less than the earn gist. ings of the poultry industry. The perfect condition at San Francisco. Some of the auxiliary statesmen at Many people in this vicinity know same year the entire sugar production Washington have been gaining mo reached but $20,000,000, the wheat mentum so gradually on the tobaggan the way. Have used Doan's Kidney Pills; crop but $229.000,000. the oat crop of popularity that they don't realize $78,984,000 swine $168.529.033; tobac that their velocity is now easily a j Have proved their worth in ma ny FOR YOUR PAST KIND PATRONAGE co $35.579,225, cotton $259,161,640 tests. 91 THAN KING YOU mile a mint£t£^________ Here’s Forest Grove testimony ' ■ W The poultry earnings, too. are many YOU A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. millions greater than the combined \t W. Ryals, flour 4 feed stable, 11 Catarrh Cannot Be Cured AND WISHING results from the hay, straw, flax, mil with LOCAL APPLICATION« •• they First St., Forest Grove, Ore., says; let, cane, broom corn and castor cannot reach the seat of the diwnw Ca "A dull pain settled in my batk, a- 1» a blood or constitutional <lj*ea«e beans.” Hats off to the American hen. tarrh and in order to cure ityou must take I m cross my kidneys and extended'town Biddy is a busy body, amf as a money ternal remedies Hall’s Catarrh Cure is ward. I knew* that my kidneys were taken internally, and acts directly upon at fault. Doan's Kidney Pills rid me. making proposition can't be beat. the blood and ’ muccotrs surfticrs Haifa Catarrh Cnre Is not a quack medicine. It of the trouble. I always insist on get was prescribed by one of the best phy ting Doan's Kidney Ulis when j Cousin Tom. your remark about the in this country for years and fa idle rich being a curse to the world, sicians a regular prescription It is composed r»f need a kidney medicine, but I have n«f whose selfishness and greed has the best tonics known. combined witi the had to take them for quite a whip . •• . blood purifiers, actin« directly on the Price 50c. at all dealers. Don't caused the dreadful war that is now best mucous Mnrfaceii The |«erfect combinn retne 1.._ raging, in which they take no active tion o' the two injrredienta is what pro- simply ask for kidney part, but leave it to the workers t» Cuces such wonderful results in curing Doan's Kidney Pills—the r imr .ua| Mr. Rvals had. Foster-Mtf’ fight and die for nothing Imt to fur Fata r'.i. Send for testimonials, free. J CHENKV * CO.. Props. Teledo. O. I ther their ambition and greed is true. P. Sold by Dragfist* ‘ I know at least one man who is of T.k, Hall b Fa: the type you have describetL^H^^ low to Obtain RAINIER BEER, $ $ V $ $ $ After January |1, 1916 $ $ Rainier Beer, e $ I $ DIRECTIONS FOR $ ORDERING. $ RAINIER BREWING COMPANY, San Francisco, Cal., $ $ I — PRICES DELIVERED TO TRANSPORTA TION CO. at SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. $3.30 24 Large Bottles, Dark or Pale 3.30 36 Small Bottles, Dark or Pale 3.25 24 Small Bottles, Malt Rainier J 1 t RAINIER BREWING COMPY San Francisco, Cal.