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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT MARCH 20, 1910, statement outside of this body ought WILL KEEP OUT OF WAR IS NEW PLEA OF WILSON. to be indicted and sent to prison. If £ EXTRA & PANT5 FREE With made«to*order suits (Until March 22 only) GAVE MONEY! Get a new Herald Suit now at a greatly reduced price. Also get an extra pair of pants free. This is positively the most gigantic price-wrecking sale of recent times. SUITS MADE-TO-MEASURE $17.00 UP WITH EXTRA PANTS FREE 300 snappy Spring patterns and 65 smart new styles including every new fashion cut and idea on the market from Herald Tailoring Company Lowest Price Eitablithed 1889 Highest Quality Chicago . Every suit will be made to order in the highest quality at prices that will positively amaze you. We guarantee absolute satisfaction. Come in today and order your Easter suit now PETER BECKER, TILLAMOOK OREGON. NOTICE. I I The Tillamook Transfer Co., has contracted the wood output of the Coats Lumber Co., Mill. If the wood supply from this plant is not suf ficient for the local demand we will fill orders from other sources. Place your orders for wood with us. TILLAMOOK TRANSFER CO., LIBERTY TEMPLE. AUEX. JWeHAlR & CO. I GENERAL HARDU1ARE Kitehen Ranges and Heating «Stoves. THE BEST STOCK OF HARDWARE IN THE COUNTY. See Us for Prices Before Ordering Elsewhere. K E E E E E E i CLOUGH’S CARBOLIC COMPOUND For disenfecting where Contagious or infectious diseases are prevailing. CARBOLIC COMPOUND is a power ful Germicidal mixture and by its use will improve general stable conditions. I C. I. CLOUGH CO. E E E RELIABLE DRUGGISTS. E E B a5HS25H5252Sa525ESE52SaSZS3S,25Z5Z5H5H525E5E5H5ES25E52S?5BS A lady bolshevik complains that a Senate investigating committee was rude to her. Doubtless her idea of real polite official treatment in what her soviet friedds did to the Czarina t ¡and her son with bayonets and blud geons in a Russian cellar, and what they have similarly done to every body who argues within their juris diction for any other form of gov ernment. he made inside of this body, he His Warning to The Country is Like ought to be disciplined. The Presi dent would now require forty-five His Statements in the Cam individual gibbits for that many ex paign of 1916. ecutions. He must have absorbed ------ Q------- while in Europe Btrange ideas of free President Wilson’s warning that government.. His language is like further wars will ensue unless the that of kings.” league of nations plan conceived by British statesmen and read by him to the conference at Versailles is SPRUCE EQUIPMENT SALE IS CRITICISED. ratified by the United States is liken ed by the fifty-one opposing Repub lican and Democratic Senators to the Bid of Whitney Company Rejected plea made by him in the campaign and Check Not Returned. -------o—— of 1916 that unless he was reejected (From Tuesday’s Oregonian) peace would be impossible. Two weeks after their bid for As the Chief Executive was then accused of making, a specious argu spruce division equipment had been ment in order to gain votes, in face rejected, the Whitney Company was of the Rooseveltian demand for pre still awaiting notice of the decision paredness and participation in the of the sales board and the return of war against Germany, declaring at their *25,000 check which accomp- Shadow Dawn that “1 am not expect panied the bid. A telephone call to ing this country to gtt into war the sales board Monday afternon partly because 1 am not expecting brought the information that the these gentlemen to have a chance to company’s bid had been rejected a make a mess of it,” and several fortnight ago. Up to last night Rus months earlier that he thought the sell Hawkins, manager of the Whit conflict unavoidable, so now he is ney company, had not received the said to be attempting to gain popular expensive sight draft which had been support for "his coming struggle with pledged as a guarantee of their offer. According to the terms of the re the Senate by leading the impression that unless his ideas prevail future cent sule, as advertised by the spruce wars will result. Considerable sub corporation, all bids were to be stance to this charge is found in his passed upon not later than March 5, udmlssion at the White House dinner when the certified checks accom to the Foreign Affairs Committee panying unsuccessful bids were to that the proposed league would not be returned to the bidders. The Whit ney company’s bid has been in the necessarily end armed conflict. That any league covenant is doom hands of the sales board since Feb ed which does not provide for the re ruary 15. During that time no word tention by the American people of was received regarding the fact of their full sovereignty, instead of the proffer. yielding it to an executive council Laxness Said to Be Typical. in which their representatives would This instance is said to be typical be outvoted, was made certain by the of the laxness which is charged by signature during the last hours of bidder to the conduct of the *10,000- the session of Congress by thirty- 000 sale ot spruce division equip nine Senators, of a resolution voicing ment. Dozens ot bidders, whose tend approval of the principle of univer ers have been rejected as ridiculously sal peace and disarmament but firm low, assert that they offered all that ly dissenting from the covenant as used property was worth, and, in drawn up at Versailles. Henry Cabot many cases more than it is normally Lodge, Philander C. Knox and Wil- quoted tor. i liam E. Borah headed the list. To "Our bid was a composite one,” these names should be added those said Mr. Hawkins last night. "It of six Democrats, including Reed, of aggregated *128,000, on rails, don Missouri, who have openly repudiat key engines and trucks. In my opin ed the league idea of the President. ion our offer on each item was a Six more Senators of both parties fair one, but the facts speak tor are antagonistic to certain funda themselves. mental features of the instrument. "For example, we bid *900 on Ratification of the present form will trucks that in normal times are not only fall short of the necessary worth *750. And we bid *4000 on two-thirds required by the constitu donkey engines that are usually sold tion, but will have against it more for *3,500. Rails before the war were than a majority of the entire Senate quoted at *39 a ton delivered here. of the new Congress elected by the Our bid was *40. people in November. The conclusion Bid on Locomotive is Low. is becoming general In Congress, “There was but one low bid in our therefore, that unless the President greatly modifies the document while offer, on a locomotive, and it had at Versailles he will be unable to nothing to do with the rejection of make good his declaration that the the bid on rails, trucks and donkeys. American people are behind the While we grouped these three items separately they were parts of a league of nations plan. single bid, and we made it a condi tion that all or none be accepted or Threatening Too Soon. rejected, with the exception of the Threats by officers of the Internal locomotves. "We bid *6000 on the locomotive. Revenue Bureau that they will pub lish the names of persons who fail to There was no way of telling what meet their income taxes on time condition it was in, nor could they come from a government which is give us any information at Vancou undertake to enforce an act of Con ver Barracks. If the locomotive was gress before it has been signed by in good shape it would be worth the President and which is not able about *8000. With this explanation, as yet to give the willing taxpayers I am ready to admit that the loco a blank upon which to make his re motive bid may have been low, de turn. Apologies are more in order pending on the condition of the en gine. than menaces. "As for the rails we bid on, they are not of standard type, a fact Price Plan Derided. which makes the bid even more reas -------o------- Secretary of Commerce Redfield's onable and liberal. They are differ declaration that he will stabilize and ent in height, web and flange from lower prices, so that the housewife standard, and would be difficult to throughout the land may be relieved, repair, once installed, owing to the is likened by many members of Con lack of material. "I have no comment to make on gress to similar promises eight years ago and derided as impossible of the retention of our *25,000 check for two weeks after the bid was re achievement. Sentiment is increasing among the jected, in fact, we have not received legislators against socialistic meas it, or the tact that we were not no ures for fixing prices on general tified, other than to say that such commodities which serve as the basis action does not resemble common of trade, and it is feared that this business usages. For instance, the one will have the effect of retarding Whitney company has called for bids industry rather than developing it. on one of its own projects, and has Under the Industrial Board of the received a number of checks from : Department of Commerce, as it is bidders. The bid is to be let on March ' called, its six members will co-oper 22. On the night of March 21 the j ate to ’ i-ring capital, labor and the checks will be on their way to the , government into common counsel to unsuccessful bidders. That is only i do the best possible for the countiy.” ordinary business procedure. Why It is pointed out that the same ef the sales board has departed from it | fort was made in 1910, but that is too deep for me. "Concerning the delay in making 1 prices have gone up because of the cheapening of the circulating med returns on bids, it is scarcely under ium through the increased produc standable. From experience I know tion of gold and through inflation of that a thousand bids, on 200 or 300 credits, and that therefore they can items, could be handled in a few be brought down again only through hours. It’s just a matter of reading j the operation of the law of supply the bids and checking them off. and demand, which this board con- Equipment Being Peddled. not in a measure of things regulute. "There seems to be another unique arrangement, whereby the spruce equipment is being peddled by firms Sherman Hits Wilson. ------ o----- - and individuals on a 5 per cent com Among the senators who are most mission basis. Not only that, but two impatient with the President for or three men frequently tell me that what is termed his attempt to appro they have the exclusive right to sell, priate to himself all governmental on a commission basis, certain prop-, functions, and especially for his un erty of the spruce corporation at willingness to concede any justice Vancouver. Rails, donkeys, trucks or right reason to those who differ and groceries, all are selling on a 5 with him is Sherman, of Illinois, who per cent commission basis, so I am held the floor until the gavel fell on told by men who want to sell them March 4. to us. It’s a muddle that the by Quoting a statement that the Pres stander will have difficulty in mak ident had told Democratic national ing head or tail of.” committeemen that if he had his way he "would hang the Senators Try This for Your Stomach. oppo.-lng him upon a gibbet as high ------- Q------ as heaven, but the gibbet would not Eat slowly, masticate your food be erected in the direction of heavfen” thoroughly. Eat but little meat and ilierman said: "If any senator were none at all for supper. If yon are to make a statement that the still troubled with sour stomach take President ought to be hanged as high one of Chamberlain's Tablets before as heaven, a Senator making that going to bed.—Paid Adv. YALE GETS WEBSTER'S HOUSE SHOFAR OF GREAT ANTIQUITY Historic Building at New Haven Haa Oldest Form of Wind Instrument That Recently Become the Property Has Been Retained In Use by of the University. the World. In purchasing and taking posses sion of the famous Noah Webster house, Yale university has come Into possession of one of the oldest and perhaps the most historical building in New Haven. When the venerable lexicographer wrote the dictions ry a century ago, he never dreamed that the home in which be performed bls literary labors would prove the quarters of United States troops in the greatest of world wars. Yet that was the destiny of the plain woodeD building. The university turned It over to the Studetn Army Training corps and It was occupied by soldiers till the final demobilization. It was the home of Webster while he resided In the city, although part of bls dictionary was written at Am- bent, Mass. He was one of Yale’s most famous professors, his work ranking In world value with that of his fellow professors, Samuel F. B. Morse and Ell Whitney. The home stands at the corner of Grove and Temple streets and waa formerly the property of Courtland T. Trowbridge, a relative of the lexicog rapher. The university has acquired It because of Its scheme to fill the square bounded by Wall. Temple, Grove and College streets with dormi tories for the Sheffield Scientific school. The entire group. It is expect ed will be given by Frederick W. Van derbilt of New York city, a graduate ot the class of '76. He already has given two large dormitories. Dr. Cyrus Adler, writing of the shofar, calls it the solitary mu sical instrument actually preserved In the Mosaic ritual. “It is also,” he says, “the oldest form of wind lnstru* meat known to be retained In use by the world. Professor Stelnthal point ed out that this was an Instrument no doubt used In prehistoric times. Wetzstein Is of the opinion that the use of the ram's born may have been borrowed by the Israelites and goea back to a people who were engaged solely In the care of sheep; by them It was used as a signal of alarm. There cun be little doubt that It baa been continuously used In the Mosaic service from the time It was establish ed until now. The shofar was not the only horn used by the Israelites as a musical Instrument, but no copies or representations of other musical In struments have come down to us. From the Talmud we learn that the use of the shofar as a note of alarm, of war, was transferred to other sea sons of danger and distress. Famine, a plague of locusts, and drought occa sioned the blowing of this instrument. The shofar was employed at the pub lic ceremony of excommunication. A very curious use of the shofar In later times was In funeral ceremonies. I quite agree with Wetzstein that this use of the Instrument Is quite apart from the Semitic custom and that It was probably borrowed. As a signal and an Instrument of war it has Its various uses; it was a signal for going out to battle, for the announcing of a victory and for the recall of troops.” HAD THE LAUGH ON COOTIES Soldier's Humorous Explanation Why He Was Wearing Such “Giddy Lingerie." of Life on the front had its whimsicali ties at times In spite of rolling bar rages, the hnll of bullets, the jangle of caissons and the whining of truck motors. Lieut. Harry B. Henderson tells of a beautiful red rose on his camp toble. In a letter to the Wyoming State Tribune, beside an Austrian shell with a bit of scenery painted on It, which served as a paper-weight Then there are incidents that excite the “rlslbles” and afford needed di version to the mind. For Instance: "The other day they wers keeping us a bit busy and I had my ear on top of my bead all the time deciding on each *whlz’ as It approached. Jnst In the hottest part of it, one of my gun ners came tearing down a rutty road, clad In a Prince Isaac coat he’d found In a raid and wearing a Boche cap. He was pushing a baby-buggy full of potatoes and dynamite which he thought I could use. We had the eat ables for lunch and then blasted a new dugout with the explosive. You can’t Imnglne how you laugh when you’ve been a bit under a strain for several days of firing, and then see something funny. But for my sense of the proprie ties I’d describe the giddy lingerie the young mun was using for underwear. He explained to me that cooties get so tired of wandering through lace I”— Literary Digest Japanese Activity In Siberia. Canadian papers are commenting on the activity of the Japanese through out the maritime province of Siberia. Agents of Japanese syndicates are re ported to be negotiating for the pur- chase of a large number of mines, flour mills, brickworks, sawmills and other industrial undertakings, while commercially they are making every effort to extend their Influence. The Japanese firms, which for the most part have only recently been estab lished at Vladivostok, are enlarging their operations and endeavoring to obtain as large a share as possible of the trade of the territory. The scouts of these firms are reported to be scour ing the country for scrap Iron, hides wool, bristles, beaus and other Si berian and Manchurian products re quired In Japan. Monument to Stand on Prairie. Solitary on a Texas prairie there will be seen next spring a heroic bronze statue of a man and horse. It is a memorial to young Charles Noyes, of a ranch near Melvin, who was killed In a range accident three years ago, and Is the work of Pompeo Cop- pinl. The Texas lad was six feet four Inches In height anu the sculptor hus modeled him as be was In life, while the horse stands 16 hands high. The pose is striking. Mr. Copplnl Is now at work on Chicago's monument to her heroes. Owned Fine Library. Andrew D. White, the eminent Amer ican diplomat, who died recently, was the owner of one of the finest libraries In America. Mr. White began early in life to accumulate books, chiefly on the subjects of the world’s history. At last be had 40,000 volumes, a respec table total, as Mr. Blrrell would admit, who once said that a man should never talk of his library until he had 10,000 books. Mr. White left his library to Cornell university. Russia Destitute of Scythe*. Before the war Russia's need of scythes was estimated at 6,000,000 an nually, of which about half were re quired in Siberia. To fill these re quirements about 4,500,000 scythes were Imported unnually and the re mainder mnntifnctured In Rus«la. Ac cordin'’ to latest Information there sre hardly any scythes to be found Rus sian Industry being at a standstill and the importation closed. FAMOUS AS GREAT ENGINEER Mark Isambard Brunel Won High Rank Among Men Noted for Their Service to the World. Sir Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer of the Thames tunnel, died at London, December 12, 1849. The great enter prise by which he became popularly distinguished was the tunnel connect ing the shores of Essex and Kent. One day Brunel conceived the construction of a cast-iron shield, which should bore like an auger by means of strong hydraulic screws, while as fast as the earth wbb cut away, bricklayers should be at hand to replace It with an arch. He patented the plan and re vived the project of a road under the Thames. In 1824 the Thames Tunnel company was formed, and the next year the work started and ras piir- sued through many difficultle ’rom ex- plosions of gns and eruptions of wa ter—until 1828. At the beginning of that year about 600 feet had been completed when the river broke through and six men were drowned. Work was suspended until 1835, when the government advanced the company over a million dollars. At last the 1,200 feet was completed and Uie tun nel opened on the 25th of March, 1843. Brunel was knighted by the queen and his fame was borne to the ends of the earth. HIs "Snakeship’s” Conversation. That serpents are less mute than wé think is shown by W. H. Hudson in his reminiscent volume of naturalist ex plorations In the Argentine pampas. He specifies the Phllodryas oestlvua— a beautiful and harmless colubrine snake, 2>4 to 3 feet long, marked all over with inky black on a vivid green ground—and states that It not only emitted a sound when lying undis turbed In its den, but several individu als would hold together a eonversa- tlon that seemed endless. It was a hissing conversation, though not un modulated or without considerable va riety. “A long sibilation would be followed by distinctly heard ticking sounds, as of a husky-ticking clock, and after 10 or 20 or 30 ticks, another hiss, like a long-expiring sigh, some times with a tremble In it, as of a dry leaf vibrating In the wind. No sooner would one cense than another would begin ; and so it would go on, demand and response, strophe and anti strophe; and at Intervals several voices would unite In a kind of long mysterious chorus, death-watch or hiss." Famous Old Scottish Song. "The Illuo Bells of Scotland” is not only popular In the land of the thistle, of which ft sings, but it has an International appeal. It was written by Miss Annie McVIcar, a young Scottish woman, who spent con siderable of her early life in Amer ica. The occasion which prompted the words of this song was the de parture of the Marquis of Huntley for the continent with his regiment In 1799. The music to which Miss McVIc- ar’s poem has been set la several hundred years old, and it wns rescued from oblivion by Mr. Fitzgerald, to who'll the world owes a great debt of gratitude for his untiring work In thia direction. Brave and Unyielding Freedom. The liberty which our fathers plant ed, and for which they sturdily con tended. and under which they grandly conquered, Is a rational and temperate, but brave and unyielding, freedom; the august mother of institutions; the hardy nurse of enterprise; the sworn a ly of Justice and order; a liberty that lifts her awful and rebuking fnce equally upon the <iwurds who wot:.’d s- 3. and the braggarts who won! J p, r- veri. her piecl" i« rifts of rights and obligations. Edw|ti P. Whipple.
