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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 19, 10 GOLDEN KEY TO SUCCESS IS HANDED OVER TO PORTLAND BOYS AND GIRLS Dr. T. L. Eliot, Minister Emeritus of the First Unitariam Church, Says Beware of Drinking and Smoking, Have High Ideals, Spread Sunshine, Take Marriage Seriously and Be Unselfish. DR. T. I ITI JOT TEIXS HOW TO WI2J SCCCES. Bare high Ideal and by patient effort you will attain rhem. Strive to make others happier and Better. Early marriage la all right If en tered Into tor the h!Kh purpose of making- a home and serving the race. If you irooM be happy through a long married life, be unselfish, make mutual concessions and be religiously consecrated. All science proves that stimulants are a detriment to the growing; body and mind and' no young man can be truly successful and. drink Intoxi cants or smoke. A girl or boy cannot be successful and neglect the borne duties. Cultivate all of your powers and use tbem to bless others. A (lrl should at all times be wom anly and a messenger of faith, love and bope to mankind, to attain her highest goal. BT W. H. WARREN. BOYS, you cannot be successful and drink intoxicating; liquors. Dr. T. L. Eliot, minister emeritus of the First Unitarian Church, president of the Heed Institute board of trustees and one of the grandest old-young; men that ever lived in rortland or any other city, says so, and Dr. Eliot knows. Dr. Eliot has lived so long In Port land that everyone nearly everyone knows htm and all who know him love him. He speaks from the ripo years of experience, and when I asked him how a boy or girl may be successful In life, he laid down a few simple rules, but the chief thought Is "be unselfish, be patient and you will attain success." Dr. Eliot gives no advice to the young that he does not take to him self. Tou can see that he has been a patient man all of his long life as you gaxe into his face. His hair is white with the years, but as you talk to him you do not think he is "old," and he Is not, for he lives not In -the past, but in the present and future. He is as deeply interested right now in the many problems that confront the people as ever and takes delight in advising and assisting In the various questions of the day. mark Ideals Necessary. Of course. I was not at all surprised when I asked Dr. Eliot "is it absolute ly playing with fire1' for a boy to drink intoxicants, and he said yes. , Still, as he answered, somehow I caught a new impulse and saw the danger that lurks in the cup. Neither was I surprised when he said that no boy can be a very great success and smoke cigarettes, but I know that these words of advice, coming from such a man as Dr. Eliot, are worth countless thousands to Port land's youth, if but heeded. "What are the requisites for true success for a young man or woman?" I asked Dr. Eliot. "High Ideals and patient effort to attain," he replied, with a smile. There Is nothing at all unusual about this reply, perhaps, but the words spoken by one whose life glows with success, is It not well worth while for every boy and girl in Portland and elsewhere to ponder ever tbem? In this age of more or less "loose" ideals, when sordid commercialism seems to have fastened Itself upon us, is it not splendid to bear such words from one who has spent his life in "patient ef fort to attain success" give a requisite so simple and yet so certain of accom plishment if followed? Happtnewa Great Factor. "What advice would you give to a boy or girl. In order to Insure happi ness through life?" was my next ques tion. "Strive to make others happier and better." A brief reply, but, wben yon ponder over the few simple words, you soon realize that Dr. Eliot knows full well that one cannot be happy without first adding to the happiness of others. Hence, bis answer, so characteristic of the man himself, for he has been a great factor In creating happiness for others. The next question which I asked Dr. Eliot was one of the chief features of the Interview, for I knew full well that anything he would say on this subject would be read by the multitude with great Interest. "Do you believe In early marriage?" was the question. Now. Dr. Eliot has married, well, I have no idea how many couples, but so many that he has seen every side of the situation and be has a vivid realization of the sanctity of the rela tion and the solemnity of the vows. "Tea," he replied, "when entered into for the highest purpose of making a home and serving one's race." Impulsive Marriages Bad. Therefore, according to Dr. Eliot, young men and w-omen should have a very thorough knowledge of the seriousness of what they about to do before "getting married." It la all Important that no mistake be made, but the sad fact is, he pointed out, that, too many times, young people enter into marriage suddenly, without any particular understanding of its solemn ity. Soon cornea the storm, with its disastrous results, ending in the divorce courts, end broken hearts and homes. And then I asked him another ques tion along the same line, "How can a couple avoid divorce and live happily together for long life?" "By being unselfish, by mutual con cessions, by religious consecration," was the wondrously-wise reply. What a beautiful word picture did Dr. Eliot here paint of a truly happy married couple, living in contentment together through the long years of life. Nothing of selfishness, but all of unselfishness; no strife, but conces sions, combined with religious conse cration not any narrow sectarian religion, but the broad kind, that takes in all that is good, for Dr. Eliot has none of the narrow kind in hts make up. All that he said on this subject, as on the others, he sakl from ex perience, for he has lived this life him self, a family of eight children having blessed bis home. Advice Gives to Girls. And here is something for the firls to think over. "No girl can be a success." said Dr. Eliot, "and neglect her home duties. No more ran she do this that can a hoy neglect his home and be a success. Both boy and girl must be obedient to their parents and must have love and respect for them. It is far from light for a boy or girl to think they ran slight their little home duties and be able to grow Into manhood or wo manhood and attain success. It is cer tain that if a boy or girl neglects the home life and seeks ' pleasure, amusement or enjoyment elsewhere they will sooner or later be found drift ing into places and participating in things that tend to degrade them. There is no place like the home for the boy or girt" One of the most beautiful sentiments expressed by Dr. Eliot during the Inter view was that which he uttered in re-, ply to the question as to what is the highest goal a woman can attain. "The highest goal that a woman can y i ' jtiiu W'ujw'W'WW"'. ija isMmw ij.eBwjHsemiLis'mjjjMW.wuaiWik iu.wwsujh.u, jf ' ' ' - '-- a $:.- . 5 :...'-..:'" : : JKV,:f ... .SH. -, 3 , - ,r? rt,t 1 r- k( - -.v tv 1 Is s v - ' tit h ' e r J if. - - 4H-;t- 4 f .aV- REV. T. I attain," said he, "is, in general, the same as for a man, namely, to cultivate all her powers and use them to bless others. A woman should at all times, under all circumstances and conditions, be womanly, a messenger of faith, hope and love for God and to mankind." "Boy Pastor a Sobriquet. Dr. Eliot Is one of the "sunniest" men who ever radiated love and beamed forth wholesomeness in private and public life in Portland, to which city he came more than 43 years ago. They called him the "boy pastor" when he first appeared in this beautiful city, and. while he is past 71 now, he acts young and talks young, and his years only add to the weight of the wise words here given. He is the dean of the Portland min isters, all of whom admire him for his gracious manner on all occasions. Al ways a busy man, he is never too busy to speak a kind word or to do a loving deed. Consequently, he was glad to take the time from his work to answer a few questions when informed that something that he would say undoubt edly would help some of the boys and girls who would read his statements. A lover of all that is good and noble. Dr. Eliot has lived a most active life in Portland, having devoted his time most freely to civic affairs, both in the city and state. At various sessions of the Legislature he found time to assist in putting through laws for the general good of all. and to this city he has given years of faithful, painstaking la bors. Dr. Eliot was pastor of the First Uni tarian Church until January. 1893. when he retired, but he was elected minister emeritus, and on numerous occasions since occupied the pulpit, and he al ways puts his old-time vigor and en thusiasm into his sermons. Community Is Served. Ho has ever been active in municipal affairs, his tireless energy being gen erously poured out to help others, rie served on the Park Board for years; he m, In tn v,u-i as nresident Of the Oregon Humane Society, where he showed forth his gentleness ana ac- onmnli,h,il much for the STOOd Of that cause. He is interested in art and Is a director in the Art Museum. He sirved as County Superintendent of Schools from 1871 to lSio; gave oi nis umu m k- iiihiio T.ihrarv and Prison Board: acted as a trustee of the Boys' & Girls Aid Society for 20 years and also as trustee for the Childrens' Home. In fact, there is scarcely any good thing in vhifh tiA la not now or has not been in the past actively interested. Dr. Eliot has put nis stamp inoeu bly upon Portland. He is a part of It ested in boys and girls and that he Is anxious that tney snail live long uu be happy, as he himself has. A man who has lived so close to nature, who ha kan an ncrossed in the lives of others cannot but be a success, and it was because Dr. Eliot is acanowieageu fc... 11 n h t,.h ft BHIVASS that I sought to get from him a tew ideas to give through me uregoman to mo youth of Portland and Oregon, especial ly, and to others generally. "Good Time Not Barred. r . I 1 .. n, Clint, .i-ioa rniinuNtl golden. If closely followed by a boy or girl, they cannot fail. But, if they oo follow his advice they will, have to sacrifice, as he has sacrificed, all of the frivolous things of life, if it is proper to use the word "sacrifice" In this connection. At any rate, while Dr. Eliot believes In healthful recrea tion, amusements of a high order, and athletics that go to make thorough men and women, all that tends to re tard progress and to cripple the growth of all the faculties, must be "thrown overboard," as it were. I know that Dr. Eliot has had a "good time" in his life, but not an ui. -.valllnv lif nf "amusement" for he shows it. He looks the part and. In saying that no coy can succeed wuo . i i i.tn.l.tfnr n r who smokes cigarettes. Dr. Eliot is not at tempting to taKe irom tue Doy auino worthy pleasure; he is endeavoring to impress upon the boy of today the aoUn., UV ftll StlmulantS dwarf the growth of both mind and body, and witn tnis esiaDiisacu, vue can easily see that the kindly man of rich experience is seeking only to save the boy from sorrow and point out to him the danger. Moury Not Meatloned. Certain tt is that one so loving and so thoughtful for the welfare of others would never seek to deny a boy or girl any pleasure that would add to their joy in life or that would help tbem to better and more rounded lives. Tou will note that in this article - llliiil -s J ELIOT. nothing is said of money. I said noth ing about it and Dr. Eliot did not; I knew that Dr. Eliot has always been more deeply Interested in other things and so the money question did not enter into this interview. Any bo or girl who follows the advice given by him. however, will lose nothing in a financial way, for every bit of his ad vice leads to care, saving and economy. So, without doubt. Dr. Eliot's advice if closely observed, will lead to certain success for the boy or girl. MASSES STILL CREDULOUS French Press Filled With Catchy Ads of Fortime-Tellers. PARIS. Jan. IS. (Special.) The credulity of the twentieth century does not seem to have abated a Jot from that of the Middle Ages, to judge by the columns of advertisements insert ed by the tribe of fortune tellers, prophets and "voyantes" day after day in the Paris press. For nobody would pay the high rates charged without good returns, and as the number and volume of the appeals of these gentry steadily Increase, It can only be ar gued that their dupes are also on the Increase. Some of the advertisements are ex tremely amusing, although it is as tounding that any sane man or woman can be attracted by them. To take a few at random: "Do you wish to expel bad luck? To annihilate unknown per secutors? To triumph over disappoint ed love? To recover your health mor ally lost?" Who is the' sufferer from unknown persecutors and the loss of moral health who would not fly "to recover the envied joy, beauty and wealth?" The advertisement proceeds: "Only the 'Sorcerer of the Far West' can give GARDENING IN CITY SHOULD BEGIN WHILE MID-WINTER STORMS RAGE Implements Needed for Preliminary Work Are Open Fire, Easy Chair, Imagination, Paper and Pencil, Lot Meas f, urements, Garden Literature and Seed Catalogues. BT STEL.UA WALKER DURHAM. EARLY for garden fever did you say? Well, that depends. If you aro a true garden lover with ex perience behind you, you know that precisely the proper time to start gar dening operations is in the heart of'a mid-Winter storm, with the ground either frozen or so muggy it can't pos sibly be worked. But if you are one of the other kind of gardeners that the fever doesn't strike until you become afflicted simultaneously with another sort of Spring fever the kind that Riley describes as making you Want to Jes" et out an' rest An' not work at notnln' else Then it is too early. For if you are one of the latter class of gardeners you will probably wait until the early tulips in your neighbor's garden awak en in you the latent lure of the land. Then quite likely you will hastily and superficially prepare your garden plot and hie you to the nearest dispensary of seeds quite likely the corner gro cery where you will get seeds of the vintage of '97. then you will poke them In the ground and serenely await the time of harvest. Xow la Time to Begin But if you are a true garden lover you will begin now, when it is mani festly impossible to do anything out side except perhaps to make a few measurements. The implements that ynu should have at hand to begin your garden work at this season are: One open fire (this is not essential, but is very effective as a stimulant to the imagination), one easy chair (this can also be dispensed with, but not advisedly so); a goodly measure of imagination: one pad of paper and pencils; all the measurements of your garden; all the catalogues and garden books you can get your hands on; also, if you are an old voter and not one of our new citizens, I suppose a good ci gar wonld help some. The Jndlspensables in this list are catalogues and imagination. If you have been a gardener for even one sea son you are probably on the mailing list of one or more seed houses, and have already received 1913 catalogues. If you have not the first thing to do is to get yourself put there. Most of the seed houses send catalogues on request Climate Here Peculiar. If you are a newcomer bear in mind that the climatic and soil conditions of the Eastern and Middle. Western states are quite unlike those of the you the infallible means to succeed In all you undertake. No regrets and no misgivings! Do not hesitate to ask for information from him, as he gives it for nothing." The "sorcerer" Is apparently a philanthropic practician, but those who apply to him will 'doubtless discover that they cannot be given perpetual joy. beauty and wealth without some modest remuneration. "Maria-Teresa" is not quite so gen erous, as she asks 40 cents. She is a clairvoyant medium who "predicts the future and proves It rjy relating tne past by an Italian method known to nobody but herself, as she possesses the gift of divination, which is natural and cannot be acquired." Then there Is the Abbe, who begs that "before succumbing to despair, send the date of your birth, and I will unveil the fu ture and the Infallible key to all suc cess." One more quotation will excite some curiosity. It is the advertisement of the "Fatal magnetized water of the Knights Templars, which is the most formidable occult power that exists! Its prodigious virtue unravels the most complicated situations, and immediate, iy mends the most desperate ones Nothing can resist its vigorous action To convince yourself of this sublime and supreme force, send your address to M. X.. and your own good sense will iu'i'-'e of the value of the Vatal Water!" Books Added to Library SCIEN'CE. i BoTza Lectures on the calculus of varia tion. 1904. Tborndyke Animal Intelligence; experi mental BtuMea. 1911. . Van Tuy I -Complete builnesa arithmetic 1911. SOCIOLOOT. Aiken Hospital management, a hand book tor hospital nurses, superintendents, tralnfnr-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged In promoting nospiuu worn. lwil. Bowley A short account of England's joreign trace in tne linn century, its econ omic and social results. Rev. ed. 1905. King The regulation of municipal utlll tler. 1912. Jdasterman A history of the British con stitution. 1912. Rorke Government position : how to get a Government Job and courses of study for civu service examinations, lviu. Tarde Penal philosophy. 1912. Velller Housing reform, a hand book: for practical use in American cities, mil. USEFUL ARTS. Allen Industrial studies. United States. 1911. Bennett, -Sir Lectures on the use of mas sage and early movements in recent frac tures and other common surgical Injuries; sprains and their consequences, riridlty of the spine and the management of stiff joints generally. Ed. &. 1910. Bitting The canning of peas, based on iactory inspection ana experimental aata. 1909. Boyer Money In broilers and squabs, to gether with special chapters on turkey and guinea d rollers and green ducklings and geese for market. The experiences of prac tical men. lsu-i. Floy Valuation of public utility proper ties. 1912. Foster Engineering valuation of public utilities and factories. 1912. King -Farmers of 40 centuries. 1911. Prellnl Tunneling; a practical treatise, Ed. fi. rev. and enL 1912. Radford Cement and how to use It ; a working manual of up-to-date practice in the manufacture and testing of cement; the DrODortionlna. mixing and depositing of con crete, with special chapters on concreting tools and machinery, waterproozing, wont ing rules, etc. 1910. Rochester, (N. T.) Chamber of Com merce. Individual fire-fighting. 1911. Rogers Industrial chemistry ; a manual for the student and manufacturer. 1912. BOOKS ADDED TO REFERENCE) DE PARTMENT. Bradbury Bradbury's workmen's compen sation and state Insurance law of the United States, together with the latest British ' comoensation act. with numerous notes, comments and explanations. 1912. Du Pont de Nemours, Powder Co. Hand book of explosives for farmers, planters, ranchers: how to clear land, dig ditches, grade roads, with Du Pont explosives. 1910. Eaton The Oregon system, the story of direct legislation in Oregon; a presentation of the methods and results of the initia tive and referendum and recall In Oregon, with studies of the measures accepted or rejected, and special chapters on the direct primary, popular election of Senators, ad vantages, defect and dangers of the system. li12. Gonse Japanese art. 1S91. The Linde Air Products Company Oxy acetylene welding. 1911. Pollock & Mai i land The history of Eng lish law before the time of Edward I. Ed. 2. 1899. Ralph son Boy scouts In a motor-boat; or Adventures on the Columbia River. 1912. Rockefeller. Institute for medical research, New York The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. History, organization and equipment. 1911. Sherrlll Military map reading. 1912. U. S. Land Office, General Instructions relative to homestead entries within the former Blletx Indian Reservation in Oregon. 1911. Verrlll Knots, splices and rope work; a practical treatise giving complete and simple directions for making all the most useful and ornamental knots In common use, with chapters on splicing, pointing, seizing, serving, etc Adapted for the use of travelers, campers, yachtsmen, boy scouts and all others having to use or handle ropes for any purpose. 1912. Whit ten Valuation of public service cor porations. 1912. Coast states. So in sending for cata logues send first for those of reliable local seed houses. These have been carefully prepared to meet local condi tions. Every year the big publishing houses bring out a greater number and variety of garden books. The public library has a host of these and will furnish a list of the most helpful ones on request Mrs. Edith Loring Fullerton's "How to Make a Vegetable Garden" would give gardenitis to a confirmed flat dweller. It makes the growing of vegetables appear more fun than eating them. If you already know a great deal about trees and 'plants and land scape effects and a thousand other things, Gertrude Jekyll's books will be a joy to you, and if you cannot always follow what she is talking about the pictures will delight you anyway. In general the English garden books are fitted for Oregon conditions much bet ter than those of our Eastern states.. But to get back to the beginnings of your 1913 garden. Before you are ready to make use of the implements above mentioned you should decide upon the location of your garden and make ex act measurements. The city gardener's problem is not usually so much a mat ter of deciding upon the best place in the grounds for his garden as of the best use to be made of the space avail able for planting purposes. Sometimes the available space is very small and not at all the ideal one the catalogues so fervently dwell upon. But be that as it may, your first problem is to find out what space is yours to use for gar. den purposes and then to make meas urements of your plots or beds. Brady la First Necessary. Now go back to your easy chair and your fire and books and maybe your smoke and have a perfectly lovely time with yourself in your dream gar den. Read your books and absorb the contents of your catalogue and then read your books and absorb your cata logues some more. After that you may follow the old-fashioned house wife's rule for making peach pickles: Repeat the process for nine nights In succession! By that time you should be thoroughly inoculated with garden itis bacilli. Then get out the rest of your Implements and begin to make plana While running through your cata logues you have doubtless checked or made notations of the varieties that most appealed to you. If you want to have all the fun that thre is to be FURY OF MIDVVINTER HURRICANE FASCINATES CLATgOP COTTAGERS Soaring of Wind Whipped Waves, Supplemented by Downpour of Rain and Hail and Snapping of Timbers, Combine in Awe-inspiring Night Near Seaside. BT JOHX GILL. IT SEEMS bufc yesterday that we were hurrying to catch the 2 o'clock train for Clatsop Beach, hundreds of us fathers, sweethearts, sons to take a day of rest with our dear ones beside the sea. The train lay baking in the station yard and as we pulled out of town the dust hung heavy above the busy streets, the sunshine reverberated from the walls of the big warehouses and the busy sawmill operatives looked after us with a visible envy of our re lease from town and toll. It was hot and dusty along the plains of Scappoo8e, but as we ran from Deer Island and struck the riverside at Hunters, the strong gale sweeping up the Colombia cooled the train percep tibly, and at Pyramid we could breathe In the ocean winds, surging up toward the Umatilla and Walla Walla coun tries t,o bless the inner lands with cool ness. It seems needless to Tecall all the iovely, varied scenes of the route along the lower river,-. of which no Orego nian tires, though it may be his hun dredth trip. No! Each mile, each turn brings us nearer to the expectant bairns and wives, and with such at tendants who could find the trip weari some or monotonous? We pull on our coats by the time we sight Puget Island, enjoying the con trast from the town, two hours be hind us. Tongue Point, overlooking the wide, bright waters' of Cathlamet Bay, and then the billows of the lower harbor lashing the bowlders at the western foot of that noble hill, and the broad waters of Astoria, with the fishermen's sails shining in flocks, like gulls, as they plow the blue waves westward to ward the bar. Then soon we are in the grass fields of Clatsop, and the parachutes of the shepherd's clock dance in through the open windows in clouds. Oh. stately woods of Gearhart! What another world is here among the purple columned trunks of your noble hem locks! The early evening sun streams In slender shafts through the aisles of the ancient wood upon a miniature forest of plumed huckleberry and sal-, lal, which has learned to grow lux uriantly in the dim shades of that lofty canopy of treetops. A hundred sun-browned maids, and wives and children are waiting at the station for the happy fellows debark tns: here: but we go on to a little sta tion beyond, where at most a half dozen of us leave the tram oesiae a broad tidal river, which winds with many a sweeping curve among its green meadows and overhanging spruoes. Five minutes' walk brings usi to the houses in the edge of the pines, looking from their broom-grown ridge down upon the estuary of Nekanakura and Wohana, and across their shifting sands to the white breakers ami tne blue sea. It is still three hours to sunset The rivers wind smoothly and broad, reflect ing their wooded shores and the blue bulk of Tillamook Head. Boats or pleas ure parties plying between Seaside and Gearhart row to and fro and the crab fishers loll over the gunwales in the grateful sunshine. The resinous per fume of the surrounding pines to east ward is borne to uh by the land breeze. We can see the road a hundred yards away across the green downs, with many faring between the two central points of Clatsop's Summer resorts, but we are pleasantly retired from all these in our solitary house at the edge of the wood and river. The sun sets far north of west, over the Gearhart dunes. Arcturus beams golden in the higher western sky. We watch the twinkling eye of Tillamook light and the glow of bonfires on the beaches north and south of the river's mouth. The windows swing wide open through the cool, tranquil night and the sea only murmurs a gentle, slum berous song. But now it is Winter and we are here again to pass a week. The ferns which we left in September green and grace ful, eight feet high and more, are brown and tattered, and matted over the trails. Willows, crabs and alders are bare of leaves. The grass is green and now and then a blooming daisy. and pines, hemlocks and spruces fresh er and greener than in Summer. The long-deserted house is cold and had out of this garden planning you want also to check up on yourself and try to recall Just why you have selected the varieties you have listed. Unless you are unlike all the other gardeners I have met you will discover that some have been selected because they used to grow in mother's garden or perhaps one or two because the mere printed name recalled a scent from a certain other garden of your youth. Some of the novelties in the catalogues are doubt less on your list and many varieties you have have listed just because everybody grows them. But it is all very well to consider all of these things in your tentative list. You can later weed out your plans. Avoid Shading Plant. In the plan for the vegetable gar den remember to make the rows long, with tile idea always in mind of culti vating with the greatest facility. Hun the rows north and south. Put the tali plants to the north or west side, to avoid shading the others. The cata logues give the heights to which the plants are supposed to grow, so by taking time you can make reasonably accurate estimates on your plan. In your flower garden you will have many things to consider besides the matter of ease of cultivation and height of plants. Preferences of different plants in matters of sunshine or shade or moisture, family habits of reaching for the stars or trailing in the dust must find consideration here. The cat alogue descriptions will help you great ly in deciding which plants are best for your shady corner and .which -for the bed In full sunshine. In the iinal revision of the plans It is far better to select just those plants that will thrive with the exposure and soil con ditions that a particular plot offers, then to attempt to fit the plants you would like to grow for sentimental or other reasons to the beds at your dis posal. But it Is precisely because all these things may be worked out now with a maximum degree of success for your next Summer's . graden that you are urged to make use of the long Winter evenings with books and paper and imagination, before the balmy days of Spring lure you out to begin an ill considered garden that will surely -not bring you half the reward that one well planned must surely give you. Besides, when you once get into the spirit of it the planning itself is no small part of the fun. damp, but there is plenty of dry drift wood and pine logs in the shed and the fireplace is eoon roaring. The old place looks good to our eyes as the firelight flickers on its walls, for the day is dull and threatening. One sets off for Seaside for provis ions, another plays Caliban and bears In firewood, -while Miranda and her mother heat and dry the blankets be fore the fire. No long, late twilight now. The light on Tillamook Bock is flashing by 4: for the long vigil of a Winter night. The roar of the Bea comes from the rock, always a presage of storm. Prospero lights his pipe and reads the "Ebb Tide," going forth occasional ly in the hope of seeing the Winter stars. There are a few lights at Sea side and a pale glow on the low clouds above the town and one dim light at Gearhart. but no star. Rain comes soon in a steady pour, but not accompanied by much wind un til morning. It comes earlier usually at Clatsop, and heavier, than at Port land, at least twice as much falling there as with us at home; but there is more sunny weather .beside the sea. because the cold winds that sweep down the Columbia and bring us so-4 many dreary WTInter days of mist and sleet rarely extend to Clatsop. This rain of Saturday night was the storm that wrought such mischief in Portland. No doubt four inches or more fell along shore. By Sunday afternoon Nekanakum was pushing its turbid flood In a well-marked line far out toward the breakers. The river flooded all the green meadows above Seaside House and crossed the road near Fleischner's in a wide current three feet deep, then, entering the basin of Wohana, poured down that river also. for the time making Seaside an lsiano. Prospero not only ' reads Stevenson and the stars, but studies trees, plants, birds and running brooks and would fain have fished,-but the streams were too turbid and swollen. But he took his cloak about him and walked the shore up to the point, where Neacoxie joins Wohana, and in the lee of the spruce trees there watched the hungry gulls attempting to rob the nimble divers. Paddling on the ruffled waves he sees the diver emerge from the water with a fish in his strong beak. and the gulls at once flap off toward the fortunate fisher with his prize, confident that they can compel him to yield to their greater strength. By the time they reach the spot the agile duck or "dipper' is under water again with his prize and swims 40 yards be fore he comes up again, struggling to gorge his fish before the renewed at tack of gulls. Once more he dives, and when he comes up again the gulls have no further interest in him, for -he has safely basketed his fiBh. The gull cannot catch his food under water, and though I have observed this attempt at robbery many times I never saw it succeed. Most of the gull tribe are satisfac torllv engaged on the carcass of a whale which came ashore opposite the' Moore Hotel in November, and now lies across the river from Crows Nest on the sands, a few tons of tough blubber and mighty bones, which the gulls will pick clean before next Summer. A wandering snipe or two, a little colony of snow buntings, crows, wild ducks, a chat, two tiny kinglets, and a friendly, delightful little Winter wren, which dodged about among the tangled driftwood on the beach, were the only birds we saw. But there remains the real Incident of our outing the great storm. We have seen not a few in our Winter visits at Clatsop in the past seven years, but none to match that of December 30, 1912. That afternoon we walked to Gearhart Beach, prepared for rain, with snnnosed waterproofs, souwesters and high boots. The lesser storms of four days past had raised an unusual sea, and we walked the beach almost alone, "following up or flying the white breaker," till the looming bulk of Tillamook was hidden by the coming storm, and the first sheets of its driv ing rain came piping up the sands. The broad northern veranda of Mr. Pfunder's cottage invited us to its shelter, and for half an hour we sat there, hoping tho rain might pass. There were but two houses in all our view which gave sig nal by the smoke of chimney that they were inhabited. The rain came steadier and the wind stronger as we started toward Wohana, and we could scarcely keep on the walk acaos the links, we were so buffeted. But it was worse when we came to face it down the mile of road to the Wohana bridge. The wraps we took off when at our own place dripped in pools. But there are comfortable old things'to change for wet ones and the fire is licking the water out of these as they steam into the chimney throat " The storm increased In might con stantly, steadily, but until we had supped and sat beneath the lamp with our books, we had been rather heed less of it. The house is broad and low and offers far less vantage to the gale than many; but It stands much exposed to south and west, though protected east and north by a thick pine wood. There is no escape from this blast. It comes thick and furious from directly south, though the sheets of rain It drives are cold and keen as hail. Forty miles an hour or more at 8 o'clock, as steady as the march of an army, and every two or three min utes a wrestling angry rusn tnat makes the rafters dirl and the chimney Doom and the lamp swing. Prospero smoked his plpe and said little, seemed busy in his book. He has often been here by himself, alone In these stormy Winter nights, and the others look to Mm as a sort of oracle. The others say, as a roaring gust passes over and goes raging through the shrieking pines, "that is the hardest yet!" By 9 o'clock Prospero announces that he is going out and dons oilskins and tarpaulin. There s no use to take the lantern. It would be blown out be fore he got beyond the porch. Through a north door, opening to leeward, he goes in the lee of the house to the path along the ridge. There is no doubt about the fierceness of the gale. It rives at the disheveled, snapping pines, but until he faces it on the open moor he does not know how wild, how terrible. Only for a breath he tries to face it. D flphe'.-Cheerflil life It the ritrht of everyone to lire and enjoy the cheerful life. We owm -. it to ourselves and those who live with urn to live the cheerful life. 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S near-coated, tiny arannlea. then, head and shoulders to windward, butts hts way laboriously for 60 yards and, with hands sheltering his face and eyes, tries to see a light at Seaside or un the Rock or at Gearhart. The solid sheets of rain have overwhelmed all. One other only is visible, where in a house sheltered by the grove, his neighbor, who dwells permanently, will not trust himself in bed this night. "Oh. Night and Storm and Darkness, ye are wondrous strong!" The sea, thrust In by the gale, is gnawing at the ridge on which the house stands. The wide sands are drowned and the waves torn oft by the wild tempest are flying in a dim smother of spray and foam. Prospero seeks the lee of the house and looks at the hurrying clouds and the writh ing trees and thinks of sails and masts and death-drying sailors and light house keepers and then goes in non chalantly to the glow of light and Are and wonders how long the house will endure before it blows away like a is 10 now and bedtime, but Pros pero puts more logs on the fire and says: "We may as well watch this ' out." Can that pale flash be lightning? Another far over the sea! Was it some searchlight of a "beleaguered ship? No, it flares now In the south, a pale, cold sheet of ghostly yellow. There may be thunder, too. but the roar of wind and sea and the boom of the chimney make even thunder inaudible till the flashes blaze near at hand and the thunder jars the house. Then the final tourney of the gale, suddenly chang ing to westward? and with it a tempest of hail that crackled against the win dows and roared on the roof for ten minutes, and the fierce dogs of the storm are all unleashed. We sat, almost dazed, or charmed, by the rage and fury of that nighl. One took a lamp and went to an east win dow to see the hall on that side. To westward we could see th glass in the windows spring in as if It would burst with each concentrated gust. "Come and see the hall!" cried Hal. His voice broke the silent tension which had nerved us for hours and we went to the window to see the hall sifting thickly down. Prospero knew that te worst was over and said, "Now yt can go to bed. It will change to northwest with hall and squalls, but there'll be no more heavy storm to night." So the others went to bed and Pros pero sat by the fire alone. In a quar ter hour he went out to look for the stars. It was as still as a church, except for the great diapason of the raging seas. The light shone dimly, but brighter every moment from Tilla mook Rock; the trees stood black and silent and thankful for rest, against the white masses of the rearguard clouds, and in a wide clear rift to southward shone down the unchanging stars Slrlus, Procyon, Orion, with his belt and sword, and the sweet in flences of the Pleiades. To him who knows them in their appointed place the stars seem more steadfast than any earthly thing. After such a tempest they beam security, trust and hope, the lighthouses of the skies. After a westerly gale it is profitable to walk out beyond Seaside House, to the bight at the base of Tillamook Head. On the way we saw several pines that had been blown over by the storm and fallen into the road and we heard of houses in Seaajde pushed off their foundations. Many people sat up in terror all the night. Near a favorite fishing place where ihe woods above Seaside House border upon the meadow, we sought shelter from a hail storm among the thick branches of a spruce tree. The wind was carrying flakes of foam from the beach, 200 yards away, over our heads. We walked the old trail toward the Head, passing under huge gnarled spruces that have changed littlo since Captain Clark trod the trail beneath them a hundred years ago, on his way to the crest of Tillamook, where he scanned the sea for a fur-trading ship. Across this trail in low places the swollen waters of Nekanakum ex'ended. reaching within 60 yards of the sea, on the very site where In old times it poured its greater flood directly into the bight at the foot of Tillamook. In the ages subsequent the thrust outward of the river and inward of the sea have extended the three-mile spit upon which are Hermosa Park and West Seaside. A thick but narrow screen of little, stunted, wind-distorted spruces separ ate the trail from the bowlder beach along this half-mile curve. Into thia little bay the surges run deep and heavily, waves of the greater sea that follow the old depression of the an cient channel of Nekanakum, and they hardly touch bottom till they hurl themselves upon the bowlder beach. Then, running far up the steep shelv ing shore, the backward wave drags the rocks with it, rumbling and grind ing in the grasp of the sea, and this roaring battery deep beneath those yeasty billows is one of the awlui sounds of nature. As the backward wave ran out to meet the next incoming billow, the two reared high in a white mane of foam and the strong west wind swept white sheets of spray as high and long as Seaside House from the crest of these ridges. A few surf ducks were fishing uncon cerned in the spaces between the giant waves. As a billow reared combing above them they would scutter up the swift, steep cliff of the wave and slide down the back of it or meet it by a sudden dive into its front, reappearing in the hollow behind It. There is a fascination about thia curving shore, with the great booming breakers firing along its line that far surpasses any other spot of the Clat sop coast. We retraced our steps by way or the graves of the four sailors "found on the beach April, 1865." The daisies bloom always among those graves, from which one looks westward upon the sea and eastward down the grassy slope to the Nekanakum, winding down the meadow. No longer for him, like a fearless bird. Yon bark floats under tne lee; No longer his voice on the gale is heard When its runs neal over the sea. But near hi 91 the white gull builds on hlcn Her nest Dy tne gleaming wavr, And the heaving billows moan and die un me sanas or in sauors grave. Portland, January 18, 1913.
