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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1908. JAY TUTTLE, M. D. 1HISICIAN AND SURGEON Acting Assistant Surgeon f.H, Marina HomiIUU Nenrle. koura: 10 to It am. 1 to 4:10 p.m. 77 Commercial Street 2nd Floor. Dr. RHODA C. I1ICKS 08TEOPATHIST Minna BMg. tli Commercial 8t PHONE BLACK JW5. DR. T. L. BALL, DENTIST. 324 Commercial St Astoria, Oreeon. Dr. VAUGHAN, Dkxtist Pythian Building Astoria, Oregon. BEFORE THE HALLOWEEN FIRE. ... Coprrtfht. WH, br Roby Doo U 2y Huky ' Votijttu "Isn't this quite the moat fun we're j Dr. W. C. LOGAS BENTIST - 678 Cbmmercial St-, Shanahan Building MISCELLANEOUS. JAPANESE GOODS . New stock of fancy goods just armed at Yokohama Bazaar. Call and see the latest novelties from Japan. C. J. TRENCHARD Raal Eitata, Inauranea, Commiaaien and Shipping. CUSTOM HOUSE BROKER. Offie 133 Ninth 8tfMt, Naxt to Juatiea Office ASTORIA, OREGON. BEST 15 CENT MEAL. You can always find the best 15-cent meal in the city at the Jsising Sun Restaurant. 612 Commercial St. FIRST-CLASS MEAL ir 15c; nice cake, coffee.jj pie, or aoughnute, 5c, at U. S. Restaur- I "No," ahe retorted over her shoulder. ! 8ltent!y they Wth watched the choa. ; out It was opening slowly, very alow ly, but surely, and the deep yellow W A. . i V mran was ueginmng to show through uir craeas. "You're a ellly chestnut,' aatd Pau Une. shaking her head at It; "you are so slow. You deliberately let all tha othere get ahead of you." She paused while the flatnea damped about merrily, trying to urge the nut on to Juan. hadr asked Pauline, larln tha laat I AU nnemiacloualy the mau was beud- oifsmui cm me neartfi and reautuing " o iow her seat on tha low atool before the ' Rnjr of tn conversation which waa uot m i addressed to him. Smii.Ui,. it ... mu, . 1 1 i, no wu "Quite." replied tho man beside her. !ntrm soliloquy, I'aually he let Pauline looked up. "You're ao aert- 1 "lln mbl nd on. unmindful oua, Teddy. You're always ao eeriona 1 or "or chattering, treating her almost M... w t i . . . ,. I It I Crdhl-a lltkHP IrteuHl mI.II.I V. . fcui i rvi ( uouhi aimoai can you j r . 1 "i. Theodore, not Teddy." ' ne h"d an """wonntable curiosity to He aiulled Indulgently at her. What I fcuww ror wnom w,p n1 named the last child ahe waa in aplte of ber twenty "n"1- "n1 ' ao many young years! He had known her alwaya, for' m"n whwu 8he ,nlnt nv chosen, he was about to be forty. f " Mus you are old." Paul- Don't I beg of you. Look, child, mv w " the chestnut. chestnuta are going to pop first." ' 1 you "lU't M Aviii ?oo rtunne framed her face In her handa ' "uu ,ou l"uc Jur "air la it- hvt wn was very low-coun- tently watching the cheatnuta open fenlJ,,11i' 'w-"h1 ahe bent more cluae- I V orrr me nut. I m afraid you- areu't lolnr tu nn Ho UmM nt her In open eyed N ir-u-lm mid pMiulno ndinlrntlon. "Suiv, mem. I'll tell him." he bhM. stnrtlug off. "and bad w to tlilin Unit ways he hna no taste In Indies, mem." -New York Times, ' THOUSAND MAT HALL. wider and wider, "Don't forget tha name. Teddr. I'd like to know which girl la to have you." e amiiwd again. He alwaya amtled at Pauline. He watched tha flriii?ht twostep through her ringlets and about the great ooll of hair wound gracefully about her pretty head. vh, Teddy." ahe cried, and dlsmar waa the predominant emotion batraved In her tone. "They all popi at once." And It was true. All three of the tnan'a cheatuuts had pointed siiuiiltaum ously, leaving Pauline without the sat- lafactlon of knowing whom the Hal loween fairies had destined for her eompanlon'a wife. The man touched. "Watch rour nwn That fat one on this end seama ready to Jump." Pauline, a shadow of dlaanDolntmitnt still on her face, studied her chestnuta. "I can venture a mesa as to who that tad man Is, little girl." "Can your aha asked saucily. las, and he aeems to know ha la to nop first He la a confident chap, at Pauline Ignored his first chestnut waa ready to burst and the middle nut looked readr to follow any minute, but the one on the other ant 434 Bond St BAY VIEW HOTEL 3 E. GLASER, Prop. Cooking, Comfortable Bdj, Reason able Rata andJSictJTreatment ASTORIA HOTEL CornergScvcntecnth and Duanc St. T5 eeistts a day and up. Meals 20 cents. Board and lodging f4 per week. WOOD! jiWOOD! ' WOOD Cort wood, mill wood, box wood,"any . Hiwf of wood, at lowaat prloaa. Kally, i transfer man. 'Phone 2211 Black, Bars) on Twelfth, opposite opera m tefTTfTTi Jr M m r ' ' I I III i i m7r. in i i i "i i TDNDERFUl HCIS TJtEATMENT mm aaat anftTea as Ha mm wlrii woflderfnJ (. hl irtx. nana. boda. Mai aattral arv aaa a thli eouatir. Tbrcxich th aaa t ahaaa kmlia miih iki. - - -- hMa tha actios of k tstmnmt no- ZZLT u meemmmuT la aiaaraat a. tans, tkraat, rawiwattaaa, amaaaiiiM. aMaaach, Urar, kldoert, ata.; haa bmanaa W aaamiialila, Charfaa madarata. CaU aM aw him. Pattrai out mt Um aK rtta tm X.i an area latm. -t f rial OOJtawiV Tk C See Wo Q&aex Ee&be Cs. IU Alder SC. "I'M AFRAID TOP ABSVT OODJO TO PBO P08I AT ALL." end waa opening slowly. A frown dodged Into the space between Paul ine's eyes. What did Halloween falrtea know about it anyway?" Bhe moved her stool back and slipped to her knees on the hearth. hndinr closely over the chestnuts. I OpI Of COUrtie VOU would nr.n first," she scolded, talklne to the innn. cent chestnut that had Just found its proximity to the flames too trying pose at all. I'm begluulng to think you will never understand thntMhat you love me, you funuy chestnut," she laughed nervously. The nut was on the verge of Jumping, and ahe waa peril ously close to It. "Be careful, dear." said the man. "It might strike your face," And Pauline thought he had never spoken to her so tenderly. She lowered her eyes quickly. "Ob, chestnut, you are-you are going to pop! You are!" Pop! The blow nut had Jumped, aud Pauline excitedly reached out for it j ad caught It uu: sne cried, dropping it The man allpjicd to the atool beside her. "Why did you do that child? You've burned yourself." he aald ait. mg ner hapd in his. for a moment he held It silently. tooKing into its pretty pink palm. "Pauliue, who waa -the laat mn-the man who hurts your Bh looked up into bia eyes. "Dearest can it be? Oh, Paulina, nd to thiuk I have uever realized until tonight what you are to me!" Her hid dropped to his kuee. "You-you almost made me propose to you, Teddy," she mumbled from her refuge. "And If it had not been for Halloween you would never have Junipel." veil make mi for It bv Bottin I married next wai;,'' And that whs why the forward chest nut and the deliberate hpatnnr vrarM j allowed to remain side by aide until tney turned blue aud crisp. A Short Rrrltatloa.' wy parents, well meaning in their way, taught me aoltnnn things about "O man Immortal, live for something!" and all such, aud I had to humiliate myself by disgorging them in nnhlir The consequence was that not only on rnaay afternoon, but whenever any body came to vlxit the m-linn! r butchered to make a Honiau holiday. out mere is one liuppy memory of a Friday afternoon. Determined to show my friends and fellow citizens that I, too, was born In Arcadia and was a living, human boy. I announced to teacher, "I got another piece." "Oh, have you?" said ahe, sure of an extra O-inan-Inimortal Intellectual treat. "Let us hear it, by all means." Whereupon I man lied up to the plat form and declaimed that deathless lyric: When I was a boy, wis a bold one. My mammy mnrio me a new ahlrt out o' dad's old one. All of it? Certulnly. Isn't that enough? That was the only distinctly popular platform effort I ever made. I am proud of it now. I waa proud of It then, nut i the news of my triumph waa coldly re ceived at home.-Eugene Wood In Mc- j Clure's. i Strartar That la lint of (ha Waa. 4rra tf Japan. One of the v. winters of Mljujlma ) an enormous structure culled Thousand Mat liuli. a name wliMt means Hint t.M of (he ivL'hillon a by I! foot i !iv Mraw mats are ic.iilred to cow Its floor. All rooms In Japan are men. tired In (hit way Instead of lv f,.,.i so In talking alMtiit homes one al ways says ii "nix mat room" or "Unit., and u half mat room" mill! one begin to think In tlivlxloiiM of eighteen miart feet. Thousand Mat hall was erected In the Klstieiitli century out of the wood of a single camphor tree, say the Japaiie. records, that are always no full of suh perfectly wonderful de Jails, if this be so, camphor trees uuist have grown very large In Japan in the sixteenth century, aln.v the building re!ts upon a hundred or mure plies, cii.1i n giant tree trunk In Itself. U'slde which the roof Is unheld bv at least tlfty plllHrs that were fifty forest inoiiaii'lis once upon a time. Then there is a floor In the structure made ! of 1S,(hh square r.vt of ctnlar planks a Toot and n half wide and five Indie ! thick, sn one must needs Is-llcve that i Its builder oiitintrucled the miracle of the loaves ami the fil,ea f Japan's so Iwr reconls are to count for iinvtbttig, ; Jhe walls of this nncleiit hull hian- ditubtless cehiHsl the sounds of maiiv priestly oru.v, since It mlloliis the lent pie and Is giiardisl by a richly wrought seven story ia'sl,i. enshrining Amid;! Htitsu. but the m glorious thing In Its history m.miis to be the fact that Hldeyoshl, "the Napoleon of Japtiu,' used It for council chamber during his remarkable invasion of Korea. Now It Is merely a "show nlace." standlm empty unit open and irauiit. overlook lug the sen -a roost for sacred pigeons and Mattering, sparrow s. It was dur lug the ( Mi.a .Ihj.ii it war that troops tlrat began to be iiuartered on the is land, and several regiments, for want of Is-tter barracks, were encamped In this old historical structure. Due even ing In half Jest, half earnest, it soldier nailed his rice ladte tmeshl torn) to one of the pillars, with a nniver (hut be and his regiment might s.hiii be sent to help conquer the Chlueso. His com nules followed his example, ami since then It has become n custom for every visitor to the hall to buv a rice ladle and, writing his uunio and the date of his visit upon It. with, of course. "Dal Nippon Baiual!" tack It up somewhere j In the vast bulldln. 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The man raised Lis brows quizzically. It was whHt he had come to accept as Inevitable, that Pauline, bis dear lit tle friend, wonld marry thla boy. Cer tainly It would not be the young man's fault If she did not "You silly chestnut." Pfliilln hn I talking obviously to the nut on the far end. "Why are yon so slow when yon know you should have popped first?" She did not turn her face toward the man, but kept her eyes on the nnts. Ana tue man supposed it was the heat from the flames which heighten ed the color in her cheeks. How pret ty she looked.' He had never realized before how lovely Pauline really waa. Pop! The middle nut bad Jumped away. Only one remained. "That was John Carrlnaton." con- fessod Pauline, looking tip shvlv Into f Jnea75JReitOpeii Day andiNlght. The'Astoria Restaurant MA V HIN0, Proprietor. Fine meals served at all boors. Oysters served in r.ry "style. Game in season. S Bond Wtreet, Cor. 9th. J Astoria, Ore. relates James MacArthur In tin pnor'a Weekly, Payn told the following cu rious incident to the author of "Da vid Copperfleid:" Payn, it seems, waa returning to his home one summer night through a fashionable street near riccaauiy when a audden thunderstorm causea mm to take refuse under a nor. tico which commanded a view of one of the fashionable bouses across the street Aa he stood looking Into the ngntea drawing room a lady dressed in a bail gown appeared at one of the open bow windows, and at the same moment a man who looked like a beg gar ran across the street and stood nn der the window. The lady threw out to him her bouquet, ne caught it and nodding twice to the figure above him ran off at full speed. Dickens was greatly Interested in this story, and the question la asked wheth er he ever made- use of the incident in any of bia novels. A Compllmaatary Contradiction. A New York nubilsher has a rennta tion for employing the homeliest ste- the face above hers. "Nn i noffraobers and tvnewrlters in tha elt you like to know who this third slow Efficiency rather than beauty is what M i . ... . one m i "I would, indeed, but he seems to have little chance." "Perhaps it Is his own fault. He has been lying there so indifferently, hardly seeming to realize that lie wa-i near the fire and not seeming to can to jump and pop like all the others." Pauline was again leaning over thr last chestnut, talking half to its in animate shell, half to herself and no at all to the man now sitting up straight in the chair behind her.. "Aren't you eolne to tell me wh ItiaT' haaskeA, - he wants, and he knows the prettiest ones are not the most efficient Just the same. It Is said of him that be doesn't know pretty woman when he tees one. Still his wife la an unusually handsome woman. Not long ago ahe came into his office, where she appears only at rare Inter vale and only when It is absolutely nec essary. 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