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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1905)
THE 3I0RNING AST011IAX, ASTORIA, OREGO.NV At High Water MarK BY C. B. LEWIS, Copyright, 1903, by R. B. McClurt. Th two center piers of the greet railroad brldgo over the (loom tree rlrcr bad been finished, ami ther wan much rejoicing. They bad been unk In tbo tuaddy bed of th stream a dl tanc of alxty feet, and Uiy towered almost aa high above the surface. It had taken thousuuda of ton of ston and tliouannda of bag of cement and hundred of days' work to rotnplet these pier. They had bad the labor of thousand turn and fifty elephant. 'm tbcy were finished a holiday waa given to all tha workmrn. and th chief engineer gated proudly at bla work and aald: "They art don at laat Flood may roll down earthquakes may topple down forests coin wbat may, and my plftr will aland here when thou and year bare passed away.' "It la ao, aablb-lt la ao," answered tb voir of tbouaand native, and then thty cheered blm and bla work. When a tbouaand natlv Indian workmen art employed together on on Job there are tbrve or four caste. There are meaona, carpenter, elephant driven, ahovelers, boatmen and wbat not There la enmity between toe aatea, there la Jealousy between the different trade,' there 1 chance erery hour In the day for a ftmeral riot, and h men moat be under a strict dis cipline. The aoperintendent'a word must be law from wblcb titer la so appeal. A culprit la not told to go hence, because be baa bound himself, and the company baa bound Itself. II la punished by floe, Imprisonment or the laab. Because of tbla custom thla new ran through camp one morning: "At the bour of high noon today the flag of punishment will be raised on the ataff, and Kim Naialk will be tied to the post and flogged. Three tlmea ba bla overseer warned blm, and three tlmea has be muttered and curaed be low bla breath and fulled to amend bis conduct. Kliu Naaslk la luzy, aud bo baa made Ilundura, bla elephant, the as me. When both driver and elophant are lazy, the work flags. On man and bla beast can binder a hundred others It la right that Khn Nasslk ehould be well flogged." When the elephant driver, after aev. era I warnings, bad been sentenced to punishment, be replied to tb superb tendent: "Your words are true, aablb, and I (would not bav you take them back. 1 bav been lacking In diligence, and llundara baa agreed with me, but we bav a reason. A few Hundays ago be got loose and ran away to the Jungle, w hunted for blm for hour. When w finally ram upou bun be was talk Ina? with a wild elephant II came to me at my bidding, but that night, when all the camp waa asleep, he whispered In my ear that we were fretting the river; that the watera were growling and complaining; that aome evil would surely fall upon u ' dammed them back. For a million years the Goomtree baa bad free flow to the sea. Could It be otherwise than that sho ehould be angry and that aome disas ter should befall us?" "How Is It with the trees-wltb the grass with all else that man uses?" asked the official. "If the river Is a million years old men have used her for a million years. Thousands of toata and rafts have floated down ber current and she baa not cotiipluliied. Men must travel, and they must have Iirldgca on which to cross streams. We have not dammed the current back. There Is plenty of room for It to flow onward. llundara Is a big, strong taat, but lie la lazy. He hns told you this story that bo may bare less work to do. You shall have twen ty lushea at tho pout before all Men. and Ilundnra shall also look on as a warning to tell ho more lies." "As you will, sahib." At noon the whipping took place, but the punishment waa not severe. It was because of the moral effect thnt It waa Inflicted. Kim Nastlk's elo plmrit was there, nnd he dropped his licnd nnd tenrs ran from hleye. Tliey . aid he felt pity for bis master and that his conscience troubled hliu. To npnre the feelings of man and benst. the superintendent gove them half a day off the works--half a day In which to reitcnt and decide to do better In the future. At aundown all lalor censed, and It wan reported Unit Nasslk and his benst bad gone to the Jungles. Thnt was a serious offense. Tho elephnnt wns gov ernment property and wns hired to the railroad company At ao much per day. Naaslk bad been bis tun limit for ten years, but he was no more. He bad Incurred a aerlous penalty by flee ing, and a party waa made to bring him back, but they bunted In vnln. In ahed be bad clasped bla arm around ibe trunk of hi elephant and aald "llundara, I bare been disgraced be fore a thousand men because you told me what tb wild elephant aald. I do Hot believe yon lied, but let ua go to the Jungle and be by ourselves. If tb (loomtre la fretted and harassed, then she will take revenge. We should not be punished for what the aablb ar doing." The pair fled afar. Hometlme they were a km aud sometime In tb com pauy of wild elephant. Tb untamed beasts bad no fear of Naaslk. For weeks they bid In th Jungle or roamed through th forests. lAuht nt mv soul" heirs n Nasslk one day, "th time for th food In th Ooomtre draw near. Whisper It to all your friends, that w may eek Ita bank and be ready for work. Whis per It to twenty-thlrty-flfty. W cannot bar too ouch belp. I will rest her for three day, and do you go among your kind and spread th news." At the end of th third day Bundara returned, and wltb blm were seventy elephant. II bad told bla atory well. Three day later all were at work on th bank of th river, lift mile abov th brldg. Tb water wrf rising, but Nasslk knew to an Inch bow high they would com before standing atlll for a day and then be ginning to recede. Under bla direc tions th elephant began work. Such tree a they could uproot and such log aa they could roll, together with thousands of cartloads of smaller stuff, were deposited Juat below high water mark. They piled banka high for flv miles. For half a mllo back the forest was stripped of limb and vines and logs, and tli labor was finished two daya In advance. "It la well, my children," aald Naaslk, "The wNters will take everything at their flood, and then down at the bridge they will see wbat they will see, lift us now rest from our labors." Pown at the bridge there waa no fear as tho flood crept up. Th Goom tree waa not bringing down enough drlftwooa to tear a raft from Its moor ings. 80 It waa for a week. One morning when high water mark waa reached the chief engineer sneered at th turgid flood. Two hour later there waa a wild alarm. Tb face of the watera waa bidden by drift Never bad man seen ao much of It It came rushing down Ilk a wall. Bom passed between the pier at first and went crashing along, but presently there waa a swirling about and a wedging of mighty trees, and five minute later there was a block. In half an bour It eztended back a mile, and tb fore of a djIHIoq horse was pressing against It. For a quarter of an bour the handi work of man withstood th strain of the element. Then there wa a crash and a roar, and the current of th Goomtree flowed on a If man bad never been. Kim Naaslk had been whipped, and be bad revenged himself. of&adT-sVnilts sent to Dim and ton them off according to their look. What childishness I There Is on regiment of men all marked with th amallpox. Thla Peulorskl regiment did on thing which amused m. Just befor th cor teg came up they all blew their noses with their finger at th word of corn mand, and thla was In order that non of them'mlgbt sneete when tb emper or passed, a their doing so would bring blm bad luck!" Habit of Observation Ai Practiced by Willie 'QE obaer I) ll'f It of olwervlng, my son," aald Wit- father. "Cultivate tb bab- seclng and you will be a successful man." Yes," added Willie' unci. "Don go tli rough the world blindly. Learn to us your eyes." IJttl boys who ar observing know great deal more than those who ar not." Willie' aunt put In. WlJIle took their advice to heart day passed, and once more he stood be for th family council "Well, Willie," aald bla father, "bar you been using your eyesT Tb boy nodded. "Tell us wbat you've learned." "Unci Jim' got a bottl of whisky bid behind bl trunk," said Willie, "Aunt Jennie's got an extra set of teeth in her dresser, and pa'a got deck of cards and a box of chip be hind th book In tb secretary." "The little sneak T exclaimed th family, Newark News. Oa His Haada. BONUSES ANTED Canadian Tariff Commission Listens to Requests. FARMING MACHINERY WANTED VY Wll 11 1C41 U 0 Beer. Vancouver Island Farmers Declare They Caa Buy American Farming Machin ery at On Third lets Coit Than at Horn Object to California Crude Oil. Are You Interested In Advertising? Victoria, B. C, Oct. 7. The tariff cornmbvion coniting of the Canadian finance minister, Honorsble Mr. Field ing, and Honorable Messrs. l'atterson and Brodeur, fmilied its sitting here I ..!.,. A luriM. mi t.ilhr ,.f n'lln.iiiM I VFII. J . . "-H ... T. - were eiliuined al .various request heard, Including that of ship builders for a bonus of $10 a ton, and iron workers for a bonus manufacturers for rebates of crude material used in the various branches, etc. Today Mr. Stoekctt, manager of the Western Fuel company, aked that a duty be placed on crude oil as the importation inter fered with the coat trade. He said the California coal trade had fallen off fifty ier cent becaue of the imreaoing ue of oil. Joneph Shaw, representing Vancouver ixland farmer, aked that agricnltursl machinery be admitted from the United 1 States duty free as he taid agricultural machinery could 1 purchased for one third Icon eont in the United States. The third quarterly convention of the Pacific Coast Advertising Ilea' association wilt convene at Seattle, October 23 and 24. Tli association is mad up of advertisers, advertising writer and agents and advertising solicitors and every one who is interested in ad vertising. Papers on advertising salmon, shingles, retail stores, export trade, etc-, will be read and discussed. Row to HIM Grow I' 9. W have become ao accustomed to rolling the proper name In our geogra phies over our tongue a glibly aa we do our own that few of ua ever atop to think bow much of history, political, natural and religious, la wrapped up In a few syllables. How many towns do you know that end in "berg." "burg," "burgh" or "borough F Take for the first one Edinburgh, for Instance, flow came It by that name Instead of Stumptown or Ilardscrab ble? M us take tb "burgh" out of the name first "Burgh" mean In England and Scot land a corporate town. All the English towns that end In "berry," "burrow," "bury," "borrow," etc., have that end lug from "burgh." In th German It means a castle or fortified town. 80 much for our "burgh." Then, In Edin burgh, It means the castlo or town of whom or what? Here "Edln" la only Edwin" shortened, and Edinburgh tho town of Kd In. Taking this one ns a model, the study becomes easy and Interesting.-London Globe. "lie's got a good deal on hi bands. "I thought be devoted all of hi tlm to bla automobile." "80 be does, and you ought to se bl banda since be' been taking car of It" A are Care. Baity Moore What' tb matter, old manT You look as If you bad the blues. Calvert Jr. I have. 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In time the great Iron beam were stretched from pier to pier, and cross beam and girder were put In place, and from sunup to sundown the hot air quivered under the strokes of the cores of hammers. Th approaches were filled In and spana laid to the piers, and the chief engineer looked over bl work with a smile of satisfac tion. . "All la going well," he said to him self. "In another sixty days th Iron bora will be snorting across this struc ture. The Goomtree Is on th rise, and a flood will rom. but we need not fear It W cleared Its banks of driftwood for fifty miles last year. Nothing her can dam Ita waters back and Imperil the brldg." Aa boor aftr ?fasik had been jma His Medlelaes aad tils Death. A reader at the Paris Ulbllotheque Natlonalo has dug up the prescriptions for medicine which were ordered to Prince t'oiulo In bla last Illness. 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