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Wednesday, November, 1,1905 THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. . 3f THE CRUST BY LEONARD FRANK ADAMS. Copywright 1903 by P. C. Eitinect. IhwiforiU Btrolhil down the In-nth looking for t certain while nmlirHIn, which lie felt sure he would recognize among thousand slnillur ones. Far town on the sand dunes, well away from the crowd which thronged the and. he fplid It. lie could toll it by tho n-rUIn rakiah angle with which It waa alwaya aturk In the amid an wvll aa dy the dlatlnctlve downward droop of Iim time worn rll. Ilciivath the uin- lirclla . would dud her. I'anforth iliiltkened hla atepe and niudo for the! and dutiea. Aa he came nearer he tow the (tlrl 1 lu a t earner (hair beneath the ahelter or tho umbrella. Hie wa rcdlulng mo- j Monica, her rye cloned, He atolo cau-' Uouly up and aeatod hlmaelf Utlile the chair. Btlll the girl did not move, , and from her regular breathing It waa apimretit ahe bad fallen aalccp. Da 11 forth flatted In hi iMM-keta aud found aome rlgara and a little volume of Keula. He touched a match to one of the former and opened tho latter. For a time be read and amoked con tentedly while the girl In the chair, alept ou. I At length he lay tho book face down j on the eand and looked at the girl with a wblmaleal amlle curving hla llpa. He blew aeveral puffa of white amok and watched Uiem drift latlly away. "It la a great chance," he muaed softly, "a great chance. Ixrd koowa I'd never hare I ho courage to talk to you aa frankly aa 1 Intend to do If you were awake, but now I'm going to have a nice long talk with you. In deed, 1 ahall tell you many thing that have Ix-cn ou my mind for mo time." j lie llatcbcd Intently to aaauro hlmaelf that tho glrl'a regular breathing wna unchauged U-furo he went on: j 'We've, bceu the Uat of friend for the pant few yearn, haven't we? It haa been a Jolly, confidential friendship, never marred by any 'foolishness,' aa , yon choiwe to call It. Well, that'a ono j aide of It your aide. It hnan't been marred by any spoken 'foollahnvas' on my part, but uteres bwn an awful I WMH TOO OOLLD HAVI KNOWN." thinking going on all the aume. Good Iml. Amy, you haven't an Men what mime thing hnvo coat me. I've loved you do you underatnndT-loved you from tho very first, and yet not one; word, not one hint of It, I tin iter my- aelf, haa ever paaaed my llpa." He pnuacd and amoked furloualy for a time. "Hhiat poverty!" he burat out. a trifle more vehemently than ho Intended. m ....... H .ti..i.. . ... , . jurir nna 11 niiKiil iiimi'ilieill III Hie ateiimer chulr. He looked lu that dl- j red Ion anxiously, but thn girl waa , breathing deeply, regularly. He caught up the volume bcalde him. "Here It la-the auiu and aubatance of , It all admirably ezpreaaed by .Brother; Keata." He turned the page rapidly to "En-! dymlon" and read, hla voice guardedly modified: "Love In a eottaca, lova upon a cruat la (Lova, forgive ua!) clndara, aahea, dual. "That wna what I feared," he muaed. " 'Cinder, ashen, duatr I couldn't drag It down to that, and ao aud ao I've fos tered thla beautiful, thla Idyllic, friend ahlp of our." lie laid the volume down again. "Blaat poverty!" he growled. "I could only offer you love of the cruat vari ety." He looked out over the aparkllng water. Here and there a aall showed Vblte against the blue of the aky. lie watched a aolltary gray gull aettJe alowly In great. Indolent circle. "I wlab yon could have known," aald he, '.'although, of course. It would have been abaurd to tell you. Still. I wish Iron could have known. Somehow I Ike thla talking frankly to you even If you are aaleep. I can tell yotj now, aa I couldn't If you were awake, that I do love you., "Cinders, abea, duatf, " Dear, dear! ti would never do. You'd come to think nie little and common place. Life for you would be a dull, grinding routine. But I feel better to have told yon, even In thla way." He opened the volume end began to read allentlv. The auo crept down to ward tho went. iii-ceM aprang up from the wntt-r ni:d set I he white um brella swaying. TreM-iitly Hie girl allrrid uneasily and ant up. Hh blinked sleepily, and her eyD fell 011 the num. "Hello, Totur Khe snl.l. "How long have you tieen her" wJtiHt ennte," he lied regally. Vu I aalevpr alie naked. "Why didn't you wnke me upr "Vou linked tn comfortable," aald lie. "I hii.li.'t the henrl." She cneslit cla'tt of the volume. "KeHiar' aim exclaltneil. "Won't yon rend to me 'Hndymlon.' part two, If you plenae." He eyed her ahnrply. Hr fuee waa very grave. ' "Iive In a coilme, Inva upon a eruat I l.ove, forglVM ijk1) clmlera, sNiia,i)uat,M he rend. There wna aoiiicthlng atiNplcloiialy ! like a chuckle from tlx' depth of the ateamcr chulr. He cloaed the book and turned to her quickly. "IJInat poverty!" alie auld. Imitating hla tone. , He aprang up and regarded her oar rowly. I "Vou weren't aaleepT" he Baked In- croduloualy. "If I wua I heard much In dream," ahe aald. "Lordl" be groaned. Then be em I led. "Anyway I'm glad you heard," he aald deOantly. "80 am I, ahe declared very aerl oualy. "!o you mean It?" lie cried. Khe turned ber rye to the aea. "! am going to rlk the rnut," ahe aald. rn 1lrn Weal Free. When a young num Ceiieral Hutler wa debarred from practice for two year. Ill flrat cue after Hint waa to lie trld lfore the aitMrlir court at Halent. The cn ie wa one of theft, and hi client win held a prisoner, appear ing In the court r otn under guard. Hut ler knew the inn n to he guilty and made a iHiiet that he have a few mo menta' private couverantlon with hi client. The court extended the courte sy, and both retired to a private room 1 dowiiMtalr. When the door waa care fully cloned Hutler aald. "See here, Mr. A., how much money hare you with your t'Kin la'lng told he aald, "Well, you give me one half of that now." The man counted out and handed him the money. Then Hutler went to a win dow, opened It wide, turned hi back to hla client and walked lelaurely out of the room, going back to the court room. The court saked Hutler where Die client wa. He looked about the room a If expecting bltn to be In hi place and replied: "Your honor, I do uot know where my client la. It 1 tho custom for the guard to follow hla prla oner." I'alac Kaaearlaar Tra. Ild you ever notice-but of course you dld-what a difference there la In men In the matter of using endearing terms? It la Just aa natural for aome men to aay "Yea, dear," or "No, sweet heart," a It la for aomebody'a pet ter J rler to chaae the family cat up tree, Of course, It doesn't alwaya mean any. thing In particular. That la to aay, If a man call a girl "dear" or "little one" after he haa been "paying ber distinct attention" for awhile, It doesn't ncces aarlly mean tbjt he's going to propose If certain women would get that through their head there would Ih fewer broken heort. Actions, not word, gauge sincerity, and a man may airing Ute coiivermitlon full of pet name and not have any Uoeper affec- t Ion than the man who doesn't call hi wife "dear." It I only a hublt. but It I such a pretty one and It I so easy a way of making a woman happy that It I really too bad more men do not cultivate It. Woman Correspondent In Detroit Free l're. Kapaleon'a Memory, Napoleon had a wonderful memory. When emperor he once surprised hi council with hi Ultimate knowledge of Itomon law and wa asked how he had obtained It. Ho stated that when t lleuteuuut he had once been placed uu der arrest aud waa In prison for two weeks. During that time the only book at hla command waa a treatise on Ho man law. He eat down and In two wceka mastered the volume ao couv pletely that twenty year later he could repeat long passage from It page. He never forgot a face or t name and would often greet private aoldlera by thelr namea, aometlmea alluding to the march or the battle where he bad aeen them before. He kept In hla bead all the detalla of hla military movements, nd It wa aald of him that during the march to Italy and Marengo he knew where every pound of the auppllea for the use of the army waa located. It Is aald that he remembered the name of every officer to whom he ever laaued a roinmlaelnn Tr Waalal Da. "Thla bill," aald the chairman of the leglalatlve ateering committee, "muat not be allowed to become a law In 1U present ahape." . "Why notr demanded the member that had charge of the bllL Tfa tdt plain and "direct ' Tbr ta only one possible Interpretation of tt and no possible way of evading It Head It again yourself, man, and tell me as a lawyer If you think yon could get a case out of It In a hundred year." Chicago Tribune. HOW CORKS ARE CUT TURNING THE PLIABLE BARK INTO BOTTLE STOPPERS. Keeaj Maehlaa Kalvea That abase, Tara, Bhate aatl Taper taa Slab Btrlppetl frwnt taa Tree Taa Hay Ike Waata Prodart la IHIUea'. Cork, an moat person a know, the outer burk of an evergreen onjf tree which growa In Hpain, I'ortugnl, Al geria, Morocco and to Nome extent la Italy. It iK-cullur properties, especial ly It lightlies and It compreaalblllty, make It valuable for core of pur pose, but It original use, In the mun tifai ture of cork, or stopper for hot Ill's, Mill coiiaume the greater part of all that la brought to market The cork oak varle in diameter from six Inche to three feet. Hy a generous prorllon of nature the tree may be iierlodically stripped of Ita outer bark without losing It life. Twenty year I the usual age at which the flrat cutting I made. After that the cork may 1 harvested about every ten yeara. The first cut, whhJi I called virgin bark, I of little value, a It I coarse In texture and deeply seamed. Tho tree may be expected to live aud yield cork until It la 150 yean old. In Hpaln and aome other European countries cork are still made by band, each one being pared from a aquara block by a common knife. In thla conntry, where are made the finest cork In the world, the work la done by machinery, all of which la of American Invention and manufacture. Every boy who hua ever whittled a cork for a fishing bob or a popgun pellet know how difficult the material la to cut amoothly. To do It well hla knife muat be a aharp aa a razor aud must be used wltli a drawing motion, not a mere prceaure, aud If the cork be wet so much the better. The aame difficul ties confront the manufacturer by ma chinery and are met In the same way. Hie bark, after having been wet and then allowed to remain for a tune in damp cellar to soften, goe first to tho stripping machine, which reduce It to (tlnlm of a size proportionate to the cork to he made. These machine are merely small Iron tables, through which apiear very thin steel disks, like circular saw, except that they have no teeth. They are really keen edged steel knives, a thin aa paper and running at a high rate of speed, but ao amoothly that they aeem to the spectator to be standing still. Tho little ahib or strip of cork go next to the "Mocker." The cutter here are cylindrical steel punches, or tubes, with razor edge. They are ar ranged lu rows, or "gang," and In stead of being simply preaacd through the oik are alao revolving at high speed and au cut their way through. Having perforated the elab, the cut ter back away automatically, while plunger like platon working in the cylinder come forward and punch out the core, which for aome purpose are already finished cork. 1 They are, of course, perfectly cylln-drlcal-that 1, without taper-and In that form they are preferred by bot tier of effervescent liquids, because their abape enablea them the better to resist the pressure of the restrained gases. But for the use of druggists, who are the great user of cork and need the very finest, a tapering stopper la pre ferred, and thla necessitates another operation. The tapering machines ara run mostly by young women. Each machine consists of a little lathe, which centers- the cylindrical cork an tomatlcally aud then brings It Into con tact with the edge of the cutting knife, which, llko Ute cutter of the slicing machine, la a very thin steel disk. As tho cork touches thla knife a thin shaving rise and curl away, like as a puff of smoke. One who knows nothing of the ma chinery could see no rensoii for It, but during the so-ond that the cork baa been lu contact with the apparently motionless dink aome dozeu yards of flying, razor edged steel have been at work, and tho cork 1 now a perfect truncated cone, with a fluo satlu-llko surface and nu even and regular taper. By bund a very rapid and skillful cut ter can turn out twelve or fourteen gross lu a day. With these machines oue girl will produce 40 gros. There are few businesses In which the quantity of waste material is so large as lu the manufacture of corks. In the beat managed factories It ranges from CO to 70 per cent, but American Ingenuity and Industrial development have succeeded In transforming It Into a aource of profit By grinding the waste to varloua degrees of fineness and pressing It with glue or shellac In to various shapes It Is made useful for the' Inner soles of shoes, for bathroom mats, for Insulation In refrigerating plants and the deadening of sound In apartment bouses, the making of bicy cle handles and the grips of tennis rackets, fly rods and golf clubs, and there aro dozens of other uses for the waste which are quite aa Interesting. Some years sgo one manufacturer of corks waa pa'ylng a teamater a dollar a load to cart away his waste and dump It on a refuse heap. Today he receives $00 a ton for the very cheap est quality of this waste. Edward Wllllston Frenta In Youth's Compan ion. - Saai4 If tea. 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Notice is, hereby given thst the reg istration looks of the city of Aaioris, for the primary nominating election to be held in tbia city on Monday the 13th day of November, 1903, will be opened at the Auditor's office in the city hall, on Monday the 23rd day of October, 1905, snd will close for said primary election on the 7th day of November, 1005, st the hour of 4 o'clock p. m said registration buok will be again opened on Thursday the 16th day of November, 1905, for the general election to be held in this city on Wednesday the 17th day of December, 1905, and will close on Saturday, the Oth. day of December, 1005, at 4 oVIocIc p. m. All penon muxt register in order to be entitled to vote. Dated, Astoria, Oregon, October, 21st, 1905. OLOF ANDERSON, Auditor and Police Judge of the city of Aatoria. 15 PORTLAND THE M0R5I5G ASTORIAlf la for ule at the news stands of THE ' e OREGON KIWS COMPANY, Situated at HOTEL PORTLAND. 147 Sixth Street, 115 Sixth Street. 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