Wednesday, November, 1,1905
THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
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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
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Mlaa Nellie Gannt-At the too I liked
the monkey house' best Mrs. E11I
Gaunt Don't aay "monkey house,"
child; It sounds so common, neasa
call It the "apiary." Cleveland Leader.
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