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THE MORNING ASTORIAX. ASTOTWr, OREGON.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER it, lfro.
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What he
Worm Turned
By Honor Wlllsit
Ooprrteht, WA, by Hobo WUlri
: Bob lay on hi cot and looked oat the
4oor of tha adobe hat toward the
' toot's shack, from the chimney ot
which cam a wlap of amoke.
-Tn o'clock." be thourht. "Don't
' Sara to get op for an boor jet It's
- folnf to bo a rooter todaj And ho
threw off the blanket which the cold ot
the Mexican nlgbt demanded, then lay
with bared cheat and hand locked be
hind hts bead. Through the 'door his
gace could travel for mile across the
' desert, and with eyes that saw but did
aot heed h stared far out where plain
i tad ij met
', "Gad! What wouldn't I firs to sea
.tbt Dttlo old town!", be said aloud,
t Tha willows oft the river, art Just
smoky fuss about now. The maple
,1m re art Just little reddish scraps, and
the fcypatJcas art out. and tbt wild
. 1 flowtrt are thick tn Holman's woods.
The air to just llke-oh, look at thost
t tactus plants! I wonder what grudge
v naturo had against tbt earth when she
V mad them. And tha sky by noon will
be nothing but an Inverted redhot
' kettlo, with ut spluttering and frying
down beneath It Homesick! I tell
you. Tin craty with Itf . rnT
,"Ray, Bob, dry up your muttering
and murmuring, will you, and give a
an a chance to sleep T And a altep
flushed face turned toward him from
- the cot across tbt room.
i .Too late to sleep now, anyhow, WaV
. met," answered Bob. "Wake up snd
talk to a fellow, can't jouT"
Wallace heaved a great sigh, tossed
off his blanket and, like his Jrlend, lay
with bare chest and arms behind bis
head.
"Bay, Wallace, let's pass this up and
. go back to God's country. These des
erts are just wearing the heart out of
. me. Let's go back, finish up that last
year In college and settle down and act
white again, uncle John was right
Wt never were cut out for mining ex
perts. Gads! Six months of this has
been enough for me. The sun and the
half breeds and, by Jove, most of all the
blamed bugs hare got on my nerves.
1 may be as bad ss a girl, but I admit
that I would like to go back where I
eould sleep without wondering If a cen
tlped or half a dosen of those long
legged spiders were going to snuggle
up to me -before morning. Let's go
home, Wally."
Wallace's gray eyes stared steadily
out the door. "Bob," he said slowly,
"yon dont know anything about home
sickness compared with what I could
tell you. But I tell you right here,
SHI
CKSTEPED HAD BTOPFfcU IX
HWVLS OF WALLACE'S CHEfcl.
once for all, I'm not going borne until
Alice sends for me. You can Co as you
jilease."
Bob turned Lis pillow over, looked ut
his watch and then said: "Well, I've
told you before tbat I thought you and
Alice were a couple of chumps to Jet a
luhiuuderstundliig about a waltz break
your engagement, and I've told Alice
so, I don't cure if she is my sister. But
it's your affair. And you know that
homeslcknws or no homesickness, I'll
stick by the mine ax lung as you do."
., "But," -Wallace coutiuued, exactly as
yf Bub had not spoki-n, "this is a God
forsaken country. When you get out
on the desert, with nothing but loue
sonienefts all around you, I tell you
say, Bob, do you remember that willow
tree down by Acker's? I'll bet there
' will be forty kids down there before
school this morning getting ' whistle
ticks. The bark is just right now.
And, say, I'll bet, too, tbat every kid of
them has a russet apple In his pocket
to eat at recess. Nothing but russets
leftnowr
"Um," said Bob, "I've forgotten what
an apple looks like. And about now
we'd be teasing to wear a straw bat to
school a cap gets so hot about noon
and every time one of the kids runs
Into another they rattle like gravel
against a window pane."
"Marbles!" said Wallace. "Do you
' remember the time that Mlbsy Jones
.swallowed a 'stoney and the teacher
Jcked him to bard for 'communicating
with you that Mlbsy actually coughed
S op? Gee! I haven't thought of that
f2LirL-. And, the grass In the fss-
POTS
lip US
Sl I 1 III 1
! turel getting TeTrly7TndthT flltle
fellows art wondering how many
weeks It will bt before It wlU pay to
eut school and go swimming. Say, Boh,
do you remember"
"Shut up, will you? growled Bob.
"Haven't I enough to remember with
out adding to the ltxt! Fay something
pleasant now before we have to get
up,'
A alienee followed. After a few sec
onds, without knowing why, Bob turn-
ed and looked at his friend. Then, with
a gasp of horror, he lay still aud stared.
Wallace was lying with every muscle
of his body rigid. Ills hands clutched
either side of his cot, and beads of
sweat stood on bis forehead, while with
half raised head he atared down at his
chest There, Its ugly brown body out
lined against the flesh, was a centl
ped slowly moving about on the white
expanse, now forward, now back, now
stopping, as If to wouder at the throb
bing which vaguely disturbed It Nel
ther man stirred or uttered a sound. The
natives had told them that when fright'
tned the centlped digs In Its claws for
support and that thus the victim
Itolsoned. .There waa no sound save
the beavy breathing of Bob and the
song with which the cook announced
to the world:
The llowor. the flower,
JThe pretty pepper flower
Lived and loved tn the un!a
The centlped had stopped In the
middle ot Wallace's chest Bob saw a
sudden quiver run through Wallace's
white lip, and then slowly the tremor
was communicated to his entire body.
"What can ! do? Oh, what can
do?" he thought
Then very deliberately the centlped
began to move. Carefully, as If each
of Its myriad legs must be exactly
planted, it traveled. Inch by Inch,
across Wallace's body and then, like
lightning, dropped to the floor. Slmul
taneously Bob was upon It with s
heavy boot aud its ugly length of
loathsomeness was gathered to Its fa
there. Then, without a word. Bob
handed Wallace a dipper of water,
which the man took with trembling
hand and chattering teeth. Breathing
hard, he lay white and limp for a few
moments. Then he rose, pulled on his
clothes and, deliberately walking over
to the wall, began to take down the
garments hanging there and to throw
them Into a suit case.
"That will be about all for me," he
said. "I made up my mind that If that
thing ever got off me I was going
home, where bugs are less affectionate.
You can do as you please. I am going
home to Alice." And he jammed a rid
Ing boot in on top of a heap of writing
paper.
Bob watched him with a half grin.
"Me, too, Pete," he said. He walked
to the door and called to Pedro to har
ness the bronchos.
"A centlped Is a bold, bad bug," he
continued, "but It wouldn't aurprlse
me If Alice acaulred a weakness for
it" Then he, too, began to pack a
suit case. '
Coughing Spell Cansefl Death.
"Harry Duckwell, sged 25 years chok
ed to death early yesterday morning at
his home, in the presence of bis wife
and child. He contracted a slight cold
a few days sgo and paid but little at
tention to it. Yesterday morning he was
seized with a fit of coughing which con
tinued for some time. His wife sent
for a physician but before he could ar
nve another coughing spell came on
and Duckwell died from suffocation
St. Louis Globe Democrat, Dec. 1st,
1901:"
Ballard's Ilorehound Syrup would
have saved his life, 25c, 50c and $1.00.
Sold by Hart's drug store.
n Accented Speech.
It was in 1847, when the Free Soil
state convention was held at Herki
mer. There was a great gathering of
Tree Soli Democrats and abolitionists.
In the ballroom of the hotel It wa
culled a tavern lu those days before
the opening ot the convention were
gathered the leaders, who were con
structing the new party platform, slat
ing the officers and committees and
doing other preliminary work. In a
chair tilted agalnitt the wall was
Prince John Van Burcn running over
the munuscript of the great speech be
was to de liver. Occasionally he arrest
ed the work of his associates with an
Invitation to listen to a paragrapl
which he considered especially good
Ms readings each time produced laugh
ter and applause. Finally he read a
passage which excited shouts of laugh
ter and applause. When this had died
away somebody said, "John, you ought
to have that part printed In italics."
Prince John affected surprise at the
suggestion. "Gentlemen," he said, "I
want you to understand that this
flpeech Is all Italic!"
Torture of a Preacher.
The story of the torture of Rev. O.
D. Moore, pastor of the Baptist church
of narpersville, N. Y, will Interest you.
He says: "I suffered agonies, because of
a persistent cough, resulting from tn
grip. I had to sleep sitting up in bed.
I tried many remedies, without relief,
until I took Dr. Ring's New Discovery
for Consfcimptlon, Coughs and Colds,
which entirely cured my cough, and
saved me from eonsumption.MA grand
cure for diseased conditions of Throat
and Lungs. ' At Che. Rogers druggist;
price 50o and $1.00,' guaranteed. Trial
bottle free. ,
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Restaurant
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The only white labor laundry In the
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eighth,' day of January, 1000, at S
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Branch Offio. t f ft, Wahloalo.
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HORNING ASTORIAN
la on Salt to
Astoria at
J. N. GRIFFIN'S BOOKSTORE.
UIZINGER'S NEWS DEPOT,
OCCIDENT HOTEL OFFICE,
SCULLY'S CIGAR STORE,
JOS. JACOBS, CIGAR STORE.
and
TEX ASTORIAN OFFICE,
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THE
Dr. C.GEEV70
Chictss .
Medlclcs Co.
Formerly local. 288
Akler Street for the
Jsst flte years, HAVE
10VED Into tbt
UrM brick boilding
at tot south-east ror
nerotFirat and Morriaoa Streets. En
trance No. 1S3 Front St.
Successful Hone Treitctat
Dr.C.nKg WO la bnnwa throuchont the
Suited Blair, and hMlMUi Ormi CnJaaM
IKxnor on aovouot of hi vondarfu) mm
wiilioul (ho alt of a kolSt, without ttJln
polMNior dtunoranf fclnd. II ItmU may
sail all dl.PoiM with powerful ortonUU rwu
borha, barha. and VMUbla thai are uo
known to mod ir I arlcneo In tblo oouatry,
and ibmuah ll uoo af laoos barmltM ross
din be ua. ran low u euro
CsUrrh, Asthma, tanf Troebk Hhswetism,
Nsraeviaess, Stoassch, liver, Ridsey, rtatat
Wsahassi aad all Orotic D'ssan.
(Ml or wrli. tciuiini 4 t-ooot atesons tor
ntalllnsbonk aad olroular. AddrwM,
Th C 0 Wee CNmm Modkim Ce
No, 161 L2 rtnt St, It Cer. Monts, -Mtntloathu
rr rVtisad Orsfee,
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PORTLAND, ORE.
Finesl Helel I the Northwest
L I CK.
San Fnndaco'i leading coo
Ttnlence and tamll hotel
CtntraJlj loettcd. COB
anient to all car lines, and
" plactj of amusement and la
terert. Cafe and Grill at
tached. Rates $ 1 00 per day
and op. Street can direct to
aottl fom and to all depou.
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