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is THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESDAY, MAY 19, 190O. Between Two She shrunk slightly. "Somehow I ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooc WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. think that a woman Is never happy she responded gently, "but you" THE MORNING ASTORIAN He leaned toward her, a swift -tr-e crowing his face, bis keen new juu 1 U9cu Shores (Continued from pajie. 3) ou passenger floeEed" paaC lie rose and lent over ber chair. "You will have chicken broth?" be mild distinctly. "I will aend tbe steward." And ere the recovered from ber surprise be k-ft ber. A little later tbe broth was brought tad soon after tbe steward reappeared bearing Iced prunes. "The gentleman lent you word that you were to eat these," be said. And she sat up In be wilderment and ate the prime Bllently. "You are very kind," she remarked timidly when he came up from the din ing saloon and threw himself Into the chair beside her. For an Instant be looked at be blankly, his brow wrinkling. She saw that be was not thinking of her and reddened. "You were klnd-about the prunes, she eiplnlned. The prunes?" he repeated vaguely. Tnen he brought himself together with ' a Jerk. "Oh. you are tbe little woman who was sickyes, 1 remember." "Tbey were very nice," she said more firmly. "I am glad you liked them," he re joined and was silent. Tbeu he broke Into an Irrelevant laugh, and the lines upon bis forehead deepened. She saw that he carried a habitual sneer upon bis lips. With a half frightened ges ture she drew from him. "I am glad that you find life amus ing," 6he observed stiffly. "I don't." He surveyed ber with a dogged hu mor. "It Is not life; it is you." She spoke more stiffly still. "I don't catch your meaning," she said. "Is my hat on one side?" He laughed again. "It Is perfectly balanced, I assure you." "Is my hair uncurled?" "Yes, but I shouldn't have noticed it It Is very pretty." She sat up in offended dignity. "I do not desire compliments," she re turned. "I wish merely Information." Half closing his eyes, he leaned back Is his chair, looking at ber from under tbe brim of his cap. "Well, without comment, I will state that your hair baa fallen upon your forehead and that a loosened lock Is lying upon your c&gek. No, don't put it back. I beg your pardon" A pink spot appeared In the cbeek next to hltn. Her eyes flatbed. "How Intolerable you are!" she said. Tbe smile In his eyes deepened. "How delicious you are!" be retorted. one rose from her chair, drawtnji serseir to ner full stature. "I shaL lhange my seat," she began. Then the steamer lurched, and she swayed and grasped the arm he held out "I I am so dizzy!" she finished appealiugly. He put her back into her chair and wrapped the rugs about ber. As she still shivered he added bis own to the pile. When Le placed the pillow be neath her head she uoticed that his touch was as tender as a woman's The sneer was pone from his lips. "But you will le cold," she remon strated from beneath his rug. "Not I," be responded. -I am a tough knot. If the fiery furnace has left me unscathed, a little cold wind won't do more than chap me." His voice had grown serious, and she looked up inquiringly. "The fiery fur nace?" she repeated. "Oh, predestined damnation, if you prefer. Are you religious?" "Don't," she pleaded, a tender light coming into her eyes, and she added, "The damned are not kind, and you are very kind." Her words faltered, but they chased the recklessness from his eyes. "Kind?" he returned. "I wonder how many mea we left in America would uphold thtt that verdict, or how many women, for that matter?" Her honest eyes did not waver. "1 will stanl by it" she replied simply. A sudCen illumination leaped to hie face. "Against twelve good and true men?" ht demanded daringly. "Against a thousand and the presi dent thrown in." He toughed a little bitterly. "Be cause of the prunes?" He was looking down into her face. She ntddened. "Because of the prunes and and other things." she answered. A ghtst of the sneer awoke about his mouth. "I never did a meaner thing than about the prunes," he said hotly Then lie turned from her and strodt with swinging strides along the deck. That evening he did not speak to her. They 'ay side by side In their steamer chairs watching the gray mist that crept over the amber line of the liori aon. flie looked at his set and sallow face, n-here the grim line of the Jaw was tvercast by the constant sneer upon bis reckless lip. it was not a good lace; this she knew. It was the face f a man of strong will and trongir passions, who had lived bard and fai t. She wondered vaguely at the furrowed track he must have made of bis pas years. The wonder awed her, and sin felt half afraid of his grim ness, g owing grimmer in the gather ing dusk. If one were in his power, bow (ju etly he might bend and break mere flesli and bone. But across the moodiuets of his face she caught the sudden varmth of his glance, and she remembered the touch of bis bands tender an It wag strong. She moved nearer, laying her fragile fingers on the arm of Us chair. "I am afraid you re unbar, py," she said. He stared nervously and faced ber almost roighly. "Who Is happy?' he "ire aayt iyo a man called me a devil," he laid. (lance softening to compassion. "Then It Is dastardly unfair," he said. "What Is goodness for if it does not make one happy? I am a rough brute, and I get my desserts, but the world should be gentle to a thing like you." "No, no," she protested. "I am not good." His eyes lightened. "Any misde meanors punishable by law?" "I am discontented," she went on. "I rage when things go wrong. I am not a saint." "I might have known it" be remark ed, "or you wouldn't have spoken to me. I have known lots of saints most ly women and they always look the other way when a sinner, comes along. The reputation of a saint Is the most sensitive thing on earth. It should be kejtt in a. glass case." "Are you so very wicked?" she asked. He was gazing out to sea, where tbe water broke Into waves of deepening (ray. In the sky a single star shone like an emerald set In a fawn colored dome, Tbe lapping sound of tbe waves at tte vessel's sides came softly through tbe stllLaess. Suddenly he spoke, his voice ringing like a jarring discord In a harmonious whole. "Five days ago a man called me a devil," he said, "and I guess he wasn't far wrong, only if I was a single devil he was a legion steeped in one. What a scoundrel he was!" The passion in his tones caused her to start quickly. The words were shot :it with the force of balls from a can sustained by the impulse of evil, "lion't." she said pleadingly; "please, piease don't!" "Don't what?" he demanded roughlv. "Don't curse the blackest scoundrel that ever lived and died?' Over the last word his voice weakened as if in appeal. "Don't curse anybody," she answered "It is riot like you." He turned upon her suspiciously "Pshaw! How do you know?" "I don't know. I only believe." "I never had much use fur belief," he returned. "It is a poor sort of thing.' hue met bis bitter gaze with one of level calm. "And yet men have suf fered death for it." Above ber head an electric Jet was shining, and It cast a white light upon her small figure buried under the mass of rugs. Her eyes were glowing. There was a soft suffusion upon her lashes, whether from tbe salt spray or from unshed tears he could not tell. "Well, believe in me If you choose,' he said. "It won't do any harm even If It doesn't do any good." During the next few days he nursed her witli constant care. When she came out in the morning she found him waiting at the foot of tbe stairs, ready to assist her on deck. When she went down at nlgbt It was his arm upon which she leaned and his voice fiat wished her "Good night!" before her stateroom door. Her meals were served outside, and she soon found that his watchfulness extended to a host of trivialities. It was not a confidential companion ship. Sometimes they sat for hours without speaking and again he attack ed her with aggressive irony. At such times she smarted beneath the sting of his sneers, but it was more in pity for him than for herself. He seemed to carry 1" his heart a seething rage of cynicism, Impassioned if Impotent. When it broke control, as it often did, It lashed alike the Just and the unjust, the sinner and the sinned against. It did not spare the woman for whose comfort he sacrificed himself dally In a dozen minor ways. It was as if he hated himself for the interest she in spired and hated her for Inspiring It. He appeared to resent the fact that tbe mental pressure under which he labored had not annihilated ail possi bility of purer passion. And he often closed upon a gentler mood with burn ing bitterness. "How about your faith?" he Inquired one day after a passing tenderness. "Is it exm the evidence of virtues not visible In me?" She flinched, as she always did at his flippancy. "There Is circumstan tial evidence of those," she replied, "aufflcient to confound a. jury." (Continued in tomorrow's issue) : The supplying of any want that may arise in domestic or commercial life may be readily and quickly accomplished at a nominal cost by the publication of the want in the " Want Ad." columns of the Morning Astoriau. A necessity which may arise for buying or selling horses, carriages, furniture, pianos, real estate, sewing machines, bicy cles, safes, watches, jewelry, typewriters, or thousands of other articles, can be met at once by the insertion of a suitable adver tisement in the morning Astoriou. To secure help cf any sort, or situation of any kind, to find lost articles, to secure board or boarders, lodging or lodgers, borrow money, obtain any kind of security; any of these wauts may be supplied by using the "Want" columns of The Morning Astorian. Rates For Classified or "Want" Advertbements ONE INSERTION ONI CENT A WORD THREE LINES THREE DAYS, 30 CENTS Count Six Words to a Line, to Cents a line a week. "SITUATION WANTED" For the benefit of persona out of employment, adi under the bead of "Situa tion Wanted " will be printed three days free of charge. OOCOCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)OOOOOOOOOOOOOCXXXXXXXXXXXX HELP WANTED. WANTED Good girl to do housework. Apply at Bay View Hotel. AGENTS WANTED. a Railway Station and Poet Office at I BEST 15 CENT MEAL. r- o r .1 . . ' rori. owvens. vrcgon. nans ana speci-1 v. . 1 ri.tt. ., , . I loucanulwuvs Imd the best Quartermaster. Fort Stevens. Ore., and . moill ill the city at the the Chief Quartermaster, Vancouver 1 Rising Sun IU'Staunitlt. WANTED A BOOK AGENT TO Dis pose of a small stock of easy-selling books; big profit Inquire at Atorian office. tf FOR RENT HOUSES. Barracks, Wash, The United States re serves the right to reject or accept any or all bids or any part thereof. En velope. containing proposals should bo indorsed: "Proposals for Railway Sta tion and Post Office, Fort St vens. Ore gon," and addrMned to the Chief Quar termaster, Vancouver Barrack, Wash. G12 (otmnorcialSt. PROFESSIONAL CARD. 08TE0PATHI8TS. FOR RENT NEWLY FURNISHED rooms; steam heated; new houe. Apply at room 14, over the Bee Hive. FOR RENT. THREE FURNISHED Housekeeping roomi. Enquire 472 Commercial street 4-12 tf. NICE ROOMS AND BOARD FOR GEN- ttanan and wife or tingle. Enquire Aitorian Office. 4-26 tf FOR SALE. FURNITURE, STOVES, CARPETS etc., at less than half prce you have to pay elsewhere; we also buy and sell everything. Astoria Commission & Auc tion Co., 365 Commercial street. NOTICE. Bids are hereby asked for tbe clear ing of right of way on road No. 77, from the Olney School House to the sixteen-mile post where it connect) with tbe present road. Said clearing to be twenty feet in width. And to be cleared of all trees, loga and brush. Bids to state price per rod or mile. 1 Phone Red 2161 Court reserving tbe right to reject any or all bids. Work to be paid for when completed and accepted. Bids to be filed with the clerk on or before June (, 1900. By order of the County Court. J. C. CLINTON, County Clerk. Astoria. Ore., May 3, 1006. 4-9 DR. RHODA C. HICKS OSTEOPATH Office Uansoi, Bid. Pnone Black 20(6 171 Commercial 8t, Astoria. Ore. .63 ASTOR STREET. I. N. VAUCIL & CO, CHOICE WINES, LIQUORS AND CIOARS. ( Furnished Rooms, Day or Night LOGGERS' HOME. ASTORIA, OREGON. Eagle Concert Hall 320 A.tor St. The leading amusement house. P. A. PETERSON, Prop Parker House Bar Cor. Ninth and Astor Sts ) Agency for Kdison Phonogrsphs and Gold Moulded Record. CITY ADVERTISEMENTS. DR. KATHYRN RUETER Osteopshio Physician Hours: 9 to 12 and 1 to 5 3rd floor Bee Hire Bldg., Com! 8t DENTIST. DR. T. L. BALL, FOR SALE Steam launch. length 35 feet Address H. 1, Astorian Office. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS LOT of wire cable new and second hand, any length, pipe of any description and size, machinery to suit anybody write for prices on anything; metal scrap iron and all kinds of junk and machinery bought and Bold. Adress VI. Barde & Eon, Portland, Oregon. lm. MUSIC TEACHER. WANTED THREE MUSIC PUPILS. Inquire at Astorian office. MANDOLIN LESSONS GIVEN MRS. C. D. Stewart, 127 Seventh street NOTICE TO BOND HOLDERS. Notice is herby given to parties hold ing bonds 1, 2, 3, and 4. issued by School District No. 6. of Clatsop County, Or egon, that the lame have been called in, and will be paid within thirty days of this date, at the office of the county treasurer 659-565 Commercial street, Astoria Oregon. Dated Astoria Oregon, this 1st day of May 1906, CHAS A. HEILBORN, County Treasurer, Clatsop County. 5-2-30t DENTIST. 524 Commercial I St Astoria Oregon. ln. VAUUIIAN, Dkntist Pytbian Building, Astoriu, Oregon. Dr. W. C. LOGAN DENTJ81 78 Commercial St., Hbanalian Building BROKERAGE. LAUNDRIES. HOTELS HOTEL PORTLAND Finest Hotel In the Northwest PORTLAND, ORE. The Troy Laundry The only white labor laundry In th city. Doea the best work at reasonable prioei and It In every way worthy of your patronage. 10th and DUANE 8ta Phene 1991. NOTICE FOR PROPOSALS. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE of the Supervising Architect, Wash ington, D. C, May 5, 1906. Sealed pro posals will be received at this office until 3 o'clock p. m. on the 11th day of June, 1906, and then opened, for the construction of a gangway at the Columbia River Quarantine Station, As toria, Oregon, in accordance with draw ings and specification, copies of which may be had at this office or at the office of the Custodian of the Columbia River Quarantine Station, Astoria, Ore gon, at tho discretion of the Supervis ing Architect. JAMES KNOX TAYLOR, Supervising Architect. BUSINESS DIRECTORY RE8TAURANT8. FIRST-CLASS MEAL for 15c; nice cake, coffee, pie, or doughnuts, 5c, at U. S. Restaur ant. 434 Bond St NOTICE FOR PROPOSALS. CHIEF QUARTERMASTER'S OFFICE, Vancouver Barracks, Wash., May 15, 1906. Sealed proposals, in triplicate, will be received at this office until 11 o'clock a. m., June 5, 1906, and then publicly opened, for the construction of Mon Fong Restaurant Noodles and Chop Suey. MEALS OF ALL KINDS OPEN DAY AND NIGHT 74 EIGHTH STREET C. J. TKENCIIARD Real Estate, Inauranoe, CommlMlen and Shipping. CUSTOM HOUSE BROKER. Offloe 133 Ninth Street, Next to Juetloe Offloe. ASTORIA, OREGON. WOOD YARDS. WOOD! WOOD! WCOD! Cord wood, mill wood, box wood, any kind of wood 1 1 lowest prices. Kelly, the transfer man. 'Phone 3191 Main, Barn on Twelfth, opposite opera bouse. I 11 4'6 BOND ST., ASTORIA, OREGON Carries the Finest Line of Wines, Liquors and Cigars CALL AND SEE US THE SAVOY Popular Concert Hall. Good music. All are welcome. ner Seventh and Aator. Cot- notice OF RECEIVING BIDS BY CITY. Notice I hereby given, That tip to tho hour of 2 o'clock p. m., on Thursday, the 3U day of May. I1HH1. tho Commit tec 011 Street anil Iublii Ways of the Common Council of the ('itv of Aotorla, will receive xoai.d bid for improving Until itici't fiimi the ft Imp of Ninth ktreet to thr rait line of Mivth -treet it oiMi-Md improved by ordinance No. 32.M1, Hpprowd on tin. 22nd day of Mjy, ll'utl. The lixht is reserved to reject nny and nil bid. J ENS II, HANSEN. J. .1. ROBINSON, P. A. STAMSLAND. Committee on Streets and Public Wsvs. 6 2(!4t. NOTICE OF RECEIVING BIDS BY CITY. N'otlce it hereby Riven, That up to the hour of 2 o'clock p. m on Thurs day, the Hint day of May. l'.Klfl. the Committee on Streets and Ptildle Ways of the Common Council of the City of Atori. will receive eealed bids for the improvement of Eleventh itreet from the north line of Harrison svenue to the north line of Kensington avenue, as or dered Improved by ordinance S'o. 324!), approved on the 22nd day of May, IBM. The right is reserved to reject anv and all bld. JENS II. HANSEN. J. J. KOIHNSON. P. A. STANC.I.AND. Committee on Street and Public Way. 0 20 4t'. BAMBOO FURNITURE PAPER RACKS. TABLES, STANDS. CHAIRS. ETC., HAND MADE, ELEGANTLY FINISHED. Yokohama Bazaar t'X Commercial Street, Astoria DOUBLE TRAGEDY. CAN'OX CITY, Colo., May 27.-Tha sound of two tdmt emanating from the home of W. ('. Itnldwin caused an in vckI Ration rcHiilliiiK in Undine the ((.1U1 bodie of l!itlilMin nlid his wife,. The body of Itnldwin was found on the floor with the bend blown from the trunk. His wife's body wiih Htanding nearly up. lijflit against the wall, hei head shat tered by Ktiimhot wounds. A shot pun lyinj; near by. Hie couple were married two months ago npiinst parental objec tion. A coroner'H investiinit.ii.n mill i.a icld to determine the nature of the tiiiffedy. H is reported that a relative of the woman was wen near the Baldwin home shortly before the shoritinf. MALE HELP WANTED Men and wo- men to learn watchmaking, emrrar. tog, jeweler work, optica j easy terms; positions guaranteed; money made learning. Watchmaking . Enirravinii School, 1420 Fourth avenue, Seattle. During the last year there have been two examples of the fact that the way of the senatorial transgressor is hard.