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SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 1008, THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, H Captain In the Ranhs By... GEORGE CARY EGGLE3T0N CrrWM, IM4, r A. I Iwmi Cs.. fablUkm. Hi rifik Armmt, Nw It (Continued from last wek) H ALF nil hour Inter the young mnn resumed lilt Journey west ward, pnssliig ilmvn the farther Slopes of the III'MllltalO. "Wonder why I wrote 'falro ns my address," lie thought at his (runty boras carefully picked lib way anions; the roeka ami down tho steeps, "I hadn't tliouiilit of Cttlro before mi even a MX Hilt destlnntlou. 1 know nobody there. I know absolutely nothing alHitit the towu or the opportunities It tuny otter." Then ho Im'khii more practical train of thong-tit, "I've food enoiiKli now," be reflected, "to hint me nciiiiHIy fnr few day. During tlmt time I must make my way at far aa I can toward the Ohio river at Pittsburg or Whwllnu or Purkersburg, .When I reach the river I must have money enough to pay steamboat far to I'alro. There U 110 money In then part, hut Went Virginia I practically northern state, and there are green bark there. I'll sell my remaining pis tola there, A little Inter I II Ml my home, my middle and my bridle. The homo la a good one, and no Ik th and die. Surely I ought to get enough for them to nay uiy w ay to Cairo." Thru cHine another ami a questioning thought: "And when I got to Culro-what then I've a good university tiluea tlon, hut 1 doubt that there In a ready market for education In any bunt ling Mlaaourt river town Just now, I'm a graduate In law, hut he uvea know I know very little about tlio profciMlou ankle from the broad underlying prin ciple. Resides, I ahall have no money .with which to open an office, and who la golug to employ a wandering and utterly destitute stranger to take cbargo of hla legal business?" For the moment dlecouragcrnent dominated the young mau'a mind, but preaently there came to hi in a reflection that gave new birth to hla courage. "I'm all feet high," he thought, "and broad In proportion. I'm In perfect pbyalral health. I have muaclca that nothing haa ever yet tired. Between the Wilderness and Appomattox I have bad an exirnslve experience In shovel Ing earth and other bard work. I'm In exceedingly good training, a trifle un derfed, perbnp. hut at any rate I carry not one outne of auporfluoua fat on my penion. I am perfectly equipped for the hardest kind of pbyalral work, nud In a buay western town there la euro to be work eiiounh of that kind for a atrong and willing mnn to do. I can at the very leant earn enough an a laborer to feed me better than I've been fed for the four year of war." Curiously enough, thin pronpect of work na a day laboriT greatly cheered the young man. Instead of depressing hla aplrlta It for the flmt time lifted from hit soi l thnt Inetilm of metnn hoIy with which every Confederate oldler of hi clami wus at first op pressed. ICver since Grant had refused In the VII !e"iii'sn a year heforo to re tire beyond the river after receiving I.ee'i tremendous blows Guilford Dun ran and all (on fedora tea of like Intel ligence bad foreseen the end and bad recognized Ita coming na Inevitable. Nevertheless when It came In fact, wben the Army of Northern Ylrglnln tirrendered and when the Confederacy ceased to he, the event waa acorcely leaa shocking and depressing to their minds than If It had been an unfore seen and unexpected one. The melancholy that instautly took possession of such minds amounted to acarcely loss than Insanity, and for a prolonged period It paralysed energy and made worse the ruin that' war had wrought In the south. Fortunately Guilford Duncan, thrown at once and absolutely upon bis own resource, thus quickly escaped from (be overshadowing cloud. And yet his ciiho seemed worse thnn that of most of his comrades. Thoy at least had homes of some sort to go to; he had none. There was for them, debt burdened as their plantations were, at least a hope that some way out might ultlmntely be found. For him thero was no Inch of ground upon which he might rest even a hope. Born of nn old family, be bad beon bred aud educated aa one to whom abundance was to come by Inheritance, a man destined from birth to become In time the master of a great patrimo nial estate. But tbat estate was honeycombed with hereditary debt, the result of gen rations of lavish living, wasteful methods of agriculture and overgener ous hospitality. About the time when war came there come also a crisis In the affairs of Guilford Duncan's father. Long before tho war ended the elder man had surrendered everything he bad In the world to hla creditors. Ha had then enlisted In the army, though he was more thnn sixty years old. lie dad been killed In the trenches before Petersburg, leaving his only son, Guil ford, not ouly without a patrimony and wltbont a home, but also without any family connection closer than some distant half theoretical couslnshlps. The. young man's mother bad gently I passed from earth so long ago that he only dim'y lememUred th tweet no blllty of her cluricUr, and be had never bad liber brother or titter. ne waa tutia absolutely alone In tbe world, and he waa penniless, too, as he rod down the mountain steeps, But tbe Impulse of work bad come to hi in, nd be Joyfully welcomed It aa some thing vastly better and worthier of hla ttrong young manhood than any brood ing over misfortune could be or any leading of th old aristocratic, half Idle planter life, If that had been possible, In connection with this thought came another. He bad recently read Owen Meredith's "Luetic," and as he Jour neyed be recalled the case there de ter I hod of the French nobleman who for a time wasted bis life and neglect ad hla splendid opportunities In brood ing over the downfall of the Bourbon fynasty and In an obstinate refusal to reconcile himself to the now order of things. Duiiesn remembered how, aft ter awhile, when tho uew France be came Involved In the Crimean war, tbe French ma 11 saw a clearer llg'jt; how he learned to feel that, under one regime or another, It was still France tbat be loved and to France that hla best eerv Ice was due. That," thought Guilford Duncan, "was a new birth of patriotism. Why thou Id not n similar new birth come to those of us who hsve fought lu the With ml'jhtu rffwrt vaulted over It. Confederate army? After all, the re stored Union will be the only represent ative left of those principles for which we have so maufiilly battled during the last four years - the principles of liberty ami cjual rights and local self government." At that moment the young man's horse encountered a huge bowlder that bad rolled down from the mountain Bide, completely blockading the path. With the spirit and tho training that war service had given hint the animal stopped uot uor stayed. Ho approach ed the obstacle with a leap or two and tbca w!'.!i utility effort vaulted over It. "Good for yon. Bob!" cried the young mau. "Tlun's Hie way to meet obsta cle, and that's the way I am resolved to meet them." But the poor horse did not respond. He hobbled on three legs for a space, Ills master, dismounting, found that be had torn loose a tendoa of oue leg In the leap. There wus no choice but to drive a bullet Into the poor boast's brain by way of putting him out of hla agony Thus was Guilford Duncan left upon the mouutaln side, more desolate and helpless thnn before, with no posses slons lu all the world except a pair of pistols, a saddle, a bridle, a side of bacon, a perk of comment and a few ounces of salt. The valley lay before hltu In all Its barrenness. Beyond that lay hundreds of miles of Alleghany mountains and tbe region farther on. All this expanse he most traverse on foot before arriving at that great river highway, by means of which he hoped to reach his destination, n thousand miles nud more further still to the west. But the new manhood bad been born In Guilford Duncan's soul, and he was no more appalled by tbe diffi cult problem that he must face than he bad beeu by the fire of tho euemy when battle was on. "Hard work," he reflected, "is tho dally duty of the sol dier of peace Just as hard lighting Is that of tho warrior," Strapping his saddle and brldlo on his back, ho took his bacon and his salt bag In 0110 hand and his bag of meal lu the other. Thus heavily bur dened he set out on foot down the mouutaln. "At uuy rate my load will grow lighter," he reflected, "every time I eat, and I'll sell tbe saddle and bridle at tho first opportunity. I'll make the Ohio river lu spite of all." I CHAPTER IV. T was a truly terrible tramp that the young man bad before him, but he did not shrink. So long as his provisions lasted be pushed forward, stopping only In tbe wood lands or by the wayside for sleep and for eating. By the time tbat his pro visions were exhausted be had passed tbe valley and bad crossed the crest tibeJJleghanlea. Htw?rdw"la'a country tbat bad not been wasted by war, a country In which men of every class seemed to be reasonably prosperous and hard at work, There, by way of replenishing bis commissariat, he sold tbe saddle he was carrying on bis back, and thus lightened hla load. Fortunately It was a specially good saddle, richly mounted with silver and otnerwlM decorated to please the fan cy of tbe dandy Federal officer from whose dead horse Duncan bad cap tured it after Its owner bad been left stark upon the field In tbs Wilderness. It brought him now a good pries In money, and to tbls tbe purchaser gen stoutly added a little store of pro visions, Including, for Immediate use, some fresh meat, the first tbat bad passed Duncan'a Hps for more months past than be could count upon the fin' gtrs of one band. A little later tbe young man sold his pistols, bnt as be pushed onward to ward tbe Ohio river be found that both traveling and living In a prosperous country were far more expeusire than traveling and living In war desolated and still moneyless Virginia. Ills little store of fuuds leaked out of bis pockets ao fast tbat, economize as be might, be found It necessary to ask for work here and there on bis Jour ney. It waa aprlngtlme, and the farm ers were glad enough to employ blm for a day or two each. The wages were meager enough, but Duncan ac cepted them gladly, the more ao be cause tbe farmers In every case gave blm board besides. Now and then be Secured odd Jobs as an asslstaot to me chanics. In one case he atoked the fur naces of a coal mine for a week. But be did not remain long in any employment, Aa soon as be had a trifle of money or a little stock of pro visions to the good he moved onward toward the river. His oue dominating and ever grow ing purpose was to reach Cairo. What fortune might await him there he knew not at all, hut since he bad scratched tbat address on the butt of a pistol the desire to reach Cairo had dally and hourly grown upon blm until It was now almost a passion. Tbe name "Cairo" in his mind bad become a synonym for "opportunity." It was about the middle of May wben the toilsome foot Journey ended at Wheeling. There Duncan, still wearing bis tattered uniform, made diligent In quiry as to steamboats going down the river. He learned that one of tbe great coal towing steamers from Pittsburg waa expected within a few hours, push ing acres of eoal laden barges before her, and be was encouraged by tbe In formation, volunteered ou every hand, tbat the work of "tiring up" under tbe boilers of these coal towing boats was 0 severe that a goodly number of tbe stokers always abandoned their em ployment In disgust of It and deserted tbe boat If she made a landing at Wheeling, aa thla approaching one must do for the reason tbat a number of coal laden barges bad been left there for her to take In tow, It was Guilford Duncan's hope to se cure a place on her as a stoker or coal passer, to take the place of some one of the deserters. This might enable blm, be thought, to earn a little money on the way down the river Instead of depleting his slenderly stocked purse by paying steamboat fare. With such prospect lu mind be ven tured to go Into the town and purchase a pair of boots and a suit of clothes fit to wear when he should reach Cairo, Ills wornout uniform would answer nil bis parpoftes while serving as a stoker. When the steamboat, with her vast fleet of barges, made a landing Gull ford Duncan was tbe first man to leap aboard lu search of work. Unfortu nately for him, there were few or no deserters from In front of the furnaces on this trip, ne could not secure em ployment as a stoker earning wages but after some persuasion the steam ers captain agreed to let him "work bis passage" to Cairo that Is to say, he was to pay no fare, receive no wages and Uo double work In return for his passage down the river and for tbe coarse and unsavory food neces aary for the maintenance of his strength. ADVERTISEMENT. Chief Purpose of Pending Amendment, as Explained by Attorney Moody Unfair Grouping of Precincts is Prevented and There is a Square Contest Between "Wet" and "Dry," (Continued next week) 66 99 (Continued from pHge 4) he and hU party reached the sidewalk, the band which was in waiting, opened up anew, with some good music, and the entire group marched up Commercial street fop a distance and when overtaken by a car, boarded it in a swarm ami went to Uniontown, where the governor was met by a large assembly, at Suomi hall. Here lie delivered his third speech of the day, though this one was given almost wholly to an adroit attempt to disparage the claim of the republicans .that he had used his executive authority to operate, against the fishing interests of the lowef Columbia, and, by way of proof that he was successful in his ef forts to eradicate the idea from the minds of his auditors, who were prac tically, all fishermen, he was presented, Jn the midst of his address, 'with a solid gold fish representing the famous salmon pi this section but there are those who are of the opinion that the gift was a clever campaign device of his managers Jicrc, to accntuate his extraordinary ef- T he people are in favor of local option, hut not prohibition. Wben, therefore, the "local option law" was submitted to the electors for their approval at the general election held in 1904 it received a majority of the vote cast thereon, as it was believed to be as represented. Had the voters understood that the pro visions of the law made it in many re spect a prohibition measure containing unfair provision, and not simply local option, it would have beeu defeated. It ws not fully umlerstod by the people, at the time tlu-y voted upon thW law, that it provided that the prohi bitionists might call an election every year, while those 111 favor ot license could only call an election every two years; or tbat the prohibitionists were permitted to group several "dry" pre cincts together with oue "wet" so as to permit the majority in the dry precincts to overcome the majority in the wet precincts,a atid thus force a precinct to become dry evi-n though a majority re siding in euch precinct did not wih it While it was understood that wben an lection was called for the whole county, such county would be dry if it went for prohibition, the people did not under stand that if such county election went gainst prohibition it did not allow the county to be wet, hut made dry such pivcincts in the county as voted dry. The people did not know that the law provided that when a precinct went dry it denied the right of a person living in that precinct to have liquor in his own house for the use of hU family and guests. The proposed amendment to the local option law corrects these objectionable features, while not destroying or in any manner interfering with the proper pur poses of the law. The amendment provides that a local option election shall only be called every two years; prevent grouping and gerry mandering of districts, and allows each precinct to determine what shall be the rule in such precinct. So that if a ma jority of a precinct votes dry it shall be dry; if wet it shall be wet. Should the amendment be adopted, it will make the present law a purely pre cinct local option law, aa it was origin ally represented to be, and which the people thought it was at the time it was adopted, giving each side the same and equal privileges. The amendment alo rsUes the number of signatures necessary to call ad elec tion from 10 per cent to 30 per cent. To permit 10 per cent, a small minority of any community, to call an election puts it in the power of a few not only to thrust an exepnse upon the taxpayers of the county, but such right could be and ha been easily utiziled as a weapon of persecution or blackmail. The amendment further provides that the nsle of liquors in wholesale quanti ties by bona fide brewers, and distilleries and wineries or wholesale houses, is not to be construed a a violation of the law. The purpose of local option to control the saloon and the sale of liquors in retail quantities. Under the present law, should the precinct in which a brewery is located vote dry, it would prevent the brewry from manufacturing any lter in its present location, and force it to establish its plant in some precinct that voted wet, practically con fiscating the plant located in the dry precinct; and though a wholesaler lad at great expense established his place of business in a certain location, if the precinct in which bis business was lo cated should go dry, he would be pre vented from doing busines at this loca tion, even though he did not sell to any one living within such dry precinct. The amendment proposed takes this unjust and objectionable feature out of the law. The amendment further pro vides that when a precinct goes dry it shall not go into effect until 90 days. This gives a saloon man who was legal ly doing business in the precinct before it went dry time within which to dispose of his fixtures and stock. Xo reasonable man can object to this provision. The present local option law was drawn by those who are in favor of pro hibition, and not local option; and its enactment was secured upon the repre sentation that it was a local option measure. Since the true effects of the provisions of such act have now been discovered and made known, the law should be amended so that it really will be what it was originally thought and represented to be, simply a local option law; and the adoption of the amendment now proposed will make it a local op tion law containing 00 provision which is not fair and equal to all parties. Between prohibition and local option there ought to be a great gulf fixed. Of course, under the present law, which was framed by the prohibitionists, we will admit that there is not much difference. But the people can make a difference. , A local option law is intended only to control the location of the saloon. No one wishes- to have saloon next his residence, and in cases where city councils are careless, a local option law is desirable to correct or prevent this evil. But local option was never intended to be a weapon in the hands of the prohibi tionists. The prohibitionists are not anxious to control the saloon. They do not want to control it They want it wiped out of existence altogether. They make no distinction between a great brewery or winery and a saloon. Every thing connected with the brewing or li quor business looks alike to the prohibi tionist, and be would exterminate them, root and branch. Of course the American people do not agree with these impracticable idea. .They have voted frequently for the li cense system. But the prohibitionist is not a believer in majority rule. No matter how small a majority he may be of the community, he is always insist ing tbat the rest of the people shall adopt his view of the matter. Here is Astoria, for instance, the prohibitionists have called an election in precinct 6. This election is called osten sibly to close the saloon in this district. But if the precinct were to go dry the North Brewery, which is one of As toria's leading industries, would also have to close. - Most local option laws exempt breweries from their operation. But the Oregon local option law having .been framed by the prohibitionists does not do so. The framers of the present .local law were just as anxious to wipe out breweries as they were to close sa loons. The proposed amendment to the Jocal option law corrects this defect, but it has not yet been passed by the peo ple. In the meantime we should hesi tate to vote precinct 6 dry thus clos ing a manufacturing industry of which Astoria is justly proud, and which has always done its full share in upbuilding the city. MARK YOUR BALLOT THIS WAY: For Amendment to the Local Option Law giving Anti-Prohibitionists and Prohibition ists Equal Privileges. Vote Yes or No. 304 X Yes. 305 No. forts to disabuse the minds of the fishermen here, of the idea that he was, in any sense, inimical to them; but be this as it may, he ha a very handsome .memento of his visit to Astoria, and one he will appreciate, however, it was inspired. After the assembly had dispersed he was taken directly to his hotel where he took a well earned rest from the exac- tions of the closing day of his canv pnign. "THE MILWAUKEE" "f ioneer Limited," St. Paul to Chi cago; "Overland Limited, Omaha to Chicago; "Southwest Limited," Kansa City to Chicago. No train in the service of any rail road in the world equals in equipment that of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Ry They own and operate theb own sleeping and dining cars and give their patrons an excellence of serviol not ohtainamle elsewhere. 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