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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (July 20, 1906)
FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1908. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. Bd His Own Petard Br M. ). PHILLIPS VuvurtuM, HWfc by Uubu IxmyUu Even wlii'ii one's nfiliiucod Ims the reputation of hefng, hosldi-s fairly rich ml uiurn than passably handsome, ths most whimsically Irresponsible prao- tics I Joker lu Now York one liun rlb'lit to expect. thut Joking ou one's llrUidiiy, of nit diiys, will Ims slmlvod. At Ittuitt Cnrrol MerrlOeld no expected, liut nIio was disappointed, aud tbnt turtml the trouble, Hunter Johnston was lu love with Carrol, ttioronutily so but the practical Joking Instinct In like conscience nnd e tamo for ollvt-n -hnrd to forget when once uctiulrod. A, brilliant Idea In the jesting Hue cum (0 Johnston Uto morn Ins of bin sweetheart's birthday, "and Im liuiiiodlulcly set about giving: It to Unit portion of Mm world la which bt was niDMt Interested, Currol's birthday gifts from lnr inr tleiihir clrclo with nil that heart could desire, end she waited with happy an ticipation for her fiance's offering. At 1 o'clock a luentnnger loy appear ed with long. slender package fot "MAT I All WHAT THIN MKAXS, CAHSOX.r ii mkci gcimr. r f ; Miss Merrlfleld.lBbo opened It with eagerness nnd found a single magnlfl cent American Hsnty wrapped care full In waxed paper and sparkling M If with the dew of Juuo. Within five minutes mother messenger with an' other long, lender package rang thi bell, and this also yielded up t rot. When with the -t regularity of clock' work Bve uniformed Impi bad come and con In twenty-five minutes, all with simitar votlvo offerings, tho girl twmnrebeuded Johuston of the fertile tulud had hit upon the flan of sending her "twenty-three roses, one for each year of her life, but the gift was to be delivered on the Installment plan. The Ingenious Idea waa pleaslng-for a time. With tho tenth roue tho Mcrrl field family waa holding Joyoua council over the ever increasing pile of boxes In the library, and Carrol waa restless. When the fifteenth bona fide messen ger had come aud gone, not countlug four small curiosity seekers, who amll od expansively, murmured something about "do wrong number" and retreat ed. Carrol waa thoroughly angry. When on tho heels of the twenty-third ' accredited flower bearer Johnston ap peared, a particularly desirable brooch In bis pocket and a sense of duty well done In his heart, aha waa composed, but the anger) though not visible, waa preseut and controlled. With true masculine density John aton noticed nothing out of the ordl nary with his sweetheart She thanked him gayly and with the proper degree of warmth for brooch and rosea. "Mr. I'ractical Joker must have a lesson," Miss Merrlflold declared to herself after his departure as sho nib bled with llpa as red aa the petals tbemsolvca at tho eighteenth rose. "I didn't mind so much his other tricks, but this time ho has gone too far." "He'd only laugh If he knew old Mrs. Froudo sat In her window and counted those messengers. With the extra ones mixed In little wretches! there were thirty-cue of thorn. "She knows today's my birthday and saw throuKh Hunter's schemo as quick ly as I did. And she'll never believe but what I'm tblrty-ono. So, Mr. Hun ter Johnston, bownro of an old maid's vengeunco." And she wavod tho rose theatrically In air. On tho morning of his own birthday, five days lator, when his man brought tip the mall Johnston's eye was Imme diately taken by one long white envel ope. It was certainly peculiar in up pearanco, for his nnmo and address were formed of letters clipped from newspapers and posted upon It. The envelope contained tho following mis sive, similarly constructed: ' ' Do you cure to 'see your sweetheart eloping with another man? Be at the Twonty-thlrd street forry, Thursday aft ernoon at 4. Like many other practical jokers, Johnston had bis "bllud" side. lie novor suspected that any one would attempt to hoax him. He took the missive in deadly earnest and Inter rupted dressing a half dozen times to reread It . ' His first sensation was one of anger that any one would dare libel bis sweet heart so. ,IIo resolved to telephone Carrol .tr,med.tely-or,M$Cr..ta,fall I j updo' bec"aiiU enjoy gdod "WOgH with her over the letter. Tetevenwhlle .be mlled at Its very absurdity, a elemen tal qualm of doubt, elosr flitting and Dgty as vulture's sundew, passed oval fats mind.' SuptKMlng it wore true? That was the most unpleasant day ilohuston ever experienced. Breakfast was a farce; luncheon,; "no perform ance." il-oiig after the time for th latter meal he remembered that he had promised to spend the day with a mar rled sister over In Jersey, lie tramped the snowy streets aim lessly, pausing occasionally , to port over the mysterious message, whllo po licemen stared curiously and bono holders thought of Jtnffles. All hit Journeys brought him back somehow t tho neighborhood of Carrol's home, But be could not enter. Something held him back. At 3 o'clock he was at th ferjy nmljiet blmsejf down with iucJj patience ns lid could muster to wall for i o'clock. - "I'll see It through," b said. " At tmi minutes of the hour Joliuston'i heart gave a painful throb, for I'arrol, rosy from the searching wind, entered tho ferry building, A tall, athletic young man, with tho air of tho out lantier about hlin-ho was well dressed and evidently well bred, but not a New Yorker-followed her In. He waa car rylng two heavy suit cases. Johnston confronted them. "May J ask what this means, Carrol r be ask ed quietly. The girl halted and seemed to shrink from him. The athletic stranger step ped forward. "And may I Inquire how It concerns you?" He did not raise hli voire, and the attention of none of tb Jostling scores1 was attracted to thi group. " Johnston Ignored blm. "Did I de servo this, Carrol?" he went on. "II you'd ask. I'd release you. When I gol this letter"- Tho girl had determined to punish kla thoroughly, but at tho sight of bit weary, troubled face she relented. "Do you know," she Interrupted blithely. "I'm proud of that letter? 1 avoided telling a He in It, even a wblU one, although I came pretty close t fibbing, didn't I? Hut I blistered my hand cutting out those letters. Wasn'1 It real sweet little birthday glftr Doubt and dawning comprohenslor etrugglod In Johnston's eyes. "But, why-why"- he begau. "Why-why!" mocked his sweetheart ber bend tilled saucily, a roguish smlU on ber face. "Just to show that twt can play at practical Joking as well ai one. Thirty-one messenger boys, air Ton should have a whole month of anonymous letters." 1 "But this gentleman!" He waved bti band toward the athletic stranger who appeared to be enjoying the conversa tion overmuch. "My cousin, Phil Hudson of Omaha, Mr. Johnston, ire came lust night, but eouH only stay with us a few hours." "You were the victim of a base con piracy, Mr. Johnston," laughed Hud eon aa they shook bands, "I beg par aon." -uu, noming or consequence r re apondod Johnston. 1 "I Just sale' Btuugr " ' Aacrlvaa ticon-Bplilciil Hum, America can show many gooirranh- leal names taken from novels. Calif or nla comes from the nnmo of a fairy kingdom In a Hpnnlsh romance of the early sixteenth century. The Antilles nae uieir name rrom Antigua, an Im aginary Island figuring in Italian leg ends connected with , tho wanderings or Bt Brendan, and marked in the UU tude of tho Sargasso sea on Catalan and Genoese Portulanl of the thir teenth and fourteenth centuries. Mont real la by some said to take its name from a legendary castle mentioned to French romances of a very early data. me Island of Baratarlo, lineally de scended from Sancho Panza'a Imag inary governorship, also figures on the maps of Louisiana, while It Is a moot question whether the strait of Juan de Fuca does not take Its name from historical geographical romance, a la Rider Haggard, devised by a Greek agllor of Queen Elisabeth's day for the benefit of her majesty's resident at Venice and his own pocket "I Brazil" Is found In early Irish legend as an Island In the Atlantic, and It Is a moot question whether tho empire of Brazil derives its name from this creation of the Celtic fancy or from wood from which a dye resembling In color burn Ing cinders was mado. Field's Meereobaam. When Eugeno Field .worked In New ark he used to smoke a cob pipe, great ly to the disgust of bis employer, who was a man of taste and refinement and liked bis employees to observe the niceties of personal appearance. Know ing this, Field still smoked his cob pipe until It fell to pieces, whereupon be bought a common two cent pipe of clay and made a great display of It around tne omce. "Can't you find something better to smoker' asked his employer one day In early Docombcr. 'To see you with that thing In your mouth one might, take you for a worklugman." "It's the best I enn afford," said Field, and every day thereafter he made It a point to meet his pntron h the hall putting away nt the obimk"" dudoea. He found a handsome uimwliHr pipe on his desk Chrisms tnomin: Newark Newa. The American tradition 'la 'the expe rience of the world everywhere. There Is Washington uiud there Is Hamilton, gently born and gently bred, but some how the heart turns rather to Franklin and; to . Lincoln, as of more hope for 0 Harper's WeekT AAinmAfi miaii ll"1 A tnciiln sa tttnMw v WHEN 18' A' MAN 21 f t ThNik a Moment Hfor torn Atfewpt ' . to Answer the Qaestlon,"" "It Is often said that law Is applied common scuxe," said a professor of the Yale iMvf school the other day, "While It la true that law principles originated In common sense, the law ltelf Is tho combined experience of many men, for no two men uuliistructed In law will agree aa to what 1 applied common lense. . ; ' . ' : "Then there are many rule of law which undoubtedly have a common sense origin, but conditions having changed, history falls to disclose this origin. Yet these very rules mimt be retafltod In order not to shako personal ind property rights? Therefore no man can depend on his own nnlnstructcd common sense to know the law. "To drive this statement homo I have frequently -put Jo an incoming law class the question, 'When does on In fant become of age? The answer Is always unanimous, 'When he U twenty-one years old.' "The next question appears ridicu lous to some and makes them laugh, while others set their alleged common sense at work and never with correct result 'When Is a man twenty-one years old?" "Om student says, 'On bis twenty first birthday,' but of course he does not mean It, for he Is about a year out of the way. Another ventures, 'On the twenty-first anniversary of his birth day.' This sounds better, but even If correct Is not specific enough. , 'When be has completed his twenty-first anni versary ,' 'At the beginning of that day and 'On his twenty-first anniversary, at the precise hour of his birth,' are other answers. , "And then I surprise the guessers by saying that they are all wrong. "In computing time It is a general rule that tho law disregards part of a day.. In, applying this rule, suppose a man was born Jut one minute before midnight on Jan, 2, 1SS0. "At midnight he had lived but one minute, yet the clay on which ho was born was ended and the law consid ered Lira one day old. 80 In computing the twenty-one years which a man must live In order to reach bis majori ty we do not begin with the moment of birth, but with the commencement of the day of his birth. "Now, since we must start with the first moment of Jan, 2, 1S80, It Is per haps natural to say that this man did not become twenty-one yearn old until the close of Jan. 1, 1001. Mathematic ally speaking, this is true. "Twenty-one years In that sense re quires that the last moment of Jan. 1, 1901, should have arrived in order to make the man of age, and obviously be waa of ago at that point of tune. But here again the rule is applied. "As the man was of age on the last moment of Jon. 1, the law disregards tho entire part of the day intervening between the first moment and the last and consequently he became In law twenty-one years old on the first mo ment of Jan. L 1001, the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary pf his birthday. "This rule la a part of what la known aa the common law and la applied In this country In all states where the common law of England bas been adopted and remains unchanged by statute. A man may vote or make a valid will on the day preceding the twenty-first anniversary of bis birth day, although the right In the one case and the capacity In the other are given only to persons who have reached the age of twenty-one year." New York Sun. . 1 Undertaker For Pet Birds. An old branch of business conducted by a New York establishment devoted to supplying and boarding feathered pets Is that of bird funerals. Children who have lost their canaries or other songsters through disease or accident bring tho little cadavers there to be laid out In becoming style. Tiny coffins just large enough for bird are kept la stock; also quantities of pale pink and blue cotton. The lat ter Is used for filling tho bird coffin, and on It the bird Is laid. The effect when birdie's remains are "decently" composed upon the pink and blue Is excellent sutllclently so to console the little mourulng master or mistress. The children then convey their coffin away for Interment Funeral expenses are light New York Tress. ' . Perforate. rerfifmes have been used from the earliest times. The burning of per fumed lncen.se was one of the rites of the Hebrew nnd pagan religions, aud perfumes of various sorts were used by nearly all the nations of antiquity Both the Romans and the Greeks were skilled in making perfumery. It was from the Arubs, who possessed the art of preparing perfumed waters, that the uso of perfumes was Introduced into mediaeval Europe. Aa ArAat'a Feat. One of the most remarkable and most artistic of twenty-four hours' records stands to the credit of Sir Edwin Land seer, who had promised a picture lor the spring exhibition of, tho Royal British Institution In 1815. Od the day befont tho opening be was found stand ing In1 front of an untouched canvas. "I aholl sond that to the institution to night, a finished picture," he declared to the astonished messenger who had been sent by the hanging committee to see If the promised picture was ready, ana nave consequently given orders not to ba disturbed." True to his word, Lawtaoer pat the finishing touch to his catta and dispatched, it to Pall Stall thai very evening; and aa "The Car alleY Pets" it was one of, the greatest sucMaiMN of the exhibition, , , , , . aKavsSNjK t. . 1 '- - mm PUR ( INTHK NURSERY Baby ?s Bath Baby's Clothes reran CreWiih, Mouth Wash, SterUidta the Settle and WaaUof MapUna. . ABSOLUTELY PURE Unreraof tubetltutesand bulk borax. Take onlrte-Muie-Team, Alldeatoe. 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