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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, igoo. t HnHmcrtcan COidow By L01JRENE RICHARDS CVi!TleUl, I'll, by I'. KaMirtciit It was at Iiuvuuio. Luke iJeneva J at one of the k nml I and ijiilot ho Wis, tnat JUik'p lordlium, l,. s. A. wa tolJ by (be landlord: "You will l glad to learn that have a compatriot of yomn hero. Slio bat been here n week. Slio is a widow. I believe she conies from Chicago Can da." "Sure it isut Philadelphia, Mon tana f nkeJ do Jui!,,-o. "I will at o:u find out all part ion Ian, your excellency." "Never m!nl Just now. I'd like i few bourn' rest lofrt imvttuj; lie widow. ::Hrlc:i:i nr oiliorwho. If you will le io l.iul yii'i i.oodu't montio i to her tl. :t 1 am lic;. I came away from my L.:.:o lu Hostou. California. to escape a widow, and. you see. 1 don't want to tutv;i it ajralust another too soon. We Americans always want to walk around awhile ho fore pettlaj: acquainted." 'it Is so. your excellency, and your wishes shall le respected." said lu ob sequious host. "How does the widow b.-ippeu to In here alone':" Inquired the Jndse with out much show of Interest. "Her brother Is at Lyons, France He Is a buyer of silks for Americans. He will soon 1 here." "Is she looking and rich" ask ed the Jmlse. "Had I kuown. your excellency, thai Chicago, Canada, had such handsome women I should have cone there for my second wife. As for riches, she has my lxet rooms and orders what she wants. My bill aicaiust her will b very much." "Think !se oa the marry';" "When I saw yju, sir, and knew that you were an American I said to myself: "'He comes from t!ie same country. He looks like a widower. He appears to be rich. Why should uot the wid ower marry the widow and thus make each other happy?" " "Than!; for your interest la the case, old mam hut go slow. An Amer Igan widower and an American widow will always find each other in good Use If you leave them alone. Just leave It tj us." They met at the tsMe. but were not Introduced. A slurp eyed jierson would k.ve notice 1 that they were slzinsr enc h other up. Two day later, as the widow sat on the veranda with a book in b.-r hand, the landlord and the judge approached, and the former Indulged In a d.K?n lws and scrape as he said: "I have the utmost felicitation I:: presenting' Judjre Fordham to Mrs Chatham." The Jurtp? found the widow to be a woman not much over thirty. She was bright nt d keen and self possessed. She found the Judtte to be a man of about funy-elfcbt, hale and hearty and Inclined ti he frank spoken. Of course they became interested at once, and after a few minutes the landlord re entered the office to say to his wife: "Toflay, Marie, I have done a noMe thing. The widower will marry the widow, and when they return to Ame.r lea they will probably live In New York, Arlzonaand bejy all their u.N.Tii I.. tfli'yVTr.Rinve were married that us n landlord I should be a nii'pti'flceat at'cr1?" Nc.iler h. vldow Chatham nor Jtidee T'ordliaii) had n story tU. It came "i t eaumlly In conversation that she 'he wi: i.v of a Chicago whole sale s: -r u 1 bad taken the trip abrotil ; t the lu tanc of her brother Torn, who was a silk buyer for a New- York house and who would soon be with them. It came out the same way that the Judge had retired from the bench lu New York and was now tak ing It easy abroad while his bond weut right on piling up Interest. They found tliemtvlvos agreeing ou almost all subjects. eswllly on the greatness of Chicago and the purity of American politics, and now nud then the landlord looked out to emtio and turn to hi wife with: "Marie, c.impllnient nie on my mag nificence, ".'lie widower and the widow are becoming tcore and more Interested In each other." The J-.idge Tther took charge of Mrs, Chatham n?:er the first day. They rode out tivcethet, they honied together, they rlluilwd the hills together. The subject of love wasti't even Ii:utel at. but there were other pensous than the laudlord who smiled in a knowing way. There was Just a bit of mystery about the brother. He was to arrive at such a time and such a time, but he didn't arrive. It was nil the fault of the silk men. be wrote. They were taking things easy and refused to be hustled. He would be along lu good time, how ever, and In one of his letters he wrote that It would he a pleasure for him to meet the judge. Ttie judge smiled grimly wheu this extract was read to him. He seemed to doubt It. After their acquaintance had lasted two weeks and one day Just after a telegram had lieen received by the widow the Judge strolled Into the rail road depot and found ber about to take a train-that Is, he thought she was. She had no baggage and appear ed to a ld observation. When he saw that she was discov ered she tr.ude some excuse and left the depot In Ills company. She was a bit glum for awhile, but hhi rallied mid was very gay that evening. Two days later a telegram announced that broth er Tommy was III at dome. The widow said that she would nm over there for day or two, and the Judse said be would neeompauy her He bad a curt oslrr about the si'tc mills, and this would be a good time to gratify It. The widow suddenly di-cldei! that Tommy might g"t over his illness without anv of ber help. She had her fair share of isterly affecti n, but Tommy was one of these fellows that always played baby even with a cold In the head. Two n;or:i::ig later the Judge took n early in-j;-ii!tig wa'k. It was an hour before breakfast. He walked down to the depot to see the 6:20 train go out. He w:s mi time, and he saw the Widow ( hatham there. She dodged him and returned to the hotel Instead of taking the train. When they met at breakfast neither one said anything about their walk, but the landlord rub bed hi hands and smiled and said to his wife: "Marie, my mairnitlrenee grows. The widower and the widow were out for a sunrise walk this morning. That means love and matrimony. I was the one to introduce them ai: l b-:r:g two happy hearts together. Of course it will go Into both bilis as :m extra." There is u prtty fair mountain at Lausanne. It i high i-hough to have precipices nr.d rugg"! enough to put a man out of -. ;;i tu ,!!mt, it. when you have followed .overs' walk" far enough you strike ito "IJj.fs high- wm., miuv a iiSmfrZt it TtiJe' Tardier you debouch upon platform called "Maiden's rent." The Judge and the witiow had been up there twice. On the afternoon of the early morning walk tin y took the path again. Wheu they had reached the plateau and found seats and had a few word to say about the view the widow looked the Judge fair In the eye and said; "Mr. Fordham. In about three min ute, unless you promise to leave Ijiu aime by the evening train. I shall be gin to scream." "Yes," he calmly replied, "I shall run down the path sliouilng for help," "Yes." "I shall meet people and declare that you threatened uie. I think you will understand what that will mean to you. "Certainly, but there are loophole In your plan. For Instatiee, I have no less than three witnesses concealed !e hind the rocks up here. Then I have telegram to theefect that your Itroth- er Tommy Is In custody at Lyons. I also have a second stating that bis ex tradition papers, for which I have been waiting these tunny days, are ready for rue. "Where do I come In?" she asked after awhile. 'You don't come In. Tommy did the euiDesallug. aud you simply ran away with him. So far as my Instructions go, you are to be left behind here In Europe to enjoy yourself as best you may. No doubt you have some of the stolen money to pay your bills with, but I was uot Instructed to arrest you. I was simply keeping tab on you until the papers were ready for Tommy. I there anything more to say?" "Sir, 1 do not know your answered the widow as she arose and started down the path by her lonesome. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Aud so you go away to Lyons?" re peated the laudlord after the Judge had announced his Intentions. "Yes; have to g.i." "And the widow from Chicago, Can ada?" "I must leave ber In your keeping We have had a misunderstanding. You know bow cantankerous American widows are." "Maria." said the landlord to his wife that evening. "I may Ih magnificent and I limy u.it. The widower aud the widow have quarreled and he has Started for Lyons, and it tuny be that he will never come back to plead for a reconciliation. The main point, how ever, Is that I charged him two extra for falling In love with another guet of my house nud falling out again, and maybe I am magnificent after nil." 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 Morumg Astoriau. A necessity which may arise for buying or selling horses, carriages, furniture, pianos, leal 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 kiud, to find lost articles, to secure board or boarders, lodging or lodgers, borrow money, obtain any kind of security; any of these wants may be supplied by using the "Want" column of The Morning Astorian. Rates For Classified or "Want" Advertisements OKI INSERTION OKI CENT A WORD THRU LINI3 THRU DAYS, )0 CIlfTi Count Six Words to a line, 10 Csnts tin weak. "SITOAHOIf WAHTID " For th bensfit of persons out of stnploynitnt, ads under th head of "Situa tion Wanted " will be printed three days free of ehaife. HELP WANTED. W ANTKIv-tiF.NTt.KMAN OU LADY OF good references, to t mi el and collect fur wholesale and retail firm of larye npiltal. Salary anil eienei with com mission, $l,JW0o to fc.',UW.0O per year. alary and expen-e paid weekly; ev eiuc advanced. AiMivm, with t.iinp. biniir.-h Company, h'.'i I'lytiumth I'li-e, Uiicaco, in. i)-r,.:it ! i PROFESSIONAL CARD. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. CHAS. H. ABERCROMBIX, Attorney -st-Uw. General Practitioner. Notary PubUa. Rooms 33 3rbon Mala 2031. I'sg Hlock, Cor. CommrrcUl A 12th St. PROPOSALS. W.XTKIt2 to $24 WFF.Kl.Y AM) expense paid to energetic mail or woman employing agent fur fa-t sell ing gifcls in Oregon territory. F.spe rienee unnecessary, permanent. Inference-.. Jo. Moore, 123 Plymouth, Chi cago, 111. ; A 4t WANTKIV-TWO SMART HOYS TO learn the printing business. Apply Morning Astorian. tf F. D. WINTON, Attoroy-at-Law. Practices u U United SUtes and . Stat Court in Oregoo uj Wsthlng iton. Notary Public. Phont Main Ml rooms 2 and 3. Logan lliilltllng. corner : Commercial and Sixteenth streets oppo site 0. R. A N Compsnv dork. SITUATIONS WANTED. PI! POSAI.S-CHIKF QUARTKRMAS ter's Oflice, Vancouver Barrack. Wash., Sept. fl, ItKMl. Sealed proposal, in triplicate, will lie received at this; oflee until 11 o'cl-. k a. ra, Sept. 23, lOfKl, and then publicly opened, for fur nishing and installing electric light fix ture in ne- . C O Or, at Fort Stevens, fire. Full information will be furnihe,l on application to this ollice an-! at ..lire, of Constructing Quarter master, Fi t Steven, Oregon. The U. S. re-erve the riglit to accept or re-j-rt any or .ill !iil or any part thereof. Knvt-Ii.p c..ntniriing proposal should ) ind"ri; ''PropfHalg for electric liirht !'uh-s at Fort Stevens," and ad'lres-o'd 'o the Chief Quartermaster, Vancouver liarrnek, Wash. WAXTKO BY A YOCXO LADY, A position a a domestic In a family. Ad dress Ma Thompson, Eden, Wash. o-4 nt WANTED - POSITION- TO DO I.IOHT housework, or to cook by the day, by young lady, A-Mre" 310 Seventeenth street. Cnre Mrs. I-'urlie. tf OSTEOPATHISTI. DR. RHODA C. HICU OSTEOPATH Offlca Mans.IT Bid. PTion Blark 10(1 171 Commercial Bt, Astoria, Or. DENTISTS. UK. VAUOHAX, Dkntist Pytliiau Building, Astoria, Onvmi. LOST AND POUND. I.OST-AN ELK HEAD BROOCH ; ELK tooth stick-pin at'.:i -hi I : fiivl'-r le ive at this office for liberal reward. 2t)-7t. Dr. W. 0. LOGAN DKNTIHl 78 Commercial St., HbanaliHii lluildiug Field o IS OUR FIELD, AND WE COVER IT. Our field is the district tributary to the mouth of the Columbia River. We pene trate into all the outlying districts, into lumber camps and isolated neighborhoods. The business of these places belongs to you, and it is worth going after.. .Space in THE MORNING ASTORIAN is reason able; contract for some and let these out siders know that you are still in business at the old stand. You may have a "grouch" but that won't get business; forget it. Let the people know what you have to sell; they may "forget" or have "forgotten" 5e MORNING ASTORIAN THE ONLY PAPER ON THE LOWER COLUMBIA HAVING ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE , ! LOST A BLACK LEATHER FLAT purse, containing otiiethinj( over $40. Finder leave at Astorian olhVe and re ceive reward of $10. 8-3l-2t FURNISHED ROOMS. FOR RENT Front room to iii(;le per son, down town, Apply to No. SH(I Exchange street. tf NURSES. MRS. JULIUS DAVIS (lat of Portland) Graduate Nurse Royal Iindon (Eng.), Hospital. Maternity cs rsqiisnled. 175 0th St. HOTEL! HOTEL PORTLAND rinsst Hotsl In th Northwost PORTLAND, ORB. WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS. THE SAVOY Populsr Conorrt Hall. Oood muile. All ars wsleom. Mr SeYsnU and Astor. Cot- Eagle Concert Hall 320 Astor St. Ths lssdlng amusement hous. Agency for Edison Phonographs tad (old Moulded Records. P. A. FETFJtSON, Prop INI 416 BOND ST. ; ASTORIA, II if 1? - 5 OREGON MISCELLANEOUS. WAXTED-A fltit-top office desk, with drawers. Addrcs 179 Sixth St. FOR SALE. MTJ3IC TEACHER. WANTED -THREE MUSIC PUPILS, loijulra at Astorian office. MA'DUN LESSONS GIVEN MRS. C. D. Stcwnrt, 127 Sevanth atrsst. DRESSMAKERS FOR SALE SIXTY-NINE ACRES OF I land on Blind Slough at Albert, 0r. 1 fine location. Inquire at Astoria office. ! DRESSMAKING Mesdanirt Hawks A 8-26-7t. j Smith, 319 Dunne strccC Phone Red 232.V tf. Carries the Finest Line of I Wines, Liquors and Cigars CALL AND SEE US FOR SALE ABOUT FOUR THOUSAND feet of new lumber, Ixfl fence lumber, btl2 barn or building lumber. Inquire. J. Q. A, liowlby. 0 (l-.'lt B0ARDIN0. THELEYDE. Rooms with or without board; rates reasonable; good accom modation for transient. 14th and Commercial. WANTED Boarding quarters for a fe male pointer dog. Address "L. It.," Warrenton, Oregon, tf. BUSINESS DIRECTORY RESTAURANTS. FIRST-CLASS MEAL for 15c; nice cake, coffee, pio, or dougiinuta, 5c, at U. S. Restaur ant. 431 Bond St. HOUSE MOVERS. FREDRECKSON BR0S.-We make specialty of house moving, carpenters, contractors, general Jobbing; prompt at tention to all orders. Corner Tenth and Duane. tf WOOD YARDS. WOOD Cord wood, mill wood, box wood, any kind of wood t lowest prlws. Kelly, the transfer man. 'Phone 9191 Main, Bara on Twelfth, opposite open bout. BEST 15 CENT MEAL. You can ulways find the best 15-cent mr;ul in the city at the Rising Sun Restaurant. 612 OommercialSt. LAUNDRIES. BUTTON HOLE AT THE BACK. Your experience with It has no doubt lead to much, vexation, possibly pro fanity. Broke your fingernail trying to pry it up fnim the neck-band, clif You won't have that that experience if you send your shirts to us; we save you this trouble, and danger of tearing the idiirt. Try us and see, TROY LAUNDRY, Tenth and Duane Sts. Phone 1991 "PaleBohemlan LaAer Beer" THE BEER FOR THE HEALTHY WEALTHY AND WISE on draught and In bottles Hrewed smter uulury condition (ml propeny sk1 right litre In Attoifa. North Pacific Brewing Co. ASTORIA, OREGON. I INEXPENSIVE JAPANESE FIXINGS, MADE OF BAM BOO, LIGHT, STRONG, HAND MADE, TABLES, STANDS, CHAIRS, WHAT-NOTS, BOOKCASES, SHELV ING, ETC. .Yokohama Bazaar 82S Commercial St., Astoria,