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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1907)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER so, X907. THE MORNING ASTOXIE52T, ASTORIA. ; OREGON. ; . ; t an' when we git lacK an' 1 11 reave k 1 -wou, erop your cianw w u wu . . . - . . . I.. .. . .. . . W - . . tn vfln mil ir mil Bar we uavvu iwu 1 dock want nu uium yvu. 1 k l ELLSWORTH KELLEY. Copyright by 8. B. MeClur Company . X stmn iiihmi HI 1 1 1 1 IM i TJNDAY morning! Sunday morn ing In June! Two old men eat tinder the shade of the maple trees In the front yard while the church bella jangled and Jarred and boomed over the housetops and out across the val ley. " 'Fears to me like church bells Boun purtiesV hen you's away off from em, two or three miles, Bay," volun teered the old man with the blllygoat beard, he whom the boys'affectlqnately called "Uncle Joe." ; ' "Same way with a brass band," b . served Uncle Billy, he of the smooth shaven face. "Ton git up close an It sort o' rasps your nerves an' treaties your fur all the wrong way. But git away off, say 'bout half a mite of a etUl evenin', an I kin shet my eyes an' Imagine I hear the heavenly hosts a-twangln on their harps an poundin' their cymbals." "Yes, rye noticed the same tbjng, EU1. gay, do you remember when we (was little codgers, when we first begin to go pardners, an' heerd a church .111 the fust time J We 'maglned It said, I'Come. oh come, Jest as plain as speaking ":'.?;"" '-''T "Shorely, shorelyt An that reminds me! It's gittin' mighty neat church time, an' I must be potto' along. J"oe 3 wisht-old as you air, too-4 wiatt you'd go to church oftener. Old Uncle Joe nodded. T s'pose you do, BUI, I spose yon do. -I'd like to, real wen, but not today jl can't go today. Pact is, BO, 1 fltift jiwant you to do anything ag'in your conscience, but I've laid off to take a IwaDc today, a little walk, out in the Country. As I said, I don't want yon co do anything agin your conscience, jbut IMJind o" set my mind on bavin' 1700 go with me." ; '"Much obleeged, Joseph, much 'obleeged! But I couldnt think of It l havent missed church for nigh on jtwenty years. An' do you think it is , (right to go a-wanderin off that way n Sunday? Do you, nowT "Right! Shucks! Of course it is! 1 Look here, Bill! Fer the sake of argy iment, say we take a walk. We go out j along the green hedgerows. ; We see 'thewild roses bloomln' an' the growip.' jorn. We hear the mockin' birds a-slngin' fit to kilL We take great big, IfuE breaths of country air same as .we used to when we were pardners. Don't you remember how we used to see who could' make his cMst swell the biggest? Healthy, wasn't It? AH tthem things Is innocent, an' all them Ithlngs is good. Who made 'em? God. JIWTiat fer did he make 'em? Fer you .an' me to enjoy. How can we enjoy iem here in town? We jest cant rtWbich Is worst; now? You go to fchurch, an' you sit there on a hard jseat, an' by an' by, 'stid o llstenin' to the preacher the fust thing you know I you feel the soft air stealln' through the winder, an' then a bird song floats jln on the air, an' it makes you feel 'good ail over. An' then the fust thing iyou know you dont know a blessed 'thing the preacher is sayln'. Ain't that so, now, William? Ain't that so?" ; "I don't know but that It is-some-tfmes." feeblv admitted Uncle Billy. "Of course if s so!" triumphantly ex- claimed Uncle Joe. "Now, let me ten you what Bill! Too go with me today. Let's take a walk. Let's take our din ner along. Lef s go out fer an old fash jgg&g oLfiaforlP'- ourselves, ..M a md time a rate old fashioned en Joyable time, like we used to have when we was boys an pardners wy I'll go to meetln' with yon reg'lar ev ery Sunday fer six months." Uncle Billy paused, hesitated, and the man who hesitatesyou know the rest of the proverb. Uncle Joe was once again the, dominant power in the partnership that had begun when they were boys, years and years and yeais ago. While the second bell was calling, "Come, oh, comer' two bent forms crept stealthily out through the sub urban orchard, climbed the fence very carefully and stole down the Inside of the hedgerow along a "turning row" toward the river v ,. "Joseph" , (when Uncle t BDly said "Joseph" in the way he said It then, It meant he was going to say some thing not quite commonpraoe) "Joseph, it was Jest seen a day as this when my first wife when Mary and I was walkin' home from meeting-down In the old neighborhood when I mus tered up courage to1 ask her if she'd have me. The brown thrushes was Elngln', an' the wild roses was In bloom. I remember, 'cause sue asxea me to gether a bokay of 'em. X had no lackknlfe. an' pullin' em off I tore my hand on a big prickly briar. She tied up my scratched hand with her handkercher, an' when I fort the touch of her Boft fingers as ahe cua re, I tin an act her to let me tan Her hand until death should part us. An' she diduntil death parted us. A atranee llsht burned dimly. In Un cle Joe's eyes as be listened t light that flickered for an Instant and died out; even as a tiny flame will some Hmes shoot ud and die out fmrn a "deserted campfire smoldering by the roadside In the darkness. ' He, too, In the long ago, had wor shiped at the shrine. of Mary but BDly had never known. - Half an hour later they were at the bid sycamore, whose misshapen trunk hung far out over the pool of water where, as boys, they bad fished and bathed on many a happy summer day Tm glad there's no boys here to day," sighed . Uncle Billy. "It does seem awful to me that boys as la brought up by respectable, God fear In' parents will be so wicked as to fish an swim on the Sabbath day." "Boy nature an boss nature Is pur ty much alike the world over," sage ly responded Uncle Joe. "I don't see that boys is any wuss thanftiey war when we was boys. Bill, you know you've been licked like Blxty fer the same Identical tricks. An' licked fer what? Jest 'cause you was a-havin' the oniy downright rale good time you ever got a chance to have. I never had any boys of my own, but Til tell you right here that If I had forty boys, an' they all wanted to go swimmin' on Sunday, why, they could go, an' what's more, I'd go with 'em." Ttm nntacioiiB wickedness of such a sentiment fairly took away1 "Uncle Bil ly's breath. ' "Why, Joseph, you you shoreiy wouldn't think o beta' so wicked!" ."Wicked . notbin'l . Tbaf s Jest the way you used to talk when we was boys pardners. It was 'Josephf an' 'Joseph! An' you was into as much devilment as I was tool As always makm folks believe 'at I led you Into it! Dog my skin! Tm goto' to have that fish if I have to wade In an' ChasaJUm out.onttejbanjtl- School Shoes FOR BOY The Billy Buster Steel Bot tom Shoes The Shoe with a Sole that Don't . Wear Out S. A. Glt-fflE 543 Bond St, opposite Fisher, Bros. Eat JoeTwhar'aBotUbmenr there would be! 1 ' Just thon Uncle Joe emerged from He always .gojtthe worst of a tree In paroxysm of laugh- Mow. It had been Uncle Billy's fall ing when a boy not to be able to "take The btjJWi began to o ttyni of Mtiatf. physical encounters, but the very next time be was "dared" he would again teed a forlorn hope, because be was a coward, a moral coward. 80 little wonder Is It that, under the old feeling of moral cowardice, be re plied: "Oh, you will, will you? Mebby you'd like to try It right now." "Bill, if you dont shet your old fool mouth I'll I'll come up there an make you eat dirt!" .; Too will, will your yelled the now properly infuriated William. Too will, will you? I'd like to see you try It on. Try It on right now!" ; Uncle Joe stuck his fish pole la the sand, spat on his hands and walked up to bis bellicose "partner." He made a grab for Uncle Billy's collar, but Uncle Billy slid under bis arm, caught him "side holts," and "undor holts" at that As a boy tussle It would hare been commonplace. But when old men wrestle t Each man's face showed tense, set Jaws and watchful eyes. At that Instant Uncle Billy happened to glance toward the river. He won dered If any one was . watching. IDs glance caught the violent sway of the fishing pole. He broke "holts" and ex claimed: "Joe, you've got ImP " Uncle Joe made a clumsy, rheumatic old run and was just in time to grasp the pole as it pulled outvof the sand. Dexterously he guided the fish, for bis muscular sense told him that the One was not strong enough to draw the game captive from the water. He play ed It as well as he could, hoping to tire it But his prey kept dashing wildly from side to side of the pool. Uncle Joe's old arms grew tired. "Bill, Bill! You'll have to spell me a bit I'm tuckered out I'll go havers with you!" Uncle Billy had forgotten his late misgivings in the excitement Of the moment He relieved Uncle Joe, who dropped down in the shade, pantlcg. The big fish began to show signs of tiring. The struggles grew more fee ble, the rushes less frequent With a wheezy shout of triumph Uncle Billy swung it to land, and "Jumpin Jehpshaphat!. Billy! Billy! Oh, myr Uncle Joe was down on the grass rolling over and over in an ecstasy of mirth. "Wha-what's the matter, Joe? Air you sick?" anxiously ' queried Uncle Billy. "Oh, nuthln's the matter, Billy," an swered Uncle Joe, when at last he rose to a slttlnir Dosture. "only your bass ain't a bass. Ifs nothin' but a dratted garr Tftcle"3oeTiao7 wBBe taTEfHg. taSen . book and line from bis pocket ana fastened It to an atendqnad pete. Then be managed to catch a grass hopper. He Impaled It to bis sansrac- Aon and gave a cast that snowed be had once been a not unscientific angler, But dexterous as was the cast the bass refused to rise to the alluring homier. TJncle Billy sat In the shade and looked on with grave, troubled face. What would old Brother Mee cham say If he were to bear of his deviation from the straight ana nar row path? No doubt at this moment Brother Meecham was standing up be fore the "class" telling his hopes and fears, his temptations and triumphs, nrtiHt it th Lord should call me right now an' find me here at the rivet Tfce agony of the thought made Un fa Bffly croan aloud. 1 "l "Shet un. Bill! Fish won't bite if von make so much noise." " "I don't care if they don't! Joe, you're old enough to know better than tojQsJLPil-&ind8i1'l.T Ton came down haw. haw. haw- Jest like a-haw, haw, baw Jest like cooaP and be bent almost double in an ecstasy of mirth. 1 . 'Til coon you, you miserable old white headed reprobate!" And then the two old boys had their last boy fight When the battle was oven Uncle Joe's shirt collar was minus a button hole, his sleeve was torn, and toe was expectorating roouthfuls of sand and grass that had been forced Into It by the Irate William. For Uncle Billy himself, he had a scratched face from which the blood oosed In little sweat like drops. But for once In his life he had whipped his "pardner," made bin eat dirt and say "enough." Then tbey both agreed that it .was all in fun. "Billy, alnt you afoerd your papH lick you fer gain' to the river m Sunday?" Uncle Billy responded with a feeble, mirthless laugh, and then bis old face took on a look of Infinite yearning. Out of the gathering shadows arose the old log farmhouse with its roof of clapboards. Leaning upon the "paling" front gate was his father his father as be had been In middle Ufa, five and sixty years ago. He saw himself a barefoot boy, In homespun trousers, coming up the wood's path that led from the fishing bole. He could bear the swish of the beech sprout wielded by bis father, could feel again the sharp pate of Its strokes. - He heard his mother, who was straining the milk at the spring bouse door, say: "Thomas, don't be too hard on the boy. like enough that Joe Graham coaxed him to." A sense of pain wrenched his heart as the scene faded, and he slowly an swered: "I dunno, Joe, but 'pears like rd swap my soul off, hide and tail, as the feller says, if I Jest was a boy ag'in." And Uncle Joe, with a childish qua ver in his old voice, responded; ' "Me too!" Hard Times in Kansas, The old days of grasshoppers and drouth are almost forgotten in the pros perous Kansas of today 5 although a citizen of Codell, Earl Shamburg, has not yet forgotten a hard time he en countered. He sa;s: "I was worn out and discouraged by coughing night and day, and could find no relief till I tried Dr. King's New Discovery. It took lea than one bottle to comjletly cure me." The safest and most reliable cough and cold remedy and lunr and throat healer ever discovered. Guaranteed by Charles . ,u 1 ,,f rwia mil Rogers' drug store. 6O0 and $1.00. Trial W1UI B IIN1 VI uuguat vuv.w I - dlBDatcbed the shark of inland waters, 1 " and the "pardners" ate tneir amner. After dinner they sat m.tne snaae and grew reminiscent Bygone sports, sleighing, picnics, shows the young folks of two generations ago were hconeht to life again. Sometimes their voices rang with almost boyish laugh ter. Sometimes their eyes grew misty with tears, and over all the glorious ekv of the June Sabbath and through all the voice of the water falling over the riffle up stream. "BflL shore's I live, there's a rea- bird's nest in that ellum. Shew! I wish I was sixty years younger. How I'd like to look In that nest ana see u redbirds' eggs look like they used to when we was boys. You used to be a mighty good climber, Billy. What say you to climbin' up an' gittin' me an egg or two?" "Me climb at my age!;' "Whv. ves. Tm omy a year older n vnn Billy, but you are a dozen times mnro noonle than l De. I've waccueu vonr back as you go down the street on' vnn atm as SDrV OS a DOT W twenty." Uncle Billy was not proof against thla flattery. "If I bed a rail an' you'd boost me a little. I might try. Uncle Joe found a rail, put one ena aeainst the tree and gave Uncle BOly the iwiillreR boost . . ... ... - - M - t He reached tne lower umns in saieiy and in a short time had secured the eggs, which he dropped one by one Into Uncle Joe's "hankercner." 'men h (started to Eet down. When he reached the lower limbs the rail was gone. . , -, . -. . "Sayr Joe, put back tnat ran," "l mess you'd better stay up there Rfiiv where von kin keep eooL It's awful hot down here." " "please, Joe! Don't act a fooL Please nut tin the rail. Please dor "Oh, I dunno, Biuy.- 1 guess i u nev to leave you now. Ifs gtttln' late, any how. an' I don't want to he out in tne night air." And Joe started as If to leave.' ". r "inef Joe! Come back. Joel Come hnrfd Please!" "No, Billy. Guess va veuer git dock to town an' let folks know where you air. What you s'DOse Brother Mee cham win say when be bears yonrve been flshln-n, robbln' poor little in nocent birds' nests? Think of it! You, at your ago an' on Sunday tool" And then Joe was gone. , r Humiliation and rage were tumul tuous In the soul of, Uncle Billy. With a bravery born of desperation he "cooned" out along the limb. It swayed under bis weight but he knew an elm limb would not break. Lower and lower It swayed under him until he felt safe in dropping to the. ground. When he touched ground and con vinced himself that he was free from hurt a mighty resolve entered his heajt.J.If he could only lay hands on Tide Table for Ootobo OCTOBER, 1 Water. A. ate. hm. .. .... 11 1:11 ay .. 110:00 a 4 e 7 1 OCTOBER. High Water. , Date. Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SUNDAY Monday . TnMdaV wwinaiidav .. Thursday i Friday . . ......11 Saturday SUNDAY ...H Monday i Tuesday ....IB Wadniiday .. ..10 Thursday 17 Friday .. ...... n Saturday .. ...19 SUNDAY 10 Monday .. .....il TilAlldAV .. ...4 Wednesday .. ..13 Thursday t Friday ......25 Saturday .,...! SUNDAY 7 Monday 18 TnMday . . ....19 Wednesday .. ..10 Thursday .. ...si . . 0:31 1W7. M. I P. M. ; , a h.m. ft. 1 1.8 1:18 7.0 ) 1.7 t:I8 7.1 7.110:10 7. J t 7,711:00 7.1 S 1.111:49 1.1 11:18 I.B ) 8.811:80 l.t I 1.4 1:14 9,0 I 8.1 1:00 9.1 1 7.8 1:38 9.1 ; 7.3 1:10 l.t 1 i.s i:io l.t; I 6.8 6:09 1.0 l 6.4 1:11 7.7 ; 6.7 7:43 7.8 ; 7.1 9:00 7.11 r 7.710:08 7.91 1 1.111:03 1. 11 i 1.611:82 I. II ....11.18 I. II I 8.81I:4S 1.0 1 8.1 1:10 9.01 ) 7.7 1:61 1.9 l 7.8 1:16 1.71 I 6.8 8:00 8.8 l 6JS 8:88 7.91 I 6l 4:81 7.4 ) 6.1 6:13 7.01 I 6.1 6:10 6.6 i 6.6 7:38 6.8 r 7.0 1:45 6.1 OCTOBER, low water. Date. Tuesday ., .... 1 Wednesday .... 8 Thursday . . . . . . ... 4 e a V 7 8 9 Friday Saturday SUNDAY Monday . . ..... Tuaid&y . ... H. . . . . .. M .. wianuaiT . . .. Thursday .. ...10 Friday .. ...... 11 Saturday .. ...11 SUNDAY 18 Monday . . 14 Tuesday .. ....18 Wednesday .. ..18 Thursday .. ... 17 Friday 18 Saturday .. SUNDAY 10 Monday .. .....11 Tusmlay . ....83 Wednesday ,, ..is Thursday .. ...14 Friday .. ......18 Saturday .. ....26i SUNDAY 7 Monday .. ....18 Tuesday . . ....19 Wednesday .. .,80 Thursday ,. ...11 1807. h.m. 1:80 1:17 4:16 4:66 1:13 6:08 6:48 7:17 7:68 1:19 1:10 10:10 Utll 0:11 1:18 1:47 1:60 4:45 6:10 8:09 6:47 7:151 7:69 1:84 1:06 9:44 10:84 11:86 Otll 1:10 1:15 M. P. M. ft. h.m. ft 1.1 1:64 6.9 1.1 1:68 l.l 1.0 4:48 1.0 5.9 1:16 l.l 0.8 1:88 l.l 0.6 6:12 l.t 0.9 7:10 0.1 1.1 7:60 0.1 I 1.8 8:88-0.1 . 1.0 9:10-0.1 1.110:11 0.0 1.1 Utll 0.1 . ojii'iioTi ' 0.6 1:00 l.l 0.8 1:10 l.l ! 0.1 4:14 l.l ! 0.6 6:15 l.l , 0.7 6:88 0.1 I 0.8 6:40 0.4 I 1.1 7.11 0.1 I 1,6 1:00 0.0 1.1 1:40 0.0 t.6 9:18 0.1 I 1.0 9:17 0.4 1.410:42 0.1 I 1.811:17 1.1 i lis IS: 52 "i'.i I 1.6 2:10 l.l l.l 1:18 l.t TRANSPORTATION. TIME CARD Astoria & Columbia River R R. Co. Effective, Monday, September 0. ioot Psciflc Time. a.nr 1 a a t.HSi TiS 8.41 6. 4 .4 its t.u TO v.l .as 9.M i.m. la.ro. a M H 0.15 9.H5 p.n, 1 6.10 TO p.m. s.w 7 'JO 7.3ft 7.W B.oe am BOM 9M 9 Bft 0.571 10.09 8 18;10..'V I.1W10.M S.40I11 4ft' t.uo 6.2H 6.S9 TTSi 10.1A I0.2"i .10.80 1a.m. 6.401 7.11 7.20).... 0. 89. i 4S tA.9 Mt.S All T1.9 7S.7 99Jt 106.7 tv. Ar. tvv.v.i"wHiitt RAllEHf ' MAYOKIl iiirsrv ... LI CLATHKANIR JCKtiTlOM.! w B7 1 ivn i. .... ....... CUrTON r AKTORUf V L AHTORU Ar Ar. WARKENTON hi m.t W9.i n 81 12.40 ia.4oi ,m. T55ST na.7 118.1 110.1 Ar 11 a a.1 uriK li Ar. FT. H'l KVKNH Lv FT. HTEVENS , HAMMMnU .......... i. . WAUUKN'TON IV it?nrrwATmF;i5ToyA7 OKA K II A a I .UlTAUlllHf . HULLADAt Lv Ar.... 119 1 79.7 7S.6 M.t MB M.s 47.9 40.4 198 19.1 IS, 4 n.v.ip.m.'a.m u n ioooi io.m 10.40! 10 IA 10 to 9 W 9. XI 91A 141 134 JS4i 3 41 10 1 o.oj ail a 1 1a.m. 1.40 . , taw 7.4 a s. 7 W I 7.04 8 wil a 10I iiAi 6 : t.v I.Ui 6 1.U 7. 44! 7.4J T.41 in 7.91 67 SJJOI 6.45 .m. 466 J.SU l.lrt 10.99 ll at' 10 w OU'I0.27 13 10. riD,io.n 10. I.. 9 40 9: TEilf.Bfii 10 ja.Bia.m. N09. 26 and 28 run from Astoria to CSatsop Beach via Ft 6Uveas. o. It runs from Portland to Atoria and Clatsop Bsaca dlwct. No. 24 runs from PortUnd to AstorU onljr. No. 80 runs from Astoria to Clatsop Ba direct. , Nos. 21. 25 and 20 run via Ft Stevens. No. 23 runs from Clatsop BwcbM Astoria and PortUnd direct Additions, train will be run from Astoria to Ft Stevens and return on Sundays, leaving Aitoria 11:30 a. ta, arrive Ft StoTsaa 12 :M p. m. Returning leaves Ft 8tmne 2:00 p. arrives Astoria 1:48 m. Trains marked run dally: 1tU (i nl 1 . ... - ... CONNECTIONS At Portland, with all trana-eontlnental line. At Coble, with Northern Paclflo Hallway Co. AtAitorl with steamers for 8a FraiwUoo and Tillamook and Dwaco Railway & Navigation Co.'s boat and railway. Through tickets sold to snd from all points In the East and Europe. For further particulars apply to, R. It JENKKS; , . . .. IrTFTl Cea. Ft 4 Patingr. Agt, f -.; AstorU, Or. 1M 1 iiiwTTiMTlMao rWW H ARE IMA N has fought LAND HERE ! for Big Terminals. WHY DON'T YOU BUY NOW . ; ' ; and t GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR, 1 Come in and we'll show you some choice tracts AT REASONABLE PRICES. Mm ft P on if j 495! Commercial vStreet, Astoria, Oregon; ;