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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1908)
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1908. . TIIE MORNING ASTORLAN, . AMtHUA. OREGON. r Cbc cw Boss. By FRANK 11. SWEET. Coprrtiht. HOT, by tank 11 IWHt. fOV can't always toll what's Id bundle by tbo look of tb wrapper." Tb old man bad found a Mat upon a fallen tret tbat lay upon sunny hillside and waa carefully smoothing and abaplnf a cane be bad cut near by. II bald It up ai be poke and let bfat eye run along Its lengtb aa If to discover Ita Irregular! Ilea, bat bla gaae wandored Quite be yond tbe atlck to the valley and river below, where atood tbe great mill, wltb Its tall, blackened cblmneya and mass tvt walla. . .. : ..' , ,- "No, air, yoo can't alwaya tell by tbe looks of a bundle wbat's lusldo of It," be repeated nor emphatically. "And If folks would only undersUind It and stop tryltt' 'twould save a deal of trou ble. Now tbers's the Dartln' "DarllnT tbe visitor repeated un certainly. "Ob, 'UUi't tbe name of any kind of workman like tb puddler or natter or sucb; It's Just a name that's bis. We give it wben be first come bare, twelve years and more ago, Tblngs bad beeu goln' pretty bad at tbe mill then-and stops and bitches of one kind or 'notb er and times gettln' worse for tbe men all tbe while. "Mismanagement moat of It was, or, leaatwsys, we thought so. Old Kes-wick-be was tbe ovoraeer here waa on of tbe shortsighted, savin' kind tbat would loss a dollar in tryln', to keep a penny, Ilo'd plncb and screw and 'conomlte, as ho called It, and let things go that ought to be 'tended to till at last some big : break would sweep off In a day all bis stinginess bad saved In a year. Then be'd Uiluk expenses was so blgh that wages ought I Kneumatism ; Diabetes. : Kidney Diseases ; Bladder Troubles, Liver Complaint, i Constipation, Zand all other diseases arista frees! fkMaey sad bladder troubles eaa be rulckly, permaaeatlyt as4 ABSOLUTELY CURED Every sufferer from any f these) fJrasd diseases Should lean at Iof the greatest eure know t mod era Selene. - HARRIGTON'S TABLETS lore sndoned by phyaieUa where. They will eure tbon Ztkey will SURELY CURB YOU. Seod25 cents Today. Ifor Ubsrsl box of the tablets. Vi Ztbey do not euree you we will refaadt your money. s Fill la Coupons and send K to on today. W irmnrMwi, mmmwb m Grand Biplda, Idea. Eerugtoa UetMcla Oo Grand Ranlda. Wok. I ssmIos SO seats for wkloa lasst send, postage prepaid, 1 bat Herinf-f wo i lauieta. 11 Name.. J lly Address My Druggist's Nam ' f m to be cut n little Idwer. "I don't need to tall you that there wasn't any love wasted betwoeu him nud tbe men. Tluy'd got discouraged and bitter ami sort of reckless-like, when all of a sudden Keiwlck dropped down in a dead faint In the mill and bad to bo carried home. Tbat was the bcglnnln' of a long sickness that end ed his work at the mill. 'The rent of the company bought out his interest, and be went off to Eu rope. We didn't know who would be nut to tuko chargo then, but we eort of hoped 'twould be left In Jim Bryce's hands. ;i J ;. I "T'bere wasn't much reason to ex puct it, of course, but be waa tbe man we wanted. Naturally after the way things bad been goln' ws thought one of ourselves, wbo'd feel soms interest In his old mate, would be an Improve ment Then one day down In tbe mornln' train comes ons of the com pany, brlngln' wltb hint a young follor -looked younger than be waa, wltb bis whits skin, blus eyes and light curly "wunrwirrwDiorrr' bats ton cunt: son." hair like a girl's; that kind always does-tbnt be aaid waa tbe new super intendent M 'Superintendent! saya Tom Clark ion as they passed by where be wa workln'. That chap never supcrln tended notbln' heftier than a bandbox In bis born days.' "Well be didn't look like it, that's a fact But the company owned the mill, you see, and this feller wss one of their sort and ao Into the place be goes, fine clo'es, curly bah-, white bands and all. I b'lleve them white bands mads ths boys madder than anything else. They wss strong enough looktn'. too, but white aa a lady's. " 'Look st 'em!- ssys Tom. holdln' up bis own rough, black paws to show tbe difference. If the company' bound to give him somctbln' to da wby don't they buy blm a pretty little plannor and set blm to playtn' it? Tbafs all he's fit for. He ought to be safe at borne, mammy's darlln'.' "So tbat was tbe name we got to cnllln' blm, 'the Darlln'.' Not to bla face, bleaa you, not Them blue eyes Could turn steel blue now and then and flash out sharp of a sudden like a "After awhile we touno mere were some experiments to be made some Invention of hls-and that was ono reason wby be'd come ben, W didn't like blm any better after we board that I c tell you, for w thought the company 'd sink a lot more money In auch nonsense. 'Twasnl our mon ey, and bo we hadn't no reason to grumble, you Bay? Well, there two Ides to thst. There's two sides to most things If a body 'II only take the trouble to look for 'em. "Did you ever think bow you'd feel to look down at your bands big, strong and wlllln', but helpless to pro vide for them dependlu' on you and then see a pair of aoft white band corelossly wastlu' what would be life to you and your? , "That's bow It looked to us. For times bad been bard with us, and, as I told you, old Keswick bad always calculated that the losiea must be evened no on wsees somehow. February Off icial Tide Tables Compiled by the U. S. Government for Asiona ana vicinity. FEBRUARY, 1808. Hirh Witter. Date. Saturday ....... 1 Saturday ....... 1 SUNDAY Monday Tuesday Wednesday 5 Thursday , 6 Friday .......... 7 Saturday SUNDAY Monday ...10 Tuesday ........11 weaneaaay 12 TVttiaulmM mm A tiui nun 10 Friday 14 Saturday 15 Saturday IS SUNDAY .16 Monday 17 Tuesday ........18 Wednesday .....19 Thuradav tfl Friday .....11 Saturday ....... za SUNDAY ....... 3 Monday 24 Tuesday ........15 Wednesday M Thursday 27 Friday 88 Saturday II A. M. h.m. 0:10 11: SO 1:14 1:8 1:40 1:10 4:00 4:40 S:S0 6:15 7:10 1:14 1:14 10:20 11:05 0:80 11:45 1:02 1:10 1:56 1:25 2:62 1:20 1:55 4:25 6:18 6:14 7:24 8:87 :46 10:60 ft 1.7 8.7 8.8 8.1 8.0 7.8 7.8 7.1 8.0 7.4 8.1 7.7 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.8 8.8 8.2 8.1 8.0 7.9 7.8 7.9 8.2 1.6! P.M. am . 12:40 'i'.i V.Z0 8.8 2:10 8.0 8:10 8.4 4:05 7.8 6:05 7.1 6:12 6.6 7:84 6.2 8:58 6.1 10:10 6.4 11:08 6.8 11:54 7.1 iilii'ili 1:00 8.1 1:85 8.0 1:10 7.9 1:45 7.6 8:80 7.4 4:18 6,9 5:16 6.1 6:15 6.0 8:00 8.8 9:15 6.0 10:24 6.6 11:15 7.4 FEBRUARY, 1903. Low Water, Date. Saturday 1 SUNDAY 2 Monday 8 Tuesday 4 Wednesday ..... 6 Thursday 6 Friday , 7 Saturday SUNDAY Monday ...1 10 Tuesday ..11 Wednesday .....12 Thursday 13 Frtilpw .14 Saturday ..15 SUNDAY Monday 17 Tuesday 18 Wednesday ....19 Thursday .......20 Friday 21 Saturday 22 SUNDAY, ...... 18 Monday ., 24 Monday t4 Tuesday .25 Wednesday .....so ThuraA. 27 fTloay xn Saturday x h.m. 6:05 7:00 7:50 8:40 9:10 10:16 ill: 15 0:10 1:11 1:14 8:86 4:40 6:85 6:20 6:66 7:80 8:00 8:80 8:55 9:83 10:18 11:05 0:66 1:16 1:56 6:05 ft. 1.8 1.8 1.9 1.5 1.1 1.1 1.5 8.1 8.6 8.8 8.7 8.5 1.8 8.1 1.8 1.5 1.1 1.8 1.6 1.1 J,.I 8 4 8.9 8.2 P. hjn, 6:60 7:85 8:18 8:00 8:41 10:14 11:14 11:15 1:16 1:16 1:41 4:40 6:16 6:05 6:42 7:14 7:40 8:06 8:30 8:68 9:80 10:1 10:5i 12:05 11:44 1:18 2:88 8:60' 4:54 5:461 M. I ft 1.6 .0.1 -0.1 0.1 0.4 0.7 1.1 1.7 1.1 1.8 1.1 8.4 0.9 0.1 0.1 0.8 0.7 n B lank Books Up to the Highest Standards, Booktoindiiig After Strictly Modern Methods, of Every Description Our Facilities are the best and we can promptly execute all orders. J S. Beilliineip Co, ASTOEIA, OREGON "'And this fener. m M oonna mrs nerer Invented notbln' more useful then a new tie to bis cravatr says Jim Bryce. 'He'll fool sway no end of oonoy, and then either the mill will have to go down or wages will, and mine bas got about to ths foot of tbe ladder now.' " "Oh, thero'B no doubt we'll go down unless some of bis experiments blows blm up. Wish they would!" answers Tom, only be put It rather uglier than tbat "Of course 'twas only talk, bnt the feelln wss under it and after awhile from bopln' somothln' would happen tb boys went a little further and got to plannln' bow to make It happen. "I ain't goln' to tell much about any plot I took car not to know much about It for fear I'd run across some thin' I'd feel bound to bender, and 1 didn't wont to bender notbln', that's tb fsct Only there wss no murder nor notbln' like that In It; tbe men wasn't tbat ktnd-leastways, most of 'em wasn't "No, we ain't a-goln' to hurt mam my'a darlln' Mesa bis pretty little heart!-not 'less be gits In the way when be'd better be out of it' says Tom, with a grin. But If the play thing he's so tickled over Jest flies to flinders some day and the noise scares him so that be gives up and runs borne If II be the beat thing for blm and all the rest of us.' "Seemed like nobody doubted be'd be easy scared, and so the whlsperln' and black looks and secret meetln's went on. "One day In aummer a box waa brought Into the room where we work ed. I shall always remember that day, Just how everything looked. It bsd been a bright warm mornln', but about noon It clouded up slowly, and every breath of wind died away. Not a leaf moved on tbe trees. "Inside the mill everything looked darker and gloomier than usual in that queer gray light Great piles of cast ln'8 throwed black shadows over tbe slippery floor; the long iron shafts was like hungry arms forever reachln' down and drawln' back empty, and from under the brick archway ths round door of tbe furnace seemed glar ln' out like a big red eye. "Nothln" seemed to go that day the way folks bad calculated, , That mis er'ble little box had no sooner been set down In the room than somebody call ed: Hist! Look out!' And there was Boss Darlln', com In back from bis din ner at an onarthly hour when he's never been known to come: before. He had a rose stuck in his buttonhole end .'looked, like a dancln' master goln' to a party,' as I heard Bob mutter aa be slipped the box out of sight under a pile of stuff at the end of the room: They couldn't carry out .their plan men, so mere' wasn't notbin' left fur 'em but to hide it "The boas looked round kind of smllln' and pleasant-like. He'd got tbat model be was busy with about into workln' order, and be was wonder ful pleased over it And what did be do that day but have it brought into our room, because the weather bavin' turned gloomy-like there was better light by a big window there. So there be stayed, f ussln' over it Just as If be wss on guard. . ,; "Then it began to thunder, and there waa a sudden dash of rain, ao that Jim Bryce's little girl who bad come down with bis lunch basket wouldn't go home. Jim was a pieceworker and al ways ssld be could do twice as much work in an afternoon If be had a anack 'bout 3 o'clock. "Jim looked sort of uneasy now and then when little Jinny d get off to the back port of the room anyways nigh where that box was. But be couldn't aay notbln', and maybe there wasn't any dinger, only I waa sure he didn't like her round there and wss glad wben she wandered off into the room beyond-a storeroom, where she was let stay sometimes while she waited for her father's basket "Tbe storm grew heavier Instead of lighter till we could hardly see to work. All at once there was a bllndln' flash of light and a crash as If the whole earth was tearin' to pieces, and we all started and tumbled in every direction. The minute we could get our senses and look round we found tbat the whole end of the room was blowed off and a gully plowed way down to the foundations like as If a bombshell bad tore through. . ' "Beyond that ragged openln' the great brick wall was still standln', but we could see that it was 'sway In' and wavln Just ready to fall. I've never seen anything look' so awful as that tremblln' wall did, for over on tbe other side of It run another bulldin' where the flnlsbln' rooms waa and all bands at work. "I B'pose the same thought struck us all at once tbat the only hope for 'em was a peal of the bell that would send 'em all flyln' to the entrance at the far end of the bulldin'. 'Twos in the old days, you see? before the new part of the mill was built or we had any Rlarra connection with all the roras. There was only the big bell, and tb rope to it was danglln' beside tbe tot twin' wall. "You can't tell about such tblngs a quick as they are in bappenln'. "The belli' says somebody, but there wasn't a chance to say any more, tor the boss sprang past us with Just a word or two, short and quick, as be pushed us right and left . "'Back. men. backl That is my place. Yon hive rammec- "In a minute be was lespln' down over tbe piles of rubbish, and almost before we was sure what be was aim in' for be bad reached the place, and the white bands, strong and steady, had hold of the rope and waa makln' the old bell shout danger If ever a bell did. "We hardly stirred or breathed while we watched him, till be started toward as again. Then a long. . shlverin breath ran round the crowd. "I b'llevehe'd have made it to get out then if It hadn't been for little Jin ny Bryce. That youngster was nat urally scared nigh to dead at toe up roar, and. Instead of stayin where she was safe, what does sbe do but come creepln' out of tbe storeroom it was off to tbe right yon understand, and considerable tore up, like ours and try to make her way oyer tb rains to ber father. "The boss heard ber cry, turned back Uke a flash and, catcnln' her in his arms, began to climb over the rubbish piles again. " Catch her!' he called the minute be was near enough and tossed her over Into ber father's arms. But the move ment made him lose his footln', and, though a dozen of us had our hands stretched out to catch blm, be slipped and rolled back down among the dirt and stones. "I s'pose It hadn't needed but the least llttlo Jar or, maybe, it wasn't the Jar at all but anyway, the next min ute there was a crash, and the stout est of us Bhut our eyes to keep out tbe Bight The wall was down, and be was under it "He was the only man about the mill that was hurt-badly, that is. Of course a few was struck with flyln' stones and hurt in the crowd.'1 But they'd got out alive, and the one that had saved 'em wis buried under the ruins. : - i .' - "That was a queer night I don't re member when or bow the storm stop ped, but I shall always remember what a clear, starry night It was and bow tbe fires thst was kindled to light the workers flamed and danced, while the shadows lay black in the corners of the mill. ' , "How we worked at that pile of brick and mortar, one set tuklu' the place of another as soon as they was tired and as many workln' at once as the space would allow. "Once goiu back to the mill to rest a bit I found Jim Bryce and Tom Clarkson a-carryln' that model that boss had been workln' over back into the office, where it would be safe, and they was Hftln' It as tender as If 'twas a baby, and the tears runnln' over Jim's brown face all tbe while. "'I'd give anything if I could Jest git back to tnis mornur igu. Jim, with a groan. To think "But be couldn't finish sarin' It and it was best not Most folks thought It wss the lighmin' that bad done all the damage, and the rest of us didn't know but tbe iigbtnin' might V don It all and that not beln' sure ws the only comfortln' thing about It "No, he wasn't killed, after alL Darlln' wasn't Tbe piles of rubbish he bad fallen between mostly saved blm from beln' crushed. Everybody thought be was dead, and, even after we found blm alive, it seemed for a long time ss If be couldn't live. But be come round again at last and got beck to the mill to finish up his in vention. ' '" '' "It was a success too. Yes, sir, that's what built up these mills the way they are now the most flourlshln ones is this part of the country and brought better times to every one workln' bt 'em. That was what be was Simla for all tbe time, only we didn't know It and that was wby be come here. "That's bis bouse over there, tbe big one on tbe hillside. He brought his wife here when he married and set tled down among his mill folks. "Should think be'd be considerable Used np by such an accident? Well, sir, I don't .s'pose anybody can go through that sort of thing and come out Jest exactly as Chey was when they went into it Bi t if you happen to meet Boss Darlln' and don't think! he's good lookln' now. why, this valley, wouldn't be a healthy place for yon t mention it In." More than two-thirds of toot lib yon wear shoes. Did yon ever think of that? , ; . ( The Dr. A. Reed Cushion? Shoe Waa built to give your feet comfort two-thirds of your life; the rest yon sleep.' The W. Li Douglas Shoe Has a world-wide reputation. Wear one and be up to date. S. A. GIMRE 543 BOND STREET. Opposite Fisher Bros. Best kinds of logging shoes, hand made, always on hand. TftiTiirl