I Leonie's Favor
By INA
WRIGHT HANSON. '
Oopyrlffated, UOJ. br M. M. Cunningham.
Against a great rock we eat, Leonle
and I, and Leonle was reading aloud.
Yesterday we had aat there, and the
fay before and many days before that,
hading or talking or looking- silently
at the sea foam piling up against other
neks oat In the blue distance, aud ev
ery day I had loved Leonle more.
On this day I bad thought to tell her
o, bat now that the day had come my
words were held. Before me stood
duty, grim Tisaged and cruel eyed. Be
rth me sat Leonle, slim, radiant, en
trancing. Fair lord, who nam t know not-no-bl
It la;
I wall bellava the nobleat will yoa mj
Jfy raror at thla touraeyf "Nay." said
be.
Tir lady, ainca I never yat hare worn
raver of any lady In the data."
Leonle looked up at me, her brown
yes full of the glory of the master
feet
"Shouldn't you like to have lived In
i Aaysr she asked, -rain or
tnOBLD RAT AT BOMS AHD PBAT ASS
WATt"
elTlng your lady's favor and kissing
ber hand and riding away and riding
borne again! Ah, but my part-wait
ing at Dome wnue mj uugm im
danger! That I shouldn't like."
"Maybe when he was about to ride
away - you would have called him
back," I ventured. "Maybe you would
have said: 1 need you to take care of
me. Let others do the fighting.' Would
you, Leonle?"
"One can never tell what one will do
tni the time comes," she answered, and
would have turned to ber book again,
but my hand stayed ber.
"Let me tell you a story, Leonle.
Once there was an orphan boy who
was adopted by a man and brought
up as his own son. The boy had been
left money, but the man gave to him
other things love and sympathy, en
couragement and trust When the boy
bad grown to a man the foster father
sent him out Into the world to accom
plish his heart's desire. Did I say that
the boy's ambition was to write?"
"I understand. Arthur." she smiled.
-" "When the boy was going away he
tried to tell the man what he felt of
cratitude to him. but the man laid his
kind old hand on the boy's shoulder
and said, 'Never mind that now, but
aome time when I make a request of
you you will grant it' And of course
the boy thought then, and said so, that
anv rawest would be small In com par
lson with what the man bad done for
him.
"In a few years the young man had
become reasonably successful. In the
many times be saw his foster father
the request was not mentioned, but
the boy bad not forgotten. Then one
day he met you, and you know what
that meant to him. Ton must know,
Leonle."
"I think I understand, Arthur," she
whispered, coloring.
"Last night the letter came. My fos
ter father bas made known his re
quest", ......
It was difficult to go on, looking Into
Leonie's eyes, so full of trust and hap
piness, and yes, I could see so full of
lore.
"The request Is a year out of my life
to be spent with him a year free of
aU entanglements, as he expresses it
la the matter of love affairs. It meang
neither to see nor hear from the wom
an I love. It means that If I grant the
favor I may not even tell the woman
T love her and ask her to wait till the
year is done. Why couldn't he have
asked any other thing under the sun?
It must be a mere whim." I finished
hotlv.
Leonle was silent for a time. Her eyes
turned away from me, gazing out on
th featlierv BDrav in the blue dis
tance.
"We may all be dead In a year," I
exclaimed wrathfully. )
.Then Leonle sighed and turned her
face, to me and laid ber slim band on
my sleeve.
The future la not ours," she answer
ed gravely. "Only today. It may be a
whim, but I think he has a reason, and
' yon promised to grant his request when
he should ask it I know now what I
should do If these were the days of
knlehtbood."
"What I-eonlef I asked sadly, for
now I knew that I must go.
"T should tlve my kntght hla taw
and send him away, and 1 should stay
at borne and pray and wait"
"Oh, Leonle!" I whispered. "Leonle!"
She took from the lace at ber white
throat a tiny blue and gold swastika
and pluued It on my coat
"Thla Is instead of the 'red sleeve
broldered with pearls,' " she ainlled,
though her eyes were wet "And you
ehall wear It ou jour coat Instead of
your helmet Do you know what It
aiguilles, brave knlghtr
"It brings good luck and la a talis
man to ward oft the evil eye," I an
iwered, smiling, too, for had she not
called me brave?
"That and more. The colors are loy
alty and royalty. The up and down
points are heaven and earth, the right
and left behind you and before you-
Ome and eternity. The symbol means
that you are not free from personal re
aponslbillty while you wear It It
means noblesse oblige, dear knight.
Bide forth to your promise; be brave
and atrons. and victory will be yours."
So I kissed my lady's favor aud then
her hand and rode away.
Aside from my desire for Leoule or
new concerning her. my year with my
foster father was a pleasant one. Ills
library, waa full of books, his mind a
storehouse of ideas concerning travel,
history and romance. Ho gave me my
morninea for wrltlur. and I wrote
much, glad that out In the world Le
onle was readmit and waiting.
The request he had asked might have
been a whim, but he cave, leaving Le
onle out of the question, much more
than he could have received. Tne year
was nearlng Its close when he spoke to
me of my future.
"Tou have no Idea of what these
months have been to me, Arthur," he
aid as we were walking one evening
by the lake in his meadow.
"And they have been much to me,
air," I answered truthfully.
"What would It mean to you to have
them last?" he asked, hitting some
goldenrod sprays with his cane, his
eyes on the yellow blossoms.
"It couldn't be quite like this, air,"
I answered slowly, and then I told bun
about Leonie and the swastika.
"It wasnt a whim, boy, that has kept
you here," be replied, with a smile on
hla fine old face. "Tou bad begun
writing to me of this Leonle, and It
happened that I bad seen the girl,
though she had not known my name.
I wanted to test her, boy. You have a
future before you which must not be
spoiled by the wrong woman. Tomor
row go back to her and If she will
come bring ber to me. The old bouse
needs you both,"
I had thought to find my lady where
I had left ber, but she was standing
under some poplar trees near ber own
gate. As I came In sight of ber a
vagrant breeze touched the trees, and
a shower of yellow leaves fell around
her like srolden butterflies. I urged my
horse forward and sprang from my
saddle.
I had thonirht to greet ber In words
of the master poet, In language befit
ting her true knight come saieiy nome,
but all my stammering tongue could ut
ter as her glad, welcoming face was
raised to mine was: "Leonle! Oh, Leonle!"
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atrM.
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FOR SALE THE STOCK AND
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few miles from Astoria; very clean
stoctt; and will invoice about $7000.
Particulars at
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.'
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
CHARLES H. ABERCROMBIE
Attorney-at-Law
City Attorney Offices: City Hall
JOHNCMcCUE
Attorney-at-Law
Deputy District Attorney,
Page Building, Suite 4
HOWARD M. BROWNELL
Attorney-at-Law
Office with Mr. J. A. Eakin, at 420
Cpmmercal St, Astoria.
DENTISTS
WINES AND LIQUORS.
Eagle Concert Hall
(320 Astor Street)
Rooms for rent by the (Jay. week, or
month. Beit rates in town.
P. A. PETERSON, Prop.
ft
ONE HUNDRED-ROOM HOTEL
for sale; doing a splendid business;
good opportunity for a first-class
hotel man.
WESTERN REALTY CO.
FOR SALE-ONE-QUARTER OR
one-half interest in a summer re
sort hotel doing a fine business; over
100 rooms and always engaged 'way
ahead.
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FOR SALE-THE FURNITURE
of a large lodging house; rooms
always full; low rent
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MONEY TO LOAN.
MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD
security, at Scandinavian-American
Savings Bank, Astoria.
Money to loan on good security.
Scandinavian-American Savings Bank.
F. I. DUNBAR
307 Astoria Savings Bank Building
INVESTMENTS
Loans, Bonds, County and City
Warrants. Agent State Land
Board for Investment Funds
Insurance
Resident Agent Globe & Rutgers
Fire Insurance Co, of New York.
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E. S. Loner, of Marilla. N. Y says:
"I am a carpenter and have had many
severe cuts healed by Bucklen's Ar
nica Salve. It has saved me suffering
and dollars. It is by far the best
healing salve I have ever found."
Heals burns, sores, ulcers, fever
sores, eczema and piles. 2Se at Chat,
Rogers & Son, druggists.
LAUNDRIES.
Those Pleated Bosom Shirts
The kind known by dressy men in
the summer, are difficult articles to
launder nicely. Unless you know just
how to do it, the front pleats won't
iron down smooth, and the shirt
front will look mussy. Our New
Press Ironer irons them without
rolling or stretching. Try it
TROY LAUNDRY,
Tenth and Duane. Phone Main 1991
A Historic Settlement
The first purely American settlement
west of the Mississippi river was Cape
Oirardeau. Mo. Its first settler, now
ever, was Enslitn Girardot. a French
trader and for some time an officer In
the French army, who located on the
rocky mountain promontory Just north
of the Dresent town. From Girardot
the county was named. The first per
mnnent settler at CaDe Girardeau was
Louis Lorlmier, a French-Canadian,
who In 1782 came from the Miami val
ley, west of the Mississippi. His wife
waa a half breed Shawnee woman, and
through her great influence with the
Shawnees he was given a large grant
of land In 1795 by the governor of the
territory. Shortly thereafter the Span
ish government, deeming It Wise to
populate upper Louisiana, Offered free
lands, exemnted from taxation to set
tiers. Because these settlers came from
Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina
almost entirely Cane Girardeau claim
ed the honor of being the first Ameri
can settlement.
hnd been largely Spanish or French.
Lorimier was counted as the father of
the town, which dates in organization
from 1800. He died in 1812, having
survived his Indian wife four years.
He was burled by her side In Cape
Girardeau on a trea crowned hill over
looking the western Mississippi. Kan
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Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon
DR. W. C. LOOAN
Dentist
Commercial St Shanahan Bldg.
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Osteopath
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Suosestea'at
DR. G- GEE WO
TBI GSXAT
CHINESE DOCTOR
V , Who is knows
'throughout the United
BUM on account v
hit wonderful eures.
No polaona or drugs usee. Be guaran
tees to our catarrh, asthma, lung aid
throat trouble, rheumatism, nemuaneae,
itomaoh, Uver and kidney, iemak com
plaint and all ebronle iimm.
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Our Special Dishes,
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IN ALL ITS BRANCHES: WARM
baths if necessary; thorough com
petency is assured.
, MRS. M. HEYNO,
87 W. Bond Street, Astoria.
HOUSE MOVERS.
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a specialty of house moving, car
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Previous settlements . .. tn ...
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Cm Bit for unnatural
6itcbriei,inflninHMU,
hritatlom or olcrtloiu
A miicool membrane..
Painl.M, nrt Dot aitriD
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prompt attention to all orders.
ner Tenth and Duane streets.
Announcement
I wish to inform the public that all
suits ordered from me are made op
right here in my own shop and that I
have the largest line of spring novel
ties in the city at prices within reach
ofalL A perfect fit guaranteed. Ladies'
tailor in connection.
HOTELS.
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Astoria's Newest and Best Hotel
Eleventh and Duane Streets
Rooms, Single or en Suite, Steam
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Every Room.
Rates, 50c to $150; Special by
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' MRS. J. COLLINS, Manager,
iumu Ukn ibroufh Mtinn It). luv
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Night Boat for Portland and
Way Landings.
Leaves Astoria dally except Sunday
at 7 p. m.
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at 7 a. m.
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Landing Portland Foot Taylor St
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Phone Main 2761.
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Imported and Domestic
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LESS THAN FOUR DAYS AT SEA
During the summer season, the
Empresses sail from Quebec to Liver
pool; fast and luxurious, Nine hun
dred miles in sheltered waters of the
St Lawrence River and Gulf. Short
ocean trip. Use this route and avoid
sea sickness. '
Summer sailing lists and rates now
ready.
Apply to any Ticket Agent, or
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Tralni marked run dally. fTtlegraph Offloe.
No8. 26 and 28 run from Astoria to Clatsop Beach via Ft. Stevens. No. 22
runs from Portland to Astoria and Clatsop Beach direct. No. 24 runs from
Portland to Astoria only. No. 30 runs from Astoria to Clatsop Beach direct.
Nos. 21, 25 and 29 run via Ft. Stevens. No. 23 runs from Clatsop Beach
to Astoria and Portland direct. , ;
Connections At Portland, with all trans-continental lines. . At Goble,
with Northern Pacific Railway Company. At Astoria with steamers for San
Francisco and Tillamook and Ilwaco Railway & Navigation Company's boat
andrailway.' ". -. -;,
. Through tickets sold to and from all points in the East and Europe. For
further particulars apply to
G. B. JOHNSON, General Agent, 12th and Commercial, Astoria, Or.