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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1908)
ViH-.li V. ;;At ,7,Wjv ifM "' SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1901 in i. . i. 1 1 i i - THE MORNING ASTOIilAN. ASTORIA; OREGON ; fier JW perspective Br LULU JOHNSON. OopyrtgbUd, 1001, by B. 0. I'krwils. . Aboard the liner (he last goodbys wera being altl. Some of tin mora Cautious among tbo bourn atnyera bad already gathered at tba end , of the pier to wave farewells cut abort on tba dock through tbo fear of being varrlod off, and others were trooping down tba gangplank. , t,Now aud thou a couple of cablu atewarda ruabod op tba gangway bear log tba steamer trunk and parcels of eome belated arrival, and from tha pier tba ahnrp exhaust of tba donkey angluM punctuated tba farewell as tbo busy drama colled and uucolled tba ropoa by which tba lait of tba bold luggaga wua being rushed to tba cav ernous depths of tba buga ship. Duay little tuga puffed about tha pod of tho plor to aaalat In turning tba buga bulk of tho steamer, aud a man to a rowboat pncldlod about tba Btern to ba on band In caaa of an accident. ,To Nolla Wyna tba acana waa dadd- adly novel. Only tba aay before ana bad arrlvod In Now York from Der Ui I ana noma ror ma purpose oi an barking, and lor tba flrat time aba bad realised what a steamer really waa. Now aba could scarcely ballava tbat presently tbla great black raaaal would lip down tba bay and ao out to tba broad ocean beyond tha eight of land. For time aim waa ahaorbed In watch ing tba crowds, but tba vary presence of tbla crush of humanity presently began to weigh upon ber aplrits. It bad been bard to ralst Aba funda to eend ber abroad, ao none of tba family bad bean able to accompany bar to New York. Hha bad no ac quaintances In tha city, and aba waa absolutely alone In tbla mob of leave taker. There was no one to aland on tba adga of tha phr and wave farewell, no one to give her a friendly farewell kUa. She wn even mora alone tbau the Httla crowd of returning aiulgranta huddled on the lower dock forward. . Dark In t'rtvllle It had seemed great thing to ba going to I'arla to Ba iuhuixp TowAnn nan a bhb ar l'CAUKP. atudy niUHlc. Now that tha venture waa fairly under way only pride pro- vented Nolla from turning back. The blgnem of tha city and tho vaatucaa of tba aea miule her feel how email and utterly liiHlgulflcant abe waa. She wanted to lay ber head on her moth ar'a aboulder and be petted Into con tontment again. Quietly ahc "moved from the port to tbo starboard Klilo of tho ship, where aha could watch the loading of a cargo steamer from a lighter. Bho tried to forgot thnt on tho port aide were men and women who were to bo her asso ciates for a few days saying good by to tbelr frlcndfi, while aha fought back the tears of loneaoracnoss. Then slowly tho big ship began to slip out of ber berth, tho bonrso whls- tlea sounding an nlurm to tho truffle of tbo harbor. Now they wore In mid etrenm, and one of the tugs had pressed her none usalnst tho towering bluok aide of tbo ship and begun to pant and labor as slowly tba stern was pushed upstream, while tho slater tug forced the bow In the direction of the Nar rows. 1 . i1. . Then tho engluee took on a more steady beat, and the nolso of the shout ing on the pier grew falntor until It could no longer be beard. The voyage waa begun. , 1( .. Nolla waited on, deck until the last faint trace of land dlsnppearod; then abe stumbled, with tear .blinded eyos through the narrow gangways lo the little cabin wblch she occuplod alone. She threw herself upon the cushioned eat tbat formed one side of the nar row compartment and gave herself op to her grief. . ;. Oven as a child ber dream had been a musical career, and ahe bnd saved to ward this end. nor parents, too, had pinched and denied themselves that her mbttlon might fie gratinea, ana now that she was at last on her way to Parla loneliness beat down ambition and ahe could only sob miserably as she thought of tha loved ones she was leaving behind. , The departure with no kindly word of farewell bad been the last droD In tier cap of anhapplness. gad now toe tould aae tba familiar railroad station it Crow villa, with tta fallow, hadilkt structure and unsheltered platform, and bar friends standing there to ware tha last farewoll, It bad been to at . furent from tbo boat a few hours be fore, and aba wished herself back With ber parents and tha girls and Harry Temple, . ' f Bha could still sea Temple'e hurt look when ba received ber gentle "No" to bis proposal , Jfs had always sought to oppose bor career, contending that she would be far happier In bar own noma than as a choir alnger or platform star, Bho bad hated blm for bis apparent disbelief In bar powers, and bar refusal had been promptly given. She was sura that If be asked ber now sbe would gladly abandon bar career and go back to CroasvUle with blm, but Harry was with tba rest or the dear one nearly thousand miles away. There waa a gentle tapping on tba door, and she arose to admit the stew ardess.,, :. . f t - v rTbera'a a gentleman who would Ilka to saa you on dock," she said, with a touch of aceeut "Ha Is M. Temple, and ba asks tbat ba may bare tba pleasure of your society." Temple!" gasped Nella. "A tall manr . .... "With a light mustache and aucb handsome gray eyas," assented tha stew ardess, mindful of tba genorous tip and scenting a romance. "Ha la on tba po.t slda of tha upper deck. Permit ma to assist mademoiselle with bar toilet" Without waiting for reply tba woman bathed tha girl's swollen eyelids and removed traces of tears from ber c beaks, smoothing the hair and re freshing the crumpled bows on tba bat, which bad been tossed Into tho berth with never a thought of the ribbon. Nella emerged from the gangway to And Temple pacing tba deck Impatient ly. Ha harried toward ber as sbe ap peared and led ber to a cosy comer, where two steamer chairs ware placed close together. "I am content that yon are hare. That is enough for ma," aba aald abyly. "Bat bow did you ever get herer "Neit train after yon left," waa tha prompt response. "My chum at col lege, Jack Itarkwrlgbt, Is representing his father's business In Paris, aud whan you prepared to coma I wrote asking btm If bo could And a place for ma. I got an anawer by cable to coma atpnee." 'And you never let ma knowf' abe aald reproachfully. Temple smiled. "I bad an Idea." he said softly, "that perhaps It would be better to wait until afar we had left port If a loneaome work sailing alone and" "Ton ware right," aald Nella. "It has shown ma many things in a new light. Porhapa If you were to ask a certain question over again" ' 'I do ask tho question over again. ba declared earnestly. "I shall never cease asking that question until your snswer Is Ye,' " "It Is 'yes now," she said ahyly. "I sea life more clearly, and lore la better than a career, after all." "Aud beaveu'a blending ou the new perspective," he aald fervently as bis band clasped hers In tbo early dusk tbat waa settling down upon the sea. THE EVIL MONK Tha Story, ol t Climb Up In the Alpi. KNOWN ALSO AS THECAPUCINE I Shall Never Forget my First Sight of tha Face of tha Monk A Face Hideous, Sardonic, Devilish and Cowled Like a Christian Monk. in the depths beneath us, our pro gress seemed only a source of malig nant mirth, It was as if something tragic about to take place mutt short ly be the occasion for an explosion of evil laughter. At length, after a rather difficult ice traverse at the top of the couloir, we ; found ourselves on the first plateau above the lower buttress of the mountain, and my first test was safely over. I felt triumph ant; and here, as if in 'question, I turned once more to survey the haunt ing, (ace. There it stood, grim and hideout; and yet surely there was some change! The villainous mouth seemed, somehow, to have lost some thing of its firmness. The face seem ed, as it were, shrunken like that of a strong man after an illness. The cruel grin was there, but the coarse brutality of the lips seemed to be slightly softened away. The face was wicked still, but the power for evil in it seemed partly faded out of it like the light from the hollow sockets of his eyes. I could scarcely tear myself away, so absorbed was I in the subtle change which I beheld. "Looks a bit chippy, the old boy, this morning," said Murry cheerily. "Come In, let's get to the next cou loir." ' And so we started once more, tak ing a turn to the right which hid the Monk from view. A long smooth I snow slope now lay before us, lead-' CSmmA ing straight up to the summit of the, I 1151 first or lower peak, and we set for ward with eager steps. What now occupied my mind was the thought of J that last arete the narrow ridge, some hundred yards long, connecting the peak we were ascending with the rtifyfiAi ni Ls KssvntiI A f Anas timet T MMMMMM M Wh.n It Hurt A Germs n surgeon In the Franco Prunslnn war had occasion to lance an almocss for a poor follow, and, ns the sore was otmtlnntc, It becamo neces sary to use the kulfo twice. The oera tlon was not a very painful one, but the patient declared that it bad nearly killed him, and when a third resort to tho lancet was proposed ba protested that ho could never go through the op eration alive. Tho surgeon promised to make it easy for blm and, calling up a few of tho loungers, ordered one of them to bold bis huuds close over the patient's eyes and two others to grnNp his bands firmly. "Thla arrangement" explained the doctor, "Is said to prevent pain In such an operation. Now, He perfectly quiet, nnd when I soy 'Now!' prepare your self." The surgeon at once began quietly with his work and In a short time had completed tho operation without the least trouble, tho patient lying as quiet ss though In sleep. When all was done the aurgeon laid aside the knife and aald, "Now!" Such a roar camo from tho Hps of the sick man as seldom is heard from any hu man being. lie struggled to free him self, yelling, "Oh. doctor, you're killing met" Shouts of langhter Boon drowned his cries, and bo wna told that the opera tion had been all over before tho signal was given. It was a good Joke, but it Is doubtful If the poor follow could ever bo made to believe that he did not feel actunl pnln Immediately after that fatal "Now!" Even now, at home in safe and placid England, the dreadful face of the Monk sometimes appears before my mind. And even now it exer cises on my spirits a sobering, if no longer terrifying influence. For it brings with it an acurate sense of all that is eternally cruel and irrevocable and malign in the natural forces of the world. There is something in the malignant grin upon his heavy, beard ed, lips, in the unwavering stare of his hollow eyes, in the immobility snd silence of the white world around him, that is pitiless and contemptuous of poor human hope and effort. The Monk, known also at the Cap ucinc, a snow-clad mountain in the Bernina range of the Alps, in the En gadine, derives its name from the fact that its whole surface, from peak to base, facing the Roseg glacier, pre sents the shape and appearance of a gigantic human face, the features of had amost noped it might not g0 which are prcsentea tuu-ironi ana are an(j D0Wi wnen 8t cngth we reached surmounted by a monk's cowl. the summit of the peak and saw what I shall never forget my first sight ; 8ctuaiy lay before us, my heart al of the face of the Monk. It wat on a most gt00a 8tii. NeVer had I seen clear and lovely July night-an En-anything so stupendous, so awful! gadine summer night in all its crisp At no great distance in front of us moonlit beauty. From the deep win-; ,here roge abruptly an exquisitely dowt of the Kronenhof I was gazing ( 5hapc(i an(j 80mewhat slender summit." up the Roseg Valley to the great am-, jt wa4 somewhat loftier than that on phitheatre of mountains, so majestic ' whjch we 8toodi and was joined t0 it in their distant snow-covered soli- by a jong( sharp ridge slishtly jag tudes, their outlines clear-cut against ' gcd with rock Thig ridge( atter , a sky sparkling with stars. jevei course which began some con- Suddenly, amid that scene of mar-' jacrable distance beneath the sum velout beauty, a face sprang as it were ' mit 0f the p-jk which we had reached into my field of vision-a face hideous ' cuJved sharply up the peak beyond, sardonic, devilish and cowled like a ' niaking a sharp dark line right up to Christian monk. Often as I must the very summjt. From this ridge have gazed In that direction, I had there sloped away, with terrible steep never grasped that likeness before. ' nesSi on the left, tremendous fields of Never again did I fail to see in it the snow and jCCi ri-gnt down thousands one outstanding, dominating feature of feett on ,0 ,he Tchinerva Glacier of that side of the Bcrnina range. ' and the base of the Bcrnine. On the I was a young climber then; it was, ' right o the ridge the rock was sheer therefore, not unnatural that when, ! )rccipice, bare of snow and showing with Murray, I set out to climb .the a chasra 0( naked stone. It Pi Roseg-my first big snow moun-, wa8 evident that only on the ex-tain-the natural awe which such reg- ,reroe edge 0 thjs rdge wis any f00t. ions cannot fail to inspire was mingl- ng t0 be found. I looked at Murray, ed in my imagination with the sense j who sm;ied appreciate. I, for my of the existance of a hidden force,, im-,part contjnued to gaze in silence at passively hostile and relentlessly ; ,he terrific gpectacie before me. There cruel, which had to be fought against . thc( was the last arete-the arete of and overcome. J which I had dreamed. How infinite- One o'clock on a starry night injiy more imposing, more terrifying August found us and our two guides than anythjng j, had imagined! Could descending by the aid of two candle j do it? yfhe vile, dersivc face of the lanterns the steep rocks leading from Monk floated once more in a vision the Mortcl hut to the Roseg glacier. ! bcfore my mind. and thei)i canjng t0 Nevcr shall I forget that first weird ' gcthcr alI my orceSi determined to experience of traversing icefalls by j leet his evij eyes steadily and brave candle light the blackness of the ' hinl( j turned t0 where he stood, crevasses, the eccentric movement of , And loI what did j behold? Away, writhing shadows on the tee. Still , far beneath us, lay the dreadful Monk less shall I forget the haunting sense a mere buddled heap of rock and of the evil presence of the Monk, I snow Where was the cruel grin, the faintly discernible on our right, whose ' animal mouth with ,he suggestion of Have Y,ou Seen The Wash? In Our Hardware Window The Foard & Stokes Hardware Go ! Incorporated Successors to Fo--rd k Stokes Co. ft seeessaaas itMti J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President O. L PETERSON, Vice-President FRANK PATTON, Cashier J. W. GARNER, Assistant Caaliar .Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paid in $100,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, '$80,000. Transacts a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Deposits FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. Eleventh and Doane Sta. Astoria, Oregoa. . Bank of Astoria, Ore. ESTABLISHED 180. Capital $100,000 John Fox, Pres. F. L. Bishop, Sec ; ',; Astoria Savings Bank, Trcas. Nelson Troyer, Vke-Pres. and Supt . ASTORIA IRON WORKS ' DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . . . 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This is one of the great mom ents of a climb. It is an experience reserved solely for those who climb. It is the thought of this particular divine moment even more than the evil mirth? Where the fixed and ter rible stare of the hollow eyes? Dis torted out of all recognition, his feat ures sprawled foolishly about his face. Even now mcthought I caught some thing of the glint of hatred, but of hatred foiled and helpless. The Monk had become ridiculous. It was as if a great weight had suddenly been lifted from my soul as if a dark triumph of the conquest of a peak haJ been broken. The joy of which calls the climber onck again and again to the mountains. Then, at length, we reached the first couloir. The blows of Andre's ice 'ax, the tinkle-tinkle of the falling chips of ice as they streamed down past our feet, now began, the remainder of us stand ing fdly in the steps and advancing slowly one step higher whenever a fresh step had been cut in the steep slope of ice.. Occasionally the pace would be hastened on a patch of hardened snow, in which steps could be simply kicked, but on the whole there was rather more hard ice than we had bargained for, and the waits after each step grew monotonously long. v,.f - -'t '' .; . ' During all this time our backs had been to the Monk, and only once, as we stood in the ice steps, had I turned with an effort to steal a glance in his direction, There was a sort of shud dering fascination in the sight. How action, the merriment which comes encountered, filled my whole being. The blood hummed gaily in my ears. The immediate prospect of travers ing that dizzy edge of ice and rock thrilled me like a passion. The Monk was beaten! I had conquered by sim ply pressing on I "Come on, old chap," cried Murray. "Come and eat your grub at 6nce. What do you think of the arete?" "Lovely," said I. "We shall be at the ton in half an hour." And we were. 'John Sanderson. NEXT SEASON'S PLANS. NEW YORK, Mar. 20. 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The season of ,1908-09 will cover a truly brutal he lookedt.As we crept period of 20 weeks, beginning Monday slowly up the steep slope, and as the evening Nov. 6. During that time 100 floor of the glacier gradually receded performances will be given of which RARE PRESENCE OF MIND. CHICAGO, Mar. 20. Rare pres ence of mind of James Berney, an altar boy of the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, and the dicipline taught by school fire drills prevented a fire panic and pro bable loss of I fe in the crowded church yesterday. The lad is 14 years of age and it was his duty to light the candles before the altar. A Young Birney climbed up the nar row stairway and just had succeeded in lighting one of the candles when his white surplice fluttered directly into the flame. v The surplice immediately took fire and several cries of "fire" "fire", "fire! came from the congregation. Real izing the danger of inciting a panic as well as making a mis-step which might topple him over the altar, the boy stood perfectly still on the steps while the surplice blazed itself out Several men ran forward and extin quished the burning flames and car ried the lad down. The whole con gregation after the first cry of . "fire" seemed hypnotized by the boy's quiet immobility and a panic with a con sequent rush for the doors was avoided. When taken into the vestry room it was found that Berney has escaped burns almost miraculously.