The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, October 11, 1908, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, OCTOBER. 11 THE MORNING AST01UAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, II The Capture of i! Cateswell. By ARTHUR DENSMORE. Copyright, MS. by d. H. Richardson. X ""TrTTTTTTTf f fftttttTTft IHAPrENKD to be driving pant the railroad station when the train pulled In, oud from tlio look of him 1 guessed who he was. I don't go to the Motbodlst church tny elf, but I'd heard them talking about It .., ,. "You're the new minister, alu't your aye I. "Well, lt'e right smart piece over to Mlddletown. Get In and ride." "Thanh yon," soys he, nulling qnlte cordial. "Mr. Hoggs was to meet me. but be doesn't seem to be here." . "Boggi gut summoned to appear be fore the grand Jury today to tell what he know about Jim Bllsby's tolling liquor on the ely," says 1, "and, coming on him quite unexpected and ha and Jim always being good friends, It haired lilm up so's he mint have for got about you." "Then lt'i mrely fortuuate you bap' pnd along," eaya he, helping Gates,, the atatlon man, put bis trunk Into the back of the wagon. He was a nice, pleasant spoken little Imp thnt didn't give himself aim or talk about thing common folks couldn't understand, and I cottoned to him right off. But all at once a horri ble suspicion struck me. "Bay!" snys I, pulling up the horse abort "I see you coma atone. Are you married r ' "No." says he, reddening some In tho face a ud acting kind of confused, "not yet" "Poor little cuss!" says I ai sym. pathetic as I knew how. 'Toor little cnssl You've got mighty tough row to hoe, and no in Intake." He laughed out loud when I said that "Now, why, I wonder T" eaya be. "It's easy enough to see, I should think." says I. "There's flfty-four eli gible females In your congregation. You ain't got all the privileges Solo mon had. and you can't marry bnt one. When you do that the other fifty three '11 get sore, and they'll go whis pering around that your preaching "SVOH MOFAMTT AS YOURS IS IXEX OUSABMh" ain't orthodox. That'll stir up a row, and you'll have to go looking for an other job." "I'm afraid you're a bit of a cynic," says he. I didn't think I'd said anything that gave him cause to call me a name like that, and I told him so. "Taln't a term of reproach," says be. "If a merely a way of saying that you ain't sentimental." "Well. I hope not," says I. We was just going by the Holmes place, and I caught A glimpse of Sophie Holmes thnt's forty-two If sho'o a doy, and she cau't fool me on bor age be cause 1 went to school with bor peeking out from behind a window curtain nt us. A little ways farther on, JuBt as we was getting Into the vil lage; we passod tho Buxton twins, sauntering along with their arms twined real loving around each other's waists. They're pretty stuck up, and generally they dou'tt notice me on the street, but when they got a sight of the minister they smiled most affable and bowed and said, "now do you do, Mr. Souther?" like I was their old bachelor uncle Just come back to town after spending forty prosperous years or so In the golden west. "You see how It Is," says I, winking nt the minister. "First time they've spoken to me In six months." "I fancy you tend toward playful ex ugfieratlon," says he as I him down at the door of the hotel. "What?'; says I. suspecting another Insult. "1 mean." says hei "that you f"' more fun out of life tlinn most of do." "Well," snys 1. "1 ain't saying hut that mny he so. but before you've hm here long you'll find thnt I've iilwri l!ip situation up' pretty, itecurato. And If you feel like you wanted ml vice a::? time Just sing out There ain't imbed;.' hereabouts thnt can tip you off nny Btrnlghter than I can." "Thank you," says ho, waving li! hand as he wont up to the hotel. "Gw by, and I'm obliged to you for dvivlii'i mo over." "Don't mention It," says I. When I'd drove a little ways up the street and Cateswell bad got Inside tbe hotel I saw Susie Ilamsdell come out of Jim Jurvls' store right opposite, She'd been In there, pretending to bny some thing, just to get a chance to rubber at the minister. Well, I come to know Cateswell pret ty Intimate after a Uttto. I guess folks had told him I was chap that could keep things under my hat, and so be made quite free in telling me things. He bad to quit living at tbe hotel after a week or two. Bill Twlcholl, that run It swore so the parson couldn't stand it Hill's got a voice that you can bear ever In the next township whon he's speaking as usual, and when he swears be raises It a little. Bo It didn't do Cateswell any good to shut himself up In his room. He could bear It up there just tlw same. He gave Bill a talking to about It IUU got mad. He doesn't know half the time when he swears. It's as natural to him as eating and al most as natural as drinking, "Something's got to be allowed for the infirmity of human nature, sir," says the minister, "but such profanity as yours Is inexcusable. It Is not mere ly that it violates the precepts of reli gion. It's against common decency." "If you don't like It" says Bill, "you can move." So Cateswell moved. . He don something like tbe governor did whon tho county attorney resign ed. There was about fourteen candi dates planning to get the nomination. The governor didn't want to take sides, and so, not to give any of them an advantage over the others be said he'd appoint Judge Wilson, It being understood and agreed that the judge wouldn't 1 a candidate for tbe nomi nation. When the convention come to meet, tho Judge said he'd found there was such a widespread desire to have him continue In the office that be felt he'd be shirking his duty to the public If be didn't accept the nomination and that the convention would be shirking theirs If they didn't give it to blra. So he's county attorney yet, and that's more than fourteen years ago. Cateswell went on tbe same princi ple as the governor, He figured that because the Widow McLeod was most forty, with a son going on nlnoteen, be wouldn't be a candidate. "She's Just like a mother to me," Cateswell says to me after he'd been rooming at her bouse a little while, "always cautioning me about going out In wet weather without my over? shoes and worrying if I have a little headache." I didn't say anything, jnst smiled. But he caught on. , "Yon don't think she's got designs on me, too, do your says be. "Well, I ain't blind," says I. But of course tbe widow didn't real ly count, and it wa'n't long before the race narrowed down to Susie Itemlck and Ida Sargent Susie was a dark ish complected girl, with large, sort of sorrowful eyes. She was pretty strong on book learning, though; could write poetry even. A real deep girl she was, but sot much at putting herself for ward. The Sargent girl was different She was one of the light fluffy haired, rosy cheeked, blue eyed kind that can talk you deaf, dumb and blind in ten minutes. Of course In a way she bad an advantage, not being bashful, like Susie. But experience counts for a whole lot in a game like that That's where a girl's mother comes in handy. Mrs. Sargent was an Invalid, and, while she could post Ida at home, that wa'n't like being right on tbe spot and whispering instructions In the girl's ear at Just the proper mo ment Mrs. Itemlck was a pretty slick campaigner too. She'd married off three daughters, and she knew how the trick was done if anybody did. Tbe fellows at the store used to lay wagers on who was going to win. Most of 'em gambled on tho Sargent girl, but I'd Just shut my left eye and say, "You wait and see." Then they'd got stuffy and say I was always put ting on airs and pretending to know more'n other folks and they guessed I hadn't got no second Bight and wa'n't no prophet either, all of which I took good natured, not being given to wor rying; Cateswell used to talk tbe situation over with me quite frank. "I believe I could be happy with ei ther of 'em," he'd say. "In fact I'm quite sure of it. But I can't make up my mind which to choose. Miss Ite mlck appeals to tbe bitellectual side of me; but on the other hand, I like Miss Sargent's vivacity and her unfailing good nature." I thought to myself, "If you'd heard Ida go Jawing around the house like some of the neighbors have youd change your notion about her unfail ing good nature." But I didn't con sider It any part of my business to butt In and spoil Ida's game, so I kept my mouth shut about It "Flip up a cent," I says. "That's the easiest way to settle It." "I couldn't think of treating such a matter In a flippant way," says he. So things ran along that fashion till the day of the Sunday school picnic. Twas held over to Hexham lake that year. In them days everybody went to tho Sunday school picnic, old codg ers and all. You'd go jolting over Bix miles of not specially good rond in one of them rickety old barges of Bill TwltchoU's, to say nothing of having on shoes that pinched your foot and a collar that half choked you, and you'd go menndorlng about among the trees and got pine pitch on your best clothes and get all wore out reuewlng your youth by chucking quoits and playing baseball, and theni you'd come jolting back ngslu ' In the evening, .singing "The Spanlsn Cavalier" and making believe you wa'n't tlreder 'n you would have.leen If you'd stayed at home and mowed grass. There wus a feeling around town that Cateswell would propose to one or other of 'em at the picnic. He owned up as much to me the night before. , "I've got to have It over with," sayi ho. "I'm longing for. quiet domestic retreat of my own, and, besides, the tiling's getting on my nerves and wor rying me so's I can't sleep nights." Well, right at the outset Mrs. Remlck slipped up. She took so much time packing her. lunch basket so's to be sure to get In all the things Cateswell was fond of, not to mention advising Susie, that she and Susie didn't show up at the church till Just as the last barge was ready to leave. And Ida Sargent and the minister had gone In tho first one. That didn't worry Mrs. Remlck much, though, because she knew, of courso, Cateswell wouldn't propose in a crowded barge, with folks packed In as close as sardines all round blra. But going around the comer by tbe Narrows the pole of tbe tall end barge broke off short They sent down to Smith's sawmill, which ain't far away, and got some help and patched It up, but they lost half an hour doing It, and of all the fidgety people you ever saw Mrs. Remlck was the worst But that wa'n't a circumstance to the way she felt when she got to the lake and couldn't see anything of Cates- "LtJSCH'8 BEAST I" well or the Sargent girl Some of the folks she asked Drat said they didn't know where the minister was, Just to tease her. But in a little while she lo cated him. There he was In a rowboat with Ida Sargent, clear out tn the mid dle of the lake, and 8usle's long dis tance soprano sending "Oh. Promise Me."' across the water. For ft minute Mrs. Remlck thought 'twas all over. But she" don't give up easy. So she Just made a trumpet out of her bands and shouted out: - "Lunch's ready!" "Ain't It rather early r yells Cates well after a minute. "Oh, dear, no!" hollers Mrs.' Remlck. "And please hurry I We're most fam ished r You'd ought to have seen the look on Ida Sargent's face when she and Cates well stepped out on the pier. Mrs. Remlck grinned. She saw she'd been just In time. Then she took Susie one side and talked to her. I happened to be passing, and I couldn't help bearing part of It "You've got to stop being so tremen dous bashful, Susie," soys her mother. "You get him down to that bench near the swings and talk Browning to him just as soon's lunch Is over and leave the rest to me." Somehow Susie plucked up courage to do it They hadu't been sitting there more'n five minutes before Mrs. Remlck swooped down on 'em from behind. She put one hand en Cateswell's shoul der and t'other en Susie's. "Let me be tbe first to congratulate you," says she. "I have long expected It Bless you, my children!" Cateswoll was so surprised he couldn't say anything for a minute, and when be did find his tongue and start to tell Mrs. Remlck that it was all a mistake she smothered him with talk about how she'd always consid ered Susie just cut out to be a minis ter's wife. "But you know" says Cateswell, getting desperate. But she didn't seem to hear him and begun saying how Cateswell was the first man she'd ever seen that she thought was good enough for Susie. , Cateswell saw 'twa'n't no use. He ;houeht of how it would look if Susie should sue him for breach of promise and it should got into the newspapers, and the thought of It made him chilly the. whole longta of his spinal column. So he Just gave up. Well, 'twas p'raps a week before the wedding that-Cateswell got confiden tial, even more'n usual, with me and told me all about how Mrs. Remlck had worked It "You see," says he, "I'd finally de cided I'd marry Miss Sargent, and nat urally I well er as you might say, resented Mrs. Hemlck's conduct. But upon reflection" Then he broke off short and run tho pnlra of his hand thoughtful-like over his forehead for a minute or two as though he wa'n't quite clear how to go on. Then he snys quite sudden: "Susie's a fine girl, Mr. Souther." "Mighty fine girl," says I. . "Of course," says he, sort of medi tating, "I don't mean to cast no re flections on Miss Sargent. She's a nice girl too. But the more I think of It the more I feel thnt, on the whole, I'd ought to be grateful to Mrs. .Re mlck for reaching out and gathering me In. so to speak. You know both rclrla p'-cttv well. Mr. Souther, and you'vo had some more experience than I Inn-tv What's your opinion?" T.a:i'.e aa. yours," says I. """to '5o UNION WATCH Why Colds Are Dangerous. Because you have contracted ordi nary colds and recovered from them without treatment of any kind do not for a moment imagine that colds are not dangerous. Everyone knows that pneumonia and chronic catarrh have their origin in a common cold. 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