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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1908)
WEDNESDAY, DBCKMBER 23 THE MOENING ASTOItlAN, ASTOItIA, OREGON. ill r3 mm. i . ' . ; i .... , lit . , t , i , The Following ? Suits $25.00 Suits :: 22.50 Suits 20.00 Suits.'. 17.50 Suits... ; ; 15.00 Suits 12.50 Suits : : 10.00 Suits.;;.;..;..;.: Dress Shoes $5.oo Dress Shoes ; $3.3 4.50 Dress Shoes 3,25 4.00 Dress Shoes - 3,C3 3.50 Dress Shoes : 5,75 ' 3.oo Dress Shoes ... 2,25 2.75 Dress Shoes 2.C3 Young Men's Suits v.TH CHARLES LARSON Prop; 1 A G3rJ and j A Garden. I 3ty rronK II. Wllllaou, ' Ownghivd. Itmt, by AuoeUt "I could luv you," snld Jhe pretty neighbor, ami then it the muu luipet uouitly reached for hrr she added quick ly. "for your garden !' The man's fnee foil. "Now, I cull tbat downright mean," declared the quid vigorously. "Yoa're ulec, pretty neighbor, litrt I've been courting you and tuaklug tort to you for months, and now 1 Hod that If i not rue, but my garden, that'll made to In presalon, 1'lt tell the garden," be add ed roughly. . The pretty neighbor clasped her band In reul dltrM. "Oh. don't!" aha cried, "You don't really moan that) Think how long If. been In your family! Think how much car your mother and your grandmoth er and your great-grandmother apent on all those dear flowers!" 'Tlme t was soiling It!" growled the man. "I'll get an old factory, bakery or aomethlng of that aort here!" "Oh, oh!" cried tho pretty, neighbor. ' "I mean It!" cried the man, , 'Til tart right away." Wholly distressed, the pretty neigh bor, her hands tightly clinched, watch ed the man aa be went down one of the patha toward a gay little anmmer house. ' ', ., . ;.. She was standing-near a wall, beside a little fountain, and all about ber the garden was a bower of beauty, yistns between the tree radiated from the apot where ahe atood. Dlrda aang In the treea. She could hardly realize that the big, hurrying city waa Just on the other side of the wall. ' From the aummer honse ahe saw the man come out , In one baud ha car ried a big white board, In the other a bucket of palut and a brush. When be reached the pretty neighbor he placed the board against the wall and with out a word took up tha bruah. "What are you going to dor the girl asked somewhat tremulously., 7 j ; , Taint," answered the man laconic ally. r ... With fascinated ees the girl watch ed him as the letters grew tinder his brush. Across tbe top of the board.be pnlnted lit big brutal lottors tbe words. "For Sale." - v-.,,- ,,, The pretty neighbor caught her breath aa the cruel sentence, Oaring red, stared at her from the board." Un dcmiUb these words tbe man worked lmliuitrloualy for a little time. While he worked tho girl gazed back at the garden with tear dimmed eyes. When he hnd flnlttbed tbe man gave a little.. hJk1i of satisfaction. Tbe girl Our great clearing sale b a success because experience in previous sales has taught the public that our values are real, THey come to us expecting-bargains, knowing they will get them and they find them. The object 'of this extraordinary sale is to entirely clean out our stock. Everything must go regardless of price to make room for our new goods. H you have been waiting for the most favorable time to buy, you better buy now, no lower prices cart possibly be made this season . $7.E3 I5.C3 - f 4X3 -12.25 1 1. CD ;. - 0.75 : g.CD SI4.C31 ( $4.oo Trousers. 1 2.25 3.50 Trousers I0.ED 3.oo Trousers. 8.75 2.50 Trousers. E iiMinea at tne aign again and gasped. "Fur Rale." it reaC. "This Garden. Suitable Fur a Factory. Apply Wlthlu to Martin Connor." "too you aren't going to nail that sign up, are yont" questioned the girl perilously close to tears. "Sure!" ejaculated the man. The man picked up the sign, holding It awkwardly to save bis clothes from pnlnt, and, with the bucket and brush In the other hand, again went toward the gsy little aummer bouse. Be whis tled as be went, but tbe girl, who fol lowed, with dlfJlculty stilled her sobs. At the summer bouse the man de posited bis pnlutlng utensils and se cured hammer and nails. Still whis tling, he led the way through a se cluded little Iron gate to the street Once outhlde, the man carefully nailed- the sign to tho wall, When the work was finished be stepped back a bit to admire It. The girl, who bad watched tbe proceedings, cried out at this. .... . ' ., "You're perfectly horrid!" she cried. "I bate you!". , Then the pretty neighbor, frantically dabbing at her eyes with an absurd lit tie handkerchief, ran across the street to her own home. . , , ; When the pretty neighbor awoke the next morning ahe could not think at first what sorrow was near her. Then It camo to hot lu n Jtuup. ; The garden was to be sold! She shuddered as aba thought of the heartless slgu and de cided, that she would never, never look st It again. A moment later she was at the win- low, peering pat at the garden wall opposite. Uet heart gave a little bound as the blank face of tha wall met her gaise. The sign was gone. It was a tery merry pretty neigh bor tbat balled Martin shortly after. "Ho," cried the pretty neighbor, bold ly walking through the little Iron gate Into the garden "ho, I knew yon didn't mean to sell your garden! Ton thought you'd scare me into loving you!" '. The man, who bad been weeding, looked up at ber. He wore an old broad brimmed straw hat that In some nndeflnnble way made him seem even more strikingly handsome than "You're wrong," ba declared slowly. "It'S S0ldt"...f'. , . ..j "What!" cried the pretty neighbor In consternation. "Ses,' replied the "man. "And some one's going to put up a horrid, grimy factory beret" walled the pretty neighbor. - "Perhaps," Bald the man listlessly. "I'm glad you came over," ha went on. "I was afraid I'd have to go with out saying goodby to you." "Goodby?" asked the girl, her face a picture of surprise and dismay. "Yes," the man went on, "I'm going away. ' My train leaves at noon. You may never aoe me again." - "Why why are you going?" stam mered the pretty neighbor very woa- Bargains G Overcoats $22.50 Overcoats $I5,D 20.oo Overcoats SI4.C3 17.50 Overcoats 2.25 15.oo Overcoats fO.53 12.50 "Overcoats i 8,75 TOP COATS $15.oo Topcoats S10.C3 Loggers' Shoes Best $3.oo Logger Shoe made $5,75 Best 7.00 Logger Shoe made 5.43 Best 6.00 Logger Shoe made.. 4.53 Men who are In need of anything In this line will do well to buy now. Men's best all-wool Pants WORKINOMANS- STO "The Bond Street Bargain Store" fu(y. The man looked up et her quickly. "There's nothing for me to star here for," he replied without animation, evidently not finding what he hoped lu the girl's face. "I'm sorry," enld the girl Anally. . flie t'Xtt'iitlnl her hum. In silence he shook It. Slowly she went toward the gate. When she whs almost there the muu called to ber. "I'm n brute," he rioclnrcd contritely, "for letting yon ttitnk for a minute that I'd ever runlly let a factory be erectwl here. 8lneo yon love the gar den so you're lUlu to know that the nutn who ban bought It Is your father lie will not SIfturn It fur some time not for the rr;-wtt ct Un-t." : s . "Oh!" tried the girl. For a moment her face waa radiant, then enddeuly It went sad a.tlu. . . "Wouldn't you-wont you come back some time 'd visit my father's gar den?" r.he nf-l;t'(l. , t "No, I'll not come back," the man re plied. "It-It would hurt too much Goodby," . .; , ' "flocdbyl" rented the girl and slowly we::t through the little Iron gat, across the street to her homo. Several times durlnir tbe next hour ahe looked nt the clock and Involunta rily sighed. The morning waa going very fast, it seemed. Faster and fast er the time Hew on toward noon. Pres ently It was 10:30, .then 10:45 and then U o'clock, v, j !,', , When the morning reached this point the pretty neighbor was sudden ly galvanized, into action, . "Good gracious!", she cried, Jumping from the chair where she bad been en deavoring to read a book. "Good gra cious, be may be gone, and I haven't found out where he is golngl" Without more ado the pretty neigh bor raced out of the house end across the street to the little Iron gate. The gate was locked! Wildly sha ' tors around the wall to- the great front gate. ; Through this she ran up tbe shady, curving path to the big bouse. Suddenly, as at high speed she bore around a particularly sharp curve, she plumped right into the arms of tbe man. The latter, when be saw tbat It was tbe pretty neighbor, dropped the suit case he had been carrying and drew her closely to him. "Dear; dear sweetheart" he cried, "I simply can't leave you! I can't do ltf He hugged her so tightly that she fairly gasped for breath, However, the pretty neighbor had enough breath left to gasp a reply-a very faint reply. ; . "Dont go." she said, burrowing her head Into his coat "Don't go. It's not your garden I want It's not your gar den I'm in love with. It's you!" To Cure a Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S 7 em't 2C3 Jons' Van Dyek. People told Jones that his youth waa against him be looked too young. If be wanted to rise rapidly In his profes sion be would have to grow a few hb sutorlal decorations. , ,i He started a Tan Dyck. His wife watched ltd growth critically. She didn't take to lt-sald she married a young man, not a professor. Tbe whisk ers grew and grew,' and hubby looked more and more like a pirate. Wifey tried to talk him out of them, but he Insisted they were an actual necessity in his profession. 1 1 One morning Jones woke up with his chin feeling moist and sticky. He rubbed his hand over bis face foliage and fonnd It wet Then he opened bis eyes and saw his wife standing over him with n bottle of peroxide In her hand. Filled with alarm, he jumped out of bed and over to the mirror. Al ready the stuff that makes blonds to order had done its work. ' That prime val growth was red, yellow and maize, e'en as the growing corn. Jones had to wipe tbe dust off his rasor and remove the chin weeds. "I suppose you think- you've done something pretty smart," he observed to Mrs. lones grouchlly as he removed another bunch. : VYon've mined my profession, that'a what you've done." "Hather smooth shaven competency," averred bU wife sweetly, "than whisk ered luxury." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Moving Fere. . A teacher after giving some lessons on physical force asked, "Now. boys, can any of you toll me, what force It Is that moves people along the street?" He waa greatly surprised and tbe class highly amused at receiving from one of the boys the unexpected an swer: . . "Please, sir. the police force." Good Cough Medicine For Children. The season for coughs and colds is now at hand and too much care cannot be used to protect the chil dren. A child is much more , likely to contract diphtheria or scarlet fever when he has a cold. , Ths quicker you cure his cold the lesi the risk. Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy is the sole reliance of many mothers, and few of those who have tried it are willing to use any other. Mrs. P. F. Starcher, of Ripley, W. Va., says, "I have never used any thing other than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy for my children and it has always given good satisfac tion." This remedy contains no opium or other narcotic and may be given as confidently to a child as to an adult. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. Subscribe to the Morning Aatorian. 60c per manth by mail or carrier. Help; But -Interest High Top Working Shoes $7.50 High top shoes $5,53 7.oo High top shoes 5X3 6.00 High top shoes 4.E3 These values in ' working shoes are posi tively the best obtainable and will not last long at these prices. All-wool Sweaters In sweaters w e are pretty well cleaned out but we have a few in the following sizes 34-36 and 3S-4o at the following prices; $3.oo Sweaters for J2.C3 2.oo Sweaters for 3. Dress Shirts $2.50 Dress Shirts.. -Sf.75 2.25 Dress Shirts (,P 2,oo Dress Shirts j,35 I.50 and 11.25 Dress Shirts.-. 3 SCALP1KCL iMIIan Tradition That Tell, the Origin of the Custom. According to the, Indian tradition, scalping arose In this wise: Hundreds, perhaps thousands, ' of years ago, when all the Indians In the world were of one tribe and under one chief, there arose a dispute in the tribe as to who should succeed the old chief, who had Just died without Issue. There were two principal aspirants to the honor, each having a considerable fol lowing. The dispute finally ended with strife and war, and for the first time in t-j history was "brothers' blood shed by brothers." Tbe chief of one of the factions had a beautiful daughter, and one of the bravest warriors was a suitor for her hand. Her father consented to the match on one condition that the young brave should Journey to the camp of the enemy, many miles away through the deep snow, kill the chief, his rival, and return with some unmis takable token of his death. In spite of the snow and the distance, the yonng man immediately set out on his journey and, after lying in ambush for several days, finally entered the camp, boldly attacked tbe chief In his tent, slew him and cut off his head. Next morning the murder was dis covered, and the tribe set off In hot pursuit Little by little they gained upon the fleeing warrior, who in his anxiety to elude his pursuers cast away all his impediments, to his very clothing, retaining only his stone knife and the trophy which was to win him his bride. His pursuers gained rapidly until finally so near did they come he could hear them on his trail. His grewsome burden grew heavier and heavier, and aa a last resort he whipped out his knife, b tripped the scalp from the head Of the dead man and,' thus lightened of his load, reached his own camp in safety, presented to his chief the tokeu of his prowess and was wed, amid great rejoicing, to the damsel of his choice. - . . ' , -. -.,.,,', From thenceforth he. was permitted to wear an eagle's feather In bis cap. and to this day tbe eagle's feather re mains the sign of tbe successful war rior, the number he displays depending upon the number of scalps he has tak ea. Chicago Record-Herald. CASTOR I A . jor I&Mta tad Ciuiarea. 13 Vzi Yea E::3 Alrjs E:: sa ths C'saaturaof Boy's School Shoes The kind they can't wear cut In. sizes from 11 to 2 2X3 In sizes from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2 2.25 Boys Hightop Waterproof Shoes Inr. sizes from 11 to 2 ....2.113 la sizes from 2 1-2 to 5 1-2 2.13 All-wool Underwear $4.oo all-wool Underwear $3X3 2L5o all-wool Underwear ,75 This underwear is of the (best make and guaranteed to be all-wool. l3-5o all-wool 3.oo all. wool 2.75 all-wool 2,oo all-wool Next Door TREED BY A BEAR. Broke Out ef Cage and Got After a a Keeper. 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