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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1908)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 6 THE M011NING AST01UAN, ASTORIA, OREGON t t M M t I Cold Weather Specials ! Now is the time to of beverages for Vigoral Beef Tea Fluid beef in tubes 60c per dozen, high grade Rock and Rye and all other stan dard bottle goods at the most reason able prices. - - : - AMERICAN IMPORTING CO. Phone 1881; 589 Commercial St. Importers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers ....FOR A.... VICTOR OR AN EDISON PHONOGRAPH )GO TO(- Johnson Phoiiogrnph Co, Psrlors Second Floor Over Fast Freight iService Dailyervice Vla v ?: THE A. Sl C. R. R. CO. Through merchandise Cars from Portland to Astoria leave Portland at 6 p. m. Every Day except Sun day. All less than carload, shipments delivered at Freight House before 4 p. m. will arrive in Astoria at 9:5op. m. For further imformation call on O.B JOHNSON, Gen'I Agent A. & C. R. R. 12th St, near Commercial St ASTORIA, OREGON. FINANCIAL. First national Bank of Astoria DIRECTORS Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor G. C. Fcavel J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon Capital $100,000 Surplus v 25,000 Stockholders' Liability 100,000 KSTABMHHKD 18H4. J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK CAPITAL AND SURPLUS - $232,000 Transacts a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Time Depoc Four Per Cent. Per Annum Eleventh and Dnane Sis, .... - Astoria, Oregon SCANDINAVIAN-A M E R I C A N SAVINGS BANK ASTORIA, OREGON OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercedes AH Other Conskleratio." HMUHMIIII ttt 1 1 1 I f 1 ' ' mniiiHitt i THE TRENTON First-uass Liquors andLtigars 02 Commercial Street . !! Center Commercial and 14th. - ASTORIA, OREGON ; Itmt SCOW BAY BRASS & W HP A8TOKIA, OBEGON Iron and Brass Founders, Land and Marine Engineers Vp-to-Pate Sawmill Machinery Prompt attention given to all repair 18th and Franklin Ave. work. TeL Main 2461 A GREAT GIFT for Xm?t for yourself or your family is a permanent, home, and It is our pleasure to place you in the way of obtaining one. Our reil estate business is so extensive that we can furnish all condition of peo ple with just the kind they desire. We have city and country property in most advantageous situations. Also pianos, organs ami graphophone. 424 Commercial street. A. R. CYRUS. ) 6 1 M M I M 5)t lay in your- supply the winter months $2.50 per Jug f Scholfield Mattson Co. J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier FRANK PATTON, Cashier Thwnrtincr The Freeze y FRANK M. SWICT CoprrtcM, 1N8. tr Aimricta Frsss Association. wJrwrwwww , n, mother, they're gone, ev il I) cry one of eo and Nelly Jf Blatr rushed Into to kitch en, where her urtet wat preparing olldously fragrant soon, and threw herself. Into a chair by the one window. Mm. Blatr took a spoonful of soup ftra the pot aud tasted It critically, then added more salt and pepper "Wat's gone, Nelly r she asked at last as she lifted the pot and act It on the back part of the stove, where It could simmer on leisurely to the perfection for which her coups were always noted. "My melons, so' I know it was them Osrr boys that took 'em. They killed my chickens an' abet my pigeons, an' now they've stole my melons. On. dear! I just hate 'em. I don't see how boys can he so mean." Two red spots burned In her cheeks, and her eyes shoes angrily. Mrs. Blair paused In her work. I dont like that word hate,' Nel ly,'' be said gently. "It's an awful word, especially when one comes to think about It" "But, mother, Pve been watehtn' them melons every day an thtnkln how much they'd bring an' how good soma of 'em would taste If we could afford to eat 'em. An' there's the chickens and pigeons. Folks can't '. help ha tin' such things." "I knw, Nelly; I know. But there's -other things to think about Them poor Carr boys never had no bringin' up; their pa's la prison an they've been allowed to run wild, with no schoolln" nor nothln". Mis' Can's a ' nice woman, but she's an Invalid an' I can't git out an' follor 'em up like she would If she was strong. But they're awful good boys to her, Nelly. They look arter ber wants just like they were girts." ... "Huh!" Nelly turned abruptly to the window and gazed out across the white, sandy fields to tbs Carr cabin, : half a mile away. The melons wars : too fresh In her mud for her to be so easily placated. "There's good In most folks If It can only be brung out" Mrs Blair re sumed porsuastrely. "The boys ain't an bad, an' Tm awful sorry for poor Mis Carr." She hesitated a moment then added: T mads this soap for her an was deslgnln for yoo to carry tt over, Kelly, but I reckon I can walk that far. Too can sort o look arter j the fire now an' ag'ln." ! "Oh, I'll take the soup," said Nelly 1 brusquely. "I ain't nothln' ag'ln Mis' jCarr." . Bnt as she passed through the small truck patch and across the palmetto ; and wire grass dotted fields the frown stQl remained on her face. 8 he had planned to do so much with the mel ons to buy a new drees for ' her mother and curtains for toe kitchen windows and perhaps a pair of shoes j for herself. She was only thirteen, j but already the necessities of life bad brought to her something of the ex jperlence of mature years. She and j her mother planted an acre or two of the truck and raised a few chickens and gathered and sold huckleberries In their season. But the nearest mar ket was three miles away, and, do the BUB ROXICKJ) SEVERAL BOTS BHMKKIHO AWAT. best they could, tbelr united earnings only met a small part of the neces sary expenses. If it bad not been for the orange grove they would long ago have been forced to sell the place. A regular grower would have called this orange grove by another name, for it consisted of only four trees in an Irregular group behind the house? but to the poor widow and ber daugh ter it was always an object of pride and admiration. Many years before s Blair had planted the trees with a view to shade and with little thought that they would ever prove the main stay of some of his descendants. The trees were all seedling's, very tall and spreading and very thrifty. Som years each of thera bore as many at twelve or fifteen boxes of elude fruit, As Nelly approached the Carr csblu she noticed" several boys shrinking be hind a dilapidated shed. I lor face flushed. Of course they wore the thieves, she told herself Indignantly. That proved It But a short talk with the placid, eveo tempered Invalid cooled ber down somewhat; only when she left the cabin aha started tut a run toward home. She was afraid that If she looked around she would ee the boys and say something angry. Mrs, Blatr had beeu in the habit of occasionally employing the Carr boys to help In the track patch, but Nelly waa now so vloleutly opposed to this that after a few Ineffectual protests the mother yielded. Now and then Nelly carried soup or some other deli cacy across the flelda to the luvalld. but aha wat careful to make these visits at times when ah thought the boys were away. And on their part the boys seemed tonally glad to avoid her. As summer lengthened Into fall and the clear, crisp days of October and November appeared the oranges grew larger and larger and finally began to torn yellow. Nelly watched thera so Ucttously and tried to count the num ber of oranges on one limb and from this small basts to estimate ths num bers of boxes on esch tree. "Do yon s'poss there'll be fifteen boxes apiece, mammaT aha asked one day after aba had made a long calculation on a piece of brown iper. "1 wouldn't bs surprised, honey. They hang very full this year." "That would be sixty boxes," said Nelly after a few seconds' work with her pencil. "Well, call It fifty. Fifty boxes at t2 a box makes $100. An' you know, mamma," triumphantly, "we reckoned up that ?00 more would keep us thronKb ths year. Now, mam ma." Impressively, "If we make 140 extra can't you have the new dress and curtains an me some new shoes?" "Tea, Indeed," replied Mrs. Blair gnyly, "an' yoo shall have a new wool dress, too, Nelly, an' select It all by yourself." At length the ornnses were ready to pick, but Mrs. Blair hesitated. There were rumors that the markets had been glutted by unwise shipments of fruit and that some forwarders would hardly make expenses. Bo she waited and listened eagerly to such meager market reports as came to ber from the neighbors. One afternoon Nelly went to tbs vil lage with some eggs. When she re turned there wss suppressed excite meat In ber face. T heard 'em talkin' la the store 'bout a cold wave comln'," sbs said excited ly. "Mr. Tibbs said be lowed thers'd be a good many oranges frose tonight An' It'a glttln' awful cold, mamma. My banda fairly ached." - Mrs. Blair was cooking and had not noticed. She now went outside. Tea, It was certainly growing cold. The wind actually stung ber face as she stepped past the corner of the bouse. An hour later It waa still colder, and by the Urns the sun sank behind the pines she was ss anxious as Nelly. Neither of thera thought of supper. They had occasionally saved tender vegetables from front by s smudge fire so plsced that the smoke would float across the endangered plants. Mrs. Blair was not very sanguine about It saving an orange grove In case the cold became excessive, but there seem ed nothing else they could do. 80 piles of brushwood were made along the west side of the trees and covered with green boughs and anything that could prevent the fire from bursting Into flames. ' Fur the most part they work ed hurriedly and silently, Nelly bring ing the material and her mother ar ranging It on the plies. But when the fires were kindled the smoke refused to meet their desire. It rose thick and black, but drifted this way and that under the bruuehes and over the branches and off to one side, but never covering the trees with the dense canopy they were longing for. And this failure only made them work the more desperately. It was getting colder and colder, and they realized with growing dread what the loss of the oranges would be to tbem. Nelly was gathering up an armful of grass and weeds, reckless of the sand spurs which clung to ber fingers, when she heard approaching footsteps. Look ing np, she saw Bill Can snd bis four brothers. "Hello, Nelly," said Bill, rather sheep ishly. "Hello." "Seen you uns' fires an' thought we'd come over an' sort o be'p. Mighty cold, ain't hit?" . "Yes." Then, after an embarrassed silence: "Well, why don't you go to work? Plenty of It here." "Shu! No use. workln' that way," contemptuously. "Smoke don't scaselj tech the trees. 'Sides, smoks ain't goin' ter scare this freeze. No, slr-ee! Hit's too big. Say, Nelly, we uns la plumb sorry 'bout them melons an' things. You an' your maw have been right good ter we uns. Maw and we nns have horse sense ter know bit Well be mighty glad to he'p." "Well, why don't you then?" desper ately. "Every minute's needed now." "Not In niaklu' fires. That's fool work. Bay, Nelly, why don't yon uns pick them oranges?" Nelly rose to her feet. "Because we can't," she said, almost breathlessly. "There ain't time." But In her voice was a sudden thrill of hope. "Ain't time! 8ho! We una kin work like a house afire when the notion gits us, an' you an' your maw kin tote in the bags as we uns let 'em down. HK'll be easy's day work, fer there's a full moon. Jes' say the word." "Tea, yes!" cried Mrs.- Blair eagerly. "All right. You uns go In an' clean out a room to hold 'em. Thar0 bs a Bile. An' now, fellers, tumid Inlet the house artor bags an' baskets. He roemtwr, this Is set off fer them inel ons. Now scat!" The next few hours wero active oues lu the lUalr grove. Hubs and bankets containing from a pock to halt a lmh el of oranges wor Mug constaully let down from the trees, and Mrs, Blair and Nelly were kept busy hurry lug back, and forth between the grort and houss. At last Bill dropped lightly to the ground. "1 reckoa that's 'bout all," he said composedly. "Thar's some few left on the ends o' the branches, but they're bard to git. tui' we alu't no long lad ders. Come, fellers, I reckon we tins had bettor be pushta fer borne." But Nelly rattcht htm by the ami. "We're awfully obliged to you, Hill," aha aald earnestly. "I shan't tver for Bit If "Oh, thafs all right." then bestta tngty: "If you una don't niiud ws una ' go np tt trees an' (111 our pock eu with oranges. They'll likely be tp'lled 'fore nwtfntnV "Take all you rau carry home." In terposed Mrs, Illnlr, "an don't go up tha trees nrter 'em. Au say, Tom, corns In th hmw 'fore you go. 1'vs got aotnethlii' for your maw." During the uest few days reports of ths frvese came lu from various parts of ths state. The desl ruction wis gen eral, and the prices of ornuges went np and up and up. When It was learned that Mrs. Blair had saved hers half a iloien buyers hastened to her with ofTcrs. Nelly was In ths room durtttj the conversation. When they left sh danced wildly about ths floor. . "Oh, mamma," she cried, "we'U bavs the too to lire ou an' cau git the "BKL1A KELI.T." SAID BILL. dresses no' things, an' there'll bs $100 left to pnt atilde! Ain't It just splen did?" Ths full extent of ths frees was learned gradually, but by the snd of the week It was gcuerally known thai old tree bud beeu only slightly in jured. The Blair grove escaped wlta the loss of Its leaves. Ths Wisdom of Youth. In the k(k d old days when the child was "seen, not heard," It was tbs younger generation wblcb received In struction. Nowadsys adults are under high pressure In a strenuons attempt to live np to the Intellectual require meflt of youth. i reasonably Intelligent woman wss out In the fields with a little girl of about seven years. "Ob. the lovely butterfly!" exclaimed the women. "Isn't It a beauty?" "Yes." replied the small maid, rather patronizingly. "But isn't It a moth?" Mr. Jephson, one of nonry M. Stan ley's officers In Africa, writes of bis encounter with well informed child hood In "Stories Told In an African Forest" "I was on a ship bound fur the United States. One dny I saw a sailor draw some water from tbs sea In a bucket, and 1 asked a bystander what he was doing It for. "A small American boy of eight years wss standing near. Hearing my question, be pityingly aald: " 'Oh, don't you know? We are now In the gulf stream, and that sailor was drawing water In order to take Its temperature and writs It down In the logbook. "I Immediately took a back seat, ashamed that my Ignorance should have been so apparent." Just ss Essy. "How to Get a Position and How to Keep It" Is the title of a small bosk Issued by a large publishing bouse and sold to the unemployed and others for B0 cents. That is cheap enough If the rules laid down will work like a patent churn without putting a dollar's worth of Intelligence along with each sug gestion. Any man out of employment and starving would gladly give the CO cents be didn't have for the book If be could stand off the restaurant man until he had read It. Doubtless moving along the line ot the simple rules will make a man president of a bank or manager of a moving picture show provided he can understand all of the big words on Its pagea. However, there Is one unfailing rule we will bet the author never mention ed, and' that is to be born a million aire. Then the reader won't care whether he keeps the position of not A Few Suggestions For Smas Ladles' and Cents' Watches, Fancy Bathroom Fixtures, Fancy Lamps, Xmat Candles, ' nantjuet Candles, Thermometers, Revolvers and Air Rifles, Fishing Tackle, Carpet Sweepers, Bresd Makers, Meat Choppers, Cake Mixers, , Boys' Wagons, S o'Clock Tea Kettles, Tea Sets, Alcohol Stoves, Fancy Baskets, ol all kinds Thermo Bottle, Flash Lights, Corn Ratort, Watch Charms, A large assortment of the F0ABD a STOKES Fisher Brothers Company SOLE AGENTS . Marbour and FinUyton Salmon Twlnea and Netting McCormlck Harvesting Mtohlnei Oliver Chilled Plough! Sharpies Cream Separators ' Raecolito Flooring Starrett'i Tools Hardware, Groceries, Ship Chandlery Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid. Welch Cost, Tar, Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass Goods, Faints, Oils and Clasa Fishermen's Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Sc!n- Web Wo Wont Voiir Trade FISHER BROS. BOND STREET Jean Fsa, Pres. F. L Bishop, ' Nslaoa Troyer, ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED ... Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFIT! FURNISHED. -Cornspondence Solicited, . Foot of Feertk ttrsst You want the best money can bay pleasures, etc., .why not in education ' Portland's Leading Business College " offers such to you and at no greater cost than so interior school Owners practical teacher More Call than we can fill Teacher actual business men In session the entire r Position guaranteed graduate Catalogue "A" for U . Iting M. WALKER, Pres. O. A. B08SFR'VM? "laity. jj ( LET US TELL YOU ABOUT jTungsten Electric Lamp Greatest advance in lighting' methods since tha Invention of incandescent lamps. EXAMPLE 32 C. P. Ordinary electric lamp consumes ......... 1 10 watts per how 32 C. P. "Tungsten" electric lamp consumes . ...... 40 watts per bow Saving... 70 watts per hour By using "Tungsten" lamps you can get 27S per cent Increase in Ught fof the same coat or in other word can have the aame quantity of Illumination for 35 per cent of the cost of lighting with ordinary electric lamps. The Astoria Electric Co. TIDE TABLE FOR DECEMBER DECEMBER, 1404. High Water. A. M. P. M. Dsts. h.m. ft. h.m. ft Tuesday 7."". 1 Y:iS7.6 7:M 1 77 Wednesday 1 7. 1:46 1.7 Thursday t 9:11 1.1 9:H 7.0 FrlJay 4 :K8 S.710:S8 7.1 Baturday 1 10:48 . 0 11:63 7.1 SUNDAY 11:80 t.t Monday 7 0:44 7.8 11:10 8.6 Tuesday 8 1:28 7.2 13:47 4.8 Wednesday 1 1:12 7.1 1:85 8.1 Thursday 10 1:68 7.0 1:01 8.8 Friday 11 8:83 (. 1:18 1.8 Baturday .......11 4:18 8.8 8:18 7.7 SUNDAY 18 4:47 .8 4:00 7.1 Monday 14 5:88 . 4:62 1.8 Tuesday ..16 8:12 7.1 6:62 1.1 Wednesday 1 1:68 7.4 7:07 8.8 Thursday 17 7:40 7.S 1:12 5.8 Friday 18 8:83 7.8 8:82 8.0 Saturday 19 :2B 8.8 10:82 8.8 BUNDAY 2010:19 1.7 11:28 8.8 Monday 21 10:67 9.1 Tuesday 22 0:18 8.9 Tuosday 22 11:40 9.4 Wednesday 28 1:06 7.1 11:18 9.6 Thursday 14 1:62 7.8 1:08 8.8 Friday r.26 1:39 7.4 1:56 1.8 Baturday ..,..,,28 8:26 7.8 1:48 1.9 SUNDAY ......27 4:09 7.7 1:87 t.t Monday 28 4:58 7.9 4:87 7.7 Tuesday ...29 5:48 t.O 6:47 7.0 Wednesday 80 8:48 8.1 7:07 1.6 Thursday 81 7:38 1.2 1:28 6.4 Pocket Knives, , Table Knlvrs, Carving Knives, Plated Wan, Table Cutlery, Nut Picks and Cracks, Chafing Dishes, Coffse I'ercolnors, Ratort and Ritor Seta, Scissors and Shears, Scissors in Casts, Msnlctirs Sets, Serving Trays, Crumb Sets, Fancy Tabli Cutlery, Berry Spoons, Gravy Ladles, Pocket Traveling Flasks, Shaving Mugs, Shaving Brashes, Watch Chains, above will be found at HAIIDWAHE- CO. See. Astoria taring lUs. Trssa. Vice - Pm. and Sspi ' . .. in rood, clothing, home comforts, f DECEMBER, 1901, - Low WsTtsr. A. M. MPJItT" i Dats. h:in, ( lt7hjiTft7 TuosJay j 0:87 s7 14 16 wsdnesds ... , 14, , J 1:1! !'! Warsaw:....:: 1:? Ml U I'teY 4 f.li 1.0 4:66 6.6 utu,SJ?l, 1 :4-.l SUNDAY 6 6:37 1.6 6:30-9.6 Monday 7 t.n i7 7:ls .j.j Tuesday 7i0S 0 7:H.i. Wednesday 8 7:4 1.2 8:31 -1.6 Thursday 10 8:37 1.6 6:08 -6.6 Friday n t.7 6:40-6.1 Saturday .......12 8:52 1.8 10:19 6.4 SUNDAY 1810:41 1.8 10:48 6.6 Mniy 14 11:38 1.8 11:24 1.4 Tuesday H xi:30 1.6 Wednesday l 0:07 1.8 1:1 1.1 Thursday 17 1:05 1.8 1:83 1. 6 IWday 18 1:02 1.6 8:1') 1.8 Baturday 19 8:02 1.9 4:11 1.6 SUNDAY ......10 8:59 t.l 6:19 6.1 Monday it 4:66 t.l 6:65-6.6 Tuesday 22 6:46 1.2 6:89 -1.1 Wednesday 29 6:86 1.2 7:23-1.6 Thursday u 7;,s ,j 6:0n-1.6 Friday 26 8:18 1.2 8:50-1.4 Salurday 24 9:07 t.l 9:8'! -1.6 SUNDAY 1710:04 1.0 10:11 -. Monday 1811:07 1.8 11:10 6.4 Tuesday i) il:0ij 1.6 Wednesday 80 0:06 1.1 1:1? 1.1 Thursday 81 1:10 1.8 1:11 1.6
