WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23
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THE M011NING AST01UAN, ASTORIA, OREGON
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of beverages for
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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. - - : -
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Phone 1881; 589 Commercial St.
Importers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers
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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
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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.
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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.
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, 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
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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
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Marbour and FinUyton Salmon Twlnea and Netting
McCormlck Harvesting Mtohlnei
Oliver Chilled Plough!
Sharpies Cream Separators '
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Hardware, Groceries, Ship
Chandlery
Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid. Welch Cost, Tar,
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Fishermen's Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Sc!n- Web
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Greatest advance in lighting' methods since tha Invention of incandescent
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EXAMPLE
32 C. P. Ordinary electric lamp consumes ......... 1 10 watts per how
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Saving... 70 watts per hour
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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