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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 27, 1908)
THE MORNING AST01UAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, DKCKMMIR 27, 19()8. Beauty's Aid Woman muy improve her complex ion, kp her face free from pimples and humors : brighten her eyes and nurifv the blood ty the occaakmal ae of 35 SoU Ewrrwfew. fa Wm 10. mJ IS FORGOT HER BABY. Excited Woman Rushe From Burn ing House With Clothes Only. NEW YORK. Dec 26,-Mrs. Re becca Sicgel of East New York be came go ejicitcd during a fire in her flat yetterdsy which broke out while the was bathing her six months old infant that she seiied a bundle of baby rlntheL thinking that the child was tucked safely inside only to find to her chagrin and horror when she reached the street lha! the bundle was empty. A man hearing her screams that the child wis in the burning building. rushed a and found the baby seated contentedly in the bath tube, cooing happly and splashing the water while the flames cracked about the room. The rescuer and baby were unscathed. If Yon Are a Trifle Sensitive About the size of your shoes. 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By GEORGE II, FICARD, Copyritht. by a tt F1cnt II EN AUeu Artuttag died. which he did suddenly on bis sixtieth birthday, everybody wondered what would become of Janet-pretty, Irre sponsible Janet, hla young wife. She bad been Armltage'a wife since her eighteenth birthday. He had not mad up hla mind to marry until ht was put fifty. Although fee waa sufficiently alert a to the mala chance in business deal ings, Aruiltage had not been marked ly xtccmful la hla ventures. The, year before hla death he discovered a promising bed of fire clay on a piece of land which be owned on tlx out skirts of the village, and he made up hia mind to exploit It to hla own ad vantage. He bad little ready money, and be mortgaged hla real estate to the limit to obtain the meant to float tbe- enterprise. Before it began to yield an appreciable return he waa beyond the need of It It waa a prom ising undertaking-all CrossklU admit ted it-bnt that did not restrain her friend from wondering a to the prob able future of Janet They had not long to specula te, Tbe day after the funeral Janet told Tom Mastcrsou, her father, who waa at least ten years tbe Junior of her late husband, that she Intended to devote a!l l:sr cwrsloe to the development of the brtrkyard. Tom knew from past experience tbat it would be fruitless to object, but he did and In the course f the argument which followed became so earnest lu his opposition that be was led to apply to hla daughter as epithet agnlnst the use of which the Scriptures are notably explicit to not a fool," she dissented proudly, ""and now that I hare a chance Tm going to demonstrate the fact" Janet did demonstrate It and the way ahe did It was a revelation. Ia less than two years after the assumed control of tbe brickmaklng business It became so profitable that she waa able to pay off all the Indebtedness. Then she proceeded to enlarge the plant and to Improve the quality of her product Almost before she realized It she bad a Boost gratifying credit at the village bank. Owing to tbe superior nature ot her product tbe demand for Janet's wares became greater than ahe could supply. The man whom she employed as superintendent turned ont to be a veritable treasure, and under his hon est and clever management there ex isted the most perfect harmony be tween the small army of Italian brick makers and their capable employer. Before she was thirty-five Janet had become tbe village magnate. Prosperi ty and the outdoor life had done great things for her. She bad developed Into a noble woman, freed from tbe trivial ity which had been a part of her girlhood and endowed with that com pleted comeliness which Is never with in the gnup of the very young. So she seemed to everybody who knew her and more especially to John Uossi- DID YOU, Tfmr 8 HI DEMANDED ILD0O1CAU.I. ter, tbe cashier of the village bank, who bad loved her since the very day on which be might do so legitimately and who bad told her so as quickly thereafter as decency would permit At the time Rossiter's declaration bad not impressed Janet profoundly, nor bad she at any subsequent period found her persistent admirer more en grossing than tbe business of brick- making. Until she should, she assured herself snd everybody else who broached the subject, It would be folly to make any change In her way of liv ing. She admitted, to herself only, that John was a man among a thou sand, and It was not at all disagree able to bare blm fond of her. She had demonstrated, however, that she was abundantly able to look after her own Interests, and that fact alone should entitle her to Immunity from such sentimental petition as that which John seemed anxious to have her oc cupy. She liked him well enough, but Tbe time enme wben Janet believed that she hated blm. It was the day when she learned that he had given up his position at the bunk and had or- 3 "WHI lc!ed a company for the purpose of converting the truproek ot t)uke moun tain lulu gravel for commercial use. , At first she refused to credit the story. It seemed Incredible that any one who hid been boru wltlilu the shadow ot ! Duke mountain, tUe historic Inuduiark which made CrosskUl distinguished for something uobler than the quality of Its Ore clay, could be guilty ot such vandalism. It was true, however, nnd when Ja net realised fully that John Itosslter and hla company had actually obtain ed possession of tbe river side ot tbe mountain aud were preparing to erect a stone crushing plant aud to Install an army of Sicilian diggers at the foot of tbe beetllug height she was shocked and Indlguant There was justification sufficient for her wrath. Leu than two years previously sue bad bought a piece of land abutting on the moun tain and had built thereon a handsome house In which she had settled herself comfortably with the assurance that no uncongenial neighbor could ever harass her from the mountain side. That tbe unforeseen was actually Im minent and. above all that John Res etter should be Its agent made ber des perate. She resolved that It ahould not be. So she went to him with ber ava lanche of protests and reproaches. To her surprise and infinite chagrin she waa unable to lodge tbem effectively. He listened with admirable gallantry, but Janet Arr-iltage realised before she bad launched a tithe ot her argument that John Bosslter bad made up his mud. "I couldnt nobody could have be lieved you capable of suchsuch an awful desecration r ahe declared, with a manifest intention to put him on tbe defensive. "I hated to do it he confessed so berly. "I really did." "Why . did you. thenr she demanded Uloglcally. "I must have money," he replied sim ply. "One needs very little in CrosskUl,' she said. "You certainly must need It very much to be tempted to do what you expect. It must be another case of life or death." "Oh. hardly as bad as that.1" He laughed rather uneasily. Then hla face sobered aud his voice became lower and somewhat unsteady. "It might not seem necessary to another man, but it does to me. Shall I tell you ail about It, Janet V "ao, sbe returned hastily. "I must decline to have anything to do with suck a detestable thing." "Then we must let It go at that," he aid. with a quick resumption of his business manner. "Let It stand that I want money ror precisely tbe same reasons that Influence the average man for a steam yacht a house In Fifth avenue, a castle In to Kiilar- ney, a"- Janet did not remain to bear fur ther. At bay, but still unranqulsned, she retired and from that day gave herself np unreservedly to the task of frustrating the design of the traprock company. Tbe weight of public sen timent was with ber, and she manlpu latcd it in every possible manner that ber Ingenuity could suggest Nothing was of the slightest avail Tbe big crushing machinery came up tbe river In sections, was unloaded at tbe foot of the mountain and put to gether and began at once Its merciless redaction of the picturesque outcrop which had been loosened by the mighty fulmlnations and sharp pickaxes of the gang of dwarfed and noisy Palerml- tans that had csmped just without Ja net's lnclosure. It was a trying period for Janet Ar mitage. She was tbe most wretched woman In CrosskUl when sbe knew that sbe should have been tbe bappl est Sbe was tbe prey of contending emotions. It almost crushed ber to be brought face to face with the knowl edge that the power to make ber su premely unhappy had been delegated to any one, and It grieved atd humili ated ber inexpressibly that the person delegated should have been John Bos slter. Most exasperating of all was the tardy conviction unwelcome, yet un mistakablethat the man Who had brought her to this extremity of dis comfort was dearer to ber than life Itself. All this came borne to her with tre mendous significance as sbe sat alone at her dinner on Christmas day. Ev erything seemed strangely unreal. Tbe season itself was as unlike tbe typical holiday time as It well could be. Thus far there bad not lodged a single snow flake on tbe hemlocks to herald tbe ap proach of winter. Tbe air was soft and balmy, and there was a hazy lull In It that suggested a belated Indian summer. Tbe unreasonableness of the weather was positively disquieting. It was Impossible to fit the Christmas essentials into the scene. "Open the windows, Beppo wide open!" sbe called out to a half grown boy who stood looking In on ber from the veranda outside, "If positively tlfUug." Beppo was a swarthy Sicil ian lad whom she had rescued from tbe mountain gong and befriended and who was repaying ber for ber protec tion with a devotion that was almost tragic in Its earnestness. Beppo threw open the unhitched door windows and stood In one of tbem In an attitude of rapt admiration. There was nothing at all reserved about Bep po. His effusiveness was a thing to be dreaded aud repressed. Standing framed In tbe tail window, he seemed to Janet to be especially out of place and melodramatic. It Irritated ber to see blm standing there, so suggestive of an opera chorus or a trumpery Ne apolitan figurine. It was all very well, she told herself, to bare him about wben he was a starved and helpless waif left to shift for himself, but now really sbe must send hlrt down to the yards to see If anything could be made of blm. TUeu she saw John Itosslter coining along the river roml on his way up the mountain. If It hint aiiuoyed her t see how Strong and handsome lU?p po was growing It whs even more dis turbing to discover that her itreh eue my bud lost something of his old time erectile of figure and IlKhluesa of step, She wen fun-led that ho was I'Hiklug wuiii ii ml thitt be wns less (articular In his personal appearance than usual. As lie passed the house he saw Juliet and mined bis hut po tltely. She bowed frigidly In return and called out sharply to Uepuo; "Close those windowsl It's fright fully chilly to here!" Beppo closed them, himself on the tuslde. He advanced slowly, with tbe most theatric and unnatural progres sion, now aud then bait turning to shake his clinched fist In the direction h? lav;;:- t BAV COilB TO OVtTM auaoirr of the tnst receding figure of the man who was beginning to ascend the mountain. No uiorel Nevalr more!" be hissed mysteriously. Jauet was speechless with astonish ment. She wns famllhir with the lad's heroics, but really this was somcthlug out of the ordinary. ' "Dls ulght-a." coutynued Beppo In a slblllaut whisper, "he mus'-a die!" "Now, what do you meanr Janet deumuded sternly, with the evident Intention of getting at the bottom of tbe matter. "Sit right down la that chair aud tell me without any more nonsense." For a reply Beppo drew bis band across bis throat aud gurgled sugges tively. Janet was begiunlng to be seriously alarmed.. She knew that the young ster was' emotional to tbe verge of ab surdity and that be was not to be de pended upou lu an emergency. She bad discovered that he had a passion for exaggeration, but It seemed to ber that there must be something real about this. "Beppo," sbe commanded In a tone that left no alternative, "do as I tell you."' Thus brought to terms, tbe young Sicilian wbbipered a tale of contem plated assamluatlon and robbery that would have been a veritable boon to one of the operatic maestri of the last generation. Three men of the moun tain gang, be declared, bad plotted to murder and rob John Bosslter on that very Christmas night knowing that be would bit alone In bis office on tbe mountain. Beppo gave nil the details of tbe dastardly business with the most Ingenuous expllcltness and seem ed to expect Janet to share his enthu siasm over the removal of her euemy. Janet did not stop to sift tbe mat ter. It was sufficient for ber that the man she loved was threatened by a danger whleh sbe might avert She did not hesitate a moment Distrust- lug Beppo, sbe feigned satisfaction at the prospect of so soon being rid of ber euemy ond sent the boy to tbe vil lage on an errand. As soon as be wa out of sight she left ber bouse and be gan to ascend the mountain a quickly a she could. Half an hour later she stood at the open door of Bosslter' csbln and face to face wltb Its occupant Manet." he asked ber doubtlngly, 'are you actually bere?" les," she returned breathlessly and without looking at him at all. "I bare come to offer you a Christmas gift." He looked at ber amazedly, but did not (peak. "I have come to offer you your life." "I don't understand: really I do not Janet," be said helplessly. Then sbe told blm Beppo's story. He heard It to the end without a word of comment. When she bad fin ished he sighed long and deeply. "I am disappointed," be said, with a curious little quaver in his voire. "I am disappointed In my C'hrlftmas pres ent. I bopedI thought perhaps it might be something better." "What Is better tlmn-life?" "You are-far better." he defnred audaciously. Janet knew that t.'ie lot!,? conflV was ended, nnd the kno ir'M'jre 1 1 f the weight from her ItrHrt. "If you really- believe iniytliiiic o' that sort, Jolm"- shebegao. 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