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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1909)
SUNDAY, APRIL 25, 1909. THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. il 1 i ! as M i 77ie Motorman... I She arose to leave. She had count- you, Jennie." 'ed on saing bravely he thing she "Leaving me! Oh! George 'had been revolving in her mind, but! "yes, I thought of going some , her voice failed her. . j place where I would get rich and I cannot tell vou what I think; all; come back to pour gom into your up. ? that I think." she stammered, "i,iou see me i.ncs ui mr.mu., ...... 'this I can tell you. that I will never j lingered in my mind, and when the lu.. m. hnahaiiri." . 'wealth of the Klondike was heralded Mrs. Harlan was taking lunch with' When Mrs. Harlan reached the, far and near I though of going. Oh. ler sister, Mrs. Banks, that h. a rain street, she stood a moment dated. Jennie, he continued after a little lud set in at noon, as Mrs. Harlan then- turning from the route she ' pause m which he had turned hi tace w,s about to leave, and Mrs. Banks would naturally have gone, went the from the scrutiny of her " invited her to stay until it was over, 'one directly opposite. At length she ha gone hard with me. Md in the meantime lunch was serv- : reached the street down winch you ever knew, to have you hare my td. Their mutual sister-in-law, Mrs. George's car must come on his down pdverty. Oh. I have seen it ail. Jennie Brower, was also a guest, she, how! town trip. Other, were waiting on your work, your management a d trer, by previous invitation. the corner, so many mat wnc There was more coldness in the ; George stopped his car and they atmosphere than the summer rain came abroad he did not .see that hi . -f ...- ...:.- - .(,.. Ch walked nastineu. Ml ouisiucr uuum n, .wiic was auiv,it .. - . w r"j,:. ....:.!.,. ... .:.. ,hrrrnl stationed steeled myself against your word, k .v.. HHT.nr in W..H wm. him on the olatform. i but this, this silent sintering """ ' . . : . . .. ,. wnino' of the truest, indicating i ,vhv, Jennie, is was a this your he daily stab, remaps ii wai cu.u.ji s it did the antipodes ot oanic c- asfcea, vny are you oui ncn . . -p. - counts. Mrs. Banks and Mrs. Brower motorman?" "Oh George, you were not going were attired in some kind of ricrt "Because the motorman is my hus- away to leave me? How could your tuffs, qniet colored, to be sure, as i band." "That's it-1 couldn't. My plans befitted a family luncheon, but Mrs.! "Well," he laughed, "its nice to wouId come to nothingness right Harlan's gown was plain, hopelessly have you with me. but the draught- Where. I couldn't leave you. More- plain, only its neatness redeeming it "It's the same Draught you are in,over the good tnougnt came a me, from shabbiness. . all day." After the meal was over the ladies; "And I can't talk to you; I must adjourned to the library, where they look straight ahead and on both sides became confidential enough so to ; at the same time." ask questions and make suggestions. "I know; I'll help you." 7ennie," Mrs. Banks said to Mrs. j They went spinning down the street Harlan, "You are still living in those slowing up when they reached the rooms on what street is it? I can't thoroughfare, but gaining in gait remember." 'when the passengers had gone and "Maple" Mrs. Harlan answered the houses drifted further apart. At "is the name of the street but I'm last they reached the terminus, a ot there now. We are in a little 'pretty, shady spot, where there was a cottage near the car line; it is more half hour's wait before the return trip convenient for George." jwas begun. "You are a remarkable woman to i - ye e(j j,er t0 the rustic bench be tielc ,so persistently to George. It's j neatj, tj,e boughs of a near-by oak. ten years now since" ! "What is it. lennie?" he asked look- "Yes. ten years since he had to sell he, face which was still white Oat his business. But it was dissipa- for ai ,i,ev had ridden against the beds, actcjs the sward of a near by tion of mismanagement on his part, rain-cooled breeze. jbome, "wait, I want to go back with The security debt you know. Since j -Qh George." she exclaimed, "they ) yOH then1 " . jwant me to leave yon-my sister and j "That's Qeyton Turley," George "You have been living from hand to ; Tuiia. i was with them at lunch to- sai(i to Jennie, "he has taken a great mouth; that's what you have been do- j.v inA hev said that to me that! fancv to me. I've had a hard that those whom 'God hath joined to gether' ought to stay together, and that good thonght has never left me But it is all over now. my poverty is past. We can get along well on my wages if you can live out of the swim". "The swim" Jennie laughed, "Oh! I can live out of it. I don't mean exist. I mean live, and have, more over, for company a goodly number of goodly people." "My time is up", he interrupted "I must be going back." Her hand was in his; together they arose and walked toward the car. "Wait Harlan," called a man run ning, regardless of walks and flower tog since then." Do vou understand?" The. color came to Mrs. Harlan's , "Yt$, I think I do," he replied, face. "George has been doing the; i sa;,j jeave y0n. How can you best he could.? 1 smile like that?" Mrs- Banks looked down on the "it aoesn't concern me what they hopelessly plain gown. "His best has said," he answered slowly, "but what not been much, I wouldn't stand it; , did my wife say?" first one thing and then another." "What did I say? I don't know. "Oh leave him. Jennie," put in Mrs. : j can't remember. It was not what Brower, the sister-Inlaw. "You still ; j thought, not all I thought My lave yonth and beauty, and there is v0;ce forsook me, and it's well it did. much ahead of yon if you will only j jjut one thing I know I said, and that reach out your hand and take it" 1 know that to be the case." agreed Ifrs. Banks, giving Mrs. Brower a Knowing look. Mrs. Harlan sat in silence looking down on the rug at her feet, which ! silence was misconstrued, for the ladies kept on with suggestions and advice. i- was that I would never leave you" George put his arm around her and drew her close to him. "You hate them loathe them?" Georce shook his head. He took her hand in his and looking down on the wedding ring he had placed there years ago. "I have myself, thought of leaving time breaking him from standing by me at the motor, and now he takes it out in sitting with me here during my half hour' wait. Poor fellow, I wish he would come home tonight as steady you are soil. ojt his legs as he is now on leaving. " Tf .la.t he did not return as steady on his legs. He had any use of them at all, and George had nnite s time of it getting him through the dark grounds of the old colonial home. In one window burn ed a lamp, bespeaking his valet's care, not wife's or mother's; for Turley had never married and his mother had been dead for many a year. The following day Turley was on 'the bench under the oak. taking nis mid-day smoke- "Come here, Harlan," he called when the motorman alighted from lWWHWWWHmWIMIIHHMWMMWMrWMMHIIMIlT To IB Soldi laiMfl Closed Up As this store store has had the misfortune of losing the finan cial support of Mr. S. Wingard, the store is Closed Until Sale Begins FORCED TO SELL OUT The entire fine all new spring stocks of Ladies Suits, Coats, Skirts, Petticoats, Corsets, Leather Bags, Purses, Hosiery, Embroidery and other Silks, fine Shirt Waists and the entire Stock of Spring and Summer Millinery Consisting of the very latest styles in Trimmed Hats, Street Hats, ustnen numes, rcaiuwo, vu"ii5 b, Chiffons, Etc., Etc., at 25 to 60 on the Dollar of Value This will be the grand finale and wind-up of the Jaloff Store. It will also be the Greatest Whirlwind Sacrifice Sale of all new fine goods ever made anywhere on the Coast Sale will Begin Wed., April 28, at 9 A.M. Tuesday's Papers for Full Particulars and Price List of Reductions his car; "come here;" and he made room for him on the bench. "I was not so far gone as not to know you last night. 1 was a little wobbly in my locomotion to be sure, but I had some sense in my pate. 1 lat was a clever turn you served me" "Well you had better leave oil Bet ting in that condition" interrupted Harlan, "I'll not promise to do the like again. You may have to lie in the yard all night next time." . "Well, the yard's not such a had place, such weather as this, said Tur ley, mopping his forehead with his handkerchief. "Think I'd lik. It." "Yes, it might do well enough, a flower bed for a mattns on a sum mer's night; but when winter comes what about that? One night then in the yard, a half night even in bitter weather might mean death," "And do you think you would let me lie out in the yard and freexe to death?" He laid his hand on Harlan's knee and looked straight into his eyes. Harlan turned his face away he knew it would belie his threat. "Scare me with something worse than that, old fellow. You'll not let me freeie to death. Tell me I'm killing myself on a precipice and such like, but not the lie you just told, ues dont lit vour month. "Oh, Marian, I'm on to you. I sized you up the first time I saw you. I was aboard the cars and so was poor old Bently too drunk old Bently this time, not I to do anything but sit slumped up in a corner like a pile of overcoats. I saw you take him back and forth wit'h you four times and pay every time his fare out of your own pocket. I reckon you thought I was a little off myself, to make all those trips, but I wasn't. I was watching yon. A spotter. You didn't know that I was a spotter?" "No; I never took you for one." "Well, I spotted you. didn't I?" Harlan laughed as the circumstance in its vividness came back, "You; I'll tell you what yon are. Harlan. I've been watching you. I've spotted you more than once- You have a lot of grit and muscle and sense into the bargain, but for all that you are what they call a mark nil it I nan some cnaniMiic here, I'd drink it to your health. I hardly I !': marks. I'd say: 'Here s to the mark long may he live ana nis inne increase! ' " "I've not been a success;" replied Harlan. He did not look down as he said it. He held his head op and look- traicht into Turley's eyes, as he would have done in announcing any other fact. The day had been when this confession would have embarras sed him, but that day was gone. "I don't mind it for myself, I did mind it for my wife, but she doesn't care. You can't conceive this maybe, but she doesn't." Do you mean to say you are not a success with such a woman as that for a wife!" I "A business success," Harlan cor- X Jrccted. Oh! I see you mean you are not a success at money-snatching, boodle getting and such like. Well 1 think you are a sample, or ramrr x arc illustrations each, that money is not an essential to happiness. I have it, and am not happy you haven't it. and are. I was born with it, and as far as that matter is concerned, so were you, and you can bear me out in the assertion that it is not worth what men part with to get it. All this brings me to my point. This occupa tion that you are at is confining. I want to do something for yoj in a business way, you know." "Xevcr mind me. Turley. You said the other day that I had grit and mus cle, and so I have- There are many men who haven't, and maybe they are not to blame, men who might accept your help. I'm doing well where I am. Let me stay. If we went into some business, we'd maybe lose. I don't always understand; sometimes when I do understand. I'd scorn to use successful methods, and you . i rt n a Hsliing Begins mm liilay l Are you all prepared for it? If not remember we carry the largest stock of FISHERMEN'S SUPPLIES Oars, Boat Anchors, Compasses, Alarm Clocks, Cork and Tule Life Preservers Stoves, Cooking ware, Etc. WE SIMM OUR PRICES HIE SHI FOARD & STOKES HARDWARE CO, "I! Ha-ha! I'm not worth a straw. (I'd like to have said something off- color!) The whole thing would go to Halifax if I were to run it a day, a single day. We'd part company the business and I, if I should under take it. No, no," he laughed again, "don't misunderstand me no busi ness in mine! But you were talking of a patent you had m your headf "Yes, the invention has passed muster at the Washington' Patent Office, but I'm not willing yet to risk your money." Some months later Turley boarded Harlan's car down town. "I'm on my way to the races, Harlan, anybody else going out today?" "Oh, you'll not be lonesome." "I've worked them pretty steadily this week the races." "Have you?" "Why don't you show some interest in a fellow ask if he's lost or won?" "I don't know: I sometimes think the man was right who said if a fel low lost at gambling it was a mis fortune but if he won it was a cala mity." "If that be the case, I've been hav ing misfortune straight along, and no calamity. But here I'm going back today; not, however, to bet just to be a looker-on. But I brought eight hundred with me" Here, Turley," said Harlan, turning and looking him directly In the face- fnr thev were waitine till the cars in front, released from blocadc, should again be set in motion "suppose you aply that eight hundred to the patent Hchemc? ou might as well lose it on the patent as the races." "Agreed; it s a go. Ill give it to you now." "How shall this firm be styled any way?" asked Turley of Harlan some months later as they were setting some minor questions of the partner ship, "Harlan St Turley' or Turley St Harlan?' If you can tell which it should be you will end the old con thoversy of precedence; braim or money, money or brains!" "Your name goes first.' Harlan an swered. The beginning was slow and cau tious. Turley would have fain brought to it some race horse meth ods, but his partner held him back "It's a fine thing. Harlan, fine thing. he more I think of It. the finer it , mind - the seems. Put on steam old boy. and let her fly! I want there old close-tisted ducks around town to see what they mied in not discovering and en couraging an ambitious, energetic fellow, lying around waiting for a job." Here he put his hand on his breast and smiled. "I'm in e.irneit, Harlan!" he continued: "put as many men on the road as the road will hold." "No. no; let us go cautiouOy as I did when I was at the motor " "III own up to you, Harlan." Turley said one day four years later, as they walked throimh the factory. It s a new sensation and a good one too. for a fellow to realise that his money is doing something worth while. That's a feeling of respectability creeping over me, a feeling that the old family plate, the colonial home. ions-at-the pate and all, never brought. I had no idea that the buz zing of belts and hum of wheels could make such music. They stopped a moment and listened. "You are right." Harlan agreed; "you are right, it is music not only to our ears, but to hundreds of others , the wives and children's as well as the workmen's themselves. Of course our dividends would be larger if the expenses were less, but that shall never be. Every workman is paid living, I mean good living wages, such as I would like if I were in his olace, And 'the little town of cottage homes we are building hamp ers us right now, but it will all come back some day if not in money, in something better." The next year George received a letter from Turley, who had gone East for the summer: "Do you re member that I told you once that I was about to be married nd had trouble: my fault, of course. It's all . . . . , made up. 1 ve tne dear, sweet gin again, the prettiest and best woman in the world no, I don't except your wife and we are to be married. I'd ask you to drink to my health, were it not that I'm not drinking now, I left off the habit the day the sign 'Turley & Harlan' went up on thi factory, and have never since resum ed it. Won't that old home look good with her in it? I've written to the housekeeper to light it up the night we are expected, "from turrent to foundation stone." Sec that more chandeliers arc put in, and turn on the : factory plant. Might put some bulbs in the flower beds, and arc lights in the trees! Sincerely, Harlan ,a new leaf ha? important? enterprise ttiat titey tiau tiicmseives After a little while she answered, scuttled before it lelt port, ami knew slowly but earnestly, "Yes, you are' would go down In mid ocean-men. rittht. 1 must forgive her, I do forgive who .to reach success would not her and I hope you will help her all overreach their neighbor." you can, , ST LOUIS TO GULF S t ' Harlan, what kind of a will are you making, what are you doing with your money. aked Turley one day! WASHINGTON, April 24-Wlth years later at the end of one of then m a ni.mih the board of engineers of conferencesor is it any of my the War Department expects to hae biiim,?" Liken liiul action on the report of "I expect to dispose of the greater the survey of the Misissippi from St. part of it right along w hile I'm living, l.'Hiis to the gulf. The report was I shall not defer it's work till I'm. made by a special board of army and cone: and then, loo that project's civil engineer, authorized by law to growing on me, "What project' or rather, which project?. vou have so many." "The 'Home' I'm building ill mv Home for Failures, the Softs, the MarUs; men who felt their f-et tremble and could no longer stand; whose hands grew nerveless and could no longer hold; men who in journeying to some 'Jericho,' 'fell among thieves;' nien who would not boost' fake, or 'work' a worthless scheme; who would not launch an ,-tnnate the cost ol constructing a reep waterway to the gulf from St. Louli. The board of engineer has consid ered the report at a formal meeting ' and individual members are now at work on it. Another formal meeting will he held soon when the board will decide what course to recommend to the Secretary of War, shall be taken in connection with it. 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The Reo Company bought material for 6000 of these cars early last year when the steel mills were looking for business at a price which enabled them to put this car out for $250 less than it waa built last year. Their competitors were afraid to take such a chance and con sequently are askng you the same old price aa before, you get the advantage of the nerve and business foresight of the Reo Motor Car Company when you buy a Reo. 2000 Reo cara on the Pacific Coaat have proven this to be the car for our rough western roads and in country districts where there are no repair shops. The reason is that they are built as simple as it is possible to build an cutomoblle and every part has been tried out for several ytz'i end all the "touchy" ' parts have been illuminated. AH we ask you to do with the REO IS TO GIVE IT PLENTY OF OIL AND LEAVE IT ALONE AND IT WILL DO THE REST. ASK ANY OP THE HUNDREDS OF OWNERS OF REO CARS THROUGHOUT THE NORTHWEST WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THE REO. 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