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supplied the sheep and cattle. One natural
ist has been bold enough to assert that mice
are natives of st. Helena, but his theory
has been contradicted by others.
1t is truly a land OF contrasts. Walking
along a hillside you can pluck the gorse
just as 1t grows in Great Britain. Go a mile
further and you can pick bananas and
pomegranates. as well as dainties of the
~trorics.
Within a mile OF the olive groves are Or
chards of the hardy fruit Of the temperate
zone, the difference in climate being caused
of course by the elevation. Every cottage
has its flower garden for roses, geraniums,
fuchsias and other blooms grow in the great
est profusion. even in little clumps of dirt
which cover the bare rock to a depth of only
a few. inches.
When st. Helena ceased to be a stopping
place for the shipping bound from Europe
to India, China and Japan another source
of income to its inhabitants ceased-the
guiding of visitors to the place made famous
by the footsteps of Napoleon. His victors
were good to him, for Longwood. the es-
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man and apologizing to him? Well, |
guess not Not in a million yearsl I'd
see every man on the globe dead and buried
and turned 10, dust frsJl
@These women that are afraid to draw a
long breath when their husbands are
around do aggravate me so, | declare, |
sometimes wish by the way, my darling
girl, is that a discoloratlon under your left
eve, or is it n reflection from the window
shade? Oh, now that you move l can see
that u is a reflection from the shade. | was
afraid perhaps you might have had an-er-
accident. Now, my dear, please don't
fly on the handle and say that | suspected
you of havin a lack eye! | never even
intin ated or dreamed of such a thing! or
course, l knoN what a frightful temper
yoIr hus' and has didn't you used to tell
me SO yourself when you lived in the fiat
a. Overland we COZ lint help Tut hear him
how and awl at YOU every nj hit or I 20,
but, my precious girl, Of course l never had
the remotest idea That he would strike you'll
OF curse | hadn't! l merely noticed the
discoloraticn under your left eye, n I en-,
taking il in connection with what We W re
talking about, why-Oh, If you must be 90
ing. but, my dear, | a n just aching 20 zee
that piece of oniton lace work you've
done for the church fair-everybody says
it's so pretty-and the next time you come
you must certainly bring it and show it to
me-.
Now dearie, pul-lease don't look offended
and as II you really thought that l me mt
that your Edward had given you a lack
eye-the very idea of such thing! Isn't It
a beautiful day? Well, good-by!
Soius, Just the same, her Edward isn't a
bit a. owe givlnL her ablack eve and I'm not
a'tit sorry that | limited at it and hope
it stuck! She's one of those wishy-washy
creatures that's always giving IN to her
hus and, and didn't she go around when
she lived here and tell folFs that treated
my James as if he was a poodle pup and gave
him a DOGS life and never allo Neu H. 10
express an opinion Of his own in company?'
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to circulate what little there Is upon the
island among themselves.
Thanks to the climate and the fertility of
the soil that can be cultivated, they are in
no danger OF a food famine, but money is 10
scarce that according TO a recent report
Of the United States Consul stationed on the
island the majority OF them ave not enough
to pay their passage to Africa or the occa-
sional vessel which calls at jamestown.
The fact is that st. helena has become
a land of nowhere. Nature apparently never
intended it as a human habitation, for about
the only thing that is original on the island.
except a few plants, is the landscape.
This IL certainly wild enough and ugly
enough to be original. When the eruption
Of the volcano threw the island up from
jagged the surface with hills and furrowed
it with valleys. some Of which are more
than a thousand feet deep.
Most Of these are bare rock, because the
rains continually wash into the sea the
little earth that accumulates in their bottoms
as il crumbles from the hillside above.
Consequently, the little territory suitable
for grazing sheep and cattle, growing grim
and fruit Is principally on the tablelands
and the more gently sloping hillsides, but
you can sail entirely around the thirty
miles OF coast line and not see a tree or
even q patch Of vegetation-nothing but
walls OF the black basaleic rock of which
the island Is composed.
Go back through Rupert's Valley, how
ever. and you will find clumps OF banana
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he had tickets, or none at all, and then in
her excitement the pair Of scissors that
Mrs. Gimmepeaoe had in her hand few
out Of her grasp and they accidentally
travelled toward G~immepeace's head, only
missing him by an inch or so; and it's too
had they missed him, at that, the stubborn
rascal.
Mrs. Gimmepeace became still more ex-
cited when she saw that he believed she had
thrown the scissors at him a-purpose, and
she started toward him, sort Of screaming
like, and what do you think the monster did
then? Why, he grabbed her from behind
and held her arms tight to her sides, holding
her just an II she'd been tied with ropes. and
then he wen on torturing the poor, abused
creature with a lot Of hot air about how she
ought to be ashamed Of herself to get into
such a tantrum, and all that humbug that
married men get of when they know they're
dead in the wrong. And he just held her
arms to her sides that way for a quarter of
an hour, and he had the gall to tell her that
she should have told him about having seen
that show before so that he wouldn't have
bought two tickets for it-just like all these
men, crazy TO make slaves Of their wivesl
Then, when she was SO tired Of being held
that way that she couldn't stand up, he let
her into a chair, and then he went on and
finished his dressing. and instead OF staying
home and comforting the poor thing after
the brutal way he had treated her, didn't he
put on his hat and coat and go right down
TO the theatre and take In the show that he
had bought the tickets forl Yes, indeedy,
he did, and he left her alone in the fat to
weep out her poor bruised heart, n he's
the great one to talk about Boni Castellane,
isn't he, the fiendl
.And don't you imagine that Gimme
peace Ia the only wolf in Sleeps clothing
full Of emil Take that Inbad man in the top
fat. The washerwoman told me all abou
his Carvings on, and what she didn't tell
me the janitor's wife NEW all about, and
between the two reports it's one Of the
most sorrowful stories / ever heard. He
treats Mrs. Inbad like a dog.
The way he acted the other day over
the ~silliest little trifie ought to land him on
Black wells Island, deed It ought 1t
seems that all Of the Inbad savings go into
the BAN in Mrs. Inbad's name.
We'll, Inbad came home the other evening
with some cock and bull story about a
piece OF ground up in The Bro>x that he
wanted tobuy fora home. He had seen the
lot, ne ioid her, and II was a bargain, and he
wanted to make the first payment on the
lot right away, and so he told her that he
wanted her to draw $500 out OF the bank
on the next day. She told him, of course.
that the mainland OF Manhattan Island
was good enough for her, and that she had
no idea OF ever going anywhere near The
Bronx to live, home or no home. And she
refused, Of course. as she had a perfect right
to, to draw one cent out Of the bank for any
slIch purpose
money In the bank was his money and that
he had deposited 10 in the bank in her mama
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tiattering vanity was misleading him; hs
nose was positively remarkable.
The question re~curred-why not use that
nose as bait for a widow
A wave OF courage buoyed him up. From
the bureau he took another love letter,
filled out the blanks and signed it Ezra
Klein. Then he took the three letters, all
alike except in the signatures, which were
Baruch Sanders, Moses Levine and Ezra
Klein, and, to save postage he placed them
in one envelope and mailed them to the
heroine Of our veraCious tale, Mrs. Ida
Pampoon.
On the evening OF the fourth day the
WIDOW Pampoon was seated face TO face
with her three wooers-the Widow Pam
pooh, a woman mountain, bedizened and
sparkling, and oscillating gently in a rock
ing chair. the ooers, in their Saturday
best, squirming ~nervously and wondering
what was coming next. Said the widow
Pampoon:
Il called fer yer, gents, cause y we set
yer sentimental affections on me beauty,
and cause yer writes me one and the
same letter and yer says yen commit sui
eide and other awful nice things Honest,
gents, who was it fust found out mes
mes Mrs. Pampoon looked In one of the
love letters to assist her memory. mes Q
sumner like the Quin Of Sheebal'
NJ wrote that,' roared the letter writer.
Hikes yer fer it. Who is it. that whiskey
can't still the thirst OF? o, no! I'd like to
know that one
Mel Mel yelled Ezra Klein, who was
growing enlightened as to the drift OF
things Them are dummies with an In
inclusive backward sweep OF his hand
Can't even write their Names
who fust got his eyes opened that me
lips Is just radishes?' she inquired. open
ing wide her arms with eagerness.
M it wasl Mel Klein yelled. red In
the face.
Me eyes are Keshter and P~ollack-you
It was that discovered that1' she asked
with sobbing tenderness.
Me! Mel Mel
The widow collapsed. Klein bent over
her and with his foot rocked her rocking
chair. A divine tenseness charged the az
mosphere.
Perceiving that they were superfiuous
%intruders, the pedler and tire cobbler cleared
out Of the abode Of love.
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Just to show how st. Helena has been
made to order for human occupation, the
naturalist has found that out Of 500 different
kinds of plants less than 30 are actually
native. The bamboo trees originally came
from India. They grow good vans in st.
Helena, but the ancestors of these came
from the island Of Madagascar.
The grass which forms the ~pasturage for
the little herds OF sheep and cattle sprang
from seed brought from Cape Colony. The
officers Of the garrison kill time by shooting
partridges, but the first birds were originally
from Asia.
st. Helena is pestered by a sort Of spar
row. A pair from lava came to the island
on a selling ship and few ashore. From
them have been bred swarms Of birds
which eat so much grain that they have
become a nuisance.
The few mules which draw the plough
and cultivator came all TIE way from South
America, while England and Cape Colony
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The cable brings the news Chat the few
people left on the island u 81. Helena are
anxious TO get away from il. This desire
u not strange, because they are as lonely
nowadays as the mutineers OF the Bounty
on their island OF Robinson Crusoe on his
Isle in the Southern Pacific.
st. Helena has been called both the water
tank and the bumbOat OF the South Atlantic
Ocean. In the old days before the Suez
Canal divided Asia from Africa and let the
steamships from Great Britain and Europe
reach the Orient by another route than
around the Cape OF Good Hope, jamestown
harbor sometimes had a fleet Of fifty vessels
riding at anchor in the shadow Of the Barn,
as the mountain of rock overhanging IL
Is called.
st. Helena has a handy stopping place,
not only to take on water, but also TO get
supplies of food, fresh vegetables and
perhaps some beef or mutton to replenish
the stores. Usually the captain stayed
long enough in the harbor to give the men
shore liberty at least for q day. when they
would spend their surplus money in pony
riding OF do stunts in climbing the 800 foot
Jacobs Ladder up the face Of the Barn.
With the opening Of the Suez route st.
Helena was no longer the watertank and
bumboat for tie Oriental shipping. Long
ago it ceased 10 be a stopping place except
for a few tramp steamers, which still go
around the Cape Of Good Hope. Only
the prison ship or Government vessels
enter jamestown Bay. with occasionally
n venturesome yacht, whose owner wants
10 make a pilgrimage to the home Of Napo-
leon in exile.
For q TINA the Gamma Of Boer prisoners
on the island caused a fleet of guardships
and transports to anchor OF its capital.
but when peace was declared in South
Africa and the last batch Of prisoners we're
returned to the Continent about all the in
habitants Of st. Helena had to trade upon
was the British garrison. Now even this
is to be withdrawn, and the people have
actually no way Of getting money excepting
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WANTED, "A GOOD LOCKER.
New York Can't Forgive an Appearance
Of Poverty,

Send me a good locker. I don't mean
pretty, you know, but one who knows how
to dress-the tailormade kind who visits
the hairdresser and the manicure. OF
course / know it costs, but we are willing
TO pay for IT,"
This was a telephone message received
by a large employment agency from a
business man who required the services
OF a,young woman b~ookkeeper and general
office assistant.
A shabby necktie. or soiled linen. or n
cheap, well worn hat ma cost you dear,
says Success, for it nay he IA turning point
in some ones mind who has / cen thinking
Of patronizing you. Business men are
keen eyed, very sharp, and often influenced
by little things.
Young men may 80 far emphasize the
matter Of dress that their good appear
ance IL about all there In TO them. Al the
same time appearances nave much 20 do
with ones advancement, especially in
large cites.
In New FORK il In almost impossible for
young men to get a start who are ol liged
90 overcome the handicap of an unfavor-
a 10 impression. II seems IA though New
Workers would forgive anything quicker
h a slovenly or poverty stricken ap-
nearanca,
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tate provided as his home in exile. is by far
the most picturesque and most fertile %;
the island.
Including Deadwood, its neighbor, the
estate contains 1000 acres. The new house
which was built especially for him but
never occupied stands or IN Of the most
attractive sites and from it a magnificent
view can be obtained, but death came
before Napoleon ever set foot within tn
walls.
Deadwood was the location Of one OF the
Boer prison camps, where $500 lived upon
the twenty acres allotted them for tents
and huts, but at n time during the war
fully 5000 of the soldiers Of the veldt were
among the inhabitants of st. Helena, where
they engaged in farming and carved really
wonderful things out Of wood, horn and the
bones Of the cattle given them for food.
At n time the island contained fully
5000 persons, but since Great Britain has
decided TO withdraw its garrison not more
than a third Of this number remain and a.
before stated the majority Of those who
are left are planning out how they can
get away from this lonely rock in the At
lantio.
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REB EZRA'S LOVE LETTERS.
The Three WOOers or a widow With a
Grocery In the Ghetto.


Ezra Klein the letter writer mechanically
guided his goose quill over the paper, while
his melancholy gaze was turned upon the
back of the sign in his basement window.
The sign, a square Of parchment yellow and
fyblown with age, bore this inscription in
Yiddish:
RAB EZRA KLEIN.
Letter writer In YIddish, Hebrew. Russian, Polish.
Magyar. English. German French, Turkish, and all
write letters OF business, friendship. duns,
billets douH and family letters Love letters a
one price; c25 a letter; : for cas-
As Klein gazed sombrely at his sign there
welled up in his head doubts whether he
would be able to keep the wolf from the
door, and himself inside of the door, during
the winter months. Was the Ghetto be-
coming lterate and were the people writing
their own letters? The alarming thought
made Klein SILVER.
Heavy feet strobe down the stairs OF the
basement in which the letter writer had his
being and reused him out of his rumina-
ton. Presently a burly Jew entered and
beloved:
-Reb Ezra, dear Ezra, a secret You
know the grocery store on corner Clinton
street, You do? Well, I'm in love with
IEhJ RTOCtTy HJOTo ii WlIn Jue NluOW III
poor that runs il. So write me a love letter
sweet and taxing, something that should
chuck the widow plump into my arms, and
the grocery store likewise
-FUst my quarter" the letter writer said
demurely.
The newcomer, who was a pushcart ped
Ter, counted out OF the leather pouch at
his side twenty-five copper pieces, and Ezra
Klein, after a ~feetiny inspection Of each Of
the coppers, deposited them in the inner
pociet OF his vest. Then Mr.. Klein with
great solemnity opened a bureau and drew
out a ready written love letter, with blanks
left for the names, for all OF Mr.. Klein's
love letters read alike.
When he had appropriately filed in the
blanks Klein read for the approval OF his
customer the following letter:
MERRY STREET. GHETTO.
Marchesvnn %, 9?ls Year OF Exodus.
To the Apple Of Name Eye. Ida PamDooH.
!SdidGm:
You are M beautiful as the Queen of Sheba
I rub my eyes in astonishment AZ the wonder
of your ears and earrings. Your eyes are
Castor and PolluX and your lips are redder
than radishes. The cookies OF my heart
thirst for you with n thirst which whiskey
cannot quench. All the arts OF the painter
have been lHvished on your cherry checks:
you are n work of art. Goddess' l am 40
smiuen with your seductions that IL YOU
reject my suit l will commit suicide. ! would
sing your praises some more bun the transport
Of my love over whelms me, Your lovesick
swain. BARUCH SANDERS,
'Oho! Thatll fetch her. said Sanders,
the pedler and lover, ~ he skipped out
Eladsomdy,
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MARS. RUBBERINO
IVA RETAILS SOME NEWS.
And If She Did Throw OCT a Hint
to Her Caller She
Doesn't Care.

MEN that live in glass houses ought TO
pull down their vests, sagely observed Mrs.
Rubberino to her caller. The other day,
going down in the elevator, | heard that
sneaky Gimmepeace man ~sneering to the
man with him about Boni Castellane beating
his wife. He didn't know, of course, that l
know hat he's a perfect brute beast TO his
own wife. Their washerwoman told me
about il. She washes for me too. She's a
good Christian woman, N the goings on
that she sees and hears in these apartments
where she washes hurt her terribly. h
tells me about EN- because she says it's
snch a relief to get the load of her mind.
The idea of that GiInmepeace man talk
lug about Boni CasteIlane or any other
wife heater, the way he acts in his own home!
The washerwoman was finishing up the
ironing in their apartment the other
evening when something awful happened,
and ! should think Gimmepeace would
be ashamed to meet his neighbors in the
halls.
"~Gimmepeace brought home a couple of
theatre tickets hat evening. He showed
them to Mrs. Gimmepeace at dinner. She
inadvertently old him that abe didn't
care 10 sec that performance again, and
HHkeu MIN II ne WOulun I CIdIlRe the ClckeJS
and 20 70 some other theatre. He told her
tha he didn't know that she had seen the
show for which he had bought tickets,
that she hadn't said anything to him about
II, as II a married woman should he Obliged
70 make a confessor of her husband and tell
him every single solitary thing she does
I suppose married men tell their wives
everything they do; oh, yes.
Mrs. Gimmepeace, you see, had gone
10 the matinee performance Of that show
only a couple OF days before, though. OF
course. she hadn't considered it necessary
TO say anything to her husband about IL.
and. OF course. she didn't care 70 see the
same show twice. But, would o believe
II, G~immepeace got ns grouchy on could
be over il. He said that M wanted to zee
the show himself, anyhow, the selfish brute
He never stopped for n minute 10 think
that there were other things in town that
his wife wanted TO zee.
told her that he was going 20 see the
show, too, and that II she didn't want "a
see It a second time he'd 20 alone and she
could stay at home. He utterly refused To
II downtown ahead Of her end change
the seats for some other show-the miser-
Hble, callou reconsideration OF these men
Then he started 10 change into his evening
Clothes right after dinner md he repeated
that he meant 70 see the show for which
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trees, little thickets of bamboo, while the
place where Napoleon was buried before
his body was taken from st. Helena to
Europe is bordered with a little grove of
willows. There is a story about the willows
which is worth telling.
Every store in jamestown has an assort-
ment OF such things as napkin rings, paper
cutters n card cases which the tradesmen
solemnly say were made from the wood of
these willows which hang over the resting
place Of the Emperor. They are stained
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and polished so deity that they might
be easily taken for any other wood.
As a matter of fact the hull Of p1ny a
captured slave vessel towed into the James
town hsrbor in former dayshas contributed
to these stores Of relics and far more are
made of oak and teak than were ever fash
ioned out of willow. One of the main
sources Of income to the islanders in the
bunfsoat years was from the sale OF these
souvenirs to the crews Of the vessels in
port.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-08

Titles Exchanged The following deeds
were filed for record Yesterday along
with the other matters Of public record
that reach the county clerks Office daily.
Thomas linyiIIe, sheriff and tax collcc.
tor TO Frank Patton. tax deed, 1898,
conveying certain lot and block property
IN the city Of Astoria Mrs. r. A. Beta
TO Max StraL warranty. $3.50 lots 10 to
"a, inclusive. block l2l Adaii|s South
Addition 10 the Port Of Upper Astoria.
Grimes Grove Land Company 10 Charles
X. Henry, warranty, sls0. lot 10, block
10. Crime Grove. &. X. Henry and wife
10 Elsie Bruer, warranty, 1925. lot 10.
block 10 Grimes Grove. III
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Ill In Portland. Harry Flavel of this
city. is lying critically i'll at Portland
as result Of an operation for appendi
citi-, and today ii is hoped he will pass
the danger line and take up the pleas.
antcr course of conyalcscrnce. His par.
cnts, Captain and Mrs. George c. Flavel
are with him and he is in the best of pro.
fes.ional hands and his sturdy youth
will contribute its usty hardihood TO
the course OF improvement, He was to
have graduated on June 18th, and while
his illness will prevent him appearing
with his classmates, he win not forego
the honors OF graduation as these will
be accorded him later, under private
scrutiny OF his tutors at the Portland
Academy,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-06-08

Remodelling the Depot - The Astoria
q Columbia River Railroad people are
changing the plan OF the depot interior
very radically and making il far more
convenient than ii ever was. A pas.
sage way about five feet in width has
been opened along the south side of the
office, connecting the gentlemen's wait.
ing room with that OF the ladies', SO that
one need not 60 out OF the house to reach
either Of those rooms a. was the case
ervtofore and in the passage thus made,
thr ticket window i established, directly
In the center. thus obviating the neces'
sary attention to two windows by the
ticket seller, which is another marked
convenience; and taken altogether, the
new ensemble will effect a distinct i'm.
provement and make things much pleas.
antcr for the patrons as well as for the
staff of officers there
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Ten Dollars Reward.-The A.torian Il

Ten Dollars Reward. The Astorinn i.
informed that CERTAIN persons have been
taking papers belonging to the regular
subscribers and takes this opportunity
TO state that any person found taking
Astolfans not belonging 10 them will b.
prosecuted 10 the full extent OF the law,
and any person giving information lead
ing 20 the arrest and conviction Of a
person found stealing the Astorian
win be- paid $40 reward.