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THE MORNING AflTORIAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1901.
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ASTORI AN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
THE GIRL TRAFFIC.
The ministerial association of the city of Port
land has undertaken to put a stop to the gir
traffic," and during the week will formulate plans
for carrying out the object which is sought to be
attained. The ministers have on hand the biggest
job ever undertaken by them, and if they are suc
cessful they will establish a record not heretofore
equaled.
"The girl traffic" is said by the ministers to
mean the business of procuring young women for im
moral purposes. The ministers have eventually
learned that alleged men are regularly engaged in
this business, and that there are also procuresses
It has also been learned that the procurers receive
goodly compensation for their villainous work, and
that the evil is spreading to an alarming extent. If
they can break up the practice they believe they wil
have accomplished much for humanity.
Pretty nearly everyone will wish the ministers
good luck m their latest crusade, for there is no sad
der side of life than that reflected in the wayward
careers of the girls who cast themselves loose from
home ties and take a chance with an earthly hell
But the cure is what the ministers must discover and
apply. They may cause the arrest of every person
m any way connected with the outrageous busi
ness, but there will be wayward girls just the same.
Other girls will be led astray as heretofore. The law
has been invoked times without number, but it will
not stop this terrible business.
The ministers will waste their efforts if they un
dertake to "rough it up" with the procurers. Their
mission is at the homes of mothers of girls. Those
who have given the question any study know that
most female wickedness is the direct result of un
pleasant or unbearable home relations. The girl
who is abused at home goes out into the wide world
to make her way alone, and, unless her better quali
ties restrain her, she will seek out the easiest way of
earning a livelihood. She is beset on all sides with
temptations, and the weaker ones fall. Vastly more
than half the girls who sell their souls are driven to
it by unthinking or careless mothers and fathers.
As a rule a child is just what its parents' teaching
makes it, and a good girl, with pleasant home ties.
will not, under ordinary circumstances, fall from
grace.
The ministers, if they would conduct a success
ful campaign, should spend most of their time at
the homes of parents of growing girls. If girls are
properly reared, there will be no business for procurers.
magazine rifles not needed for tho equipment of the
army and the organized militia. Those rifles art to
be issued to state aud territorial associations fornici
for rifle practice under the regulations approved
by the war department. The secretary of war is al
so authorized to furnish at cost to tha state and ter
ritorial authorities the ammunition and ordnance
stores needed for target practice by the marksmen's
clubs. Such practice is to be conducted under the
supervision of the board for the promotion of ride
practice, and its results are to be recorded annually
in the office of the adjutant general. Persons who
qualify under the rules prescribed are to be, enrolled
by the adjutant general as marksmen's reserve, aud
it is announced that they will have the preference
in any call for volunteer enlistments in a future
war.
The importance of markmanship in tho military
operations of the future can not be over estimated.
The modern infantryman, to reach his highest effi
ciency, must be virtually a sharp-shooter. The greut
range of modern small arms and the openness of
modern field formations make it desirable that every
soldier shall have the fullest training possible in
rifle practice. Raw troops are becoming less and
less a possible resource iu warfare. - In the short
and decisive wars of the present day an untrained
militia has ceased entirely to be that measure of de
fence which the original framers of our military
policy fondly believed it. No military venture could
be more helpful than the organization in every state
of volunteer associations for the practice of marks
manship and the spread of a general knowledge of
small arms and of their care and use. The war de
partment's new project deserves every commenda
tion, and we hope to see a measure putting it in
operation made a law before this session of congress
ends.
Kn Frtuu'laoo, April . HtUy
Wood of Lot Angvloi wid M'
Srhrock f ChtwiM fought 16 routula
to lrw at Colma Iwtt nlitht. The
ttyhl w!w a iphhI one ami It u evl
tltnt from the "trtrt thwt the two mil.
.lvlnM were oe evenly mat. hi-d
that It would go the limit. Hchrvtk
howed hlmiwlf to be a clever lxr.
Woode trl.'d all the line for a knovk
out. niuklng vk'lou awli.ga but falling
to land. Sohreck, In the meantime,
cored rvpeatedly with the left to the
face but hti blow a lacked forte and
did little damage.
Baseball 8coret.
Sun KrHmlnco Oakland, 2. Port
land, 1.
Pernio Tiii'oma. 5; Han Knui-
cleco, 1,
Los Angile-I.oa Angi'lee, 0; Unit-
lie, 6.
Ordinary household accident a have
no terrors when there la a bottle of lr.
Thomas' Electric till In the medicine
client. Ileal buina, cute, bruin-',
Kpnilns. instant relief.
D. VAUU1IAK,
DMTItT.
Pythian BaUJuii. Aitoria, Oregon.
Dr. T. I'. HALL
Ut CanuneroleJ atreel. Aatarla Ore.
Ur. W. O. LOU AN
678 (Vuiwerwal St . HLanihaa IluiKltrn
0. J. TKKNCIIARD
Ineurance, I'eimnlaelor. and Hhtpplng
CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER.
Agent WeHe-Fergo and Northern
raclAa Bipreaa Comt-anka.
Car. BLKVHNTH and MONO HTH.
A MARKSMEN'S RESERVE.
The war department's enlightened efforts to re
pair the long standing blunders of our military pol
icy are not to end with the reforms achieved during
the memorable administration of Secretary Root,
ays the New York Tribune. Along lines broadly
laid down by him many other salutary innovations
in army administration are to be attempted, and con
stant progress will doubtless be ma&3 toward solv-ing-when
war next overtakes us-the vast problem
ol converting our potential military resources into
actual military strength. A project which will tend
materially to increase our preparedness for war is
now being pushed jointly by the war department
ana the .National Rifle Association of America. It
contemplates the organization, under government
auspices, of civilian rifle' clubs, who.se members will
be encouraged to qualify as marksmen and to enroll
themselves as a second line of national reserves.
These rifle clubs are not to be atl iched to the newly
organized and nationalized militi.t. They are to re
main on a purely civilian basis and to affliate them
selves with the National Rifle Association. But in
certain respects they are to come under the control
of a board for the promotion of rifle practice, ap
pointed and maintained by the general government.
Bills have been introduced in the senate by Mr.
Proctor, of Vermont, and in the house of representa
tives by Mr. Dick, of Ohio, giving official sanction
to the organization of these clubs. The secretary
of war is directed to furnish to governors of states
and territories, under bond for their return, any
OPERATIONS OX LAND.
It is said that 100.000 Russian soldiers have been
sent to the far east since the war began. That is
quite credible. But we are not informed how many
have arrived there. Not a large proportion of the
whole, probably, seeing that the time required for
transit is about six weeks. The latest estimate o
the Berlin Militar Wochenblatt is that if seven train;
a day are dispatched as many as 13.1,000 men can
be sent out in 14 weeks. But it is probably not pos
sible to devote seven trains a day to soldiers. Nearly
half of them, say three of the seven, must be uset
or supplies of the various kinds. At that rate it
would take Russia a weary while to get an "over
whelming" army to the front. And it mast be very
arge to be overwhelming. For, according to tin
Revue Milyitaire de I'Etranger, the available
strength of the Japanese array for foreign service
is 520,000 men, 101,000 horses and 13C3 guns. Now
General SakharofF, one of the foremost military an
thorities of Russia, admits that it will be necessary
for Russia to put into the field two men for every one
Japanese. If so, Russia must set about the stunend
ous task of sending more than 1,000,000 men over
5000 miles of flimsy, single-track railroad, and main
taining them at that great distance from the base
of supplies. Of course, there is talk about the Rus
sians living on the country. They might do that
in the latter part of next summer, for Manchuria
is an uncommonly rich and productive country. But
for the next four months supplies must be brought
across the continent. The system of living on the
country was tried by the French during' the Pen
insular war, and, according to the Duke of Welling
ton, it cost them 30 per cent yf their men in each
campaign. . ,,
GIVE the BABY a RIDE!
In out of our liauJaoue aud ityliib
GO-CARTS
Kplitmlul Variety, All Latent My lea,
Direct (ruin factory, Prieca I,oweat.
H. H. ZAPF, The Housefurnisher
New Style Restaurant
Everything First Class. The Best the Market Affords.
Open Day and Night. Good Service.
120 llth St. next door to Griffin Brot.
and adjoining the Office Saloon
ASTORIA, OREGON
ANDREW ASP, BLACKSMITH.
Having installed a Kubler Tlrinj Maohiiie of the
lateat pattern I am prepared to Jo all k iu Ji of work
iu that lloe at rraaouable prioti. Telephouo 'M.
CORNER TWELFTH AND DUANE STREETS.
HOTEL PORTLAND
The Finest Hotel In the Northwest
PORTLAND. OREGON.
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FRESH AND CURED MEATS
Wholesale and Retail
Ships, Logging Camps ami Mills supplied on short notice.
LIVE STO' K JiOUUUT AND SOU)
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Tolstoi has written a book that is nor to be publish
ed while he lives. However, the Russian government
may get even by sending the publishers to Siberia.
It looks as if Senator Gorman would demand a
civil service examination for the Chinamen and Ja
maican negroes who are to dig the canal.
Something New
Ranges, Sloves, Iron Beds and Furniture of all kinds. Also a
good assortment of Second Hand Goods at Lowest Trices
L. H. HENNING5EN $ CO.
504 BOND STREET, ASTORIA, OREGON. PHONE, RED 2303
JAY TUTTLK, If. n,
wmicu and bviuirou
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OHTJSOPATHY
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573 0ra
TELKl'UO.NK ItED sorl.
-( v TO )XAH HHirJ((i7i(
A DIRECT LINE
lo Chlca and all point Lou),.
vUa, Mtmphla. Nw Orlaana, an aj
point toulh.
il.oi ynur tiikat rata vU tba
Itllitola Canlntl H. ft. Thoroughly mod.
-in trama connacj with atl tranarotiU.
it.tal iinoa at 8t. Paul and Omaha.
If yur frl.nda art comlrif wMt l.t ea
Know and will quota th.m dlrart
tl.u (jovially low rta now In rfftct
from all aaaurn poliita.
Any Information a to rataa, routaa,
ate, ihewfully (Ivan on application.
M. II. TUUIIBUuU CornnWrfal
Ait, 142 Third atraat, iMrUand. Or.
J. C. LIND6BT, T. W. A H. A., 141
Third atran, Partlajtd, Or.
P. U. THOMPSON, r. A. P. A
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OREGON
Shorj Line
akd Union Pacific
to Chlinjo.
7 houra from Portland
No rhanse of cara.
rfwrl
Chlrnao
I'lirtlnlitl
Mm. m.
via lliinu
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For a check of $300,000 the state university of Ne
braska is willing to become one of the John D. Oily
feller institutions.
Bryan will doubtless give his O. K. to the demo
cratic candidate for an I. O. U. on a cabinet position.
To Missouri belongs the honor of raising a horse
strong enough to carry our new secretary of war.
Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Works
Manafacturett of
Iron, Steel, Brass and Brouzo Casting
General Foundrynien and Patternmaker.
Absolutely firsklass work. Prices lowest.
Iee245l, Corner Eighteenth and Franklin.
ASTORIA AND COLUMBIA
RIVER RAILROAD
LEAVE PORTLAND I ARRIVE
It is a matter of geography in the United States
whether a bigamist is a polygamist or a criminal.
.
In most of the southern states it seems far easier
to break into the jails than to break out of them.
In the state museum at Raleigh, N. C, is a flag that
was carried in the first battle of the civil war.
Judge Parker would be foolish to leave the bench
to mount the Kansas City platform.
Russia hopes to make it impossible for the Jans
to stand pat in Korea.
8:00 a m Portland Union De- 11:10 a m
7:00 p m pot for Aatorla and 9:40 m
Way Pointa
ASTORIA
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RAVEL
7:45am For Portland and 11:30am
6:10 p m Way Pointa 10:$0 p m
SEASIDE DIVISION
8:15 a m Aatorla for Waren- 7:40 a m
11:35 amj ton, Flavel Port 4:00 pm
5:59 p m Stevena, Hammondj10:46 a m
land Seaside
S:15am Seaside for War- 12:60 pm
8:30am renton, Flavel, 7:20 pm
2:30 pm Hammond, Fort '9:25 am
Stevena ft Aatorla
Sunday only
All tralna make cloae connection it
Ooble with all Northern Pacific train
to and from the Eaat and Sound point.
J. C. Mayo,
General Freight and Paaa. Agent
Th "Northweaturr, r ....,.
an.1 n..t "ue""U'. com Wiaia
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n,i h... ,a'-. " laieai, rewc((
Ink i..T; - ,,ir c"mrrt. convenJjfiof
art ar Yz
Theee aplendfr) Tralna
Connect With...., ..
The Great Northern
The Northern Pacific and
The Canadian Pacific
AT ST. PAUL FOR
CHICAGO aad the BAST.
No extra etvarr tnr hu
acommooMlona and all u.t.
- UVS'
(ta are avalla.hU tar nam M ,v-
tralna on fhla line are protected Yr tkt
Ht, Paul
Fnat Mull
1it!, III.
laSu-
Wall, W.llit. lowta-
mh. Hi Paul, Dm.ilh
Ma EST
Arrive
I .00 a m
1:00 p m
OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE
From Aatorla
A" wH'tif datea aubject to change.
Far San Franclnca every five daya.
DallvM.
r'l'i Hun
tiny at?Hin
( Dlumlila Klverto
on land and Vt my
4am
Daily !
crjil.Mon
Steamer Nahcotta leavea Aatorla on
Hle dally except Sunday for Ilwaco.
connecting there with tralna for Long
rteacb, Tioga and North Beach oolnta.
Returning arrlvea at Aatorla aam
evening.
Through tlcketa to and from all prin
cipal European cltlee.
O. W. ROBERTS, Agent,
Aatorla, Ore.
I hese tiny Uapsule are luponoi ,
to Baliam of Copaiba, -
Cubeb or Injections H'JiTm "i
CURE IN 48 HOURStWIDYJ
tho tame diseases with-I
out Inconvenience.
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