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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1904)
f - - ' . . 3 ... . .... 1 M ' ' ; ' PAGE FOUR: THE MORNING ASTORIA, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1904. i f 1 1 - J If THE MORNING A&TORI AN. ESTABLISHED 1873 ! , ... RATES. iy mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per month 60 THE SE3U -WEEKLY ASTOltlAX. By mail, per year, in advance . . .j $1 00 chance an intellectual man has for long life is in marrying a woman who is proud of him and hat sound sense, about ehalth and character, enough to make her grown-up baby toe the mark. It is hardly necessary to add that such a woman will not sit up in bed, complaining of a frightful headache and eating cannels as fast as she can choke them down and pathetically wondering what on earth is the matter with her "nerves." AST0RIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. PASS THE ORDINANCE. At the last session of the city council Mr. Burns offered an ordinance regulating the explosion o firecrackers, bombs and cannon on the Fourth o July. The measure provides that it shall be unlaw fnl for any person to explode any firecrackers o greater length than two inches or of greater diameter than one-quarter of an inch, and likewise prohibits the use of firearms within the city limits. The law gays further that firecrackers not greater in size than- above specified shall not be exploded on side walks, but mav be exploded upon the streets. The law is a good one and should be passed just as it stands. The firecracker nuisance has become a menace, and it is time the council took some action looking to the protection of the people of the city, The-license allowed on the Fourth has always been abused, with the result that there is never a cele bration which does not result in the injury of some eonservatiev pedestrian. Enthusiasts stand on street corners and hurl torpedoes, crackers and bombs in an indiscriminate manner, jeapordizing the safety o the crowds which are always on the streets on the holiday. It is a matter of some consideration that the terms of the measure interfere with the com mercial welfare of some of us. The council's first duty is to provide for the safety of the people whom it represents. The firecracker nuisance and the snowballing nuisance are about on a par, and vigor ous steps should be taken to eradicate both evils. The firecracker ordinance is timely, and the council will 'fail in its duty if it does not pass this ML LOSSES BY RAILROAD ACCIDENT. War is not the only great destroyer b y violence The accidents and fatalities on the American rail ways during the last quarter of 1903 would compare with the losses in quite an extensive military cam paign. According to the interstate commerce com mission '8 report the number of passengers killed dur ihg the last quarter of 1903 was more than three times as many as the average killed during the nine preceding quarters. No less than 147 passengers were killed and 1148 injured in collisions and de railments, while 28 were killed and 789 injured in various other accidents. Of the trainmen and other employes, 991 were killed and 11,382 injured, bring ing the total number of casualties up to 1166 killed and 13,319 injured. , A battle in which nearly 1200 were killed and more than 13,000 wounded would be regarded as an exceedingly bloody one. Something should be done to decrease the danger, not only to passengers, but specially to railway employes. The commission in its report recommends the use of the block-signal system to prevent certain classes of accidents, and declares that all of the five worst collisions during the period were due to causes which have been re peated hundreds of times and which the block sys tem is universally expected to remedy. The commis sion urges the passage of a law requiring the adop tion of such signals in all railroads within a pre scribed period of nine years. This recommendation is designed, however, to insure greater security for passengers. What can be done to reduce the risk of life and limb for the trainmen and other employes of the railways! SEVENTY YEARS YOUNG. Mr; Depew celebrated his 78th birthday by a most impressive public marshaling of the names of men of might who did their mighty work in science, art, war, politics, business, after they had reached and passed his age. He certainly proved that a good brain is at its best in all except, perhaps, the purely creative energies when it is at its ripest maturity. Certainly the world has suffered incalculable losset through the fact that just when men of ability are at their best in judgment and in experience they die. , And the utter folly of this appears when we re member that a good, healthy body is built to las at' least 150 years, and that any body not over 50 years old can be made good enough to last 30 or 40 years unless it has received some moral injury. What x pity that men who live in their minds are so often 99 careless and even reckless about their bodies. Probably this will always remain true. The best THE LESSON OF THE PRESENT WAR. Take warning from Russia's plight, say the mili tarists, and employ these piping times to prepare for war. That is not very ingenious misreading of the lesson of the disgraceful spectacle now in pro gress in the orient. If Russia had not forced Japan to give up Manchuria when she had conquered it from the Chinese, if Russia had not then proceeded not merely to take possession of Manchuria in viola tion of solemn pledges, but actually to convert its harbors into huge forts and naval stations, menacing Japan's very existence, there would have been no war, says the Saturday Evening Post There is the only lesson of Russia's plight don't provoke a friendly nation until it is forced in self defense to make war. And we can be very sure that unless we do provoke some other great nation we shall get no chance to prance and gnash our teeth in the strenuous life. We are too powerful ; we are too isolated. Defenses t Yes, the best, the complet est. But nothing that any politicians, in fear of being turned out of office, can use for creating the situation to which they can apply the beloved prov erb, "Don't swap horses whjle crossing the stream." The Portland Chamber of Commerce bulletin for May, issued under the direction of Mr. Harry F. Davis, is one of the most creditable publications of the kind which has ever come to this office. The Bulletin has lately been enlarged and made more at tractive in other respects. It devotes considerable space to Portland's new drydock, as well as to the various branches of industry of the entire state. The illustrations are excellent, the descriptive matter thoroughly reliable and the Bulletin generally of vast benefit. The most beautiful volume in the congressional library at Washington is a Bible which was tran scribed on parchment by a monk in the 16th cen tury. The general lettering is in the German text, each letter is perfect, and there is not a scratch or blot from lid to lid. Each chapter begins with a large illuminated letter, in which is drawn the figure of a saint, some incident in whose life the chapter tells. The book is in a perfect state of preservation. Kawakami, a Japanese actor, once played in St. Petersburg and met with such favor that the czar gave him a gold watch with the imperial portrait engraved on it. The watch was stolen by a pick pocket, who, when he saw the engraving, returned it to the actor. A Japanese journalist in commenting upon the incident says that even a "pickpocket" has no use for anything that is Russian. JUST FOR INSTANCE. There li method In Seattle's mad ness. If nli wants to add to her popu lation by bringing a bogus Ktutmu City employment agency to her aid, how aver, that's her business, General Shakharoff had Ik mania fur telling the cxar that he will report something Important In the near fu ture. Anil the worst of It Is that he (-na not Bhukhnroff. The final word whs spoken, The final answer suld; I'pon his manly bosom, She rests her curly head, "Should a doubt e'er come between us," She murmured, with a pout Hut the young man moved up closer And left no room for doubt. An absent-minded mother left her Uuby ou a street car In Columbus, and the company made her sign a receipt before they gave It back, ltables are apparently valuable In Columbus and subject to the law of supply and de mand. I Extra! Extra! Uerllti, May 19. Kmperor Wllhelm Is again suffering from a cancer. P. AM. PHULIi Editor J. F. 1. Kindly tell me the proper manner In which to entertain a young ludy. CRAY Z. MANN. (Go Into the parlor, turn down the lights, select a corner filled with a setee and sofa cushions, sit thereon with the young lady In question If there Is any question and stay there until the spirit moves you.) A lady of questionable reputation Is generally one about whose reputation there can be no question. Extra Awful! Cheefoo. May 19. Japanese prison ers here state that those two ships re ported sunk at Port Arthur were not sunk by the Russians but by the Jap Hobson In another attempt to put a cork In the bottle. As this Is Is about the only bottle available In Tort Ar thur at the present time the Russians are sensitive. LI IJ KHEL. Prince Frederick has been arrested by his father, Kmperor William, for being a bad boy and has to remain shut up In the house a dingy affair of some thousand rooms for the space of three days. Such anarchy deserves an Insurrection!!! McCUULEY. Dr. VAUGIIAN, Dkntist. Fytbian IhilMing, Astoria, Oregon. Dr. T. L. 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A colored pastor is out with the statement that all men were originally created black of color. On the same hypothesis, it is to be presumed that doves were originally chickens. Presbyterian Convention Takes On Politicsl Airs at Buffalo. Uuffulo, May 19. The general us- Rfmbly if the Preshylerlnii chuivh was this afternoon stumpc-rled for IVv. J A. Henry of Philadelphia, for modera tor. Henry whs elm-ted unanimously almost before the othur li-iiillng candi dates for the position knew what was going on. COOPER SHOP Tierce, Barrel and Kits for Packing Fish, Butter, Etc., Made to Order at' Lowest Prices by M. 0. Stanovich, cor, n a Puane sti. AMTOltlA, OHKOO 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 Sherman Transfer Co. 1 1 EN II Y 811 EUUAN, Manager Hacks, Carriages Baggage Cheeked and Transferred Trucks and Furniture Wagons--Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. California Fire. Chlco, Cal., May IS. The yards and the greater part of the plant of the Blerra Lumber Company were burned today; loss 1250,000. The Panama stockholders have not as yet ex pressed the slightest regret over their decision to take the $40,000,000 and let this country have the glory. The trusts may as well make up their minds to have some very sarcastic things said about them by members of both parties this summer. Mr. Devery is speaking again in New York. This fact guarantees that the summer will not be without its amusements. Scientists still insist that people eat too much in spite of the efforts to scare them so that they will ose their appeites. The transfer of the scene of war in Asia causes new consternation among the people who are com pelled V) struggle with the proper unmet involved. A Queen's Poverty. The visit of wllhelmlna, queen of Holland, to Italy recalls her life In Florence with her mother In her girl hood. They lived In a modest way, going out dally on foot. 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