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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1004. Cite morning JWorian " v ESTABLISHED 1813 PUBLISHED BY ' ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES., By mail, per year 00 By mail, per month .". 50 By carriers, per inanth ................. 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOIUAX. By mail, per year, in advance fl 00 FIRE PROTECTION AT SUMMER RESORTS, Two seaside hotels, the old Grimes house at Seaside and The Breakers at Long Beaeh, have been de stroyed during the year by fire. ,The Grimes hotel was burned at the height of the season, but, more fortunately for seasiders, the destruction of The Breakers did not occur until coast visitors had all returned to their homes. When the Grimes house burned the occupants were compelled to flee for their lives, and few saved their personal effects. Had the Long Beach hostelry burned during the season there would have been much greater loss, and possibly loss of life. ' The destruction of those two hotels points out the need of fire protection at the north coast summer re sorts. The fires are bound to frighten the timid and to injure the business of the beach resorts. Peo ple who go to the seaside have every reason to expect protection from fire, and it is time that both resorts should take some steps to secure more efficient fire fighting service. Seaside is quite a town and cap able of supporting a good fire department It is the duty of the town council to provide fire protection, even if it is necessary to make some slight increase in municipal taxation. Either the seaside places must have fire-fighting equipment, or else their bus iness will dwindle away. Here's a problem for the Seaside council to wrestle with during the long winter months which are ap proaching. A very moderate display of the right spirit, ought to remedy the existing neglect Chicago Chronicle. Dr. Van de Warker has never had practical expe rience in coeducational colleges, lie claims that he .bases his objections on cases that have come under his own eyes as a practicing physician, and says he is ready to prove his position, but the evidence he produces must be of a more convincing character than any he has yet brought forward if the advo cates of coeducation are to be persuaded he is in the right. Coeducation -in universities is on trial. The time was when boys and girls were not allowed to go to school together. After awhile separation of the sexes did not begin until the high school age. In time youths and maidens were sent to the same his senooi, out were separated oy partitions exeep during recitation hours. Finally, when it was fount that the manners of both girls aud boys were im proved by the presence of each, and that the desire far good scholarship was stimulated in the same way there was no longer a question of the advantage o coeducation, so long as pupils were more or less under their parents' eyes. On the moral side of coeducation university pros idents and professors have the best opportunities o judging. Should complaint on this score come, it should come from them or from parents. The fact that there have been few real scandals in connection with university life less, probably, than outside the college walls is evidence that the case is not as Dr, Van de Warker would make it out. PIDPLES "I triinl til kU.1l f bln4 TCtlM MI) fslM V So anTfowii l I nkv liianil Ik nM ' "WILL THE JAPS OFFER PEACE! Military experts at Washington, and there are many there, of various nations, are reported as having reached the conclusion that the present would be a good time for Japan to extend the olive branch to Russia, as her best possible strategy at this junc ture, and they are not backward in offering the suggestion to Japan, not through .the usual diplo matic channels, but through the press. Certainly Japan has things very much her way as the matter stands now, and Russia has very, little encouragement for continuing the struggle. If she were ..reasonable she would gladly receive any offer that would give her "pea with honor." Russia stood on false ground when the war began, and it was largely because of that fact that the war came. Backed by two other nations, she enacted the part of the highwayman and "held up" Japan, depriv ing her of the fruits of her well-earned victory over the Chinese. Should she now offer to cease hostil ities one of the terms naturally would be that Rus sia should relinquish all her claims to territory in Manchuria, where she located herself by force, fraud and intimidation, and where she has jio business to be. And, according to latter day practice, Japan would have the right to demand indemnity of Russia for her expenditures in the war. It is possible, how ever, that Japan might waive that point and be content with Russia's retiring from the territory over which she seeks to extend her "influence," which means, practically, her empire, and which properly belongs to Japan if to any outside power. Winter is coming on and both armies will naturally cease hos tilities and go into winter quarters, ceasing active operations until spring. This will gh-e ample op portunity for the consideration of the question of settling the war by negotiation. In the meantime, Japan wtfl naturally follow up her advantages and push the flying, demoralized Russians, taking care, however, not to extend her lines too far into the interior, remote from her com munications, which would prove an advantage to Russia. She already holds many important posts, and these she will, of conrse, retain, as she can easily do. Instead of continuing to be "lured" she will naturally concentrate upon Vladivostok, and make sure of that before the winter sets' in. And it is important to her plan that she should do this. In future battleships noue other than armor-pierc ing guns are likely to constitute the main batteries and British naval designers are seriously consider ing the idea of the Italian chief constructor, Cuni- berti, to have the main batteries composed of 12 ineh guns solely. Italy, as usual, was the first in thus improving the fighting efficiency of battleships by discarding guns of 6-inch and less caliber and substituting guns of 8-inch caliber, the penetrative power of which is about 5.67 inches of Krupp armor at a range of 5000 yards. Four battleships, the Vit torio Emanuele III, Xapoli, Regina Elena and Roma, of 12,425 tons and a calculated speed of 22 knots, have been laid down for the Italian navy since September, 1901, and two of these are nearly ready for commission. The main battery of these ships is composed of two 12-inch and 12 8-inch guns and the secondary batteries consist of 12 14-pounders and 12 3-pounders. Their hull protection varies from 9 inches to 4 inches of armor and that of the gun positions from 8 inches to 6 inches, so that neither the hull nor gun positions would be seriously hurt by the fire from guns of less than 8-inch caliber at 3000 yards range. Sacrifices have undoubtedly been made in order to attain the great speed of 22 knots an'd the advantage of guns that are effective even beyond three miles range, but the vessel that can choose its distance from an enemy and can shoot far ther and hit harder than its opponent would seem to have decided advantages over the slower vessels, the guns of which are ineffective at very long range. A flock of 600 young turkeys is being herded on the Mottinger raneh, in Klickitat county, Washing ton, just across the Columbia river from Switzer's island, says the East Oregouian. Never before in the inland empire has the raising of turkeys been gone into so extensively by any one person. The birds are all in excellent condition and will be mar keted about Thanksgiving time. kUul mv fiotwu run or pimutta i huila. Arirukin(CunanlllhirtlUift. Inn fumlBiIni Hi ill of lkm ml rfoibllt W in mr rrttttilt. I fl Bn h I ru o lb f - ItuD to tr nun iv iotuoubv itni O. WtMi, W Cla Ik, Hwtrk, H. J. jtfVft &T for f yy Tha Dowtla tANOTCATHAATIC FtMIMlt. kiknt. PsUUM. Mrnrt. TmM 0hJ JVi Oo4. n bulk. Til .noln tblt itoaipwl CCO. tut4 to r or your om. old Uumut4 to r or jour Biunr I 8trllnc Rmdx Co., Chicago or AKIUAL SALE, TEN KILLIOI I0XES Ths Abssnt-Mindsd Profsssor. This Kentlenmn whs left at houiS alone oii0 evrnlng with the children. His wife krifw ht whs at work upon a mufiixtne nrtk-le on the subject of ShlnMsin or the Minihlun hlero- ljl'l'hU-, or something equally nb struae, mul no, thoiiRh she ilretuled absent nilmledness, she thought It would be aufe to trust him by hlins.-ir for once. When nhe returned, about 9 uYltH-k. the house wan very still. She hal left the children plnylng, but now they were nowhere to be seen. She usked what had become of them, uud the professor paid that their noise hud disturbed him and he hud ut them to bed. -I hope they gave you no trouble, she said. 'One did," the professor answered. The one In the cot there fought like a young tiger when I went to undress him. He kicked and screamed and bit. A bud child. I got him In inougn, nnra ana last, lie nowiea a while, but In an hour he fell asleep.' "The professor's wife tiptoed over to the cot. 'Why, she cried, "that Is little Har ry Brown, from next door." P. A. STOKES 'The Store That Does Things" Below U ft tut of our four button rick "The Arvon" made by Grouse & Urandegeo. ' It has a broiul ulioul der, broad lapel and is altogether ft v "top notelier" with the swell dresser. Sold P. A. STOKES Way, "Money Back If You Want It" IS COEDUCATION PROPER! Dr. Ely Van de Warker, a physician of Syracuse, N. Y.,' is gaining considerable cheap notoriety by de nouncing coeducational institutions as breeding grounds for immorality. He published a book on the anhject last spring, and now emphasizes his state ments jn the most vigorous manner possible, says the Ls ,; "7-v - ',.;...'..; . From the manner in which those Russian cruisers are showing up at Pacific coast ports, one might very logically conclude that Russia intends putting her entire navy out of reach of the Japs by surrendering them to the requirements of inter national code. . That Portland motorman who held up a street ear for a joke is certainly a humorist of rare ability. Now, just imagine what a complete joke it would have been had the pdiceinan who happened to be on the ear shot the joker full of large holes. Judge Parker has done down to New York to talk with Dave Hill. In the meantime Fairbanks and several other industrious republicans are out around the country talking to the voters. Thre. of a Kind. Representative Bodenburg accom panied one of his dlatlngulshed con stituents. Judge Charles W. Thomas Rellevue, III., to the marble room recently, where the two were Joined by Senators Doll!vei Hopkins and Cullom. This meeting," declared Mr. Dol- nver, -reminus me very lorcibiy or Isit ! made to Belleville not many months ago. I was the guest of Judge Thomas, and passed the night In his fine old colonial mansion. After sev- rul hours of refreshing sleep I at tired myself and descended, filled with thought of the splendid entertain ment given me. All at once there as a hoarse voice from an adjoining room, which said, in a contemptible tone: Where the dickens did you come from?" I felt rather cheap at being spoken In such a Way, and was looking about for the person who. had thus addressed me. It didn't take me long to discover that the first sign of In hospltallty I observed In the mansion came from the judge's parrot. He was as wicked a bird as It was ever my fortune to encounter." Denver Times. Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Has world-wide fame ror marvellous cures. 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Watermelons growing wild have become a pest in southern California. .Now there is a clue to a pos sible solution of the race question. Poultney Bigelow thinks the Americans are "los ing prestige as marksmen." What! Has some one been shooting at Poultney at last! Bruce Pol worth hasn't deserted his party for sev- eral days. Surely something has gone wrong at Cathlamet i 4 44iUiv .ft" 1 III "If ifY I 1 1 1 r II ii. r The Best Education For the Money Can be obtained at the Pacific Lutheran Academy and Business College This school prepares students for the College or ' State University, for teaching in the public schools and for a successful business life. Our illustrated catalogue tells what education means for a young man or woman here. Send for it DEPARTMENT B, PACIFIC LUTHERAN ACADEMY. Parkland, Wash. MHiiiiiHniiiHTiTTnmuuimiiiii TTTTTt Staple and Fancy Groceries FLOUR, FEED, PROVISIONS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS. 8uppli. of All Kinds at Losit Pries, for Fishsrmsn, Parmtr. and Loggsis. 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