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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1905)
THE MORNING ASTOR1AN, ASTORIA, ORE.1 SUNDAY, AUGUST so, 1903. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 187S. Published Daily by HC J. 8. DELLINCER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year ; ....$: 00 month 60 By mail, per By carrisr, per mouth WEEKLY ASTORIAN. 1 mail, Pr year. In advanct ..II Oo Entered as second-cls&a matter June 2 ISO, at the portomca. at Astoria. Oregon, under the art of Congress of March 3, 1ST9. Ear OrAer for tbe deUrera of Taa Anvauii to either rwweooe or place of bTmade by poal crd ?r through Swoe, Any tmfuUrity to deUwjy should Ibe buaediatel; reported to the oflk-e of pubUoaUoa. Talaphana Main 611 Through the consolidation of the Weekly Herald and the Daily New, a morning newspaper called the News-Herald will appear Sunday, August 29. AYhile it is given out that the News Herald will be independent, politically, and will be conducted after the policy of "Astoria for Astorians." we under stand the new paper will be mixed tip in local politic and will endeavor to put up a light for an open town. A petition i in circulation pleading for the pardon of Paddy Lynch, now serving a term in the penitentiary at Salem and according to reports, the pe tition is receiving some signatures. We are heartily in favor of abolishing peni tentiariesprovided we may hang uch men as Lynch and thus remove the possi bility of petitions of a similar nature. We do not know from among what ele ment these signatures are being so licited but are satisfied that if any of the city's decent people have affixed their names to the petition tbey have done so without proper consideration or un der misrepresentation, and we venture the assertion that at least ten of the jurors who tried Yynch will oppose his being given freedom. on the head. The Oregottian is out for the Almighty dollar and is willing to nauseate it reader that it may swell its coffers. In conclusion the .totinml felicitates itself saying: "It (the Journ al) ha stimulated the growth, broad ened the liorizon, Mtetv4 the new paper (a newspapers) and it ha raised the standard of civic right eousite. We are glad the Journal was specific a newspaper: there is the possibility that by splattering red ink over its page the Journal ha forced the Oregonian to turn "yellow."' From the standpoint of news mediums, we fail to see that the Journal is the supperior of the Oivgouian and as matter of fact we do not Wlieve it may lie rightfully called an equal. We have no fight against the Oregonian, nor are we desirioua of making one against the Journal There appeared in the column of both these paper lurid stories which were, as we '. have already stated, nauseating. We called attention to the character of these stories and evinced surprise that they sliould apper in the columns of papers supposedly respectable.- Instead of admitting the stories should be alien to any news paper, both the Oregonian and the Jour nal make the slim excuse that it is a matter of appealing to public taste or going out of business. Sim this con ception of the question at hand seems mutual, so long as these stories con tinue to appear we are determined to do our best toward eliminating them not only from our columns but from the columns of newspapers in such terri tory as our influence may extend. Speaking of the development of this country, there are few who are unwilling to give due credit to the railroads. Everywhere that a line enters, in regions remote or near, if any grass grew there at all, two blades are likely to be made to grow only where one grew before. The census bureau of the government in a bulletin just issued gives the com mereiaal value of the railroad property "in the United States. It is $Uj244,8.2. 000. These are figures that amaze the senses. More than eleven billions of dollars invested in rail transportation! Truly, as President Roosevelt says, those be immense interests engaged in inter state commerce! Viewed from another standpoint, there is very little of this immense investment that is not, in the present day, broadly considered, good. Kailroad companies are more active than ever before; good dividends are being expended in new equipment and exten sions. There is still one section of our country illy supplied with railroads. That i9 wide Alaska, where the com mercial value of such property is only 100,000. In New Yok it is approximate ly yw.ooo,ow. IN LIGHTER VEIN I The Gentleman ! !l from Indiana By BOOTH TARKINCTON X CVt IS, to tasVMv t MtOart C. Ccttrtgtl. IWO. k fcMtot, rtthsl Ca, MMIMUHIMMM WHAT THEY TOOK. It is reported that on a recent oc casion when Arthur Halfour. Lord Cham berlain, Lord Charles Beresford. and the Japanese minister were dining out to gether. Mr. Balfour, who was standing treat, asked Mr. Chamlierlain what lie would take. "Thanks. I'll take Scotch, Arthur." was his respond. "And what will you take, Charles!" "I'll take Irish, Arthur." "And what will yo take!" addressing the Japanese minister. "I'll take Port Arthur, thanks," was the answer. Harper's Weekly. Felicitations are in order. The modest Astorian, the enterprising newspaper of the finest little city in the Pacific North west, has succeded in stirring up an editorial row between the Oregonian and the Journal. Replying to the Oregonian's "simple answer," the Journal, which was referred to as a "yellow" newspaper printed by a "group of piou. people, says in part: "The fundamental idea then is that the Morning Mossbatk is "out for the stuff," a fact that has been well known but seldom heretofore proclaimed. "This class of news conies to us through the business office," information conveyed on an Oregonian letterhead somewhat startled a section of our population a year or two ago. If it pays, it says, we will prostitute our newspaper and de bauch the minds of our youthful readers because we will not be outdone in our. own field We are not responsible, it asserts in extenuation, because we have no settled moral con victions and if the other fel low gives the lurid news you can count on us doing the same because the public demands it. There is a lofty conception of public duty expressed with a keen sense of the value of a dirty dollar!" While we are not in the least in clined to laud the Journal, or to emu late it in any manner, shape, or form, in its editorial it certainly bits the nail NIGHT IN MERMANVILLE. "Did you put out the catfish!" asked Mrs. Merman. ' ' - "Yes," replied Mr. Merman; "but if that dogfish doesn't quit baying at the moonfish I'll never get any sleep." Judge. GLOOMY PROSPECT. TToIcTi'gnve a little gasp, '.Sever!" she cried. "Neverr The buckboard stopped on the Iter aid corner, and here- and along Main atrwt the line of vehicle which hnd fol lowed It from the atation took positions to await the parade. Tbe square was almost, a solid mass of bunting, and the north entrance of tbe courthouse bad been decorated with streamers and flag so as to make a tort of staud. Hither the crowd wii already stream ing a ud hither tbe procession made Its way. At Intervals tbe gun boomed from tbe station, and Scboflclds' Henry was winnowing the air with his bell. Nobody bad a better time tbat day than Schoflelds' Henry, except old Wilker son, who waa with the procession. In advance came the boys, whooping and somersaulting, and behind them rode a band of mounted men, sitting their horses like cavalrymen, led by the sheriff and bis deputy and Jim Hard lock. Then followed the Harkless club of A mo, led by BoewelL with the mag nanimous Halloway himself marching In the ranks, and at sight of tbla the people shouted like madmen. But when Helen's eye fell upon Halloway's fat, rather unhappy face she felt a pang of pity and uurensonlng remorse, which warned her tbat he who looks upon politic when it la red must steel his eyes to see many a man with the heart burn. After the men of A mo came the Harkless club of Gainesville, Mr. Re nee In the van with the step of a grenadier. There followed next Mr. Ephralm Watts, bearing a light wand In his hand and leading a detachment of workers from the oil field In their stained blue overalls and blouses, and after them came Mr. Martin add Mr. IjukIIs at the bend of an organization recogtilwd In tbe "order of procession" printed In the Herald as "the business men of riattvUle." The band played In such uiugutnccnt time that every high Lord I stepping foot In oil the line came dowu with the same jubilant plunk aim lift ed again with a unanimity a complete as that of the last vote tbe convention had taken that day. The leaders of the procession set a brisk pace, and who could have set any other kind of a pace when on parade to the strains of such a band playing such a tune as "A New Coon In Town" with all its might and main? But as the line swung into the square there came a moment when the tune was ended and the musicians paused for breath and there fell comparative quiet Among tbe ranks of tbe "busi ness men" ambled Mr. Wilkerson. sing ing at the top of his voice, and now be .could I heard distinctly enough for those near bim to distinguish the mel ody with which It was his inteutlou to favor the public: "They say a gallon of Georgia corn whisky will cure any snake bite." "Yes, yes and the snakes will soon be gone!" Atlanta Constitution. HIS LIMITATIONS. "They say he writes for bread!" "Exactly says bacon makes the road to Oblivion too slippery." Atlanta Con stitution. BACCHUS. And as I sat, over the light blue hills There came a noise of revelers; the rills Into the wide stream came of purple hue Twas Bacchus and his crew! The earnest trumpet spake, and silver thrills From kissing cymbals made a merry din Twas Bacchus and his kin! Like to a moving vintage down they came, Crown'd with green leaves, and faces all on flame; All madly dancing through the pleasant valley, To scare thee, Melancholy I Keats. THE LAST WORD. "Does your wife insist on having the last word!" said the man who asks impertinent questions. "Certainly not," answered Mr. Meek ton. "She doesn't have to insist." Washington Star. I'd NO FOOD AT ALL. "Lady," said Hungry Higgitns, thank you for a meal" "Ah!" exclaimed the bright house keeper. "You're one of these after-dinner speakers." "Not exactly, lady, or I wouldn't be so hungry. I ain't got so much as a chestnut about me." -Philadelphia Press. Comforts the heart, strengthens the mind. Is good ill or well. Makes the face bright as the summer morn. That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will do. Cures when all elsa fails. 33 cents at Frank Hart's drag store. "Glory, glory, halleluiah! Ai we go marching on." The words, the air, that husky voice, recalled to the men of Carlow another day and another procession not like this one. And the song Wilkerson was singing is the one song every northern born American knows and can sing. Tbe leader of the band caught tbe sound, signaled to his men, twenty In struments rose as one to twenty months, tbe snare drum rattled, tbe big dram crashed, the leader threw his baton high over bis head, and music burst from twenty brazen throats: "Glory, glory, halleluiah!" Instantaneously tbe whole procession began to sing the refrain, and tbe peo tile in the street and those In the wagons and carriages and those lean ing from the windows joined with one accord. The ringing bells caught the time of tbe song, and the upper air reverberated in 4e rhythm. Tbe IJarkless club of Carlow wneeTed into 'Main street, 200 strong, with their banners and transparencies. Llge Wjlletts rode .aj their head, and behind' him strode' William Todd and I Parker and Ross SchoOeld and Newt Tlbbs and Ilirtley Bowlder, and even Bud Tlpwortiiy held a place in the ranks through bis connection with tbe Herald. Tbey were all singing, and behind them Helen saw tbe flag cov ered barouche and her futher, and be side him sut John Harkless, with bis head bared. 8 lie glanced at Briscoe. He was standing on tbe seat in front of her and Minnie and both were sing ing. Meredith had climbed upon tbe back seat and was nervously fumbling at a cigarette. "Sing, Tom!" the girl cried to bim excitedly. "I should be ashamed not to," he answered, and dropped tbe cigarette and began to sing "John Brown's Body" with all his strength. With tbst she seized his hand, sprang up beside him, and over the swelling chorus her full soprano rose, lifted with all the power In her. The barouche rolled Into tbe square, and as it'passed Harkless turned and bent a sudden gaze upon tbe group In tbe buckboard, but the western sun was in bis eyes and be only caught a glimpse of a vague, bright shape and a dazzle of gold, and he was boms along and out of view down the singing street "Glory, glory, halleluiah! Glory, glory, halleluiah! Glory, glory, halleluiah! As w go marching on." The barouche stopped in front of the courthouse, and Harkless passed up lune lie' limJ.; Tol' u.lU 111 Tae ' slPpa. When bo turned to them to speak, they begun to cheer again, and lie hud to wuit for them to quiet down, "We can't hear him from over hero," said Briscoe. "We're too far off. Mr. Meredith, uppwe you take the Indies closer lu; I'll stay with the horses." "He's a great man, Isn't her" Mere dith said to Helen ns he handed her out of the buckboard. "I've been try ing to realise that, he's the same old follow I've beeu trentlug so familiarly all day long." "Yea, be Is a great man." she an swered. "This is only the beginning." "That's true," wild Briscoe. "Only wait awhile, and we'll all go on to Washington and get a thrill down our licks when wo hour the spcukcr say, The gentkMtutn from Indiana,' and see John Harkless rise to speak. But hurry along, young people." ' Crossing tbe street, they met Miss Tlbbs. She was wiping her streaming eyes with the back tf her left hand and still mechanically waving her hand kerchief with her right., "Isn't It beau tiful?" she said, not ceasing to uncon sciously flutter the little square of cam bric. "There was such a throng tout 1 grew faint and had to come away. I don't mind your seeing me cry. I'retty near everybody cried when be walked up the steps and we saw that be was lame." John rUrkless looked down upou th attentive, earnest faces and Into the kludly eyes of the Hooeler country peo ple, and as he spoke the thought kept recurring to bim that this was the place he bad dreaded to come back to; that these were the people he had wished to leave, these who gave him everything they bud to give, and this made It dim cult to keep his tones steady and his throat clear. Helen stood so far from the steps (nor could she lie Induced to penetrate further, though they would have made way for her) that only fragments reached her, but these she remembered. "I have come borne. Ordinarily a mnu needs to fall sick by the wayside or to Ik? set upon by thieves In order to realize that nine-tenths of the world Is Sauiurltati-und the other tenth only too busy or too Ignorant to be. Down here he reullws it with no necessity of Illness or wounds to timke bim know It. and If he docs got hurt you send bim to congress. There will lie no other In Washington so proud of what he stands for as I shall lie. To represent you is to stand for ftitrWsiicsi. honor, klud ness. You have sent all of tbe Cns roaders to the penitentiary, but prob ably each of us is acquainted with politicians who ought to be sent there. When the term Is over I shall want to take the first train home. This Is the place for a mutt who likes to live where people ure kind to each other and where tbey have the old fashioned way of saying 'home;' other places they don't seviu to get so much into It as we do. And to come home as I have today to see the home faces-1 have come home." r The Astoria Restaurant. If you want u gout!, clean meal or if you are in a hurry you should go to the Astoria Restaurant This fine restaurant is thoroughly tip-to. date in every detail. EXCELLENT MEALS. EXCELLENT SERVICb ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOHN KOX.rres. and Suyt. F L BISHOP. Secretary A. L. FoX, Vice Pres. ASTORIA SAVINUH IWNK.Troaa Designers and Manufacturers of THE LATEST IMPROVED : ' Canning "Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers, Complete Cannery Outfits Furnished. correspondence; solicited. Foot of Fourth HtreeU CHATTER XV. T was 5 o'clock when IIarkl climbed the stairs to tbe Her ..1.1 I. Id (., ,, !&7a? au,t hand Wcre aching und limp. Hoss rVbotteld was the only per son In the editorial room, and there was nothing In his upiicuranco that should have caused a man to sturt and full back from the doorway, but that Is what John did. "What's tbe matter. Mr. Harkless?" cried Ross, hurrying forward with a fear that the other bad been suddenly re-eelzed by Illness. "What arc those?" asked I lurk less, with a gesture of bis baud tbat seemed to Include tbe entire room. "Those?" repeated Hoss. staring blank ly. "Those rosettes these streamers that stovepipe all this bluo ribbon?" Hoss turned tale. "Hlbbon?" be suld inquiringly. "Hlbbon?" He seemed finable to perceive the decorations re ferred to. "Ye," answered John. "These ro settes on the chulrs, that band, and" "Oh!" Ross answered. "That?" He Angered tbe band on tbe stovepipe as If he saw It for tbe first time. "Yes; I see." "But what's It for?" "Why-it's It's likely meant fer dec orations." "It seems to have been here some time." "It has. I reckon if s most due to be called In. It's be'n up ever senct ence" "Who put It up, Ross r We did." "What forr Ross was visibly embarrassed. "Why -fer fer the other editor." "For Mr. Flsbee?" "Laud, no! You don't suppose we'd go to all that work and bother to brisk en things up for that old gentleman, do you?" "I meant young Mr. Flsbee. He li the other editor, isn't he?" "Ob!" said Hoss. "Young Mr. Fis bee? Yes; we put 'em up fer bim." "You did? Did he appreciate them?" "Well, he-seemed to kind of llki em." "Where is he now? I came here tc f nd him." "He's gone." "Gone? Hasn't be been here this aft ernoon?" "Yes; some the time. Come In and stayed durin' the leevy you was holdin' and saw the eztry off all right" "When will be be back?" "Bonce it's be'n a dully he gits hers by 8 after supper, but don't stay very late. Old Mr. Flsbee and I'arker look after whatever comes In then, unless It's something special. He'll likely bo here by half past 8 at the farthest off." " To be Continued.) PRAEL 0 EIGNER TRANSFER CO.t Telephone 32L D RAYING 8 EXPRESSING LIVERY STABIE All good shipped toonrcara will receive special attention. 709-715 Commercial Streets The MORNING ASTORIAN 75 CTS. PER MONTH Astoria's Best Newspaper Weinhard's Lr. First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. !:.HT.itij.siu:i iK.sti, Capital and Surplus $100,000) J. O. A. Bowt.HY.rre.lu lit O. C rETtkHuN, Vtce-l-renldetit Fit INK fAT-niN, rliier J. W. 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