THURSDAY, JUNE 7, tgo0,
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THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
THE
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Official paper of ClaUop county and
theClty of Asloria.
WEAXHER.
Western Oregon and Washing
Western Oregon and Washing
ton Showers.
Eastern Oregon and Washing
tonShowers and thunder storms
INSURANCE IN ASTORIA.
When the news of the dreadful disas
ter to San Francisco was at its height,
one of the most conspicuous features of
the current intelligence was the prompt
and generous declarations of the great
insurance companies involved there, that
they would meet the situation without
default and do it upon the instant of
the determination of the losses. The
.whole country felt that this would miti
gate the sum of the tremendous los
and was proud of and grateful for. the
spontaneous showing made by the com
panies. Now, in the cold aftermath,
when the warmth of sentiment has died
down and the chill of the business hour
has come, these same people who were
bo ready with their protestations of
ability and willingness to meet their
direct obligations in the great premise,
deliberately, and with insulting avarice,
swing their burden of loss upon the
country at large and compel the disin
terested property owner everywhere, to
bear the onus of their herculean loss,
and pay the same in a twenty-five per
cent advance upon ordinary prmium.
cost. The sum of insurance evils was not
reached in the unfoldment of the reck
less depravity of the life companies,
from which the country has hardly yet
recovered; it remained for the fire com
panies to add this shameful expression
of greed and dishonesty to the record
and accentuate the fast-rising, world
wide conviction, that there is absolutely
no corporate honor left. It is high
time the people were getting in line
for the adoption of some scheme of mu
tuality in the conduct of their defences
against death and fire, and the inaugura
tion of such a policy would meet with
redundant appreciation at this time.
Astoria, with one of the best water
service on the coast, with one of the
smallest records of fire losses in her
class, with the top notch premium rate
in full blast for years past, is coldly in
formed that she must contribute her
share in the adjustment of this enor
mous loss with which she had nothing
to do, and all new policies uttered here,
after June 1st, are charged with the
contribution at the rate of 2" per cent
above and beyond the old and burden
some rate. The Atorian desires to say,
here and now that its columns are open
for all time to any organized and ac
credited effort to throw off this imposi
tion and will contribute in all ways and
at all tini't to tins end.
ARRANT STULTIFICATION.
The election of George E. Chamberlain
to the governorship of Oregon is con
ceded; he succeeds himself by virtue of
the deliberate voti of over stulti
fied republican. WJIYt J!y the sheer
fort of lil poroiiulilyf liy any pro
nounced and exclusive virtue lie po-
over lil opponent, JJr. Withy-
eomlxiT By any etmotdinory record of
official accomplishment? Hy any pre
eminence of equipment, mentally, moral
ty, or other trenchant quality! The
question is not susceptible of immediate
answer; time alone may develop the
real inspiration behind his untoward suc
cess, mid for the time being it may 1 as
well to attribute it to the personality of
the man and hi adroit mastery of the
nrt of campaigning; such a reason will
be accepted readily at the (Discing mo
ment. Hut. for Clatsop county, we desire to
emphatically deny the far-fetched deduc
tions of the Orcgonian, couched in the
following paragraph:
"The boses whom the primary law
had dethroned; the deposed masters of
the old machine, and all their hench
men throughout the state; the remnant
who lamented Mitchell; the friend of
Hermann here, of Willianon there and
Mody yonder; the gangs who have been
prosecuted for land frauds and all who
had interest, relationship and friendly
feeling with them, wanted to show their
own importance and "get even." So at
every point within their reach they
drove the knife in. The effort wa di
rected chiefly at the men who stood in
the first places on the tiek.d for such
effort must be concent rated if it is to
have effect."
This spirit found no expression here;
this idea was not in vogue here and not
a single expression of such feeling was
manifest here through the campaign;
the republicans of Clatsop worked shoul
der to shoulder, with an unity of purpose
that was good to see, and the pies of
this section was absolutely silent on this
score; the Oregonian may have home
cause for its savage conclusion on this
head, and deprecate it foi' Multnomah's
sake, but Clatsop county is clear of the
lash it wields in this behalf and wants
it so understood the state over. What
was done here, was honestly done, and
no shadow of ulterior purpose, reproach,
or revenge, attaches to the efforts of
Clatsop to defeat Oeorge K. Chamber
lain. THE PASSING OATH.
The electoral system of Oregon pro
vide for the taking of oaths at cer
tain junctures of its process, and makes
very plain, the nature of the affidavit,
and the qualifications of the men who
contribute to it. There is no ambiguity
to it, whatever; nothing to mislead the
ordinary citizen; it is all simple and un
derstandable, and thert is no reason
why any man may not minister to its
fulfillment, PROVIDED HE TOES SO
WITH DEFINITE AND HONEST
KNOWLEDGE OF ALL HE IS SWEAR
ING TO. Under any other hypothesis,
he lays himself open to criticism, at
least, and technically, to the most rigor
ous penalties. In the heat and hurry
and turmoil of an election it is very
easy for one to forget the niceti-s of
the situation surrounding the taking of
an oath, and men grow careless, not to
say indifferent, from the repetition of
the function, and not infrequently they
take far too much for granted and. a
often, lend the efficacy of their sworn
word, upon the mere statement of a
friend in whom they have implicit con
fidence. These things are altogether
wTong. and lead to infinite trouble when
the exnet, constructive rules of the law
are applied, or invoked. There should
be a very careful handling of this im
pertant prerogative and a modification
of the willingness of the ordinary citi
zen to take the solemn duty of offering
sworn testimony, upon flimsy pretexts,
and with too tolerant a readiness.
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When railroad presidents begin to
fight, the public stands fair to hear
something to its interest.
It has come to a pretty pass when a
meritorious measure can be got through
the senate only by being attacked as a
"rider" to another bill.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer is responsi
ble for the assertion that Wall Street
stands aghast at the folly of the youth
who dropped $300,000 in Canfield's in
stead of in stocks.
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William .Jennings Bryan hns refused
to accept a decoration from the Sultan
of Turkey. It is hinted in Nebraska,
however, that lie still would be willing
to be decorated by the voter of the
United Slates.
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For the iiist time in its history Dela
ware has hud Sunday passenger trains.
They hardly seem necessary. Any citi
zen desiring to go from one end of the
common wen 1th to the other could easily
walk.
If the llessi-,iis( ii- nlltged, brought
over the Hen-inn lly, that so damages
American wheat, in their forage dur
ing the revolution, will Mime one tell u
when the gypsies introduced the gypy
moth and whether they got the same
deserved reception at the HoxIhiis?
Currency to
Cookies
By Cecilia. A. Loiietux
CaptfritfM, iw by Hamtr Spragu
(MY1 JAUEn BAKTON leaned
I Pni I his gi' bend wearily on his
tfipLsiW "There they go again," tie
said aloud In a distressed tone. "And
before she came here thoy were thicket
than thieves. I wish I could And a
way out of this mesa."
The angry voices which bad been the
cause of this soliloquy became angrier
and nearer:
"And If I ever see you looking at
her again with that elek cat expression
on your mug I'll Injure It bo you can't
grlu for a week."
"That's Dick." said the fattier, laugh
ing In spite of himself at this threat.
"Bess says she's a bully nurse." said
the other voice. "I'd have good care."
"Bert always gets ahead. He's Just
what I was wheu I was his age,"
chuckled tbe old iuuu In the library.
"Great 8oott! Tfcey'il kill each other
yet! Here, you young hounds!" he
yelled, rushing out Into the ball. "You
pick yourself up and get out of this.
If you've got to fight, you go out be
hind the bam and fight till one or the
other of you gets killed. Ixwk out
there. Dick!"
Dick had bla brother down and was
sitting 011 him. He bad just raised his
arm to administer a good blow ou the
upturned face of Bert when his father
caught bis ami and dragged him off.
Bert did not take the trouble to get
up, but lay flat on his back, looking up
at his brother with a wicked one sided
grin.
"Get up, Bert," ordered his father,
and he shuffled to his feet. Very sud
denly Mr. Bartou's patience gave out.
Catching Bert by the collar and retain
ing his grip on Dick's ami, he shook
both boys until his face grew purple,
and, letting them go, he leaned against
the banisters gasping for breath. The
boys made no attempt to resist; they
merely grew utterly limp. They were
twins, about seventeen, and small for
tbelr age, with fair hair and dreamy
gray eyes. All of the mischief pene
trated In the particular suburb In
which they lived was sooner or later
tracked to their door or to the doors of
their Innocent accomplices. They had
one redeeming feature; until a few
months before this they had clung to
gether through thick and thin. When
one was punished the other was punish
ed before the rest of the family could
live with him. It seemed, sometimes,
to their anguished parents as If the
twins could read each other's mind.
While their mother was alive she had
been able to control them to Borne ex
tent, and her last words were, "Keep
the twins together." At that time they
were so thick "a knife blade couldn't
be slid between them," as Mr. Barton
remarked. But that was some time
ago. Now
"I'm ashamed of you," he said wea
rily and went back Into his library,
leaving the twins glaring at each other.
Presently they began to look sheepish,
and then they grinned and stuck out
their hands at the same time. The ar
gument was understood to be closed
for the present.
Mr. Barton watched them go down
the street together, arm In arm, and
gave a sigh of relief. He knew he
would have an hour or two of peace.
While he stood musing at the win
dow his little daughter Bess and her
governess came around the corner and
In at the gate.
"There's the bone of contention now,"
be said. "What does she mean by en
couraging those young whelps to fall
In love with her?'
His daughter Bess bounced Into the
room waving an envekqe in her hand.
"Letter from Bob," she whooped.
"Hurry up and read 'er!"
"Quietly, Bessie!" said Miss Gray,
who had entered behind the little girl.
"When you have finished visiting with
your father, come upstairs and I will
help you with your French for tomor
row." Mr. Barton took Bess 011 his knee
and opened his letter. It was charac
teristic. He was out In Colorado "see
ing the world" and having the "time of
his life;" was "well and happy and
ready to come home at any time; love
to Bess and tbe boys and bis regards
to the young lady who had succeeded
In making Individuals out of the Sia
mese twins."
Bess ran away presently, and Mr.
Barton let his thoughts wander out to
his eldest son. Bob had been gradu
ated from Harvard the summer before
and had come home a little more en
thusiastic about Boston than he should
have been, knowing bis father's preju
dice against the place. The very first
thing he hud done on his arrival home
was to announce his engagement to a
girl from Boston.
Now, It had never entered Mr. Bar
ton's head that Bob could l) such a
fool as to fall In love at twenty-three,
and the cool announcement took away
bis breath.
"Huh!" he snorted. "You precocious
baby! Pretty husband you'd make,
wouldn't you? Bessie's rag dolls could
marry and be about as dignified as
you'd be In such a fix."
Bob merely grinned and turned
way the edge of the old mull's wrath.
"It Isn't bent lino I think you would
not make money enough. You're a
tick of the sHiiin kind of a wo.d plla
your futher used to chop, You go out
wHt for a year, and I'll pay the bills,
and I'll M you anything you Ilk you'll
wwyjiaok. curti'L -...
nob thoiigfit for awhile, and then he
aid slowly;
"Dad. I'll bet you wiirreuey to cookies
that I ran heat you at this game." And
be departed cheerfully for the west.
Mr. Barton thought of nil this rathet
complacently, and then he sat down
and wrote a letter to Bob. It was even
Inure characteristic than tbe letter from
ds son.
My IViir Hob "The llnin has come,"
a the walrus snld, "to speak of muny
thins". " I'm In the devil of n fU. nnl I
guess It s your turn to help out your poet
old dud. Ht'sMos, you aut me Into It. II
was you, with your precious tloston ldi,
that ot ni to rmrase tt governess for m
tomboy girl. I blessed you profusely ut
first, and. ns far as Hess goes, I still do,
She Is getting quite tame. Hut tbe Bla
mes twins, 11a you call your brothers, huvi
set up a three ring circus, and I hav tc
go around wntchlng the animals so they
won't bltn each other and die of hydro
phobia. I'm getting a little too old to
play the role of ringmaster with any sue
cess. "And It's all on account of Kllia,"
as we used to sing.
This governess whom 1 got on your ad
vice Is a very engaging young lady, and,
In fact, she hit engaged the affections ol
those two pups. 1 don't blamo 'em very
much, either. That's the worst of It. Bh
ays she's twenty-one, but she doesn't
look a day over eighteen. A cunning lit
tle brown eyed trick you could hide up
your sleeve. Has an A. B. from Wellcsley
and claims she was born and bred In Hoe
ton, which la really all I have against her.
The twine began by hating her, and I
had to give 'era a couple of thrashings
apiece to make 'em stop playing unheard
of practical Joke. Now I have to thrash
"em to keep 'em from loving her too stren
uously. It's getting too much for me. If you
expect to keep my gray hairs out of the
grave, you come home and distract their
attention. You always could manage
them, booauso you did not have to live
with them. This la both a prayer and a
command. Come home and help your
helpless DAD.
P. B.-lf you still feel that you must
marry, marry the governess. Bhe's the
best I ever saw from Hoston too. Pri
vately, I think she wus born In Chicago,
and Wellinlcy Is all that alls her. I'rr
haps she knows you. 1 haven't asked her.
He sent this letter and at dinner
that evening looked around his table
with a complacent and chuckling sat
isfaction. The twins looked thin and
pathetic and tried not to eat much.
Miss Gray was demure and smiling In
a dainty dinner gown, and the holden,
Bess, had her hair ribbons properly
tied and both stockings pulled up. Din
ner was peaceful, but there was a
tempest afterward, and Mr. Barton
sent the twlus to bed at 0 o'clock. He
was unusually gentle and patient with
them.
After they bad made up for the ulght
they talked about this. They did not
like the look of It
"Did you seo how he grinned at her?
Just like an old goat! If we don't set
tle who's to have her and get busy,
he'll end tilings by getting ber him
self," said Bert.
"Make a pretty stepmother. Rather
prettier than her stepsons, I should
say," was the Insinuating reply.
Two days later Mr. Burton camo to
lunch with a telegram In his hand.
"I've good news," he said. "Bob's
coming Thursday."
Bess gave a whoop and a Jump and
grabbed the telegram, which Bert
snatched from her band before she
had had a chance to read a word.
"Hurrah!" yelled Dick, doing a war
dance specialty of his.
Miss Gray, with a very red face,
tried to keep Bess from dancing a Jig
on the table, und Mr. Barton, seeing
ber evident annoyuuee, stHike niiolo
getlcally. "When you become acquaint
ed with Bob you'll not wonder quite so
much at this fiendish Joy. He's rather
a good sort, If he Is like his dad.
Shouldn't wonder If you'd like him,"
be continued complacently. "He has a
hublt of being fond of Boston."
"I shall do my lest to like him," she
said prettily to the old man, and as she
ran upstairs she said to herself, "I'll
see that the Boston habit becomes set
tled." Thursday came. All the family but
the governess went to the train, and
Bob was almost curried home on the
family shoulders. Dinner had been
postponed for his coming, and Miss
Gray waited rather nervously In the
dlnlna room. She had donned ber pret
tiest dinner gown, and her eyes were
very bright and her cheeka very pink.
The twins came In firBt and stood to
one side to see what Bob would say tc
their divinity. In a moment they
leaned, weak and helpless, against each
other, and then they feebly left tbe
room. Bob, not waiting for the Intro
duction Mr. Barton seemed trying to
make, walked across the room and
calmly kissed the governess.
Mr. Barton grew slowly, darkly pur
ple. "So you're In this, too, you, you"
"Go easy, dad!" said Bob. "I bet you
currency to cookies I'd beat you at this
game. You're skinned. The currency
Is mine. Buck up, dad, and salute
your daughter. As for the twins, they
can't say they don't like their sister."
A Canning Baboon.
In South Africa some of the fruit
gardens are much exposed to tbe rav
ages of large cyocephallc apes, and a
good guard has to be kept or the re
sults of long labor would be lost. In
some of those gardens grow certain
ahrubs which are much affected by
wasps, the Insects liking to attach
thereto their netits. These wasps,
though small, have a very venomous
ting. Baboons had often been noticed
eying with envious glances the fast
ripening fruit In one certain garden,
but feared to gather for fear of at
tracting the assaults of the wasps.
One morning tbe fanner heard terrible
cries, and with the old of a good field
glass be witnessed the following trag
edy: A lurge, venerable baboon, chief
of tbe band, was catching the younger
apes und pitching them Into the shrubs
whereon hung th wasps' nta. Thla
h repeated again and ugln In aplt
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tlmu. Of course the wnsps assumed
the defiiislve In swarms. Iwrtng this
part of the jierforniiince the old brute
qulftly fed on the fruit, deigning oc
casionally to throw fragmentary re
mains to snine female and young ba
boons a little further off."
Tbe Lrgrntl of Don Jonn Manorl,
Thoiinis A. Janvier In IIuriM-r's Mag
azlnc relate the hKiitid of 1 n Juan
Manuel, tohl uh It was to him In the
City of Mexico by a Mexli-uii H'imaiit:
"Tills lion Juiin Manuel, senor, wn
a rich ami worthy gentleman who bad
the bad vice of killing people. Kvery
night at 11 o'clock, when the palace
clock was striking, be went out from
bis tiiagnillceiit house -as you know,
senor, It still U standing In the street
that Iiiim been named after him- all
muffled in lilx cloak, unci under It his
dacger In his ham).
"Then be would meet one In the dark
street and would ask him politely,
'What Is the hour of ulght?' And thut
person, having heard the striking of the
clock, would answer. 'It Is 11 hours o(
the night.' And Don Junu Manuel
would say to him, 'Kenor, you are for
tunate above all men because you know
precisely the hour at which you die!'
Then he would thrust with his dagger.
And then, leaving the dead gentleman
lying In the street, he would come back
attain Into bis own home. And this bad
vice of Don Juan Manuel's of kllliiiK
people went on, senor, for a great many
years."
Vltnlltr ol Trees.
An Illustration of the wonderful vi
tality and repi'odiictlveiiess of the red
wood Ih reported from I'klah as exist
ing In tbe forests of Mendocino coun
ty. It consists of Ihe trunk of n rod
wood tree felled for the manufacture
of shingles, which lifter lying on the
ground undisturbed for several months
sprouted a number of young trees,
whose roots had developed in Its own
body.
Travelers through the coast forests
have frequently observed the phenome
non of rows of well developed trees
growing out of the bodies of those that
have lain long enough on the earth to
perish and decay, Koine years ago a
newspaper correspondent reported the
strange phenomenon of new redwood
growth on a bridge built of redwood
logs across n Humboldt county stream.
The sides of this bridge eonHlsted of
two large redwoods which baa been
felled so that the ends rested In the
soil on each bank. All along the upper
side of each log a row of sturdy red
wood sapling developed shortly after
the bridge bad been finished. San
Kranclsco Call.
There's little room in this great world
of ours for the "Fat Woman." She's a
hindrance to herself in street can, flats,
elevators j but whot eon she do, poor
thing tuke Molllsler' Itocky Mountain
Tib. 315 cents, Tea or Tablet. Frank
Hurt, druggist.
The b' ef tnnt may not be seuied, but
somehow it i'tn'l making jokes.
Foot of Fourth Htreei.
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at Masonio Hall on Tuesday evening,
June 0, lOOfl at 7:30 o'clock. By order
W. M. Attest: E. C. Holden, eecretary.
The delicate art of freneoing is only
learned by years of hard tutelage under
expert manterH, Kach of ihe proprietor
the F-asteim Painting & Decorating Co.f
75 Ninth street, hst spent year in the
best shops of the enst ami l profleii-nt
in the art of decorating and frescoing.
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