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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1900, THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1173. Published Daily Except Monday by Ilk J. & DELUNGEB COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION SATIS. By mail, per year.... 7.00 By carrier, per month..... M Willi Y ASTORUR. B4 mail, per year, is advance.. 1.00 Katsmd a tMoad-eiaM miUW July MUMS. t Ute poatofflc at Aacorta.urv roa, wader Ui ct of Coofreai (X March a, VOiAmfortiiMinBfform Moaa owuroBUiitositiMr whtanoa or plac o( liialiiiii or made by fioaU! card or tfcpmgfe Ma.-Aon Aar trraulrly In J Km ihonlil b lanmaiiULnlT monad ta th oOmotpubUoMlom. telephone main u OftleUl paper of CUtUop county and IbaUWr of Aiturla. V WEATHER. ( 4 V " . Oresron, Washington and Ida- hoRain, 4 v THE SUNDAY THEATER. The Sunday theaW is a twentieth century institution, fixed, appreciated, patronized and popular. The churchman, priest and layman, has striven in Tain against it, and it ia as much a feature of the Sunday regimen as the church itself. It is one of those questions that resolves itself down to the individual for its determination. The man or woman who is called upon to solve its ethical status, ae it bears on him or her, simply chooses the most appre ciable means of disposing of an idle evening, and as neither indulgence re acts, dangerously, either may be fol lowed with satisfaction and eafety. The Sunday theater clean, wholesome, well ; ordered, free from immoral taint and practice; yielding entertainment of pleasureable and often edifying qual. ity; immune from the drinking ele ment, and a common resort for respect able and cultured people, cannot be hast ily condemned, and is entitled to the broadest treatment at the hands of all men whose independence moves them to concede anything in the way of person al liberty to their fellows. It is here to stay. It remains for sowety gener ally to so regulate it that it shall not pass from the limitations of refinement and acceptable standards of conduct and attraction, and this being done, the theater will divide honors with the church in affording mankind that which he shall most need and desire in the way of relaxation. It is his to decide which he will attend. Astoria differs in no wise from all other communities in this relation. rO NEW 'BAR SOUNDINGS New soundings are to be taken on the Columbia river bar by the officers of the government engineering corps, and the came will be soon made man. ifest to all interested in the custom ary blue-print. This is a regular thing. But what this whole state wants to know more than anything else is that this task of sounding will reveal great er depths on the bar; that the jetty, incomplete as it is, is doing some of the work for which so many , millions hare been spent. If only that is made apparent, the patience required to wait for the full and final development of the system to be imposed will be far easier to summon. ASTORIA'S CRIMINAL RATIO. There is one thing that must be ad mitted in favor of Astoria; that the flews of murders, criminal assaults and predatory violeice with which the northwest press is teeming these days, is not furnished, in any degree, from this center. Astoria is a wide-open town and a seaport to boot, but she has less people of that sort, and a cleaner criminal docket than half the cities of her size that pretend to 1)6 far freer. Some say it is because we are on the outskirts of traffic and the doer of evil things has litle or no chance to get away; but that theory goes down be. fore the universal conclusion that just such outlying cities and sections as this are invariably the worst of all har bors for criminals. Take it "by and with," Astoria is as good a place to live as any of the cities that claim the "holier than thou' prestige. Even ri tland, ten time a large, a this place, has fully an even hundred times the volume of crime and criminal, But this is not in extenuation of the wide-open town theory, by any mean. It Is aim ply a passing and cowpara tivt thought. THE RECKLESS GIRL. The average girl of fifteen to seven teen years nowadays thinks she know more than her mother, and she gads and flirts and glgglea and makes mark of herself generally. She has more liberty than her mother ever dared dream of. Apparently her only ambl tion in life is to trail around day and night, cutting out all useful work and seeking pleasure in questionable ways. She wants to wear the swellest clothes and be constantly on dress parade. In, stead of modesty marking her demean or, she too often Is so bold and for ward a to shock everyone, but her ail ly associates. Finally if she hooks onto a sporty young man, without sense, money or character, she contends that this is a free country and she is go ing to marry the man she lores even if he is little better than a common dissipated loafer. By and by when this girl has had her fling and own sweet way, she will be brought to her senses and find out that she will reap a har vest of misery and her marriage will prove a bargain of repentance and her life spoiled beyond redemption. But it will be too late, for youth, good looks, and health will probably be yone forever and she will be old and faded, broken down and miserable the rest of her life, ' ; 0 000000000000000000 O EDITORAL SALAD. 0 000000000000000000 The world doesn't owe you a -it waa here first. living A luxury becomes a necessity after you get used to it. A stalk of Indian corn uses up 31 pounds of water during its season. o. - Expense is the only thing that keeps some people from being wicked. 0 The camel begins work at the age of 4 and is useful for half a century. If some people did more hard work, perhaps they would have less hard luck. The first world's fair of any note in modern times was held in London in 1851. Appendicitis insurance policies are is sued in England at $155 per year for every $500. 0 A charitable man gives according to his means, and a miser according to his meanness. A ear off the track is absolutely help less. Many' people are like a car off the track. If Uncle Sam wins all the suits against Standard Oil the total fines will be $2,000,000, it is said. That's noth ing. John D. must carry that much in his hip pocket all the time. It is a fact in the history of this country that one hundred years ago there, were very marry patriots and statesmen who fought hard "agin" the plan of government ownership of the postoffiees. 0 This looks like a hard case. The Rev. E. B. Chase, of the First Congre gational Church at Austin, near Chi cago, has been compelled to resign, be. cause he has failed in his undertaking to pay all of $25,000 required for a new church edifice he had erected. That he had otherwise served his office well isconceded by all. His sermons were the best heard in the church in years. His good work in getting new mem bers was etfdenced by the fact that he doubled the membership of his flock, but he had no business to run them into !ebt. Yet why did they let him do it? Probably 100,000 anndal compli. mentary interstate railroad passes will be canceled and not reissued Jan. 1 next. Instructing are now being sent out by presidents of all the principal systems that, by reason of the pass age of the new commerce law, free transportation after Jan. 1 must be limited to the classes exempted in the rate measure. This cuts off the an nual passes that have been issued to thousands of persons with personal, business and other connections that have been favored in the past. There is no come back or reading between the lines of the orders being issued, and on and after Jan. 1 what is known as the purely complimentary interstate railroad pass will no doubt be a thing of the past. AN ASTORIAN'S PLEA FOR SERVANTS SHE THINKS THEY ARE OVER WORKED AND UNAPPRECIATED WOULD CONFIDE IN THEM, AND PAY THEM BETTER. "Oh, wher and oh where, la my Mary Annet Oh, where, and oh, where Is she? She boils all day, From rise of n, And mine is al It ha funt "It is real, the vast Injuries put on servant giK I Beard the Rev. Dr. Mathews, of Seattle, call them "Home Makers.' "If 'Godiva.' an old Saxon 'word for God's life,' not 'Mary Anne, or 'Polly.' or 'Susan Jane.l is sick, what upsets household more? Father it worried. half breakfast served; mother is cross because her right hand is kid away) the elder children quarrel and scram ble, make raids on the jam. 'Miss Ar. rogance.' thinking only of dress and beaux, tries to make the parlor tidy, nd piled up dishes lie on the table for the poor, overworked maid to do no hen she gets better. If not soon bet 1 ler, thejj off. she is carted to the ho pi tat '"Our stenographer, 'our head dress maker,' 'our teacher,' is attended care fully, visited, buried in flowers; the poor maid, the pivot on which the whole household economy move is left alone "The Japanese and Chinese employed in the household come and go as they like. Are often impudent and impert inent. They leave if any offensive or. der is given. Should a woman behave so, she ia turned on the streets, ber mistresa' word taken before her's. 'In summer the wife goes away for two months' vacation, leaving an unpro tected arirl and a consequent increase in spring to the Florence Crittendon and the Foundling Homes. Women are too hard on their own sex. "'Oil had some power The giftie gie us. To see airselves as It hers see us. : "Women are forgetting, too, the high est praise Burns said; "Her prentice hand She tried on man. And then she made the Lassies obi' " "No man is a hero to his own valet' Voltaire said; no woman need disdain her secrets to her maid.' "Let women treat their Home Mak ers' as they would their daughters. $ know the value of good maids. But lower the wage and keep two. Then there is happiness, comfort and pleaa nre. "Montreal gives $12 and $15 or for an uneducated French girl $0 or $8 and $15 per month. Let women think; the lives of the husband, wife and children lie in the hands of. their helpers and they must respect and treat them bet ter. "E. M. LAVIS." NEW" DISEASE DISCOVERED. Confined Mostly to Austrian Laborers and the Lower Class, KEW YORK, Oct 24. The World say that an epidemic of disease which doctors have confessed themselves un able to diagnose and which has as. sumed threatening proportions in the town of Mariners' Harbor, on Staten Island, ha9 thrown residents of that place into a panic. Hundreds of per sons have sold or closed their houses and moved to other parts of the isl and. The disease already has brought two victims to the grave, and there are at present under treatment over three hundred cases. They are first at tacked by fever and soon red blotches cover their bodies. At its inception the malady confined itself to the ranks of Austrian lalorers, nearly 3,000 of whom have been brought to the town from Buffalo, K Y., recently to con struct new factory buildings. Within the past week, however, the disease has spread to the townspeople. JOCKEY PENSIONED. NEW YORK, Oct. 24. Orover Cleve land Fuller, until a year or two ago one of the prominent jockeys of the country, has been granted $100 a month for a year by the stewards of the Jock ey Club. The money will be drawn from the jockey fund for disabled rid ers. Fuller is now a cripple, the result of injuries received In a race in the spring of 1905. For three years pre vious to that time Fuller's work in the saddle earned for him $20,000 a year, Fuller, it is understood, spent this monejj as fast as he earned it. " m ' Manager R. K. Klvers makes the pleas In gtwmouncemenfc that he ha secured the famous and beautiful society com eay, "in tne (lthop I'swage, one of the brightest and mt amusing plays before the American public, and will produce It at the Aatorla on Satur day evening nexi. Mil Jeaula Hits v Is the star in the clever ensemble, and her presentation of Rallies, .the girl thief In swell Fjigllh society, Is among the notable creations of the day. An other strong card in this cast it James Kesne, a prime favorite of long years Htamung In the northwest Miss Rose Kytlnge, Mtsa Kate Jepon, and Miu I-avlna Shannon dividing honors In one of the most brilliant troupes now on the western circuit.' While of an entirely different order of play, it is in it tense inferior to "The College Widow." "AT SILVER CREEK." At the Star Theater last night, "The Witch of WaU Street" drew another large audience. Tonight the Swain Theater company will present a sensa tional comedy-drama entitled, "At Sil ver Creek.' one of the latest New York production, and one that has not been 1 on the Pacifle Coast. "Sunday," (Cora King Swain) the daughter of a Colorado miner, is left an oridian, while yet an Infant, by the sudden death of both her parents. Iler father's "rsrd. nsiV-lvely (Mack Swain), Mack- ey" (Alf Lnyne) "Towner" (William TTutrhinon) ami "Davy" (f!eo. Rrrrell) constitute themselves the child's guar dians, and devote their lives to her welfare, "Arthur Brlnthorpe" (K. C.l Hunt) the dissolute younger son of an English lord, makes an Insulting pro posal to the girl and I shot and killed by "Jarkey." "Sunday'" father was an Englishman, and after she. has grown to womanhood, "Mrs. Alice Harev (Anna Jordan), her father's sMer, sends for the girl, who', amid refined sur roundings speedily develops from the uncouth, half.wild child of the hills to a woman of culture and refinement, in England she meets with "Col, Brin- thorpe," (Bert Frank), the brother of the profligate "Arthur," who speedily falls in love with her, "Sunday" re turns this love, with all the ardor of her nature, and gladly consents to be come his wife, but fearing that ""Brln thorpe" might turn from her If he knew alL after a struggle between love and duty, she decides not to reveal to him that episode in her young life in which his brother played such a tragic part. "Tom Oxley," (las. Wright) an old friend of the family, sees that the girl is troubled and unhappy and urgea ber to open her heart to "Brlnthorpe" and tell him all. This she cannot do, for .lackey's sake, and as h tells hint she does not love him and cannot be bis wife, she leaves England and returns to Silver Creek and to her guardians her "boys." as she calls them. "Brin thrope" follows her there, the mystery is cleared and all ends happily. The story is charmingly told; the situations powerful, the comedy delightful, and, altogether, it is a play far above the ordinary. A HOST WORTHY ARTICLE. When an article has been on the market for years and gains friends ev ery year, it is safe to call this medi cine a worthy one. Such is Ballard's Horchound Syrup. It positively cures coughs, and all Pulmonary diseases. One of the best known merchants in Mobile, Ala., says: "For Ave years my family has not been troubled with the winter coughs; we owe this to Ballard's Horehound Syrup. I know it has saved my chil dren from many sick spells." Hart's drug store. 1 o DEMAND MORE WAGES. Railroad Employes on Several Lines De mand Increased Wages, XEW YORK, Oct. 24.-News was re. ceived in Wall etreet that formal de mands for increased wages and shorter hours had been mailc upon the man agement by the engineers, firemen and tiwitehmen of the Rock Island and Fris co Railway systems, both of which are controlled by the Rock Island com pany. Similar demands, it was said, had been made by the men on a number of other systems. It was stated that ultimately a total of 22,000 men employed on the railroads in the West will demand increased pay or shorter hours or both. Some of the railroad officials said that the reports of big earnings and the declaration of increased dividends was probably re ponib!e for the agitation. The average young woman of today is busy. Beauty is only another iame for health, and it comes to 00 out of every 100 who take Bolllster's Rocky Moun tain Tea. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. For sale by Frank Hart. ' AMUSEMENTS. STAR THEATER P. G15VURTZ, Manager TheflackSwain Theater Co. presenting tonight the sensationat 4 act come dd rama At Silver Greek SPECIAL Popular Friceij box orncs OPEN juy, cxtrtaincoes UP AT t:i SHARP. R. E. ELVERS, Manner, Only One Night 1 - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26th Mr. and Mrs. John T. Chick & Co. will present the Laughable Farce Comedy MY WIFE'S MOTHER PRICED 25c, 35c, 50c and 75c. Curtain at 8tl5 ASTORIA TMEATRE Only One Nicfht SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 J . . . " Licbler & Co. will present the celebrated English Society Comedy, IN THE BISHOP'S CARRIAGE : PRICES, 5Cc, 75c, $1.00, $130 i Curtain at 8:15. t FTHANCIAL. Q'. A. BOWLBY, Prealdsat. ' f. PETERSON, Viea.prMidsat Astoria Savings Bank Capital htld in IICOov, Burplns and TranMCU a (Imml Hnkln UunlnMS, S Trh 8trt. First National Bank of Astoria. Ore ESTABLISHED 1880. 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