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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTOJUA, OREGON. ' THURSDAY, MARCH 81, 1907. j THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established ilrs- PobHsheo Daily Except Monday by Ilk. J. S. DSLLUIGEK COMPAJIY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By matt, per year ,. 17.00 By wirier, per month...., .10 WEEKLY ASTORIA. 8, mail, per year, in advance.. 1.00 Sntered a foonrJ-claaa matter Jnly , lfOa..l tbe poatoflic at Astoria, Or i, aaaer vne acv oi vonfraw oi awca a, Oronlsrs tor tke aUint of Tn Mom am UROUAX to Nttmr rawdeuo or place of Iwlaiias may be nade by poatl card or Ihrouri afie.-oowa. Any trresulartty la da Ihrery ahouid ba ttwmmllaWy reported to the orpotMKSuoa. - TELEPBOlfl MATS Mi. Uaavy Official paper of Ctataop county and oi Astoria. In the main the name. The uses to which It may be applied are, without rt'HUlctlou. and the Uu.it oust will huve a noble purpose to fulfill. The sola (Ion of the sooIoUtglel problems with which we are alruKSltint lie splendid work for the Sage millions. . ' 1 0 ' t EDITORIAL 8ALAD. e The Morning Astorlan vespoctrully nffeata that the municipal officers Involved. In the police controversy here. In dault of any amicable settlement among themselves, netul for Mr. lleney, He has a fashion of determining such problem once and for all. 0 It's a cold day for a city when she cannot govern herself or any element of her people. . Tongue Point people evidently be lieve in competition between water and rail; hence, the new launch that la to run from the mllla to tbe heart of the city, carrying freight and passengers. Romance of Ellis Island WEATHER. 'Oregon, Washington, Idaho, a Showers.- 4 THE PITTSBURG FLOODS. Which would you rather be, a coun cilman, a police commissioner, or Jut a plain dtlienT o If, after Mr. Jerome had drawn In a long breath, expanded his chest and delivered that thlrteen-thousand word hypothetical Question, the Jurors had risen up in a body and exclaimed, "What did you say?" wouldn't It have jarred him? Pittsburg, Allegheny and other towns and cities along the Mononga hela, Allegheny and Ohio rivers will lose several millions of dollars on ac count of the floods now submerging the valleys through which these water-ways flow. The cities are so dis posed that they are Absolutely help less. It is remarkable today that Pittsburg and Allegheny are in greater danger from flood than ever before. This is" due to their greater expansion, while nothing of a scientific nature ever has been done to overcome the volume oi? water that pours down tbe two great streams that form the Ohio There is apparently no means of curb ing it, no means of hastening the flood on Its course, When the rivers begin to rise the Ohio cannot carry It off fast enough to prevent the flooding of all the lowlands in Greater Pittsburg, and there they rest, wth business at a standstill, until the flood subsides. Many lives have been lost, and It Is expected that the loss from enforced suspension of the mills and furnaces will run Into millions. It IS a pity that Pittsburgh cannot escape the occa sional flood in its great highway of commerce, when, at the proper stage, is invaluable to the city's' commercial interests. o 1907 A MARKER. An explorer turn up in Milwaukee, claims to have discovered the nortn Pole and nobody believes him. Isn't It odd that we never doubted any man who cams back and said he didn't find It If we ever come up with that auda cious Chicago men who sat In a big easy chair In a Lakewood hotel and broke our stock market into kindling wood we'll slap him on the wrist Railroads presidents are beginlng to point with prd to their lines that never had a fatal accident Awfully sorry they don't run the way we want to go. o The satisfactory settlement of the Butte mining troubles this week and . the signing of an agreement staving off for at least five years another ar gument over wages strengthen by one more substantial link the chain of good times. Had tbe differences of 'the thousands of miners in this great copper camp been beyond the power of adjudication by peaceful confer ence, the result would have been al most Incomputable loss. At any other time it would have meant principally the loss of thousands of dollars a day to the miners and allied workers and the suspension of the industries of one of the country's busiest towns; but Just now it would have meant much more. ."With copper at a high price, the to produce it and keep pace with the demand, the loss to them and to man ufacturers would have been enormous. Happily, however, the possibility has been averted and the miners will pros per aa long as tbe mine-owners them selves enjoy the returns of the ap parently endless demand for the red natal. A MAGNIFICENT BA8E. 4 The foundation of a fund of ten millions of dollars by Mrs. Russell Sage, for charitable works will give the substantial income of four hun dred and fifty thousand dollars annu ally to those who are in real distress. That this fund is to be applied not in useless giving, but in practical assist ance to improved conditions of living among the poor, is the best predic tion that It will be fruitful of good re sults. The difficulty is not so much to provide for the hunger of today and to alleviate the misery of the passing moment as to discover and apply the means of permanent good, bringing to the poor more hopeful to morrows.. The broad scope of the gift lifts it into a different field from the usual charity, though Its purpose is TURPENTINE. Moths. will leave If It is sprinkled about Turpentine and soap will remove Ink stains from linen. Turpentine will remove wheel grease, pitch and tar stains. Clean gilt frames with a sponge mois tened In turpentine. It will exterminate roaches If sprin kled in their haunts. A few drops on a woolen cloth will clean tan shoes nicely. A few drops added to water in which clothes are boiled will whiten them. An equal mixture of turpentine and linseed oil will remove white marks from furniture caused by water. Ivory knife handles that have be come yellow can be restored to their former whiteness by rubbing with tur pentine. Carpets can be cleaned and colon re stored by going over occasionally with a broom dipped In warm water In which a little turpentine Is added. Splendors of Cafes. Tbe cafes and hotels of New York are rivaling each other In the almost oriental splendor with which they have fitted cp small rooms for dinner and after theater parties. At one cafe near Broadway the sides of one of these rooms are composed entirely of mir rors, after the French fashion, while the celling Is covered with green leaves and grapes, bunches of pink and purple grapes of glass, within which are elec tric lights. Tbe effect Is that of a beau tiful arbor. Another' cafe has mirrors reflecting small red lights throughout the room, while the ceiling, also of mirrors, Is an exquisite Imitation of moonlight; the effect of which is ob tained by electrics Inclosed In globes of the color and sheen of moonlight seen through a delicate tracery of faint green leaves. Exchange. A 8ad Case. A Chicago physician was one day called to attend a sick child In a "shabby genteel" quarter of tbe Windy City. "Madam," said the doctor to the mother, "you should send thla child Into the country for several weeks each summer." "I am son y to say, doctor," respond ed the woman, "that we are not rich enough to do that." "Then," suggested the 'physician, "have her sent by the fresh air fund." "Oh, doctor," exclaimed the woman, "we are not poor enough."' Harper's Weekly. Too 8elfish. Citlman- What's the matter with all you Swamphurst fellows? You don't seem to like my friend Backlotz. Sub bubs No; he's selfish. CItlman Oh, come now! Subbubs That's what he Is. A barn near blm caught fire the other night," and lie put It out without waiting for the rest of us members of tbe ' Swamphurst Hose to reach tbe scene. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Why should story tellers rack their brains for themes when romances are happening every day uuder their noses J Hero, like a flower peeping from un der a heap of rubbish, is a romance extracted from the most unromnntlc thing lu the world, an emigrant ship, It only remains for the story teller to put It In form, It Is not a tale of young lovers, iu the conventional story romauce ends with marriage. Nature knows no such division. Con celve au old fruit tree bearing shortly before It la cut down a slugle bit of fruit Into which the tree's vitality has been concentrated and you have tbe kind ot romance you are about to get, Forty years ago norman Gurllch, a Prussian, came to America, purchased farm, married, raised a family and prospered. His wife died, and one by on his children left him to marry and raise children of their own. For ten yean he worked bla farm alone, and then It occurred to him to rellevt his solitude by revisiting his former home tn Prussia. He did to, but failed to find tbe diversion he bad expected. The place he had left as village had grown to be a city, and the friends of bis youth who bad not gone elsewhere were In the churchyard. Disappoint ed, he turned his fact again toward bla desolate home In America. Martha Looser, a widow living In Berlin with her daughters, had a ton In America, tier daughters had been with her since tbelr birth, but her one son had left her when he was a boy, and she plued to spend the few years that remained to ber where aha might occasionally see blm. At last she could resist the temptation to go to America no longer. Now It happened. This Is a short sentence, au incomplete sentence, yet bow much there Is In It! What would ail tbe story tellers do If the two words were blotted out from the world's on going? It happened that Helnrlch Gur llch aud Martha Leoser were passen gers on the same ship. One day tbey sat side by side and fell -to talking. Gurllch rejoiced with the mother In her expectations at meeting her boy, and Mrs. Leoser grieved with tbe old man when be spoke of his return to his lonely farm. Tbey met frequently on the voyage and on reaching port parted with mutual regret In New York harbor, where they landed, is Ellis island, a danger point for emigrants more to be dreaded than submerged rock of tbe ocean. Here they must satisfy the officials that they will not be a burden upon the United States. Gurllch bad no trouble In do ing so and took bis departure. Mrs. Leoser sent for ber son, wbo lived In one of tbe environs of New York. He came, and for a brief period the moth er and her boy enjoyed their meeting and the prospect of at least living on the same continent But tbe young man failed to satisfy tbe authorities that he could support his mother. IIo had a large family of his own and was at the time out of employment His mother, too old to support herself, bad no one else on whom to depend. Tbe decree went forth that Martha Leoser must be deported to ber native land. Herman Gurllch, In tbe turmoil of the metropolis, was alone as much or more alone than be would be when be returned to bis farm. In years be bad met but one person of his own genera tion to give blm one spark of sym pathythe woman be bad met on tbe steamer. She bad shown blm a paper bearing her son's address to ask how she might find him. This address Gur llch remembered. One evening there was a rap at the door of young Leoser, and upon Its being opened there stood Gurllch. "Is Martha here?" he asked. He re membered only the widow's first name. "No. and she will not be here. She Is to be deported." Gurllch went latp tbe house, and his host told htm that there was no hope of his mother remaining, since there was no one to support her. ' "Yes, there Is one " said the old man after a long puse. "Wbor "L, If your mother will marry me and go to live with me on my farm (be need not go back to Germany." In half au hour the two men were on a boat speeding for Ellis Island. Tbey found the poor woman bemoaning her fate. Her eyes lighted as she saw her companion of the voyage. And here the effort of the story teller to put this humble romance In story form breaks down. Never was offer of marriage made in a form more widely diverse from tbe conventional proposal laid down In printed romances. Tbe son took his mother aside and told ber of Gurllch' s proposition. While mother and son conferred tbe would be groom stood making pretense of looking at a family of Russian Jews eating sau sages. In a few minutes Leoser return ed and said bit mother accepted tbe offer.. In vain the romance constructor casts about; for some stretch of the facts to give story form to the recep tion by the lover of the news tbat be was to be made happy. Yet why try express what no words ever have suc ceeded In expressing? Perhaps be said "Yah," perhaps "Das Is goot;" but, no matter what he said or how unlike our conceptions of what he should have sold, bis old heart experienced an echo of the gladness of youth. Upon Gurllch's promising the author ities that he would be responsible for Martha Leoser's support they at once gave her permission to go where she liked. With ber affianced husband and her son she went to the lattcr's bouse, where tbe marriage ceremony was per formed, -. " " ' " CRACK NUT SUNDAY. Queer Mttbed of Mooring a Strmon Still In Una In England, "Ono One tuitimm Sumlttv I ntteudod service la a north of KiiiiIhiuI coun try church Unit would hint driven n New York ptviu'licr clean rriuy," suld tbe man who (ravels. "Tint cougregti Uou didn't do n thing but sit around and crack nuts. Fancy a New York minister bilking (o a crowd of that klndl The modem preacher likes to have thing quiet when ho talks. It disconcert titiit to hour t baby cry or a woman cough or an old uinit snore. If bo 1m put out by such trifles a these. It la Interesting to conjecture what ho would do if he were to take hold ot a congregation where everybody brought huts to crack during the sermon. "WorNhhiers, It seems, . used to do thla In Kuglnnd aud even In our own states during colonial days. Thla dis turbance was not weekly occurrence by any means. If It bad been, the poor preacher would have undoubted ly left hit flock to administer spiritual consolation to suit themselves. But aa It happened only once a yeat be waa forced to endure it This one day which waa attended by such remarka ble license came the Sunday before Michaelmas day and waa called Vraek ant Sunday.' Nobody, no matter how pious be might be, hesitated to avail himself of tbe peculiar privilege grant ed him, and men, women and children cam to church with their pocket ruffed with nuta, which they compla cently cracked and munched during the sermon. - : I " A ; ! ; "It waa that kind of a sermon that so Impressed me with Its oddity. It can be easily Imagined tbat when for ty or fifty people get to cracking nuta with all their might the noise la apt to be something terrific, and many timet the minister was bard put to It to henr lihnself think.' That custom, from Mug regarded with high favor for many years, finally came to be looked upon aa a nuisance, and the habit was suppressed, except In a few remote localities, although the act of suppression was attended with consid erable difficulty, so firmly bad tbe nut cracking fever taken hold of the fancy of tbe people." New York Xreta. .a m : 'J I m ira I H1 J. A. 01 LHA Villi X CO., UiKlertakerM n Eiiilinliiiers. Experienced Lady Assistant When Desired. CftllH Promptly Attended Day or Night. Patton Bd?. 12th and DuvneSts . astokia, om:.i;oN' Phone Main 21 II PLEASANT HOUR OF ENTERTAINMENT VAUDEVILLE AT THE LOUVRE And Vaudeville that really -Amuses and Interests you. Weekly Changes of Pro gram and Each Change an Improvement SPECIALTIES THIS WEEK SIGNA ICOIIKKTH Magnificent Contralto Singer in all the Current Oems or Bong and real istic Sweedisb Charac ter Act MARIE WANDItUTII Flute Solist. Mistress of aH Lady Mel odists ADMISSION FREE CHAS. WIRKKALA, Prop. 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