THE MORNING ASTOWAN, A STOUT A, OREGON.
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1907.
THE
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KnterM aa rmiir-hua auilif Jnl
Ss.lWK.at the poatoflkw at Astoria. Orr
g. aadar tta act of Coajrww ol Marcbt,
WOrrlsre for the daMvenac of Taa Moan
ManoaualoelUMr real flaw or place of
easts hs ar be mad by peatai caws or
atyocgk keimhotM. Any tmcu)ari in de-
nrj hhh m imnwaMuwy ivportM to the
ww otpooupauaa.
TELEPHONE MAIN Mi.
OffieiaJ pajw of ClaUop oouBVy and
theCttrofAiunia.
llvered with a force of 63,000 pound,
with an cIriu Inch stroke.
This Is one of the revolutionary de
vices that will range alongside the
telephonf, the phonograph, the nuto
mobile, and tho few oth"r givat ccii
Hals of the present da ami It already
commands a market far In advance of
Its manufacture, as It should. It will
revolutionise mining, railroading and
Irrigation all over the land and con
serve the labor of thousands of thous
ands of men. The world will hear
great things fn?hi It shortly.
The Last Comrade
9 WEA3EKK.
urecon, Wasnlnfton, Idaho, j
Showers.
PLENT YOF LAW.
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Mr. Harrlman thinks there is plenty
Of law on the statutes of the states
and nation to direct the railroads in
the way they should go, and that any
more would simply stall the compa
nies. This has a funny sound coming
from a man whose chief business, as
a director and owner of railwas, has
always been to defeat. Ignore, or clr
cumvent the law; and the only reas
onable inference Is that more and new
er laws would simply increase his
task of negativing the codes and make
him amplify his legal departments
throughout the country until the
cream of the profits would be engulfed
In the cost of anti-legal campaign.
A closer adherence to the plain re
qulrements of the laws of the land
by the railways is the only alterna.
tlve at hand for the predator' conv
bines since it is only because their
Justice has been spurned and distort
ed, that the railways are being snub
bed up to newer and harsher edicts.
It Is well to let well-enough alone,
sometimes, and the transportation
companies are beginning to realize It.
If government ownership shall come,
the railways' may get together and
pass a mutual vote of thanks for hav
lng wrought the transition.
CAPITAL LEADS CAPITAL.
The comfortable iissuranotp that t'.te
Wonltihard Kstate trustees have de
termined to erect a splendid hotel In
this city Is very valuable of Itself a
an Item In the material progress of
Astoria and everybody Is intensely
glad of it, not onlji because It will nil
a crying need in the appointments of
the city and an attractive feature in
her make-up. but because of the posi
tive sign of confidence on the part of
outside capital, In the Inherent growth
and progress of the city.
Such demonstrations are valuable in
that they convince, guide and attract
other capital and Investment here,
and for the sake of the syndicate thus
forging the first link In the future chain
of Astoria's development ,we trust that
It will never have cause to regret, for
an instant, the generous embarktnent
of its funds in this behalf.
They certainly chose a line peculalrly
distinct in the quality of being non
competitive and wholly necessary, and
it is not likely they will have any thing
of the sort to contend wlth as they
will build upon such plans as w ill am
ply supply the demand for years to
come. Astoria is quietly congratulat
ing herself on the fine proposition.
' EDITORIAL SALAD.
Wall street should accustom Itself
to the view that It Is only a local dis
turbance.
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Pittsburg's suffering from water is
no worse than that of ame of the
railroads from the same cause.
Wall street will observe that all the
wheels are turning except some that
revolve In its own speculative vlcini'
ty.
Probably the bears and bulls will
quiet down as soon as they take In
the fact that the country is keeping
as cool as usual.
After all the talk about expansion,
the figures show that the outlying ter
ritory of the United States comprises
only 715,000 square miles.
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There seems to be a difficulty in
drawing the moral from Dowie's lsfe.
How would this familiar proverb an
swer: one is born every minute.
PUTER AND HERMAN.
Advice on the railroad situation
from any source that has been en
gaged in watering stock will be ex
amined with interest, but ahvo with
caution.
Our distinguished fellow citizen, S
A. D. Puter, is now at the
national capital telling his Un
cle Samuel all he knows about land A consul reports that Italy Is giving
thievery out here, and incidentally great attention to fertilizers and im-
naming names and places and dates proved farm machinery. That coun
and partners in the great, scheme of try may be said to have struck a pros
which he was the masterly leader for perity gait.
so many years, - set a imei io caicui o-
a thief," is all very well If you can xew York City has had 44 inches of
trust him to make the "bagging," but gnow since last fall and Its removal
the word of a thief, has a lacking, cots $37,000 an Tnch. New York ought
hollow sound, as though there was not t0 De that It is' not a Canadian
much to it but sound. S. A. D. Puter town.
is a raw thief, and his word is the
word of his kind, and must be treated he recent Jamaica earthquake de
as such; it is worth no more than Fu- gtroyed 300,000 galllons of rum, and
ter intends it to be worth, and the de- the owners have marked up the price
sideratum he employs' Is Puter. He t0 cover the loss. How would It do
never worked for any one else in his occasonaly to get up a relief fund for
life, and Is not now giving testimony consumers?
tor any oiner purpose wan w 0
Bmootn the way . ror ruter. Me may secretary Cortelytou proposes to
convict Binger Herman but it will not keep the united States treasury free
be in the interest of justice, but sole- from any entangling alliances wltbt
ly to expedite the release and mlmify the Btock market. In other words,
the burden of penalty for Puter. We Wal, 8tl.eet wm nave to speculate on
should hate to 'see even a guilty man
dragged down to the law's reprisals
on such testimony as Puters and we
believe all such convictions are tinc
tured with injustice whatever the hy
pothesis of necessity may be with the
prosecuting powers.
HATS OFF TO GENIUS.
The World gladly takes its hat off
to the genius; . and . . the universal
chapeau is now doffed to J. P. Karns,
a Colorado mining engineer, who has
just perfected a tunnelling machine
that digs through , a ;mountain Ride,
on any bore from eight to eighteen
feet, at the rate of five feet per hour
through granite, and relatively faster
through soft material. ;
the lace of the 110 'ton machine is
armed with, 4,000 chisel points, ranged
in 160 sets, and is driven against the
wall under operation, at the rate of
100 blows per minute, each blow de-
Its own money.
One English firm last year sold
400,000 of Dickens novels. It Is no
easy matter to let go of Pecksniff,
Quilp and Sairy Gamp, to say nothing
of the fine collection of notable folks
of another stamp.
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The Army and Navy Journal says
of the government engineers: "Sea
coast and inland, the country is dotted
with proofs of their efficiency." They
will reach their crowning triumph if
they can rightly punctuate the job at
Panama.
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New York proprietors of hotels and
restaurants have planned a $10,000,
000 company to handle supplies, "in
order to escape high prices'." It is
hardlii necessary to add that custom
ers are not Included in this deliver
ance through the kind offices of a new
trust.
lOrlflnall
An old man sat nt n table on which
had been placed a smoking dinner nnd
plates for eighteen persons. No scut
whs occupied except that of the old
tuau himself, and as the clock on the
mantel ticked Rway the minutes no one
else appeared. Indeed, the one ooeu
pnut of the room could uot have ex
pected any one else, for his own dinner
was on his plate. At each plHce was
bottle of wine, but the ouly bottle un
corked was that before the one diner.
At tne cioso or tne Mexican war
elghteeu ollleera who had taken part In
It and who lived not far from one an
other decided to celebrate the, peaea
with a dinner. It was a Jubilee. Dur
ing the evening a proposition was made
and decided upon that once a year the
reast was to be repeated, and as each
man dropped out his plate and bottla
were to be aet the same as If be were
present
All were either young or compar
atively young, and It was tome yeara
before a single place waa vacant Then
a chill passed over every man as he
entered the room and saw the empty
chair, the plate, the uncorked bottle,
of their late comrade. All bad looked
upon battlefields, but none bad expe
rienced this same peculiar sensation In
viewing the dead and dying.
Several years passed. The seventeen
men were beginning to become some
what accustomed to the one vacant
chair when the clock of their live
truck 2. They missed one ot the
youngest merriest of their number.
Then It became apparent that the
spontaneous merriment of their first
dinner would wane under the Increas
ing vacant chairs and exertion must be
mada to keep the dinners from grow
ing painful. A roaolutiou was passed
that each man must contribute some-thlng-a
song, a atory, a Joke, what
ever be pleased to enliven the occa
sion.
Slowly the diners watched the In
Vreaslng vacancies till the number gone
equaled the number remaining. When
the nine living men met and drank to
the nine who were dead, It was with
n effort Some due proposed that they
should sit together at a living half of
the table, leaving the other half for the
dead, but the proposal was voted down,
and the living and the dead remained
Ide by side.
Their clock struck 10, 1L 12, and two
thirds of the original number had puss
ed away. Six men whose beards were
gray sat together and drank to twelve
who had goue. To them the dead re
mained at the age they departed, some
on the threshold of manhood, others
at successive ages.
It was years before there was au-
other vacancy; then two empty plates
dropped Into line like figured disks re
cording the revolutions of an engine
Bhaft Another dropped In three years.
another In two.
By tills time all who were destine!
to reach the ordinary limit, threescore
years and ten, had dropped out. Of those
who were to become octogenarians
or centenarians but two remained. For
eleven years two old men sat down
together once a year and drank to six
teen comrade! whose bottles were un
corked. It was not now a question of
which should be blessed with the
longest life, but which would be soon
est relieved from a painful duty. As
they glauced over the unearned bottles
It seemed that their dead comrades
were drawn up In line to receive then
when they should appear upon lio
eternal parade. With trembling hands
they raised thin glasses to their lip
and drank drank as much as there
was hope of assimilating with their
wornout systems then set their glar
es down and without a word left n
room which from a banquet hall bad
become a sepufcher.
And now the last man. eighty-nine
years old, sits alone. A myriad of
wrinkles radiate from a scar ou bis
forehead, the remains of a wound re
ceived at Cburubusco. A few snow
white hairs are scattered over bis
head. His eye Is a flare of Intelligence
about to go out. Ills dinner Is untest
ed, except a little toast water, of which
he has taken a few sips. He sits at
one end of the table and looks down
the long line of bottles on either side,
every bottle representing a dead com
rade. He raises his glass and speaks,
not with his Hps lips are not needed
to address the dead but In spirit
"Comrades, I, about to die, greet
you. It has pleased our great com
mander to place me In charge o( the
rear guard. I have seen you all safely
over the rlrer, and now. my work be
ing finished, I am permitted to cross
myself. The din of battle Bounds far
fcftmjue, n ('"fiixed murmur ofjjljotit-
Ing, of musketry, of caution. I have
no desire to return to minirlo with It
I only wish to Join you In your long
rest. Comrades, I greet you."
Ho touched the rlin of his glass to
bis thin lip n ml set It down. Then
be rested his chin on his breast a ne"
closed Ids eyes.
The door opened, and a group of
children burst Into the room, followed
by their parents.
'Oraiulpu, wnke tip! We Imvo coin-)
to cheer you for the loss of yonr
friends. They are gone, but we ate
coming on. We knew It would be sud
for you to dine jtione; and we are go
ing to take yon nwsy and warm you
with our young hearts beating against
yours. Come; grandpa, wake up!"
Hut the old man did not wake tp
One of bis sons, a man of fifty, ap
proached aud quietly shook him. Touch
ing the veteran's haml, he found It
cold. Quickly passing his own hind
over the wrinkled brow, be dropped It
on the heart
It had ceased to best
F. A. MITCHBU
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a BplegaL 1104 N. Virginia BU
EvanflvUle, lad. writes: Tor over
five yaars I waa troubled with kidney
and bladder affections which caused
me much pain and worry. I lost
flesh and waa all run down, and a
year ago bad to abandon work en
ttrely. I bad three of the beat phy
sicians who did me no good anj I waa
practically given up to dl. Foley!
Kidney Cure waa recommended and
the first bottle gave me great relief.
and after taking the aecond bottle
was entirely cured." Why not let It
help you? T. F. Laurtn, Owl Drug
store.
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