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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1907)
THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TUE8DAY, MARCH 26, 1907. THE -MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1I7 FnbHahed Daily Except Monday by TIL J. & DELLINGER COMPACT. SUBSCRIPTION SATES. By mall, pr jw , .17.00 By arrisr, par month 10 WEEKLY ASTORIAH. B, mail, per year, In adtanc.. 11.00 Kotrf4 m tMoo4-elM mMttr July 30, UOKM U postofflos at Astoria, Or mom, asaer Us aot X Comr-"" o( March , tyOiito for taa AnUrmt ct T Mow amuaouviUftoi reaKtaace pU et tuirtiiMS MF b mada br post! oari or tbwsk Sat ehotia. Any ta-rag-uiarRr to ofpabUoafioa. TSLXFKOITI MAOI Mi. Official Mptr of ClaUop eountj and taa City of Astoria. do In the way of lrns-bnnl reoojulons ovations, and suoh mnnexivers will niltlRnte for a moment the ronl oswrnee of Iturton'a guilt; It will not hot i him a partlolo vllh the gomMiil -mlillc. nor lighten tbc burden ho hn as ?unied: It only serves for tlu niomont of Its transpiring, to make hint feel that he has nonie friends loft: that In Abilene at Uvtst he " hM hU heftd up and pom as a martyr. rteyonJ tills he cannot carry the proof of the homo, confidence to any m'n or place where ll will operate to his advantage. It In a mercy with a string to It, and not a very long one at that. SCHMITZ WILL NOT CONFESS WEA1HSS. Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Showers. . A DRUNKEN PHANTASM. A prominent liquor dealer, a whole saler, and retailer, yesterday, told a member of this staff, that certain countries, France In particular, were moving rapidly to the point of abso lutely prohibiting the manufacture absinthe on account of Its pre-eminence as an Incentive to suicide: and speaking from his own knowledge of the liquor he commended the Idea and declared that many of the wretched Ills inherent in the trade would be eliminated if this particular evil thing were done away with. Of all the drinkables known to man it Is the very worst. It is compounded of brandy and wormwood, and he is wise indeed who can extract any pos slble irood from either, much less from the horrible compound. The po tency of brandy la enough, in the pur suit of a habit, without the deadly. insidious, vein-destroying, phantom Droducing faculties of the drug, to aid it in destroying the victim. The instance of young Corporal Lewis who suicided In this city early on Saturday morning last, is a case In point This man, mid-way in his twenties, hale and healthy; a bright, pleasant, companionable man, a good soldier, an appreciated comrade, comes to the citf for a few days recre ation; he Indulges in drink, and for the most part, drinks absinthe with his whiskey; he drinks all of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and in the dawn of Saturday he Is a maniac. To prove It he causelessly shoots to kill the woman who had been his companion during his spree, and believing he had done the deed, turns the weapon on himself with fatal effect, and now lies ready for the grave. There is nothing to attribute the wild, freakish, murderous tendency to, save the ghastly French concoction. He was not stupidly drunk as he might have been had he drank straight whis key; there was no serious quarrel be tween him and the woman; they had not been together long enough to es taUish a basis for a quarrel of which murder and suicide was a logical out come; they had not known t each other except for the three days mentioned; there is sirrfply no hypothesis for his untoward con dition save the madness produced by the frightful liquor to which he lent a foolish preference ins'pired, perhaps, by the notion that it was a manly, fashionable tipple, and added some what to his status as a bon vlvant Absinthe lies at the bottom of this, as well as many another unaccount able crimes. Vhy Eugeno Schmlti, San Francisco's reform" mayor refuses to confess. In the face of the vast mass of the confessions that engulf . him In their details, ' lrreclalmably. should he? There will be tomes and volumes and sheets of testimony handed in to the courts when the time conies that will obviate anything like a confession. from Mr. Schmlts. They won't do a thing to him when they get on the stand, these men who have already admitted their share of the frightful guilt of the hour there. They will tell things on him and everyone else, true things, raw and rare tales, that will make him wish he had confessed as the simpler and less hurtful way out of an Inextricable mess. It is literally impossible taal he, the head and front of the great municipal administration so tremendously In volved; the bosom friend of the arch leader of the spoilsmen: the main source of referenco for all matters of good and ill that affected the city. should be Innocent, Ignorant, unin- volved. Time, and the truth will do more to swing him beneath the brunt 1 1 of outraged law, than any meagre, studied confession he mlgnt offer. GIRL POISONS CHILD Quarter Breed Mohawk Declares She Did Deed for Love. ATE OF THE POISON HERSELF Was Waif Adopted By Farmer Burn d Buildings and Fsar of Discovery So Preyed On Mind That She D eidsd on Suicide. NKW YORK, March 35Jcnnlf Rurch, a quarter breed Mohawk, who In September last poisoned the Infant son of Herbert Wlnshlp a wealthy far mer of Cowles Corner, Putnam County, will be placed on trial today for her life at Carmel, N. Y. It Is her 15th birthday. On the day of the baby's burial she sobbed out a confession of how she fed the Infant a poisoned peach. She said she had loved her little charge and becauso of her great love had killed It. Medical men and other men who have examined this girl differ as to her sanity. Jennie Rurch was a waif and was given a home by the Wlnshlp J family four years ago. The farmer and his family treated the girl as 0110 of their own. When the baby, Wilbur, was born, Jennie Burch became It guardian. Her love rivalled that of the child's mother. She has been unable to give a sat isfactory explanation of the crime. The murJer Itself was preceded by several Incendiary fires which tho gli'l admitted that she was responsible for. There will be confessions enough with- Flrst tj,e bam was burned and then out him, an dne prooaoiy Knows 11 followed nine different attempts to better than anyone else In the whole iburn tne wlnshlp house. Jennie's ex- city of San Francisco. PRUNES. JUST A HOME SPIRIT. Abilene, Kansas, has demonstrated that It possesses the real home-spirit In the spontaneous character of Its welcpme to Senator Burton who ha? Just emerged from the penitentiary doors, after his term of Imprisonment for a deliberate crime. It Is hard to kill this clinging, com munal, place-prldeful sentiment, and It must be counted anion the merci ful provisions that lodge among the peoples, taking nothing Into account except the sole fact that the man or the woman, "belongs to us." Of course nothing that Abilene could The woful news is at hand that the prune crop is' a failure. To the unthinking this Joes not sound woful, nor even threatening, but to the man who knows and loves the cheap, common, succulent stewed prune In all its fulness and fllllngness, It will come as a shock. One has only to cast his stomachic e'e to the lost breakfast treat of rich, black, soft, shjny glob-ales, floating in thick cool syrup, like dark diamonds In a still sea of Ink, to know the full significance of the season of depriva tion that Is ahead. The lowly prune is one of the vital staples of the land, and has more friends than are usually accredited to It. It is the most wholesome, compen sating, satisfying fruit In the world, and there is less loss in Its prepara tion and use than In any other commo dity known to mankind. It Is the wide divergency in cooks that has brought the prune Into disrepute. Three pounds of good prunes and one real good cook can effect a compound, which, with the aid of half a pint of rich cream, will put even the royal strawberry to the bad, provided the partaker has not cultivated a wilful prejudice against the former, and the latter is out of season. The prune is alright; and has a sim pie honest history of its own that should be studied and made applicable. Only a perverted taste can safely dis parage the good old prune. planatlon of the lncemiiursm was that she wanted to see "(lames shoot." Af ter the barn had been burned she said she Imagined she was suspected, and this thought preyed on her mind, Then she decided to kill herself. She thought of the baby and concluJ.nl that child should die with her. She poisoned a peach and gave the child a portion of It and ate th remainder herself. Within half an hour the gi i and the Infant were taken violently 111. Mrs. Wlnshlp dIJ all she could for both of them. Before night the baby died but Jennie Burch recovered. The girl insists that she poisoned the p'.Hh with iodine. Chemists employed by the state say that she killed the chllJ with strychnine. It Is believed hr lawyers will attempt to prove Insani ty at the time of the murder. John D. Rockefeller without mention ing that he has a fortune of $300,000, wlthout prefixing It with "Former President." If the Douma knows Its business It will hand the czar a loaded hypothet ical question. Mr. Fairbanks Is removing the outer wrappings of his boom. EDITORIAL SALAD. The impres'sarios have decided that, though nature may supply a tenor a voice, he must supply himself with a physique. Blue laws are not needed to make a city blue. The utter rout of its base ball aggregation did the act for Bos ton last season. P. S. to my letter of recent date (1904) Vox Popull: Since you in sist I will accept T. R." Are we to go through a new set of agonies with the wireless telephone? What Roumanla needs Is a good, swift kick. It is a little late for an ocean rate war Spring traffic is about to begin. The Russians have sent a body of Cossacks into Persia merely as a mat ter of good faith and especially not for publication broadcast. We shall be obliged to the President If he will, when he gets time, Issue an exectutlve order requesting newspa per reporters to write the name of All the known medical exports wav ing appeared In the Thaw trial, where are we going to get expert for the lu nacy commission? His Ship Wsnt Down. The imii with tho hrotmoJ face nnri the rolling ve wits enlliralllux Ills friends when Mr, Hut ton entered Just lu time to hear him any; "And so my ship went down with nit hamU." "Went down?" queried Mr. Utitton oxcttedU. "But where were you?" "I wni lu tho captain's cabin nt the time," said the browsed one. "Wo sunk slowly, but surely, ami scarcely n rip pie wna left to murk the spot." "How sad!" snld Mr. Button. "But still, I suppose you forced your way out of the ciiMii and immnued to swim ashore, ch? Or were you taken ptT by a passing vessel?" "No, I wasn't," trnkl tho browsed one "I Just stood w liero I was." "Loon here," mild Mr. Buttou seri ously, "You say you were linked tn a cabin and tuude 110 effort to escape and yet here you are safe and souud before ns! I this a tale of tho horse marines?" "Not exactly." said the salt "It's 11 tale of tho submarine. That was the sort of ship I was abord."-Cblcnj:o Journal A Chintsa Solemon, A blind street musician, reports a Chines newspaper, stood on .tin sbu.v of a river, pusnled how to craa tin stream. He Implored nn oil oVnt:r win happened to come along to nasi; t lilui The oil denier had pity on the helpless mini, took him on bis shoulders, irnvo htm his money b.ig t hold ami eurrled hlui across, Wheii lie depuMite l Ms bur den on tbc other shore tho bltnl mnn refused to return him his tnouey bug, raised a noise and declared that tho money was bis projK-rty. The matter came before the Judge, and each wan aid on onth that tho money belonged to him. Tbe Judge finally ordered tho bag of tnouey emptied Into a water tank, and then suddenly announced that the oil dealer was tho owner. When asked for the reason for his de cision, he declared that the money of the oil dealer must certainly show traces of hla business, and, Indeed, on tbe surface of the water races of oil war foe!. We might In an emergency secure the powerful Nlcaraguan Meet to guard the raclflo for us. m The wireless telegraph Is a great in vention, but It doesn't seem to be able to get a very Interesting Interview out of J, P. Morgan In mid-ocean. Rust Is already beginning on the machine of that Chicago typist who won the prize In a beauty show. It requires all her time to live up to her new reputation. One of the best evidences of the de sire oft Japan to maintain its newly acquired reputation as a peer of west ern nations is the large number of Japanese seeking commercial Informa tion In this country. Physicians Called It Eczema In Worst Form Treated Disease for a Year but Could Not Cure it Patient Became Despondent Suffering Promptly Allayed and DREADFUL DISEASE . CURED BY CUTICURA "About four years ago I was afflicted with black splotches all over my fm-e and a few covering my body, which produced a severe itching irritation, and which caused me a great d-al of annoy ance and suffering, to such an extent that I was forced to call in two of tho leading physicians of . Af ter a thorough examination of the dreaded complaint they annoum-ml it to be skin eczema in Its worst form. Thev treated me for the same for tho length of one rear, but tho treatment did me no good. Finally I became despondent and decided to discontinue their ser vioes. Shortly afterwards, my husband in reading a copy of a w-wkljr New York paper saw an advertisement of the Cuti cura Itomediefl. He purchamtd tho en tire outfit, and after using tho contents of the first bottle of Cuticura Resolvent in connection with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment, the breaking out entirely stooped. I continued the use of the Cuticura Remedies for six months, and after that every splotch was entirely gone and tho affected parts were left as clear as ever. I have not fj-lt a symp tom of the eczema since, which was three years ago. The Cuticura Reme dies not only cured me of that dreadful disease, eczema, but of other complicated troubles as well, and I have bn the means of others being cured of the same disease by the Cuticura Remedies, and I don't hesitate in saying that Cuticura Resolvent is the best blood medicine that the world has ever known. Mrs, Lizzie E. Sledge, M0 Jones Ave., Selma Ala., Oct. 28, 1905." SKIN HUMORS Eczemas, Rashes, Itchlngs, Irri tations Cured by Cuticura Warm baths with Cuticura Soap, gen tle anointings with Cuticura Ointment, and mild doses of Cuticura Pills, afford immediate relief and point to a speedy cure of torturing, disfiguring humors of the skin, scalp, and blood of infants, Children, and adults, when all else fails. Bold throughout the world. 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