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THE MORNING ASTOKIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, I97. THE: MORNING ASTORIAN itubushei tijj, toMiehea Daily Xztept Monday by IMS J. S. DIIXIHGKR COMFAKT. SUBSCRIPTION SATIS. 9j mail, per year 17.00 By (tniu, per monti. WEEKLY ASTORIA. 8, Mil, per jttt, ia adTance. . 1.00 biMi u MondMSlaai matter Jnlr S9,l. at tbe poto(no at Aitorta. Ur jgn, wider U aetol Cwkfreasol March, Baanauataatta ncUwoa or ftace of lnanai T b nada by postal ear or HiNacfe triatMaa. ay aiwtuJarlw Unry aWi aaaMdatetr report to the OoaotpaaUdatkh. nUEPBOXX MAS Mi. . ; . . . Ofltatal paper of ClaUop oounty and lh City of Ai tori. WEATHER. d Western Oregon and Washing- ton Showers followed by fair; warmer except near coast. 4 Eastern Oregon Generally 4 fair j cooler. ' Eastern Washington and Idaho Generally fair. THE OTHER ESSENTIAL. For years the city of Astoria has been in conspicuous need of two essential utilities, a fine modern hotel and an elec tric line over and around the hills that constitute the backbone of the peninsula upon which she is builded. The hotel is an assured fact and is due to the enter prise and public spirit of the trustees of the Henry Weinhard estate, and when it opens next year, will be in the first class of northwestern hostelries. The other essential thing, the railway over the crest and around the base of the hill line, is still among the crying wants of the city and must as certainly materialize in the future. The urgency of this thing is so intimately understood and appreciated locally, that it would seem as though it were not necessary to look to outside capital to carry it to reality and that Astoria money would take advantage of the opportunity to entrench itself in what is known as one of the chiefest and safest of all possible investments here; but as this is appar ently hopeless, we must turn to the financiers from abroad to broach the en terprise and take over the rich plum that should be garnered at home. The fact of the matter is, we do not care, now, who shall get the franchise, so long aa it is developed into actuality and this badly wanted utility is given us. The line need not stop at municipal limits, and would not, in the general nature of things, but its faculty for de velopment would make the southern slope of the Astoria hills blossom into a veritable garden of home spots, and the northern heights would swarm as read ily with the same contributory elements, not only for the building company, but for the city itself. Warrenton would be drawn into al most instant touch with Astoria and the venture would redound to the enrich ment of both places and start a hundred auxiliary enterprises that would ulti mately pay the cost f the original ven ture. There is money, and lots of it, in the project, and we hope to see gome "get-upnd-get" combination take hold of it before long, that will push it to fruition. We have jawed and dawdled and lazkd along with this big and sub stantial thing long enouga and the sooner some real, live concern, that knows a good thing when it see it, comes here and does business, the better for them and for the people who have stubborn ly stalled at the proposition all these years. i JAPANESE SECRET SERVICE. The frequent detection of Japanese spies within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States has become so com mon as to confirm the conviction in the public mind that the secret service of that country is vast and comprehensive and peculiarly directed toward the in stitutions of America and the elemental nature of their conduct and mainten ance, especially the army and navy and the war establishment generally. In deed, the matter has gone so far that the government has done away with the employment of all Japanese servitors and has placed an iron-clad prohibition againt their invasion of any sort, ship, navy-yard or other organic plants of the publio service. The Japanese have, for years too long to be accounted for, enjoyed the confi dence of the army and navy offloer, at quiet, effloient and trustworthy employes and this partiality ha been made the most of by the shrewd "little brown mau." He has Imposed on the situation immensely since the termination of the Russo-Japanese war, and has, for all we know, gathered some invaluable secret statistic and passed them up to his government at home end been duly rewarded for his work. But the day ha gone by for his easy access to the forbidden phases of our departmental work, and what he accomplishes in the future will be wrought with all the peril attendant upon the suspected espionage he must pursue if his government de mands the information. It is said that some of the aristocracy ot Japan, notably among that nation's naval attaches, have been discovered in very delicate and inexplicable situation! in this connection and have been ordered out of this country in disgrace, but the circumstances have not been made public because of the operation of diplomatic: codes and agreements also classed among the national secrets. The Japanese ia juteusely loyal to the Mikado and will go through every con eievable peril to attain what his mon arch desires to know, all of which is commendable enough, from the stand point of fidelity to one's country, but entirely unacceptable to the country under exploitation. The trouble with the Jap i that he is pluckier than he is acute, and his nerve too often out runs his sagacity. He has been discov ered and defeated in this signal employ ment so often that the accuracy of this deduction ia substantiated. Every in telligent, well-dressed native of Japan now in the United States is, tacitly, under popular suspicion aa a spy and U watched accordingly, by those whose path he crosses with ny regularity. Every nation maintains a secret serv ice corps, and it is an admitted feature of governmental work, but none of them do the raw stunts the Japanese have done, nor in 'the clumsy fashion they seem to be partial to. MOTHER FINDS SON. Identifies Him on Slab in Pittsburg Morgue. FITTSBURG, August lt-'Two weeks ago John V. Miles, aged 31, of Believer non lost his job in a glass works there and came to Pittsburg to obtain work. Yesterday the young man's mother, Mrs. Mary Miles, 70 years old, came to Pittsburg from Bellevernon on a brief shopping trip. "It's strange, I haven't heard from my boy since he came here," remarked the old lady "I thought of looking him up." A friend took her to see Pittsburg's sights and they visited the morgue. "You look like my boy," she said to a deputy standing near, and she told the story of the son from whom she had not heard for a fortnight. Gently" the mother was led into the chapel. There among the unidentified dead she found her son. She was pros trated. "It can't be!" she said. Two weeks ago the glass plant at Bel levernon shut down. The following day Miles left home, saying he was going to look for work, and adding he would not return until Monday. Wednesday night Miles, accompanied by a man supposed from the papers on his person to be Charles Palmer, were run down and killed by a Pittsburg, Virginia & Char leston railroad train near Green Springs. The bodies of both men were taken to the morgue to await identification. No one could identify Palmer's companion and the body was being prepared for burial when Mrs. Miles arrived yester day. Mrs. Miles said her husband had been ill for about a year and unable to work and their son was their only support Since his father's illness Mrs. Miles said her ton had postponed bis marriage. declaring he would never marry so long as they were dependent on him for sup port, although he had been engaged to a young woman for more than a year. The body of the young man was gent to his home by the railroad company. The Limit of Life. The most eminent medical scientists are unanimous in the conclusion that the generally accepted limitation of human life is many years below the at tainment possible with the advanced knowledge of which the race ia now possessed. The critical period, that de termines its duration, seems to be be tween 50 and 60; the proper care of the body during this decade cannot be too strongly urged; carelessness then being fatal to longevity. Nature's best helper after 60 is Electric Bitters, the scientific tonio medicine that revitalizes every or gan of the body. Guaranteed by Charles Rogers, druggist. 50c. The bites and stings of insects, sua- burg, cuts, burns and bruises relieved at once with Pineaalve OarboHsed. Acts like a poultice. Draws out htflamma tion. Try it. price 25c. Sold by Frank Hart's Drug Store. New Law In Massachusetts Will Aid Laboring Classes. COLLECTOR DONE AWAY WITH How Industrial Life Insurance Policies May Be Written By Bay State Insti tutions Of Savings After Next Ne vember A Masaachusetti Law. BOSTON', August, IS. With the de sign of benefiting wage-earners, Gov. Guild of Massachusetts hat affixed hi signature to an act which is believed by many of bis advocates to be the most important single measure passed by any merk-an legislature in the session of UW. There is, of course, the Public Utilities Bill in New York; but thia, af ter all, was simply the application in the Empire State of principle! of publio con trol that have before now been recog nized in other American commonwealth. There has been bills in many state legis latures regulating freight and passenger charges on railroads; but these have in volved no especial departure from the policy of recent years; everybody, near ly, has long believed in some form of railroad regulation, and Uncle Sam has already authorized himndf to tackle this problem. But Massachusetts has done a novel thing, so far at least as the western world is concerned i" permit ting the establishment of a new type of life insurance. On and after November 1, 1007, if ad vantage is taken of privileges now gran ted by Massachusetts, the Bay State wage-earner who wants protection for his family through one of the policies of the type known as "industrial" that iii whose premiums are payable at fre quent intervals will be able to exer cise a choice. Henceforth there will be competition between two different life insurance systems. The working man may, on the one hand, yield to urging tc take out a policy with one of the in surance companies which do an industrial business and which will keep a collector perpetually on his heels to gather the premiums as they fall due. He may, on the other hand, go to a "savings and insurance bank" a new title under the Massachusetts law and arrange to take out life insurance not exceeding $300, with the understanding that he is vol untarily to pay his premiums once a month without being teased by a. col lector. He may al-o buy there an an nuity of a value not to exceed $100. If he has an account in the savings de partment of the bank he may arrange to have his premiums paid from that auto matically, as they fall due. One of the greatest advantages cluimed for the new system of savings insurance is, of coui'-e, its greater cheapness. The expense of teaming people into insuring their lives and, of collecting their pre miums from house to house causes this form of protection to th wage-earner to cost from two to eight timet) as much as his wealthier neighbor has to pay for ordinary life insurance. There is, to be sure, a familiar argument to the effect that the average individual won't buy an insurance policy unless he is talked into it by an agent. Some people, how ever, believe that a large enough pro- Iportions of American laboring men are in dustrious, thrifty and far-seeing to do the thing they ought to do without being eternally nagged about it; there are so ber mechanics who do not allow the con tents of the pay envelope week after week to be wholly absorbed by the bu tcher and the "bar-keep." These folk think that Massachusetts it a particularly good state in which to test out their ideas. The savings bank, which is naturally adapted to handling life insurance since insurance is only a specialized form of savings has such publio confidence that it is, they hold, the ideal institution from which to offer policies "over the counter." The first savings bank in the United States was opened in the city of Boston ninety years ago. Massachusetts has long had the best saving communities, proportionately to population, of any American state. The total of deposits to the credit of wage earners on October 31, 1000, was $094, 081,141.08, a sum nearly equal to the interest-bearing debt of the United States, and exceeding the total assessed valuation of Maryland, Kentucky or Connecticut. The savings banks have for many years been conducted without scandal or reproach and they necessarily stand high in the esteem of the popula tion supporting them. Part of the original scheme of the sav ings bank as this was devised in Eng land was that it should contain depart ments for issuing life insurance poli cies and annuity contracts. The sav ings hank In this country have up to tlii. time hud to utalili-h their position ,i a mvery part of the tlmttii'liil world, and civic center comparable with the school and the church in the In culcation of the atandard virtues, N'ow, however, it i proponed to ee if the original idea of the fouudcrt of the in stitution cunuot be suwsl'ully execu ted, lii-t in MasitU'huaett and after ward clsew here. The act enabling the experiment to le tried was paed by decilve majori ties in both branche of the Legislature 011 Beacon Hill. Public opinion In sup port of the measure was amused through the energetic campaign conducted by the Massachusetts Saving Insurance League an association formed lat No- ember for the purpose of promoting tin idea of tiving insurance, an outgrowth of the investigations made by Louis D. Brandeit, a Boston ywer Into the pre sent excessive cost Of industrial life In surance. Practical direction of the affairs of the League was taken by Representative Norman II. White, a young Boston pub lisher, serving hie Ant tersi ic the Legis lature. Mr. White organized the ac tivities of the league much as a cam paign for new business would be or ganized. The argument for savings In surance was presented In every impor tant center of the state by a fly ing squa dron of speakers. Cltiren were urged to enroll themselves until at the preent time a membership of more than 100.000 stands on the book at the headquar ters, Xo. 2 (Park street, this city. Ex Goc, William L. Douglas, a wealthy dine manufacturer of Brockton, who ear ly became interested in the plan, consen ted to become the league's president. Among the vice-president i Ex-Gov. John L Bates. The present Governor of the State, Curtis Guild, Jr., wa o strongly impressed with the project that he included a strong recommendation of it in his 1007 inaugural. large propor tion of the labor union of the ttate, one after another, have expressed their approval of the scheme, almost always by unanimous vote. When the measure in the form of a carefully drafted bill, finally came before the Legislature, bear ing the approval both of the recess com mittee, the insurance commissioner, Pierre Jay, what else was there for the the legislator to do but to past it T The people wanted it. It was merely a permissive act. No hank was obliged to try it. Accordingly it went through amidst plaudits from a well laden band wagon. By the law an insurance trust may at any time after next November be estab lished by any one of the ISO saving b.ink of Masuchuetts. This must be kept, however, entirely separate from the ordinary savings trust; and before any step can lie taken in this direction, a majority vote of the incorporators and a two-thirds vote of the trustee at a meeting speci-illy called for the purpose must express aense of the wisdom of the action. A licence by the state will not be granted until a special guaranty fund has been provided from sources outsiJe the bank to cover any possible dcflcincics in the expenses of the depart ment, and a special Insurance guaranty fund has been secured to make good any death losses exceeding the expecta-, tions of the ordinary or special mor tality tables. A stable arid uniform sys tem throughout the state is to be assur ed by the existence of a general guar anty fund maintained by a small per centage on all premiums and annuity re ceipts of bank establishing life insu rance departments. If any savings and insurance bank needs help, it may get it from the fund, the amount advanced being returnable with Interest a soon as the bank's surplus permits. When the general fund is of suflkient size, its trustees may loan from it the special guaranty fund which is required when a savings bank intends to establish an insurance department. In the employ of the truttees of the state fund there will be an actuary, in charge of the work of preparing all the standard forms, and empowered if nec cessary to construct special mortality tables. He will have as assistant a state medical examiner. Many pro visions afegunrd depositors and the general public. It is understood that a number of Bay State savings banks are already preparing to take advantage of the new law. At the same time, enthusiastic advocates of the idea, who without pos sibility of personal aggrandizement have spent considerable sums of money in getting the measure tried in Massachu setts, hope to extend the demonstra tion in the near future to other Ameri can states. The feeling among thou sands of members of the savings in surance league is expressed in the words of Thomas G. Plunt, one of the best known of American shoe manufacturers: "I wish to express my sincere belief that you have started a movement which will become as national and as great a benefit to the people of the United I States as are our savings banks." Tea Years in Bed. For 10 yean I was confined to my bed with disease 0f my kidneys," write R. A. Gray, J, P. of Oakvllle. lad, "it was so severe that I eould not move part of the time. 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