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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1908.
The MORNING
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THE WEATHER ,
Western Oregon and Washington
Showers. Eastern Oregon, and Washington
Idaho Showers and thunderstorms.
THE WARNING OUT.
The long-drawn and wearisome
fight between the Astoria police com- j
mission, common council, and shriev
alty of Clatsop, as to which element
shall enforce the laws of State. and
city against the law-breakers in the
matter of saloons and their conduct,
and amongst which stools of conten
tion the wholesome desire for an
orderly and well-regulated commun
ity, cherished by the people, falls to
the ground, inert and inoperative, has
been borne about as long as public
suffrance intends and there is going
"to be something done before the June
election, and after it, that will bring
the officials to their senses, or we are
very much mistaken in the popular
temper.
The warning is out, in the shape of
petitions for local option; the patience
of the citizens may be reduced to a
point where the use of such expe
dients shall prove far more effective
than the mere demand that the offi
cers, charged with the maintenance of
the law, do their duty; in which case
there is no appeal, no resort, no way
'round, nothing but the prompt with
drawal from a business that cannot,
confessedly, be conducted within the
law. '-'
There is a strong contingent of
Astoria citizens who do not believe
in this procedure at this time, because
it is inopportune, and liable to con
flict seriously with many specific and
desirable improvements and advant
ages now imminent; and this atti
tude may avert the concrete expres
sion of popular reprisal for sometime
to come; but even in that event, it
will not allay the sentiment to em
ploy it later on. For these reasons, it
is essential that the saloon men of
Astoria shall get within range of the
necessities of the hour and come out
for a square observance of the law
in all its details. We do not want the
intervention of local option, nor do
many of its adherents, but if it is the
only thing that will make the men
already bonded to keep the law, ob
serve that bond and the law, then it
will be used for all it is worth an
those who may suffer may lay the
unflattering "unction" of it all to
their own stupidity and cupidity.
There is a growing dislike for ex
treme measures in the application of
the simple and straight laws of the
land, and a feeling of resentment
when the necessity arises for public
expression on such a question; and
one of the extremities is in force and
place whenever a city is asked to go
on its jnarrow-bones to any given
business for the better observance of
the very laws that business is bonded
to faithfully observe. It is' squarely
up to the saloons of Astoria to do the
right thing, such' of them as are not
doing it; for default now, may mean
a' burden of loss and defeat later .on
that will put them, where they will
have no saloon law to observe from
the standpoint of a licensed dealer.
T.he officers of the law have their
share of interest in this proposition.
Thev are responsible for the appre
hension of every known offender
against the law, and if they fail and
refuse to do their' duty, or make a
"shuttle-cock" of that duty by trying
to pass it on to some other officer or
department, they are, indirectly, par
ticeos criminis and should be treat
ed on that principle, and are likely
to no uo aerainst just such a handling,
if the public temper is further aroused
on this subject.
OREGON'S EDUCATORS.
Just at present Astoria is enjoying
the distinctadvantage of entertaining
"three score and ten" of the public
educators of the State;, ladies and
gentlemen, who,, collectively,. and in
dividually, exercise an immense and
lasting influence for good in the com
ing citizenship of the land, and who
offer an excellent and composite type
and quality to all who stand for the
best of civic conditions m the present
hour. '
The highly trained, conscientious,
well poised teacher, public or private,
carries always, a huge responsi
bility to society, as he or she shall
express the best concepts of the pro
fession and pass them on to the re
ceptive minds entrusted to them. The
gospel of culture, which is infinitely
comprehensive of the graces, virtues
and solid attainments of modern life,
takes no second place in the univer
sal estimate of the fixed callings of
humanity, and parallels the grave and
lofty cult of religion itself, differing
from it only in the sense that, the
education of the day must be mater
ial and not wholly spiritual.
Every phase of the teacher's duty
is instinct with light and promise and
goodly development, and entitled to
the largest and freest recognition at
the hands of the people everywhere.
In their hands rest the bid, and the
guerdon, of a splendid and cultivated
future, not to speak of the very char
acter of the nation itself; and such a
trust, well served, should receive at
the hands of all men, the cordial and
interested acknowledgment it deserves
from every community.
Astoria knows, to a man and wom
an, what she owes to the profession,
and gladly confesses the obligation!
VTHE JETTY DISASTER.
There is not a home in all Astoria
nor Clatsop county, that does not
send forth its message of sympathy to
the stricken families upon whom the
weight of sorrow cast by the jetty
accident of Wednesday, falls.
Neither this city nor county has yet
outgrown the intimacy that dwells in
the unmetropolitan community; we
know and feel and suffer one with
the other down here, because of the
nearness of our relations and the in
terchangeable smpathies incident to
that kindly familiarity- It is all right
to; and while we may long for the
larger sphere and the broader "activi
ties, we know how to prize the ready
and understandable concert of com
passion that exists here, and will re
gret the day that diminishes, or dis
lodges it.
Again, the Morning Astorian,
speaking for the whole county, de
clares the sorrow that is universally
felt for the unhappy families of
Jacob C. Lehman and Martin Carl
son, of Hammond.
"One Touch, of Nature Makes the
Whole World Kin."
When a rooster finds a big fat
worm he calls all the hens in the
farm yard to come and share it A
similar trait of human nature is to
be observed when a man discovers
something exceptionally good he
wants all his friends and neighbors
to share the benefits of his discovery.
This is the touch of nature that
makes the whole world kin. This
explains why people who have been
cured by Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy write letters Jo the manufactur
ers for publication, that others sim
ilarly ailing may also use it and ob
tain relief. Behind every one of these
letters is a warm-hearted wish of the
writer to be of use to some one else.
This remedy is for sale by Frank
Hart and leading druggisU.
TRACK WASHED AWAY-
FORT WORTH, Texas, April 23.-
A heavy rainstorm last night swept
away one-third of a mile of Rock
Island track in the vicinity of New
ark and brought traffic to a stand
still.
Traffic between this city and Dallas
over the Rock Island Railroad is still
cut off because of the numerous
washouts resulting from the rain
storms of the past few days- Trains
to and from the north will be de-
toured over the tracks of the Fort
Worth and Denver Railroad around
the stretch of tack washed out last
night.
Chabmerlains's Hs the Preference.
Mr. Fred. C. Hanrahan, a promi
nent druggist of Portsmouth, Va.,
says: "For the past six years I
have sold and recommended Cham
berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarhoea
Remedy. It is a great remedy and
one of the best patent medicines on
the market. I handle some others
for the same purposes that pay me a
i larger profit, but this remedy is so
sure to effect a cure, and my custom
er so certain to appreciate my recom
mending it to him, that I give it the
preference." For sale by Frank Hart
and leading druggists.
Pengreave's
Helping Hand. 1
By W. F. BRYAN.
Copyrighted. 190$, by Homer Spracu. T
rengrenve, coming slowly down the
street, gave no hoed to his surround
ings. For twenty years ho had been
coming down the same street," some
times a little earlier, sometimes very
much later, but always he paused
along with unseeing eyes, his thoughts
fixed upon his business and his borne.
At fifteen he bad first turned into the
side street from the main thorough
fare. Horse cars had run unevenly
over the badly set rails, and flickering
gas lamps had lighted all save the
business streets. Now there were trol
leys everywhere, aud even the alley
ways were lighted by electricity, but
Richard Pengreave gave no heed to
these chnnsi'8.
It had been a good locality once.
When Pengreave, in the glory, of his
first long trousers and his first "real"
Job. had sought a boarding place Mrs.
Beldln's had been recommended as be
ing In a "nice residential neighbor
hood."
It had been a well swept street then,
lined with rows of three story brick
houses and here and there a "brown
stone front" to break the monotony.
Now the homes had given way to five
and six story tenements. Mud heaps
and garbage barrels littered the un
kempt pavement and the broken flag
stones. -
The Beldln house, too, had. changed.
Mrs. Beldln's daughter had assumed
charge at her mother's death and bad
changed it to a furnished room home,
declaring that the cares of a largo
kitchen weighed too heavily ppon her.
Then she married and had moved up
town, and some one else bad taken over
the shabby bouse, with its shabby fur
niture. ;
The change bad annoyed Pengreave,
and be bad promptly purchased the
"I SHALL HOLD TOO TO YOUB PBOKIBKP
BBS cnim
place, for he was errand boy no longer,
but the proprietor of a business. lie
bad retained tbe first floor for his own
use. and a real estate agent bad rented
tbe other floors. He handed Pengreave
quarterly checks, and Pengreave wor
ried no more.
He was sure of a home, the only
borne he bad known. lie sat at bis
window in the summer evenings and
looked across the square opposite and
gave no heed to the children swarming
in the street.
There had been few children when
he had first come to Barrow street, and
those were well dressed and orderly.
Now the policeman on the beat bad his
bands full. Aid only Pengreave remain
ed serene and unworried.
Once for nearly a year he had wor
ried. It was wben he was nineteen
and he had fancied himself in love.
But Lena bad married a Junk dealer
on the corner below, and, after an un
quiet month, during which be drank
seidles instead of tbe smaller glasses at
the Bierballe. Pengreave bad recovered
his placidity.
Since then It had pleased him to be
lieve that his life bad been wrecked,
and so be kept Lena's faded photo
graph on tbe mantelpiece, and at times
he took it down and sighed over it;
also be avoided all feminine society.
At his uncle's death tbe tatter's busi
ness bad passed to blm, and under his
even administration it bad grown great
ly. He lunched at better places, and
he also dined downtown. He bought a
new suit of clothes whenever his old
cashier discreetly hinted that one was
needed.
The woman who acted as Janitress
for the bouse attended also to bis
rooms, and he found them always or
derly. He asked nothing more.
But tonight a surprise waited for him
at his very door. As he let himself in
a voice from the darkness of the floor
above roused him. It was a musical
voice with the indefinable, accent of
good breeding, and it gave to the sim
ple question the melody of a song.
"I am not the doctor," was his reply
as he kept on up the stairs instead of
turning Into bin own apartments on
the .first floor. "Is there need of a doc
tor? Some one is ill?" ,
"Mrs. Brady." explained the voice.
"She scalded her hand, and I sent a lit
tle girl for a doctor." ,
mt
Peuirrcave turned up the tiny flicker
of gna. The Increased flame revealed
a diiiuty fonilulno form in a slraplo
tailored gown, rengroavo was con
scious only that tho girl was well dress-
& It was the face that hold him fas
clnnted. Tho features were we.l cut
and regular; the eyes were calm and
unafraid aud of a deep tender blue
that moved IVngtvuve strangely,
. "Where do you live?" he demanded.
The gUi smiled,
"1 don't live hi'ie." she explained. "I
am a visitor from the Helping Hand
society."
rougreave was purged.
"They need charity here?" ho de
manded. "1 thought Unit was only
with the very p wr." i
"These are the very poor," she said
simply. "Don't Jti know?"
Pengreave shook Ills bond in bewil
derment. Twenty yonrs he had lived
there, and poverty hud come to be his
neighbor, but lie did uot know it.
"Hud I luiowu I should have given
aid." he said quietly, "If there is weed,
come to me.' The doctor-1 will pay
him. Send me bis bill. I am sorry for
Mrs-Mrs"-
"Brady," supplied the girl. "i"ou are
very good."
Then the physician hustled In, and
Pengreave went downstairs to bis
rooms. In a little while there wasa
tapping at the door, and he opened It
to discover the girl.
"Mrs. Brady asked me to thank you
for your kluilnes.',: be said. "It
pleased her so much Unit she almost
forgot the hint of her burn.'
Peugieave nulled, He could uot re
call ever ti;'.;i' been thanked before.
He had neurone anything to call for
thanks becauo he did not know how.
"You must come again when you
need help." ho suld warmly. VI am
hero always In the evenings. Tou have
but to ask."
"I shall hold you to your promise,"
she said. "There .Is much good that
you enn do. We are so handicapped
by lack of money, aud there la so
much that we want to do. Tou must
see for yourself the misery about you.
Good night."
She hurried down the hall, and Pen
greave waited uutll tbe street door
closed behind her before be shut his
own. ,
He went back Into the room, bis head
in a whirl. Dimly he was conscious
that tho street was not tho same as It
bad been in his boyhood. The girl
must be right. He was wllllug to see
with her eyes, those eyes of tbe glori
ous blue.
Those eyes gave him much to think
about He was uot yet forty, and
more than half of his years bud been
given to the unwavering pursuit of
business. True, there had been Lena.
but now Pengreave knew how little
Lena had really meant to him.
For tbe first time that ho could re
member he had met a woman of hj
own kind, and he felt the need of
knowing more of the life he bad miss
ed. Ho remembered that be was still
a comparatively young man, and those
blue eyes bad loosened something
within bis breast-hls repressed boy
hood, bis unrealized need of tho soci
ety of bis fellows.
He was as ono born again and, being
born, saw tho world in a. new light.
Methodically he removed the picture
of Lena from Its .tawdry s frame and
tossed it upon the cools glowing in the
open fire. He was rather well pleased
with the reflection in the mirror above
tho mantel as he stood there.
"I must get some new clothes to
morrow," he said to the reflection;
"also I must find a place where it is
well to live, a house such as she will
like. I, too, need a helping hand."
And tho reflection In the mirror smiled
back at blm. Now that Pengreave wa
awakened he kuew It was well. The
rest would follow In due course.
Rheumatic Pains Relieved.
Mrs. Thos. Stenton, postmaster of
Pontypool, Ont, writes: "For the
past eight years I suffered from
rheumatic pains, and during that time
I uesd many different liniments and
remedies for the cure of rheumatism.
Last summer I procured a bottle of
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and got
more relief from it than anything I
have ever used, and cheerfully rec
ommend this liniment to all sufferers
from rheumatic pains." For sale by
Frank Hart and leading druggists.
TEA
We sell tons of poor'
stuff; but our name isn't
on it Go by the name.
four grocer return, your money Jf joa don'l
Bk. Schilling'. Bust: w pay blm.
HIGGINS & WARREN
FIRE INSURANCE
ELEVEN STRONG COMPANIES
New up-to-date maps of Astoria and
vicinity for sale, IS cent per.
Savings Bank Bldg
Ground Floor
PHONE 3631.
House-Cleaning Time
m iff frSBwl 1
Go-CartStt Baby liSi.
We have an excellent line in
Baby Go-Carts the celebrated
Allwin it is one cf the easiest
riders in carriages. '
Prices $2.50 Up
Specials in
We have the largest assortment of IRON BEDS
in the City and your wants can be easily satisfied
in this line. Prices are plways the lowest.
, You will save money by puying your furniture
at- ;).-'.- -i - , . . ,j. , j -
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630-634 Commercial Street
Decorate Your House with Decorato
Renew Your Old
Foard & Stokes Hdw.
nlorp linp nf Oils. Paints. Varnishes and
anything the trade
The Foard & Stokes Hardware Go
Inrorporutrd
Successors to Fo-.rd
.. New Muasic ..
New music arriving daily. Come in and try them
over on piano. Few better ones in Astoria.,' Morn
ing is (he best time. Price ALWAYS 1-2 marked or
printed price. . v
... FINE BOX PAPERS ...
sffisrtistrrrinTrTrrT i vi iiii.nn n jrssssssssssszss.
Just rcceived500 boxes of latest effects from 19c to
75c per box. Better paper than has ever been
shown here before.
Whitman's Book Store
THE GEM
C. F. WISE. Prop.
Choice Wines, Liquors Merchants Loneh Frsm n
and Cigars 11:30 a. m. to 1:30 p.m.
' Hot Lunch at All Hoota. 1 sj Ctitf 1
' ' Corner Eltventh and Commercial '.
ASTORIA - OtlGO
THE TRENTO
First-Class Liquors and Cigars
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- Corner Commercial and 14th.
HHtltfMWIWIIMIfMItlll
Behnke
: THE LEADING BUSINESS COLLEGE
' ELKS BUILDING, PORTLAND, OREGON
' OUR FACULTY IS STRONGER THAN, EVER
W have just secured the .services of two high-salaried, practical
men, as well as leading business educators, from' the East. We
leave no stone unturned. We are now giving you the best that
money can procure. ,." f.jw.li
H. W. Behnke, Pres. SEND FOR CATALOGUE I. M. Walker, Prin,
Iron Beds
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Furniture with
Co. carries a com-
wants.
& Stokes Co.
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602 Commercial Street , , . ;,
. ASTORIA, OREGON
Walker