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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY I), 1008. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873, Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGKK tU. fiTTRfir.RIPTION RATES. By mail, per year.... $7,92 Br carrier, per month OU WPKKLY ASTORIAN. y mail, per year, in advance.. . .$1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, at the postoffice at Astoria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 18y. tr Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence r place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone. Any regularity in delivery should be im mediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. THE WEATHER Oregon, Washington and Idaho- Fair, probably warmer. MURDER RAMPANT. The murder-wave is running its course over the land, and the majority of the cases reported are of the lowest, most vicious and brutal sort. It looks as if one beastial crime in spired the other and no man may say where it will stop. There is no law to subdue the normal passion that lusts for the life of another, whatever it may do for the dispassionate man or the coward. Most men have their limitations and recognize the check of law, public opinion, family shame, or other deterring cause; but the man with the primal spirit aflame is un amenable and untamable ever. Happily it is one of the rarest of crimes in this community. Astoria, as a seaport city is very free from the stain of murder, and has been for years. And it is a good thing to be free of; it commends any community to the homeseeker and the investor and counts largely in the general es timate held of the place. No man knows, however, how soon the blasting work will be done anywhere, nor how to forefend against it; all that is left in the terrible exigency is the ment of. the law and that has become a gamble and a featherweight in the scales of justice, if the murderer hap pens to possess the wherewithal. LEGALRESISTAfICE TO LAW. The modern is, most unhappily, justifiable in his concrete conclusion that the science of the law is the legal and successful resistance offered to its direct operation; the scientific thwarting of its essence, and fact, with the indisputably correct and effective weapon taken from the same covers that bind the law assailed. And this, not with the mere use of sophistry, plausibility, hair-splitting and the unctious and perverted handing of the law by its advocates before the bar, but with the immense and varied line of opinions that have come down from the bench itself and are arrayed as fundamental precedents, to the broad divergencies of which and their inter minable and baffling use in counter acting each the other, the law must look for the growing disrespect, if not contempt, in which it is held by the public. "A man is innocent until he is proven guilty!" is an idyllic conclu sion that has long since lost its inspired . justice. It still holds in many a case and should be the car dinal precept that guides the men charged with the application of the RAY C. GOLLINGS With "Dora Tborne" at the Astoria law; but there are so many, and so plain, instances of men haled to court for civic crimes, such as grafting and the like, forced there by the pressure of an outraged public sense of their crimes, freed upon the flimsy techni calities and undue warping of the statutes, that the old and friendly aphorism is belittled and condemned and laughed at. There are countries where the very king himself has been placed in the dock and made to bear his share of the shame of tacit conviction; and this is the spirit that is needed, sorely, to eliminate from American jurisprud ence the growing doubt of its purity and efficacy. THE PRESIDENT. The real friends of Theodore Roosevelt are not thinking for an in stant that he will abandon his decla ration not to be a candidate for the presidency again; nor are they lend ing hand or word to the theory of his right or duty in such a premise. Knowing him and respecting him and the faith that moves him, they know if, in some supreme hour, the voice of the people is raised in this behalf, he will steadfastly turn from the over whelming lure and do what he has said he will do. To believe anything else of this man, is to dishonor him and place him in the catagory of the weaklings, and the tuft.hunters of the political cult; no man who actually appreciates the courage and sanity and high-purpose of the President, will entertain the idea longer than to discount and deny it boldly. WHAT WE VOTE FOR. The people of Oregon, having as sumed the power of initiating and passing their own laws, are bound by the unescapable and correlative obli gation to see to it that those laws are duly considered, weighed and dispos ed of at the polls. There must be no faltering, no shirking, no renigging; these propositions are up for full and final treatment and must receive it at the hands that thrust them forward. There are several grave, and many important, issues involved in the list and it is worth every man's while to study them closely and vote with the grace ot good citizenship tor, or against, them. They are above the fulfil-personnel of the June ticket in many wayS; notably that the laws are pass- ed for all time, and men come and go, by period, or the will of the elector ate. It is not safe to ignore the ref erendum; it may contain elements of disorder and disruption, and defeat, and again it may contain things that mean, and make for, the peace and freedom of the masses, and for the curing of a thousand ills. Therefore it is a supreme duty to scan it and know what to do, how to differenti ate, and to cull the blessings while we ward and bar the evils. Go to it, and begin the work of scrutiny and seggregation right now; you cannot give the matter due thought in the few moments you. devote to the vot ing booth on election day!. : Francis M. Finch, who died last year and who wrote "The Blue and the Gray," was for 15 years an asso ciate justice of the Xew York state court of appeals. The poem first ap peared in Setpember, 1867, in the At lantic Monthly. When he became a judge, Mr. Finch continued to write verse, but made no attempt to get it printed.' "I did not feel," he said, "that .the publication of poems was compatible with the dignity of a judge of the court of appeals." A memorial of granite and bronze erected on the battlefield at Vicks burg by Illinois cost $200,000. Theatre, Sunday Evening, May 10. j ' 7 TO MOVEJOUR PLANET Power It Would Take to Raise the Earth One Foot. THE WEIGHT OF THE GLOBE. It Hat Bttn Caleulatsd to B 8om Six Million Million Ton What Would Happen if th Earth Should Com to a Sudden Standstill. It la not generally known that the1 rotuudlty of tho earth and It move ment were kuowu long before Coper ulcus aud Galilei. Thus, Aristotle says, "almost all those who claim to have studied heaven In Us uulfonnli.v declare that the earth Is iu tuo couter. but the philosophers of the Italian school, otherwise the Pythagoreans, teach entirely the contrary, lu this opinion the venter Is occupied by tire nud the earth Is only a star, which by a circular movemeut round the same center produces night and day." The following Greek philosophers be lieved Id the rotundity of the earth: Pythagoras of Saiuos, Auaxlmamler. Nleetas of Syrucuse, Ileraclldes of Pontus, Arlstarchus of Samoa, Sele- neus and Eephautus. Ileraclldes and Ecphantus admitted that the earth moved only upon Its own axis, the diurnal movemeut. The Pytungoreaus held that each star was a world, bar ing Its owu atmosphere, with an Im mense extent of ether surrounding it. Many centuries before Copernicus wrote his work on "The Revolution of the Heaveuly Bodies, which was about 1542 A. D., the Jewish cabalistic book, called "Zoliar." stated aa to the cosmography of the universe: "Id the book of Ilammauuuah the Old we learn through extended expla nation (hut the earth turns upon Itself Id the form of a circle; that ome are on top. the others below; that all crea tures change in aspect, following the manner of each place, keeping, how ever. Id the same position. But there are some countries of ihe earth that are lightened while others are In dark ness. These have the day when for the former It Is night, and there are countries In which It Is constantly day or in which at least the night contin ues only some lustants. These secrets were made known to the men of the secret science, but not to the geogra phers." Malmonides (1190 A. D.) held that the earth had the form of a globe: that It was inhabited at both extremities of a certain diameter: that the inhabit ants had their heads toward heaven isi-ilislLi e&ct other' ,vet they did not fall off. 't In India at a very early period the astronomer Arya-bbata (born A. D. 470) held to the opinion that the earth revolved upon Its own axis. It is known that the Chaldeans ot a very ancient period calculated with certain ty eclipses of the moon and closely ap proximated the time of eclipses of the sun. Dr. Schlegel gives the great uu tiqulty of 18.000 years to the Chinese astronomical sphere. Though astronomy affords the means of determining with great precision the relative masses of the earth, the moon and all the planets, it does not enable us to determine the absolute mass of any heavenly body in units of the weights used on earth. To deter mine the absolute masB of the globe its mean density must be known, and this Is something about which direct obser vation can give no information, as we cannot penetrate more than an insig nificant distance into the earth's Inte rior. The most probable mean density of the earth is 5.6 that is, the earth is 5.C times as heavy as a ball of pure water of the same size. From this (ind similar estimates the weight of the globe has been calculated to be six mil Ion million tons. Archimedes, the greatest ancient ge ometer, is accredited with the saying. "Give me where I may stand, and I will move the world!" With a lever of sufficient length this task might possi bly be accomplished. But let us see what it would require to accomplish it with the forces at our command. The weight of the globe has been calculat ed to be six million million tons. To move this weight one foot a steam engine of 10,000 horsepower would have to work Incessantly for a period of seventy thousand millions of years. During this time the engine would use up forty million million quarts of wa ter, a quantity sufficient to cover the whole globe 300 feet high. Now, as to the fuel consumed by the engine, If its boiler was good and working econom ically It would require four thousand million tons of coal to feed It during the seventy thousand million years. To ship such a quantity of coal by rail way it would take two hundred thou sand million cars of a capacity of twenty tons each. These cars, when placed in a line, would form a train so long as to encompass the earth forty five times, and if this train should move with a velocity of twenty-tlve miles an hour it would take It five mil lion years before it could traverse the distance of its own length. This calculation shows that the globe rests pretty firmly in the place assign ed to it by nature and how difficult would be' the task suggested by the great mathematician. ' It is known what happens when a rapidly running train comes to a sud den standstill. We are thrown for ward in the direction of its motion. The same result would follow the sud den stopping of the earth's motion, only on a much larger scale. Every thing, on Its surface would be hurled Into space with n velocity hundred of time ah gre.it na that of the swiftest express train. But we should have hardly th time to realise this somersault Into space be cause of tho other Immediate result r'i. the transformation of the enrth motion Into a bent sn Intense a to rolse the temperature of the nlr by tuindreda of degrees, turn seas, lakes and rivers Into steam and instantly consume forests, buildings and cities. And men nud animals would Instnu teueously perish from the mere breath lug of the hot air, and their corpses would be Inclucrated In the general conflagration, lu short, the result would be a tragedy such as Is depleted by St. Peter for the Judgmeut day. Scientists have given the tempera iu re which one would feel when pene trating to the center of the globe, To obtain this estimate of heat they had to confine themselves to simple ob servations on the rise of temperature In mine shafts. Geologists believed that the moan temperature of the earth Increased by 1 degree with every hundred feet of descent. With these figures for n basis they calculated thut tho mean heut of the central nu cleus must be 4,320 degree F, This was good mathematics, but In correct, for observations made lu Ne vada with Instruments of great pre cision showed that the heat of tho central uucleus was much greater. For the exerluieiit of 1807 a silver mine was selected, and there they found that at 2.500 feet under the earth's surface the air showed a tem perature of 04 degrees F. and the wa ter of 120 degrees. Iu the vicinity, at Yellow Jack shaft, the mine reaches a depth of 3.000 feet, aud the thermome ter shows eoustautly 130 degrees F.. so that miners canuot work there for more than lift ecu minutes at a stretch. The works iu the Slmplon showed like wise an uncommon subterranean beat. and the calculations Justify an assump tion for the central nucleus of a tem perature of CSO.OOO to 700,000 degrees, the same as Is assumed of the sua. Leon Landsbcrg In Chicago Record- Herald. Patted Collto "Exam" at 8vn. Few people In Connecticut realize that there once lived a boy In Water- bury who possessed the remarkable precodousnesB which enabled him to pass the Vale examination at the age of neven years. He didn't enter Yale until bis thirteenth year, yet tho record remains and ought not to be lost sight of. The boy's name was John Trum bull, born In 1750. nud he died full or honor. mluiUtstic and political, at the ripe age of eighty-.ono years in 1831. Ho was frail and tender as a young ster, and his remarkable intellect over balanced his physical makeup. Nobody thought he would grow up, and his mental achievement at on age when most boys nowadays are entering the district school attracted the attention of scholars and distinguished men In bis dar.-ITartford Counnt. Thoasands of American women in our homes are daily sacrificing their lives to duty. In order to keep the home neat and pretty, the children well dressed and tidy, women overdo. A female weakness or displacement is often brought on and they suffer in silence, drifting along from bad to worse, knowing well that they ought to have help to overcome the pains and aches which daily make life a burden. It is to these faithful women that LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND comes as a ! jon and a blessing, as it did to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, of Mayville, N. Y., and to Mrs. W. P. Boyd, of Beaver Falls, Fa., who say : " I wa not able to do ray own work, owing to the female trouble from which I suffered. Lydia K. I'irikhara's Vege table Compound helped me wonderfully, and I am so well that I can do as big a day's work as I ever did. I wish every sick woman would try it. FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E, Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, andhas positively cured thousandsof women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges tion,dizzines8,or nervous prostration, Why don't you try it ? Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women to write her for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. . I ) i'a-iw , f InTomorrows of if I I " I Vri V Wi try the following delightful desiert: I cup English Walnut meat. 1 doz. figs, cut up fine. 1 10c. package JELL-O, any flavor. Dissolve the JELL-0 in pint of boiling water. When cool and lust commencing to thicken stir in the figi and nuts. Serve with Whipped Cream. Delicious. The walnuts, fist and JELL-0 can be bought at any good grocery. This makes enough dessert for a large family and is very econom ical. Notice to Our Customers. We are pleased to announce that Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, colds and lung trouble is not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug law as it contains no opiate or other harmful drugs, and we recommend it as a safe remedy for children and adults. T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. THE ROAD OF WONDERS Shasta Route and Coast Line of the Southern Pacific Company Through Oregon and California Over 1300 mile of scenic beauty and interest attractive and instinc tive. This great railroad paste through a country uniurpasted for it scenic attractions, and introduce the traveler to the vast arena soon to become the scene of the world's greatest industrial activities. There it not an idle or uninteresting hour on the trip ,and the variety of condition presented excites wonder and admiration. Special Low Rate Tickets now on Sale at All Ticket Officse tSBB.OO Portland to Los Angeles and Return Long limit on tickets and stop-over privileges. Corresponding rates frony other points. Inquire of G. W. Roberts, local agent, for full particular and helpful publications describing the country through which this great highway extends, or address WM. McMurray General Passenger Agent, Portland. ASTORIA & COLUMBIA FIVER RAILROAD Only All Rail Route to PORTLAND and AU EASTERN POINTS TWO DAILY TRAINS Steamship Tickets via all Ocean, Lines at Lowest Rates. Through tickets on sale. Forrates, steamship and sleeping-car reservations, call on or address G. B. JOHNSON, General Agent 12th St., near Commercial 'St. . Astoria, Obegon John Fox, Pres. F. I Bishop, Sec. Astoria Saving Bank, Treas. Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS , OF THE LATEST IMPROVED ... Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. Correspondence Solicited. Foot of Fourth Street itr Papers for he Secret All the O How to Fttd Alfalfa Hay. In order to ivu'til undue waste when feeding n I fulfil to pl, the liny hoiild Ih fed in n chitted rack placed In a fiat bottomed trough. The spactti let ween (he shtlN should not exceed .5 Inches, and the tronuli should ex tend at lint"! eighteen Inches beyond the raek lu every direction. The ron rue stems left by the pig may bo fed to stock cntle.-J. J. Vernon. Alfalfa Maktt Chtap Milk. A summary of feedlnir trials with dairy cow hovs that alfalfa can be made to take the place of at least one half of the grain usually fed our dairy cow, and n the nutrients needed by dairy cows enu lw produced much more cheaply with alfalfa than with grain the cot of producing milk may be greatly reduced by Its u.-D. 1L. Otl, Wisconsin. Diaturbcd the Congregation, ' The person who disturbed the con gregation last Sunday by a continually coughing it requested to buy a bottle of Foley'a Honey and Tar. T. P. Laurin, Owl Drug Store. A THOUSAND