THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 17.
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Cloudy with possibly showers.
THE RIGHT OF APPEAL
Writing in the current number of
the North American Review, Secre
tary Taft discusses in a forcible
manner the question of the rifcht of
appeal. With characteristic straight
forwardness, Mr. Taft speaks plainly
and to the point He raises one im
portant point that is generally over
looked in the discussion of this ub
ject; concerning the result of the
exercise of the right of appeal as it
affects the litigant with limited means,
the secretary says:
"Many people who give the subject
hasty consideration regard as the no
blest product of human wisdom a sys
tem of appeals, by which a suit can be
brought'before a justice of the peace,
and carried through the several inter
mediate courts of appeal to the su
preme court of the state. How many
legislative halls have rung with the
eloquence of defenders , of the op
pressed and the poor, in opposing
laws which were designed to limit the
appeals to the supreme court to cases
involving large sums of money or
questions of constitutional or other
important law! Shall the poor man
be denied the opportunity to have his
case re-examined in the highest tri
bunal of the land? Never! And gener
ally the argument has been success
ful. In truth, there is nothing which
is so detrimental to the interests of
the poor man as the right which, if
given to him, must also be given to
the other and wealthier party. It
means generally two, three and four
and in some cases even five and six
years of litigation. Could any great
er opportunity be put in the hands of
wealthy persons or corporations to
fight off just claims and to defeat, in
jure or modify the legal rights of
poor litigants, than to delay them ip'
securing their just due for several
years? I think not. The fact is that
procedure which limits the right of
appeal works in the end for the bene
fit of the poor litigant and puts him
more on an equality with a wealthy
opponent." Missoulian.
i SLANG,
t ,
In the list of present-day news
papers there are a few which cling
with persistent hold to the literary
style that characterized the daily
press of half a century ago. Among
these purists there is no more con
spicuous example of the careful use
of English than the Boston Tran
script, which has for two generations
been the paper which has found most
favor with the select of Boston town.
The Transcript is at present engaged
in a campaign against slang; its col
umns are burning with deunuciation
of the carelessness of our modern
speech and with eloquent pleading for
purer English. Here is one- of the
Boston newspaper's arguments:
If the slang of today is the correct
speech of tomorrow. What language
will our children speak a generation
hence? Will it be the English of
George Meredith or the English of
George Ade? Shall we talk in the
flowery hyperbole of the Bowery,
with which our newspapers of today,
and even our books, are filled, or must
we be content with the speech that
has satisfied many generations of our
forefathers? As we saunter along in
enjoyment of the invigorating spring
air on a bright Sunday morning,
whether we have been listening to the
words of the preacher or merely
taking our Sabbath pleasure in the
open, shall we say to our' children,
"You kids hike along home," or shall
we tell them, "Run along, and we'll
follow". Of course, it will be needless
to express ourselves in such grand
iloquent phrase as "Children, journey
home and behave yourselves decor
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ously," for the youth of to-day would
be ill-mannered enough to laugh at
us therefor, but there is a happy mean
between the vulgar and the stilted,
and correct and informal speech will
fall upon childhood's ear like the
words of an unintended sermon.
As a matter of fact, a little slang is
an excellent thing, but in the present
era of slang more than the smallest
quantity is a great deal too much
The English language may fairly be
said to be the most picturesque and
most expressive in the world, and it
does not need the verbiage of the
slum, or even the catch-words and
catch-phrases of the street, to add to
its vigor and variety. As a rule, the
use of slang is indicative more of
paucity of thought and idea than of
susceptibility to the humorous and
thegraphic. If we tell our friend to
"get onto his job " "get a move on,"
or any one of a hundred other things,
we certainly reveal our tendency to
move with the tide of the hour. We
speak slang frequently through sheer
laziness. It was the last word in the
mouth of a companion, and it be
comes the next word in ours. It is
echoed by the speaker, by the teacher
by the lecturer, by the writer, but
with rare exceptions it never be
comes anything but slang. After all,
it is only the best of slang that sur
vives, but even then we need not ex
cuse ourselves for becoming profic
ient in ts use. We should think of
the present as well as of the future.
Why use slang"' when we can speak
the speech of our heritage equally
well? Why become the blind leaders
of the blind?
No Need of Suffering From Rheuma
tism. It is a mistake to allow rheumatism
to become chronic as the pain can
always be relieved and in most cases
a cure effected by applying Chamber-
Iain's Pain Balm. The relief from
pain which it affords is alone worth
many times its cost. It makes sleep
and rest possible. Even in cases of
long standing this liniment should be
used on account of the relief which it
affords. 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale
by Frank Hart and leading druggists.
PANIC IN BRONX ZOO.
Boy Throws Box Of Parlor Matches
In Elephant Cage.
NEW YORK, June 16.-A boy's
prank started a panic in the Elephant
house in the Bronx Zoo logical Park
yesterday and came near resulting
in a serious fight. A crowd of 100 was
standing in front of the cage contain
ing Khartoom and Sultana, two Afri
can elephants when a boy among a
group throwing peanuts to the ani
mals, threw a box of parlor matches
into the cage. Khartoom caught the
box in his trunk and was about to
put them in his mouth when there
was a flash and the matches caught
fire. The : elephant trumpeted and
threw the blazing box to the floor.
The dry straw ignited and Kartoom's
trumpeting was taken up by all the
other elephants. The keepers had a
fight of it to put out the fire and at
the same time to quiet the elephants.
Khartoom, although badly fright
ened, was not seriously burned. The
boy who threw the matches escaped
in the confusion.
Stomach Troubles.
Many remarkable cures of stomach
troubles have been effected by Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets.
One man who had spent over two
thousand dollars for medicine and
treatment was cured by a few boxes
of these tablets. Price 25 cents.
Samples free at Frank Harf and lead
ing druggists.
Pains in the back and side may come
from the kidneys or liver. Lane's Family
Medicine, the tonic-laxative, and a great
kidney and liver remedy, will give relief.
ASTORIA THEATRE.
The gifted actress, Georgia Harper,
who will open her engagement at the
Astoria Theatre, Sunday evening,
June 21st, has chosen for her initial
performance. The historical comedy
drama, "Sweet Nell of Old Drury" or
"Nell Gwynnc" as it is sometimes
called. The story briefly told at the
beginning of the play finds Nell sell
ing oranges on the streets of London.
She meets the King and tells hint
what a rogue he is, not knowing that
she is talking to His Majesty. Nell
loves one, Sir Roger Fairfax, who has
been banished from England through
the influence of the Chief Justice of
England who held an old grudge
against Fairfax's father. He also ac
cuses him of an attempt to assassi
nate the King for which he is tried
and condemned but is saved by Nell
who baffles the villian and wins the
King's love. The play will be splen
didly staged and costumed and
mounted with special scenery giving
a realistic picture of old London in
the time of the Stuarts. Miss Harper
will be supported by Joseph Detrick
as "Charles the Second," and each
and every member of Miss Harper's
efficient company of 16 people will be
in the cast.
OF INTEREST TO TEACHERS.
Miss Emma C. Warren, county
school superintendent, is in receipt
of the following information relating
to the convention of the National
Educatinal Association at Cleveland,
and it will doubtless prove of interest
to teachers who contemplate attend
ing the convention:
The National Education Associa
tion will hold its next sesson at
Cleveland, Oho, June 29 to July 3, in
clusive, and a goodly attendance from
Oregon is desired. Rates to said
meeting are as follows:
First From all O. R. & N. points,
the round trip fire to Chicago selling
dates, June 19 and 20, will be $72.50.
Second From points on the S. P.
Oregon lines, the rates will vary ac
cording to the distance the starting
point is from Portland.
Third Tickets from both O. R. &
N. and S. P. territory will carry a
going limit of ten days with a final
return limit of 90 days, and include
i
stopover pnvdeges in both directum!
wnnin me nnius.
Fourth It has not yet been decid
ed just what the fare will be from
Chicago to Cleveland and return, but
probably will not exceed $9.00 for the
round-trip.
DOG DIES OF BROKEN HEART.
Refuses to Eat and Becomes Des
pondent When Mistress Leaves.
NEW YORK, June 16.-"Fuzzy",
the little Pomeranian dog owned by
C. Oliver Iselin and that gained in
ternational prominence as the mas
cot of the cup defender Reliance died
of a broken heart at New Rochellc
yesterday.
Mrs. Iselin went to Europe several
months ago, leaving "Fuzzy" with
her daughter, Mrs. Philip Livermore.
When "Fuzzy" saw Mrs. Iselin
leaving he chased her automobile
down the road and when he could
not catch it, turned back home and
became despondent. - At times the
animal became morbid and would lay
in his kennel days at a time, refus
ing to eat.
Mrs. Livermore left for Europe on
June 3, and "Fuzzy" finding himself
deserted by his last friend, refused
to eat "and took little interest in life.
Maids notified John G. Bercsford,
Mrs. Iselin's brother-in-law who
called in a doctor to attend the pet.
Dr. Ne.stler was unable to get the
dog to eat and his death followed.
"Fuzzy" lay in state at Mrs. Liver
more's home in a white velvet coffin,
draped with the Reliance flag and
Union Jack for a day and then he was
buried in Mr. Iselin's rose garden.
J. J. HILL IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, June 16-James J.
Hill, has arrived in this city from
Washington and will remain here
until the latter part of the week when
he starts on his annual fishing trip
to Labrador. Mr. Hill would express
no opinions on political developments
or business conditions except crop
prospects. The floods, he said may
have done considerable harm in the
southwest but in the northwest pros
pects are very good. The heavy rains,
while drowning some of the lowland
crops, had helped the wheat in the
uplands, so that on the whole they
had been beneficial. Generally Mr.
Hill thought the prospects good for
bountiful crops and he called atten
tion to the shore supply of grain as
indicating that this year's harvest
will produce a "good money crop".
WET AND DRY
Ths inwads made by the Prohibi
tion movement in the state of Oregon
are remarkable in many respects, and
the following data on the subject, pre
pared by the Rev. W. S. G:lbcrt, of
the First Presbyterian church, will
doubtless prove interesting to many.
Editor the Astor'an: The results of
the June Election on local option
matters have been composed and are
of interest to all the people of the
state. The following facts present the
general' results in concise form. I
hope you may give them place in the
Astorian for the sake of our people
who are anxious to have a brief state
ment of the general remits.
We had when 19(S began, Eight
dry Counties; we now have 21.
We have in addition to 21 whole
counties dry, 101 precincts that are
dry in the 12 wet counties.
These 101 dry precincts in wet
counties make an area equal to wet
Coo, Lincoln, Wasco, Washington,
Clatsop and Columbia.
There were knocked out of commis
sion 287.
WET AND DRY VOTE IN STATE.
Results of the June Elections are
concisely Tabulater by the Rev. Mr.
Gilbert.
Saloons which will close July 1st.,
There are 26 dry precincts in Mult
nomah county 16 in Clackamas. 15 in
Wasco, 10 in Marion, eight in Colum
bia, four in Clatsop.
The saloon men filed petitions for
resubmission in seven counties that
were dry before, and were beaten in
all but one Lincoln, lost to the dry
by three votes.
The counties that went dry that
were dry before did so by largely in
creased majorities.
Linn County, dry two years ago,
has doubled her majority for dry.
Lane County, dry two years ago by
200, this ear by 700. t
Eugene City, two years ago voted
wet; prosperity changed that wet
vote to 276 dry.
Umatilla, two years ago wet by
800 this year dry by 800.
Morrow County went dry this year
by 240 majority out of a total vote
1200 in the county.
Josephine was a black county before
! election but on election day turned
white by 500 majority.
uougias county, wei lasi year,
d dfy yw fey 4SQ
Douglas County, wet last year,
Lincoln, a former dry county, went
wet this year by only three majority.
Salem, our state capital, failed of
going dry by only 60 votes.
We now have 60 per cent, of the
states population in local option ter
ritory. About 50,000 of Multnonah's popu
lation is under local option to-day.
The "Reddy Bill" was snowed un
der by 10,000 majority.
These prominent towns have gone
dry:
La Grande, Elgin, Pendleton.
Athena, Prineville, Dufur, Hood
River, Silverton, Stayton, Roseburg,
Glcndalc, Grants Pass, Medford,
Jacksonville, Klamath Falls, Dallas,
Independence, Canyon City, Fossil,
Hcppner and Condon.
The brewery in La Grande is to
be turned into a fruit packing estab
lishment. Oregon has 94.560 square miles of
63,247square miles. The area of dry
precincts in wet counties is 7,000
square miles making 75 per cent of
state dry.
Very respectfully,
Wm. S. Gilbert.
A Lesson in Health
Healthy kidneys filter the impurities
from the blood, and unless they do
this good health is impossible. Foley's
Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys
and will positively cure all forms of
kidney and bladder disease. It
strengthens the whole system.
If you will make inquiry it will be
a revelation to you how many suc
cumb to kidney or bladder troubles
in one form or another. If the patient
is not beyond medical aid, Foley's
Kidney Cure will cure. It never dis
appoints. W. R. Ward, of Dyersburg, Tenn.,
writes: "This is to certify that I have
used Orin Laxative Fruit Syrup for
chronic constipation, and it has prov
en, without a doubt, to be a thor
ough, practical remedy for this
trouble, and it is with pleasure I offer
my conscientious reference."
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