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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1908.
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Established 1873.
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toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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THE WEATHER'
Oregon, Washington and Idaho-
Fair and warmer.
THE GREAT LINK.
The magnificent bridge that spans
the Columbia from Vancouver, Portland-ward,
is finished. It constitutes
another monumental link between the
Pacific and Atlantic; fills another gap
in the commercial wastes of the world
and is still another tribute to the
genius of expansion that had made
the name of James J. Hill imperish
able among men. It is a fitting ter
minal for the splendid railway it
serves, the Spokane, Portland & Se
attle, and is full of significance to the
whole Columbia valley, of which As
toria is the logical seaport.
There was no fuss made over the
great finale; the last rivet was driven
almost without public notice, and the
stupendous work closed in the grim
and determined course of business;
but the "hurrah" is yet to come. We
hope to sound the inital note from
this end of the river, on one bank or
the other, and it will be heard from
one end of the shipping world to the
other in terms and tones that will
never be forgotten so long as a bot
tom seeks cargo in the Northwest of
America. We are biding our time,
with undiminished faith in the exact
and elemental conditions that sur
round us.
It comes at a propitious moment.
The declaration of the real utility of
the great jetty at the mouth of Co
lumbia jibes handsomely with the
completion of this superb structure,
and together they smooth the way of
commerce to and from this normal
gateway to four States that comprise
the Inland Empire and the actual
Northwest of the nation.
It is one of the great episodes of
our history. And we set store by it.
VACATION DAYS.
The schools of Astoria and Clatsop
are closed for the summer vacation
period, and three or four thousand
youngsters are free to indulge the
myriad diversions and charms of the
delightful season. With their elders
they will be seeking the pleasures that
come with the summer weather and
conditions, and turning to account of
health and recreation the thousand
and one allurements of the hour, and
happily for them, summer is just far
enough behind to yield them the en
tire guerdon of its time and talis
manic treats.
The joy of the young is one of the
delights of middle and old age. To
know of their happiness and to render
it to them, are among the pleasant
things that fall to those who still re
member the fresh and delicious days
of youth despite the harsher exper
iences that have come to them.
For the host just "turned loose,"
the Morning Astorian has only the
best and brightest hope for not only
the pending summer, but for all the
years that shall be allotted them; that
they may make Astoria famous and
prosperous and find themselves that
quota of prolonged happiness and
success that belongs to the good and
true citizen.
THE DIFFERENCE.
The difference between Astoria,
Oregon, and Princeton, New Jersey, ,
is that the President of the United;
States may walk and ride the streets
of this city without so much as a
policeman to look after him, let alone '
a regiment of troops to line the lead
ing thoroughfares to guard him
against the anarchistic fanatics tha,t
dwell there.
There is something radically wrong
with an American community that is
not safe enough for the chief Amer
ican of the nation; and the pride of
Princeton must have suffered a twinge
when it was made manifest that
Theodore Roosevelt had to be pro
tected by a detail of soldiers, while
there in attendance upon the obse
quies of his fellow President, Grover
Cleveland.
But we can rely upon one tremend
ous certainty, that whatsoever town
or city in the United States ever suf
fers the disgrace of a Presidential
killing, at the hands of men that town
has nourished, will never outlive the
shame of it. It will be marked for
all time to come.
PORTLAND, TOO!.
The Oregonian (newspaper) of
yesterday, has a strong protest
against the insurance graft that is
becoming one of the rankest menaces
to business in the State. And we are
glad to note that "there are others."
Astoria has borne about all she can
of this oppression and there is going
to be "something doing" if relief is
not granted in short order and ra
tional scope.
The evil has grown slowly, but it
has waxed exceeding hard. And
now that the two biggest cities in the
State are lined up for a scrap against
the down-right imposition the insur
ance barons at San Francisco have
perpetrated, we expect to see a gen
eral uprising all over the common
wealth; and the quicker the better.
There are some profoundly interest
ing statistics on the fire and life in
surance business of Oregon, at the
office of the State commission, at
Salem, and a deliberate study of them
will furnish a mass of fine fighting
material.
SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES
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Memorial Lutheran.
Grand avenue, one block west of
Fourteenth street. Sunday school at
9:30 a. m.; evening service at 8:00
o'clock. As the organization of the
Memorial Lutheran Church has been
completed, we now invite all Luther
ans who prefer the English to wor
ship with us. Gustaf E. Rydquist.
First Lutheran.
Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. No
evening service as the pastor will hold
service at the Memorial Lutheran
church.
First Presbyterian.
Rev. L. M. Boozer of Boise City,
Idaho, will preach morning and even
ing. Morning worship at 11 o'clock,
evening at 8:00; Sunday school at
12:15; Young People's Meeting at 7.
You are kindly invited to all these
meetings.
Holy Innocents Chapel.
Second Sunday after Trinity. Morn
ing service, 100 a. m.'; Sunday school,
11:15 a. m.; evening service, 7:30
p. m.
First Methodist.
Class meeting at 10:15 a. m.; Sun
day school at 12:15 p. m.; Epworth
League at 7:00 p. m. At 11 a. m. and
8 p. m. we will unite in services at
the Baptist church. Morning theme,
"The True Christian Life and Ideal."
Evening theme, "Christianity or
What?" A cordial invitation is ex
tended to the public to attend. C. C
Rarick, pastor.
Norwegian-Danish M. E.
Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.;
Sunday school at 10 a. m. Scandinav
ians cordially invited. O. T. Field,
pastor.
Christian Science.
Services in I. O. O. F. building,
corner Tenth and Commercial streets,
rooms 5 and 6, at 10 a. m. Subject
of the lesson sermon, "Christian
Science." All are invited. Sunday
school at 11:30. Wednesday evening
meeting, 8 o'clock. Reading room,
same address, hours from 12 to 5
daily, except Sunday.
FASTEST THINGS IN WORLD.
The world is in a hurry. Whcrc
ever we go we see trains whirling by,
autos speeding in clouds of dust, men
striving on foot, on wheel, on horse
or in water, to make speed records.
So writes Thomas D. Richter in the
Technical World Magazine for July.
But we do not realize what may be
done while the minute hand of the
clock revolves or in an hour of the
twentieth century haste?
Standing at the cross-road, we see
a more black speck in the distance
growing with seeming sloth. We hear
a purring sound, increasing, develop
ing, then leaping into a roar like
thunder. Volumes of dust rise like
smoke from the mouth of a fire-
KUPPENHEIMER CLOTHE
FOR THE FOURTH
Clothes don't make men but they go a long ways toward making a good impression
a word to the wise is sufficient.
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breathing monster and the twentieth
century dinosaur flies, screams past
merely an automobile racing at a rate
of from eighty to one hundred and
twenty miles in an hour.
We stand at the railway crossing.
In the distance an indistinct object
winks into view, far beyond where
the two lines of shining rails meet
together upon the track bed. On it
comes with a swift spreading ciscum
ference; it whizzes by in a breath-taking
rush and is gone almost before
we realize that it is a modern electric
train. Such a train in Germany has
been run at the rate of 130.4 miles an
hour.
On the sea shore we hear a scream,
thin and piercing. A boat siren shrills
its warning. Something rises from
the water, snortinar. splashing and
tearing frantically through the ocean
waves. It is past and ere we get our
glasses to bear upon it, it is distant
again, Merely a racing motor-boat,
trying to make more than thirty miles
an hour on the watery turf.
Let us pause and take breath. Are
we sneed crazv? Sit back and take a
bird's-eye view of this old earth and
von surelv must conclude that some
thing is the matter. Some strange
and potent germ has gotten into the
blood of the denizens of this planet,
inoculating us with a mania-speed
mania. It has fairly turned the brain
of Mother Earth.
A discussion of the sneed craze and
its results follows, ilustrated with
photographs of the "fastest thmgs in
the world.
WHAT GHOSTS ARE.
Science, exact and practical, has
come to the aid of the "psychical re
search" investigators with an entirely
new theory in regard to ghosts. io
writes Rene Bache in the Technical
World Magazine for July. The dis
covery, though as yet only hypothet
ical, is that such phantoms may m
fact exist, and that they are sufficient
ly material in their nature to .lmit
'if study and even of detailed analy
sis. Acording to this idea, indeed, the
ghost of reality is properly to be re
garded as a chemical phenomenon. It
has a recognizable substance, however
tenuous and intangible, and may act
ually be reproduced experimentally
in the laboratory.
For authority on this point, the
writer is permitted to refer to one of
the foremost of living chemists, Prof.
Charles E. Munroe, Dean of the D.
C. He is not only a believer in
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ghosts at all events, in the possibil
ity of such phenomena but he says
that they can be made artiiicialy. It is,
he thinks, not at all unlikely that the
laboratory process for making coun
terfeit spectres is merely a rcproduc
tion of nature's own method of ghost
manufacture. Apparitions, of course, are usually
associated in one way or another with
tragedies. Somebody, for example,
is murdered under exceptionally dis
tressing ami picturesque circum
stances, and the corpse being hid
den by the pereptrator of the deed
the ghost thereafter haunts the
scene, forlornly striving to attract
sympathetic attention, and unable to
find rest until the body shall be dis
covered and provided rith Christian
burial.
"Astoria, Or,, June 23, 2908.
"The Morning Astorian,
"Astoria, Oregon.
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winner of the recent contest. To you,
as well as to my many kind friends, I
extend my sincere thanks and appre
ciations for all kindness and favors
shown me. Yours respectfully,
"MISS MAY I'AKKISK."
WOMANLY WISDOM
Rack and forth in the rocker,.
Lost in a reverie deep,
The mother rocked while trying
To sing the baby to sleep.
The beby began a-crowing,
For silent he could not keep;
And after a while the baby
Had crowed his mother to sleep.
The sweetest, purest ornament that
a woman can wear, and of which she
should feel proudest, is the clinging
necklace of her baby's arms.
Don't discourage the. boy when lie
comes to you with his cares or troub
les. Sympathize with him, and thank
God he confides in you.
You can make pretty and durable
table mats of the bottoms of used
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grape baskets, Tear off the sides and
cover the bottom part with white
linen or table oilcloth.
Hang a palm leaf fan by each bed.
It is a comfort to have a breeze at
command when you wake in the mid
dle of a sultry night, and the cooler
air and the reirtilar motion of fanning
often soothes one to sleep.
Sonic folks are troubled by pota
toes turning dark after being boiled,
especially at this time of the year, If
they are peeled an hour or so before
they are cooked, and left to stand in
cold water, they will keep nice and
white.
Rutter may be kept in warm weath
er if put in a bowl that is covered
with a plate and set in a pan of cold
water. Then fold a towl and lay
across the plate with the corners
hanging down into the water, and put
the pan in a cool, if possible, a drafty
place, and the evaporation will keep
the butter firm.
To keep flies from roosting on the
screen door, ready to come in when it
is opened, take a piece of an old wind
ow shade, or else a folded piece of
manilla paper as long as the door is
wide and about half a yard wide, and
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or the movement of the door, when
opened, will keep the flics away.
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lie did all the courting before mar
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with his wife. He thought of his wife
only as a cheap housekeeper. He
never dreamed that a wife deserved
praise or compliments. He married
an ideal, and was disappointed to find
it had flaws. He paid no attention to
his personal appearance after marri
age. He treated his wife as he would
not have dared to treat another wo
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