THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1008.
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THE WEATHER
Oregon Fair tonight; Thursday
fair, warmer except near coast;
westerly winds.
THISTLES.
About 18 years ago an agricultural
convention as held in this county, at
which a notable professor from one
of the Washington colleges was a
guest and contributor. This man in
the course of his rambles about the
city found a small nest of Canada
thistles started on Smith's Point, and
plucking one by the roots, took it into
convention and made it the thesis of
a memorable lecture, -giving its his
tory technically, and practically, and
warning the people of Clatsop against
it by every argument and demonstra
tion known to science and the friend
liness of a teacher who found he was
.telling his auditors something entire
ly new to them.
. The result of that lecture was noted
for some years by the rarity of the
Canada thistle, which was routed
out, and kept out, by arduous and
consistant work. Lately the course
has re-appeared, and it is headed in
right where he found it, on Smith's
Point; and from there it may be easily
traced all over the west side. The
farmers are again alive to the evil,
but it is going to take something
beside voluntary work in its exter
mination. The county and city au
thorities will be justified in taking
instant and comprehensive steps for
its annihilation; and especially at this
season of the' year, when it is bloom
ing and the new year's growth may
be easily eliminated by vigorous and
thorough action. Like all slow, silent
and insiduous things, tht thistle
grows, and travels and spreads at a
pace, and in a volumne, that stag
gers one with realization when it
thrusts itself upon the communal
consciousness. The only way it can
be met, is by constant watching and
periodical onslaught. In default of
this, it soon masters soil and crop
and man. and rules all these with re
lentless power. ! "'
Go to it, everybody!.
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' MINDING THEIR BUSINESS.
We confess we have never under
stood the probable, nor possible,
ground for Japanese enmity toward
this country. ?nd have always depre
cated the doctrine; it was easy to
make due allowance for the bump
tiousness of the victorious people
who emerged from the Russo-Japanese
war, and to condone the ardor
and confluence inseparable from such
conditions; but why Japan should
nurft an antipathy of any sort to the
United States, with positive and
pregnant predicate, has always been
beyond us. Now, our returning Ambas-adc-r
tells us there is not an atom of
ground f.r the conclusion; that only
the best of feeling exists over there
for us and our" policies, and that the
war spirit and war contingency are
as remote as any other inconceivable
threat or act.
The Japanese seem to be minding
their own buiness with wonderful
success in this country and they cer
tainly -jre refraining from any overt
demonstrations on either side of the
waters. In this they are furnishing
us a lesson that may well be heeded.
The jir.go is a universal nuisance and
is amenable to the most cautious and
the coldest treatment, by sensible
people. There is enough of known
fact to discourage their clamor, such
the depletion of the Island Empire
exchequer, and other potent impedi
ments to a war program, now con
fronting Japan and the word brought
over by our representative fits the
public mood of America admirably
and widely.
FIRE PREMIUMS NET.
It is a startling, yet almost con
clusive fact, that the fire premiums
,aid by this city, for years past, have
been, gross and net, assets to the in
surance companies doing, business
here. There has not been a fire of
any size or importance recorded here
for many a day and what we are
sending out annually i a sheer gift
to the San Francisco trust. It will
pay the Astoria insurer to confirm
this before he re-writes his buiness;
especially before he countenances an
advanced rate
All Oregon is up in arms and fend
ing against the proposed access in
insurance cost, and our people must
not neglect their interests at any
stage of the new game. We have
enough to contend with in the way of
combinations without permitting any
excesses in this line. We get protec
tion, of course, even if we clo not have
any fires to speak of; but, on the
present scale of premiums we are
paying about double what that pro
tection costs the protecting com
panies. DEATH IN SCHOOL.
The greatest achievement of
science in the opening decade of the
twentieth century is the awakening of
the people to the fact that most hu
man diseases are preventable and a
large proportion of early deaths
avoidable. At least 700,000 of the
million and a half deaths a year
from the minute parasitic plants and
animals gaining access to the body.
These invisible foes wage a continual
warfare against both strong and weak
rich and poor. Civic duty as well as
self preservation demands, that these
life-destroyers should as far as pos
sible be shut out of the human
system.
The evidence condemning the use
of the common drinking vessel upon
any occasion whether at school,
church or home is derived from three
sources: 1. the frequent presence of
disease-producing bacteria in the
mouth; 2. the detection of pathogenic
germs on the public cups; and 3.
the discovery that where a number of
persons drank from a cup previously
used by the sick, some of them be
came ill.
A cup which had been in use nine
days in a school was a clear thin
class. If was broken into a number
of pieces and properly stained for
examination with a microscope mag
nifying 1,000 diameters. The human
cells scraped from the lips of the
drinkers were so numerous on . the
upper third of the glass that the head
of a pin could not be placed anywhere
without touching several of these bits
of skin. The saliva by running down
on the inside of the glass had carried
cells and bacteria to the bottom.
Here, however, they were less than
one-third as abundant as at the brim.
By counting the cells present on
fifty different areas on the glass as
seen under the microscope, it was
estimated that the cup contained over
20,000 human cells or bits of dead
skin. As many as ISO germs were
seen clinging to a single cell, and
very few cells showed less than ten
germs. Between the cells were
thousands of germs left there by the
smears of saliva deposited by the
drinkers. Xot less than a hundred
thousand bacteria were present
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New York
NEW YORK, July R-Parched by
a three week' drought and steadily
baked under the deadliest sun in many
years, Manhattan Island lies to-day
practically helpless before the fatal
inroads of its record hot spell. Scores
of A'ictims are swelling the death rolls
each day and the medical men pre
dict sun-slaughter by the hundreds
if rain and cool breeics do not break
through the blazing skies before the
end of this week. It is seven long
year-f since this city has felt as dead
ly a scourge of the sun as that which
has to-day almost brought business
to n standstill. In the memorable
July of 1901 men and beasts were
felled about the streets as widely as
they are today; but even that trying
time lasted no longer than the hot
spell here has already extended to
day. The sight of the poorer quart
ers has become heart-sickening and
death by heat stroke lurks even in
the rarer atmosphere of Fifth avenue
Out cool night may save hundreds of
lives in this severest seige of the sun.
TIMING THE TIMES.
With the valedictory predictions of
Gary "and Gates, who have joined the
army of sea-bound magnates today,
much talk of a return to bumper
business is being stirred up among
the men of affairs here. It is admit
ted generally in the business district
to-day that the arrival of record good
times is now only a question of time.
That Gary has set this in the im
mediate future and Gates deferred it
a year is leading the majority of com
mercial ages, to split the difference
and name next fall as the birthday of
renewed activity. With the wings of
Wall street clipped and high finance
pruned to the stalk, no more sane
conditions have ever existed here
than surround the 'money world to
day, plenty of cash and commerce
will be brought by the next cool
weather, it is generally believed.
POTTER'S POPULARITY
Not since all New York hung on
the pulse beats of the prostrate Kip
ling has a general sympathy been
shown here as that which the condi
tion of the good Bishop Potter has
called forh. Day afer day and hour
after hour the news of the bishop's
fight with death has been sought
LARGE RIFLE MATCH
More Than a Thousand Crack
Shots to Take Part
WILL TAKE ABOUT 3 WEEKS
The Question of Expense, to Enter
Contest is a Serious One to Many
States Costs About $5000 to Fit
Out a Team.
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 14.
In one month the great National
Rifle Matches will be in progress on
the beautiful range at Camp Perry,
Ohio. Lying on the banks of, Lake
Erie, across from Put-in-Bay, adja
cent to Sandusky, and within easy
reach of Cleveland, Toledo and De
troit, Camp Perry is the most acces
sible of all large rifle ranges, which
fact augurs well for the attendance
on these matches. It is expected
that more than one thousand of the
crack military shots will be in attend
ance who, with the twelve hundred
officers, scorers, markers, guards, etc.
will make a c&mp of about nearly
twenty five hundrded men.
It is assured tha these matches
will be the largest in point of attend
ance ever held in this country, and
perhaps will be the best of the Na
tional matches to be held, at least
for some years to come. Indications
point to a change in the methods of
determining such contests. It is rep
resented that the attendance on these
matches is so large as to necesitate
from two to three weeks shooting of
which ten days are devoted to the na
tional matches alone. Many shooters
are unable to take this time together
with that necessary for home prac
tice and competitions for places on
the team. The question of expense
is also entering largely into the cal
culations of the state authorities. It
costs- some of the states as much as
five thousand dollars to fit out a team
and send it to the National matches
which is a very considerable item to
the smaller states, especially when
News Letter
throughout the East Side and the
rich residential district alike. Not
only n a churchman and publicist
but as a friend and guide Bishop
Potter has been known and loved in
every class of ens mopolitnn Gotham,
The sanity ami sense of his master
mind has cleared many a great prob
lem for his church and city, while
the fruit of his private counsel and
guidance are treasured here a thous
and -fold. Few members of this
giant community could as ill be
spared ns this stimt churchman whose
influence is felt in every walk of
life.
MELON MOUNTAINS
Huge heaps of luscious Georgia
melons, bursting with juice and rich
red pulp are today being reared
over on the water front to mark the
opening of the real summer season.
As ship after ship has begun to
steam in from Savannah crammed
with the delicious evals, hundreds of
brokers and dealers are swarming
constantly about these melon moun-j
tains bidding briskly for their share
to distribute far and wide. .Already
the summer fruit is appearing on the
tables and stalls of the town and
within a week its delights will be
come property to the crowd. With
corn on the cob,, the water melon
furnished Gotham its favorite hot-
weather diet and the corn ears are al
ready popping out on every plate
There is a solace for the fiercest heat
in the very sight of these tempting
pyramids just piling up on the warfs.
PUSHING PEARY
Now that the good ship "Roosc
velt" is sailing up the coast to-ward
its arctic goal and Peary is about to
follow for a final dash to the pole,
the enthusiasts of this city are keyed
to a high pitch of excitement. There
has always been a strong band of
arctic fans here who rotted steadily
for the men pushing for the pole, but
of late years little has been heard
from them, To-day, however, the
arctic club has formed the nucleus for
as formidable an array of ice-eaters
as ever sat the side lines in any
polar contest. If interest, support
and good wishes count in the frozen
zone, Peary will have ample supply
from this metropolis.
they are trying to buy and equip
ranges of their own out of the ap
propriation for rifle practice. Ac
cordingly, the project of dividing the
country into districts, and having
district competitions, instead of one
great meeting, is being seriously con
sidered with the possibility of being
finally approved. The winning ttams
could then be brought together at
some central point and a national
competition held. Under this plan
the smaller and weaker states, who
have no chance to land a prize in the
national competitions, would be sav
ed much expense and the time con
sumed would be considerably short
ened. The principal match at Camp Perry
will of course, be the National Team
Match, for which Congress has pro
vided the Trophy. It is for 'teams of
twelve, open to the Army, (2), Navy,
Marine Corps, Military and Naval
Academies, and the National Guard
of the Various States and Territories,
including the District of Columbia.
In this match there will probably
be forty entries. The second team
receives the famous Hilton Trophy
and the third the Soldier of Marathon
while there are six cash prizes for
the six highest teams. Each mem
ber of the winning team receives a
medal. Next in importance are the
National Individual Rifle and the Na
tional Pistol Matches, in both of
which there are i number of cash
and medal prizes. Last year there
were 648 competitors in the indivi
dual rifle, and 250 in the pistol match,
and more are expected to enter this
year.
Of the National Rifle Association
matches the most important is the
Regimental Team Match, in which
there were forty-seven teams entered
last year. The first prize in this
match is a handsome Championship
Trophy, valued at $500. It has been
won twice by the Sixth Regiment
Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, and
if this team is again victorious, the
Trophy becomes its property. Next
in interest is the , Company Team
Match, in which the prizes arc cash
and medals, Of. the individual
matches 't is difficult to determine
which is the most .interesting, the
Leech Cup, the Wimbledon Cup, or
the President's Match. They are
shot under different conditions, the
Leech Cup match being seven record
shots ta 800, 900, and 1000 yards
and the Wimbledon Cup twenty rec
ord shots at 1000 yards, while the
President's Match includes everyi
thing from the klrinloh to the 1,000
yard stage, lloth the Leech and
Wimbledon cups are historic and the
winner of the President's Match re
ceives, an autograph letter from the
President lit addition to a substan
tial cash prize. There are medals
and cash prizes in each match.
Another very Interesting event Is
the Chuniplonshlp Regimental Skirm
ish Match, open to teams of six,
When won twice the beautiful Silver
Trophy becomes the property of the
winning team, Last year this match
had fifty-one entries. Other N. R. A.
matches arc the Inter Club Match,
Life Members Match, State Secre
taries Match and the Press Match.
There is also a Championship Re
volver Team Match.
The greatest interest In Ohio
center' 'around the llofrick Trophy
Match for a magnificent silver trophy
presented by Kx-Gov, Merrick of
Ohio. Itjs accompanied by $.175 in
cash prixes with medals to the mem
bers of the winning team. This
match is open to teams of eight who
slipot fifteen shots per man at 800,
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