FRIDAY, AUGUST 7,
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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA. OREGON.
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WARNED BY DESERTS
What These Sandy Wastes Mean
to Mother Earth.
A DEATH GRIP ON THE WORLD
They Indicate the Beginning of th
End of Our Beautiful Planet, Which
It Doomed to Roll Through Spaoo
Parched and Lifeless Orb.
TELEPHONE MAIN 661.
,THE3 WEATHER
Oregon, Washington, and Idaho-Fair.
ZEPPELIN.
It begins to look as if Count Zep
pelin is to figure among the great
men of the century; as if he will mas
ter the deep problems of aerial navi-
inspiration that created that especial
jurisdiction. It is uncscapable; and
the sooner it is brought about, the
less trouble and anxiety its officers
will have in the future.
FRUIT FRAUDS.
Astoria lies at a tangent from all
sources of supply, including the fruif
orchards of the coast, and is helpless
gation and put forward the practical 'against the impositions thrust upon
thing that shall stand for the initial her by the wholesalers patronized ,by
solution and demonstration of trans- her merchants. Through those mer
portation of people and cargoes for chants alone, for the time being
rnmm,rr;ai .,c any "lief to come. As a body they
t .
Vnr r. ,i. t. can
a century, he has been a devoted stu-
demand better grades of fruit,
even if they cannot summon courage
dent of the science, meeting failure
after failure with calmness and reso
lution, forging ahead slowly, yet
surely, to the one aim and end; sub
jecting his jurse and person to the
inexorable demands of the situation,!
with a bravery essentially fine and
now, promisingly,- sure.
The people of today have become i
so intimate with marvels, o inured
tc clianpp nnd the frtremp nf rhatir
that they half fail to appreciate the werc au be"er. expednt t0 P"
tremendous things that are being!haPs; b.ut fru,,t at th,Sas0n haS "J
wrought abouV them, and take the tmpttons, ke,en and and
wonderful access with a
ate serenity approaching actual
to charge any -higher prices for it.
They owe something to the patrons
who makes and maintain their busi
nesses, and we have the right to bet
'ter treatment in this particular.
Clatsop needs more fruit orchards
iof her own to counteract the rank
prescription now prevailing, and that
'takes time; we have only the mer
chants to look to, and the' appeal
should not be in vain. Fruit famine
a: a t..m. i i
uiucicncc. dui mis is nor. 10 De con- i ,
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sirucu as apamy; iney are very mucn :
dispassion- . , , ... .
1H-r . - i. . tir i
I not oi tne proper quauiy. wc mere
;fore invoke the friendlly concern of
! l . i. u a. ; c cfnfT
ahve to the successes of the day and i . . . . .u-
. c .,- . i to see to it that we get something
appreciate them profoundly, but are . , , . .
uu;. :.u i j ... beside the green or past-ripe goods
so familiar with the long-drawn fail- . .. . . u
..,. u . I now handled; and if this cannot be
ures and the consequent coaching!, ,, , ,
t. '. . . ... . , done, then we move for a communal
they get in, the public prints, on the j ' ... '-, .
Z. - s . . , strike against the retail purchase of
art, or science, or industrial scheme, ... , . . .
..... t , . .. 'any fruit whatever, save that which
that they grow neutral to everything 3 , ' , . .
. . . . 4 . . ! may come to us fresh and wholesome
save the culminating triumph. L 1 , , . ,ir
.4 . . , 'i by any other agency whatever. VVe
The world awaits the devebpmenti J .... u ' A a
of this great science with eager andi , . . ... t. .
. t i . . , , , (cheaper prices in a commodity that
hopeful interest. It should revolu-:; v . t,
, . . .lis richly profuse all over the Pacific
travel and transport and relieve the
strain and congestion with all their
attendant rigors, of rates and discom
fort, and develop new avenues of
competition that should contribute to
the abatement of the cost of living.
Count Zeppelin ought to live to
realize handsomely upon the splendid
ardor and ingenuity he has given to
the noble craft.
JACKSON REID.
The childish brain of Portland's in
fant murderer is charged with a con
ception of the real significance and
horror of the deed he has done and his
tudding life is wrought and warped
to lines of misery and despair un
bearable even by the hardier faculty
of the adult. It is pitiably sad, but
we doubt if the burden is much
greater than that borne by those who
mourn the dead man. The whole af
fair is infinitely troublous to all con
cerned, not excepting the officers of
the law, because of the extraordinary
elements injected by reason the ex
treme youth of the slayer. The
problem of properly disposing of the
case with equal justice to all ets up
exactions that must be met. all along
the line of procedure , and calls for
exceeding care on the part df the ad
ministrators of the law, woo, inci
dentally, must conserve the best in
terests of society.. f
The case at bar raises the issue of
supplying the juvenile court with an
adequate prison of its own. It is
against all public policy to send this
child to the penitentiary to be reared
with the scum of barred humanity;
we should see to it that the juvenile
administration is equipped with some
thing beside a court and code, a penal
resort ,on a par with the provisions j
surrounding the detection and treat-
UlVlll Ul vl J1UU1CW3, tiiiu una
by the earliest legislative action to be
had. So far as the juvenile court work
has been carried on at Portland, it
is proven efficacious and admirable in
many ways, and may be perfected by
arranging for the adequate incarcera
tion of the delinquent youngsters un
der a regimen proportioned to the
Coast.
"Think," says an aeronaut,, "of
transportation through the free, pure
air; the realm of absolute liberty; no
tricks, no franchises." Is this Ar
cadian sure that the trust, the toll
gate and the constable will be kept
out of the atmospheric domain?
An order for $100,000 worth of au
tomobile gas engines, placed at I,o
gansport, Ind., is to be cancelled in
. . . .. if.
case ot tsryan s election, n every
thine that stands still awaiting the
- - - o ,
result of November 3 could be reck
oned uo the total would run into
hundreds of millions.
During the' last democratic admin
istration the number of sheep in the
United States fell off 10,000,000 and
wool sold for 30 cents that now
brings 60. A reversion to this state
of affairs is what Mr. Bryan offers
American farmers in return for their
campaign contributions.
Nantucket has just erected a me
morial tablet to 24 of its citizens who
fought with John Paul Jones on the
Bon Homme Richard. As scarcely
anything remained afloat at the end
of that engagement the name of the
ship is a sufficient inscription.
Postage will soon be cheaper be
tween' England ' and the United
States than between v England and
France, or any other part of Europe.
The parcels post rate betwen the
United States and England is less
than the rate between any of our do
mestic offices, and this doesn't look
so good.
Morning Astorian, 60 per month.
COFFEE
The dealing is simple.
If you don't like Schil
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nothing.
Your grocer return! jour moaej U jou iaa I
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Deserts already exist on Ilia earth,
and the nameless horror that attaches
to the word in thq thoughts of nil who
have had experience of .ttiem or are
gifted with Imagination tooucelve Is
in truth greater than we commonly
suppose, for the cosmic clrainiNtnnce
about them which la most terrible Is
not that deserts are. but that deserts
have begun to be. Not ni local ev (ta
ble evils are they only to be pictured,
but as the gcueral. Inescapable iteiitU
grip on our world, for It Is the bogtu-
ntug of the end. What depauperates
the forests to grass lands and tueuce to
wastes must in turn attack the tea bot
torus when they shall have parted wltb
their seas.
Last of the fertile sdoU upon tho
planet because of the salts the streams
have for ages washed down and of the
remnant of moisture that would still
drain Into them, eventually they must
share the fortune of their predecessors
and the planet roll a parched orb
through space. The picture Is forbid
ding, but the fact seems one to wulcb.
we are constructively pledged and Into
which we are In some sort already adventured.
Girdling the earth with what It takes
but little personification to liken to the
life extinguishing serpent's colls run
two desert belts of country. The one
follows, roughly speaking, the tropic of
Cn mer, extending northward from It;
the other, the tropic of Capricorn. Ari
zona Is In the northern band, as are the
Sahara. Arabia and the deserts of cen
tral Asia.
Now, these desert belts are growing.
In the great desert of northern Arizona
the traveler, threading his way across
a sagebrush and cacti plain shut In by
abrupt sided shelves of land rising here
and there some hundreds of feet high
er, suddenly comes upon a petrified for
est Trunks of trees In all stages of frac
ture strew the ground over a space
some miles in extent. So perfect are
their forms he Is almost minded to
think tbe usual wasteful woodebopper
has been by and left tbe scattered
products of his art In llttcwd confu
sion upon the scene of bis exploit
Only their beautiful color conveys a
sense of strangeness to tbe ere, and.
leaning down and touching them, he 1
finds that they are stone; chalcedony,
not carbon! Form has outlived sub
stance and kept tbe resemblance, while
the particles of the original matter
have all been spirited away. Yet so
perfect Is the presentment one can
hardly believe the fact, and where one
fallen giant spans a little canyon one
almost thinks to bear tbe sound of wa
ter rushing down the creek.
But it Is some millions of years and
more since this catastrophe befell, and
the torrent uprooting It. left It prone,
with limbs outstretched In futile grasp
upon the other side. A conifer It was.
cousin only to such as grow today, and
nourished probably In tbe cretaceous
era, for the land has not been under
water here since the advent of tertiary
times.
Nowhere near it. except for tbe rare
cotton woods along tbe bank of the Lit
tle Colorado, grows anything today.
The land which once supported these
forests is Incompetent to do so now.
Yet nothing has changed there since
except the decreasing water sup
ply. During tertiary and quaternary
time the rainfall has been growing less
and less. Proof of this Is offered by
the great pine oasis that caps the pla
teau of which these petrified forests
form a part and is kerneled by tbe San
Francisco peaks. The height above
sea level of the spot where the chal
cedony trunks are strewn Is about
4,600 feet. The lower present limit of
tbe pine in Its full development is
6,500 feet Two thousand feet upward
the verdure Hue has retreated since tbe
former forests were. And this Is no
local alteration, for upon tbe other side
of the plateau petrified remains of trees
are similarly found.
The line of perpetual green has risen
because In desert regions the moisture
is found most plentiful nearest to tbe
clouds from which it falls upon a
parching earth. Streams, Instead of
gathering volume as they go, are lar
gest near their source and grow less
and less with each fresh mile of flow.
The brooks descending from the AnU
Lebanon, In Syria, water the gardens
of Damascus and, thence Issuing upon
tbe plain, lose themselves just beyond
the threshold of its gates. So In tbe
Arizona desert, though In a less de
gree, and those who live there know It
but too well.- From Perelval Lowell'8
"Mars and the Future of the Earth"
MJMffll
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A few doses of this remedy will in
variably cure an ordinary attack of
diarrhcea.
It csn always be depended tpon,
even in the more severe attacks of
cramp colic and cholera morbus.
It Is equally successful for summer
dlnrrhrea au cholera infantum in
children, and is the means of saving
the lives of many children each year.
When reduced with water and
sweetened it is pleasant to take.
Every man of a family should keen
this remedy in his home. Bny it now,
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O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President.
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J, W. GARNER Assistant CaihUt
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A CHEMICAL FURY.
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Breaking Wirs.
Anybody who has tried to break a
piece of wire without the aid of r. pair
of pinchers will probably agree that the
operation is both a difficult and pain
ful one. There Is a method, however.
by which It may be easily accomplish
ed. By bending the wire Into a loop
and pulling both ends as tight as pos
sible an Injury will be caused to the
wire, which on being straightened will
Immediately break. By this means
wire up to No. 12 gauge may be suc
cessfully dealt with.
1 Fluorine Is a Rabid Qas That Nothing
Can Resist.
The fury of tbe chemical world is
the element fluorine, although, strange
ly enough, It exists peacefully in com
pany with calcium in fluorspar and
also In a few other compounds.
Although this element was known
and named a good while ago, it long
resisted tbe efforts of chemists to Iso
late it-that is, prepare it in a pure
state, unmixed chemically with other
substances for tbe Instant the com
pound containing ft was torn apart
the free fluorine attacked and combined
wltb whatever substance composed the
vessel containing It. It was finally
Isolated by tbe great French chemist
Molssan.
Fluorine is a rabid gas that nothing
can resist It combines with all met
als, explosively with some, or If they
are already combined with some other
nonruetnlllc element it mercilessly
tears them away from It and takos
them to itself.
In uniting with sodium, potassium,
calcium, magnesium and aluminium
tbe metals become heated, even to red
ness, by tbe fervor of Its embrace.
Iron fillings slightly warm burst into
brilliant scintillations when exposed to
It Manganese does the same. Even
the noble metals, which at melting
heat proudly resist the fascinations of
oxygen, succumb to this chemical siren
at moderate temperatures.
Glass is devoured at once and water
censes to lie water by contact with this
is, which, combined with its hydro
gen, at the same moment forms the
acrid, glass dissolving hydrofluoric acid
and liberates ozone.
Even hydrofluoric add eats into and
destroys every known substance ex
cept platinum and lead. Exchange.
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It has been demonstrated that the
glacier does not move in one block,
but flows, accommodating itself to the
channel in which it moves. Professor
Tyndall planted a row of sticks in a
straight lino across a glacier, and after
a few dajs the line had become a
crescent, with the concavity upward,
showing that the middle of the glacier
moved faster than the sides, Just as In
a river the stream Is stronger in tbe
center.
Her Mild Ambition. , ,
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The mother's face fell.
"He Is not a brilliant child," she
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