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If, 'torn a?-.': THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTOIUA, OREGON. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11 Fresh Supply of Cheese Martin's Eastern Cream . . Imported Swiss-Roquefort German Breakfast Try Bent's Water Cracker A. V. ALLEN Sole Agent for the Celebrated H. C Fry Cut Glass. PHONE 711 PHONE 3f?t 'UNIONTOWN BRANCH PHONE 713 30098 BROWN MEET BLUE (Continued from page 1) Febiger, U. S, A., commands the left commanded by Captain Lansing, U. wing, and the mountain battery is S. A. Wagon trains are located a mile in the rear, which is the base. Cavalry occupies the lines of com munication, backed by raipd-iire gun detachments from the Fourth U. S. Artillery. The Blue brigade is made up of the third battalion of the Sec ond U. S. Infantry, the Fourth Ore ton, the Second Washington, the Sixth U. S. Infantry, two batteries Fourth U. S Field Artillery, two troops Fourteenth Cavalry, and hos pital, signal and engineer corps de tachments. As soon as the battle now under progress has been com pleted hostilities will be suspended during a general discussion by offi cers of the tactical points involved. DUELING STORIES. Cirardin'a Satisfaction and a Winning Choice of Weapons. M. de GIrardin. tba father of the statesman and author. Euiile de Glrar iln, on one occasion entered a place where several men were firing at a target A gentleman present whom If. de GIrardin did not know, bit the fccllseye at every shot Several by standers expressed themselves in very great admiration of the gentleman's frocteion. "Tea," said De GIrardin, "he shoots swaarkably well, bnt It's quite a differ ent thing to hit a man In a duel from kitting a piece of pasteboard." The marksman overheard the remark and was offended. "I think yon are mistaken, sir." be said to De GIrardin. "I assure you that If I bad you before me I shouldn't miss you" Ton can have me when you like.'" said De GIrardin. ' "Let it be Immediately; then." said the other. ' An attempt was made to patch the siatter up. but neither man would agree to an amicable settlement The seconds were chosen, and the men went to a locality favorable for the 4ueL It was decided that they should fire separately, and It was left to a de cision by lot which fired first. The lot fell to the mysterious marks man. He fired at M. de GIrardin and missed him. De GIrardin stood still, soaking no sign as if to. fire at bis an tagonist "Come, why don't you shoot?" asked his seconds. "Why should 1 shoot?" asked De GI rardin. "There Is !j reason why I should kill this gentleman. I main tained that even a crack shot could easily miss bis man at twenty-five paces. This gentleman maintained the contrary. He must now be convinced that he is wrong. I owe him no 111 will for having discovered that' A better method of meeting a duel ing challenge was no doubt one which was employed on a certain occasion fcy a French statesman against M. Vic tor Noir, an Illiterate bully of the press In the time of the second empire. The statesman received from Noir, for no real reason whatever, a challenge to fight a duel. Noir was a densely Ignorant man. and nearly every word in the challenge was misspelt The statesman respond ed with the following letter: Dear Sir You have called mo out wlth ot any good reason. I have therefore tba choice of weapons. I choose the spelling book, and you are a dead man. The duel was never fought London Tit-Bits. . POISONING AS A FINE ART. Scale of Prices Submitted to the Vene tian Council of Ten. ' Venetian poisoners first came Into notoriety in the fifteenth century. At that period the mania for poisoning tad risen to such a height that the governments of the states were form ally recognizing secret assassination by poison and considering the removal f emperors, princes and powerful no fcles by this method. The notorious council of ten met to consider such plans, and an account and record of their proceedings still ex ists, giving the number of those who oted for and who voted against the proposed removal, the reasons for the assassination and the sum to be paid for its execution. Thus these conspirators quietly ar ranged to take the lives of many prom- fctent Individuals, and when the deed sat margin of their official record by the significant word "factum." On Dec. 15. 1M3, John of Raguba offered the council a selection of poi sons and declared himself ready to re move any person whom they deemed objectionable out of the way. Ho calmly stated his terms, which for the first successful case were to be a pen sion of 1,500 ducats a year, to be In creased on the execution of further services. The presidents Guolando Duoda and rietro Gularnl placed this matter be fore the council on Jan. 4, 1344, and on a division it was resolved to accept this patriotic offer and to experiment first on the Emperor Maximilian. John. who had evidently reduced poisoning to a One art. submitted afterward a regular graduated tariff to the council. The highest fee was for poisoning tbo sultan, 000 ducats; for the king of Spain, 150 ducats. Including the ex penses of the Journey; for the Duke of Milan, 00 ducats: for the Marquis of Mantua, 50 ducats; for the pope, ISO ducats. Health. New Light en the Zones. A class of boys averaging about twelve years of age had been exam ined In geography, which had been pre ceded the day before by grammar. Among the questions id the geography paper was the following: "Name the semes." One promising youth of eleven years wrote this answer: "There are two zones, masculine and feminine. The masculine is either temperate or intemperate; the femi nine Is either torrid or frigid." New York Sun. Then He 8ubsided. "I never saw such a woman In all my life," said Bass, "ou are never satisfied with anything." "People who know the man I took for a husband." replied Mrs. B., "think, on the contrary, that I am easily sat isfied." Liverpool Mercury. Trouble Ahead. Book Agent Madam, I was request ed to call on you to show you this great work. "How to Cook Properly." Mad am Who sent you here? Book Agent Your husband. New Ycrt Press. The Ring Finger. To the question often asked why the marriage ring should be placed oa the left band many answers are given. Some say because the left hand Is much less used than the right and therefore the ring Is less liable to get broken. In the British Apollo of 1788 It is stated that for the same reason the fourth finger was chosen, which is not only less used than either of the rest, but Is more capable of preserv ing a ring from ' bruises, having this one quality peculiar to Itself that it cannot be extended but in company with some other finger, whereas the rest may be singly stretched out to their full length and stralgbtness. Voltaire's Church. Voltaire at no time claimed to be an atheist In the generally accepted sense of that term. So far as can be learned from bis own utterances and those of bis contemporaries be was a deist a believer In God. but not In "revelation," save as the revelation comes through God's visible creation. Voltaire built a church In Ferney. Switzerland, above the door of which be had inscribed the words. "Erected to God by Voltalre." New York American. Consolation. "Wot's hup. Billy?" "Fader says my bis brudder's gorn to 'eaven." "Don't cry"-liopefnlly "mebbe e aln't!"-London Opinion. Mixed. The following appeared In an Irish newspaper: "Whereas, John Hall has fraudulent ly taken away several articles of wear ing apparel without my knowledge, this is therefore to Inform him that If he does not forthwith return the same his name shall be made public." London Tattler. An Imposition. Magistrate So you acknowledge having stolen the overcoat Anything more to say? Prisoner Yes, your honor. I had to have the sleeves re lined. Punch. Why is it that the only time the newspapers spell a man's name right Is when he Is arrested for street fight ing? Los Angeles Times. Not Exclusive. Nellie (aged five)-Our family Is aw fully exclusive. Is yours? Bessie (aged four) No, Indeed! We haven't any thing to be ashamed of. New Orleans Times - Democrat STUDY ESPERANTO The United States Will Send a Representative WILL MEET IN GERMANY Official Recognition is Given to the Remarkable New Universal Lan guage by the War Department Congress to be Held in Dresden. it WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-F.spe-ranto has been recognized officially by the United States government in the recent appointment of Major Paul F. Straub of the Army Medical Corps, to represent this country in the Fourth International Esperanto Congress to be held at Dresden, Ger many, August 16-23, 1908. Belgium was the first nation to give its official recognition to this remarkable lan guage by sending Lieutenant Cardi nal to the third congress, held af Cambridge, England, last August. The War Department library was the first institution in Washington to recognize the value of Esperanto as an auxiliary language and it began the accumulation of Esperanto litera ture in January, 1906. The Washing ton Esperanto ociety was organized in the Spring of 1907. Its presidents thus far have been James W. Cheney, librarian of the War Department, and Charles W. Stewart, superintend ent of navy war records. Esperanto .has taken firm root throughout the world. This is indi cated by the number of groups form ed in various countries and the di versity of their scope and composi tion. By its advocates Esperanto , destined to become one of the most important factors of the world's pro gress. At the end of December, 1907, the total number of Esperanto schools and societies throughout the world was 753. At the present tune the total is practicaly 1000. A proof of the progress of the Esperanto move ment is the appearance of the new Esperanto gazettes, most of them monthlies, an increase of IS over the number in December, 1907. In Bohemia, the Postmaster-Gener al has authorized the use of Esper anto in telegrams on equal footing with European modern languages. In Japan, Count Hayashi, minister of foreign affairs, has accepted the honorary president of the Japanese Esperanto Association and in a public letter has recommended that his countrymen take up Esperanto which he called the gospel of the world. FATAL COLLISION. Three Killed and 20 Injured Owing to Misunderstood Signal. PIQUE, Aug. 10 Three were kill ed and 20 injured in a 'collision be tween two cars on the Western Traction Company's line, 20 miles north of here today. The cause of the wreck is thought ' to have been though a misunderstood signal. The north bound car ou of riue was run ning on time while the south bound car out of Sydney was running at a great speed. BIG TREES IN DANGER. All Efforts to Check Forest Fire Are Unavailable. t SONORA, Aug. 10 The forest fire vhich has been raging has reached' the outhern Grow near the Calaveras, big trees. All efforts to check it have been unavailing so far. Advices from the scene are that the big trees are in no immediate danger owing to the nature of the ground and the fact that the underbrush is cut out. The area of burned section is now about 30 miles square, but the property loss is small. The trees are oil swampy ground which makes the fighting eas ier than elsewhere. It may be set down that unless unforseen circum stances arise they will be saved. CALIFORNIA PRIMARIES. Will be Held Today Throughout the State. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10-The primaries, will be held tomorrow throughout California, for the elec- tion of thre sets of delegates to the 65 cents per month, delivered by car state convention which will select ,rier. Contains full Associated Press the presidential electors; to congres- report? and all latest local news, sional conventions, for the noinln.it tion of eight congressmen, and to th county and local conventions, More than usual importance attaches to the election of the full house ami half the senate, because a United State senators is to be chosen this year. "In also every county in the state two factions are contesting for control In both parties. In the Republican party there is a contest on between , the Lincoln-Roosevelt League and the regular organization with both wing expressing the confidence that they have the majority In the legislature, The democrats are in a similar po sit ion. They have a regular orgnni zation known as the McNab faction and adherents of ex-Congressman Bell who routed McNab at Fresno. In addition to the tickets of the great parties, there are in the field those of the Independence League and the Union Labor ticket, A CHINESE DROUGHT. Tragic Scenes That Come With i Long Spell of Dry Weather, lu many districts of China witter be comes very scarce during the summer months. Some of the fearful result of the drought are described thus ! the Rev. John MacGowau: "The grea situ blazes down from an unclouded sky and drinks up the water that I- clinging to the roots of the rice. Tin toll now cracks with the fervent beat and every blade of rice seems to I making an appeal to the benrtbrokoi, farmer for the watef that alone wll enable It to live, lie Is now at lib wits' end to save his crop, for that per haps is the only thins now that Ilex between him and poverty and despair A failure of a crop means very likely that be will have to sell his daughter or a son perhaps or even barter awu.v his wife if he would keep the home stead from slipping from his grasp Some of the most piteous scenes tu the many tragic ones that cast their shad ows over the home In the experience ol the Chinese buslmndineo can be wit nesscd during the summer mouth wheu there has been a shortage In the fall of rain. "The wells have become dry. and the liliiv uuua uiiv wru umiueu ui drop of water they contained. The rice In the field has lost the dark green color that with Its rich sheen tells of health and vitality and Is turning Into a sickly yellow that means decay and death. Water must be got now and at any price, for two or three days more of this will see the grain blasted in tbr fields. They accordingly dig the ponds deeper to catcb the tiniest rills that may flow luto them, and as the work In the blazing sun might at once drink these up the work Is carried on during the midnight hours, so that not a drop of the precious fluid may be absorbed by the great thirsty dragon In the sky. "Often these most pathetic endeavors to save tbelr crops end In tragedy and death. Men are making a supreme ef fort to avert disaster from their homes, and in the mad endeavor to gain the water for themselves the wildest pas- BKHI9 UI lUl' UlU(l HIV (MUtini-U, U11U neighbors will struggle with each oth er for the slowly trickling drops of water. The solemn air of night Is broken with the sounds of conflict, and the stars looking down from the mid night sky see murder committed by men whose sole and controlling motive Is the preservation of their bomes." Cblcago News. LONDON'S SAFETY VALVE. Trafalgar Square, Where Agitators "Blow Off Steam." There Is perhaps no other great city where the measure of free speech which is accorded to agitators of all hinds is larger than It is In London. It Is the practice there to give anybody and everybody a chance to spout away to his heart's content in certain well recognized places of rendezvous, such as the spacious Trafalgar square, and especially the far more spacious ex panse of field or common In that por tion of Hyde park where the "re formers' tree" stands and where there Is room not only for thousands and tens of thousands, but even hundreds of thousands. Ordinarily in favorable weather on almost any fine afternoon or In the early part of the evening little meet ings are going on there, each having a piece of ground allotted to it by the police, but on a Sunday, from early In the morning until well into the night, these assemblages are very numerous and In full blast Twenty, thirty, forty, even more, I have seen In operation at the same time, the speakers, men and women, haranguing to groups or to big crowds on every theme imaglnabls religion, spiritualism, politics, the tariff, woman's rights, astrology, pe nology, the faith cure, bad literature, theosophy, socialism, anarchy, govern mental abuses, the abolltlou of the house of lords, home rule, local re forms and the vices of the aristocracy, while the red flag was as likely to be as conspicuous as any other emblem on the poles that are stuck lu the ground or on the folding platforms which are rolled In on wheels. The whole practice has long been regarded by many Englishmen as an excellent means of letting the people "blow on tbelr steam,"-Phlladeiphla Bulletin. Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, MANY INTERESTED Deluge of Requests Made on Aero-Dynamics TO STUDY AERONAUTICS Smithsonian Institute Has Prepared Booklet Containing Four of Prlncl pal Papera Written by Prof. Lang ley, a Pioneer in the Movement. WASHINGTON. Aug, 10,-Witl interest aroused by Count Zeppelin' airship flight several days ago and the tests now being held at Fort Mycr, the Smithsonian Institute is being leluded with requests for the work on aero dynamics, by Professor S. P Langley. To meet these demands the insti tution has prepared a booklet con taining four of the principal papers written by Professor Langley, on his flying machine. The "Stories of Ex perimepts in Experimental fliKlits,' "The Langley Aerodrome," "The Great Flying Creature," and "F.xperl ments with the Langley Aerdrome," in which Professor Langley gives his version of the last attempt to fly his airship which ended disastrously Professor Langley was probably the pinner instigator and experinien ter with machine lu-avier-than-nir that were supported in (light only by their own mechanical energy. He de signed and built several small mod- els ami a quarter size model of a lar ger man-carrying machine which made successful flights of over half a minute each, keeping In the air as long as fuel lasted, The first of these flights was made in May, 1896, over 12 years ago. The small aerodrome, two driven by steam and the third by gasoline engines, are on exhibition in he United States museum. The latter large machine built not ong before Professor Langley leath, has never been fully tested, a break occurring in the launching ap paratus at each of the two trials in 1003. The underlying principle of ' Pro fessor Langley's experiments work ed out through his scientific study is expressed in one of the papers pub ished originally in 1897: What is popularly known as 'Fly ng Machine' Is literally a machine without gas to support it. in no way resembling a balloon and which its nventor has called the aerodrome. The aerodrome (from words signify ing 'air runner") is then the name giv en to this apparatus by Mr. Langley to indicate the principle of its action which in no way resembled that of a balopn that floats because it is lighter than air, while the aerodrome is hundreds of, times heavier than air." Although some of Mr. Langley's models had flown short distances be fore, he preferred to consider the flight of May 6, 1896, over 12 years go, referred to above as the first really successful one. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, Mr. Frank G. Carpen ter, and others, were witnesses on this occasion. The model repeatedly ew a distance estimated by Dr. Bell at about 3000 feet or more than half a mile. REPORTS PLEASE BRYAN. Regarding Political Outcome Affect; ing His Candidacy. FAIRVIEW, Aug. 10-From the lips of a number of callers from var ions parts of the country and letters received Colonel Bryan today heard gratifying reports regarding the po litical outlook as affecting his candi dacy., Altogether he had ojie of the bus iest days since his , nomination. In addition to some traveling men a'nd visiors, including Representative Clayton of Alabama, delegation of of Christian Scientists from various parts of the country and 300 Epworth Leaguers to whom he delivered a brief address, Numbers of the noti fication committee are rapidly coming in. Tomorrow important conferences by the democratic managers will be held in Lincoln. One of these will be between Chairman Mack and the members' of the executive committee, and others bet wen Mack and the committee appointed to compile the campaign text book. In the after noon it is expected Mack will go out to Fairview where he and the demo cratic nominee will discuss the gen eral of the camapign. IMSjyiPlBXC H ffiJ&M IN ONK OR MANY COLOR! LARQEST FACILITIES IN THE WEST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIOH ORADE WORK urn t tiw it until mum ,-ni - ww .: A few dosM of this remedy will In variably enre an ordinary attack of diarrhcea. 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