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SljtiBailti Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year .... By carrier, per month r WEEKLY By mail, per year, in advance. Entered as second-class matter July 30, 19C6, a the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or nlace of business may be made bypostal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should of publication. , : , t TELEPHONE MAIN 661. ;the:weather Oregon, Washington and Idaho Generally fair. A GRAVE SITUUATION. It may as well be understood now, as later, that the Irving avenue mat ter, in all its bearings, is a far graver incident than seems to be realized at the city hall and that the tentative settlement of the money-end of the affair does not, by any means, relieve the council of its broad responsibility in the ugly premise. The substantial, essential, and only fact that has de veloped is that $21,000 (out of $23, 000) has been paid out upon a con tract unfulfilled on the part of the contractor (who is, in a sense, not blameable), and which is now appar ently, deliberately vitiated, by the council itself, by actual abrogation, though it is left in empirical shape at this time, for anticipated resumption a year hence; a presumption at once gratuitous and, perhaps, untenable. "The. conditions of peril to life, limb and property set up by the natural subsidence of the earth at Eighteenth street do not seem to have sunk into the consciousness of the majority of the councilmen, nor the certainty of ,the legal accounting the city must make for what shall happen in this direction; nor does the possible legal cancellation of the warrants already issued in this behalf seem to have en tered the minds of any engaged in the transaction, save those of a few of tbe most prominent of the taxpayers interested, who are quite alive to all the merits and demerits of the case. The attempt to extract any vivid humor from this threatening and compromising entanglement, such as was undertaken at the thirty-minute session of the council on Thursday evening, when $25,000 worth of public business was transacted with almost flippant unconcern, will not be admit ted anywhere by anyone, as a becom ing expression of official responsibil ity or dignity. Nor will the conclu sion, that the services of an expert geologist and engineer might be un duly high, serve with any weight against the loss of a single priceless life that may sacrificed at any critical phase of the abnormal situation now prevailing. The whole affair demands deeper and more thoughtful consider ation than has been given it to date; a line of treatment that may be safely extended to all future projects of the kind in this city. FILTH. Beware of filth wherever you find it. It is the natural channel for the introduction of every concieveable pest and pestilence and the nourishing ground of the evil germ. In the home, on the street and the highway, at the point of assemblage, use and contact, and on the very person, it must be unflinchingly fought and kept at a minimum everlastingly; nothing less will do, and what the private spirit and sense of decency refuses to do, and repudiates, the pub lic po-ver must achieve with all the weight the plea of human safety can warrant and apply. We do not care to what lengths the health authorities, municipal, state or federal, may go in this connection; mere personal inconvenience, and even rational costs, are as shadows when measured by the incalculable benefits of immunity . and general safety. Good cess to the physician who uncovers and makes public the shameful and dangerous sore-spots of indecency and neglect and human hoggishness. This, paper, for one, will be found squarely behind him or any other citizen so minded and devoted. AN OMINOUS TRICK. Some well-meaning friend has pre sented Brer' William Bryan with a mule, a Jive and lively synosym of the THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. ..$7.00 .60 ASTORIAN. .$1.50 be immediately reported to the office 'party that is supposed to be carrying ; life, the Presidency; but, unhappily, the beast has been trained to refuse all riders and sticks religiously to the lesson, which trick is ambiguous, if not ominous, of the refusal of the country to carry the farilous Lincoln- jian to his destination at Washington The mule is a typically sensible ani mal, and in the instance under consid 'eration may figure far too closely to tne type 0 ,efeat. However, such issues as mere defeat in presidential elections have no material significance for the "great Commoner," who would, perhaps, be rather disconcert ed and dismayed if anything else should happen. THE OREGON CHICKEN. H. C. Schellhouse, superintendent of the poultry department of the Oregon State Fair, to be held at Sa lem, September 14-19, says the "chick en" display will be simply out of sight this time, tit bases his opinion on the fact that more breeders than ever have made inquiries for space and ! oftAmfaa - A It -if 4 Vi A waII iriAnrn vuiuivguv . vi ia v vr . nit v n breeders have expressed a desire to send their best poultry. Among them nvght be mentioned the Willowmoor Farm at Redmond, Washington, with 40 White Plymouth Rocks and White Leghorns. A canvas annex will be made to he poultry pavilion for the accommodation of the incubator men and other firms dealing in poultry farm fixtures and equipments. The pigeon display will be simply won derful. W. E. Jones, of NashvilU, Tennessee, will judge the poultry, and the pigeon classes will be passed on by Mr. Stonehouse, of British Co lumbia. After November 3 Mr. Bryan will be entitled to a renewal of bis car f m the snowshovelers union. In allowing points for practical ex perience in statesmanship Taft must be given 100 if Bryan is marked 10. Mr. Bryan is surprised to find that his leading policy against the calam ity of his election. Chicago's disappointment with its school census will prepare it for the big tumble it always takes when the national enumerators get to work. One of the best ways to stand hot nights is , to own several hundred acres of promising cornfields, with the quotation at 70 cents a bushel. This is believed to be the first cam paign in which the insurance com panies have written policies against the election of the democratic ticket. "Twice," says a Baltimore paper, "Maryland threw her' vote heavily against Bryan, and this year it will be a landslide." A slump like Parkers may possibly discourage Mr. Bryan a little. ' : Champ Clark thinks national con ventions can be improved in several respects. The democratic kind could make camapigns more interesting by ceasing to yell an hour and a half for a chronic loser. MEDAL FOR BRAVERY. Captain James Harrison Saved Lives of 28 Sailors. the NEW YORK, Aug. 2I.-In recog nition of his having saved the lives of 28 saliors during a gale on the Grand Banks last April, Captain Jas. COFFEE Poor coffee has to be sold in bulk, it isn't worth packing1. fa SchiTliaf't fett; wi ti kirn THE MORNING A5T01UAN, 'ASTORIA, By MELVILLE E. INCALLS, former Prcildt nt , Chataptake and Ohio Railroad. ? HE railroads will ."'. :: V i: been going. THE STOCKS HAVE DRIFTED TO NEW 'YORK, AND THERE ARE TOO MANY STOCKS AND BONDS, DIVIDENDS ARE TOO HIGH, "and wages in some cases are too high. The raise in wages was the natural result of the unwarranted boost of dividends. Railroad financiers did not declare dividends on the business handled, but on what the biitim 3 would have been if they had been olio to handlo it , The wage earners naturally, seeing this supposed evidence of pros perity, demanded their share of it. Mr. Gompcrs at a Civio federa tion meeting in New York last winter gave warning to capital that wages will not come down; that labor will not stand a cut. I told him at the time that he was foolish ; that he couldn't tell what would hap pen in the near future. In the past perhaps wages have suffered before capital, and that was Vrong. THE PROCESS MAY BE REVERSED THIS TIME. BUT IF THE PRESENT, SITUATION OF THE RAILROADS 18 TAKEN IN HAND IN A BUSINESS WAY, IF WE QUIT TALKING ABOUT POLITICS HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT, EVERY THING WILL COME RIGHT IN A REASONABLE TIME. OF COURSE THERE WILL BE 80ME SUFFERING, BUT BY BOTH .ELEMENTS EQUALLY. WE CANT EXPECT TO RECOVER FROM THE BIO DRUNK WE HAVE HAD WITHOUT A HEADACHE. IF THE WATER IS TAKEN FROM 8TOCK8 AND DIVIDENDS ARE REDUCED TO A LEGITIMATE FIGURE, WAGE EARNERS WILL NOT OBJECT TO BEARING THEIR PART OF THE EXPENSE OF REHABILITATION. THEY ARE MEN OF SENSE, AND I HAVE NEVER FOUND ANY DIFFICULTY IN DEALING WITH THEM ON AN HONEST BASIS. I have always believed in a profit sharing plan, but it .has not been adopted generally, principally because the labor people do not believe they will get a fair division. Perkins has worked it out in way, how ever, in the steel company, , MY IDEA IS TO TREAT WAGES AS CAPITAL, AND WHEN YOU" DECLARE A DIVIDEND ON CAPITAL DECLARE AN EQUAL DIVI DEND ON WAGES. THIS PLAN WORKED PERFECTLY ON THE OR LEANS ROAD IN FRANCE BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT TOOK IT OVER. THE GOVERNMENT ABOLISHED THE 8Y8TEM, AND THERE HAS BEEN DISSATISFACTION EVER SINCE. Psychology and Essential In Modern Religion. By Or. ELWOOD WORCESTER. Preacher and Author. E venture to say that the time has come when THE CHURCH MUST ENTER MORE DEEPLY INTO THE PERSONAL LIVES OF PEOPLE AND MAKE A FREER USE OF THE MEANS OF MODERN SCIENCE AND THE GOSPEL DISPOSAL IF SHE IS TO HER OWN. THE TEACHINGS OF MODERN AS TO THE ESSENTIAL UNITY OF HUMAN NATURE AND THE MUTUAL RELATION8 OF MIND AND BODY HAVE. SUNK SO DEEP INTO THE POPULAR CONSCIENCE THAT THE CHURCH CAN NO LONGER ADDRESS MEN AS DI3EMCCDIED CPIRIT8, AND NO SCHEME OF SALVATION CAUSES THE HCART TO BEAT WITH HOPE WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE THE WHOLE MAN AND WHICH DCES r.r.T DEGIN NOW. Harrison of the Volturno of the New j York & Continental line will today j gold, diamond be presented with a studded medal on his ship lying at her Jersey City pier. The presenta tion will be made by an official of the Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York. Sailors who manned the lifeboats at the time of the rescue will also receive souvenirs of the eroie work. ' The men saved formed the crew of the Champaigne, a French schoon er of St. Malo, France, while tbe little vessel was bound to the fishing banks. The Volturno. en route from Rotterdam to New York, sighted the Champaigne when the schooner had been dismaii'led and was leaking. I'.n high ran the seas that it required three days to transfer the men from the sinking schooner. Twenty years ago Captain Harrison saved 32 men from the Nautique, a French steam- hip which foundered in mid-Atlan tic. Captain Harrison brought to this country Lord Dunraven's racing yacht, The Valkyrie III. WOULDN'T SUCKLE CUBS. Probable Effect Of Captivity On Chi cago Zoo Lioness. CHICAGO, Aug.--21.-Cy de Vry, animal keeper at Lincoln Park zoo, was searching yesterday for a Great Dane dog to act as mother to four lion cubs. They were crying piteous- ly for something to eat. They had been born the day before and their mother refused to suckle them. DeVry tried to. induce, them to drink out of a large nursing bottle that he had U6ed with success once in the case of a baby llama, but the whelps sniffed " it . disdainfully " and ""whined worse than ever. "There is only one thing that will save them, said the animal keeoer. and that is a great Dane dog to act as foster mother."; ; , Quit Talking About Politics In Railroad Troubles. Big four and L A nu. B.I1.....I, not make much tit tbe pneo they have Physiology OF CHRIST PLACED AT HER CONTINUE EVEN TO HOLD PSYCHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY . The mother lion snarled viciously at everyone who came near her cage. jShe wou,d not lo?k at hef whe,ps- lf uevry naci nor mierierea ine un natural lioness would have killed them. WILL HELP TAFT. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Secrc-tary Garfield gave one day to his of ficial duties in Washington after his visit to Judge Taft at Hot Springs and left last night for his home, at Akron, O., where he will spend some time on vaction. He will lend his pre sence to the opening cf the Ohio cam paign at Youngstown on September S. He said before leaving for Wash ington that he would not make a speech here. Mr. Garfield continued to have sanguine views as to Mr. Taf t's probable election. U. OF O. PREX MARRIED. GRAND LAKE, Colo., Aug. 21. C. P. Campbell, president of the University of Oregon and Mrs. Susan Campbell-Church, of San Francsico, were married here yesterday. The couple will leave for Eugene, Ore., in a few days. BABY LION BORN. NEW YORK, Aug. 21. Bismarck, "king" of the Central Park Zoo, and his wife Rose are the proud parents of a baby lion, born yesterday. Keepers took the precautions neces sary to give Rose and her latest prog eny, the utn all the comforts the oc casion demanded and as they strung tarpaulin in front of the cage the cub, which has been named Gink, was purring in perfect contentment. , Subscribe for the Morning Astor- 60 cents per month. Contains full Associated Press reports, besides all carrier. ORKl.OIV AIEC O T 0 What a Collision Means to the Man at the Throttle. PLIGHT OF THE ENGINEER The Chanosa Ha Haa to Taka and Hit Fata Should Ha Baocma Crippled In Smaahup Thara Aro Soma Things Woree Than Physical Pain, ' "I JuHt dropped lo to toll you that the coroner'! Jury bat exonerated you from all blame foe. the wrack. They are going to bold the block tower man."1 The old engtuecr turned bis pain drawn face toward nie. A white cap ped nurse gtmtly brushed back tbe wild balra from fail forehead. "Tbauk you, nils," he wild, "and you, too, air, for tbe good newt. I knew they couldn't blame It on tne, became It wai white at Mentor. Poor Deuny, he'd tell you so, too. If be waa alive. All white!' be shouted when we came round the curve, aud I gave him tbe answer, 'All whiter and pulled ber wide open. Then we struck tbe emp ties on the siding, and-welL you know tbe rest" II wiped a trembling hand across bis eyes as lf trying to blot out some horrible vision. Hit eyes began to sparkle, and a bit of color flashed into bis pale cheeks. "I suppose you fellows think I opened ber up and weut Into those boxes Just for fun." A smile flitted orer bis lips, and then be grew serious. "Say, did It ever come to your mind that an en gineer might be as anxious about bis own life as be la about the lives of those who are riding behind biro? My wife and little one-dou't you suppose my life counti for something with them? "Did you ever stop to tbluk wbat a collision like that at Mentor means to the engineer? Just try to figure your self In his place. Hs rides In four square feet of cab room, surrounded by a mass of levers, rods and tbe like, Ahead of blm Is about three miles of boiler pipe, carrying 200 pounds of steam pressure and enough hot water to cook tbe meat off his bones In a Jiffy. Clattering at his back Is 0.000 gallons of water and 20,000 pounds of coaL 1 Under blm Is 200,000 pounds of engine, and behind ' there ; Is 600,000 pounds ot train. Altogether be I la pimnlnif nlnn aliolil ftf MY! OOO pounds of steel, hardwood and brass held to an eighty pouud rail by three quarters of an luch of wheel flange. "Why, when one of those big Rus sian battleships tired a broadside at the Japanese tbe wbole thing amounted only to 21,000 pounds, so tbe papers say. And that 24,000 pounds traveling eight miles a minute would strike a Japanese ship eight - miles away with an Impact only one-tenth of tbe force we bit tbe empties at Mentor, "Of course 1 was tbe engineer and tbey depended on me. There Is al ways a lot of fine talk about engineers having tbe lives of several hundred passengers In their bands. That's all very true, but you don't want to over look tbe fact that the engineer's life Is right there along with tbe others. We all take chances, tbe train crew as well as the passengers, only our chances are slimmer. I bad one chance In COO of being killed, or one In twenty-five of getting right whore I am now, but a passenger on the train bad one chance In about 8,000,000 of being killed and one In 130,000 of being hurt , "I see that a lot of people were killed and a whole lot more hurt I don't want to be a grumbler, but It appears to me that you fellows have kinder overlooked the fact that both of my legs are gone. Of course that might not mean much to you, but If you realized, as I do, that for the rest of my life It Is going to be my Job to bobble out Into tbe middle of some country road and wave a white flag as every train goes by lf you could real ize wbat that means to an engineer, to bear tbe mocking toot of tbe whis tle as she comes up to the crossing and to see tbe sympathetic salute of tbe engineer and fireman as they go flying by I tell you, my boy, there are some things worse than physical pain.". His eyes filled wltb tears. Tbe nurse gently wiped them away and softly stroked back the balr. , , "I wouldn't talk any more now," she said. " ' ; "All right, miss," be replied, putting t out his band to me. "I always obey orders."-B. R. Wlnslow In New York Tribune. A Free Tranalatlon. "And you say tbe Idiot of a teacher .told you that you had an extravagant fool of a fatherr .., "That's wbat he meant." ' "But what did he say?" "He said It was criminal folly to waste money on the education of such a chump as I am." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Nothing Left. "Have you," asked the Judge of a recently convicted man,' "anything to offer the court before sentence la passed?" "No, your honor," replied the pris oner; "my lawyer took my last far-thlng."-London Tit-Bits. The Last Word. Conductor This here transfer expired an hour ago, lady. The Lady (digging in her puree snappishly) No wonder wltb not a single ventilator open In the whole carl Puck. If yon would relish rout food, labor ror it pamsn proverb. .r . . jl - . '' : SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 " IkAKSPOklAllUN. The II KM Line FREIGHT PASSENGERS Steamer - Lurline Night Boat for Portland and Way Landings. Leaves Astoria daily except Sunday at 7 p. m. ; Leaves Portland Daily Except Sunday at 7 a. m. Quick Service Excellent Meals Good Bertha , Landing Astoria Flavel Wharf , Landing Portland Foot Taylor St, J. J. 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