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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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HE railroads will
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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. ,
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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.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22
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Night Boat for Portland and
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Leaves Astoria daily except Sunday
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Leaves Portland Daily Except Sunday
at 7 a. m.
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Good Bertha ,
Landing Astoria Flavel Wharf
, Landing Portland Foot Taylor St,
J. J. DAY, Agent
Phona Main 27
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ROUND TRIP DAILY
' (Except Thursday)
Str. Chas. R. Spencer
FARE $1.00 EACH WAY
For Portland and Way Landings.
Leaves Callender dock, Astoria 2:30
p. m.: arrives Portland 9:45 o. m.
Leaves Washington St. dock. Port
land 7 a. m.; arrives Astoria 1 p. m.
SUNDAY EXCURSION
FARE $1.00 ROUND TRIP
Leaves Washington St. dock, Port
land, 8 i. ra,: arrives Astoria 1 t. m.
Leaves Callender dock, Astoria 2 p.
m.; arrives Portland 9 p. m.
Connecting at Astoria for all
Seaside Resorts.
Renowned for Speed, Comfort and
Courteous Treatment.
CAPT. E. W. SPENCER,
General Manager, Portland1
Astoria Office, Callender Dock.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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expenses enable me to sell the
best qualities at lowest prices.
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54
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Shoemaker
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