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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-02

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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-02
NEW GOODS
B F. ALLEN,
36s Commercial Street.

365 Commercial Street.
New lines for 1896.
Japanese Rugs and Mating
Bamboo Furniture, etc.
direct from Japan.)
House Lining, Building Paper
and Glass.
Wall Paper of 1895 now in with stock
Japanese Leathers, Wholesale in Chicago
from So to SIS per roll of II yards
B F. ALIENS,
365 Commercial Street.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-02

o. R. AND N. LAW UNCoiSEssTIT
TIONAL.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-06-02

The Astorlan has the largest
LOCAL circulation; the largest
GENERAL circulation, and the
largest TOTAL circulation Of
all papers published In Astoria
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

''It has been estimated" says the
Electrical Review, "that electric rail-
ways have displaced in the United
States no less than 275, 900 horses,
and the movement has not yet stopped.
1t is estimated by Topeka paper that
that many horses would require about
l25, 900 bushels of corn or oats day.
A decrease OF 125, 900 bushels a day in
corn and oats consumption is enough
to appreciably affect prices of those
grains. 1t amounts to As, 900, 900
bushels a year. Furthermore, the
loss of this commercial demand for
shese course grains in the cities means
an enormous loss of tonnage for the
railroads-about SO, 500 carloads.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

She was on her knees at his side. I
started to run down the slope, and I
was at her side in half minute, but
she didn't want me. She had raised
his head and leaned it against her
breast, and she would let nobody
touch him but herself And there she
knelt among the wet clay, holding
Dick in her arms, the tears running
down her face and falling on his. 1
got little water and poured it on his
head, and at last he began to come TO.
1 lays my hand on the mans arm. 81
reckon, mate, you and mes not
wanted here, not much," L says, and
I pulls him away.
We got cart and we moved Dick
to the bank, but it was another week
afore they could move him any further.
Then they left.
1t might have been couple of
months later that got Melbourne
paper through the post. There was n
mark at one side, and opposite to that
an advertisement.
"At st. Marks Church, Toorak, on
December 1, by the Right Reverend
the Bishop of Melbourne, Mary, only
daughter of the Hon. John Lester, of
Toornk and Dungalla Station, to
George Wingfeld Forester, eldest
son of Albert Forester, NJ. p. of
Wingfeld Hall, Herefordshire, Eng
land"
BY and by came across another
paragraph. "rhe fashionable we'd
ding that took place yesterday at
Toorak had all the special interest
which attaches to the last act in a very
sensational drama. The circumstan-
ces of the celebrated Dungalla murder
trial, although now two years old are
still fresh in the memory of the public.
The confession of the real criminal,
while it happily restores Mr.. Forrest
er to his friends and to society, affords
q remarkable instance of the unreli-
ability of even the strongest crcun-
stantial evidence. The refusal of the
jury to agree upon what seemed un-
questionable evidence of guiltappeared
to us at the time, we confess, lament
able failure of justice, and we said so.
1t affords us great pleasure now that
we are able to offer both to Mr.. For
roster and the public our hearty con-
gratulations.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
A Queer Clock,

Among the effects of the late J. F.
Davies, which are to be sold by j. s.
Pitt next month. is curious form of
night clock, which is not described in
any of the histories of clockmaking,
and is believed to be altogether
unique. Water clocks aud sand clocks
are known to have preceded more me-
chanical timepieces, and Asser attrib-
utes to king Alfred the Great the
adoption of candle clocks, with wax
candles twelve inches long, which
burned all day at the rate of an inch
iu twenty minutes, and were put in
horn lanterns to prevent draught.
This clock is more modern render
ing of the same idea. 1t consists of a
light stand cast in lead in the form of
a candlestick on the top of a glass
cylinder used as reservoir for the
oil, the wick being placed in little
projection at the bottom, very much
like the Isobath inkstands which are
now in use, and, of course approxi-
mating to the very earliest form of oil
lamp. Passing vertically over the oil
reservoir, Immediately behind tho
wick, so as to be lighted by it, is n
band of metal, on which are marked
tho hours from four to twelve, and
then on to five, presumably with the
idea that it does not get dark before
four, and that by five everybody
ought to be up and about. The stock
of oil was no doubt calculated to last
the requisite number of hours. The
relic, presumed by the British Museum
authorities to belong to the last CEN
tury, is quite perfect and is likely to
excite good deal of interest among
antiquaries. Bristol, England, Mer-
curry.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
NAMES FEMININE MILLER.

In little hollow, just below Maple
street, in Monmouth village, Me-, aud
upon the best water power that the
Cochnewagan stream affords, is one Of
the oldest buildings in the county.
And, although doubtless it has had
many and varied repairs, it is undis-
puted that this old structure, erected
before 1892 by such early settlers as
General Henry Dearborn, John Welsh
aud Captain James Blossom, for
grist mill, and ever since used as such,
is one of the oldest, if not, indeed,
the oldest mill in the Kennebec val
ley.
For over half century the mill
property has remained the property of
one family-the Metcalfs-and is now
managed by Editor Loreltus S. Met
calf of the Jacksonville FLA Citizen,
formerly editor of the Forum and
North American Review.
Thirty-seven years ago Oscar T. Frost
began his duties here as miller, and
he has been in attendance ever since.
For more than thirty years, says the
Boston Globe, Mr.. Frost's wife has
more or less assisted her husband in
his duties about the mill.
Naturally observant and invent
i've genius, it was not long before she
had fully mastered the details of the
mill and could operate all the machin.
cry MS skillfully and as safely as her
husband, who, many times week,
leaves her in sole charge.
Left to herself, she studied the
machinery. There is flour mill at
tached and is one of the best corncob
mills in the state. The present capac-
ity of the plant is about carload of
corn per week, while the amount Of
daily custom grinding is nor far from
100 bushels per day.
1t is to this mill that the buckwheat,
barley, corn and oats of the western
Ken nnebec valley finds their way, and
for many days at time it is entirely
under the direct charge of probabl y
the only woman miller in the country.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
FASHION NOTES.

Many of the rough cloth jackets arc
made in REFER shape.
Some of the new fur capes are fin
ished with vests of contrasting fur.
The smart white mohair gowns Of
the summer serve admirably as demi-
saison dinner toilets.
New belts are of soft gay plaid silk,
knotted under metal clasp at one
side, and are suggestively named tor
endor.
Among the novelties for cool wether
wear are fur sailor collars finished
around the entire edge and long
pointed fronts with deep fringe of
sable tails.
All browns with reddish tinge are
in especial favor for the coming cool
season, though no wardrobe will be
complete without one good black gown
! for the street.
Many green and black -and-red and
black color-mixtures appear among
autumn dress goods and narrow striped
tailor mixtures in heather colors are
used for fall travelling aud shopping
costumes.
The long feather boa is appearing
again, and is being worn this season
IN very striking colors-pale blue, red,
amber brown, green and deep yellow.
These are startling and uncommon, but
in very questionable taste.
The women who came back to town
with black mohair gowns lined in
colored silk to match tho bodice worn
with them need only small, full
cape of black velvet, trimmed with
jet Vandykes, to have handsome early
toilets.
Nothing takes the place of rich pat
terms in cut jet where black color.
note is demanded on wraps and gowns
and with the advent of fall and win
ter costumes trimmed with velvet or
silk comes the call for finish to these
accessories, which is only to be found
in jet, passamenteries and edgings.
Among the new fabrics are silk
figured French crepons, jacquard.
Siclien, lustre Matelasse, shadow
figured mohair, novel golf suitings,
silk-warp black moreens for outside
, as we'll as underskirts, and rope dag
| onal-a silk and wool material in
which silky mohair is brought to the
) surface in rope-like ridges that i'm,
a part novel effect to the goodA
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
The Harvest.

'Tis blessed toll from the teeming soii
To garner nations bread.
Let the farmers sing at their harvesting,
For by them the world is fed
Though banks may fail, and in ruins gale
Every speculator reel,
The fruitful sod is the bank OF God.
And its wealth no knave can steal.
When the rain and sun their good work have
done
In the grain-felds far and wide,
Lo! the reaper bands, with armed hands,
Through the topplins harvests glide.
And the swaths of gold from the 'cradles'
rolled
Gid the soil by the scythes laid bare.
As ridge of mist, by the sunlight kissed,
Gid the broader fields Of air.
The binders 1.-the who follow the scyth
For the treasures 1t crops and leaves.
As with laugh and song they hurry along,
Leave a wake Of yellow sheaves.
But the happicst scene is the last, ween,
When over the yielding loan
The last load is borne from the fields close
shorn,
For then is the Harvest Home"
were the lore of acres broad,
With the strength my land to till,
I'd follow the plow with n beaded brow,
And renounce the "gray goose-quill.'
For of fields of thoughts, though with pa
tioncc wrought.
The harvest oft is spurned,
But the seeded field, with solid yield,
PAYS for every furrow turned.
w. Il. BARBER, in the Ledger.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

Argentina is now pictured as the
paradise for the foreigners, and large
numbers are going there from every
country in Europe. Most of the
countries in Central and South Amer
ica are desirous of securing immigrants
and are taking means to secure them.
No difficulty is experienced in obtain
ing land in all these countries, and
coffee raising in them has lately be-
come one of the most profitable in
dustries in the world. History shows
that the routes of migration change
avery few decades and that the cur
cent once formed draws humanity into
It. This country for many years re-
,eived the overflow of Europe, but the
lime may soon come when the tide of
population may flow in another direc-
ton.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

showy, is not gaudy. A great deal OF
green is mingled with blue and with
purple, and there are many fancy
brocaded stripes in which the stripe is
formed by conventionalized flower
and leaf designs; thus vine OF white
satin leaves runs over a changeable
ground of red and green which is
strewn with seed-like dots of green
and yellow. Grounds of rich peau de
soies are cross.hatched by fine geomet-
rical lines of brocide in the ground
color, while contrasting color pat
tern is thrown over ali. - Demorest's
Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
THE CzARINA A NEW WOMAN.
went away

The ranks of new womanhood have
been recruited from the most unex-
pected quarter, namely, the Czarina of
Russia. So, at least, writes Vien-
nese correspondent from st. Peters
burg. 1t appears that the Empress
has been interested in the woman
question for some time, and, hearing
that n number of women were in the
habit of meeting in st. Petersburg for
the discussion of their rights, she was
anxious to know what they said and
did. She made inquiries among the
Court officials, but no one was able to
give any information at least, SO they
said. Which, by the way does not
tally with the stories of the vigilance
of the Russian police. The Gear at
once commanded that full report of
all such meetings should be prepared
for the perusal of the Empress. Since
then one of the Cars secretaries has
attended every debate in the capacity OF
reporter and takes down every word
in shorthand. Itmust certainly be very
fattering to these women to have the
Empress so interested in their efforts
at reformation. New York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
NOVELTIES IN SILKS.

The newest silks show a blending of
many bright colors in brilliant brocad-
ed and chine effects upon chamele on
grounds. Taifetas are handsomer and
in better quality than heretofore, be-
ing heavier but not 50 stiff as those of
last season. A pattern produced in
many colorings shows a ground OF
orange and black, with half-inch
stripes of black satin at wide inter.
walls, over which are thrown clusters
of chine flowers in all the rainbow
colors, 30 subdued by the changeable
background, which shimmers and
shades with every movement, that
not pure color nor flower form il
! distinct, and the whole effect. though
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

The death of the Princess OF Bat
tenburg recalls temporary attention
10 one of the most romantic family
histories of modern times, reminds
the New York Times. 1t is said now
that she was of Polish noble descent,
but her father, Count Haucke. was
first who ever bore the title. His
father was teacher in Warsaw, OF
Hebrew blood, who, being man OF
great cleverness and personal attrac-
tions. got for pupils the pick of the
daughters of the Polish nobility, and
even princesses from the German
court. He married the beautiful AL
.acian governess Of one of the Hes
sian families, and this clever couple.
through the interest of their inhuen
tial girl pupils, secured for their three
sons fat places at the Russian Court
or army. and important marriages.
Now two OF their descendants are hus-
bands respectively of daughter and
granddaughter of the queen of Eng
land, and third occupied European
throne and came within an ace Of
marrying sister of the German En-
peror before he died. With the soil
tary exception of the Bonapartes, ther,
is no parallel to such swift advance
ment Of family in the whole Altman
ach de Gatha, and even there the prog
eny of the Hebrew tutor is mucl
more securely placed than that OF tn
great Corsican's brother and sisters
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

Science is spreading the knowledge
that an easy way to commit murder
would be by the use of disease germs.
Concerning the proper method of
propogating the germs, however, in
formation is as yet withheld. Mean
while, calculates the San Francisco
Examiner, the simple loyman of homi-
cidal tendency seems to find the old
methods available and safe.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
A Text of Love.

This tale is told in the Orient: A
lady one day found man following
her, and she asked him why he did 80.
His reply was, "You are very beauti-
full, and am in love with you" "Oh,
you think me beautiful, do you?
There is my sister over there. You
will find her much more beautiful
than 1 am. Go and make love to her. y
On hearing this the man went to see
the sister, but found she was very
ugly, so he came back in an angry
mood and asked the lady why she had
told him n falsehood. She then an
swered, "Why did you tell me a false
hood?" The man was surprised al
this accusation and asked when he
had done so. Her answer was: "Yor
said you loved me. III that had beer
true, you would not have gone tc
make love to another woman. "-SaI
Francisco Argonaut.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
THE "NEw GIRL" AS LITIGANT.

A bright specimen of the "new
girl" made her appearance before a
magistrate recently. The top of her
head, says the Il Dndon Telegraph, was
just on revel with tho rail of the
witness s-box, and Mr.. Dickinson was
considerably surprised to hear a small
piping voice issue from some one he
could not see, and say: "Please, sir
want n summons for abuse" "What's
thatp" asked the learned gentleman.
"Stand upl" cried tho usher OF the
court. The applicant stood on her
tiptoes, which enabled the magistrate
to see her eyes and half her nose, and
repeated: "Plense sir l want a sum-
mons of abuse" "Certainly not, re-
piled Mr.. Dickinson promptly. '1f
grown-up people are foolish enough
to take out summonses for mere vul-
gar abuse. nm not going to encour-
age children to do the same. Gre away
home" The litigious girl frowned and
went away.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

Professor Moore, the new head OF
the weather bureau, thinks that cap
tive balloons can be of great use in
soliciting meteorological data, states
the Louisville Courier.Journal. A
north pole expedition by means of
balloons has been projected, and in.
ventors are constantly struggling with
dying machines. The possibilities of
ballooning are just as attractive to
scientists now as they were hundred
years ago, when Benjamin Franklin
was foremost in producing results, but
little of much value has been accom-
plisbed.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
LADIES' DEPARTMENT


Mrs. Theodore Alice Ruggles Kit
son, wife of II. II. Kitson, the we'll
known Boston sculptor, has completed
with her own hands number of
statues, statuettes and busts, several
OF which have been exhibited in Eu-
ropean salons with great credit. She
is under twenty five years old and first
exhibited her works in the Paris salon
of 1888. New York Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
A GLOVE INNOVATION.

The women of this country are the
only ones who insist on having their
hands tightly bound in their gloves,
for English and French women all
wear loose ones. French gloves fit
truly without n wrinkle, but that is
because they are perfectly cut and
loose. When hand so incased is
taken it can be felt; when an Amcri-
eau womnn's hand, trussed up in tight
kid, is grasped, it feels more like n
little foot in n shoe then hand. The
English glove does wrinkle and the
English woman has large hands, too.
1t does seem as if the American
woman might submit to the two ex-
amples, and dealers are going to try
her. New York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

Not long ago the two-year-old child
of Berlin day laborer died of star
walton. The frenzed father, to save
his darling from the potter's field,
took the body in his arms and went
begging wherewith to give it decent
burial. He was arrested as a mendi-
cant, according to law, they said.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
WOMEN AND THE LAW.

1t cannot perhaps be said with
truth that wheelwomen on the public
roads take rather too much advantage
of the privileges ef their sex. OF
course, it goes without saying that no
decent man will run down woman If
he can help himself, but il the woman
is on the wrong side of the road and
going as fast as she can the decent
mans best way of helping himself is
not always clear. Both for her own
safety and the convenience of all con-
cerned we advice every woman rider
to learn the law of the road and then
live up TO it precisely as she would be
expected to do were she u man. -
American Cyclist.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

The English Kennel Club has passed
rule that no crop-eared dog, born
since March 81, can win prize at a
bench show. Not long ago man and
woman were sentenced to imprison-
ment at hard labor for month for
cropping dogs ears.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
LONE HAND DICK.
By OWEN HALL.

He was queer, lonely chap, was
Dick, though he was neither old nor
ugly. Many fellow. among us at
Lulu fiat would have been glad enough
to chum with Dick, for he was as
steady MS file and as hardworking as
they make 'em, but somehow nobody
ever proposed it. There was some
thing, don't know what, about him
that sort of choked You off before
you could get alongside to do busi-
ness.
He went by the name of Lone
Hand Dick"--not that his name was
Dick particularly, but, bless you!
that don't matter on the fiat. Some
body called him "Lone Hand be-
cause he worked by himself and said
nothing, and / reckon somebody else
called him Dick because you can't go
on seeing man every day and not
call him something.
Dick was one of tho first, If he
wasn't the very first, on the fiat.
When 1 got there he was fossicking
about in corner all by himself, and
there were not half dozen more
within five miles. He was friendly
enough, too, for the matter of that,
Dick was always friendly. 1t was
Dick that showed me where to get
water, aud laid me on to the run of
the stuff when l asked him, but out
side of that he wouldn't go.
He was young fellow, not more
than thirty anyhow; tall, active and
middling strong, too. There was
something about his face you could MT
help liking when you got to know it.
None of your laughing, touch-and-go
faces, that don't mean anything when
you do know them no, nor yet, your
scowling, yellow dog faces that mean
no good, but quiet face-real quiet
face with n lot of meaning kind of
drained out of it. The fiat wasn't to
say rich, not at first anyhow, till Jim
Stokes dropped on to the deep lead,
but there was always tucker and more
in it. So far as l could guess, Dick
had about his share and no more. If
he had picked up fortune, mind you
he wouldn't have said anything with
out he was asked, but don't think he
did.
Stokes struck the deep lead on Fri =
day, and by the middle. of the next
week Lulu flat was n gold field. Where
they sprung from I'm blest if know,
but come they did, wagons full OF
them, traps, coaches, bullock drays,
horses and donkeys, and one or two,
though they didn't hardly count, be-
ing off color, on camels. In week
the fiat was like town; in month
we had two banks and were talking
about town hall and q member oi
Parliament.
1t didn't suit Dick, Long before
the end of the first week he had
struck his tent-an uncommon one.
horse tent it was, too, at that-ant
made tracks. After day or two
missed him. He hadn't gone yer,
far, though, and after bit ] cam,
across man that had seen him work
ing by himself in little corner OF
gully just about big enough for on
over the nearest range. 1t wasn't NOR
than a week or two after that one day
just as had knocked off work,
young chap comes up to me--a quill
driving looking chap at that-and
says he: 'Mate, do you happen t
know a chap by the name of For
rester? They say he was on the fla
from the first"
"Can't say as do, mate" says ]
"What's he like?"
'Like9 Well, he ought to be lik
that" and he pulls out a photograp
; and passes it along to me.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

An Englishman in Japan COM
plains of the perpetual feast of
green tea and snails, with nothing but
rice and raw fish for change"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30
Boston's new park system is said to
be superb; the best in the world very
likely.

A Chicago paper thinks that "the
best way to perpctuate the bloomer is
to preach and write editorials against
it"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-10-30

"Admiral Dot" the well-known
dwarf, now runs q hotel at White
Plains, N. Y.