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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01
THE P.-L CHANGE.
George and Edgar Piper Now Have
Control

Seattle. August 3l.-The Seattle Pos
lutelligencer changes ownership tomor-
row morning George L. Piper, having
purchlcd the controlling interest in the
paper assumes control as general man
ger James u. Hoge, Jr retiring. Mr..
Piper announces that the paper will re
main republican in politics. Edgar b.
Piper now OF the oregonian. will on
october assume the position of editor
The Pos[-Intelllg1cer is the LEADING
paper Of Washington. The consideration
was close TO $4,000.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01
NICARAGUA CANAL.

washington, August Sl.-The bureau OF
American republics will issue a bulletin
on the Nicaruguan canal IN fey days
Director Smith. the author of the bulletin
states that hebelieves the present ad-
ministrakhon will prosecute the Near
asuan canal enterprise.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01

take IN those already financially strong.
This limited the number Of companisF
lhit we're Invited 10 preliminary peeings
10 about i5 Of the principal malstcra Of
New York Chicago. Buhaio. Syracuse.
Dclrof. Milwaukee and other lci,ler
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01
Mis-. DREW ILL

New York Angus, 3l.-Mrs. John Drew
is ~ ~ Larchmont. KY, suffering from
heart disease and kidney trouble. She Is
i..-iter than she WAS week ago and
Aer condition h not alarming.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01
BASE BALL SCORES.

Washington. August si.--washlngton g.:
Plttsburg T.
Iadelphia-Phlladelphf 8; Louisville
T.
Baltlmore-Baltlmore i2; St. Louis 8.
Brooklyn-Brooklyn .; Cleveland e.
New York-New York :; Cincinnati c.
Second game-New York Q: Cincinnati I.
Eoston-Bost0n s: Chicago g.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01
TWO SETS OF TEACHERS.

Spring Valley, Ills, August sl-Trouble
Is expected here tomorrow with tho
opening of the public schools.
Two sets of teachers have been engaged
and both will attemp, to teach.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01
ANOTHER STRIKE.

Gioversville, n. Y. August sl-Tbe
'aoie cutters. employed in the four larpes.
glove factories. struck today for an ad.
vance IN wages. About 500 skilled men
are out
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01

The waiter who fails In removing a
cork from a bottle doesn't say much. but
one glance at his face denotes a state
Of mind in which words are powerless
to express his emotion.
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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01

Almost 100 of the most beautiful of New
Haven's fine old elms ara reported dead
and will have to be cut down.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-09-01

I.ater-Mrs John Drew, ibe actress.
died this afternoon at Larchmont.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
Sheridan In Battle.

General Horace Porter, in his Cam paigning With Grant in The Century, says of Sheridan at AppomattoN: No one could look at Sheridan at such a moment without sentiment Of undis- guised admiration. In this campaign as in others, he had shown himself pos sessed of military traits of tue highest order. Bold ill conception, self reliant, demonstrating by his acts that much danger makes great hearts most reso- lute, fertile in resources, combining the restlessness of Hotspur with the patience of Fabius, it Is no wonder that he should have been looked upon as the wizard of the battlefield. Gener- ous of bis life, gifted with the ingenu- ity of a Hannibal, the dash of Murat. the courage of Ney, the magnetism of his presence reused his troops to deeds of individual heroism, and his uncon- uuerable columns rushed to victory with all the confidence of Cesar's Tenth le- zion. Wherever blows fell thickest there was his crest Despite the Fator of the defense opposing ranks went down before tiie fierceneSs of his onsets, never to rise again, and he would not pause till the folds of his banner waved above the strongholds be had wrested iron, the foe. Brave Sheridan l can almost see him now, his silent clay again quickened into life, once more riding Rienzi through fire of hell, leaping opposing earthworks at single bound, and leaving nothing of those who barred his way except the frag- ments scattered i'll his path. As long as manly courage is talked of or heroic deeds are honored the hearts of srare- ful people will beat responsive to the mention of the talismanic name of Sher- idan.
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\ Manarin~ Widow.

4 certain young widow of lndianapo. lis, who has just changed her weeds for brighter hues, gave dinner party not long ago, says the Indianapolis Sentinel. The rooms were decorated with q great profusion of flowers. Roses in masses were on tue manteis, and the dinner table fairly hlossomed. Ill fact, thu abundance of flowers was unusual. Ono of the guests could restrain her curiosity no longer, and when the dessert was brought in said;
 Well, Mrs Blank. you're rather spreading on the flowers tonight. 1"
 Yes, replied the fair widow bright ly, but tomorrow an going to take them out to Crow Gill and put them on poor Tom E grave.
 A regular "l3' shiyer went round the table.
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Mozart's Method.

Mozart's method of composition was such as could only have been pursued by child of genius. He would rise early, eat hearty breakfast and then stroll for several hours in forest near his home, where. inspired by nature's beauties, heavenly melodies came troop. ing through his brain. Repairing to his cottage, he would summon his wife, a very witty woman, and bid her teli him stories He would then mount his high stool and proceed to commit these inspirations to paper, his wife telling him jokes and funny stories while he wrote. These he enjoyed immensely, frequently inte1rupting her with hearty bursts of laughter and sometimes oven falling from the stool and rolling on the floor But amid all this hilarity and uproar the flow of music which was to move the world went steadily on. His productions were wrought without tho least thought or study, but came almost unbidden direct from heaven. Like Shakespeare, he was purely the creature Of inspiration, genius of the highest order -C. c. Hieatt in Housekeeper.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
 The ToposeOpe.

In the loftiest tower in the city of Vienna there is novel instrument, known as the toposcope, constantly al. tended day and night, iar '.le purpose of locating fires. It consists of I good telc- scope, which is solidly attached to an arrangement of levers, while graduated sections of q circle are arranged horizon tally and vertically ill such way that tho moving of the telescope sideways or up or down results in change of posi- ton of the hands attached to the levers in reference to the graduated scales. Thus, the stability of the apparatus be- ing assured by the firmness of the fas- tening, whenever the telescope is focus- cd upon the same object the hands will point to the same figures on the hori- zontal md on the vertical sextant, and since an index of the whole city has been made it is but matter of few seconds, when Il glare is discovered at night, to direct upon the spot the topo- scope on the side, to read off the mum. bers, to look up the object and to tele- graph to tho central station the details observed Local conditions arc, of course, necessary for the successful 0per- ation of such an apparatus, but i'll this case they are said to be almost perfect The tower IS over 500 feet high, and an uninterrupted view of the great area of the city is thus possible to the watch man if the atmospheric conditions ara favorable.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
PROMOTED FOR nAELANTRY
New York Policeman Rewarded For
 Catching Burclar.

N~tNHiHS ss eht5 ihfs
 Hon Theodore Roosevelt writes an article entitled The Roll of Honor of the New York Poliee for The Century Mr. Roosevelt says:
 Early in onr term we promoted q pa. trelman to the grade of roundsnan for activity in catching q burglar under rather peculiar circumstances. l hap. pened to note his getting il burglar one week. Apparently he had fallen into the habit, for he got another the next week. In the latter case the burglar es= capped from the house soon after mid night and ran away toward Park ave. nue, with inc policeman in hot chase. The New York Central railroad runs under Park avenue. and there is succession of openings in the top of the tunnel. Finding that the policeman was gaining on him. tho burglar took 6 desperate chance and leaped down one of these openings at the risk of break ing his neck. Now the burglar was running for his liberty, and it was the part of wisdom for him to imperil life or limb, but the policeman was merely doing his duty, and nobody could have blamed him for not taking tho jump However, he jumped, and i'll this par ticular case the hand of the Lord was heavy upon the unrighteous. The bpr- glar had the breath knocked out of him, and the "copn didn't When his victim could walk, the officer trotted him around to the station house, and week afterward he himself was promoted, it appearing upon careful investigation that he was sober, trustworthy and strictly attentive to his duty.
 Here again 1t seems to me that WIG followed the eminently common sense plan of promoting q man who had earn. ed his promotion by faithful and dis tinguished service and by proved supe- rior capacity. We cared 10 more for the policeman s views on tae tariff or the currency than we did for those of the burglar. Our interest and the inter- est Of citizens generally was to have the officer catch that burglar and otherwise do his duty. If he did his duty, we were for him; if he did not, We were against him. In neither event did WE care whether the officer had or had nos the backing of the congressional delega. ton of the city or the central committees of the county. Of course, as before, this exposed us to wild outceies from the local political hosses and heelers and much sneering at civil service reform, , but all the outeries and sneers meant was that we were doing our duty as de- cent men and as public officials, with some slight appreciation of what was implied by the words honor and rp- rightness. Political organizations ara eminently necessary and useful, but when they are seized by professional spoils politicians of low morality. who run the machine in their own inter. ests, who cIamor against honesty and defy decency and rail against that de. vice for obtaining clean government which is known as civil service reform, then it is time for all citizens who believe in good citizenship to rise in re. volt
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
Take Care of Yourself.

Think deliberately of the house you live in--your body. Make up your mind firmly not to abuse it. Eat noth- ing t,,as wig2 l,gart ;t Wv0r nothing flat distorts or pains il. Do not over. load it with victuals or drink or work. Give yourself regular and abundant sleep Keep your body warmly clad Do not take cold; guard yourself against it. + you feel the first symptoms, give yourself heroic treatment. Get into a fine glow of heat by exercise. This IS fhe only body you will have Ill thls world. Study deeply and diligently the structure of it, the laws that govern H. tho pains and penalty that will surely follow violation of every law of hfe md health. Medical Reporter.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
ENGLISH fNNkEEpERS.
Said to Be Mainly Doors Who Treat pa-
 irons as Intr,isleis.

Said to Be Mainly Doors Who Treat Pa
 irons as Intruaers.
 If your pockctbool allows CT fate or the desire to see the country conpels you to relnain in England there arc parts where you can ride on your wheel with great satisfaction and Ut great ex- pense. Nothing could be more beautiful than the midlands, lovelier than tLe counties that surround London, but westward go no farther than Bristol or Truro, nor9hward than Chester, avoid. ing Manchester-that is, unless you mean to go still farther north into Scot land, which at times will repay your enterprise. The southwest is largely to be avoided Cornwall and Devon have the worst roads in civilized Europe---in fact, the roads and inns explain that the country is not and never has been civilized. In the inns you are often treated as an intruder, and sometimes cheated i'll fashion that would bring q blush to the cheek of Swiss landlord, for the emptiness of the larder the bill makes mp ill layishness There is hard- iy anything to eat save cream, but for that and salt bacon and ancient eggs you are asked to pay as lnuch as for Q good dinner at the Cafe Royal The inn keepers are mainly boors.
 As for the roads, they go straight to the top of all the hills, as uncompro. misingly as the roads of Bohemia, then drop down the other side and arc unrid. able ill both directions When not climbing precipitately, they lie buried at the bottom of ditch. They arc shadeless and uninteresting, rarely ap. preaching the seaeoast or passing near anything that is worth looking at, and yet we know Englishmen who are pro foundly impressed with the belief that they are the best i'll England. aud there fore in the world The roads, inns and innkeepers of Scotland are i'll every way better, hut the fact that the average Briton spends his holiday oG the conti. ! nent when ho can proves not only that he wants to get there, but also that he is driven from his own country by the shortsightedness Of the people who keeT it's inns and look after it's roads Nh and Mrs Pennell in Formightly Review
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
 Thousands of Elk.

Thirty thousand elk are wintering h the Jackson s Hole country of Wyoming, according to the estimate of the game warden, who says that in one nerd which he saw the other morning there were 15, GOO of them, stretching over q distance of six miles. The sight. he said, surpassed anything he had ever seen and utterly amazed him. The elk trail over the snow was like flint ice, he said. so hard had the snow been packed down. The animals are seen by thousands any morning moving along the Snake river from the Great swamp to tha Gros Ven Ire hills. and at night the walls of the calves straying from their mothers may Ina heard
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
ANCIENT MEDICAL METHODS
The Manner of Doctors Consultations h
 the Fourteenth Century.

Coming to Mondevilless exposition ol the method of holding discussion wc find his description almost q story Of what might take place today. ''Filst. '' ho says, we should inquire into the nature of the disease, examining care fully and feeling, because the diagnosis is made by touching with the hand and observing with the eye All the consult ants engage in turn in the examination. Then, if the eass demands it, they make 8 new examination all together, point ing out to one another the symptoms of disease and the special or remarkable features either i'll the patient or the dis ease. Then one of them, the highest in rank, says to the patient. Sir, We per eeive very clearly what Is the matter with you, and you ought to haye full confidence in us and be glad that there are so many of us here and such doctors enough fer a liing-and to believe that the youngest of us is competent to pre- scribe and carry on your treatment and bring 1t to good result. Then he in terrogates the patient about the circum. stances of his attack, Sir, do not be displeased or take it i'll, but when did your illness begin2' following this with many other questions. the answers tc which are recorded as indications fur. nished by the patient.
 When all the questions called for by the case have been asked, the con. sultants retire to another room, where they will be alone, for i'll all eonsulta. tions the masters dispute with one an- other in order the better to discuss the truth. and sometimes they come to a pass ill the heat of discussion which would cause strangers witnessing their proceeding to suppose there were discord and strife among them. This Is some. times the case. n-.t Fourteenth Century Doctors, by M- E. Nieaise, in Popular Science Monthly.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
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 HER R UNBURDENED.
4 You les Confession In the Wan.
 f the Honeymoon.

af the Honeymoon.
 Wheeler and Lucille Sproclz.
 an married nearly three weeks,
 had just returned from their
 g trip. They were supremely
 iii each others love, and the
 moon so far had been to them as
 3ng. blissful dream. Within the
 day or two, however, the bride
 slightly depressed i'll spirits, and uneasy feeling seemed to take pos. sion Of her. The young husband mo- sgced the change, but attributed it to fiatigue from the recent travels But his pride grew more nervous and took on such troubled expression that he said to her:
 You have something on your mind, darling, that is troubling you. Tell me what it is. ;
 At first she tried to persuade him that he was mistaken, that nothing worried her.
 You are wrong, Charley, dear, , she would say Really, anI not wor- rying over anything. 1 am just as happy as can be >
 The day following, however the young wife wore such q troubled look that her husband said to her:
 Lucille, you must tell me what is troubling you. will not be put off any longer. As your husband l have righf to know. .
 Seeing that further coneealment was ..I,o ,laxr,,. md bitterly:
 "Oh. Charley, I am so unhappyl P she walled T haye-deceived--you . \ sickening sensation swept over the young husband. Surely there must be some mistake. She, whom he had looked upon as the pcrsonifcation of innocent omanhood-deceiye himi It must not be. It would destroy his happiness and blight his life. And then, when ho caught a sudden vision of the horrible possibilities of the situation, he became sick at heart and almost fell to the floor. Then, with s great effort, he controlled bis feelings.
 "Tell me, " he said 1T am prepared 1 for the worst. on, Chaf4eyf ana so sorry
 "You should have thoughtof this be- fore. 2
 1T know, I know. I see my mistake. now it's too late, " she cried. "Oh, why didn't tell you before we were mar ried?"
 "Tell me now, and be quick about it cannot bear this suspense. ''Tell me first that you will forgive me- she said in pleading tones. ''1 will devote my whole life in atonernent for this one mistake ;
 "I cannot promise until know what it is, l" he said. Then she came over and knelt at his feet.
 .sOh, Charley. you know the wheel ] got just few weeks before we werl ] married'--
 1Yes; but what has that'--
 "Why, bought it--on the--install. ment plan-$4 q month--and have only paid--one installment. And just know the collectc will be--here tomorrow. Oh, Charley she sobbed, "can you eyer forgive me'?'-Ohio State Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
:. commonly Used as Ever-soms Changes
 In Customs.

The sleighisells used ill this country -..,e made here, most of them in Con- gnecticuf, and many sleighbells of \ American manufacture are exported to Gernanv and to Russia Sleighbells are as commonly used as ever whenever ,, there is snow enough 10 make good sleighing. They may not be heard so much as formerly here in the city, where the SHOW is cleared away from many streets and wheels cut up what is left, but up the state and elsewhere the sleighbells jingle in winter just as mer. rily as ever.
 There have leen some changes in sleighbe11 customs Shaft bells and bells fixed on the saddle of the harness have to some extent taken the place of the old time string of bells on straps, but the strings of bells are still tiie more commonly used. Probably third of the bell outfits sold nowadays are of the kind that fasten to shafts or the saddle of tue harness and two-thirds 1are strings of bells. The bells exported arc in about the same proportions. The bells attached to shafts and harness are open mouthed and provided with tongues. Some shaft bells are made with all three in set alike. oftener they are made in three sizes, forming a chime. The three bells carried over the saddle of the harness are set in an orna- mental frame, which is supported by the saddle.
 The sleighbells of the old, familiar kind, round. with balls inside, are at tached to straps, as they have always been, to body straps eneircling the horse's body, and to neck straps
 Sleighbells are made of bell metal, and they were never made with such care with view to their sound produe- ing qualities, nor were they ever so mu- sical, as now. The colnmoner kinds of Z sleighbells are produced at very small cost, and whole strings of bells are sold at prices that seem maryel6usly low. Shaft bells of the eommoner kinds are cheaper yet. and that accounts ill some measure for the increased sales of shaft bells.
 The question has often been aslld and as often answered, How de(
 hall a inside of the sleighbell Purse questIoA l. Lere again answe. first. course the ball itself is first casthira then placed inside the ball Of
 is to form the core of the mold the sleighbeil is to be east. ssis'iea is of the form aud size of the ,e
 the sleighbell The core aA-4side ol the interior of the mold, but not pulls There is left all around, between it and the mold, little space. Into this space inc molten metal is poured, and when it hardens il is hollow globe of metal. with the mold outside and the core in- side. When the sleighbell is taken from the mold, the sand of which the core Is composed, having been dried out by the heat of the molten metal, can easily be shaken out of the bell through its narrow mouth. but the ball which has been placed in the sand before the bell was cast is bigger than the mouth of the bell that now surrounds it, and so it has to stay in.--New York Sun.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
Remote Ancestry.

"It has long been supposed, :" says The Outlook, that the most startling genealogical claim is that of the negus of Abyssinia, who insists that his de- scent has been in straight line from the union of Solomon with the queen of Sheba, but some one has discovered q noble family in France, the counts of Noe, who not only claim Noah as their remote ancestor, but show on their fam fly blazon that veteran seaman ill the ark ,,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
saharan Oasis.

French experts in the desertof Sahara are expressing apprehensions at the gradual di,ninution of the fertile oases. It is known that the large oases were much larger in the time of the ancient Romans and chat they are being con. stantly reduced i'll size by the encroach- ments of the sand dunes. The problem Is how to stop these
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
Asked Too Much.

Yes, we had to let that nusegrl %. She was recommended as pelhs thoroughly up to date. bur she seemed "a us to be more than that. The inst thing she did was to demand pneumatic tires for the baby carriage, and We promptly got them However, we 1elt that it was tinae to draw the line when she insisted that we must hlre a lnan ~ keep them pumped up Chicago Post.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
Laying Bricks.

A bricklayer can. lay about 1,5o0 or i,000 bricks in day of 10 hours where the joints arc left rough, about 1000 per day when both faces have to la worked fair and not more than 300 day when carefully iointed and faced with picked bricks of uniform color Exchange
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1897-10-25
Snre Sigli.

'.Barber's wife is rather tho boss of the outfit. isn't she:"
 T would not like to say so positive ly. But do know that they have only two wheels, and one is a woman s wheel, and the other is tandem. - Typographical Journal