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, until you came, and while clear a
nurses place-I want your mind clear
regarding your responsibility and its
financial equiyalent-I will pay you a
| nurses wages, thirty dollars a week"
Jimmie thrust his finger nails into the
| palms of his hands, The pain told him
he was awake. THE recompense for
your admirable works of fiction will
have to be settled upon later But I
can say to you that If you can retain
my sons goodwill and all goes well
with him, | can promise you trip
abroad In his company next summer"
Before Jimmie could pinch himself
again the doctor entered. He was
slowly rubbing his hands.
The sultan is sleeping beautifully"
he said. Il believe he is good for an all
night nap, and I'm going home You
have arranged with the vizier, I sup
pose Jordan? Yes. Then first, young
man, I'll put you to bed. Come along"
Jimmie assured him that he vas, and
they went up to the room Of the sick
boy. Here broad couch had been pre-
pared for Jimmie, and at signal from
the doctor he rapidly undressed. The
big man pointed to cooling drink on
the table at the bedside, and to the
slippers and dressing gown at the foot
of the couch. Then, as the boys head
touched the pillow. he stopped above
him and gently whispered:
Goodnight, grand vizier."
The boy lay for few moments with
his eyes roaming about the dimly light
ed apartment He noted the quiet ele-
gance of the appointments; the dainty
decorations, the costly pictures and
vases the soft blending of many colors.
The very air of the apartment seemed
charged with the aroma of luxury.
Once more his finger nails bit into the
palms Of his hands
No" he whispered to himself, 1T
isn't a dream"
Then as his head sank little lower
and his eyes closed, he murmured
brokenly:
''It beats the arabian Nights all
hollow!"
And he was asleep.-W. r. Rose In
the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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KING POTT OF AFRICA.

The town Of Lourenco Marques for
some time past has been chosen as the
head centre Of the Transyaal secret SER
vice The spies and informers of that
notorious gang come and go with all
the liberty, swagger and self-assurance
as If they were in the suburbs of Pre-
toria. Delagoa Bay is so-called neu-
trail port, with a daily train and postal
service direct to Pretoria and johann
nesburg. There is also telegraph SER
vice, which apparently is at the com
mand of Mr.. Pott, the Transvaal Con-
sui General. and Consul for the Neither
lands and the Free State 1t has been
said that the Transvaal Consul General
has secret service wire directly con-
Meeting Lourenco Marques with Kornati
Poort, and 1t Is we'll known in Delagoa
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DOMESTIC TOPICS.

communicable to human beings through
the consumption of dairy products has
been raped lately from many quarters.
DR.. Theobald Smith of Harvard Uni
versity, who has been making expert
ments in this matter for several years,
declares that certain differences exist
between bovine and human tuberce
bacilli, and that thus far he has not
found the bacilli Identical in any in
stance He was one of the authorities
consulted by the special investigating
committee of the New York assembly
on bovine tuberculosis, whose report, it
will be remembered, took the back track
in relation to the tuberculin test by
Recommending that hereafter the state
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COMPOUNDED.

Within the memory of almost every
body old enough to vote, the theory has
been tenaciously held and argued about
| that the increase of labor saving ma
| chinery in this country would prove a
disastrous thing for mechanics and la
borers, result in throwing count
less thousands out of work and bring
untold misery in it's train. This theory
years ago had many very intelligent
alarm on the subject and even to-day
there are multitudes of devotees to the
theory. But the world goes right along
all right and there is more work now
for people to do than ever despite the
vast increase in our country's popula-
ton. The New England Statist well re-
marks on this subject: "Of all theories
perhaps this is still more largely and
more tenaciously held than any other.
But really it's confounding took place
some time since; and the great indus
trial interests in various sections of the
States completely attest this truth At
the present time there is great lack of
NEEDED help in the iron manufacturing
establishments Of the country; and it is
practically impossible in many depart
ments to obtain a suf1iciency of skilled
labor to keep all their machinery in full
working. The reason for this is that
the provision of improved and labor
saving machinery has tremendously in
creased the capacity of these establish
ments for production, and with this in
crease has come a greatly enhanced de-
mand for their manufactures in every
part of the world; SO that, actually, the
increased need for men to work in con-
nection with the new machinery creates
2 demand for lahorers vastly in excess
of the number who were displaced by
the outcome of the inventors brain. 1t
is simply a fact that there are more
pOAHoito Cli1plOytu lO-udy III Iiiohilie
watches by the use of labor-saving ma
chinery now in vogue for the purpose,
than were employed in watch making
in the entire world before these ma
chimes were invented. When watches
were handmade and difficult to pro-
duce only the few could afford, own and
carry them; but now every man and
woman. even every school boy or school
girl, may sport q watch. In no depart
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THE WARMER OF YAKMAT.

He was too young boy to be quite
alone in the streets of the great city.
Not but that he was capable of caring
for himself in the face of ordinary per-
lis, but this boy was confronted by no
ordinary peril. 1t was acute poverty
that faced him. He was homeless and
hungry.
Jimmie Sturges had come up to the
city in search of fortune. and. inciden-
tally, of fame. His home life had been
unhappy. He was a sensitive boy, and
an aunt with a chronic temper and a
raspng voice, had made life wretohed
for this orphaned lad of seventeen.
The glamor of the city appealed to him.
There was wealth there and chance to
rise. Other country boys had con-
quered their way to fortune, why not
he?
He came, and the glamour faded.
noisy wilderness Tor a new boy 10 10.
His few dollars rapidly disappeared.
He was hungry and roofless.
AS he slowly strolled down one of the
fashionable thoroughfares, duly Won
dering what was to happen to him, the
door of handsome Residence opened
and man came down the steps. HIT
was big man with a fresh looking face
and grizzled gray whiskers, and he had
an extremely well-to-do appearance.
AS he reached the sidewalk he caught
sight of Jimmie, and they both stopped.
Come here" said the big man slow
w and though his voice had a macmillan
rough burr to it, Jimmie instinctlvely
felt that its owner was q safe man to
approach. He stepped forward.
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violet tulle made on wire frame ana
turned off the face in rounded brim.
Sprays of white flowers foliage and
knot of heliotrope velvet trimmed 1t.
With greater or less modification this
type is abundant. Chiffon appears, too,
and some of it's combinations with fam
cy straws have both beauty and novelty
to recommend them. The other hat OF
this picture was an example OF this
treatment The straw was biscuit
shade, the chiffon corn colored, and
large punches of nasturtiums and foil
age trimmed it.
Fashionable women are getting their
hats earlier than they usually do; in
deed, all winter long their millinery has
had more or less of summary sugges-
ton Now their resort to- tulles and
blossoms doesn't seem long stop. Here
is one use of these trimmings that IS
downright new, nevertheless 1T is for
theater wear right away, and for gar
den use later. First there is wreath
Of flowers, preferably roses. A slight
scarffng Of tulle seems to bind the flow
ers into a wreath, a pair of soft rosettes
of the tulle are set at each side, and
from one rosette tulle scarf is passed
about the throat, the end hanging free,
The tulle should always match the
flowers. The notion will be charming
on the right person.
FLORETTE.
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There are times when it is well to look
around and CONSIDER a biz" The ener-
gy Of man is ceaseless in the temperate
zone countries, and in no department of
activity is 1t greater, despite the peace
council at The Hague, than in devising
the most murderoue things possible for
the object of killing one another. One
can but feel the justice of General Sher-
mans remark that war is hell'' when
reading of the pandemonium which
reigns, and has regned of late, on the
South African battlefields, and particu-
larly for the last few days with Roberts
dealing out death and destruction
among the Beers with his 100 guns
belching fire and flame and all sorts of
Satanic explosives over the square mile
where Cronje's heroic forces await APP
parently either humiliation or reinforce
ments. The awful scenes at Ladysmith
and at Kimberley when people, many
half-starved, had to become, most of
the time, leave dwellers," to avoid the
terrific missiles OF war rained upon
them, speak also eloquently of the truth
of General Sherman's graphic remark.
Evidently the time when the swords
shall be beaten into ploughshares is yet
in the dim and apparently distant flu
ture. Immense standing armies and the
building of scores of new and great bat
tleships are the order of the day, and
just as the Israelites went out to Stay
the Amorites, the Hittites the Jebusites
and various other brethren, thousands
of years ago, so do the nations of to-
day wage war and fight and slay. But
the times-are they not tending to the
day when at last Peace on Earth shall
reign?
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FASHION NOTES.
TulIe Hnts HOLD Over.

The openings have disclosed what
milinere are ready to furnish. Women
themselves are settling by their pur-
chases what the spring styles in head
gear are to be. Plainly, tulle hats are
to continue, for they appear attractive
ly in the new displays, and majority
Of women will welcome them. Appar-
emily there is to be very little change as
to shape from those that have been
worn all winter. The Spanish turban,
with it's squared-up, all-around brim,
has proved becoming to almost every
one, and the same shape scarfed with
fold on fold of tulle, a great chouX Oh
tulle set at the side or near the front,
remains fashionable design. A newer
and more spring-llke model is the upper
one of the two sketched here 1T was
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small
ADVERTISEMENTS, One Cent a Word each In
sertlon. Five Cents Word for full week
iBeven times).
display advertisements per inch, one 10.
cents; one week, $500; one MONTH $40; one
year $40.
Obituary Notices, In prose or verse. 10
cents per line. Notices Of Births, Marri'
nges, Deaths, and Funerals, 80 cents each.
Local Notices, Is cents per line
Yearly advertisers are limited to their
own immediate business (all matter to ne
unohiectiOnable), and their contracts DO not
include Wants, To Let, For Sale, etc.
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PROSPERITY or THE n4IxRo4Ds

PROSPERITY OF THE RAILROADS
The earnings shown by many of the
great railroads of the country are sim
ply enormous. In many cases they
| are far ahead of those of last year,
which was considered a banner year
for railroad earnings. The railroads
ir, the South and Southwest are just
now doing amazingly we'll. On this
subject the Kansas City Journal re-
marks: 1.-THE railroad business of the
country is generally regarded as an
unerring thermometer of trade. 1t I'M
questionably records depression or pros
peri.y with considerable accuracy. The
story told by the railroads these days
Is an agreeable one; they tell of a
growing trade and steadily lettering
conditions throughout the country
can authority on railway affairs has
been collecting statistics of the earn
ings of the railway companies for the
month Of January, and the result is
gratifying in the extreme. The 1903
railroad companies reported operating
100000 miles of road, show an increase
of Is per cent. in average gross earn
ings over January of last year.
THE increase was made up entirely
Of domestic traffic, and the resources of
the roads are taxed to the uttermost to-
handle the goods consigned for ship
ment. More people rode in the cars in
January than in the first two months
of last year, and Is per cent. more goods
were shipped. Last year, it will be re-
membered, was not a bad year, even
in the early months. 1t was far better
than the average Of the last five years,
or than any other one of them. This
comparison, therefore, Is more signi-
ficant than the figures Indicate
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Vittorio Bersezio the italian dramat-
ist and novelist, who died recently at
the age of sixty years wrote among
other things a history of the reign of
Victor Emmanuel II. in five volumes.
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Mr. Leslie Stephen has been seriously
iii, but has now recovered sufficiently
to finish his forthcoming three volume
work on the English Utilitarians. 1t
will probably appear about two months
hence.
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Mr. Bret Harte's literary popularity
in England shows no sign of wavering.
His new book of short stories is an
nounced there as one Of the notable
publications of the coming spring.
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what makes that new magazine cost
so much?" Il don't know; maybe they
have to pay people not to write war ar
ticles for t."--Ihdianapolis Journal.
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German railway authorities are con-
sidering a proposal to abolish return
trip tickets, holiday excursions and all
special rates, thinking by this means
that they will be enabled to reduce the
regular fares one-third with no result
Ing loss.
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Germany sends out a post card on
which Is printed a red strawberry.
When the strawberry is exposed to
heat the color of the fruit blanches and
disappears. 1t can be brought back to
its original red color by blowing upon
it,
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ment of busy life has the confounding
Of theory SO completely taken place as
in that of productive enterprises"
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"A new Johann Strauss is in the field.
He Is son of Eduard Strauss and
nephew of Johann II. and has already
composed an operetta. He is going to
start this year on a trip around the
world with Johann Strauss Vienna
Orchestra"
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In Russia women are employed as
apothecariee. In the State and munich
pal dispensaries women prescription
clerks stand on the same footing as
men, while in the large cities like St.
petersburg, Moscow and Knew there are
pharmacies in which the business is
conducted entirely by women.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-01-06

gle, Of Vancouver. are visiting theI'
parents at Fort Stevens
Recent letters from Angus, Brown
wno Is still in Dawson, reports him IN
good health and prosperous.
VIM. Stoddard, with his chlldrcn. lef,
for Chemawah on Saturday, The clil-
dren viii enter the school there.
Miss Nelly Stanley. OF Seaside. whc
has been visiting the family of Chas
Sohais, returned 10 her home last Fri
day.
The new year was ushered IN on tbs
West Side with much noise and eclat,
The ringing OF bells. tha firing OF
bombs and yells of school boys drove
sleep from the eyes OF those 50 IN
clined.
The masquerade of the season was
given at Hammond in Ford's hall On
Saturday evening Thirty couples
were in costume. Prizes were award
ed to "Topsy," Mrs J. Lambly, Of AS
toria. and ''the clown l.. b. Headric-
sun, OF Vancouver by the judges, l..
A. Conn, F. s. MunsOn and Ford Par
ker A delicious supper was served at
the Flatman hotel at midnight and
during the evening n. J. Carrie served
ice cream at the hall.
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WEST SIDE NEWS.

Mrs. Phil Coadit was in Hammond
Tuesday.
Albert Hin and wife were in Astoria
Tuesday.
L. \. Conn riade a-trp - Portland
Wednesday
E. NJ. Phnlbaum visited Fort Stew
ems Sunday.
Geo, May and wife spent the holidays
in Portland.
Miss Kate May was visiting in Port
land last week.
Mrs J. NJ. Turney. Of Flavel. is visit
ing in Portland.
Grandpa Kindred is spending the
holidays IN Portland.
Mr.. Monroe Grimes returned from
Baker City last week.
Capt Downs and II. c. Smith made
a trip 20 Seaside Friday.
Miss Nelly Ledwen visited her aunt
at Hammond last week.
A. w. Utziuger has opened a new
restaurant in Hammond.
Mrs. j. Dillon continues the restaur-
ant at McIntlre's old place
Miss Amelia Larson spent Christmas
with her people in Scappoose.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Richardson pnd Miss Nj
ia are visiting in Portland.
Miss Munson was a guest Of Mrs.
Lally the latter part of the week.
Grandpa Hill was shopping in AS
toria the early part Of the week.
f. C. Munson was in Hammond on
Sunday and returned to skipanon that
evening,
Mrs. X. \. Mason returned from ner
Christmas vacation and resumed school
Tuesday.
Miss Irene Johnson. Of A;toria. ,ls-
tied Mrs. = " Nuli, Of Hammond,
on SATURDAY,
Mrs. X. A. Mason returned from
Portland Tuesday and has resumed
her school.
A merry party watched the old year
out and the new year in at the home Of
F. H. Mudd.
Victor Peterson has re-entered the
life-saving service and is now stationed
at Golden Gate.
Mrs. s. A. Jones has returned 10 her
home in Woodlawn after spending the
holidays IN skipanon.
Grandpa Kindred returned from
Portland Tuesday. where he has been
spending the holidays.
Miss Cora Regle and Miss Hessie Re-
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1900-01-06

WASHINGTON, Jan. SIT is learned
that, although Italy was the last Of
the powers addressed to return an an
swer to Secretary Hays overture re-
garding the "open door policy, that
government really was more prompt
than any other in the negotiations.
This is exlained by the fact that the
Italian government was addressed on
the subject some time after the other
continental nations had it under con-
si1eration, owing to the fact that our
ambassador. Mr.. Draper, was away
from his post on leave Of absence in
the United States when the identical
note Of instructions was sent out and
it was regarded as best to make no de-
parture from the rule which had been
adopted in the case of the other gov
ernments Of addressing them through
the United states representatives at
the foreign capitals
Immediately upon Mr. Diapers re-
turn to Rome at not distant date
in the past, he laid the matter before
the Italian government which therefore
has acted with more promptness than
most Of the other powers.
The agreements have not yet been
reduced 10 their final form, but the
state. department will now enter upon
the task Of putting them into shape,
and as in each case the agreement TO
the principles involved in our invita-
tion is returned in unequivocal terms,
according to the department officials,
it is now anticipated that no difficulty
will be experienced IN accomplishing
this work satisfactorily
Pending that outcome the state de-
partment does not intend to make any
statement for the public as to the
exact terms Of the agreement, though
1t is admitted that the ground has been
covered with unusual accuracy in the
press reports UP to this point.
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their attack to ii with any degree of
fiexlbility.
While Col snso remains the center ~
interest operations have proceeded
elsewhere which serve to indicate IN.
creased mobility and improved tactics
on the British SIDE. The Dutch forces
have made a behted effort to follow
up their victory at Stormberg by an
advance upon Molteno and Cypgegat
but General Gatacre sent infantry and
battery TO relieve the Cape police ana
the Irish rifles and reoccupied both viii
lagos after brisk artillery fire.
The two Dutch commands which
had skirmished with the outposts and
advanced on the British camp retreat
ed when the shells began TO burst
among them. General Gatacree Off
cial report shows that the police have
retired from Bordrecht and taken a
position on the Nndwe line and that q
company of mounted infantry had re-
connoitered 10 Prieska. While this
skirmishiug Is on a small scale. there
is evidence that Gataone is alert and
vigilant and thai shs scouting work
is well done.
Reinforcemtns have been sent from
De Aar to General French who is still
lowering about Colesburg and appar-
emily maneuvering % cut off the ne
treat Of the Beers 10 the railway
bridge. A heavy artillery fire is re-
ported, but the result Of the fighting is
irdecisive as General French avoids
a frontal attack and is content 20 hold
a strong position and continue to be-
wilder and harass the enemy without
striking a blow.
The imperial yeomanry corps is rap
idly mobilizing and the Prince of
Wales will review the London contin-
gent. About 1900 men will be allowed
to serve. out Of total force of 26,OOO-
volunteers and yeomanry, and only l.
batuahons of militia will go abrrad
with so held back in reserve. 1t is a
mistake to suppose that Great Britai1
will be denuded of battalions when the
Eighth division is mobilzed. There is
more batalions on duty in Great Brit
ain at this moment than there Were at
the outbreak Of the war.
Notwithstanding all these signs Of
patriotism for imperial defense, there
are misgivings and searching Of hearts
respecting the origin and justice Of the
war. DR.. Fairbanks. principal of Mans
field college, oxford. easily the leading
non-conformist minister in the United
Kingdom, has written an article in
this weeks Speaker. in which n takes
the ground that the men responsible
for the blundsrs which have sullied the
English name ard for the loss Of lives
which have impoverished the people,
lack the competence required to see thet
thing through.
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SPECIAL SEASIDE SUNDAY TRAIN
Leaves Astoria at $50 a. M: arrives al
! Seaside s:t5 a. m.
Passengers may return on any train
shown on schedule on same date.
ALL TRAINS TO and from Seaside run
OF Flavel and Hammond via Warren
ton.
All trains make close connections at
Goble with all Northern Pacific trains
to and from the east or Sound points.
At Portland with all trains leaving
Union depot.
At Astoria with l. n. q N. Co.'s boat
and rail- line TO and from Iiwaco and
North Beach points
THRoUGi TICKETS on sale at As.
torla for ,amento. San Francisco. all
Eastern and European points.
City ticket Office Astoria. s2i CONNER.
tisl street J. c. MAYO.
Gen'l FRI and Pass Agent