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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-11

Salem. Feb 10.--Word was received
in this city about $3.50 yesterday aft
ernoon to the effect that a young man
whose identity was unknown, had COM
mitted suicide in Woodburn. in one OF
the lodging houses of that place by
means of swallowing about four ounces
of laudanum.
Little or nothing IS known of the
man. for he was a perfect stranger in
the town and would not divulge his
name to any one, not even registering
at the place where he was staying tenn
porarily. Coroner Clough was notified
of the affair and went down to Wod-
burn on the afternoon train.
1t was plain, case of suicide, so far
as a thorough investigation would show
and he did not think it necessary to
hold an inquest over the body. He
made his appearance in Woodburn on
Monday afternoon, but where he came
from or where he was going nobody
seemed to know. He talked but very
little and all that was learned of him
was that he claimed to be painter by
trade. He retired about o'clock inl
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-11
RADluM RADluM
RADluM

Delight your friends. Rstonish rela-
tives, and make wonderful experiments
PHIDE of Zinc activity 100000 mgr.
oS00. 500. We give you this as a pres
ent when you order Radios" This
alone Is worth several dollars OF any
man or womans money Acts the same
as N.rays. Simply wonderful Remem
ber this is q present
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-11
OPPOSES CANAL TREATY,
Senator Daniel Speaks Out and Is
Promptly Answered.

Washington. Feb. i0,--ln the execu-
tive session of the senate today Sena-
tor Daniel spoke in opposition to the
ratification OF the Panama canal treaty,
He was answered by Senator Fairbanks
and Senator Spooner. Senator Daniel
did not criticise the administration. but
advised that the government accept
the Nicaraguan route, which is the only
one to which title can be had without
national dishonor
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-11
STRANGE YOUNG MAN
TAKES His OWN LIFE

that she need not mind calling him II
he did not get up before noon. as he
was very tired and needed rest.
The landlady respected his wishes
did not disturb him until noon, when
she went TO his room to call him Up
on receiving no response to her loud
apping and calling. she became alarm
ed and finally broke in the door, when
she discovered him lying upon the bed,
with two two-ounce bottles lying by
his side, labeled laudanum. He was
then in dying condition, but she
hastily summoned medical assistance.
All efforts to resuscitate him were I'm
availing and he expired about o'clock
and took his secret with him He was
very careful to destroy all means of
identification about him, as he burned
all of his effects by which it would be
possible to learn who he was and even
went so far as to tear piece of his
hat band out, which presumably bore
his name or the name of the maker.
Coroner Clough gave orders to give the
body burial and it was inferred in
today.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
FOREIGN FACTS.

Tie city Of Glasgow makes $500
a year profit out Of waste paper coli
lected In the streets
An attempt is being made in Vienna
to persuade servants to pay 20 cents
a month toward an old age insurance,
but after three years Of work the sum
needed to start the enterprise has not
been secured.
NJ. de Plehye, Russian minister Of
the interior, has rusticated for half a
year from eighty to ninety Finnish
students OF Helsingfors university be-
cause they did not present themselves
last year for military service
A proclamation recently issued in
Limburg, Belgium, according conces-
sions for coal mines has been declared
nun and void because it was not ac-
companied by a trumpet call according
10 custom. The new formalities will
cause d delay Of four years.
The distribution of drinking water
In butts and barrels at Gibraltar il Al
present mainly Ia the hands Of private
individuals. There is, however, a ten
acre slope. covered with corrugated
iron sheets, which yields 100000 gal.
Ions per inch Of rainfall. and 1t is pur
posed to increase this area TO thirty
seven acres.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
WILD FLOWER FARMS.
Miss Anderson suggests Them as an
Occupation For College Girls.

Miss Anderson suggests Them NJ an
Occupation For college Girls.
Wild flower farms Tor college girls
1t is a pretty idea and one that Miss
Mary Perle Anderson considers entirely
feasible ana capable Of yielding modest
but steady profits, says the New York
Tribune.
Miss Anderson is nos the instructor
in botany at Mount Holyoke. In com
mon with many other botanists and
dover lovers, Miss Anderson is alarm
ed at the threatened destruction Of
many species Of wild flowers. The ar
butus and laurel especially, two flowers
Of unusual beauty. found nowhere IN
the world outside Of America, are in
danger Of speedy determination. The
cardinal flower can live only in lonely
haunts. Its spike Of scarlet flame Is
irresistible. The hepatica, the lady's
slipper, the bog orchid, the Jack IN the
pulpit, are going more slowly.
The two great sources Of danger are
the gathering Of wild flowers for sale
and the supplying Of vast quantities OF
them to city schools for nature study"
The latter Is new danger, and one
that the flower lovers themselves do
not wish to see abandoned. only regu-
lated. They wish to have the city chill
dren see and know the flowers. In
this emergency Miss Anderson suggests
flower farms for college girls.
She cites the well known precedent
/ OF the "Christmas tree farms Of
Maine. Some years ago vast areas Of
land covered with balsam fir in Maine
were worthless. They were actually
not taxed, because the fir yielded nc
income. Today the land, under tbs
manipulation Of the thrifty Maine
farmers. yields from sl5 to $50 an acre
year through the Christmas tree
trade. The farmers carefully choose
the trees. preserving. thinning, prunins
and preventing denudation.
Many college graduates, says Mis-
Anderson, living in country towns
would be glad to reside at home afte
graduation could they see any way Z
make d little money there. The trans
planting and cultivation of the plant
In their own habitat, she declares, eoul
be made to yield a steady incom
through the season and IN addition
would preserve species instead Of e.
terminating them and foster the loy
of beauty
"The sand barren. the peat bog an
even the stagnant poo" she sayi
might be made to yield a wealth 9
flowers, with an economic and educf
tional and an aesthetic value"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
THINGS THEATRICAL.

Does the average theater goer ever
consider how hard an actor has to work
70 give the auditor the recreation he
seeks at the playhouse2
Manager ]. Fred zimmerman, Jr.
Il now in England to arrange for the
appearance Of Miss Bertha Galland in
"Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall. !"
The man who believes that he can
set an audience in roars by a few gri-
maces win find that he cannot make a
success. TO make people laugh is a
science.
Chivalry and love are the main
springs Of the dramatic movement,
Chlyalry and love solve all problems,
brush away all difficulties, bring all
things TO happy issue,
Miss ELLEN Terry Il, perhaps, the
most beautiful actress Of the modern
English stage, though the face itself IS
small and the features are thin-not
favorable conditions for the footlights
Great actors have come to their pro
fession with fne faces Garrick, Ken
bic, siddons, Kean and Macready were
handsome, and, in our day Irving
Booth and Possart all present faces
that could be called remarkable.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
SPECIAL POLICE FOR CUPID.
Park superintendenfs Plan 20 Regu-
late Love Making.

Park superintendent Plan 90 Regu-
late Love Making.
Because lovers persist in occupying
the benches in McCulloch park at Mum
Gle, Ind, to the offense of others visit
ing the place after night superintend-
ent Crabbs Of the city parks has asked
that a special police officer be appoint
ed to patrol the park at night and
break up love making, says the Chicago
Inter Ocean.
II have no personal objection TO the
spooning habit" said Superintendent
Crabbs in a speech t0 the city coun-
eli, "but believe the tendency Is de-
moralizing, and know it is objection
able to the majority Of people frequent
ing the park. Why, the lovers have be-
come SO audacious that they pay no
attention when | tell them to break
away, and the other night the only
way | could get them to scatter was
to tell them that the bears confined Ia
the park had broken loose. Another
time when | interfered with two pub
liz love makers the man took up a stone
and threatened to smash my head 4 |
didn't leave. That's the reason ! think
the park needs d policeman"
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

MT Plattsmouth, Neb. lie was always
alert to his opportunities and never
lost a chance Of seizing them. This Is
illustrated In story that Is told Of the
manner III which be became general
freight agent Of the Burlington road
Mr.. Morton had always been q freight
department man, but he had been COM
PEELED to accept the position Of gem
eral passenger agent OF the system
While he attended strictly TO the duties
OF the office, he never liked the work
and waited for his opportunity to get
back into the freight department. In
short time H. i. Ripley who wae
then the freight agent Of the road, re-
signed. AID Mr. Stone, the general man
ager, called Mr.. Morton In conference
with other department chiefs to dis
cuss ain available man as Ripley's sue
cessor. Each in turn gave his opill-
ion, and when 1t came to Mr.. Morton
he said: "AIr. Stone, know Just the
man for the Job. 1t Is d fellow named
Paul Norton Mr. Morton's sugges-
ton was adopted.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
PEN AND BRUSH.

Thomas Hardy writes that the first
book his mother gave him after those
merely for the nursery was Drydens
Virgil
The income Of the late Maurus JokaL
the Hungarian novelist, from the sale
Of his books ana other sources was
about $4,000 d year
vereschagin's last letter'to his wife
ended with the words, My expecta-
tons Of witnessing cannonading have
not been fulfilled, but I hope | shall
soon succeed"
Miss Ellis Meredith, author of Heart
Of My Heart Is Of Huguenot descent
and claims kin to d certain josef Saw
rim, who wrote a pamphlet attributed
to yoltaire and the cause Of the famous
philosophers first Imprisonment in the
Bastille.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
9be Times Daily Short Story.
lDe2aSoy 7oSNse Ase2Qsayosoa ~ ~


self and didn't think | was doing any
thing remarkable, but Billy, who knew
1 was long of exactly 10000 shares
Of MOP looked at me in amazement.
There was some reaction (Which, as /
explained, regained some Of our hypo-
thetical losses), and then down went
the quotations, so that when we left
the ticker / was out $4,000 Mar
guerite went upstairs for a short nap
before lunch, and Billy and went out
on to the piazza to talk it over made
up my mind that would take advan-
tage Of the first reaction and sell out
The next morning / met Marguerite
on the piazza | excused myself for
not having seen her in the evening by
saying | bad Billy on my hands and
proposed that before we went to the
beach we should take look at the
ticker. We did 50, and | saw that sew
eral stocks Of which had few thou
sand shares each followed "Mopsn ex-
ample and slid down to a point that
left me barely $4,000 If all my shares
were sold at the prices quoted. l re-
solved to save that bagatele for flu
ture operations and. excusing myself
from Marguerite for few minutes,
went TO the telegraph Office and sent a
message to my broker to sell all had
'.at the market Then / rejoined Mar
guerite and we went to the beach.
That evening while we were sitting
together on the piazza looking at the
ocean slowly tapping the shore as a
lion may lick his chops after deyouring
somebody | said to my companion.
Marguerite, you are the only woman
l ever saw whom | wanted to marry,
and l resolved three years ago thar If
| ever made enough money to take
proper care Of you would ask you to
be my wife. Yesterday morning when
Billy Allen came up was worth $500
900 and was on the eve OF putting tile
question to you We went to the ticker
and saw 10000 pass away IN less than
half an hour. The rest, except $1,000
which / have saved from the wreck
went yesterday afternoon and today
1 tell you this because it Is due to you
and myself that you should know why
after all have said to you'll do moi
complete what have begun
She sat looking at me with eyes
opening wider and wider till had fin
ished
EDO you mean TO tell ME that tina
supposititious case was your ownie
\ IL do"
eThen all have TO say IL that TX
rather marry man with such splen
did nerve than one with d million"
\ With a simultaneous impulse W
opened our arms and clasped each 9th
ar tn a tight embrace.
My fiancee would not hear Of IN,
leaving Wall street. she said that
man with such nerve IS especially Al
ted for Spectator and | must see
my fortune where I lost 1t. ! wen
short and in less than three month
regained my 100000 Where ! sha
land eventually don't know. w
must all take our chances in thi
world, and my chances seem to be |
the stock market
n MITCHEI,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
CURRENT COMMENT.

The beef trust is wiser than the coal
trust. when ii raises prices 1t offers
no remarks whatever Washington
Star
1t seems 10 be question of com,
manders in Manchuria The soldiers
on both sides are equally hard fighters.
philadelphia Inquirer.
Perhaps the time is not far away
when the naval battles will be fought
under the water and the land battles
In the air. Topeka Journal
The man who passed several counter
felt 500 bills on the GrayeseEd book
makers has discovered the only way to
win at the races Philadelphia North
American.
Brazil has started in to build a big
navy and ia i've or ten years from
now may be able to have outside trou-
bles as well as the home brand. -Chiea-
90 Record Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

A foe even more deadly than enterie
or cholera which the Japanese will
have to fight against in Manchuria Is
kakke, as they call it, while in India
and the Malay peninsula It is known as
beriberi. IT IS the national scourge Of
Japan, and attacks with special fire.
queney and virulence young and other.
wise healthy men. and that 1t Is more
or less contagious would appear from
the frequency with which Il attacks
soldiers in barracks and seamen crowd
ed together on board ship. Some. how
ever, have sought the origin Of the
disease In the national diet-rice and
fish. The peasantry, who often cannot
afford either rice or fish and have 70
subslst on barley or millet, suffer much
less than townsfolk,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
SPORTING NOTES.

The automobile race In October for
the W. *. Vanderbilt trophy will be
300 miles long.
Bob Eitzsimmons says he will meet
any heavy or middle weight in the
world, barring Jim Jeffries.
George Bothner, the New York light
weight. Is said to be the cleverest
wrestler the world has ever seen.
John a. Hall has entered Frank Ben.
nett, BY Star Duroc, and Frank t. by
Enright, in the Rockport (O.l races.
George L. Kelner. Ionia. Mich, has
purchased from S. I. HARRISON, Lex
ington, Ky, the bay two-year-old colt
Ashspring.
j. II. Pierson worked Hattie Wilkes,
pity. by Bobby Burns, an easy mile
in 2:20, stepping the last half IN LOS,
last quarter In 81 seconds.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
OVER THE TICKER
I0rleInall

tnrigludLl
she was splendid girl, but knew
she should marry money. This was
my thinking, not hers. OF which / knew
nothing A long time worshiped her
Then when the great Wall street boom
came on / invested few thousand
dollars and gained a fortune. | was
worth 100000. This result was not
fully attained till the summer Of 1902.
Hearing that Marguerite was at the
seashore / went there. / pretended TO
be much surprised to meet her, but
this was all assumed / had gone
there to WOO and win her If | could.
didn't have much trouble inducing
her TO accept my attentions indeed.
she would decline to make engage
ments with very rich men to be with
me, though she knew nothing about
my circumstances. September came
on, and many people left the coast
Enough remained to keep up the daily
attendance on the beach and at the
hops. One morning Marguerite and
We're sitting on the shining sands look
ing at the bathers | bad got pretty
near to a proposal the night before and
was just about to close the matter up
so far as my part was concerned when
/ heard a CHEEKY voice behind me, and
Billy Allen clapped a hand on my
shoulder | introduced him to Mar
guerite and we all three chatted to-
gether Billy said there was a furry
In WAN street and suggested that we
go to the hotel and look at the ticker
Marguerite said she would like to go,
too. So we rose, sauntered together
up the beach and were soon bending
over the taps. explained matters 70
Marguerite
'.Those letters NJ. o. r." / said, stand
for Missouri Pacific common stock. II
is a great favorite at present and is
usually referred TO as Mop"
"A good name for poodle inter
posed Marguerite.
"Now, holder | said, ''of l0f
shares Of Mop makes or loses $500 for
every point it goes up or down. Or
1000 shares the change is $1,000 Oh
10000 shares $4,000, and so on. Sup
posing we have, say, 10000 shares, LEI
US see what one makes or loses as ths
quotations vary"
held the tape and read the quota
lions on the stock.
"a quarter, a half, three-quarteri
rise We're ahead $4,000. Bacl
she goes quarter, half, seven
eighths one point We've lost on
$4,000 and 5000 besides. stu sh'
goes down A half. three-quarters, !
point, point and quarter, hall
three-Quarters. Great heavens, Is sh
never going to stop? Two points,
half, three-quarters, three points. View
made a big loss. We're cut 100000"
1T quite takes my breath away,
said Marguerite, with q gasp.
"Oh, you would soon get used to it,
/ replied
/ am not much Of an admirer Of my
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

| saw the latest thing out in profess
slonal shoplifters outfit, says Q writer
Ia the Boston Record, It was dress
suit case, or, rather, appeared to be,
but the affair did not open in the top
as Is customary. There was wooden
slide in the end, a neat arrangement
that could not be detected on the clos
est scrutiny Through this goes the
booty. while the pals stand guard on
either side Of the grip. 50 cleverly got
up is the kit that when the police in
spectors examined it they were at a
loss at Hrst to discover how 70 open
1t up.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
LAW POINTS.

One who pays a note to third per-
son not its owner, and who is II pos
session OF it. at a place other than the
place of payment, assumes the burden
OF proving that such person was en-
powered to collect It. 80 n. W. Rep
$685.
A draft payable to two payees. who
are not partners, must bear the indorse-
ment Of each to convey complete title,
and the Endorsement by one In the
names of both is, in the absence OF
extraneous authority, insufficient (S4
Y. Y. S. 1O01.l
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
mnnr Mhite nathlne suiIn SOFA.


ave are selling lots Of white bathing
suits to women this season" remarked
d department store clerk to a reporter
Of the Philadelphia Record. "and the
early prediction that they were 70 be
fashionable seems Justified In view
of this 1t would be interesting to know
what Is to happen at such places as
Asbury Park ana Ocean Grove, where
among very strict rules about bathing
there has always been one forbidding
women to appear Ia white bathing
suits. OF course the new white suits
we are selling are not Of the semi
transparent. elinging STUFF which cans-
ed the rule to be made, but q law y q
law, and some Of the resorts are par
ticularly alert In enforcing all those
which concern the proper behavior Of
summer patrons
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

A man who was very DESTROYS Of
reaching the ST Louis worlds fair with
out paying railroad fare floated past
Hannibal on a log In the Mississippi
the other day, says the Kansas city
star First he tried walking, he told
some boatmen, but that made his feet
sore, SO be decided 10 fioat.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
a,,,.m,n,. stool krways Handy

While passing pasture recently !
saw a COW with rope tied to her
horns about ten feet long with cedar
block tied to the end Of the rope, says
a writer in the Bangor (Me) News. I
did not know what 1t was for and
asked the owner OF the cow. That's
me millsin' stool. said he. 4 milk In
the pasture and when | find me COW,
me stool is always handy
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

Only one in 100000 persons will
reach the age of 104; just one IN 5000
900 can expect to see los birthdays,
and as to living TO be LOG years old,
estimates place that contingency out
of the range Of practical calculations.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

One Of the higher officers once came
into Mr.. Morton's room and complain
ed OF the amount Of gas consumed IN
his department by clerks working over
time ut night. Mr.. Morton grimly post
cd notice to the effect that thereafter
ell clerks who could not do their work
during Office hours would be discharg-
cd. Mr.. Morton's progress has been
uninterrupted since the age q sixteen
years. when he chose 70 take position
with the Burlington and Missouri road
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12
The FIRST welsh Bible.

The first Welsh Bible was published
n the year Of the defeat of the Spanish
armada, in 15Ss.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

To be a successful wife, to !
retain the love and admiration
OF her husband should be a
w0man's constant study. II
she would be all that she may,
she must guard well against the
signs of i'll health. Mrs. Brown
tells her story for the benefit of
all wives and mothers.
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three months. At the end Of that
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i had been suffering with inflamma-
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medicine cured that, and built up my
entire system, till was indeed ike q
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! CHAs f. BRowN, q Cedar Terrace, Hot
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Club. = 5000 forfeit II original Of abo0s isttss
proUiHg gsauinsress cannot be produced.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-12

Mr.. Morton has been essentially
business man and has never run to
fads or foibles. While he maintains a
modest stable that is essential for the
comfort Of his family, he Is In no sense
a horseman. Neither has he been prom
Inently identified with the yachting Or
golfing enthusiasts Of Chicago He Is
4 man Of simple tastes and strenuous
accomplishments. 1t is said that even
In his younger days in Chicago he was
never known to smoke or drink and
that bis only form Of recreation used
to be quiet game Of cards Saturday
evenings. He is known ais a good story
teller and has long been in demand as
an after dinner speaker at public az.
fairs. Although he has keen sense
Of humor he is never accused Of being
a practical joker. The Western Freight
association 70 this day is known as
the great reduction works" a name
Mr.. Morton applied to 1t when II
agreed ON tariff schedule that did
not meet his views.