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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17

Treasury Department, U, s. Life
Saving Service, Washington, D. c., July
20, 1904. Sealed proposals will be re-
ceived at this Office until 300 o'clock
p. m, Of Friday, August 26, 1904, and
then publicly opened, for the construc-
tion of a floating boathouse for Grays
Harbor (Washington) Llfe-saving
Station. Specifications and drawings,
forms of proposal, ETC.. can be obtained
upon application to the Superintend-
ents of Construction Of Life-Saving
Stations, Pacific Coast, Room S5, New
Appraisers Stores, San Francisco,
CAL; to the Assistant Inspector of
Life-saving Stations, Coasts of Wash
ington and Oregon, 18th District, Ia
coma, washington; or to this Office.
Horace L. Piper, Acting General su-
perintendent.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17
Another Mysterious Affair Similar
to the Goelet Case in Con.
cealment Of Names.
NO REWARD FOR THE THIEF
Theft Has Been Kept Quiet and
Every Effort Is Being Made
to Secure the Return of
the Booty.

New York, Aug, l6,-Detectives are
working on another big jewelry rob-
berry according to circulars received to-
day by jewelers., pawn brokers and
money lenders In New York and other
large cities. The value of the missing
articles is not nearly so great as in
the Goelet case.
Descriptions of the theft are similar
to that sent out in the Goelet case,
however, in that no name is given Of
the person robbed or ID any reward Of
fered for the arrest and conviction Of
the thieves. 1t SENS to be another
case in which the owners win be salts
fled with the return OF the stolen prop
erty. The circular says that all ad-
vances made on the jewels described
will be refunded and recompensatIon
paid for any trouble that may be me-
cessary.
The circular says that the jewelry
was stolen on July I last. On that
date the safe of the Clark estate at
Cooperstown was robbed OF valuable
jewels ard private papers. The fourth
article in the list OF stolen jewelry Is
described thus:
Red enameled watch, about the size
of half dollar, marked in the case
Florence L. Stokes, July J."
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17
Chicago shelIfsh.

Ex-Justice Julius NJ. Mayer is very
fond OF things that come out OF the
sea, and while in Chicago recently at
the republican convention he sought
to indulge his tastes in one of the well
known restaurants there, says the New
York Times. After survey Of the
menu, he called one Of the walters and
ordered a portion of little neck clans.
Very sorry, sir" said the waiter,
but we're out of clans"
Bring he a nice broiled lobster
them" said the judge.
There isn't a lobster left" said the
waiter.
This is very annoying" said Judge
Mayer, taking another survey Of the
bill Of fare. Let me have some soft
shell crabs.
Were out Of soft-shell crabs, too."
replied the waiter, looking rather
shamefaced.
Then why do you keep these things
on the bill? Have you any shellfsh at
all?" he demanded.
"Only eggs, sir" replied the waiter.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17

Neglected colds make fat gravA-
yards" DR.. Woods Norway Pine !,
Syrup helps men and women to >
happy, vigorous old age.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17
NEW YoRk's SUBWAY.
Completion of Worlds Greatest Under
ground Railway.

The New York subway is the great
est underground railroad in the world,
and its construction has proved one of
the most remarkable engineering
achievements of the time. The Man.
haitian division of the subway is now
completed and it is expected that in a
few weeks trains will be running and
the public in general will have an op-
portunity to inspect the wonderful
work.
The New York subway is much long
in existence. In that respect alone
it constitutes an exceptional achieve
ment. But as an engineering feat it is
most interesting from the fact that it
was necessary to tunnel under a popu-
lous and busy city whose daily opera
tions of commerce and traffic could not
be Interrupted in order to allow the
work of creating this system of rapid
transit to go on. The complexity of
the problem was further increased by
the fact that underneath the surface
of the city was a network Of sewers,
of water pipes and electric wires, all
forming a source of vexation unless the
difficulties imposed in this way We're
carefully studied out. The Manhattan
borough Of the Greater New York is
built, so to speak, upon one great rock,
and in the construction of the subway
the engineers had to drill their way
through rock along considerable pro-
portion of the route. Nearly 100000
cubic yards of earth and rock have
been dug dug or blasted out from beneath
the streets and buildings Of crowded
city, and about 1000 pounds Of dyna-
mite have been exploded in the task.
The system soon to be opened ex-
tends from the Battery, at the southern
extremity of Manhattan Island, to
Two Hundred and Thirtieth street on
the west side of the city, in a long
sweep of 1914 miles of four, three and
two tracks. 1t also reaches from One
Hundredth street under Central park
to the east under Harlem river to Bronx
park and One Hundred and Eighty
second street, distance Of seven miles
These lines constitute the Manhattan
division of the subway which is about
to be turned over to the operating COM
pany. The line which extends under
the East river to Brooklyn and runs
to the outskirts of that borough is be-
ing pushed to completion.
The estimated capacity of the Man
haitian division for carrying passengers
is over $4,000 per hour. The operating
company expects tc carry about 49,
100000 passengers per year on the
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17
T. F.. PEISER
COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHS.

Everything in the view line, exterior
or interior. Flashlights OF banquets,
parties, etc; developing and finishing
for amateurs; portraits made at your
own residence.
525Il Commercial Street,
Room 8 lover Peterson & Brown's.)
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17
Headache Tablets Cause Death.

Martini Mortensen, 20-year- old
girl recently from Nebraska, was found
dead wednesday morning three miles
north OF Junction City. She was house.
keeper for n man named Anderson.
near whose place the girls parents live.
She was healthy, and the only cause
assigned Is an overdose Of headache
tablets, The coroner held an Inquest
wednesday afternoon The girl was a
hard worker and good looking. No
cause is assigned to lead to suspicion
of suicide.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17
once constructlne ouartermaster

Office Constructing Quartermaster,
Astoria, Ore, July 2s, 1904:--Sealed
proposals. in triplicate, will be received
at this Office until 10 o'clock a. M,
August 81, 1904, and then opened for
the construction and plumbing of an
addition to a frame guardhouse at
Fort Stevens, Ore. United States re-
serves the right to reject any or all
proposals. Plans can be seen and
specifications obtained at this office.
Envelopes should be marked PRO
posals for construction" and address,
ed, Captain Goodale, ouartermaster.
Astoria, Oregon.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-08-17
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

One thousand garment workers in
Chicago are on strike against the
open-shop policy.
The strike of the United Garment
Workers in New York against the
open-shop has been declared Off.
The engineers and firemen in several
New York packing plants have been
called out on a sympathetic strike.
Chicago meat packing strikers have
begun boycotting meat markets. Two
hundred and fifty markets have been
placed on the boycott list.
The $4,000 New York tailors who
have been on strike for several weeks
have returned to work under the old
wage schedule.
The International Miners Congress
In session in Paris, passed resolution
limiting work to eight hours a day.
The situation in the New York build
ing trades lockout and strike remains
unchanged. The strike has been on
for several days.
Former Mayor W. ]. Donnelly of Vic
tor, Colo, has moved his family from
the Cripple Creek district in conse-
quence of repeated warnings.
Attempts TO move meat from the
Chicago stockyards caused a number Of
fights between the police and striking
meat packers. Several shots were fired.
Sioux City packing house companies
have secured federal injunction re-
straining strikers from acts Of violence,
The writs were served by 700 detect
ives.
The International Brotherhood of
Teamsters, in convention at Cincin-
natl last week, pledged full financial
and moral support to the packing
house strikers.
Five hundred japanese laborers sent
to Santa Rosalia, lower California, to
work Rothschilds' mines, have struck
because they considered the timbering
unsafe. They will stay out until more
timbering is put in. The japanese
consul has gone there.
Five men who went TO the home Of
Cripple Creek miner for the purpose Of
deporting him, were met at the door by
pistol shots from within. The deport-
ers returned the fire and a dozen shots
were exchanged. The wouldbe de-
porters then retired.
A mob of packing house strikers
stopped train at Riverside, Kan, car
rying strike breakers to Kansas City,
and drove the non-union men from the
train with clubs, threw their baggage
into the river and set fire to the car.
No arrests were made.
The 50th annual meeting Of the
International Typographical union of
North America, with 700 subordinate
and affiliated bodies present from the
United States and Canada, met in ses-
sion last Monday in st. Louis and con-
tinued in session all week. All union
printers were admitted to the fair
grounds Wednesday free.
At the convention of the Interna-
tional Brotherhood Of Stationary Fire
men, held in Washington last week,
resolutions were adopted endorsing the
action of the packing-hou firemen in
going out on a sympathetic strike in
aid Of the cause of the butchers. A
commottee was appointed to raise re-
lief fund of $4,000 to aid the firemen in
South Omaha, Sioux City and st. Louis.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-08-25
CHAPTER vIlI-continued.

have brought the boy home by
reason of the Kings command that he
be held in safety-and because it was
my pleasure to succor him. / desire
your love WILL as is becoming, re-
ceiye him kindly and charitably."
He raised his hand as the pertest of
the maids would have answered him,
and there followed an uncomfortable
pause. Then seven gowns swept the
reed-strewn floor as seven courtesies
fell, and the young master walked
quietly to the door,
Homesick and heartsick. the waif in
the pages dress was left facing the
unfriendly glances Even in her brav-
est days, she had never known what
it was to be disliked. and now! Sud
denly she limped after her friend and
caught at his cloak.
Let me go with YOU" she cried II
beseech it of you! l want not their
service"
After moment, the Etheling threw
his arm protectingly around the boy
ish figure.
Il do not blame you, poor young
ling" he said. Il was wrong to treat
you as a child when you were bred
up as man. You shall have bed in
the closet of my chamber, and they
shall not enter except as you will it.
And you shall eat off my plate and
drink from my cup. Gomez, ~ X
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dom and fortune. Say that you will
hold your tongue, sweet lad, and will
make boot with anything you like"
He was very deliberate about it,
the page, pursuing his rosy mouth into
any number of judicial Fuckers; but
at last he conceded, IF do promise,
will you make bargain to put an end
to your silly behavior toward my
lord? Will you undertake to deliver
his dishes into my hands, and leave
it for me to pass his cup?"
Yes, in truth; by Father Ingulphs
book" the maid cried, wringing her
hands.
The page made her magnanimous
gesture. In that case will not be
so mean as to refuse you," he con-
scented. And he sat smiling to him
self in SLY content after she had hur-
ried away.
Followed by old Morcard and the
fat monk, the Etheling descended
from the doorway and stood on the
broad step, shading his eyes from the
glare of brilliant light while he looked
about him with evident pleasure in the
fairness of the day.
IF the question may be permitted
me, whittier do you betake yourself
my lord?" the old cniht asked.
With the light wand he carried, the
young man made gesture quite
around the horizon. Everywhere and
nowhere. After | have been to see
what they are doing with that portion
of the palisade which babe them re
pair as soon as they had finished the
barrier, am"
THAT is something that had clean
fallen out of my mind to tell you, Lore
Sebert," Morcard spoke up hastily
Yesterday, before you had got in
from hunting, Kendred of Hazlefort
came, as spokesman for the rest, tc
say that inasmuch as the Barn Month
is well begun. it will not be possible
for them to labor more upon the build
ing; and, by your leave, they will put
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-08-25

true that you owe something to my
race, lord. He had great good sense.
the Wide-Fathomer, to stretch his
strips OF oxhide around this dale and
turn 1t into an odal."
Nay. now, it was Alfred who had
sense to take 1t away from him. the
Etheling teased.
But the boy shook back his long
tresses in airy defiance. Then will
Canute be foremost in wisdom, for
soon he will get it back. together with
all England. Remember who got the
victory last week at Brentford, lord"
in the midst of his exulting cloud
came over the young Englishman's
smile. II would / knew the truth con-
corning that" he said slowly .sThe
man who passes today says one
thing. whose comes tomorrow cells
another story. Yet since Canute Is
once more free to beset London"
He did not finish. and for while 1t
appeared as though he did not see the
sunlit fields his eyes were resting on.
But suddenly the boy broke in upon
him with a burst of stifled laughter.
Look, lord! In yonder field, beSnd
the third haycock!"
The moment that he had complied
laughter banished the Ethelings
.meditations. Cozily ensconced in the
soft side of haycock was Father In
gulph, couple of jovial haryesters
sprawled beside him, fat skin OF
ale in his hands on its way to his
mouth.
"But I will make him squirm for
that" the Etheling vowed. Il will
tell him that your paganism has made
spells over me so that | cannot tell
a holy relique from an ale-skin: and
bedridden woman looks to me like
two strapping yeomen. l will, l swear
it!'
But presently Seberts remarks be.
| gan to take new tone. by Saint
Swithin, lad, think they have more
sense than we, that linger half,
| hours ride from food with a noon.
day sun standing in the sky! 1t is
borne in upon me that | am starving.
| Backing his horse out of the brush
he was putting him about in great
haste, when the boy leaped in his stir
rups and clapped his hands.
Lord, we need not be half hour
| from food! Yonder, across the stub
Bile, is farmhouse If you would con
sent that l might use your name, then
would I ride thither and get their
best, ara serve it to you here in the
| elves own feast-hall."
The answer was slap on the
| green shoulders that nearly tumbled
their owner from the saddle. Now,
| was right to call you elf, for you
have more than human cleverness!"
the Etheling cried gayly. do so, by
all means, dear lad; and | promise in
return that will tell every puffed-up
dolt at home that you are the blithest
comrade who ever fitted himself to
mans moods. There, if that contents
you, give wings to your heels!"
(To be continued.)
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Shouting Their Praises.

rriarpoint. Miss, August 22 tSpe-
ciaD Cured of Bladder and Kidney
Trouble after 26 years of suffering.
Rev. III. III. Hatch, OF this place, Is
telling the public tho good news and
shouting the praises OF the remedy
that cured him--Dodd's Kidney Pills.
Rev. Mr. Hatch says
II have been suffering from Blad-
der and Kidney Trouble for IS years
and have tried everything that peo-
pie said would do me good But
nothing did me any good except
Dodd's Kidney Pills.
II haven't felt pain since took
Dodd's Kidney Pills. They gave me
health and | feel like a new man al.
together Dodd's Kidney Pills are
the best ever had"
All Urinary and Bladder Troubles
are caused by diseased Kidneys. The
natural way to cure them Is TO cure
the kidneys. Dodd's Kidney Pills
never fail TO cure diseased kidneys
In any stage or place. They always
cure Backacbo and they are the only
remedy that ever cured Bright's Dis
ease.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-08-25

off this, which is not pressing, until
after the time of the harvest"
1t was several moments before the
Etheling spoke, and then his voice was
noticeably deliberate. Obi" he said,
$50 they ask my leave, but stop at
their pleasure?"
my lord!'-the old man looked at
him in surprise-"they act only &C
cording to custom. Surely you would
not have them neglect the harvest,
which waits no mans leisure, to put
to their hands as laborers when there
is no present need, now that they have
completed the barriers by the stream?
What present harm because the drain
off the hill has rotted the palisade?"
After a moment the young noble be-
gan to laugh. Il will tell you how
am going to spend my morning, Nor.
card. l am going to ride over every
acre that is under my hand and see
how much | can spare for loan-land.
And when | have found out, | will rent
every furlong to Doors who shall be
bound to pay me service, not when it
best pleases them, but whatsoever
stand in need Of it."
Old Morcard turned and stepped up
into the doorway. from which he
looked down indulgently upon his
laughing master. 1T happened for
merly, Lord Sebert, that | knew how
to command your earnestness, and
that speedily; but that time has long
gone by. Methinks l can accomplish
more among the watchmen upon the
platform. BY your leave, my lord!H
Bowling, he disappeared in the dark
tunnel of the archway, and the Ethel
ing was left alone save for the grace
full figure awaiting him beside the
step. The instant he moved, it
sprang forward.
'Lord, is it your wish that get the
horses?"
Eyes; go bid them fetch the horses
and we will have another day of blithe
wandering"
Blithe they were, in truth, as they
cantered through shaded lanes and
daisied meadows, nothing too small to
be of interest or too slight to give
them pleasure. BY grassy commons
and rolling meadows sweet with clus-
tering haycocks, they came at last to
the crest of the hill that guarded the
eastern end of the dale. The whole
round sweep of the horizon lay about
them in an unbroken chain Of ripen-
ing vineyards and rich timberland, Of
| grain-fields and laden orchards; not
+, one spot that did not make glorious
| pledges to the harvest time Drinking
its fairness with his eyes, the lord of
| the manor sighed in full content.
when see how fine thing 1t is to
| cause wealth to be where before was
nothing, cannot understand how !
once thought to find my pleasure only
in destroying" he said. Next month,
when the barley beer is brewed, we
will have harvest feast plentiful
enough to flesh even your bones, you
bodkin!"
The Danish page laughed as ne
lodged the plaguing wand. 1T is
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in the shade of the wide-spreading
trees as he kept lazy eye on the
groupings of two saddled horses, and
an endless chain of fagot-laden serfs
plodded joylessly across the open. On
one side OF the great entrance arch a
half-dozen of the manor poor gabbled
and basked in the sun while they wait
ed to receive their daily dole of food;
on the other, lark-locked foreign
page sat on the messy step abiding
the coming of his master.
The page bent to pillow cheek on
the soft cushion of the dogs head,
then drew back and Strengthened him
self stiffiy as strapping serving-lass,
f1agon-laden, came out of the door be-
hind him. She saw the motion and
looked down with teasing laugh.
"Aha, young Fridtjof! How do you
like being sent to cool your heels on
the doorstep while your master eats?
What! l think that the next time
you thrust your foot out to trip me up
as hand my lord his ale, you will at
tend to keeping it under your STOOL"
Young Fridtjof regarded her with
a kind of righteous indignation. and
I think that the next time you will
look where you are going, even if it
happen that it is Lord Sebert's ale you
are bearing. Silly jades, that cannot
come nigh him without biting your
lips or sparkling your eyes! / won
der he does not clap masks over your
faces"
"And wonder he does not clap rods
to your back" the lass retorted with
sudden spite. She founced past him
down the step, on her way to the
great lead-roofed storehouse that
fianked the forest side of the Tower 3
The boy looked after her sternly. ut
Is likely that you will be less pert of
tongue after I tell what l found out
in the corn-bins yesterday" he said.
The maid whirled. What did you
find out, you mischieffull brat?'
He continued to stroke the dogs
head in dignified silence.
IF you mean the-the brown
cloaked beggaf, let me inform you that
that is naught." #EEAa-
Busying himself with pulling burrs
from the hounds ears, the page be-
gan to hum softly. 8#@i Eat
She came step nearer, and her
Toice wheedled. at was only that he
was distressed for drink, poor fellow,
and followed me into the storehouse
when he saw me go in to fill the mas
iers fagon. 1t was naught but
swallow. My lord would be the last
20 grudge harmless body
"Harmless?" the page said sternly.
"Did not hear him tell you, the same
as that he was an English spy"
The girl abandoned the last shred
of her dignity, to come and stand be-
fore him, nervously lingering her
apron. FOR the dear saints sake, let
no one hear you say that good Fridt-
jof! Alas. how you have got ittwist-
ed! He is an Englishman who bent
his head for food in the evil days. And
now they that bought him will not set
him loose, so he has cast OIL their
rob. I'D aea to the Danes to Get FREQ
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Made His Texts Fit.

James Whitcomb Riley tells a story
Oh an old fellow who asked for work
at the Riley farm in the poets boy
hood. He was set at hoeing potatoes,
but did not prove to be especially in
dustrious. When taken to task for
his lack of application he only re-
piled: l
wall, the Good Book says DO all
things in moderation"
well, it came on dinner time at
last" says the humorist, "and the Old
codger did his share nobly. In fact,
he ate enough to kill two or three or
binary men. Some one gently limited
that his text didn't seem to apply.
He opened worn little Bible and inn
perturbably pointed to passage. 1t
read M# r..
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to
do, do it with all thy might New
York Times.
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WHERE THE ORATOR WAS.
Witty Stenographer's Graphic Des
cription of Position.


J. S. Wilson, a Canadian editor.
in a recent speech told story of the
Hon. Edward Blake, now M. p. for
Longford in the British House OF
Commons. Mr.. Wilson was of the
press gallery force at Ottawa when
the Canadian Pacific railroad con
struction was up for discussion. Mr.
Blake was then leader of the Liberia!
party in Canada, and was opposing
the building of the transcontinentai
railway in speeches that were motto
rious for their length. Mr.. Blake was
an orator who required little notice
to make telling speech, but at this
time he had fallen into the habit OF
writing out his speeches and reading
them off at tremendous rate. He
had been speaking for six hour when
one stenographer, in relieving his fell
low, asked: where is he now?"
Quick as flash came the answer
from the man who had been rushed to
keep up with the orator:
Hes on the south bank of the Sas.
katchewan, on the down grade. and
going like --!'-New York Times.