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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-08

Take Puget Sound LAmlted or Kan
sas city-st. Louis Special for points
on South Bend branch.
Double daily train service on Gray's
Harbor branch.
-Four trains daily between Portland.
Tacoma and Seattle
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-08
ALL WOMEN

Who wish to retain or regain their
health must see to II htat functional
regularity is established. This is an
all-important question and the wise
woman will resort to Hostetters
Stomach Bitters at the first symptoms
of any arrangement, because she
knows 1t always gives prompt relief.
Pains in the Back, Bloating, Vomiting,
Headache. Indigestion. Dyspepsia,
Painting Spells and sIeepIsssness are
all danger signals which require the
Bitters. Try one bottle.
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-08

Wonder if McTayish really cares 2
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-05-08
NORTHERN PACIFIC
Time Card OF TraIns

Time Card OF Trains
PORTLAND
Leaves ArI1veA
Puget Sound Lmited.7;1S q M O:B m
Kansas Clty-st Louis
special ...........u:10 a m S:B m
North Coast Limited $50 o m 7:OO q m
Tacoma and Seattle Night
hxpress ....""..11:b D m sos IN
Take Puget Sound Limited or North
Coast Limited for Gray's HarbOr points
Take Puget Sound Limited for oIym.
pia direct.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
LAST YEARS GRAND RECORD OF
WEALTH PRODUCED IN COLORADO


siderng
the OF building only the record
city builders buster than before
this New
without
OF the
seeking the
chance
the conditions
any other state Of the Union The other class comprised Of men Of money
climate which the worldly with him to gain
the wealth ambition other is Colo
o
ofCo olorado.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
WEAR TINTED DRESS SUITS.
Brave Young Men Of London in Coats
Of Blue. Green and Crimson.

Several courageous society men in
London are endeavorlng to introduce
the fashion of wearing colored evening
dress suits in order to relieve the SOM
Der appearance of bathrooms where
mon wear the conventional black.
A number of men have recently ap-
peared at dances wearing plnm-col-
ored coats. while others wore bright
blue. green and crimson coats.
There Is little likelihood that the
fashion will be adopted the modesty of
the average man forbidding his wear
ing rainbow-hued clothing.
While fashionable mon. however. ta-
boo colored dress coats, they are now
wearing gorgeous waistcoats, glaring
reds and blues and greens relieving
the somber coats and trousers.-New
York Journal
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
Ewes AppIe Tree

A fruit supposed to bear the mark
OF Ewes teeth is one OF the many
botanical curiosities Of Ceylon. The
tree on which 1t grows is known by
the significant name of the forbidden
fruit" or Ewes apple tree" The
blossom has a very pleasant scent.
but the really remarkable feature OF
the tree. the one to which It owes its
name. is the fruit. It is beautiful. and
hangs from the tree in a peculiar man
ner. Orange on the outside ana deep
crimson within. each fruit has the ap-
pearance of having had piece bitten
out of IT. This fact. together with It's
poisonous quality. led the Mahome-
tans to represent II as the forbidden
fruit of the Garden of Eden. and to
warn men against It's noxious prop.
critics.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
MarveIs of Memory.

The newspapers are telling OF the
remarkable feat OF postal clerk who
in a CIVIL service examination did not
make single error in properly sort
ing $4,000 test postal cards, each rep
resenting a postofilce in a certain ter
ritory assigned. This was done at the
rate OF thirty-three and one-half cards
a minute. Far more noteworthy Is
the memory OF an expert piano play
er. who will play an entire seasons
CONCERTS without a note OF printed
music before him. His memory Is so
perfect that hundreds OF thousands of
notes must be at the orderly and in
stant disposal of the will. And this
is combined with multiplicity of
synchronous recollections OF timbrc.
tempo. expression. etc. The mystery
is ut present past the limiting of any
explanation. and this fact is as beau
tiful as II is appalling. 1t shows us
how far we are from any real science
of psychology.-American Medicine.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
Eaxptlan Shorthand.

Shorthand writer's should be inter
ested in the recent discovery OF
papyrus which throws some light on
the state of stenography in Egypt in
the third century. The document found
is contract between a shorthand
school and a, man who wished one of
his slaves to acquire the art. The fee
was 100 drachmae. 40 down, 40 at the
end of year and the balance on
graduation" How long the course
lasted is not stated. but evidently the
art OF the stenographer was not an
easy one, and 1t was practiced chiefly
by slaves.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
Large Connecticut Deer.

Many OF the deer which have been
seen in Connecticut recently are re-
ported to be OF large size. and some
observers. who are familiar with deer
in Maine and other sections to the
northward. claim tnat the Connect
cut animals are larger for their age
and in better condition. A possible ex-
planation is that in the milder climate
OF Connecticut the deer have abundant
feed. excepting in the severest winter
weather.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
Natural Ice Houses.

The peasants of Pongibnud. in the
mpnntains OF Auyergne. are acquaint-
ed with singular summer formation
of ice, presumably due to evaporation
Of underground moisture and conse-
quent fall in temperature. or this
phenomena they have for many years
taken advantage to cool and harden
their cheeses. which are deposited in
certain caverns. where this ice is found
to be present, and thus keep good dur
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
DESCENDANT OF KING DAVID.
Philadelphia Woman Who Traced Kin
ship to Jewish Family of Abarbanel.


llneal descendant OF King David
died in Philadelphia recently.
Mrs. Gustav Lipschuetz was her
name. She lived with her husband
and five children at 1419 Diamond
street, but death came in ST. 1.uke's
hospital, where she had undergone an
operation. She was SO years of age.
Through the misty reaches of sacred
history this woman couid trace her
kinslip 10 the distinguished Jewish
family Abarbanel. whose relationship
to King David Is undoubted and whose
achievements throughout Europe are
matters Of history
Mrs Lipschuetz, whose maiden
name was Bertha Neumann. sprang
from that branch of the family OF
which Don Isaac Abarbanel. prime
minister of Spain in 1892. was the
head. During that time. when perse-
cution against the Jews began as a
result OF the change in the religious
views OF Ferdinand and Isabella. Don
Isaac was obliged to fee with his less
favored brethren. The family scat
tered, settling in various parts of Eu-
rope. Don Isaac afterward became
prime minister in Italy.
The grandfather of the dead woman
was Rudolph Hirsch Abarbanei. one
of the foremost rabbis of Germany in
the last century. The city Gretz. where
he died, gave him public funeral, and
the government buildings were draped
in mourning.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
sIR1AplAcs oF posT cowpsR.
ouain; Old English Home CT Much
interest Just Now.

The l72d anniversary of the birth
of the poet Cowper was recently ceie-
brated In England. | think the ac-
companying illustration of the house
In which he was born will be OF inter
est to many. says a writer. Those of
US who have visited Berkhampsted
know that there is practically nothing
to remind one OF Cowper in that pleas
ant town apart from his mothers
grave in the church. the rectory being
comparatively new one. This. how
ever, is an unpublished picture OF the
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
peepest Bore Hole.

The deepest bore hole In the world
is one of G.5T1 feet below the surface
of the soil made at Paruschowitz, near
Rybrick, Upper Silesia. The previous
record for depth was a 5.73S foot hole
drilled some years ago at Schladebach,
near Leipsic in Saxony. The latter
bore hole was made in search for coal
measures. and eighty-thres peparate
seams, some Of considerable thickness,
we're penetrated.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07

There are lots OF birds with Roman
prohles, but In beauty contest OF
crooked beaks" the ariel toucan OF
Mexico would carry on the worm.
They are beautifully colored In red.
yellow, black and white In contrasting
colors.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07

quires repairs His vast estates are
free from mortgages and he doesn't
find 1t necessary to hide from his tall
ors. In fact he owns great estates in
England, Scotland and Wales. is esti-
mated to be worth $4,000 900, and is
coming over here. not in search of a
beautiful heiress. but for the purpose
OF shooting big game in the Rocky
mountains. or what use is such a
miserable marquis in this world. any.
way?-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
A contemp,ibIe Marauia.

The marquis of Butte. one OF the few
unmarried Englishmen with splendid
titles, is reported to be planning a
trip to this country. His lordship is
only 22 years old. aud he has never
publicly declared that he has no inten-
tion OF marrying. But unfortunately
the marquis has no castles that need
roofing or in which the plumbing re.
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07

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The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
SUGAR BEET PRODUCT FOR 1908

SUGAR PRODUCT
Republican:
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
COLORADO COAL STATISTICS FOR 1908.

tables complied under the direction
The Elbert County tribune., 1904-01-07
Teaching a Parrot.

BY means of the gramophone back.
ward parrots are easily taught to pick
mp words and sentences, which are re-
peated over and over by the machine.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-19

chants of the lower settlements now and again left that trail, and came to look upon the tremendous scene ot the great falling of the waters. Here where the tumult ascended up to heaven, and where the white-blown wreaths of mist might indeed, even in an imagination better than that Of a savage, have been construed into actual forms of spirits, the Indians had, from time 1mmemorial. made their offerings to the genius of the cataract-strips of rude cloth, the skin of the beaver and the otter, baskets woven of sweet grasses, and after the advent of the white man, pieces of metal or strings of precious beads. Such valued things as these were in rude adoration placed upon rocks or uplifted scaffolds. near to the brink of the abyss. This was the spot most commonly chosen by the medicine man in the pursuit of his in cantations. It was the church, the wild and savage cathedral of the red men.
 Following now the command of. their shieftafn, the Ironuofs left t1aaas sta
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-19
CHAPTER xxx.
THE SACRIFICE

There was sometimes practiced a certain resemblance to the casting Of dice. as the latter is known among civilized peoples. The method of the play was simple. Two oblong polished bones, of the bigness of mans finger, were used as the dice The ends of these were ground thin and were rude ly polished. One Of the dice was stained red, the other left white. The players in the game marked out 8 line on the hard ground, and then each in turn cast up the two dice into the air, throwing them from some receptacle The game was determined by the fall- ing Of the, red bone, he who cast this colored bone closer to the line upon the ground being declared the winner. The game was simple, and depended much upon chance, If the red die fell flat upon it's face at a point near tc the line, it was apt to lie close to the spot where it dropped On the other hand, did it alight upon either end, il might bound back and fall at some lit+ tie distance upon one side of the line
 It was this game which. in horrib fashion, Teganisoris now proposed play. He offered to the clamorir medicine man and his ferocious. diss pies one of these captives,- whose -dest should appease not crly the. offea@:
 Great Spirit, but also the ur~~-::~..--.. x. vengeance of the tribe ITes ofecs:~.q- the same time +f.-
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-19
Copyright. 1902. by Emerson Hough.l
BY EMERSoN Ho

tfons, located far to the east, at the
 foot of the great waterway which
 Law and his family had ascended more
 than a year before.
 Yet if that which had gone before
 seemed like some bitter dream, surely
 the day of awakening promised but ht-
 tie better hope. From village to vil-
 lage, footsore and i'll, they were hur-
 ried without rest, at each new stopping
 place the central figures of barbar-
 ous triumph; and nowhere did they
 meet the representatives Of either the
 French or the English government, whose expected presence had constf-
 tuted their one ground of hope.
 Where is your big peaee?" asked Teganisoris of Pembroke, Where ars
 the head men of Corlaer? Who brings
 presents to the Iroquois, and who is
 to tell us that Onontio has carried the pipe of peace to Corlaer? Here are
 our villages .as when we left them,
 and here again, are we, save for the absent ones who have been killed by your young men. It is no wonder that my people are displeased.' .-s. Indeed those of the Iroquois who had remained at home clamored continu- ally that some of the prisoners should be given over to them. Thus, in doubt, ! uncertainty and terror the party passed ! through the villages, moving always eastward, until at length they arrived at the fortified town wh ere Teganisoris 1 made his home, 8 spot toward the foot l of Lake Ontario, and not widely re- l moved from that stupendous cataract ! which, from the beginning of earth. had uplifted it's thunderous diapason here in the savage wilderness-Onton- 1 eagrea, object of superstitious awe among all the tribes.
 Time hung heavy on the hands of the savages. It was winter, and the l parties had all returned from the wal ! trails. The mutterings arose yet ! more loudly among families who had i lost most heavily in the western expe- 1 ditions. The shrewd mind of Tegani-
 soris knew that some new thing must 1 be planned. He announced his decision at his own village, after the triumpha 1 progress among the tribes had al l length been concluded.
 Since they have sent us no pres ! ents,s said he, with that daring di- l plomacy which made him q leader ir ] red statesmanship. let these who
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-19

spirit or eyIi, u dropped upon some little pebble or hard bit of earth, bounded into the air. fell, and rolled quite away from the mark!
 Even on that crowd of cruel savages there came silence. Of the whites, one scarce dared look at the other. Slowly the faces of Pembroke and Law turned one toward the other.
 Would God could shake you by the hand" said Pembroke. "Good-by."
 ,"As for you, dogs and worse than dogs" he cried turning toward the red faces about him. mark you! where stand the feet of the white man shall stand forever, and crush your faces into the dirt!" s1.
 Whether or not the Iroduois under stood his defiance could not be deter mined. With wild shout they pressed upon him: Borne struggling and stumbling by the impulse of dozen hands, Pembroke half walked and half was carried over the distance between the village and the brink of the chasm of Niagara.
 Until then it had not been apparent what was to be the nature. of his fate but when he looked upon the sliding floor of waters below him, and heard beyond the thunderous voices of the cataract, Pembroke knew what was to be his final portion.
 There was, at some distance above the great falls, spot where descent was possible to the edge of the water Pembroke's feet were lcosened and he was compelled to descend the marrow path. A canoe was tethered at the shore, and the face of the young En- lishman went pale as he realized whas was to se the use assigned it. Bound again ans4d and foot, helpless he was cast into the canoa. A strong arm sem the tiny craft out toward midstreanl
 The hands of the great water grasped the frail eockleshell, twisted t about, tossed ii, played with it, ana. claimed it irrevocably for their own For a few moments it was visible as 1t passed on down with the resist1ess current of the mighty. stream. Amos at the verge of the plunge. the eye.> watching from the shore saw at a dis tance the struggle made by the victim He half raised himself in the boat ane threw himself against it's side It was, overset. For one instant the cold sull shone glistening on the wet bark of the upturned craft It. twas but mo- ment, and then there was no dot upon the solemn !frr
 (To be continued.)
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-19
To be continued.)
THE -.-4A LIST.
A Fait h fi1I Account of How Sims Sc. NtieGnent Became g Model of
 Decentralization.

Sims settlement was beginning to feel
 3tselI place ot importance. The chlet
 road had a fence on both sides of it for l sver mile, and a blaze on a large tree
 was already ordered with the official ill l scription Main street. There had been
 talk of the possibility of a store, and To- cal pride broke forth in noble eruption | when meeting was called to petition l for post office, writes Ernest Thomp-
 con Seton, in Fables and Woodmyth," 1 in Century. The wisdom, worth and
 wealth of the place were represented by 1 old Sims. He was man of advanced
 ideas, the natural leader of the com,
 munity, and after all the questions had been duly discussed. the store and post. office resolved upon, the question of who was to run them came up. There were
 several aspirants, but old Sims led the
 meeting, expressing the majority and
 crushing the minority in a brief but sat- lsfactory speech:
 "Fust of all, boys, I'm opposed to this yer centerin of everything in one place. 1 Now that's jest what hez been the rooin of England; that is why London ain't l never amounted to nothin'-everything
 at London. London is England; Eng 1 land is London. If Londop's took, Eng lands took, says I. an that hez been her
 rooin.
 ''The idee of house O lords an house
 O commons in the same town! It ain't fair, I tell ye; it's T hog trick. Why,
 didn't they give some little place a chance instead O buildin' up blastin' monopoly like that? Same thing hez 1 rooined New York. an don't propose l to hev our town rooined at the start. Now, I say no man hez any right to l live on the public. Live an let live, ! says I; an if we let one man run this ] yer store. it's tantamount to maxim the others the slaves of a monopoly Every 1 man hez as much right as another to sell goods, an there is only one fair way to do 1t, an that is to give all chance; an sence it falls to me to make suggestion, l says, let Bill Jones thar sell the tea; let
 Ike Yates hev the sugar, Smithers kin
 handle the salt; Deacon Blight seems
 naturally adapted for the vinegar;san' the other claims kin be considered later. I'll take the post office myself down to my farm. Now, that S fair to all. " l There was no flaw in the logic; it was l most convincing. Those who would 1 fight found themselves without weap-s on, and Scatteration Flat became mod
 el of decentralization
 l Work? Oh. yes, it works. Things get
 badly mixed at times and if takes man
 all day to buy his week s groceries, but I old Sims says it worls s.
 1 Moral: The hen goes chiclSless that.
 scatters it's eggs.
 | Linen Paper.
 1 The oldest oocument on linen paper l belongs to the year 1908. The first Eu- 1 ropean paper mills were at the castle of l Fabriano, near.Ancona, in 1340.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-19
words and Ideaa.

Definite words are necessary. says Engineering Record, for the expression of definite ideas. Hence scientific terms have to be employed. A term has ore definite meaning which does not change with time. The rush of affairs drifts words from their original meanings. aa ships drag their anchors in a gale, but terms sheltered from common use hold to their moorings forever. The word let, for example, has drifted in 200 years from meaning hinder until now. it means permit; but the term bisect has remained unaltered in significance for centuries
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-19
CHAPTER xXvrII.
PRISONERS OF THE 1Roeuo1s.

PRISONERS OF THE IROQUoIs.
 The faith of the Iroouois was worse than Punic. nor was there lacking swift proof of its real nature. Law and Pembroke the moment they had led their little garrison beyond the gate. found themselves surrounded by ring of tomahawks and drawn bows. Their weapons were snatched away from them, and on the instant they found themselves beyond all possibil- 1ty of that resistance whose giving over they now bitterly repented. Teg- anisoris regarded th em with a sar- donic smile. As
 T see you are all English" said he, though some of you wear blue coats. These we may perhaps adopt into our sr1be, for our boys grow up but slowly and some of the blue coats are good Fighters. These dogs of Illini we shall of course burn. As for your war house, you will no longer need it, since you are now friends of the Iroquois and are going to their villages. You may say to Corlaer that you well know the IroQuois have no prisoners
 The horrid significance of this threat Tas all too soon made plain. In an Aour the little stockade was but a 1nass of embers and ashes. Tn another hour the little valley had become 8 Geh henna of anguish and lamentations with whose riot of grief and woe there mingled the savage exultations of s foe whose treachery was but surpassed " his cruelty. Again the planting ground sof the Illini was utterly laid waste. to mark it naught remaining but trampled grain, and heaps of ashes and remnants of blackened and incin- erated bones. By nightfall the party 0s prisoners had begun a wild journey Ehrough the wilderness, whose horrors surpassed any they had supposed to be hl1manly endurable.
 Day after day. week after week. for more than month, and much of the anae In winter weather. they toiled on aart of the way by boat, the remain Ser of the journey on foot, crossing snow-clogged forest, and tangled fhiclxet and frozen morass, yet darina not to drop out for rest, since to lag might mean to die. It was as though after some frightfuI nightmare of sui ferIng and despair that at length they Eeaehad the vilIaaea Of the Five Ma
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-19

stayed at home De gwen some prisoner in pay for those of their people who have been killed. Moreover, let us of fer to the Great Spirit some sacrifice in propitiatidn; since surely the Great Spirit is offended" Such was the con- clusion of this head man of the Onon- dagos, and fateful enough it was to the prisoners.
 The great gorge through which poured the vast waters of the northern seas was spot not always visited by those passing up the great lakes for the western stations, nor down the lakes to the settlements of the St, Lawrence. Yet there was trail which led around the great cataract and the occasional coureurs de bois. or the passing friars, or the adventurous mer-