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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-06
Want TO Go North.

Vancouver, b. c.. Feb. 5.--The rail-
road and steamship offices are daily
receiving an ever increasing number
Of applications for information con-
cerning the new placer diggings near
White Horse. In nearly every in
stance the people, inquiring about the
district, affirm their intention OF pro-
ceeding there either in March OF
April.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-06
pinionsd Beneath Horse.

Chehalis, Wash, Feb. s.- While
Neal Olson, rancher, was riding be.
tween Dryad and Eagleton, his horse
fell, pinning him down and breaking
both his legs Olson lay under the
horse for 80 hours before he was dis.
covered. He died. shortly after being
found, from suffering and exposure.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-06
Forest Rsserxe Tor naker.

Washington, Feb. 5.--The department
OF the interior has recommended the
creation OF a small forest reserve near
Baker City, Ore. and Senator FultoT
and Representative Williamson. OF that
state. called on the president today
to ask him to issue the necessary or.
der withdrawing land from entry. Thi.
will be done In short time. The ex-
ate number OF acres TO be withdrawn
win be determined in a few days.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-06
MEASUREMENT IS DESIGNED
FOR FRENCH CRUISERS
Same System That Applies to Amer
ican Ships Will be Adopted
Lines Are Defective.

Iernment has. in the past, permitted
French vessels to register their tom
mage according to their own measure
ments. but a recent order has been
received from Washington by which
French ships are to be placed on the
same basis as the American vessels.
Ten vessels flying the French flag
have been measured and in every
instance it has been found that the net
tonnage has been increased under the
laws Of this country.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-06

New York, Feb. 5.--The department
Of public works and Daniel Adams rep
resenting American interests, have,
says o Herald dispatch from Lima,
Peru, signed concession for a railway
from Huacho to Pichunca.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-06

at this Office and at the Office Of Dis
bursting Quartermaster at Portland.
Ore, and Seattle. wash. Envelopes
should be marked Proposals for con-
|struction buildings at Fort Columbia"
and addressed Captain Goodale, Quar-
termaster, Astoria, ore.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-06
Mustarinna ciroumstanoa.

Mysterious Circumstance.
One was pale and sallow and tn
other fresh and rosy. Whence the dif
ference? She who is blushing with
health uses DR.. Kings New Life Pills
to maintain it. BY gently arousing tn
lazy organs they compel good diges
tion and head of constipation. Try
them. Only rs cents at Charles Roger
druggist
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-02-06
NORTHERN PACIFIC
PORTLAND

PORTLAND
Leaves Arrives
Puget Sound Limited. .7:SS Q N s;s p m
Kansas City-st Louis
Special lilo o m s:5 D N
North Coast Limited $50 o m T:00 O m
Tacoma and Seattle Night
Express ..ii:4b I'm sos , N
Take Puget Sound Limited or North
Coast Limited for Gray's Harbor points
Take Puget Sound Limited for Olym-
pla direct
Take Puget Sound Limited or Kan
sas clty-St. Louis Special for points
on South Bend branch.
Double daily train service on 0ray's
Harbor branch.
Four trains daily between Portland.
Tacoma and Seattle
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
BRIGHT BITS.

Didn't she have some trouble in
hiding from her husband the present
she was going to give him?"
Not a bit. She put it in one of
the pigeonholes of his sk."-Chicago
Tribune.
THAT dress is becoming, my DEAR"
said the man who thinks he is a diplo-
mat"
She looked at him coldly for a mo-
ment and then replied: Eyes. 1t is
becoming threadbare." - Washington
Star.
-"Our new company is capitalized at
$40, 1000. OOO'
Great Let me see your prosnec-
tus."
ooh. we haven't got out a prospectus
yet. The-er-the darned printer wants
his pay in advance. Puck.
First Little Girl: My mother came
to these springs because she had hay
fever and rheumatism. What did
yours come for?
Second Little Girl: Cauth she had
four grape machine dresses and six
new hats.-New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.
II believe in corporal punishment"
said the man. You can't bring up chill
dren right by simply talkin' to them.
l used to get licked nearly every day
when l was a boy"
Then seventeen people arose and
shouted: WHO wants further proof
that whipping is horrible ?"-Chicago
Record Herald.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04

fine big team of horses. attached
to a heavily loaded coal truck, were
stalled on Fulton street hill, in Brook
Ign, says the New York Mail and
Express. The horses had tugged and
pulled and slipped until thoroughly eX-
hausted. Big welts on their SIDES
showed where the driver had lashed
them without mercy. A trolley car
buzzed up the hill and stopped behind
the truck.
The motorman and driver exchanged
compliments until the air was blue.
A ruddy-faced. horsey-looking man
stepped out on the front platform.
Say, Bill" he said to the motor
man, cant you give that outfit
What for?" asked the motorman,
as he waved a hand at the driver.
"A lobster like that?"
For the horses, Bill" said the other
quietly.
The motorman craned his head and
looked at the tired and painting ami
mails ahead of the coal truck
Sure" he said. The trolley car
buzzed again.
Pushed by the car the truck moved
rapidly up the hill. When the top
was reached the team moved off with
1t easily enough. The driver could
not refrain from shouting parting
slur about forcing the motorman to
help him out.
Never mind" shouted the motor
man IN reply, II didn't do it for you"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
SENATORS BY POPULAR VOTE.

The question of the election of
United States senators by popular vote
has been so much discussed that prac-
arguments for and against the inno-
walton. In the Library of Congress
there are hundreds of books and PAM
phIets on the subject, and the news
papers have been expressing them
selves with regard to it for years. Is
the change in the method of selec-
ton of senators anywhere near adop-
ton? A senator who takes consider
able interest in the matter recently
went over the ground to see what had
been done and what remained to be
done. He found that the legislatures
of thirty states had adopted resolutions
favorable to the popular election
scheme. and that some half dozen of
them had formally petitioned Congress
to order a constitutional convention for
the purpose of making the necessary
change in the fundamental law.
The change could be made only by
constitutional amendment. The con-
stitution provides that Congress shall
call convention for proposing amend
ments on application of the legisla-
lures of two-thirds of the states. The
work of such convention would have
to be ratified by the legislatures of
three fourths of the states. Enough
states, as noted, have taken favorable
action from time to time to have the
convention called, provided that they
were to act in concert in the petition
ing of Congress. But it seems very
difficult to secure the necessary con-
cert of action, since it appears now
likely that the question will become
more or less party issue. Hereto
fore both Democrats and Republicans
have advocated and opposed it, with
out drawing of party lines. Morgan,
Pugh and Vest of the Democrats have
opposed the proposition. while Perkins
of California and Burrows of Michi-
gan among other Republicans have
| advocated it. However, the tendency
is towards making it a Democratic
proposition and a feature of the ma
| tional party platform. Should that be
| done, and should the Democrats cap
| ture the legislatures of thirty states,
| it is pretty certain that the conven-
| ton would be called. The PROPOSE
ton undoubtedly has strong popular
| support. and it would win many votes
for the party adopting and urging
| it as a campaign ISSUE
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
New Yenr,a Homo song.

From the Baltimore American.
Brother, listen here a little to the song
of one who knows
Why the ripple's on the river and the
red is on the rose
One to whom a voice has whispered
(while his heart stood still to
hear)
Why the bloom is on the bramble,
why loves sunshine gilds the
tear.
Listen-'tis a humble message brief as
we would wish our cares,
Sweet as t-played twilight music
stealing DER us unawares.
This it is-the richest reaping of re-
ward your toll will bring
When you think nobody listens to the
little songs you sing.
'Tis the nightingale imprisoned in the
fastness of a cage
Where no answering philomela's notes
his pining may assuage-
His the song that sways the heart
strings with the loneliness it
breathes,
His the power that the poet hath en-
twined with laurel wreaths,
Crying out against the darkness, pray
ing for an echoed CALL
In thrilling, throbbing cadence hear
his pleadings rise and fall;
So God let's us think our music on
callous world we fling
Lets us think nobody listens to the lit
tie songs we sing.
Courage brothers, while a clamor
from the busy world may rise
Filling all the songless spaces meath
the overarching skies,
While we feel our little murmur may
be heard by none but us,
Sing-sing on, though hearts may falt-
er it is best we labor thus.
Some one-here, or there, or yonder-
hears no sound amid it all
But the cadence of our carols as they
bravely rise and fall,
And the very hope it yearns for to
some weary soul you bring
While you think nobody listens to the
little songs you sing.
S w Gflliland
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
A Winter Afternnnn-

From the Youths Companion,
The sun. disconsolate and dim,
BY chilling clouds rebuffed,
SHINES like bedtime candle, left
upon the shelf unsnuffed
A little flock of chickadees
Is plaintiVe in the homestead trees.
Too little air there is to sway
The dead vine by the door,
But faint sounds stir in the dry leaves
That strew the orchard floor
AS If the garments of the day
were rustling as she steals away.
Along the hedgerows, here and there,
Shine red stems of the brier,
AND dusky homestead windows hold
A scarlet flash of fire.
The bold wing of a crow astray
is strangely black against the gray.
one bar of rusty red is all
The smothered sunset shows,
No room there is for twilight's grace,
So swift the darkness grows.
But on faint harp-strings in the wood
Some stray wind plays an interlude.
A flock of gulls above the marsh,
Within the fleeing light,
Flies toward the sea, where one dark
ship
Seems bringing in the night
And Ger its icy masts, full soon,
Hangs the blurred lantern of the moon.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
PERSONAL.

e. w. Durant and wife Saltwater.
Mimi, have just celebrated their gold
en- wedding and large number of
friends from st. Paul and MINNEAPOLIS
were present. Mr.. Durant has long
been prominent in business and poll
tics for many years and served a term
as grand master of Masons Of the state
of Minnesota.
-Oseao Taukert, a Minnesota. man
living in Colorado, has just demon
strated the value of an observing hab-
it, He had noticed that mineral veins
always pursue the same general direc-
ton. When the famous Maple Leaf
gold mine was discovered some time
ago he noticed the direction of the lead
and began prospecting some distance
OF. Some seven miles away he has
just struck a vein of gold ore that
promises fine yield of free gold. as
saying $500 a ton. The find is valued
at millions.
Manager Hilliard of the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, New York, says that an
epicure living there in a suite of rooms
can easily spend $4,000 a day, but that
by eschewing alcoholic beverages and
fine cigars and keeping tips within
moderate limits a guest can bring his
daily expenses down to So. For this
sum he will be comfortably fed and
housed, can command his share of
service from the 1900 employees and
Will be able to enjoy all the music,
pictures, statuary and other endless
luxuries which go with life in the great
caraVansary.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
lADEA " NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Savannah
Gas Company: Savannah Aerie of
Eagles.
Special Mott. ?s-Elegant Ladies'
Gowns, ]. Rosenstein; DR.. Roach Has
Returned.
Business Notices-Mules and HUI
mans, Thunderbolt Casino.
An Embroidery Exhibition of Large
Proportions-Leopold Adler.
A House Built Upon a Rock-Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets.
Prompt Service-E. & w. Laundry
Coffees-Henry Solomon & Son.
DIR. Halls Magical Syringe-Row-
linski, Druggist.
Ask for the Coupons-Lattimores.
If Water and Brush-Gamble' Tooth
Powder.
Savannah Theater-"A Southern
Rose" Tonight.
Medical-Vinol: Herpicide.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale. Lost. Personal. Mis-
eallaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
FUTuRE oF RAnIIM.


Mr.. Thomas A. Edison was asked
the other day what he thought would
be the most important and interesting
development of the forthcoming year
He replied in one word: "Radium."
1t is not to be understood that Mr.
Edison holds the opinion that the pos
sibiities of radium will be exhausted
during the year, but that the discov-
cries made with respect to it may be
expected to be of greater Importance
than any other scientific discoveries
which we are at present justified in
looking forward to. This opinion of
Mr.. Edison is parallel to that Of Prof.
Curie of Paris, who, with his wife, gave
the world its first sight of and ex-
perience with the wonderful substance.
But Prof. Curie does not expect the
development of radium during the year,
or at any other time in the near fu-
ture, to be along a great many lines.
Its greatest field, he thinks, will be
in the domain of medicine, for several
reasons. One of them is that the sub
stance is too expensive to apply it. to
war or engineering works. however eff
fective it might be found in such
works. Another is that the world has
need for the exceedingly small amount
of radium that is available for the
tightening of the burdens of human
suffering. Prof. Curie has implicit
faith in radium as a specific for can
Ger, that terror of humanity, and for
lupus, a hardly less terrible disease.
In addition, it is possible that radium
may turn out to be a specific for lep-
rosy. There was hope at one time that
the marvellous element could be made
to restore sight to the blind, but that
hope is not at present cherished by
those scientists who are most familiar
with its properties.
Still, the scientists are confident that
we shall behold new wonders from ra-
dunn, which is said to be the most
powerful of germ destroyers. with a
tenth of a gramme of radium," says
Prof. Curie, "a physician will be able
to receive an unlimited number of pa
tents and effect cure after cure in
cases OF lupus, ana, above all, or can
cerous affections" With the bright
prospect of that achievement, if moth
ing else were accomplished, we might
well look upon radium as the great
study of the new year. The substance,
however, cannot come into general
medical use for some time yet, on ac-
count of it's great cost. 1t is worth
hundreds of dollars per gramme and
tens of thousands per ounce, though
as much as an ounce of it could not
be procured anywhere for any sum
of money. There is hope that the price
will be reduced, as radium plants have
been established in England and
France, and it is reported that a de-
post of pitchblende, from which it is
derived, has been found in this coun-
try, in Utah
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
His Clerical Friend.

Edmund ]. James, the president of
the Northwestern University, was
travelling some months ago with a
clergyman, says the Boston Post. This
clergyman, a man of about 60, looks
older than he really is-a fact of
which he hates to be reminded.
At a small rural station an aged
and bent farmer, painting violently,
boarded the train.
Il have had to rum" he said, nearly
half a mile to catch these cars"
Then, addressing himself to Prof.
James companion he went on:
Its a bad job, sir, when old folks
like you and me has to rum"
The clergyman, frowning, asked the
farmer how old he was.
I'm &c." was the reply.
oh" said the clergyman, there is
twenty years difference between you
and me-"
Goodness, sir exclaimed the old
man, you don't mean to tell me
you're 1862"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
CURRENT COMMENT.

The washington Post Qnd) says:
"It would be something of a joke on
the powers that have been Fastening
to recognize Panama as a republic if
the Panamaians should decide to form
a monarchy. The thoroughly recog-
nized republic has not yet been Of
ficially formed"
The Norfolk Landmark (Dem) says:
Former Senator Blair of New Hamp-
shire makes the prediction that the
isthmian canal business Will cost this
country 81 900 900, 900 before it is ended.
We make the prediction that Mr..
Roosevelt will cost this country more
than that if he is reelected next fall. A"
The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem)
says There is a wild demand from
Texas in rush orders for turkeys, it
having been discovered that these
fowls are the NEST destructive enc
mics of the boil weevil. And so many
of the beneficent birds just sacrificed
to make Thanksgiving and Christmas
holidays"
The Mobile Register (Dem.) says
1T is taking great chances with the
future to say what will happen now
that Japan and Russia are on the verge
of war. Japan cannot we'll recede, but
Russia can and may. Russia is big
enough to give way a little. intending,
however to move back, when things
have become quiet again"
The Charlotte Observer Dem } voices
it's party's sentiments in North Caro-
lima when it says: 1T is a pleasure to
see the name of Senator Simmons IN
the list of Senate Democrats who will
vote for the ratification of the Pan
anna treaty. We trust he Is properly
classified. and that Senator Overman
Will vote with him."
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
A TwO-CENT LAWSUIT.

A suit for 2 cents has been begun
against the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company by Howard Cooper johnson,
that amount ought not to cause the
company uneasiness. hut it does.
If Mr.. Johnson should win his case
it would mean more than a Judgment
for cents. Some time ago the COM
pany built a station in West Phila-
deiphia, Ct which passengers for Phil
adelphia on it's trains from the South
leave the cars. BY means of this ar
rangement the company avoids run
ming it's Southern trains into the Broad
street station, and is able to reach New
York half an hour sooner. The ar
Tangement isn't satisfactory to the
people of Philadelphia, however, be-
cause it compels Southern visitors to
their city to ride in the street cars
or in cabs over a mile to reach the
principal hotels and the section in
which the retail stores are located.
Protest after protest by the mer-
chants and others of Philadelphia have
pany to continue running it's Southern
trains into the Broad street station, but
without effect. The company says that
it made the change deliberately, after
giving the entire matter the most
thoughtful consideration. Besides, it
commodations in the Broad street sta
ton.
Lawyer Johnson bought ticket from
Baltimore to Philadelphia. The amount
which he paid entitled him to ride
sufficient number of miles to take him
into the Broad street station He was
! compelled to get off at the West Phila-
| delphia station, that is, if he wanted
to remain in Philadelphia That is
more than mile less than the distance
| for which he paid. He estimates that
he is out cents, and, therefore, sues
for that sum. The point he seeks to
establish is that the Pennsylvania
company must land it's passengers in
! the Broad street station.
Lawyer Johnson will get a big adj
vertisement out of the suit before he
gets through it. and, while he
may get nothing out of the railroad
company, the chances are that, on ac-
count of his action, he will draw at
tention to himself and will profit great
| ly in the way of business. If he wins
the suit Philadelphians will feel CRATE
full to him, and will give him business
If he could make the company run its
Southern trains into the Broad street
station the merchants of Philadelphia
would be willing to pay him large
fee.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
An Indian Ahrnnd.

An Indian who has just returned
from England expresses surprise at
the ignorance he found there, says the
New York Tribune He went to Lon
don to take part in a wild Western
melodrama. He ran across a newspa-
per man in Philadelphia, and the lat
ter says 1t was amusing to hear him
describe the ignorance regarding his
race that exists abroad. IAN English
man." he said, thinks that a red man
can run from 200 to 225 miles a day
without effort, He thinks an Apache
can overtake a deer In fact, read in
London a short story describing how
in fifteen-mile run an Apache caught
deer, choked it to death and ate it's
heart raw The English believe that
an Indian is so generous he would give
away the clothes on his back. 1 was
accosted by hosts of beggars in Lon
don. and they couldn't understand
why didn't hand out a half-crown to
each of them. They also think an In
dian will endure the severest pain
without fiinching, out of pride. A
young English girl stuck a pin in my
leg at a restaurant one night, and was
surprised when L said Ouch and
SWore"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04

Philosophers are trying to analyze
the pugilistic kiss. The love kiss, the
Judas kiss, the feminine kiss, the baby
kiss, etc, have been known from time
immemorial and the literature of them
would fill several books. But the pu-
gilistic kiss is something relatively
new. 1t came first into general no.
toriety few days ago, when the press
dispatches telling of the Corbett- Hanlon
prize fight at San Francisco concluded
with the statement that after Corbett
had hammered his opponent almost to
the brink of the grave, he crossed over
to his corner and kissed him. What
was the ethics of that kiss? Was it of
pity, or coincidence, or admiration? Are
our prize fighters getting to be senti-
mental? The great Jim" Corbett re-
fused to shake hands with the greater
Fitzsimmons, and got a solar plexus
blow that paralyzed him. And there
was no kissing afterwards. This new
est Corbett whose name is something
else altogether, hammers an oppon-
ent until his face is bruised and swol-
len, and then goes over and implants
upon the bloody features a resound-
ing salute with the lips. Prize fighting
is a funny business.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04

The field of enterprise in Chicago
seems to be limitless. A dispatch from
that progressive town tells of a man
who, assisted by trusted and efficient
helpers, makes it a business to crack
jails and get prisoners out. He de-
mands a good fee for his services and
will not undertake a Jail delivery I'M
til he is sure of his money. He paid
a professional visit to the Jail at CO.
lumbia, Mo-, a few days ago, but failed
of his purpose. The man is said tc
have amassed a fortune from his lille
gal calling.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-04
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