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great commander described with
greater detail less space being given to
those of their contemporaries.
They were pair of romantic figures all
their lives, this Englishman and his wife.
Stately Col. Churchill master of the horse
to the Duke of York, was twenty-four
when his heart was captured by fifteen
year-old Sarah Jennings, the playmate
and companion of the dukes daughter,
Princess Anne. The courtship was not
placid one. The elder Churchills wanted
an heiress for their splendid young sol
der, about whom fingered the glamour Of
effective service under Turenne, and they
opposed the match.
The daughter Of the poor Hertfordshire
family-impoverish by it's loyalty to the
king during the civil war-realized the
value of her brains and her beauty, and
yielded her hand only after long and
child, who had been left in her early years
to the companionship Of servants who
adored her.
Impetuous, passionate, utterly undisci-
plined, she led John Churchill an un-
certain dance before and after their mar
riage. But how she loved him always!
How she planned for him. toiled for him.
delighted in his great deeds, and hated
his enemiesi And how she worried him!
He was ever to her her very heart and
soul. but even for his sake she could not
curb her dangerous temper and fiery
tongue. She rated him tempestuousIy
now and again; to vex him, she cut off
the glorious golden locks he loved What
a pang must have searched the really
warm heart of the old duchess when
after Marlborough's death. she found
that mass of beautiful hair carefully
locked away among his treasures!
The popular impression concerning her
temper found a possibly unintentional ut
terance through the excellent but tact
less Bishop Burnett.
When dining with the duchess, after
Marlborough's fall" says Mrs. ColvilIe,
he compared the duke TO Belisarius.
But, said the due&ess eagerly, how
came it that such man was so miser-
able and universally deserted? oh, ma
dam, exclaimed the distrait prelate, he
had such a birthstone of a wifel'
1t is recorded that on one occasion.
when the duke was III. his wife became
incensed at the physician, whom she did
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orlaIn of nPounds sterling. ,

How many folks who work every day
in the year who use the phrase pounds
sterling are aware of its origin? Prob
ably not one in a thousand. Yet the ad-
jective Sterling which apart from it's
worth and genuineness, has a curious his
torical significance, and is a distinct sur
vival of the times when England did not
weigh so heavily in the balance of power
as she does now. In the fourteenth cen
tury the trade Of the known world was,
almost without exception, In the hands
of the Hanseatic league. Within this
which coined money, some using better
metal than others. Lubec, a Baltic city,
made the best money, and the English
thing when they saw it, used to contract
for payment in the moneys of the Easter
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One of the descendants of the great
Duchess of Marlborough, Mrs. Arthur
Colville, has compiled a highly interest
ing volume containing glimpses of this
remarkable womans life and anecdotes
of her contemporaries IN the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries.
The compiler of this volume shows an
amiable partiality for the handsome, bril-
liant, hot tempered wife of the great
Duke of Marlborough natural filial
feeling, no doubt, for the grandame of
many removes. The consequence, how
ever, Is something less than a complete
portrait of one of the most picturesque
personalities of Stuart times. We would
have been glad to find the characters and
affairs of Duchess Sarah and Of John, the
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0TE-Huge1y interested as i was
IN by the recent revelations Of NJ.
Paul BouTget on the subject of his
precocity as a boy, it occurred to
ne that the Personal Recollections of
Father Time, if searched with due dill
Eence, would bring to light many others
revealing incidents of high order of In
lerest along similar lines. 1 was partic-
nlarly hopeful of results, for the reason
that Father Time has seemed throughout
aislikes for the pTatt1e and the the nTanitS n9 of
youth. His sympathetic references to
Cain and Abel, to Romulus and Remus
and other famous youngsters have given
me the impression that within his aged
breast there was always to be found a
particularly warm spot for the young
Nor was l disappointed in my search, as
Ehe extracts set forth in this and the fol-
lowing chapter of the memories will fully
Standardization
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IT HE tendency of Andrew Carnegie
to the generous, almost lavish,
distribution of libraries has been
marked from his earliest childhood. While
1 was not consciously present upon the
occasion, well authenticated instance of
this trait comes to me from a source in
which I place the greatest reliance. AS
reported tosm me, the young hero Of the
story was but four years of age when the
incident occurred and, though it attracted
considerable attention at the time, 1t has
long since been fogotten, probably even
by the philanthropist himself.
1t was a bleak winters night In Scot
land. The heavy winds were blowing
over the kali and the distant summit of
Ben Nevis was covered with snow. The
elder Carnegie returning at night to his
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o D q
n X u
literary PreoocitH of RooseueLt

LHeFoFy FTecocty OF Ro0SeUef.
ENTEN in his early infancy, writes
~ Father Time in his memories, this
now distinguished man evinced a
decided prediction toward literature
and a more than certain ambition to
write his name in letters of fire as the
chronicler of time. There were several
Instances while the lad was still in
dresses that more than confirmed the
feeling of most of us who observed
him closely that the future held great
prizes in store for him. One particu-
lar incident that l now recall which
showed clearly his thirst for greatness
and his firm belief in himself was a
copy made in the childish chirography
Of his three years-if I remember
rightly they were then only three and
fraction-of chapter from the Life
Of George Washington" in which at
every point where the name of Wash
Ington appeared the youthful scribe
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was a general belief that she was the
most penurious of women. Walpole re-
cords that it was said of "old Sarah that
'she never put dots over her Is to save
ink" Many instances, however, of the
noblest generosity in her are here
chronicled-let them be remembered to
the credit of one who once in all humble
ness wrote: Il am not so partial to my
self not to know that l have many i'm
perfectionS'
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HIstorv,s HIIaritv.

Hiawatha and his prospective father
in-law were sitting before the latters
tepee.
II was looking for ffnts for arrow
heads over the ridge today" remarked
the young brave. "and found several
quartz"
II must tell that to my daughter" the
arrowmaker chuckled. 'It will make
Minnehaha. Detroit News.
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Andrew Lang and Criticism.


REMEMBER a great many years ago
N pausing at the desk of Andrew Lang,
the distinguished critic, to ask him a
question which had arisen in my own
mind as to his beginning in the line Of
criticism. He was very busy at the mo-
ment debating life Of Sayonarola to one
stenograph history of Scotland to an
other and an essay upon Southey to a
third, while with his right hand he was
writing ballad to Izaak Waltom and
with his left mapping out the synopsis
of a historical novel dealing with the life
of Prince Charles.
"Mr. Lang" said I, would you mind
telling me where you first turned your at
tention to literature and to criticisnf I
find there is a very considerable interest
in the matter" ESsFF
Certainly not" he replied affably,
handing his Savonarola stenographer q
handful of commas for the punctuation Of
his biography. "I was six months old
when somebody placed copy of Fox's
Book of Martyrs in my hands,
YES said ]. "An extraordinary book
for one so young, but what did you do
with it?''
'I tore it all to pieces in three min
utes," observed the famous critic, resum-
ing his debating and his writing.
l do not know of a greater or moro
convincing example of prophetic precocity,
whatever one may think of the critics
judgment in so treating one of the classics.
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the Baltic merchants Shortened for con-
venience, the word still obtains, and has
all it's original force-Liverpool Post
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Special Credit Offer

which is intended to help you when help
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home retired after dinner to his library,
and in the course of time having occasion
to refer to the Encyclopedia Britannica,
discovered that it was missing. Thorough
search Of the dwelling failed to disclose
the whereabouts of the lost volume, until
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them, but young Chauncey showed his
away in his little blouse. Asked the rea-
son for this, the lad replied instantly:
II am keeping them for dinner. That
is where the chestnut attains to it's
highest effectiveness
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Let us send you free sample of the
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erals. opium or ot4r narcotics.
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finally little Andrew, sleeping peacefully
in his crib, was awakened and questioned.
Has baby seen anything of papa's En-
cyclopedia Britannica he was asked.
why yes" replied the child sitting up
and rubbing his eyes, sleepily. There was
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Baby Sage's BUSINESS fnstinct.

THE enormous success OF Mr.. Russell
il Sage in the accumulation of his vast!
fortune could easily have been predi-
Gated upon certain incidents of his youth.
one Of which / recall very vivIdly. Hay-
ing occasion to go through his nursery
one morning found the child-nttle Russ
was then three years old-playing mar
pies with one of his young friends of the,
nelgnDorhood. BY the expert manipuIa-
ton OF his agates the little hero OF our
anecdote had succeeded in winning most.
II not all, of his adversary's miggles,
whereupon the latter put in a request for
a loan
he.
Certainly" replied Russell, counting
them out; and you must let me have if
teen agates as security
IL has occurred to me as I have re-
nected upon this significant incident that
1t held within it the whole theory of the
modern banking system.
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Hall Coine's Lfkenass to 2hnkeananre

HGH Gaines likeness to ShakesDeoye.
n ONCERNING the fancy of the great
~ Manx novelist, Mr.. Hall Game, that
he bore an extraordinary likeness to
William Shapespeare, there have been
many stories told, most of which ere
apocryphal. One of them in particular I
know to be false. That is the tale that
states that at performance of Hamlet
by Henry Irving at the Lyceum theater
IN London some one in the pit having
IN moment of enthusiasm called for the
author, Mr.. Caine, who happened to be
present. got up and bowed his acknowl-
edgements.
The real truth of that story is that
when the ignorant pittite began his calls
In the very middle Of the famous ITO
be or not to be" soliloquy, Mr.. Caine arose
from his seat in the first gallery and,
leaning over the rail, called upon one Of
the ushers to put the obstreperous per-
son out. Nevertheless, the personal re-
semblance between the Bard Of Avon and
the sweet singer of Greeba castle is most
pronounced, and the familiarity of Mr.
Caine with the fact is only natural He
could not escape the conviction that he
Is almost replica Of Shakespeare even
If he wished to do SO, and in babyhood
there is evidence that the precious fact
dawned upon his consciousness
This know to be the fact for I was
myself lingering in the Stratford church
when the infant Caine in the arms of his
nurse, made his first pilgrimage to the
shrine Of Shakespeare. Standing before
the bust of the immortal playwright. the
nurse directed the baby's attention to It,
thinking that the more or less primary
coloring of the object would prove pleas
Ing to his mind. Nor was she disappoint-
ed, for the child Immediately began clap
ping his hands together in the greatest
{ glee.
me! Me!w he cried.
The inference is obvious
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Henry James Puyism,

NTaE frreproachable literary style Of
i Henry James has often been COM
mented upon by his critics, whether
tney nave cared for the stories of the dis
tlngu1shed novelist or not. To me who
nave watched his career from the begin
nlng there is nothing surprising In this.
Ior from his infancy he has shown a bias
1or correct forms Of expression which has
made purity of style a second nature to
MIN. AS far back as 1850 he chided one
OF ms brothers for saying ''there wasn't
no Santa Claus"
WIN you ever learn to speak correctly,
Willie?" said he you mix IN vorr sin.
gulars and plurals in singularly plural
way. Do not say there wasn't no Sanity
Glaus, but put it rather there isn't no
Sanity Claw
Upon another occasion, his nurse hav-
ing announced that it was raining out"
the infant novelist retorted:
Wen, Jane, would you rather have 1t
raining imp
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EngrOssing Story of the
Duchess of Marlborough

oEo-o-t1-o- .
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shippsrs Object to Rates.

San Francisco, Jan. s.--Large
freight shippers of this city are making
strenuous objection to many OF the ad-
vances in rates that the railroads are
to put into effect on west-bound ship
inents from all parts Of the east to all
parts Of the Pacific coast on January
IS. There is to be an advance OF about
10 per cent in the rates on about 100
articles. The protests Of the big ship
rers to the railroad officials have al
ready borne fruit. One article of
which large quantities are shipped to
this coast Is cast iron piping Owing
to the protest Of the shippers, the pro-
posed increased rate on this article
from s5 cents per 100 pounds to 75
cents has been resclnded. The ship
pers want the railroads to take similar
action on about 10 or II other commod-
tiles. The railroads decided to refuse
this request.
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THREE LUMBER cARooEs.
Salvador. Melross and Despatch Clear
For California Ports.

Salvador. Melrose and Despatch cIea,
For California Ports.
Three lumber cargoes were cleared
Yesterday. the total shipment for the
day reaching nearly 100000 feet. or
the three cargoes. one. that of the
steamer Despatch, was not listed at the
cusoms house prior to the close of busi :
ness. but she will take something like
three quarters Of million feet.
The other vessels clearing yester-
day were ne schooners Salvador and
Melrose. Both are bound for San Ped
no. The Salvador took on her cargo
at St. Helens. She Is vessel OF 3S6
tons. and carries on her present trip
JOl,s3l feet OF lumber. The Melrose
was loaded at Vancouver. She reg
isters 5i2 tons and takes s25,4l7 feet
of lumber The Melrose had consider
able difficulty in the upper river, hav-
ing been loaded so deeply that she
could not get away from Vancouver :.
II was necessary to dredge her out of
the pocket.
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a well-known exporter 10 reported to
have said. the peculiar situation In
which the, shipping business will be
placed in the event that war Is dcclar-
ed. England Is bound to yet mixed
up In the matter and perhaps one or
two other nations, II will necessarily
he a naval warfare. and IN tais ne,
speet viii be eatlrely different from,
the South African contest which was
fought ont in inland territory.
"Every sailing vessel ana steamer
bound for the orient VIII be held up
and their eargoes Appropriated. II
Russia can prevent It not u pound of
GODS will ever be discharged at a
Japanese or Chinese pore after war
has been declared, EGSland's navy
win be there to protect her interests
whether she Is directly Involved or
not. and AZ the best the outlook for
The merchant marine Is gloomy, II is
now looked upon with such serious
ness by oriental importers that It Is
already impossible TO secure orders
from them for limited cargo OF
freight. They know that II war re-
suits the goods viii only reach them
hy thsa x.,arnpt ,han,..s ts an4 re4.a
"A short time ago II was almost
impossible TO get enough steamers To-
the Columbia to carry the great guam
titles OF -four and wheat which had
been ordered by the Japan inmorters
OF late, however. there has been little
or nothing doing In that line. II a
steamer should call here tomorrow to
secure cargo for the orient she would
be forced TO so out light had the pro-
ducts not been ordered In advance.
II England takes Japan's part 1t
will be the same way with sailing ves-
sells bound from here TO British ports
they would be seized at, every op-
portunity. AS PeFtlsnd's export trade
is almost wholly with the orient and
British possessions, the shipping out
look could not be very much worse
than at present. No one would feel
like importing or exporting goods"
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WEATHER WAS STORMY.
Indications Are, However, For More
Favorable Conditions.


The weather yesterday was decidedly
unfavorahle and high wind prevailed
both inside and outside the harbor Hail
fell at short intervals and navigation
was not at all agreeable. Despite the
Wind, the small craft made their reg
,ilar runs to nearby points, and when
the Nahcotta came across from the
north shore last night she had the gale
behind her.
ON Thursday night the barometer
registered 30 degrees, but by midnight
IT had dropped to ,s.5. 1t remained at
a low point all Of Yesterday, but last
night rose again to about 29.75.
The bar was reported to be rough,
although two vessels got to sea. A
steam schooner was reported In the Of
fing at o'clock and she Will probably
not get in unil this morning.
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LUXURIOUS Travel

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lhfrlier roada-why net get ysaF
moneys werthT
Write for full particulars
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Adelina Patti In Portland. orsson,--
The Worlds greatest singer Aaslina
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cert at the Armory building. Tenth Ans
Couch streets. Portland. Or, Thurs-
day evening January II. 1904. at s.ik
o'clock, This win be the graudest
musical aud social event In the history
OF the state. Excursion rates will be
made on all railroads leading inte
Portland. The advance sale Of seats
viii open Monday morning January II.
out Of town money orders areompans :
led by check and addressed 10 AR. Cal
vim n HeiliE, Msrauam Grand thea
ter viii receive prompt attention.
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Welcome as Sunshine

after long storm Is a feeling OF relief
when an obstinate. pitiless cold has
hcen driven away by Aliens Lung
Ralsam. Only people who have been
cured OF throat-ache and soru lungs by
this remedy can quite realize what the
feeling Is, There Is no opium In the
Balsam; its good ,ftect II ralical and
lasting. Take bottle home today.
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Notice of Dissolution.

NolIee IL hereby given that tho part
nership heretofore existing under the
name of the Franklin Printing Com.
psny. ia ,tlS day dIsagived by mutual
eensent, Tho business OF publishing
The Aatorlan will be conducted In fu.
turs by the Aatorian Publishing Com.
pany, to whom all accounts due said
drm arc payable,
OTIS PATTERSON.
EDGAR W, SrAHi.
ROBERT GIBSON.
Astoria, Oregon, Dec. "a, 1908.
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Astoria, Oregon, pee, "a, 1908,

II you are going vast cartuI select.
ion of your route IL Essential to the en-
isyment OF your "Trip. II It Is bust.
ness trip time Is the main consider
alon; II pleasure trip scenery ami
the eonvenIenees aud comforts Of q
modern railroad.
why not combine an BY using the
Illinois Central. the up.to-date road.
running two trains daily from ST Paul
and Minneapolis and IRON Omaha, to
t'ki,aso, Free reclining chair cars, the
famous buffet library smoking ears, all
trains vcs.ibllsi. In Hhor, thoroughly
modern throughout. All tickets read.
inE via the Illinois Central will hc hon-
orrd on these trains and no extra fare
charged
que rates are the same as those OF
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war. The store in which Mr.. Gore
conducted his business was the first
business house TO be erected after the
fire OF 1871.
Swiss Author is Dead.

New Pork, Jan. 8,--Dr. Michael l..
Rodkinson, editor and publisher Of the
r,abylonIan Talmund, the principal au-
thority of the Hebrews on oral laws
and the traditions Of their faith, Is
dead at his home here. He spent 20
years translating the work and was
the author OF several Hebraic works.
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A Popular Science,

Plumbing looks easy. but no part
OF u house h more Important 10 health
aud comfort than the plumbing We
are prepared to do al work In this
line IA the maat scientific and aatia.
factory manner. We keep the latest
improved iittings always Ia stock Tor
new or repair work, All kinds Of
Timing, heating ana steam .fitting
Phone i0ai iss Iiond atrot, JOHN
A. MONTGOMERY.
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terday for San Francisco. She took
on at Astoria quantity Of shocks,
oysters and salmon
The Manzanita did not get to sea
yesterday, on account of the severity
Of the weather, which would have
made II impossible for her to land at
Destruction Island.
The steamer Aberdeen, which was
reported outside last night, comes to
take the run Of the Alliance, which
is to be laid up for repairs
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Retired Merchant Dies.

Chicago, Jan. S.--George Putnam
Gore. retired Chicago merchant, Is
dead Of heart disease, aged "a years.
Mr.. Gore retired shortly after the
worlds fair. He had been engaged In
the general auctioneering business In
Chicago since the close of the Civil
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-09
WARS EFFECT ON EXPORTS.
Shipping Business May Suffer in the
Event Of Breaking out Of Hos.
tiIities.

Alarm is being expressed by coast
shippers that in the event Of oriental
war. the shipping business will suffer-
The belief seems to prevail that hos
tilities will not long continue between
Japan ana Russia alone. but that other
nations will become involved in the
embroglio, and that seizure Of freight
eargoes will be of frequent occurrance,
"The public does not understand" !"
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Marine Notes.

The steamer Alliance departed yes
terday for San Francisco and way
ports. She took 200 tons Of grain and
a quantity of miscellaneous freight.
The steamship Elder departed yes