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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-07-04
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TIE ILLINOIS CENTRAL.

Maintains rnexcelied service from the
west to the east and south. Making
close connections with trains OF all
transconunental lines. passengers are
given their choice OF routes to Chicago,
Louisville. Memphis and New Orleans,
and through these points TO the far
east.
Prospective travellers desiring infor-
nation as to the lowest rates and best
routes are invited to correspond with
the following representatives:
y. H. TRUMBULL. Commercial Agent,
is2 Third St. Portland. ore.
J. C. LINDSEY. Trav. Passenger Agent,
142 Third ST., Portland, Ore.
PAUL h. THOMPSON. Pass'gr. Agent,
Coleman Building. Seattle. Wash.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
FERTILIZING ORCHARDS.
W. F. Massey Tells How This Work
Can Best Be Done-Fruit Trees
Need Enriching.

Farmers as a rule realize the i'm
portance of fertilizers on their annual
crops. but when 1t comes to the or
chard they imagine that an apple or
a peach tree or other fruit tree can
get all it needs from the natural SOIL
And not only do this, but the orchard
is often expected to furnish hay or
pasture for stock. The result Of such
treatment Is seen all over the coun-
try in decrepit trees and poor crops
of fruit, and the growers say that the
climate has changed. and they can
no longer grow fruit as they formerly
did, when in fact soil exhaustion Is
at the root of the whole trouble.
When one considers the great amount
of plant food that has been taken
from the soil to build up a great apple
tree, and that crop of apples takes
from the soil mineral matters to
thrice the extent that crop of wheat
of 25 bushels per acre will take, the
reason for the failure of the fruit
becomes apparent. In the early
growth of an orchard we want the
trees to develop fast, and hence we
fertilize the soil with complete fer
tilizer and grow some truck crops
in 1t that need such feeding. But
after the tree has gotten into a bear
ing condition we can put the land In
grass and cut 1t several times during
the season, and let the cut grass rot
on the land, and can thus supply all
the nitrogen needed, especially II
clover Is grown. Plenty of white
clover among the grass, well supplied
with acid phosphate, and potash
mixed five parts of the first to one of
the last, will supply in 400 pounds per
acre what the fruit needs for its per.
fection. Try this and see II the fruit
does not respond.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
ODD FACTS ABOUT GOLD.

Few people know the real color OF
gold, because it is seldom seen ex-
cept when heavily alloyed, which
makes it much redder than when it is
pure.
The purest coins ever made were
the $50 pieces which once were In
common use in California. Their
coinage was abandoned because the
loss by abrasion was so great and be-
cause their interior could be bored out
and filed with lead. They were &C.
tagonal in shape, and were the most
valuable coins ever minted and cir
culated.
All gold Is not alike when refined.
Australian gold is distinctly redder
than that taken in California. More
over, placer gold is more yellow than
that which is taken from quartz. This
is one OF the mysteries of metallurgy.
because the gold in placers comes
from that which is in quartz. The
gold in the Ural mountains is the red
dest In the world.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
COLORADO CONCERNS.

Routt county, Colorado, contains
within its boundaries 72,770 head OF
cattle, valued at $S17643. In this re-
spect 1t leads all the counties in the
state.
From 35,oOo,Oo0 to $4,000. 900 more
tons CT freight will be shipped into
Denver this year than last, say the
general freight agents, who also add
that last year was considered the bar
ner year in the railroad history of tho
town.
Owners Of 100000 acres of dry
lands in eastern Colorado and western
Colorado have formed the Colorado
Association for Scientific Farming, to
spread the knowledge of the Cambeli
system of dry farming to the world
and to induce the settlement of tao
western plains.
Following the success which has at
tended the feeding of field peas to
lambs in the San Luis valley. hundreds
of farmers who have made fortunes ia
the process are now trying the same
food on cattle, with equally good sue
cess. More than 600 900 lambs are be-
ing fattened there this year, and it Is
believed that in two years more tbs
number of cattle fattened per season
will exceed that humber.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

fort to bring down the deadly weapon
upon her defenseless head.
Just as his arm descended shot
rang out The baby son had come to
the rescue! He had held the pistol
straight enough-even in the mad ter
ror of that fearful moment-and had
shot straight enough to save his moth
er's life. The father fell forward, the
iron poker falling from his now USE
less hand as his great figure sprawled
over the white floor and his life blood
stained the boards.
With a heart-rending cry of mis-
cry and grief the little son sprang
forward, and with his poor mother
bent over the PROSTATE form. Slowly
the fathers eyes opened, and he gazed
upward into the terror-stricken eyes
above him.
my life is DONE" he gasped.
Tenderly the mother and son lifted
him to the rude bed which stood in
the corner, and laid him high upon the
rough mattress. Then the neighbors
flocked in, for the nearest residents
Of the adjoining farms had heard the
shot, and the news, like all evil tic
ings, soon spread.
The Fathers Confession.
Then, amid the solemn silence of
the night, the father made his confes
sion. He related in detail the fearful
struggle which had been waged alone
there on the bleak mountain side, with
only the terror-stricken woman, the
brave little son and the drunken man,
who had meant murder, but whose plans
were so frustrated by the daring reck-
lessness of the child.
my son was right" he gasped. HE
should have killed mel" And with one
feeble intake of his short-coming
breath, lie died.
Yet In spite Of this death-bed state
ment, which was made by a man who
realized the enormity of his crimes
ere he passed away, and lived only
long enough to make final effort to
save his son, little Robert Gross, a
mere baby. is learning the bitter les
sons of life, while his tender heart is
breaking under the weight of his pun
ishment and the grief which has lived
with him since the tragedy. The poor
boy. who knew only the fierce love
of the mountain child, for a loving,
IL rough, mother, and the cruel tyr.
amy Of drunken father, languishes
among hardened criminals in the Lee
county jail, because there has been
no one In all this section who has
been sufficiently Interested to make
an effort to give his bond, which at
most is not over $1,000. So he awaits
the laws slow course to bring him
back to his mountain home, where a
lonely aud heart-broken woman
doubly bereaved, awaits him with out
stretched arms and longing love. In
his baby mind there will linger ever
the memory Of that night, and he can
only await the reckoning before a
Judge who is more merciful than our
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
THE EARLY SEED BED.
In the Case Of Heavy Clay Soils There
Is Need Of Underdrainage for
Best Results.

Z In the early spring the water result
Ing from the melting of snow and cold
rains is nearly at its freezing point
Whenever soils are kept continually
wet, so that large amount of water
evaporates from their surface, the
temperature Of the soil is low. To
evaporate pound of water, that Is.
convert It into the gaseous state, un-
der the mean atmospheric pressure,
requires the absorption by that pound
Of 966.6 heat units. "a heat unit is
the amount of heat energy which Is
required to raise the temperature of
one pound of water from 80 degrees
#. to 33 degrees F. In second OF
time.) Tho expenditure of given
amount Of heat affects the tempera-
ture OF different soils differently.
II you dry = given quantity Of clay
loan soil until 1t contains one-half of
its maximum amount OF water, you
will fnd that 1t requires the evarora-
tion of two pounds of water more
than in drying . similar area Of sandy
soil. But to evaporate an extra two
pounds of water requires 96s.6x2 equal
to 1882 heat units. and this lowers
the temperature Of the clay loan con-
siderably. This Is the reason why vet
clay loam soils are colder than vet
sandy soils. Every time evaporation
10 going on in your field. there Is as
ISOLATED with 1t cooling effect, just
as you would in the hot days Of sum-
mer cool a room by sprinkling water
on the floor. A well-underdrained
soil lessons evaporation and conse-
Quent loss of heat; sometimes 30
much SO that It is from five to ten
degrees warmer than 1t would be II 1t
was not underdrained.
It follows, remarks the Ohio Farm
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

recently married. They had their
rooms on the same floor with the moth.
er and sister of the bride.
During the early part of the sum.
mer, when everybody lived with his
windows wide open, used to be a
beneficiary of the little musicales that
were given in the pretty little music
room in which the newly wed spent
most of their evenings. l soon came
tc learn that he was a musician Of
some local reputation.
81 got a notion that his wife was his
pupil l may be wrong about that.
Anyway, she used to accompany him
when he played the violin.
1--WE all met in the same dining
room every day. The musical family
had their table in one nook of the
room, mine was in another We never
had any occasion to know each other
except in the way l have stated.
''As the summer passed l missed
them from the music room and from
their meals. Everybody in New York
goes away at some time or other in
summer, and l thought that my un-
known neighbours were in the cate.
CORY. A few weeks after had missed
them | bundled up my own traps and
took a run across the pond.
II came home few days ago, and
looking across the area from my old
quarters discovered that there were
new occupants in the rooms of the
musical couple. II thought anything
Of the change 1t was only to attribute
1t to the way in which we live in New
York
Returning to my old table in the
dining room saw some of the former
occupants Of the apartment across the
way at their old table. said to the
only person knew in the dining room
that the musical family had returned.
"'All but one,' was the reply.
"'And that is the master?' said.
Precisely. He is dead
II was shocked. in spite Of the fact
that didn't even know his name. !:
inquired IL his death was recent. l
then learned 1t had occurred early In
the summer, about the time thought
they had gone away. In fact, the
funeral was held right under my nose
and I never knew It. So we live in
New York."-N. Y. Sun.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
The Little Hero of Domestic Tragedy
Held in a Mountain Prison
in Kentucky.
has EIGHT BURLY MURDERERS AS COMPANIONS
Boy of Tender Years Whose Only Crime Was
Protection of His Mother from Murderous
Attack of Drink Crazed Father
Locked Up Pending Action of
Laws Slow Course.

| who lost his reason ere he left the
towns confines by imbibing OF q
liquid which had been made against
the laws commands In the Illicit stills
Of the Kentucky mountains.
Tender-Hearted Mother.
The story Of the tragedy runs thus:
Robert Gross mother had given to
her aged and feeble father a little of
the store which lay within her larder,
never counting on the parsimonious
manner in which her husband would
grudgingly object to the generosity.
In fact, she had but given to the poor
old man pound of freshly churned
butter which she, herself, had labored
over making, and when nightfall had
settled down over the mountains, and
the purple shadows lay close to the
hills, turned to her household duties,
and soon had set the family table,
forgetting the gift. With no thought
of the trouble to come, she even sang
ABOUT her work, and little Robert sat
by the crate log fire, wearied from
the days plowing, awaiting his IA
ther's belated arrival. Often his
mother turned to him with CHEEKY
words of affection. All within spoke
of peace, and there was naught to mar
the harmony of the evening. To be
sure, the mothers brows were close
knitted, and her weary eyes showed
sign of the anticipated trouble as the
evening waxed late, for she knew too
well the cause Of her husbands pro-
tracted stay. There are no clubs in
the mountains: or business engage.
ments to keep the mountaineers from
their hearthstones, and she feared for
the Homecoming which was to end
so fatally for them all.
A heavy. reeling step was heard
without ere the door opened to ad-
NIT Of his drunken presence. Like a
wounded animal at bay, she raised
her eyes and watched him enter, yet
with patient voice bade him draw
near and be seated at the simple re-
past which she had prepared. Then
he inquired of her father and of her
gift to the old man. She answered
truthfully, and he cursed her.
To Strike Her.
When his wife confessed that she
had given of their small store to her
aged father, he was not content to
curse her, but, rising from the table,
advanced toward her with upraised
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

poor human men who presume to pass
judgment upon soul. Poor little
Robert Gross. baby murderer, who is
suffering for obeying the primal In.
stinct of man--that Of chivalry--the
noblest and best impulse which DOM
mates the human heart. and cannot
stand by while woman is unprotect-
cd. It was this instinct which set
afire the vibrant cords of noble
young nature and put strength in the
feeble arms of little Robert Gross.
He was but obeying the impulse which
is instructive and inherent in the heart
OF every true American. Yet he Is
treated as a hardened criminal!
He can only cry out in an agony OF
feeling:
Il loved my mamma, and my papa
was trying to kill her. killed him
to save her!"
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

er, that underdrained soils can ta
be plowed sooner, and then too when
warm rains come in the early spring,
the water freely enters the soil by
virtue of the high capacity for heat
1t has, 1t warns the soil very per-
ceptibly. 1t has been found that the
seed bed can be brought into proper
condition for seeding from five to
eight days earlier than IL 1t had not
been underdrained. Evidently 1t
lengthens the season for the growing
and maturing of farm crops. 50 much
needed, especially in the northern por-
Ilon of the middle northwest.
The cut shows a section of land d.
vided into 40-acre fields, also showing
portion of fields in need of drainage.
1t will be observed that the fields
having fairly good natural drainage
gave far better yields than those that
become too wet in times Of frequent
and excessive rains.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

Beattyville, Ky.-"My son was
right. He should have killed me-"
Thus spoke the father Of little Rob-
ert Gross on his death-bed. as the
sheriff took charge Of the child who
had fired the shot which ultimately
resulted In his fathers death.
Il loved my mamma, and my papa
was trying to kill her, so l killed
him!"
Thus spoke the boy murderer, q
child of 13, as his solemn eyes filed
with tears and his rounded shoulders
heaved under the stress of his emo
tion. when he was interviewed by the
writer
The tragic story of this child's life.
who Is now incarcerated in the Lee
county jail, at this city, Is one Of
/. Incredible sadness. Reared in the
mountains, knowing only hard work
and loneliness. his baby heart had
turned over to the mother, for whom
he finally murdered his father. His
young mind clouded over with memo
ries of his fathers debauches, 1t was
only natural that he should Law
ish all the fondness of his affection
ate nature upon the mother who had
protected him from the cruelty of one
who knew not tenderness.
With Eight Murderers.
Little Robert Gross is the most pa
thetic figure now confined in the Lee
county jail. Here In this bleak prison
house are eight men, all of whom
have the mark of Cain branded on
their brows. Two of them are young
,nen, not yet 3d.; one of them even
younger than this, and, with the ex-
. ception of this child, who is of such
tender years, the rest all men of ma
ture age.
What impulse but that of protec-
tion, what impulse but that of fair
fight would prompt the boy to cry
out: LET my mamma be-let her be,
1 say, else l shall kill you first?" For
is was thus little Robert Gross plead.
ed with the drunken man whom he
knew as father, even as he saw the
inhuman monster advance toward the
helpless and wretched woman who
bore his name, ere he finally, in an
agony of desperation, fired the fatal
shot which lay low the would-be mur
derer.
1t requires all the wild setting oi
this mountain home high set in the
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

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or congestion of any organ, It Is at this
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At this time, also. cancers and tumors
are more liable 10 begin their destruc-
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. sense of suffocation, hot flashes, dig
ziness, hcadache, dread Of impending
evil, sounds In the ears, timidity, pal
pitation OF tho heart, sparks before
tho eyes, irregularities, constipation,
variable appetite, weakness and inqui9
etude are promptly needed by inteIli-
gent women who are approaching the
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Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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Mrs A. e. g. Hyland, Of Chester
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Dear Mrs Pinkham:-
az had been suffering with falling of the
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For special advice regarding this inn
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The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

and grasped from the. hearthstone the
iron poker which lay, alas! so con
vcniently near. and strode across the
room eursing her with the concen
trated bitterness of his mad rage.
Let my mamma be-" cried Robert,
frenzied with the scene, 'let her be,
say, or l will save her!"
But the man laughed at the child
and his feeble plea as the demoniacal
CLEAN glowed in his eyes like the
fires from hell's embers, while. with
upraised hands. he made ready to
bring down the iron poker upon the
furrowed brow OF his faithful wife.
In his work-hardened hands little
Robert Gross grasped up his fathers
pistol, which lay close by on shelf,
and, pointing it toward the drunken
man, cried out a warning. "Stop!"
he called, his baby voice Quivering
with terror and all the wild love for
the mother who had sucked him at
her breast, saved him so often from
his fathers brutality, and taught him
the only lesson of love he had ever
known. "Stop!" he cried again, his
voice vibrant with the strength Of the
protector; stop. or l will shoot!"
Shot His Father.
Again the fathers laugh rang out,
contemptuously, and he
hot a glance OF hatred at the child
Who so deterHinedly approached him
With commando. He made still an
'ther step toward his wife, who
hrank farther back in the shadows.
Ter upraised arms shielding her
features. and made an ef-
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
origin Of the nFrankfurter.. I.

The little sausage known as Frank.
furter" and Wiener" was offered for
sale for the first time in 1905, and the
centennial was observed In Vienna by
the Butchers guild. The inventor of
the sausage was Johann Lahner. who
named 1t for his birthplace. Frankfurt.
The business founded 100 years ago
by poor man has yielded fortune
to its various heads. 1t has always
remained in the same family, ,<ld is
now conducted in Vienna by Franz
Lahner. grahdnephew of tie original
Frankfurter sausage mar.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
MzHAD IzNUNEX1 0rNf
zPCNI6zE 10 GNME SHE
.6HHE N60UT XfR K0RX

Kentucky hills. and all the fierce at.
mospnere which surrounded the trag-
'edy to bring out In detail the pitiful
father by a baby son. Little Rob-
.ert Gross opened his eyes to sorrow
almost at his birth, and lived out
his small, narrow life with no light
shedding Its rays upon his little world
except that OF great love for a
mother who crooned him to sleep in
arms that never tired Of the young
form close-pressed against her throb-
hing breast. Her loving heart often
beat wildly in fear and trembling
against the homecoming Of father
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

hands, preparing to strike her. She
arose and ran from him. Then he
became frenzted with the rage OF
drunkenness, and cursed her again
and again. Crying aloud in her grief
that she should be so taxed with the
generosity which inspired her to help
her father, she ietreated from him,
shielding her eyes with her hands.
He followed her. becoming more and
more excited, and was only interrupt
ed in his rapid progress toward the
covering woman by little Robert.
Then a blind rage and the effects OF
the wildcat whisky acting on him at
once. he turned toward the fireplace
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
ONE TALE OF BIG CITY.
A Romance Of Big Apartment House
Where Neighbors Were as
Strangers.

Numberless incidents illustrating the
way In which New Workers. live touch
ing elbows with their neighbors and
yet never know one another have been
related and printed. The one that fol-
lows is little out of the ordinary.
Just across the area" says the occu.
pant of an apartment in the upper
West Side, was happy couple who
soon learned in a roundabout way had
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
The sparrow Pest.

DO the sparrows annoy you, roost-
ing and chattering about your dwell.
ing and eating your grain out OF
stack and NOW? Get out the gun
about roosting time and shoot Hit
as many as you can. It won't be long
before they will give you wide berth
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
A Blissrul State.

He-I am told he has more money
than he knows what to do with.
She-Has he, really? Such Ignorance
must be bliss.-Tit-Bits.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

A horse of quality should have en-
durance and In addition to fair gait
should have fast walk and bs sure
footed.
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
THE CHANGE OF LIFE.
Dangers and Pain OF This Critical Period
Avoided by the Use OF Lydia e. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound.

How many wo
men realize that
the most critical
period in q wo-
mans existence
Is the change Of
life, and that the
anxiety felt by
women as this
time draws near
is not without
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The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28
GREAT SONG WRITER.
Paul Dresser, the Popular Composer.
Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills.

Paul Dresser of New York, author Of
" Banks of the Wabash" and many
The L'Anse sentinel., 1905-10-28

other great song hitss
writes:
Gentlemen: / wish
to recommend Doan'a
Kidney Pills, in the
hope that my endorse
ment will be read by
some of the many thou
sands of sufferers from
kidney complaint. l
was SO wretched from :
this maiady that 4
rest nor eat, and had q
z back. Doan's Kidney
cured me, and l wish
) know.
PAUL DRESSER.
,alers. 80 cents q box.
Co.. Rohalo, N. Y.
New-York tribune., 1905-12-17
GOVERNMENT BONDS.

The following shows yesterdays closing QUOTA
tons for government bonds, compared with ET1-
days:
New-York tribune., 1905-12-17

res s25 TOtas sales fox thf GsS. 'unliAts1