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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-19

tempts at organization have proved
futile. Martial law has been proclaimed
and an effort made to calm the people,
but with little effect as the quakes still
continue up to this afternoon.
Five Shocks Are Felt.
Five shocks were felt today though
not so frequent or violent, they were
enough to keep the people in a state of
terror. The dead and injured are pla..
ed at 1000, while wild rumors place the
figures at 40O0. However, owing to
the lack of systematic report, all
figures are speculation. The shipping
in the harbor escaped undamaged, and
every vessel Is haven for the refugees.
All buildings are deserted. Practically
nothing has been done in the way Of
clearing the wrecks or searching for
dead bodies as the laborers refuse to
enter the ruins because OF the continued
shocks. The soldiers will force the
rescue work tomorrow.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-19
PROPERTY LOSS In SANTIAGO IS $2,OOO,OOO
shocks Fell Tacna the Extreme North Of Che-Many
Towns Reported Dsstroyed--Martial Lawis
Proclaimed In Valparaiso.
ouAKEs CONTINUE THROUGHOUT COUNTRY SPREADING TERROR

AUTHORITIES ARE vAINY ATTE MPTING THE PEOPLE
BUT ARE UNABLE BECAUSE THE CONTINUANCE OF THE
SHocKS-SHrPPING IN RB0R ESCAPES UNDAM-
AGED-s0LDIERs 70 RESCUE WORK
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-08-19
ON CHARGE OF PERJURY
Watson IS Given His Freedom on
heney 5 Recommendation.
Was a Victim.
HENEY AFTER BIGGER Fish

Sentence For Hendricks and Zachary 10
Postponed VIII be Given Chance
to 20 on stand in Butte Case
lin Their Own Behalf.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29
Matrim oDial Problems

daughter, that it Is quite within the bounds of
possibility that day may come when the daugh-
ter may excaim, Eyes, you took away my lover
from me, but you did not give me another one!"
Such reproach would not be easy to meet,
and although this point of view offers, perhaps.
no excuse for an ill-advised marriage, it is still
one which deserves to be weighed and pondered
over when the case, as whole, is under con-
sideraton.
AT the same time daughters should remember,
and try to believe. that parents really have far
more experience and knowledge of the world than
any young girl can possibly have, and this alone
is reason sufficient why their views of the situa.
tion should be treated with respect, and their
judgment listened to accordingly.
Unfortunately, many welmeaning parents,
whose one aim in life is to see their children
happy, make the mistake of insisting that the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

children should be happy in the way they lay
down for them.
If you happen to dislike bread jam, and pre-
fer plain brown breadand-butter, it is no sort of
consolation to have the jam forced upon you be-
cause someone else thinks it so delicious that you
cannot fail to like it in the end 1t is singular
that many parents, who freely admit that tastes
differ, and ought to differ, in such unmportant
matters dress. think taste but theirs is
reasonable where choice of a husband is con-
cerned
No. every woman who has ever been in love
will agree it is better to rough it with the man
of her choice than live in luxury with a man not
of her choosing, and if parents cannot at
once be brought over to matters in this light,
time and patience on the part of the lovers are
the best and most effectual weapons to resort to-
Defiance and disobedience are the ones to be
eschewed
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29
eomplices iD Arms

London hospital with the sleeping infant in her
arms. Near by was crowd of unattended per-
ambulators and mail-carts, in which mothers had
wheeled their ailing offspring to the hospital.
The mothers and the children had disappeared
inside and there one watching. Sud
denly the detective the woman with the
baby deposit it in the best perambulator her
greedy eyes discovered, tuck it comfortably in,
and wheel it swiftly away.
She had, it was found succeeded in stealing
no fewer than twenty perambulators and mail
carts in this innocent fashion When that baby
grows up, it will, perhaps, blush to remember
the part it was made to play in such despicable
and cruel performance.
West End shoplifter was, short time back,
found to have invented an ingenious method of
secreting her spoil. The lady used to go shop
ping accompanied by sleeping infant in a beau
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pile up the famous tower Of ST. Mark. 1t has
been the same with other spires that sought the
skies with such emulous heights Notably
among these are the leaning tower of Pisa, the
square campanes of Rome, and the Giatto Cam
panie at Florence, called "The Beautiful" and to
which Mrs. Browning refers SO frequently in her
beautiful poems on Florence. She says that in
''The Beautiful" rests the Florentne's hopes that
"the red lily of their city will be ceansed the
fairest white" and certain it is that the influence
of the Giatto Campane has done much for this
little city of the boot
The loftiest of the finished spires in the world
are Strasburg Minister, 474 feet; st. Stephens of
Vienna, 469 feet Notre Dame at Antwerp, 1856
feet; then the spre of Salisbury, 404 feet; Frei-
burg in the Bresgau, 3S01h feet, and after these
come the distinguished heights of Landshut,
Utrecht, Rouen, Chartres Brussels, Scissors, fol-
lowed by lesser and lesser ones.
The highest spire in the United States is that
of Trinity Church, in New York. 1t is 2S4 feet;
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is to be the style of architecture of the church
OF the very near future, is question which is
being asked in every quarter.
When, in the earliest ages of the world, hu-
manity was becoming conscious of itself, and its
aspiring energies, this trait .uf the human mind
could find nobler expression, it appears, than
in spires and towers. And now the spirit of the
enterprise is showing its proudest attainment by
the invasion of high buildings into that sky
which, to our ancestors the great type of
the unknown and mysterious
Undoubtedly the church spires are the boldest
imaginable symbols of energy and power, and the
Christian tower is associated with the tenderest
and most poetical ideas of monastic and pastoral
religion.
Ages ago unfinished church spires were common
egacies from generation to another in Eu-
rope, and their descendants were called upon to
carry out the great conceptions of their fore
fathers.
1t took Venice two centuries of weary toll to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29
Queer Acts Of VaDd aIis NJ

Chartran, the famous French portrait painter
once destroyed picture for which he was to
receive $4,000. The portrait was that of an
American lady famous for her beauty. When the
picture was nearing completion the husband OF
the lady called at Mr.. Chartran's studio in Paris
and requested to be shown the portrait. After
looking at it for few moments he decared that
it was very beautiful painting and that the color
ing was superb, but that it no more resembled
his wife than it did the empress of China.
Chartran merely bowed, laid down his brush
and then, taking out his penknife deliberately
slashed the picture into ribbons before the eyes
OF his astonished visitor and showed him the
door. The sequel to the story came out later,
when it became known that the millionaire hus-
band had visited the studio for the express pur-
pose of getting the artist to make reduction in
his price,
But perhaps the most dramatic case of an
artist destroying his own work occurred in New
York when Gutzon Borgum, the well-known
sculptor, rose early on the morning of October 8
and made his way to the Belmont chapel of the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Morning
side Heights, and broke to pieces his two statues
colossal in their proportions, representing the
Angel of the Annunciation and the Angel of
Resurrection
The cause of this remarkable act was due to
the sculptor having been severely criticised for
eonceiving and executing these statues as beauti
full women. When seen afterward by the excited
reporters he said that he felt like murderer,
but that it was the only thing he could do under
the circumstances Mr. Borglum took away with
him the heads of the two angels and one foot,
which he intends to keep as souvenirs.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

it has long reared its lofty peak far above the
bee hive of tall commercial buildings which rise
all about it and for years it has proudly topped
them all. In what danger it now stands of be-
ing overreached by some aspiring upward stretch
ing office building is readily realized when a
brd's-eye view of the city is taken and the sky
scrapers which jut upward ever upward until
their roofs seem cloud draped," one by one come
into view.
Around the famous Parkhurst Church of New
York city there has been built on three sides a
"spite" skyscraper, which so dwarfs the spire of
the divine edice as to make it appear insignf
cant. The owner of the skyscraper tried to buy
the land on which the Parkhurst Church is built
and when he was told in no uncertain terms that
it was not for sale he determined to "spite" the
pastor and put the church in shadow This lat
ter the skyscraper has successfully accomplished
In early times the spires placed at the
west end of churches, the object, being, it is
thought to continue the custom in vogue before
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

out-of-the-wat towns Already it is fast dsap-
pearng from the large cities, as one old religious
edifice after another gives way to tall Office build
ings.
New York, Chicago and Philadelphia have lost
some of their proudest spires and in these cities
other towers are so surrounded by tall massive
buildings of "barter and exchange" that they
no longer are the first sight of home to the trav-
eler; they no longer point tapered fingers sky
ward high above every other landmark. Boston
still clings to her spires with love which will
fight for them if needs be, but even in that con-
servative city skyscraper here and there rears
its determined head alarmingly near the Hubs
historic landmarks
By desperate effort it may be possible to pre-
serve the spires we have, but it is almost certain
that more spires will be erected in the cities:
for, what is the use? Hemmed in as they are
on all sides by skyscrapers, they can no longer
be seen silhouetted against the horizon, and what
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

many celebrated artist has destroyed
his own pictures. When Hogarth was almost at
the height of his fame he painted an interior
which somewhat severely criticised by a
friend. The artist acknowledged the business OF
the criticism and when his frank friend had left
the studio he took a sharp knife, deliberately
cut the canvas in two and then threw the pieces
into the coal scuttle. There they were found the
following day by of the maids who took the
pieces home.
Some time afterward the story of the ruined
picture reached the ears Of relative of Ho-
garths, who thereupon went to the maid and
asked her to sell him the pieces. She agreed
to do SO, but when she went to look for them
one half had vanished Search was made and
inquiries instituted but with no result and the
relatives had to be content with half of the pic
ture, which is now in the possession of Hogarths
descendants in Aberdeen.
Hogarth was but one of many artists who have,
in fit of discomfort, destroyed their own works.
Jules Glammeron, in an interesting article on the
life of the late sculptor, Gerome, tells how the
great artist had been working for many weeks
on an ideal group symbolizing the birth of spring,
when he suddenly became convinced that his
treatment of the subject was wrong and with one
blow of his clenched hand he reduced the graceful
group to mere mass of Inert clay"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

(a) This is Mr.. Maroczy's new move, and he
is so sure that it gives white a great advantage
that he offered to give Dr. Tarrasch five games
out of ten if the doctor would play the variation
declined
Cb) Necessary to prevent the Knight from NOV
ing to Kt 5. Had Mr.. Vogt made the natural
move of Kt-B attacking R. white replies Kt-Kt
and wins. Some of the variations very
pretty:
(c) A beautiful move that wins Black had
counted when he played OR of being able to
capture the Kings Pawn or making white lose
time by defending it, but now he sees that if
QxK P R-Q4 wins the Q.
I'D beautiful game on the part of both
masters.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

h) move first brought into notice by Tschig
orin, the object being to prevent black from
playing P-Q4. Tschigorin played it successfully
in his match with DR.. Tarrasch.
tb) A good reply for whites Q is badly placed,
blocking the Kings Bishop.
&c, A beautiful move and Mr.. Maroczy must
have looked at least eight moves ahead. The
natural move was OR q; little later on the
reason for the text move will be obvious.
ID And now had the OF been at Q SO and
X r at BIS So black could have, played B X
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29
Lost Treasures

F~7HERE are 375 known lost treasures of
art, the recovery of any one of which
- would bring its finder fortune.
lGeNSMT The greatest treasure in sculpture in
the whole world is the Venus de Milo
The arms are missing, and one of them is sup
posed to be in England. The Paris Louvre viii
gladly reward the finder of either of the arms
with sum which will secure him from want for
the rest of his life.
Lucky would be the individual who should
find Sir Joshua Reynolds Countess of Derby"
for it would realize $150,000. There are also two
vandyke and Rembrandt missing, for which
collectors would willingly pay $20O,O00.
Probably in some humble home in England
there is old sword which is worth about
$4,000. II the State sword presented hy
the nation to Edward III. Any British national
museum would purchase the sword withous
moments hesitation.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

farous practices. Babies have played their part
in some very ingenious and sensational crimes.
week ago woman was sentenced to
six months Imprisonment for putting baby to
one of the meanest uses to which an unfortunate
infant could we'll be applied. 1t borrowed
baby, loaned by confding mother to the artful
one who 'loved babies" and specially this dear
little creature, who possessed eyes and nose
that found their way to her heart. The baby,
she declared, reminded her of her own artless
DAYS. Nothing pleased her more than TO carry
that baby off to give it the air
A detective CHANGED to discover the tender
hearted creature lowering round the entrance of
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

and If KITS then B r wins for black.
e, Of course black cannot play Ok RS P be-
cause of the reply Q B, and then if black played
K x B, Q K check wins.
~ Black should now have played P-B follow
ed at once little later with PB with fine
game.
CsD The winning move, but black could not
avoid it.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

instructor in the Higher Public Commercial In
stitute of his native city. Outside of his native
city he has for years been properly recognized
of the greatest problem solvers and com
posers of modern times.
In the Worlds Championship Solving Tourna-
ment of 1886, which was the greatest information
al solving tourney ever held, there were lO9
solvers
j. Berger was first with a score of 204 points
out of possible 206.
G.. Rechhelm was second with score of 2O3
points out of possible 206.
B. G. Laws, of London, third with score of
POI points out of possible 206.
j. A. Kaiser, Philadelphia, fourth with a score
of 200 points out of possible 206
In this tournament were such great solvers as
Sam Lloyd, G. Planck, Joseph Ney Babson,
James Raynor and many Others who held world
records as solvers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

me following are games Nos. and 3, played
oy Mr Maroczy on even terms with the players
OF the Franklin Chess Club. Mr. Maroczy was
fortunate in winning the toss in the first three
games that he played at the Franklin Chess
oiuo; and therefore was entitled to first move,
which is of some advantage
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

Inc above position occurred in a game played
Streissler (black).
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29
The Woman Cook

Ne of the chief faults in woman's cook
ing is her want of accuracy over the
smaller items-the exact amount of
favoring, the right condiments to each
dish: and that is one of the chief rea-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

is perhaps but natural that men and
women of genius should desire that
the best of their works only should
live after them and for this reason
many q celehrated artist has destroved
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

HE artful woman criminal sticks at
nothing. 1t is not surprising, there
fore, to find that she has often utilized
the innocent baby as species of un-
conscious alder and abettor in her ne
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

ROBABLY every girl starts out upon lie
with the fond hope, if not firm beief'
that she will one day meet and be
married to Prince Charming. After
while prosaic reality skaters these
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sons why her cooking pales before that of man,
who makes his dishes preferable on all occasions
to hers.
To chef his work is ''joy forever" and he
invents dishes with much pride and care
as modiste or a mliner creates some new
gown or hat; and he carefully studies the trihing
details of each separate flavor before he sends
his new masterpiece of culinary art before his
patron.
When women have learned that no triAe is
too small for their consideration, then we may
find them at the head of the kitchens of the chief
clubs and hotels; but until then, there will
tainly be at lesst one place where man can reign
supreme.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-29

mental twisters this week he have
selected both problem and end game
from collection of studies by
that master mind j. Berger, of Gratz,
Syria.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-10-12
THE REVIVAL MEETING
Rev. Mcintosh Could Not Come
Last Saturday but will be
Here Sunday.

Rev. Mcintosh of Iuka, Miss.
was advertised to begin revival
meeting at the M. E. church last
Saturday, but the interest in the
meeting at Paragould was so
great that he could not leave.
He wired Rev. Holloway to post
pone the revival here for one
week. A letter received from
him since that time says: "Look
for me Saturday-depend on
me-" So it is confidently ex-
pected that he will begin here
next Sunday at IL a. m. Every
body is cordially invited to attend
this meeting.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-10-12
For Extending the School
Taxes on Rolls.
I-2 OF ONE PER CENT
This Reduction, Though Small,
Saves to the School Fund
the Sum of $f31.19.

The School Board at its session
held last Friday and Saturday re-
duced the commission heretofore
allowed the Assessor for extend
ing on the tax rolls the special
school taxes of the various dis
tricts in the parish. The COM
mission was reduced one-half of
one per cent, or from four per
cent. to 3 1-2 per cent.
Since 1899, when the first
special school tax was voted in
this parish, the Assessor has been
paid four per cent. on the
amount of special taxes extended
on the rolls, but last January the
question of legal authority for
paying for this work was raised
and discussed at length through
out the State. The Attorney
General of the State rendered an
opinion on the question, declar-
ing that there is no law authoriz-
ing school boards to paw for the
work. However, it is the general
opinion that the assessors can
not be made to do the work with
out pay, hence the different
school boards have arranged for
such commissions as the different
assessors will do the work for.
The reduction in the eommls-
sion in this parish saves to the
school funds this year the sum of
$131.19.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-10-12
SENATOR TILLMAN
PREDICTS RACE WAR
THE MINDEN BAR
ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS

This resolution was unani-
mously adopted. Mr.. Watkins.
being present, thanked the men,
bers for the confidence reposed in
him and the honor conferred by
the above resolution, stating that
while not seeking to be a candi-
date, he was willing to make the
race, If his friends desired it.
There being no further busi-
ness before the meeting, on mo-
ton it adjourned. all members
present signing the minutes.
r. G. Drew,
President.
G.. E. Mcdonald,
Robt. Roberts,
J. n. Sandlin,
G.. M. Roberts,
d. w. Stewart,
T. w. Robertson,
E. l.. Stewart.
Secretary.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-10-12
A FINAL APPEAL To
COTTON GROWERS
REDUCED ASSESSORS
COMMISSIONS
Pile-DPiveP Accident.

An accident occurred Tuesday
on the pile driver of Mr.. j. j..
Burks on the fremont & Gulf
Railroad. Three men were hurt,
among them Lotion Tannehill.
One of the men had his foot badly
mashed and it may have to be am
putated. He was sent to the hos
pital at New Orleans. The Other
two men, while considerably
bruised up, are getting on nicely.
4 4 4
DIR. l. E. Siess and family will
leave next week to be away for
about ten days. DIR. j. II. Hol-
stein will fill DIR. Siess' place
during his absence.
4 4 y
Mr.. j. l.. Patterson made
business trip to Shreveport yes
terday.
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1906-10-12
Favoring Judicial Amend
ments to Constitution
Tx. WATKINS ENDORSED
For the Office Of Judge Of the
Circuit Court of Appeals
In Case it is Adopted.
Minden, La, Oct. 8, 1906.

Mlnden, La, oct. 5, l9O6.
Pursuant to a call issued by Z.
L. Stewart, member of the State
Legislature from this parish, re-
questing the bar of Minden to ex-
press themselves on the amend
ments to the Constitution passed
by the last Legislature, the me m
bers of this bar met at 10 O'Clock
q. m. in the court room and cleo
ted Judge r. G. Drew. chairman,
and E. L. Stewart, secretary.
The object of the meeting was
explained, by d. w. Stewart, and
all present expressed themselves
as favorable to the adoption of
the amendment to the Constitu-
tion known as the Court of Ap-
peals Amendment. The follow
ing resolution was offered by D.
w. Stewart, and. after discus
sion, was unanimously adopted,
tO-wit:
Resolved 1st. That it is the
sense of this bar that the Court
of Appeals to be created by
amendment to the Constitution,
known as the Court of Appeals
Amendment, and which is Act
No. 137 of the Acts of the Legis-
lature of 1906, will prove more
satisfactory to the people, both
as litlgants and taxpayers, than
the Appellate Court as it now ex-
lists. And, therefore. all reason
able efforts possible should be
made to inform the people on the
subject and to induce them to
vote for said amendment.
End. That the chairman of
this meeting appoint committee
of three to act as a campaign
committee to work for the adop-
tion of said amendment.
The chair then appointed d.
w. Stewart, Robert Roberts and
j. N. Sandlin as a campaign COM
mittee in accordance with above
resolution.
Then Robert Roberts offered
resolution that all the judicial
amendments to be voted on at
the coming November election be
endorsed and that the above COM
mittee be requested to work for
their adoption. which resolution
was unanimously adopted.
D. w. Stewart then presented
the following resolution, to wit:
Be it resolved, that from his
character, his legal ability and his
application to his profession the
Hon. L. X. Watkins is emlnently
fitted for the position of Judge of
the Circuit Court of Appeals,
and he is hereby requested to al
low this bar the privilege of put
ting forth his name as a candi-
date for that position, in the
event the amendment to the Con-
stitution is adopted, and we here
BY invite all the bars of this
Circuit Court District to join with
us in presenting his name to the
people.