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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-24
STEAMER LOST.
No News Of the British Steamer Arab
:. istan Carrying Considerable Gold.

iSton SoAiyAnS NUHoluSiopic Ouiu.
NEW York, Oct. 23.-No news was
received yesterday Of the British steam
ship Arabistan. which is now several
days overdue from San Juan, P. r.
Norton and Company, the agents here,
say they believe that the ship is all
right and will soon appear. The Arab
istan. besides miscellaneous cargo, car
ried s3,0OO,0O0 in gold and seventy
men. On her way from Buenos Ayres
for New York she stopped at st. Lucia
for coal. She sailed from Stan Juan
on October IL and should have crossed
the Caribbean Sea in from FIVE to sew,
en- days.
After the Arabistan sailed from st.
Lucia, hurricane tore across the Car
ribbean Sea and there is some fear she
is caught by it.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-24

Hall lemon dipped in salt will do
the work of oxalie acid in cleaning cop
per boilers. brass kettles and other
such utensils.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-10-24

pains down through my limbs 30 I could
hardly walk. 1t was as bad a case Of female
trouble as / have ever known. Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, however,
cured me within four months Since that
time have had occasion to recommend it to
q number of patients suffering from all
forms Of female difficulties, and find that
while 1t is considered unprofessional to rec
ommend patent medicine, I can honestly
recommend Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, for l have found that it cures
female ills, where all other medicine fails. 1t
In a grand medicine for sick women"
Money cannot buy such testimony as
this-merit alone can produce such re-
suits, and the ablest specialists now
agree that Lydia e. Pinkham's vege-
table Compound is the most univer-
sally successful remedy for all female
diseases known to medicine.
When women are troubled with ir-
regular, suppressed or painful periods,
weakness, displacement or liberation
of the female organs, that bearing
down feeling, inflammation, backacbe,
bloating Tor fatulence), general debili-
ty, indigestion, and nervous prostra-
ton, or are beset with such symptoms
as dizziness, faintness, lassitude, excita-
Lydia b. Plnkham's Vegetable Conn
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have said, had never vet seen a
moose take any gait but the ra her
slow. curious sort of trot. everybody
knows who knows moose, most of
the action being from the knees: but
when that moose saw that mare
coming straight at him. like tiger,
her ears back. her teeth shut tight.
and her eyes showing the white, he
turned aDd began to get away.
AT nrst ne stuck to his trot. but
II wasn't for long; that gait was
speed Iy abandoned and ne broke in
to long, quick run. fleeing for dear
life, The mare caught up with him
though, and set her teeth viciousIv
into his rump, whereupon the moose
let out another link, going like the
wind and finally breaking away. This
was surprising. but what happened
when he came 10 the renee was still
more surprising for he cleared IL like
a trained high jumper-or maybe /
should say like a oird-he seemed
fairly to fly over the high six-raiI
barrier.
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value both as 10 hardness and beef
producing qualities. He purposed
naming the new species 'CattaIo'
when it should be produced, and he
has devoted a good deal OF time,
money, and attention TO the matter.
But with all his knowledge and
experience he has produced no re-
suits that are very encouraging, nor
has he managed TO increase his herd
much. if any. He has been able TO
breed few common cows TO buffalo
bulls, but buffalo COWS have never
been bred TO common bulls success
fully IN my experience pure bred
bHffalOes have never borne young
ofteneT than once En- two years. and
| am. doubtful whether they breed
any oftener than that in the wild
state | was told that if the calves
were taken from their mothers they
would breed yearly, and ! 1ried it.
but it didn't work.
= have seen it advocated that the
Government establish a great reser-
vatiOn in New Mexico and breed
buffalOes there. and the scheme
sounds all right But the trouble
is that what's eveTybody's business
is nobody's, ard there is danger that
the buffalo wouldn't be properly
cared for.
Look al the buffalo in the Vel
lowstone reservation, the herd is
smaller today than ii was years ago.
| do not know that this is because
the buffalo do not breed there: prob
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By Prof Hermann Schoenf of George Washington University

explorer Emin Pasha when resisting
the designs of these despOilers, was
Tuthlessly murdered. And Belgium
paid not the least part of the blood tax
with some of her best and most heroic
civil and military officers. Flame and
sworc. robbery and massacre were the
only epIsodes in the epic of the Congo.
Then the era of geographical discov-
cry began. The English. the Ameri-
cans the Germans. the French. and
the Italians took part pre-eminently IN
this generous movement. King Leopold
OF the Belgians first crystalIized this
great movement. These expeditions"
he wrote in his circular letter conven-
ms the Brussels conference in 1876
are the response to an idea eminently
ctviliztng and Christian; to abolish
slavery in Africa, 10 pierce the darkness
that stii enveiops that part of the
world. to pour into II the treasures of
civilization; such is the object of this
m modern crusade" " 1t is evident that the
heavy financial sacrifices entailed re-
quired the considerations of rich re-
turns. The King OF the BeIgians in
vested the larger part of his private
fortune in this grand state building
expected 10 find in Africa new markets
and raw material for Belgian manu-
fa"turers. Cor Belgium with the densest
population in Europe can support itself
only by its intense industrialism: its
existence rests upon the seas even in
A high degree than that OF the German
nation.
In fact. Belgium had already built
up the new Congo State as an entity.
at least In its outward structure. when
1t was recognized as such at the Ber-
lin conference OF the powers i'm 1854
The only thing which the great Bis
marck reserved. under the sovereignty
of the King of the BeIgians, was how
best to establish freedom Of trade at
the mouth and at the basin OF the Con-
go, On that subject the German gov
eminent had formulated plan, drawn
as a declaration, designed to assure
freedom of trade In that region with
equal rights for all nations-monopofIes
ard preferential duties for none. All
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them here as curiosities. and that
eventually / should give them to
some geological park. which did
Il had pretty good time with
my moose. and learned more about
them than some of the natural his
tory writers or even the Indians
know about them had always
heard that moose would never jump
and that they had only one gait,
sort of slow trot
Il asked the Indians about IL and
they confirmed what I had heard.
Why, said they, you'll have no
trouble at all IN keeping your moose
from jumping; any way they can
possibly jump fence higher than
two rails was particular about
that because 7 did not want TO bring
the moose here and have them break
ing into my neighbors' Enclosures.
The assurance of the Indians on that
point satisfied me completely.
though, and I brought the moose
along.
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the other powers coucurred. and so far
as my historical information goes. this
stipulation was never in the slightest
measure violated in the Congo Free
State
In the inner administration, colonial
tiOn, and humaniza ton, however every
thing remained to be done Where
slaF eIy was considered the natural
Thing since time immemorial. the her
culean task confronting the Belgian
pioneers in their effort of suppressing
IL over an area so vast as Central
Africa can be readily appreciated. The
King entoined fl as the first paramount
mission or his officials. and any luke
Waimness in that respect meant infa-
nous dismissal, for until this was ac-
complished no progress in other re-
spects could be hoped for. The Kings
prime minister. Baron Lambermont
strenuously aided his sovereign in his
heroic endeavor. for-as he said-''the
slave trade is the very denial of the
law OF all social order Man hunting
constitutes a crime of high treason
against humanity. Ii ought to be re-
pressed wherever il can be reached. on
land as well as on sea" But to ac-
comphsh all this as completely as it
has been in the Congo basin required
not only perfect revolutionizing of
The stoiid mass of savage humanity,
but also bloody and costly campaigns
against the Arsb slave-traders.
II Is Impossible to enumerate at
length in a newspaper article the civ
iIizlng achievements Of the Congo gov
ernment. but no one has ever denied
the existence of an efficient aGministra
tion there The department of Justice
has left no crime unpublished that could
he reached at all by human agencies
To be sure, many criminals escaped
punishment in the jungies of wilde
ness impossible Of penetration, But II
Is startling how many crimes go un-
Sunlshed even in our ghIy wrought
civilization. with the most perfected.
long established system of judiciary
machinery
Nor could the human nature of mill
tary agents be suppressed In all cases
When away from the restraining in
hdehces of their white officers. And
TO ponce the country, the Congo gov
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eminent has &c resort 10 natives. as it
would have been impossible to trans
fer the whole appa Tatus of a Belgian
army TO the Congo. In the training
process of the black soldiers abuses
could not be abolished all at once
But surely abuses were entirely tso-
lated and not frequent and never on
the scale Of those committed under the
strain and stress of passion by Lord
kitcheners : army a. Omdurlnan when
all the wounded Arabs of the Mahdi
we're slaughtered on the battlefield after
the battle.
Every abuse met with restraining
discipline and was never allowed TO
go unpublished. But every reasonable
man can judge for himself whether a
race can be- altogether and under all
circumstances, raised within twenty
years from a state of cannfbaIism to
all the ethical requirements of a mis-
sionary. Taking it all in ALL however.
it can be safely asserted that no col
Ontzfng state has ever accomplished
so much and in such brief space of
time as the government of the Congo
Free State. Nor has any eoIonizing
power accepted just criticism more
graCiously or gratefully and en-
wrong that was brought to its notice.
Unfortunately, hostile political forces
of envy and jealousy al we'll as reviI-
ing libel were frequently at work to
COufound the issue instead Of clear
ing it,
Among the higher Belgian or for
eign officials in the Congo service not
one made himself amenabIe to law
for misdemeanoT still less crime. The
many scandals with which the Ger
man government had to contend, and
Contended so strongly and Justly. in
It's African colonies. cases like those
of the otherwise so highly meritorious
explorer, Dr. Karl Peters, Chancellor
Leist, Schroeder. Prince Ahrenberg, are
happily wanting entirely in the Congo.
No one realizes more fully than
the Congo government how much re-
mains yet TO he done. but the immense
energy displayed by the King. SOW
ereign Of the Free State. and his ad-
ministration. diminishes from day to
day the area of what is left un-
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couldn't build fences nigh enough to
keep them in.
Both moose and buffalo are tame
able; women may pet them even. ex-
cept at certain times In a fight. bv
the way, the buffalo is no match for
the elk. Because of the great strength
and spread of his horns the elk is
able TO tear the buraro literally 10
pieces.
Mr.. Rockefeller is very much in
sympathy with the movement lately
set on foot by Dan Beard, the artist.
writer. and naturalist. and editor of
Recreation. for the preservation of
the bison or buffalo.
4 have been greatly in hopes that
some way might be worked out for
the saving of the buffalo" said Mr.
Rockefeller. and started a herd on
my Belvidere ranch some years 3ago.
But have never nad much luck
breeding buffalOes and today there
are only four head in my herd all
told. ] have talked with Buffalo
Bill Cody. Buffalo Jones and sew
eral other men VINO claimed To know
and ought TO know a good deal about
them
The man who knows more about
them in my judgment than anyone
else alive is named Goodnight. and
he lives at Goodnight, Tex. He has
quite a Lard, and some years ago ne
believed he could produce a new
breed by crossing buffalOeS and reg
ular cattle, which would be of great
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quis sure If it had Rot been for the
family lawyer who looked up her
pedigree and antecedents. Notwith-
standing that she had the audacity
to sue the marquis for breach of
promise. But when her counsel dis
covered what the other side was
prepared TO prove against her he
threw up the sponge. Diana. It is
said. subsequently went to America
to hunt for a susceptible millionaire.
The lady, who has taken the mar
quis In hand, and incidentally at
tained the proud distinction of be
coming herself marc hioness. was
before her marriage Miss Gladys
Ethel Sutherst. She comes of a good
family, but had never figured promi-
pently in society. Aside from his
title the marquis hadn't much TO
share with her. Nominaily he owns
some 20 900 acres. but when he enter
ed into possession of the estates, a
little over five years ago. he found
them So heavily mortgaged that he
had 10 sell q lot of family heirl0oms
in order TO raise money enough to
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ably they do. but slowly, as ] be-
heve they do everywhere. and in All
circumstances. But the animals are
not properly watched; every now and
then they wander across the borders
of the reservation and are shot.
Frank Rockefeller divides his time
between his Cleveland place. Lake
land, his ranch a. Velivdere, Kan.
and travelling During the five
months in the year that he lives in
Cleveland he goes TO his Office and
works six TO eight hours every day.
Lakeland is approximately 100 acres
in extent. The house is picturesque.
comfortable. handsomely furnished
and well kept up. There is a private
trotting park on the place, where he
speeds his own horses for the fun
of IL He is exceedingly rOnc Of trot-
ting as a sport, but ne CCa1nes his
Indulgence in il to HIS own track. on
his own place. and with his own
horses He has never had any blood
ed animals for profit, either at Lake.
land or the Kansas rarn. except his
cattle.
Mr. Rockefeller has mOney-say
from s1,000,00G to $4,000, ,000. though
that is only a surm.se. His Kansas
ranch is enormous in size. 1t is At
the end of a branch railroad. over
which access 10 it is difficult because
of infrequent trains. On the ranch
he has rased 5000 horses and 30.0OU
cattle.
Copyright by Dexter MarshaIIp
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WHERE, OH WHERE ,

I Written after reading Il volume of bal
1aGs.1
nhere are the pipes of Pan?
Where are the ships of Tyre?
W here IS the primitive man?
v her- $ Apollo's iyreg
Where arr the tuI es Of yesterday?
W here j. last winters sHoW7
" here are The lips that used To pray
And the loves of long sgo2
Where are the cities Of old
Rer.s are the salle0ns of Spain:
" heres IS King Charles the Bold
here IS ola Chamema gue?
W here are the girls Of yesferyear?
Where are the troubadours?
" here do they sell the biggest beer?
And where Is Louis tQuatorze2
W here Is my last weeks pave
W here Is my next weeks rent?
Where Is the coin I NAV
Borrow a. ten per cent?
" here are my old loves sweet com
pl8ints2
Where is ms promised bliss?
And where. in the name OF the suffering
saints
Where IS the sense in this?
Cleveland Leader
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| was keeping them in and put them
in a certain big pasture field. It's
fences were a good deal stronger and
some higher
Now, / had some brood mares
and their colts paSturing i'm that field
but | couldn't see that that was any
reason why / shouldn't put the
moose in 100. and ! did it, Well, the
subsequent proceedings were highly
interesting and truly educational in
the way they revea. ed the nature
and capability both of brood mares
and moose.
The mares were high bred trot-
ters; one of them held quite a record.
and, of course, they were high strung
and nervous. Also, of course, they
had never seen any moose. But [
didn't think anything of that. II
never occurred TO me that the pres
ence Of the strange, ungaInly looking
animals In the same pasture with
them would annoy the mares in the
least. But you should have seen
them. AS near as / can get al it.
neither of the mares was afraid os
any personal damage from the
moose, but it was perfectly clear that
one of them feared for her colt.
AT all events. sne stood quite
still for little space and looked at
them Then she laid back her ears.
rolled her eyes and. with a wild
scream, started straight for the
moose that was ne1resr her. 1t was
a case of hate at first sight. Al I
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you have one -sidedly culled from the
report Of The commission Of inquiry
into the conditions OF the Congo In
dependent State. The commission was
appointed ny the king Of the Bel
gians, the sovereign Of tl.~ Congo
Free State. and enjoined 10 see ii.
in certain parts Of the CongoIese ter
ritory. the natives were subjected To
i'll treatment either by private fndiyid-
uals or by stat agents; 10 point out
practical me-uS vt. 'etterment, and 10
formulate in caSy tl.. inquiry reveals
such abuses sUggrs ans - to the best
means of putting an end to the same.
having in view the welfare Of the in
habitants and the good government Of
the terril Ories. These instructions
and the fact that the King of Italy
and the President OF the Swiss con-
federacE furnished eminent turists for
the commission of three. are proof sur
ficient that only the most rigid scru-
Tiny of possible abuses was wanted.
and that no palliating Of wrongdoing
would be tolerated
70 realize fully, Inc So-Cailed Congo
question. and TO understand the mag
nitude Of The task imposed upon the
problems, and the work left to he
done, Z is necessary TO consider the
utter darkness, the savagery, the
seething caldron Of perpetual and
ruthless warfare between the fierce
tribes in that immense territory COW
ering about 10.000 O00 square miles. or
one-third Of the United States. of
tropical wilderness infinitely fruitful.
% be sure, but almost impenetrab BILE TO
civilization. Among the shifting,
roaming. warning population of some
twenty millions. canntbaiism was prac-
ttced among many tribes. This un-
tanned wilderness of the Congo basin.
called slave park by our great ex-
plorer. Stanley. lay open to the raids
of murderous marauders The slave
trade stalked like a pestilence through
the land. leaving III his wake the
smoking ruins OF a. hundred villages
and the charred skeletons Of his black
victims = tSee Wsck's Story of the
Congo Free State) The few Euro
pean explorers, missionaries, and naer-
chants who dared 10 pass the coast
were subjected 70 the same tyrannical
impositions. and the eminent German
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t1b4AAilluFu 4IbtN UlII BaEE.1
and found her back there ahead of
me by the time ] got 10 the house
Sometimes she stays away a week.
but she always returns all right. All
my animals do. Afraid someone
might shoot her if she is always al
lowed TO run loose? Why. all the
folk around Belvidere know my ami
mails whenever and wherever they
see them, and none OF my neighbors
would think of molesting them.
You'll have to be careful about
the food of your wild animals If you
ever try TO breed any. You must
look out specially that there are no
decayed or frozen apples or potatoes
on the ground where they can get
at them, and this is particularly
true of deer. A deer will die in half
an hour after eating a mess OF froZ-
en- potatoes. Oats are bad for them.
too, and a pint of oats will kill a
moose in an hour. If YOU want to
give them grain in any form let ii
be ground feed
Speaking of moose. brought
four moose here from Canada once.
/ had some trouble getting them out
of the country, for there is a Can
adian law against letting them come
over the border. No, | didn't run
them over on the quiet; | applied
10 the authorities and got a permit
in good and regular shape / told
the authorities | wanted TO bring
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10 The Editor ~ The Washington Times:
z \ YOUR Sunday edition, January
y. l hnd an article entitled
Appalling Congo Horrors Ofn-
cialIy Confirmed" VIII you per
nit M. III Difference to the
truth, and rs one whose profess
sional work lay for many years in the
direction of colonial history. TO recti-
fy few errors I'm fact which appear
in that article? I feel so much more
called upon TO accentuate those errors
as it was frequently my privilege Ia
contribute TO The Times. and I am
averse, therefore, Ia seeing a fragrant
wrong and error in that paper go Un-
challenged.
Permit me to state an analogy which
will make fhe case perfectly clear.
Suppose some European journal of re
pute would make the Federal, the
state. and the municipal reports on our
criminology and peHology the basis Of
an arraignment OF our cherished AmerI-
can civilization and humanity The
Journal would then go on and say:
The status Of American civilization
can be gauged by the fact that in the
wear Of our Lord 1905 nearly 10 OO0 muir
atfS were committed Fhat tht dOcketS
Of the criminal courts We're so over
crowded th9J thousands of cases went
over to thc next year. From an ap-
proximate computation so and so many
crimes were committed against the
honor Of women, Of which so and So
many were eXpiated on the gallows. 50
and 50 many in the penitentiaries. and
So many were snatehed from the
earthly Judge BY lynching
Suppose few dozen iynching cases
were taken from the sum total and de-
Sclfbed As minutely as we sometimes
see them described in our press. Would
this be justly an estimate Of our civil
ization and humanity? Do not. on
the contrary. those thousands of cases
OF laWbTeakeTs. and the punishment
meted out TO the criminals by law and
justice. and even, I'm some cases, the
illegal sursing Of popular wrath against
particular heInoUs crtmes-fo they not
rather pat in bold relief the general
Ia " abiding sense of the American peo-
pie and the resentment against crime?
l'ut This is exactly the arraignment
against the Congo government which
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line of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, who
fought in the Armada and at Cadiz,
at Dettfngen. Fontenoy. and CullO-
den: Townshends who were ambas-
sadors, who fought with Wolfe at
Quebec. and who at all times took
their share of the burden of great
work.
They came at one time, however.
very near !oJing their peerage. The
third marquis separated from his
wife, and the lady. after unsuccess-
fully seeking a divorce. entered into
a quasi matrimonial alliance with
Cornish squire and bore him several
children, who, cu1ousIy enough.
we're called by the names and titles
that would have been theirs had they
been the offspring of the marquis.
One Of these sons was actually
elected TO parliament as the Earl of
Leicester, and long trial in the
house of lords was necessary to
prove the succession OF the rfghtfuT
heir. But all came right I'm the end
and the young man who had been
taught TO believe that ne would one
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and easily imposed upon. Early last
year he came near falling a victim to
the wiles of an adventures who
called herself Mrs. Diana Turner
Sheffield and posed as a dashing
widow of aristocratic lineage, though
she was the daughter of saloon
keeper and began life as a barmaid.
She would have hooked the mar
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day be marquis was handsomely
provided for, though not to the ex-
tent of a title.
The Norfolk seat of the family.
Raynham Hall. is one of the finest
In the country and rejoices n an
extremely well-authenticated ghost.
This is the apparition of Lady Dor
othy Walpole, second wife Of the Wis
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of course that settled II. There
was no keeping the moose in the pas
ture with the brood mares. In the first
place the mares would have killed
the moose, and in tne second place
the moose wouldn't stay. Every
blessed one of them learned to be
nigh jumpers right away and |