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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-17
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az
1'hs sun wss just rising behind ~
bluffs whom Darrell strolled out On Y
thN vsfanda Of tho bungalow. On the
east shore the Mississippi was still
dark and gray with night shadows. buI
tsward the dim limo OF Minnesota ths
water was liquid crimson.
DarreI. n fne, strong figure IN bill
bathing trunks, shiyercd AZ he paused
10 look Ut tho familiar beauty Of the
great river. Then he took breath
that swelled his deep chest and plung
"a with great bounds down the blum
sids to tho river far beneath. When hs
returned, rcd and dripping. Jim, hla
dnrky factotum. was setting the break
fast tnble on the veranda. and In q
short time Darrell was drinking his cof
fee and looking ont at the tender
spring green Of the midstream islands,
X was for over year now that hc
had piqued the curiosity Of the '.na.
tives" BY living alone on the bluff side
/ Two isolated facts, however, known
Ito the gossips, accounted for all his &C.
csntricities. Darrell was q writer and
. New Yorker. They called him surly.
They could not know that he waa
merely reAdjusting his lifelong theory
OF married happiness. They could NOT
know that be was merely lighting to
recover his old time buoyancy that bad
left him that spring morning when
Elizabeth had told him that she was
going 70 devote her life not b him, but
10 her .art."
Darrell sighed, then ross abruptly.
"Jim,' he said. "Mr. Winston may
come today. 10 you hsd better watch
Ithc bend sharply about noon"
'sYessAh."
! "And you may as well Ok up thu
guest room this morning.
Jim looked around at the simple fur.
Inishings Of tho porch and living room
%ritically. Jim had served Darrers fa-
Ither and had privileges.
Am Mr.. Winston very particular,
aahf'
Darrell smiled. II don't know, Jim.
Hhe publishers are sending him out to
oct Illustrations for my book. This
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-17
rhsn NJ essrtsd.

6tsylats al p. in.)--I understand you
have q new gasoline runabout7
Mis- Caustique (strangIing q yawn)--
Yss. and It reminds me Of you IN one
respect. =
Etaylate- Indeed! In what respect7
Miss Caustique--I have M awful
dino getting II started. Chicago News.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-10-17
Complimentary.

Mrs. De Witt-What was that story
that Mrs. De Poynte was whispering
to your
Mrs. Mcbride oh. my dear, It was
absolutely unfit FOR decent ears. Now
I wouldn't repeat 1t to any one In the
world but you. dear Cleveland Lead
er.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
AmusemenIs-

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nsTy,S-s 2n-John Gayee Honour
I,r-xg - -o-s-Eau6eville
--T9E->S asr-SEF-Tre Word IN WAY
FNpTRF-s:I5-Peter Pan ~rse
GsppTT-r,-e 90 rder the cireenwosi x--ahend
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r--FTr-TsTT-s-T-s-Poilv cf The CIRCUS
. fYG-r-T-N - :30--The Thief
= secret prchsTlo
NJ vAr1TSOZ sol ARE TFEAI tt.s 80 ~
.a fFSTTr-s I5-The Top o IN NoIiu-s
S-F-Ts- A.sSTrRDA -s:15-The MeTry VIM
Nrr-v- f-TrsfTF-s: :TS-Playing the fo1litS
e>E-vE- yoFE-a-S: S:sG-Adranced vauoeNii'e-
csxoY-s .I5-The Man Of the Hour
eT-r-yz-F,S MS ia Grand Army Nal
r TsCEiS-s ia knight for e DAY
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24

helnful However II is the season OF unlVersai
charity; SO let us forget what might have been
done before be grateful for belated benefits ana
cultivate a hopeful spirit
Before taking leave of the subject It seems
inst and seasonabie to 90 little further and
say that the public of which have been
speaking. and to which we all belong Is hu'
wholly free from responsibility for the condi-
tionS of which it complains. 1t is never Wiiiihs
TO abide its time, but always in desperate
hurry If one car is crowded to the CASH
boards and another half a block benind IL Is
only half full, it is the first into which "aItlis
passengers always feel that they must squeeze
And so if is with the subway express trans 10
some extent at least. 1t is not cause Oh
measurable reflections on the state and progress
OF American civilization to watch the process
hr which at 4od street. for example, men ana
women are elected from and inserted into the
express trains The foes of football melancholy
or indignant, are many: but we beileVe IL ls
tho I;toraI truth that a football field is seldom
tbe scene of such frantic struggles as occur
averv +x1o or three minutes during the rush
hours on train and station platforms where the
surginsy crowds are densest. Pain, indignlues
and torn raiment are the penalty Tor refusing
70 WELD TO anything but superior force and wait
q little while. The person who gets Oh or OH
is happy because of that single fact, without re-
gard 10 consequences. And yet the spectacle
must appear marvellous and degrading to any
one who beholds it for the first time 1t may
he unavoidable human nature and transit IA
cilfties in New York being what they are: but
IT looks like barharism.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[From The Tribune Bureau.

Washington. Dec 2s.-The Speaker and Miss
Helen Cannon have gone TO their home, in Danvile,
ILL.,. to spend Christmas with the other members
of their family. They expect to return to Wash
ington Sunday Senator and Mrs Burrows
have also left the capital remain until the end
OF the week. and will spend Christmas Day with
their son-in-law and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs
McNar. in New York
The Solicitor-General and Mrs Henry NJ Hoyt
gave a dance for seventy-five couples tonight for
their debutante daughter Miss Constance Hoyt-
A number of dinner parties preceded the dance,
the guests afterward attending in body Mr.
and Mrs. w W. Finley had dining with them
Miss Katherine Jennings. Miss Vera Downing.
Miss Morse. Miss Fitch. Miss Marion Stevens, the
Misses Finley Frederick Faust. s. T. Chambers,
II. r. Williams and others
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
GREENE AND GAYNOR AGAIN.

The assrmably unanimous decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States not to
grant writs of certiorari in the long notorious
Greene and Gavnor case will be generally ap-
plauded and there will be a widespread hope
that now at last. that will pass from the
public gaze into the fitting privacy of penal
retirement. There is no thought of vindfctfve-
ness or persecution in the feeling of satisfaction
which arises at the defeat of the defendants
last appeal. but merely one of justice
There has for years been no reasonable doubt
of the guilt of these men. They have fought
with all the resources of legal skill which
wealth could command. They have borne them
selves with effrontery, they have sought safety
In flight, they have not scruped TO attempt the
fomenting of international complications in or
der TO screen themselves They have sought
immunity on the merits of the case pleading
innocence and also on all sorts of techncalitieS.
practically admitting their culpabliity- Ihey
have doubtless counted on the lapse of time to-
dull the edge of the demand for justice But
all has been in vain. it should have been.
Nemesis is lea6en footed, but she reaches her
goal.
On one ground there is peculiar satisfaction
in this inexorable exaction of justice. That is.
that these men not only conspired to defraud
the government. but also in doing that cor
rupted member of one of those branches of
the government of whose honor and honesty the
nation is most jealous. Morally there may be
no difference between the acts of a civilian and
those of a military officer. but a popular esteem,
which we would not in the slightest degree i'm
pair has long considered the latter. whether in
army or navy, to be especially subject to the
highest principles of ethics. Nor has that es
TEEN been i'll founded. The record Of service
of our army and navy officers, in peace well
as in war; has generally been instinct with
high honor that such instance that of
Oberlin NJ. Carter unique it is alb
horrent. while the conduct of those who were
his tempters or fellow conspirators is resented
not only as thievery, but also as the placing of
a blot upon an escutcheon which should be an
example of purity.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
DISCOURAGING DICTATORS.

The eighth Central American treaty is a
worthy associate of the seven upon WHICH we
commented the other day. Its aim is ldentlcal
with theirs its spirit is the same, and, we may
add its possible weakness is the same Or, IL
it be ungracious to speak of weakness or ihe
possibility of failure in connection with so iald
able an enterprise, may say that 1t depends
for its efficiency upon the same conditions Oh
which they depend. And the Alpha and Omega
of those conditions is that the treaty snail De
loyalty supported by the people of Central
America.
The peculiar value of this eighth treaty is that
If strikes directly against that which has for
many wears been the most conspicuous and most
harmful feature of Central American politics.
Since the monstrous example of Carrera those
states have been cursed with succession OF
revolutionary dictators. TO whose perhiclouS
activity most of the wars in and between tue
states have been due. That fact alone, tne ire
uuent disturbances of international peace, may
we'll Justify the states in deciding to ignore the
theoretically domestic nature OF governmental
changes. and TO insist that if state is TO nave
International countenance it must have leglt-
innate and constitutional government. Seldom
we imagine. will an ambitious leader seek to
seize the government of a state by lawess
means if he knows that he will be regarded as
sure that comparatively few of the revolutions
of the past would have been successful, or, IN
deed would have been seriously undertaken at
all had all the other states held coldly and
strictly aloof-
We have said that all depends upon the sup
port which is given to- these treaties We are
not unmindful of the fact that many other
treaties have been made among those states.
and have been broken, sometimes before the
signatory ink was dry. But as we have hlth-
erto observed. and as was again pointed out IN
our Washington correspondence on Sunday
these latest treaties differ from all which have
gone before in the manner and place OF their
making Now for the first time Mexico and the
United States have become at least moral fac-
tors in the case and we shall be much dlsap-
pointed If that fact does not prove to be of com
manding and determining purport Having ac-
cente1 the invitation of these two countries,
and having In their presence and with their
virtual cooperation made these treaties, the
Central American states will surely feel them
selves under a special obligation of courtesy ana
morals as well as of their own interest to Keep
IoyaIIy the pacts which they have thus auspl-
made
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

Mrs. Charles B. Alexander gave a dinner, fol-
lowed by a dance. last night at her house in
West 5Sth street. for her daughter. Miss Harriet
Alexander. who made her debut last year. Dinner
served at four large tables the dining room
the guests consisting of Miss Helen Rives. Miss
Lucy Margaret Roosevelt Miss Eleanor Alexander.
Miss Margaret Dix Miss Beatrice Benjamin. Miss
Lydia Mason Jones' Miss Dorothy Kane Miss Ger
trude Sheldon, Miss Edith Deacon, Miss Mildred
Sherman Miss Harriet DAILY, Miss Mabel and Miss
Angelica Gerry. Miss Jean Reid Miss Dorothy
Whitney. Miss Drexe. Miss Mildred Carter, Miss
Evelyn Marshal. Miss Anita Peabody Miss Frances
Alexander. Miss Rosalind Fish. Miss Ripley Miss
Elsie Nicoi Miss Beatrice Benjamin and Miss Lily
Lee Page also f Coster Wilmerding. Fulton Cut
ting, Worthington Whftehouse. Phoenix Ingrah ham,
Iydig Hoyt Stephen Van Rensselaer,. Emmett Har-
ris, c. Creighton Webb, Malcolm Sloane VI. Orme
Wilson. jr, Moncure Robinson. Courtlaudt Nicou
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24

The Rev. Daniel O'Sullivan, of Vermont,
Returns from Visit to Rome.

The Rev Daniel O'Sullivan. d priest OF ST
Adams, VT. and brother of Judge O'Sulvan,
of the Court of General Sessions. who has been
travelling in Europe since July. returned on the
steamer Hamburg yesterday. While in Rome he
obtained audience with the Pope and he
was pleased to find that he had had rapid re-
covery from alarming illness.
Father O'Sullivan member of the Yer
mont Legislature in 1902. to which he
elected by the Anti Prohibition party He was
instrumental in passing a local opticn law in
substitution for the prohibition law on the stat
ute books. He Is opposed to the method of
enforcing the present prohibition laws. of which
he said yesterday: 1.-The manner of enforcing
these laws causes decentralization and usually
leads to perjury and corruption the part Of
public officials"
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
THE BURIAL OF LORD KELVIN.
Body of English Scientist Placed in West
minister Abbey-Notable Gathering

London. Dec. 23.-The body of Lord Kelvin
was buried to-day under the shadow of the
monument to Sir Isaac Newton. close to the
choir in Westminster Abbey A great gather
ing of scientists was present, representing
American and Continental as well as British
societies. Many wore their academic robes and
decorations. King Edward and the Prince OF
Wales and other members of the royal family
sent representatives. while among the tweive
pal1bearers men eminent In various Walks
in nfe-John Morley. Lord Rayleish. Adnlirai
Sir Edward Hobart Seymour. Lord StratnconA
and Mount Royal and others Almost all the
foreign embassies in London were representeo'
Secretary Carter attending behalf OF tno
American Embassy.
The scene at the Abbey was solemn ana ''n-
pressive No fewer than twelve clergymen "ei0
associated in reading the service. which "aS "
the simplest character
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
rrron The Tribune Bureau. ]

u,sb,ne,op Dec 23-The President TINS altoi
,oo, received the new Greek Minister. MT Coio
rtIas Secretary Root made the introduction III
the Blue Parlor. - .he
Three Southern 'possums were recelVeo d' ~
White House to-day for the Presidents ChriS'iia'
dinner Two were sent by Mrs Helen Lonss'ree''
widow of the Confederate general. who is post
mistress at Gainesville, Ga, and the th1ro eaii'
from J. NJ Phillips, of Meridian, MISS
The subject of Notifications for the Paclhc Coao'
was discussed by the President with Senator r iii'
of California and Representative Humphrey, u
Washington Senator Nixon, of Nevada caiieu W
discuss the Goldfeld situation.
Other callers at the White House were Sehdtois
Long and Burkett. Representatives Bede anu
Bowers Secretary Garfield and DR.. l.. s. ROWE
of the University of Pennsylvania, WHO tooN
luncheon with the President. DIR. Rowe came u
Washington to discuss South American affalfS WIZ"
the President. He delegate TO the On
American conference and afterward spent d SeAi
and a half In South America.
Miss Carow Mrs. Roosevelt's sister, has arrlVeu
at the White House and will be a guest OF tie
President and Mrs. Roosevelt during the winter
Miss Ethel Roosevelt returned to the "hlte
House this afternoon from visit of severai DAYS
in New York. She the guest Of Mr. ana MrS
Henry Hudson Landon.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
PRESIDENT GIVES AWAY TURKEYS.
Every Married White House Employe to
Get One for Christmas
lFrom The Tribune Bureau. I

Washington. Dec. 2s.-Under the Presidents in
structions. Henry Pinckney. steward of the White
House. m lde journey to Centre Market with
the black-covered wagon belonging TO the
tive office today. and when he returned brought
with him Il, turkeys. The birds
posing large table in the basement of the
White House. and each has a numbered tag tied
to a plump leg Tomorrow morning early
ploye t..e White House will receive OF
the birds The unmarried employees will be
pected to share the turkeys of those who are
heads of families. The distribution includes every
one connected in any manner with the White
House establishment, from the clerk in
the office to Secretary Loeb from the police
men that guard the grounds to the laundresses
and of all work around the sarden and sta
bles giving out the turkeys Pinckney is alb
soluteIy impartial. Secretary Loebs turkey is
no better than the given to the married negro
messengers. All nearly alike as it
was possible for him to choose at the market
and as he by long years of experience be-
come a fret rate judge of fowls it is not prob
able that here will be amy charges of favorit-
ism against him after the turkeys are distrb-
uted. The custom of giving turkeys TO the mar
ried employees of the White House has been in
vogue sin President Roosevelt established it,
seven years ago.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
from The Tribune Bureau.


Washington Dec. 23.-The Ambassador from
Great Britain and Mrs Bryce were hosts *t a
dinner at the embassy to night. having as guests
the Secretary of State and Mrs Root the itailan
Ambassador and Baroness Mayor des Planches. the
Brazilian Ambassador and Mime. Nabuco, Justice
and Mrs Oliver Wendell Holmes. the Minister from
the Netherlands and Nine. Van SW1nderen. Mrs
l.. Il. Letter. Mrs. Nicholas Fish. Mrs James
Bayard. Mrs. Herbert Wadsworth Miss Ashton
Brigadier General CrozIer, Captain the Hon. Hor-
ace Hood, naval attache; w. H Kennard second
secretary. and Mr.. and Mrs. George Young. or
the embassy staff: Sir Courteney Ibert. and Mr.
Schubert, of the German Embassy
The German Ambassador and Baroness Won
Sternburg will entertain the members of the EN-
bassy staff az dinner Christmas and New
Years days. and will give their usual Christmas
tree for the children of the attaches and their
other small friends.
The Italian Ambassador and Baroness Mayor des
Planches gave the of the ballroom at the en-
bassy tonight for address by their house guest.
Miss Amy A. Bernardy. before the Dante Society,
organization of Italians living in Washington.
Miss Bernardy's subject The Legendary I'M
migrant"
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Seven hundred survivors OF the
Indian Mutiny were reviewed by Lord Rooerls
al Albert Hall. - Thousands of strikers In
the Chilisn nitrate fields returned to work there
was sharp fighting at Iquque. resulting In the
defeat Of the strikers with heavy losses. =
Premier Franco intends to issue d decree re
organizing the Portuguese House of Peers ana
transferring its judicial powers to the courts
Laurence Ginneli. the Irish member or
Parliament who urged the peasants to continue
the cattle raids, arrested - The forces
of William O'Brien and John Redmond have
fo,n6 q basis of agreement though Mr.. O'Brien
has not yet returned to the party -
Chinese detachment murdered its oflcers near
aierun and marched on Tsitsikhar- - A Sllgnt
aceident to the Lawrence caused the return of
the torpedo boat fiotia to Port of Spain =
The body of Lord Kelvin was buried In west
minister Abbey
DoNESTIC-lt was said in Washington that
President Roosevelt's order for the Withdrawal
of troops from Goldfield viii not De resources;
All records were broken in Panama Canal
construction for the month Of November -
The United States Supreme Court denied the
petition of Greene and Gaynor for review OF
their conviction and sentence - me eA
e,-lilve committee of the Carnegie Hero Fund
for the sufferers from the Monongah mine disas
ter. - In issuing the formal call Tor the
Democratic National Convention in Denver JulT
Chairman Taggart urged Democrats OF al
factions to unite. - Senator Knox. in
speech at the New England Society dinner in
Philadelphia, showed that the credit for the
central idea in the American Constitution of
direct federal control was due TO Benjamin
Franklin. and not TO Peatiah Webster -
one was Killed and fifteen were injured by
bolt OF lightning at Reds Station, Ga -
Mrs. Eddy has taken steps 10 found an institu-
ton with sf.ooe.ooo endowment for the purpose
OF helping the poor - Notwithstanding the
break In the Erie Canal at Syracuse last sum-
f1er the report of the State Superintendent of
Public Works shows that the canal boatmen
had profitable year :" Truman H New
berry, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. advised
the Republicans OF Michigan. his home state to
support Mr.. Taft for President
CITY-Stocks were weak. - Concerted
ton against John F. Ahearn begun by
formers in this city. - The North River
tunnel people said they would be able to land
passengers at Sixth avenue and 14th street by
March Z. - The annual dinner of the New
England Society was held at the Waldorf. -
The Brown & Fleming Contracting Company
Clay Peters took up collection of $40 apiece
from each Of his fellow aldermen. - The
village of Arcola, n. J. organized man hunt
following the assault by q highwayman upon
one OF Its citizens - Belated Christmas
shoppers storrned the stores - The court re-
huked the former committee Of the estate OF
Mrs. Andrews - Ministers sought to have
state commissioner regulate Sunday shows.
The State Lunacy Commission ended its
inquiry into the treatment of insane patients
Wards Island
THE WEATHER. = Indications for to-day:
Fair and colder. The temperature yesterday:
Highest IS degrees; lowest, 81.
New-York tribune., 1907-12-24
GETTING THERE.

Il used to be said officially and with full as
surance that the subway express service could
not be increased, that the limit of capacity had
been reached and that to such hardships as
existed the public must make up its mind to
submit with whatever degree of cheerfulness 1t
could command Well the subway express ser
vice has been increa sed more than 25 per cent
thanks in large part to the insistence of a
few citizens speaking through various civic or
ganizations. In short that which was officially
impossible has been accomplished The pray
ers. arguments and exhortations of outsiders
sometimes produce results which technical
knowledge disdains TO attempt and the laws
of nature are said 10 forbid. There was time
when railroad managers-not all of them, of
course-shuddered to think Of what would hap
pen II they were compelled to discard stoves
and heat their cars with steam. There used to
be at 14th street dead mans curve" around
which cars must run at dangerous speed if they
were 10 run at all. In that case the Board of
Health took action and. all the laws1o of physics
to the contrary notwithstanding the menace
at removed Streetcar vestibules
might be good thing in other cities, it was
stoutly maintained. but in New York they were
impracticable Nevertheless they have been
introduced here and serving useful pur-
pose without harm TO man or beast.
As to the subway express service it may
be said in behalf of the company that the police
squads lately assigned TO duty underground
have been OF great assistance. Doubtless that
is true, but the new system of train despatch
ing especially at 42d street, is largely account
able for the improvement, and that detail of
operation might have been attended to long
ago II the managers had not been convinced
that nothing would do any good, that they pos
sessed all the valuable information and ideas
which were obtaina BILE anG that suggestions
from public predisposed to grumble and make
ignorant demands were impcrinent instead Of