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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
THEY WANTED A PREACHER

My predecessor in this parish was
informed upon application 70 the par
ish committee. that only married
man would be cnsidered. He mar
ried; and began an uphill struggle on
a salary OF four hundred dollars a
year. In order to make both ends
meet he had to devote much 'of his
time to outside issues, which policy
was detrimental to his pulpit work
and unsatisfactory to the parishion.
ers, who did not see him in their
homes as often as they thought they
ought. What would you have5 A
man must support his wife, and these
peple insist upon the wife 1t is easy
to see that under such conditions the
pastorate was failure, as II could
hardly help being. My friend left the
place, and, | fear, the ministry. Am
OVERRIDING the situationr have nc
doubt that it seems so 10 the un
initiated; but | invite any doubter tC
make a canvass of the rural parishes
of his State with view to ascertain
ing the attitude OF the people towart
this issue.
| have thus far served in countr,
outweights that OF the pulpit. NJ!
, people have been scattered and har'
to reach. contend that my position
i, as single man presents immens
advantages. First, am enabled t
live within my income, which a pas
= tor (of all men) should do. Secon'
t | am enabled to mingle with my pee
t pie with a greater freedom and bein
a able thus to carry the religious ell
L ment into many homes that woui
v not otherwise receive it, my churc
s feels theeffect in broader and deep'
). activity.
.e Surely am not at fault when ! So
that the success Of mans work do
not depend upon the possession OF
wife, but upon his fitness for the wor
y Perhaps have said enough, bt
,, as there is, to-day, a widespread di
cussion of the reason why young mi
do not enter the ministry as freely
- " of old, it occurred to me to sugge
" the possibility that an unwillingne
to face the petty persecution in I
gard to matrimony, which seems
be quite general, might well deter
bashful man.-Success
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
The Secret of Long Life

A French scientist has discovered
one secret of long life. His, method
deals with the blood. But long ago
millions of Americans had proved
Electric Bitters prolongs life and
makes it worth living. It purifes, en-
riches and vitaiizes the blood, rebuilds
wasted nerve cells, imparts life and
tone to the entire system. Its a god
send to weak, sick and debilitated peo-
pie. Kidney trouble had blighted my
life for months" writes w. NJ. Sher-
man, Of Cushing, Me, but Electric
Bitters cured me entirely" Only SO
cents at Charles Rogers & Sons drug
Store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
Assop llp 20 Date.

A Hare, Meeting Tortoise one day.
remarked as be looked at the Tor
tolse's heavy shell and short feet, u
think | could beat you in race"
"All right" answered the Tortoise.
ut Is not every race that is won by a
hare"
At the hour appointed for the contest
the Hare soon left the Tortoise out Of
sight and, feeling sure Of winning, lay
down by the roadside to take a nap,
After a half hours sleep and rest he
resumed the race. But the Tortoise
had turned into a wayside garage and
hired an automobile, and 80 no soon
overlook the Heet footed Hare.
The Hare was going at the limit Of
his speed, but the Tortoise was going
at the speed limit and won the race
by three miles and seven laps.
When the Hare. in the course OF
time, arrived at the post no said, with
sigh, you'll never catch me In an
endurance race again"
Moral-Fo0t racing is healthy, but
motoring Ia swifter.--st. Nicholas.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
WHAT is 1T FoRP

Wha, is the Astoria Police Com
mission for anyway
With long series Of years to its
credit, it has no single thing OF rec
ord to which to turn for prideful ref
erence. 1t is a @ffth-wheeP Of the
sheerest sort, minus all practical
value. Mostly, it has been used as a
local machine" in the political deals,
and none Of these have wrought any
specific good. 1t is "de trop,' inet-
fectual, unessential; it does not ft; it
does not work; It does not serve one
solitary end Of municipal advantage,
and the pertinent inquiry Of one OF
its members, made yesterday to a
representative Of this paper, Why
don't YOU urge its discontinuancef, is
eandidly answered with the deelara-
ton, and if the people Of this city
viii stand behind US, we viii frankly
and honestly campaign for its utter
ousting. either by initiative, or re-
call, at the next general electionl
We are not mincing matters on this
head; there is no necessity for am
biguity on our part, nor on the part
Of the people; and this, too, without
any adverse reference TO the gentle
men constituting the present board
there is nothing personal in the mat
ter whatever; they make, probably
as good a triumvirate as could be as
sembled in this relation.
The Common Council has the gen
eral oversight Of the policemen
and the Mayor holds the right Q
suspension; but the police commits
sion retains the single prerogative {
hampering, nulIifying and disturbin
the work of the Council and the of
GERS; no way that its status can }
viewed contributes an iota to i
merit nor influence as necessai
department Of local business. !
response TO the Belland resolutio
sent it by the Council, indicates, mo
plainly than anything that has tran
pired for some time, the ready cap
city OF the commission to thwart al
disparage the council rather til
work with it for the particular go
Of the community. This is the pop
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
PARSONAGE MUST BE occu.
PIED.

In the preliminary letter from q
certain New Jersey rastorate des'r'
ing my service was this sentence
we would like to have You come g
us as 4 married man, as we nave a
parsonage and would like to have II
occupied, We will pay YOU three
hundred and fifty dollars q year-7and
a donation
| was Just twenty-onc, and poor !
had no such thought in my head as
marriage; yet here -at the very thres'
hold OF my work--l was confronted
BY Il, much as il il were one Of the re-
ouirements OF ministry Surely" !
said, othis cannot be required BY
churches in general and ] opened
a correspondence with several other
churches knew were seeking pas
tors. They all raised this chorus
"We want married man" II seem.
ed there wasSbu, one thing to do-geI
married,
1t was only short time after my
first letter that a second came urginS
my attention TO their "eall" My ans
wer was decided, | replied that
was a single man and likely to re
main so for an indefinite period !
the church cared to consider me upol
that basis / would 60 and do what
could for them, To make my stor,
short, was engaged "eonditionally
until conference time, when il was dc
cided 10 retain me as a pastor for th
following year
The committee, while expressing
appreciation Of my ministry coul
no, depart without covert hint ,h'
the church would count i. a favor
Ii would marry During all the su'
ceeding months Of my pastorate tn
thought was kept constantly beioI
me. Ii | made call ! was sure 10 !
reminded OF ,ha, empty parsonas
that ought to be occupied SUCCESS.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
CALIFORNIA IS CALLED
TROUBLE SPOT
FEW AGITAToRS THEIRS STIR
UP ALL THE JAPANESE
/ TROUBLE,

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, S--With
two nations stirred to fever pitch
over the auti.Japanese measures OF
two states, the people Of California
are beginning to wake up and ask
what ii is all about The outburst Of
the Nevada legislature was uneNpeet-
ed, but it has not caused great deal
Of comment in this state. With the
League, no organization is engaged IN
the fight. But these facts are not gen
orally accepted as an indication that
the people Of the state are not gem
timely interested in the 0rienta! race
prblem. The interest OF the agrl-
culturists is indicated by the bill to
prohibi. the ownership Of property
which was introduced by A. NJ. Drew
of Fresno, the center Of the largest
orchards and vineyard districts OF the
state. The other bills were introdu-
ced by Grove L, Johnson who halls
from the Sacramento valley where the
japanese are regarded with consider
able hostility BY people Of all classes,
This feeling has been intensified by
the acquisition in late years by the
japanese Of large tracts Of orchard
and garden lands,
The criticisms OF the eastern pres:
on the anti japanese feeling in TIN:
state has aroused storm of protest
from papers OF California. The Cali
lfornia papers generally complain tha
the real attitude OF the people Of thi
state is not understood in the East
Most OF these papers regard the ex
clusion Of the japanese TO be boil
necessary and eneyitable and the.
express the fear that the action OF TIL
Legislature viii retard more than ad
vance this solution OF the problem
| In an editorial published this morn
ling the San Francisco Chronicle com
plains that the feeling against Cal
! fornia in the East is entirely base
on 1.-TWO main motives, both sordi
one is to keep solid with Japan an
thereby promote the sale Of cotto
goods and kerosene, no matter viii
cost to the unfortunate people OF th
Pacific Coast, and the other is
force congress to make heavier al
s preparations for the army and navy
6 The editorial predicts the excl
c sin OF Japanese by domestic law
e the only logical solution OF the pro
e lem, and it maintains that in tn
# desire to keep the Pacific Coast 6
y white mans country" two thirds
1t the people Of the country are wi
le California.
of In the meantime Governor Gill'
r and Speaker Stanton of the Assemt
in are sitting on the lid which is e
lie pected to lift at Sacramento tod'
I'd Both of these officials say there W
i'll be no anti-Japanese measures pass
n but the friends Of the bills are equa
certain that they viii succeed in pa
ig the bills.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
CELEBRITY COMING.

CHEYENNE, Wyo, Feb. 3.--Sec-
retary John r. Burns, Of the Trans
Missouri Dry Farming Congress, has
been notified by cable that Sir Will
liam Mcdonald Of Pretoria one Of
the most noted agronomists Of the
world, has left London to attend the
meeting Of the congress in Cheyenne,
February %, as a representative Of the
Transvaal. He will address the con
gress on dry farming in South Africa
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
HER THIRD SET.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 3.-Cutting her
third set of teeth at the age Of "a
years and complications produced by
it are assigned as the cause of the
death of Mrs. Theresa Suckfiel al
McKeesport, a suburb, yesterday
Ten grandchildren and l3 great gran(
children are among her descendants
and several of the latter were teeth
ing simultaneously with their grea
grandmother.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04

jeopardy from certain conditions that
exist in certain quarters, and that
peremptory orders to leave Astoria
forthwith, would not be amiss, if left
at certain we'll known low dives by
the police chief, whether such orders
were backed by the Police Commis'
sion or not. This hint is given on the
word Of one who knows.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04

Hoarse coughs and stuffy colds that
may develop into pneumonia over
night are quickly cured by Foley's
Honey and Tar, and it soothes in
famed membranes, heals the lungs,
and expels the cold from the system.
IT. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04

There is a growing desire on the
part Of many Astorians to see, and
use, those new telephones But it is
well understood that the telephone
people are moving heaven and earth
to accomplish the re-adjustment and
it will be brought to a consummation
at the first practical moment.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04

1t is said that there are still worse
things than Rambling to be ferreted
out in this mans town; that the very
manhood and lifelong health Of the
younger set of this community is in
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04

Foley's Orino Laxative cures con
stipation and liver trouble and makes
the bowels healthy and regular.
Orino is superior to pills and tablets
as it does not gripe or nauseate. Why
take anything else7 I. r, Laurin,
Owl Drug Store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04

lar construction Of its answer to the
resolution as gathered from the
streets Of Astoria, yesterday
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04
THE WEATHER

Oregon, Washington and Idaho :
Occasional rain.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-02-04

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Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22

Congressman Davis has not usually
been considered heavy weight in the
comment of the Twin City press, yet
his plan for national industrial educa
ton IS approved by many of he fore
most educators and publlclsts of the
country, and bids fair to become a
national issue. President Roosevelt
has commended the proposition and
the more it is studied, the more credit
is due the congressman for conceiving
such a broad. comprehensive idea. A
national organization called the Ma
tional League for Industrial Education
was started in New York recently. and
has branches already in many i'm
portant cities. The object is to
promote the passage of the Davis bill.
Speaker Cannon has been the chief
obstacle to the passage Of the bill,
and no wonder the relations between
HIM and Mr.. DAVIS are strained. The
prospects are, ultimately, that the
Davis bill, or something like it, will
90 through, and Congressman Davis
will have his name connected with a
measure of the greatest Importance.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22
Grandmak eptth Bright
While Stamford Lighthouse Keeper Tossed About In Tiny Launch
on Stormy Long Island Sound His Seventy year-
old Mother Stood at His Post.

Putting from the rock ribbed light.
house of Stamford, Conn.,, in only q
half gale, John ]. Cook, the keeper
called merry adieu to his old mother,
and she waved cheerily back. They
had reason to be glad, for the wife of
the lighthouse keeper had recovered
sufficiently from dangerous illness
to be able to be with her husband
again.
That was early on Thursday even
ing, and the speedy little launch
should have made the trip to the Con
necticut mainland and back to the lone
rock on which the lighthouse stood in
about one hour, bringing the GONZALES
cent wife along
Remember the light, mother" John
called jokingly as the little launch set
tied in the stern and took a bone in
her bow under the eight horsepower
engine. 1t was long before twilight
and hardly chance that he wouldn't
be back before dusk with the wife and
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22

Alfred Henry Lewis IS writing to
the Pioneer Press from Washington.
The remover was a greater buccaneer
OF the pen than this same Lewis, and
all his statements need investigation.
1t seems difficult for the Twin City
papers to get Washington CORE
spondents who will be impartial and
fair. The truth is, however, that the
correspondents are what the home
Office wants them to be. Notice the
change in Jermane of the Journal.
Under the H1cLain management
Roosevelt was tho apothesis of all
good, and Jerma0e reflected the
policy. Besides, Roosevelt took q few
walks with Je1mane AMI the Jelmane
head assumed abnormal roportions.
Jermane letters made Il j>evelt an
arch angel for virtue and an ristotle
for wisdom. But the Journal, new
management distrusts Roosevelt. and
the obedlent Jermane's letters ta's, a
different hue. He isn't so certain
his letters.-that the president is right
in his controversies with congress.
He begins to find specks on the shin
ing disk of the erstwhile great
luminary in whose rays he gratefully
basked, and it Roosevelt were to con
tinue as president another year,
Jermane would have him pictured as
another Sulla or worse. And SO it Is
difficult for people to have much con.
fdence IN the average Washington
correspondence.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22
Turquoises and the Monqols.


TurQuoises are the favorite stones Of
all the Mongol races and are generally
worn in their original state except by
the Chinese women, who have them
roughly cut and wear them mixed with
pearls and coral. Both the Tibetan
men and women ornament themselves
with lump turquoises, the men wear
ing them attached to their single gold
earrings, which are worn in the right
ear only.
The women Of Ladakh carry their
fortunes on their heads in the shape
Of 4 broad strip Of red cloth studded
with huge turquoises, which, starting
from the forehead, is carried over the
head and hangs nearly to the waist
BY the Ladakhis those turquoises are
preferred that have little black specks
ON them, which show their genuine
ness, for even in the wilds of central
Asia the spotless blue composition
emanating from Europe is offered for
sale, the bazaar at Darjeeling being
flooded with it.
The Bhutia women in the Darjeeling
district wear quaint brass ornaments
covered with chip turquoises, which
are cheap, but the Mongoiians have
the embossed silver plates which form
such a becoming headgear studded
with really fine turquoises, for which
the owners have to give valuable furs
in exchange.-Cornhill Magazine.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22

Nearly one-fourth of the total
population of the United States
eighty millions of people-are in
school. Such Is the constantly ex-
panding public school system Of this
country that any capable child is
carried from the kindergarten to the
university at public expense, giving to
every human being within our borders
the best chance possible to make the
most of his life. In that lies our hope
to preserve and pupetuate order,
liberty and law over united country
that stretches from ocean to ocean. -
Dwight, ILL.,, Banner.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22
Homework 5 Belligerent Bunny
PENNSYLVANIA Town Has Rapacous Rabbit Which Whips Dogs
and Has to Be MuzzIed

B. 8. Jones of Homewood, Pa. has
been compelled to fasten a steel muz-
zle on his giant rabbit to prevent It
from tearingg to shreds the trousers
seats of mischievous schoolboys, and
he has had to chain it down with =
ring in its nose. like an angry bull.
And he is no competitor Of Professor
Long for nature taking honors.
The rabbit is universally accorded
the virtues Of modesty and gentleness
and in the experience of most persons
is easily frightened and timid. But
we will let Mr.. B. 8. Jones tell his own
story:
when l first got possession Of nv
lepus," he says, II kept him in the
chicken coop. But be raised rows
with half dozen big game ROSTERS,
and one after another he took their
measure. 1t was great to watch
him fight rooster. As the cock
closed in, striking and pecking, the
big rabbit drew back from the circline
spurs and, watching his chance, shot
his long hind foot with its sharp toe.
nails out and up In regular cross
counter that sent the rooster sprawline
on his side three feet away.
but 1t is in fighting dogs that this
wise old cottontail displays almost hu.
man resource and stratagem. He picks
quarrel with every cur he sees, swats
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22

When the national house of re-
representatives. said by formal resolution
that certain message of the president
was f'unfounded in fact" that was
one way of showing Roosevelt into
his own Ananlas club. What 1T
means to have the head Of the nation
thus morally impeached by the popular
branch of congress, and branch con-
trolled by the party of which the
president is the official head, the
historians of the future may better
judge than anyone now. But it is a
very serious thing.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22

him in the eye and then runs at break.
neck speed, with the dog in hot pur-
suit. When he reaches favorable
place the cottontail slackens speed un.
til the dog approaches; then he leaps
into the air, turns a back somersault.
lands squarely on the dogs launches
and sinks his teeth into his body and
is of again like the wind. He repeats
this programme until the dog is beat
en- outright or quits from exhaustion.
FINALLY the schoolboys began toss
ing snowballs at bunny. He took up
the def at once. Rushing at one big
lad, he ntpped the calf of his leg and
was away before the boy saw his
stocking was tinged with crimson. He
chased a whole crowd of boys down
Valonia street one day last week, leap
ing into the air and tearing their trou.
sers. Many of the youngsters now
walk around three blocks in the rear ia
get to the schoolhouse, and at the re.
quest Of neighbors I bought a steel
wire muzzle and strapped it securely
on the rabbit. At night take this of
and let him run loose in the yard at
the end of long chain, which is at
tached to a ring In the Eabbit's nose.
He broke every other manner of con-
fining him, and it was found necessary
to insert a fine gold ring in the nose
cartilage"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22
WAVING AN 1MPRov1sED FLAG.

mother who had been 20 sadly missed
In the lone lighthouse, 20 close to the
mainland, yet so far away, in its rigid.
cold stone lines, only made out clearly
from land with glasses.
The invalid was at the pier. with a
slight flush in her pale cheeks ct Gee
Ing her rugged husband again.
Flows grandma?" she asked, and
John said fine, and the babies too.
The trip. back was like homecom-
ing, the invalid taking In the free air
with expanding lungs Of returning
health And they could dimly make
out flutter Of white from the light
house railing. Grandma was waving
al we'll and welcome.
Then there came a creak of mechan.
ism, sharp explosion, and the motor
had hopelessly broken down. The boat
ground on rock. and in trying to
sheer OF Cook broke his only oar.
The tide then was setting in, and
the launch drifted into the wild waters
of midsound in a wind that had howled
into gale Ripping off the tiller rope
the lighthouse keeper tied to it and
dung out cushions, chairs. rubber coats
and even boots for sea anchor. That
gave the boat her head so she could
live in the waves Then Cook piled all
the other clothing and tarpaulin that
could be spared from the sea anchor
over his wife. so she was warm and
untroubled, for her husband had said
everything was all right.
But what about the light? They
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-01-22
Men, Women and Bundles.

Wrap them up separately" said the
woman at the counter, land not in one
big package"
And then. still speaking to the clerk,
though obviously for the benefit of
others within hearing. she went on:
1T looks better to carry lot of little
bundles than one big one, and it's
easier too. You can pack them in
handily between one arm and the body
and leave the other arm free. Now,
If all these things were in one big
package I would have to use both
hands to 1t or run the risk of drop
ping it,
So saying she slowed her purchases
deftly along her left side, keeping
them in place with her arm, and de-
parted. A man who had heard her
looked incredulous and when his turn
at the counter. came had all his pack,
ages made into one big bundle and
tied securely. AS he slipped his fin
gers under the cord and lifted the bun
die off the counter he remarked:
This is my way. If all these things
were In separate packages I'd lose half
Of them before going a block."-New
York Sun