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PAGE TWO. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, ,1904.! Morning' As torian Established IS73. . 3 ' DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY. HMD , RATES By mail, per year By mail, per mouth , . , By carriers, per month . .$6 00 .. 50 . 60 THE SEMMYEEKL ASTOKIAX. $1 oo By mail, per year, ia advance ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. PROFESSOR ANDREWS' NEW THEORY. Professor E. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of the university of Nebraska, has got his foot into it The professor used to he an exponent of the free silver theory, hut of late he has passed up political econ- extremely high, and their advantage over ordinary forms 6f construction seems evident, since the setting of the concrete takes, place at the factory, and the mo ment that the beams are placed side hy side upon their ultimate support the floor is complete, not subject to damage, and may be used immediately. There is much in this plan to recommeud it to the attention of engineers. Silver coins are, getting scarce, according to the annual report of the director of the mint Of the silver bullion which the treasury bought under auth ority of the so-called Sherman act of IBM, about 33,218,712 ounces remained at the leginning of the last fiscal year, and at the beginning of the current fiscal yearl7,502,938 ounces. During , the present treasury year this bullion will have been exhausted, and there will be no provision for further coinage of subsidiary pieces unless congress takes the matter up The silver dollar does not attain a wide circulation. Its place in the current of exchange is filled by the silver certificate. But more of the coin is out at the present time than ever before. The' coinage of these dollars whieh upset the country's equanimity in 1893 has been going on steadily since that time. From about $400,000,000 this element in the currency has increased to $350,000,000. and, wheu the uncoined bullion is utilized, will amount to much more. The THtofANT I HIGHER PAY Six Hundred Freight Handlers of East River Piers Walk ' Out on Strike. GRIEVANCE IS LOST TIME rtammid 2.?Oiit Dally litHtetul of 20 Cents nil Hour For Ac tual Time Kmployod-De-temilned to Win. v-v ...:?!:. f .. - New York. Fob. 8. Six hundred Ybrk New' Haven A Hartford railroad have tone on strike for higher wages They are employed at the plra on the Kiet riyer. " The grievance of the men arises chiefly from the fact that 4hey had to wait when the flouts were delayed In bringing cur to be Unloaded. They have been receiving 80 cent tin hour only, for the actual time employed, hut now demand 25 cent for the entire day, NS Novell Leave Fortune, New York. Feb. S.-The will of the late Hugh Stowoll Bcolt, better known aa Henry rVaton Merrlmun, the nov elist, ehowi that he livft an est&Ui of $260,000. any a Time dispatch from London. The document ha Just been filed for probate, Only one remedy In tha world that will aton IW'hliuwi of the akin In any freight handler, employed by the New 0f the body: dJU Umut At omy for the greater question as to what is to become of us. lie makes what will be generally pronounced! subsidiary coin, which amounted to $77,000,000 10 years ago, is now about $105,000,000. The amount in actual circulation seems to be steadily pressing on a decidedly unique showing. ,- In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthas published a work entitled, "An Essay on the Principles of Population as It Affects the Future Improvement of Society. "j ' The work was widely read and created a profound impression. In 1826 it was revised and made more comprehensive. Professor Malthus argued that pop ulation, if unchecked, would increase in geometri cal ratio, whereas food could be made to increase only in arithmetical ratio. This condition, he con tended, was bound to cuse great suffering among the poor, and he reached the conclusion that popu- laiion must De cnecKeu me iuiuuiusiuu uicui. Later came Darwin, with his "survival of the fittest proposition. The Nebraska professor has consolidated the Mal thusian and Darwin theories and applied them to business. He expresses preference for the practice, in business, of "crushing weaker rivals," wihch he declares to be the ' inevitable consequence of the evo lution of business," and, as some of the modern phy sicians have been doing, argues that not only should the weaklings be killed off, but that the day is com ing when they will be "mercifully disposed of by skilled physicians." This sort of thing is called . "euthanasia," or the "happy dispatch." Thus far euthanasia has not become very popular here in the United States, although it is . practiced among the, canibals of the South Sea islands, who evince much patriotic pride in cutting the throats the superannuated or in breaking their backs by well directed blows. In Portland and other large cities the trolley cars run over old men and women, but this circumstance is attributed to accident, and not to any growing demand for the employment of j euthanasia. 1 The Nebraska professor, perhaps in the prime of life and therefore immune from the sudden attacks of an enthusiast practicing euthanasia, has utterly ignored the recognized principle of "live and let live." It is to be presumed the theoretical professor would feel very much put out if following his line of reasoning, some other institution of learning should proceed to annihilate the university of Ne braska upon that institution showing weakness. What a truly glorious situation of affairs would result if when some deserving business man becomes a trifle wobbly because of the failure of his debtors to pay their bills, a delegation of rival business men would enter his establishment and proceed to knock off the supply. The Hill "administrative currency bill',' provides for the use of the silver dollars in sup plying the future need of subsidiary pieces. A Portland lady recently attended a meeting of the Salem Woman's Club. Then she went back to Port land and made the announcement that Salem women have large feet. Indeed, she spent most of her time while in the capiaal city looking for dainty feet among the women, and it has since been said that the shoe stores, thouroughly alive to the needs of their customers,- do not keep smaller shoes than No.' 3. The Salem Journal bitterly complains because of thus attack. It contends that Salem ladies are bitterly opposed to the general feminine desire to cramp the feet, and that, if Salem shoes are larger than Tort land shoes, it ia because they are not so full of feet It is willing to back Salem feet against any. other feet in the world, and defies the Portland woman to prove the slanderous statement. ,We trust, the mat ter will be amicably settled at an early date, and that there may be complete vindication of Salem feet. AN ASTORIA PRODUCT Palo Bohemian Beer Best In Tho Northwest North Pacific Brewing Co. The greatest clock in the world, the dial of which will be 120 feet in, diameter, is being built in Mil waukee for use at the Louisiana Purchase Expo sition. The minute hand will be 60 feet long, and the dial is to be a brilliant bed of flowers on a hill side with numerals 15 feet long, composed of brightly colored foliage plants, to mark the hours. At night the time-piece will be illuminated with 2,000 incan descent lights. ' . '' The Chicago post office now in course of erection will be the second lagest building in the United States. It will contain more structural iron than any other building in the United States, and probably any other in the world. It contains more granite than any other building in the United States. The time fq rcompletion is uncertain and its cost a proh lem for guess work. ' The Post-Intelligencer is out with the declaration that Seatle s reputation is her principal asset. From which it is to be inferred either that the sound city is about to file a petition in bankruptcy, or else that her bookkeeper has made the clerical error of plac ing the item on the wrong side of the ledger. his commercial block! Professor Andrews lives in the wrong state should remove to Missouri. he The progress in the design of new forms of build ing materials made from concrete, armored and un- armored, is significant, as showing the tendency of modern enginering thought and the increasing re liance that is coming to be placed upon this mater ial, says the Railway Age. A somewhat radical form of flooring now comes from Switzerland afid is the invention of an architect named Siegwart, of Lucern. This consists of hollowed tubes of armored concrete composed of Portland cement mixed with coarse sand m the proportions of 1 to 4. The breadth is uniform almost exactly 10 inches, but the depth varies from 3 1-2 to 8 1-3 inches, with lengths up to 2i feet, al though there seems no reason why they should not be much longer if it is desired. ' Within the concrete matrix are contained usually six steel rods, and to prevent them from pulling through the concrete the ends are entangled. , The beams are hollow with com paratively thin walls, and the inner surafce of the upper side is roughly arched, while the external sur-i faces are scored in order to-present a rough surface for plaster or mortar. The tests of the beams arei A Presbyterian minister down in Wilmington, Del, recently preached a sermon that, is alleged to have been the cause of a lynching the following night lie was tried before the state Presbytery,' found guilty and sentenced to be more careful in the future He should have been spanked on the wrist. The sudden passing of William Collins Whitney removes one of our most noted public men. fr, Whitney was always prominent politically, but for building up our navy he will be specially remember ed by the American people. His was a useful life. ( President Francis, of the St. Louis exposition, has only a fair chance of receiving the democratic nomi nation for president. For this reason, perhaps, he pronounces his boom a joke. Isn't it just a trifle remarkable that B. J. Pye should be president of the Astoria Commercial Club and II. M. Cake president of the Portland Commer cial Club 1 i , 9 The Baker City Herald expresses the opinion that it is a rattling good newspaper. The view is gener ally shared by those who read it or should be.' St. Louis World's Fair News FROM HEADQUARTDRS A Great Combination Offer We will furnlnh the Twice a- Week Issue of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat WITH T1IK TwiceaWeelt Astorian FOR jfaini!jii ijiiini..,, BothPapers e$5DnS 0NE YEAR THE fcT. LOUIS GLOI5K-DEMOCRAT la Issued Hemi-Weekly, elLt page or more, every Tuesday and Friday. 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