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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1904)
PAGM TWO.- 'Y THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 19H. THE MORNING AS TORI AN. Established 1873. RATES. ij mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 By carriers, per month 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOMAX. By aiail, per year, iu advance' $1 00 AST0RIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. WORKING FOR ECONOMY. The present house of representatives is bent on making a record for economy this year. The Bundry eivil appropriation bill, now under consideration, is ao conservatively constructed that the democrats have almost given up hope of being able to make any onnitAl out of it. savs the Post-Intelligencer. This is a novel condition of affairs in the session of con gress immediately preceding a national election, at which time the party not responsible for the con duct of affairs of the government is exceedingly prone to boast of how much cheaper and better it could car ry on the task if the country would but intrust it . with the job. So hard was it to find anything to attack in con nection with the present bill that while 10 hours and a half were fixed by rule for debating the measure, at the expiration of one hour and a half there was no one ready to continue the debate, and the house had to adjourn because there was no one prepared to take up the remainder of the time. According to the statements made in debate, the full amount of appropriations at the present ses sion of congress will be some $22,000,000 less than the estimated revenue for the year 1905, as the bill pass the house. They will also fall upwards of $42,000,000 short of the estimates by the departments. The sav ing is made by paring down estimates all around and omiting the river and harbor bill altogether. The omission of the river and harbor bill at this session does not mean that congress has abandoned, even temporarily, needed river and harbor improvements for the purpose of making a record for economy. The more important work on river and harbor improve ments has already already been provided for by previous appropriations and appropriations for con tinuing improvements now under way. Improve ments now under way will, therefore, be carried on toward completion, but there will be no new pro jects undertaken during the fiscal year for which ap propriations are now being made. The senate will probably add considerably to the appropriation bills as they pass the house, but never the less the total amount to be expended through ap propriations passing at the present session of con gress will probably be well within the income of the government. The democrats will thus have a sur plus to worry over, as is usually the case when re publicans are in power, instead of the deficiency which worried them when they were trying to carry on the government in all of its branches themselves. is to say, she has more men than she can possibly use for fighting purposes just as Russia has. The differ ance In the total population of the two countries cuts practically uo figure at all. The result will depend upon comparative efficiency in disposing of resources which on both sides are substantially inexhaust ible. In this respect all the advantage .wins now to be with Japan. 0 COOKING TEACHERS AND COOKS. Some surprise is reported to have been expressed among members of the New York board of educa tion that the city should encounter and difficulty in securing good teachers of the art of cooking for giv ing instruction in the public schools. There were two such appointments to be made, and the board made application to the municipal civil-service com missioners for an eligible list. Six names were sent m 1 1 1 1 - 1 ..il.. ...... I iu.. The Doaru ueciueu on iwo auu promptly noti fied both eligibles that they had been formally ap pointed "teachers of cooking" by the New York board of education. They failed to respond took no notice of the hon or thus conferred. The next two selected and notified made prompt reply that they didn't care for the job. Finally the last names on the eligible list and pre sumably they belonged to the two most poorly qual ified out of the six were taken in hand. These per sons accepted. They are both women. Their sala ries will be $50 a month each, with Saturdays and Sundays off, and with the usual ten weeks' vacation in the summer, presumably. There is really no cause for surprise in this inci dent. To begin with, good cooks are by no means plentiful in this town. Probably not one in fifty among these can teach cooking. It is one thing to know it, but quite another to impart that knowledge to another. And the salary is inadequate almost ridicuously so. The "run" of cooks in domestic establishments here in New York commands wages from $16 to $22 a month, really efficient or exjx'rt ones $30 and up wardsand they will get "room and board" and days off besides. Those in restaurants and hotels chiefly men get much higher wages, the pay not infrequently running up to the levels of bookkeep ers', managers', clergymen's and other professional salaries. And no doubt the very best of them would make sorry failures as public school instructors in the art of cooking. Most of them can't tell how they do the thing, and many of them don't even know how do it themselves. It just "comes natural to them." It is of vast importance that our girls and boys the latter quite as much so as the former should be taught how to cook. The domestic life,of the future is going to depend in a large way on that attainment. But it is much to be feared that the city of New York will have to reconstruct its cooking-school sys tem before any really valuable results of the instruc tion will appear. is not only-the best soap for toilet and bath but also for shaving. Pears was the inventor of shaving stick soap. KUhlihd over too yean. Break Ground For Heater. 'Men go, M'irvh SI. Oround will be UroKcn In May for & theater on tho iltc of Ferrl Wheel park, WrlghN wr.od avn t uul North Clark alreet. :Ue promoter of the enterprise. Adolph Engel, forme tnitnitRcr of the Huy market theater, mi Id the new play- ' house will cost $150,000 and will be de voted to high elRsa production. The thenter will be known as the Lake View Theater and will have a ieatlni capacity of 1495. A DIRECT LINE to Chicago and all points easts Louie villa, Memphis. New Orleans, and all poiata south. Jpl A WAR OF GREAT POWERS. Some people who wish well to Japan in the present war think that her case is hopeless because the odds are so overpowering, says the Saturday Evening Post. They draw a parallel between this contest and that in South Africa, where the Boers, after holding up the British Empire for two years, were finally swamped by numbers. It seems not to be realized that Japan is not a petty state like the Transvaal whose entire number of burgher inhabitants was less than the population of Omaha but in every sense a great power. It has more people and more territory than the UnitedKing- dom, and there are no deductioas to be made for a hostile Ireland in its flank. Nobody imagines that England would be hopelessly overmatched by Russia, yet in many respects the Japanese are in a better po sition to maintain a Russian war than the British are. They have more trained soldiers than the British have, their army organization is infinitely superior, and the navy appears to be quite as good in propor tion to its size. England is near the bulk of Russia's population Japan is five thousand miles away. There are more than forty-five million Japanese, all living in the war zone, and not over three million Russians within three thousand miles. The Japanese on the spot outnumber the Russians by at least fifteen to one. Of the seven great powers of tlm Old World Japan ' comes just in the middle of population. She has fewer inhabitants than Russia, (iermany and Aus tria, and more than Great Britain, France or Italy. Austria's margin of superiority over her in popula tion is very slight, and is far more than balanced by Japan's great advantage in homogeneity and na tional spirit. Japan has more than nine million men of military age, which is more than any general can handle or any commisary department feed in the field that The recent decision of the supreme court in the merger case does not necessarily imply that every monopoly is repugnant to the law, says the ledger. It depends upon how such a monopoly is brought about. The control of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific, in the opinion of Justice Brewer, might have been merged in a way that might have been legal. According to his view, one single indi vidual might own a control of both roads. "Free dom of action," he says, "is among the inalienable rights of every citizen. If, applying this to the pres ent case, it appeared that Mr. 1 1 ill was owner of a majority of the stock in the Great Northern Railway Company he could not by any act of congress be de prived of the right of investing his surplus means in the purchase of stock of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, although such purchase might tend to vest in him through that ownership a con trol over both companies. In other words, the right which all other citizens had, of purchasing Northern Pacific stock, could not lie denied to him by congress because of his ownership of stock in the Great North ern Company." Justice Brewer's vote turned the scales in the case, and from these observations it is easy to figure out a course which would have been legal in his judgment. Perhaps this is not a safe hint to give to men who count their wealth by the hun dreds of millions. Some congressmen may distribute free onion seeds in the joyous hope of being in good odor with their constituents; but the average man prefers that his breath should smell of old rye at (lection. The ministers who are wanting Utah read out of the union should close their bibles long enough to read a few sections of the constitution. Before he leaves Australia Dowie may come to the conclusion that New York was heaven in comparison. Corea has felt from the first that there was noth ing to do except to remain neutral and see what be comes of it. A Colorado man has invented the seedless apple. It will never be popular with the small boy who begs for cores. See that your ticket reada via the UllnoU Central R. R. Thoroughly mod ern train connect with all tranacontl nental lines at St. Paul and Omaha. If your friends are coming west let us know and ws will Quote them direct the specially low rctes now In effect from all eastern points. Any Information at to rates, routs, etc., cheerfully given on application. B. H. TRUMBULL, Commercial Agent. Ill Third street, Portland, Or. J. C. LIND8ET. T. T. P. A., Ml Third street, Portland, Or. P. B. THOMPSON. F. A. P. A 1(1 w8t if OREGON Short Line and Union Pacific 70 hours from Portland to Chicago. No change of cars. Depart ("hlniRO I'ortlmid Special 'j:lftn. m. via Hunt- lugUm IIMKH'IIKDI'IXS From PORTLAND Halt take. Denver. Kt Worth, Omaha, Kan mm CHy. Ht I-oiiIm, Clucuffo and thu Eut Allan tli! rxprewi Halt lake, Denver yd :iop. m. worm, omana, Kun via Hunt-mh City, Ht I,hiIpi, Ingtuti 'ChinaKoand theKatt Kt. Paul Pant Mall 7:46 p. m. via Spokane jWalla Walla, I ewl l(in. HiMikune. Minna. apolln. HtPaul, Iniluth 'Miiwauaee, uucago, and ut Arrive ft -.25 p m :00 a in 8:00 p m OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE From Aitorla All Mailing dates subject to change. For San Francisco every five days. Dally ex cept Hun day atrani Columbia Itlver to Portland and Way ludlngl 4am Daily ex cept Hon Steamer Nahcotta leaves Astoria on tide dally except Sunday for Ilwaco, connecting there with trains for Long Beach, Tioga and North Beach points. Returning arrives at Astoria same evening. Dk. vaughan, Dkmtist. Pythian Building, Astoria, Oregon. Dr. T. L. BALL DENTIST 624 Commercial afreet, Astoria Ore, Dr. W. O. LOGAN DENTIST 678 Commercial 8t, Sbansliaa Muilding C. J. TltENOIIAUD Insurance, Commlsaloe and Shipping. CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER. Agent Well-Fargo and Northern Paclflo Express Companies, Cor. ELEVENTH and BOND STS. .1 tIAl lUlll! I'll U, niYSIOUN AND BVKdKON Acting Altunt Surgeon J - Office hours: 10 to II a.m. 1 to 4: JO p.m. 4T7 Commercial Street, 2nd Floor. ; Dr.IUIODA O. 11ICKS OSTEOPATHY Manaell tlldg, Ml Commercial 8t. -ONKllMCK O. W. HAUU, DENTIST Muusult liuildiiig 67;l Cum ntm lal Htnttt, Aitorl, Ore TELEPHONE KED 20M. TO LFAKN DUUK-KtXriNQ kfl.rfcJ I Ull I Mill T ' Of TOtT AT V1S1 RAWS B wooha rn or h'Tur MOmf.t I miMinrr rwiiTMp, 'IWM HUM f.iaf lMMtm tr;.i. wniYK. . n. ! in, ir L AfwMaiani, Doom lilt lirwdw?, m. V. mi 1 1 if m IN Mi plM MOV I VI Iwrtlnwmtalil 4M r lYl.1. m ItlTK. ). Yl. (KX)(WIK. ! Through tickets to and from all prin cipal European cities, O. W. ROBERTS, Agent, Astoria, Ore. m tiny Capsules are supers to Balsam of Copaiba,-.. Cubebs or Injection anOine,. CURE IN 48 HOURSPI" , the same diseases with-w' out inconvenience. Sold ty all h-ttpfiin m . .Every Woman U lntereMed urnl Tinuld knnv a KHii tun woiiiirrtii MARVEL Whirling Spray and am lum. nei-nar. ttvna ti Mint ConvATitfnl. UtlVMW. Inalanllf l.k M inmht fcr M. If he MnnoituMily Hie nAKfcl ; l NO nttiffr. but Hnd kLiiiid for full ttarllfMilareiind direction.- In. Taluablc 10 ladle M4KVI-XCO., 41 1'ark How, How 1 orfe. GIVE the BABY a RIDE! In ou of our hamlnoine ami atyliah GO-CARTiS Nph'nJi.l Variety, All Utust Ktylen, lMrvvt from factory, Priot's Lowwt. H. H. ZAPF, The Housefurnisher New Style Restaurant: t Everything First Class. The Best the Market Affords. Open Day and Night. Good Service. 120 llth St. mxI door to Griffin Bros. and adjoining th Offks Saloon ASTORIA, OREOOtt BLACKSMITH INOe CARRIAGE AND WAGON BUIL1)IN(J. FIRST-CLANS HOUSE HHOEINO. Logslnsg Cnttip Work, All kinds of wagon materials in stork for sale. We gasraotes the best work done lo the city. I'rirva right. ANDRKW ASP, Corner Twelfth and Dnaoe rilr tn. Thone 201, HOTEL PORTLAN The Finest Hotel In the Northwest PORTLAND. OREGON. uxxxxxxxirxi nmnnnnm xttttxxxxixxi . 1 FRESH AND CURED MEATS Wholesale and Retail Ships, Logging Camjw and Mills HUjijiliod on short notice. LIVE STOCK BOUGHT AND SOLI) WASHINGTON MARKET - CHRISTENS0N ft CO. IXXXTXTXXXXXXtXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Something New Ranges, Stoves, Iron Beds and Furniture of all kinds. Also a good assortment of Second Hand Goods at Lowest Prices. L. H. HENNINGiSEN CO.i 504 BOND STREET, ASTORIA, OREGON. PHONE, RED 2305 j Scow Bay Iron 8 Brass Works Manufacturers of Iron, Steel, Brass and Bronze Castings. General Foundrynien and Patternmakers. Absolutely h'rstclass work. Prices lowest. Phone 2451 . Comer Eighteenth and Franklin . ASTORIA AND COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD LEAVE PORTLAND ARRIVE 8:00 a m Portland Union De- 11:10 a m 7:00 p m pot for Astoria andj 1:40 p m Way Points ASTORIA 7:45 a m For Portland and 8:10 pmj Way Points 11:80 am 10:80 p ro SEASIDE DIVISION 8:15 am 11:35 a m 5:50 pm Astoria for Waren- ton, Flavel Fort Stevens, Hammond and Seaside 7:40 am 4:00 p m 10:46 a m 6:15 am 9:30 a m 2:30 p m Seaside for War renton, Flavel, Hammond, Fort Stevens & Astorlal 12:60 pm 7:20 pm 9:26 am Sunday only All trains make close connections at Ooble with all Northern Paclflo tralni to and from tbs East and Sound points. 3. C. Mayo, General Freight and Pass. Agent. Luxurious Travel ' Tht "Northweern Llmltal" train electrlo lighted tbroughoa', both lnatdl and out, and steam heated, are with out exception, the finest trains Is tb world. Thpr embedy the latest, reweii and but Ideas for comfort, convenlsncs and luiury ever offered the travelling oublle. and altogether are tbs meat complete and splendid proiuotlon cf tb car builders' art. These splendid Trains connect witn The Great Northern The Northern Pacific and The Canadian Pacific :' fi AT ST. PAUL FOR CHICAGO and the CAST. V a, .1. No extra. Gharri for thoa iiimm., - - - "SiilV i.wUluuiviwlviia UU BBSg IIBUSJ JSJ QJ fMCw d ts are available for passage on tht inuna on inis line are protected m th uiwriocauia; ciocc dtsisbb.