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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.
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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.
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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.
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Short Line
and Union Pacific
70 hours from Portland to Chicago.
No change of cars.
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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.
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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.
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O. W. HAUU, DENTIST
Muusult liuildiiig
67;l Cum ntm lal Htnttt, Aitorl, Ore
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Astoria, Ore.
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GO-CARTiS
Nph'nJi.l Variety, All Utust Ktylen,
lMrvvt from factory, Priot's Lowwt.
H. H. ZAPF, The Housefurnisher
New Style Restaurant:
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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.
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Wholesale and Retail
Ships, Logging Camjw and Mills HUjijiliod on short notice.
LIVE STOCK BOUGHT AND SOLI)
WASHINGTON MARKET - CHRISTENS0N ft CO.
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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
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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
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AT ST. PAUL FOR
CHICAGO and the CAST.
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