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ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1904.
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AN IMPORTANT ELECTION.
.The discussion of candidates for governor of New
York state has already begun in great earnestness,
and in fact is a sharp reminder of the extremely im
portant influence that nominations for state and
other offices will have on the electoral tickets jn this
commonwealth, says the New York Commercial.
What applies to New York state in this respect ap
plies, of course, to all other states. The character
of the nominations in question may easily mean the
triumph or defeat of President Roosevelt or of
Judge Parker.
In New York state next fall we art to elect not
only a governor, a lieutenant governor, a secretary
of .'state, a state treasurer, a state comptroller, an
attorney general and a state engineer and surveyor,
but likewise 37 members of the house of representa
tives and a new state senate and assembly consist
ing together of 200 members. In addition, the new
legislature is to choose a United States senator to
succeed Chatmcey M. Depew; a number of supreme
court justices are to be chosen, and many counties
will elect judges, surrogates, district attorneys and
so on.
This is a formidable list, and it serves to show
how utterly preposterous are predictions as to the
result of the forthcoming election in this state that
are based merely on the personalities and careers of
the republican and the democratic presidential can
didates and the national platforms" on which they
stand. This state is quite generally regarded at
present to be a close "state and an unwise nomina
tion for governor or a few unwise nominations for
members of congress ot unwise county nominations
or the adoption of an unwise state platform in re
lation to state issues might readily turn promising
prospects of victory into defeat all along the line for
one or the other of the great political parties. It
should always be borne in mind that there is a
marked tendency on the part of the average Ameri
can voter to vote a straight ticket particularly on
general issues. A very little dissatisfaction with the
party ticket he usually supports is apt to send him
completely over to the other side or to cause him to
stay away from the polls.
It is often deplored that the election of such a
multiplicity and variety of state and local officers
should occur at the same time as the election of a
president and vice president of the United States,
but on the whole this system is clearly for the best.
It compels national political leaders and managers
to interest themselves in the selection of state and
other candidates that will add strength to the na
tional tickets, and this means generally the selection
of men of clean character and conceded ability for
such candidates.
Present indications are that both the republicans
and democrats of the Empire state'are not going to
take any chances this year in the way of putting
forward objectionable or questionable nominees for
the various state and minor elective offices that are
to be filled. Too much is at stake.
TEACH CHILDREN TO SWIM.
In view of the commendable effort now about to
be carried to success in Astoria looking to the es
tablishment of a permanent swimming place, the
following editorial utterance from the San Fran
cisco Examiner will be read with interest :
Of the human beings drowned or burned on the
General Slocum several hundreds would have been
saved had they known how to swim, even a little.
Swimming should be taught in the public schools.
The learning of it should be made compulsory, like
the learning of reading or writing. We hope that
those who control the public schools, and who spend
the people's money according to their will or their
whims, will kindly consider this suggestion.
In the first placed it is necessary to know how to
swim very necessary in an age when the man whose
inspection should make a boat safe is bribed, and
a thousand women and children are dumped into
the water for a small financial consideration. .
Country children can teach themselves to swim
in ponds or brooks. But the children of the big
city have not such opportunities. It is certainly the
business of the public schools to teach children
whatever they should know. They should know how
to swim and the public school should teach them
how.
' Of course this would involve a certain expense,
It would be necessary to have swimming pools at
tached to the public schools. But what isto pre
vent the construction of such swimming pools!
Every great city has its one or two or more ath
letic and social clubs. These include a gymnasium
a swimming pool and rooms for social recreation
What the private athletic club offers to its limited
number of members the public schools in great
cities should offer to the children of the public
schools everywhere.
The children should find happiness, health and,
above all, social interests in the public schools. The
carpenter's son should look back to his public school
days as affectionately as the college man looks back
to his alma mater.
If any politician cares to be eccentric, and to act
as if he were interested in those who elected him, let
him go to work to realize this suggestion to teach
swimming to public school children, and improve the
social aspects of public school life.
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VACATIONS-STRENUOUS' AND RELAXED
Russell Sage thinks that a vacation is little less
than an extortion from the employer, and asks what
employes would think if the boot were on the other
foot, and they were expected to give two weeks of
each year free, says the Saturday Evening Post. He
himself never took a vacation, and neither, he says,
did any of the men who made their way in the world
along with him implying that they were all a fine
lot A distinguished New York nerve specialist, on
the other hand, says that two weeks is not enough
for the busy American business man to recover his
wasted forces, and advises four. President Roose
velt, by his example, commends the strenuous life
by forest and field to restore the balance of
physique worn out by the nervous strain of city
life. Others say that this is burning the candle at
.both ends, advocating vacation as a sort of rest
cure, the chief requisites of which are sleep, indo
lence and food. Their example is Mr. A. J. Balfour,
the British prime minister, now in vacation on the
coast of Normandy, whose breakfast is a cup of choc
olate taken in bed, whose most strenuous physical
exertion is golf, and whose most exciting mental ex
perience is bridge. The elder Dumas, according to
his horrified son, recruited himself from gigantic
labors by the orgies of an ogre and throve in body
and mind, if not in morals. A distinguished Eng
lishman of letters, knighted for his public services
and intrusted by the Times with important respon
sibilities, stated in Who's Who some years ago that
his favorite recreation was "a change of work."
His morals were no doubt conserved; but a year
later he was a mental and physical wreck, living
indefinitely in Egypt, where, it is to be hoped, he
was able to eat of the lotus.
The upshot of all this! That the vacation should
fit the man, as the punishment fits the crime. If
the president of the United States were to try a
share of the prime minister's chocolate, golf and
bridge he would doubtless explode; whereasj if the
Englishman were to try the American plan it might
shake the foundations of belief. The elder Dumas
never could have been playright and romanticist if
he had made himself the slave of his study-desk.
Russell Sage would not have lent eclat to the orgies
of Dumas pere, or derived solace from them. It is
far from certain that he would be able to derive
profit from vacation of any sort for, in order that
a man may vacate, there has to be something in his
mind except business; otherwise he becomes the ab
horred vacuum, and vacation corrodes him worse
than business. Men who know themselves, as Soc
rates advised, know what vacations are best for
them. Others will find out when they get into the
hands of the un-Socratic specialist.
In the domain of the home women have, for
countless generations, been distinguished as execu
tives. The home is still woman's throne, though it
is no longer her kingdom. Women are using other
units than the domestic as a means of influencing
public opinion and of promoting public movements.
In the comparatively new field of the club domestic,
social, literary women prove their great executive
worth. In all such movements as the Young Women's
Christian Association are seen their ability, both in
raising money generously and in spending it with
efficient economy. In cities, too, women are found
at the heads of immense grammar schools, having a
thousand and more pupils and 20 or more teachers.
In at least one city and more than one state, at cer
tain times, a woman has been superintendent of the
whole public school system. In all domains, however,
women are coming to prove their ability as efficient
executives, not for a brief time, but as a form of
permanent service.
' General Kuropatkin, reporting to the czar the dis
aster to the expedition which met such terrible defeat
at Mo Tien pass, says the Russian troops retreated
"step by step." It is reassuring to know that the
troops did not retreat two steps at a time.
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Cigars and How to Smoka Tham.
Buy none but new cigars, the newer
the better. Old cigars that are dry
and brittle are avoided in those coun
tries and among people where smoking
Is a second nature.
Leave the ash on your cigar until it
falls off. A cigar not only burns more
evenly while the ash remains, but it
lasts longer and tastes better.
If your cigar goes out be sure to
blow .through It as soon as possible.
Tou will see some dead smoke leave
It, That would become stale, and
make your cigar stale if left In.
Tou cannot tell whether a cigar Is
good or bad unless you light it prop
eYly that is to say thoroughly.
Do not smoke too much, and do not
smoke a good cigar while you are out
of doors.
If you think smoking is injurious to
your health, stop smoking in the early
morning. Two-thirds of the people of
this country have their stomachs out
of order, and no man ailing that way
can smoke in the early morning before
or after breakfast. Merchants Jour
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Tobacco Before Art.
George Dance, having run the Rich
mond theater for a year and a half,
has decided to turn it Into a high-class
music hall. "It is not so much," said
Mr. Dance In an Interview, "with the
Idea of running a muHlc halt, but
rather with a view of having a place
of entertainment where men can smoke,
that I have decided on a change.
"This, It must be understood, does
not Imply drinking.
"It we could have a theater where
smoking was permitted, I should have
no wish to change mine Into a music
hall. But I feel that this prohibition
of smoking Is at the bottom of the rea
son for the present bad time most
theaters are passing through." Lon
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Cannot Change Nature Spots.
Washington has a wing to its state
house, apparently, the plumage of
which no naturalist can cllsslfy, and
the commission refuses to accept it
until restored to the quarry tint. Which
is eminently correct. The man who
essays to alter with his puny acid
bottle the shading nature has expend
ed centuries In spreading through
solid rock deserves no better fate than
to have to wipe away the telltale stain.
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play on the premises of other people
when those people are absen from their
home. It is nothing more nor less
than trespassing, and this city came
near being the scene of a disastrous
Are this week from the very cause that
boys were playing with fire in a place
they had no business to be. Roslyn
Miner.
"If T father bad been aafferer from ilck headache
for the laat twenty-Are jreare and never found an
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be bit begun taking Caaeareta b baa never bad
tha heartache. They hare entirely eared bin).
Caaeareta do what yon reoommend them to do. I
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