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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1904)
Cbtmorningflstorian, ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By-mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month 50 T?w Aorriora ner m.mth .... 00 ' THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. By mail, per year, in advance $1 00 TIIE COKRECT USE OF WORDS, The San Francisco Bulletin publishes the follow ing excellent suggestions with reference to the cor rect use of words: If education doesn't teach a man how to use words Mmrtlv. it teaches him little. Thought is con veyed from one mind to another by words; and in nntar that there may be a perfect meeting or minus among men-in order, that is, that the hearer or reader may take the exact meaning which tne speaiter ' or writer intends to express, it is necessary that words be used and understood rightly. If a word means .one thing to a speaker and another to his hearers, they will fail to catch his thought, or, rather, they will attribute to him thought that is not his. Many times persons who are quite in accord with one an other dispute because they mistake the meaning of words. It should, therefore, as Herbert Spencer said, be a matter of conscience not to misuse words; jt should also be a matter of conscience to resist mis use of them. "Especially," added Spancer, "should our own language be thus guarded. If, as several tmbiased foreign judges hold, the English language will be, and ought to be, the universal language, it fcecomes the more a duty of mankind to check bad habits of speech." . , ' v Possibly no other vernacular tongue w so greatly misused by the commonalty as English. The English is a polyglot language raped from many sources, and ' words imported from other languages, such as the Latin and Greek, jwery liable to acquire strange, incorrect meanings. Take, for instance, the word Hxempkry.The true meaning of "exemplary" h that which serves" for an example. In the popular mind, however, "Exemplary" is a word of general approval. Even when nsed in the sease of serving as an example; the example is presumed to be a good example; that is, an example which ought to be followed. There is no good reason for thus narrow ing the meaning of a useful word. A drunkard may be as exemplary of drunkards as a sober man of his kind. Exemplary conduct may , be very de spicable. . . ? . , To a precisian and a precisian is not always con temptible, though he is frequently contemptuous the ordinary newspaper gives offense constantly by mususing words. The term "real estate,", for ex ample, is a technical term of the lawyers and means not land, but an interest in land.' When a man sells groceries he does not speak of selling personal es tate. Why, then, when he sells land, does he de scribe the transaction as a sale of real estate! Another word, commonly misused, is "execute," which is employed in the sense of putting to death by sentence of a court. A man is hanged or shot or beheaded or killed with electricity. , It is not the man but the sentence that is executed. "Limited" means restricted to certain limits. It does not mean small or brief as in the phrases a "limited price "or a "limited acquaintance." "Replaced" means put back into the same place. A book taken from a shelf may be replaced. But it' is error to say that Mayor Schmitz replaced JIayor Phelan, or that, among the moderns, agnosticism has replaced re ligion. To replace is not the same as to displace or to supersede. ' ' Superior" means higher. It does not mean able or virtuous, as in the common phrase "a superior person." "Transpire" literally means to breathe through, and is employed correctly, though figuratively, of anything that passes off insensibly. Perspiration may transpire; so may a secret; but it is absurd to say that an event transpired when one means that it occurred or took place." The news of a concealed forgery may transpire a long while after the forgery was done. ' ' Witness, " which, however, h a Saxon word, means one. who gives testimony from personal knowledge. One does not witness a balloon in the air. "Defalcate" is used in the news iners as a svnonym for embezzle. Defalcate, how ever, means nothing more than to lop off or detract from. A defalcation may be an act of honesty as well a! of theft. One defalcates when he takes from a slim of money an amount justly due to himself. , . Of course the meanings of words change from time to time, and what was incorrect in thel9th century may become correct in the 20th. V Pecuniary" once imeant wealthy in cattle. "Nice," in Chaucer's day, meant foolish or ignorant. Fond ' lormeriy meant foolish. But in words, as m dress, a gentleman should be conservative; should lean slightly to the archaic - , , , TRADE WITH CANADA. The rapid iucrease that is taking place in Can ada's foreign trade is calculated to arouse greater interest in the United States in efforts to secure a larger share- of it for ourselves. Already about 70 per cent of Canada's imports are furnished by this republic, and were it not for the existence of tariff barriers, this proportion unquestionably would be considerably increased. The dominion's foreign trade increased between 1901 and 1903 from $377,700,000 'to $459,600,000- an increase of about $82,000,000. Over $52,000,000 of this increase, however, was due to imports. Can ada-purchased far more than she sold and the amount of her purchases tended annually to increase. Her imports, per capita, are treble those of the United States, and steadily mow upward. It is noteworthy, too, that in spite of all that has been said about the "failure" of Canada's prefer ential tariff for the benefit of Great Britain, her im ports from the "mother country," since the enact ment of that law in 1897, have grown from $29,500, 000 to $58,900,000, or practically 100 per cent It is true that in the same period Canada's imports from the United States increased from $65,000,000 to $123,500,000, or a little over 90 per cent, but taking into consideration the contiguity of territory and the push and enterprise of the American people, that comparatively small expansion of American trade in Canada is not particularly flattering. This subject of the extension of American trade relations with flie!oniinion is of special moment just now on account of the rapid development of the vast wheat tracts of western Canada. The people who are settling in this section of Canada are destined to become large consumers of many classes of articles that are manufactured in the United States. It is not improbable, also, that we may soon need their wheat to help feed the denizens of American cities and towns. It is notorious that, owing to the swift growth of our urban population, our exports of wheat and of wheat flour are steadily dwindling, and should this tendency continue, as there appears every likelihood that it will, it is only a matter of a short time when stern necessity will compel us to .adopt more liberal trade relations with our northern neigh too. The troth is that had it not been for the preval ence of dense Tory sentiment in Canada at the time of our row with George III, we should today be en joying complete "reciprocity" with Canada, jnt as the state of New York is enjoying reciprocity with Massachusetts,. New Jersey, Pennsylvania an 1 the rest of the union. That is to say, Canada wouM constitute part of the great republic, and nobody, for an instant, would dream that the fact meant harm to the economic welfare of the present popula-j tion of the United States. THE DIRECT PRIMARY FARCE. It was not to be supposed that the editor of the Salem ' Statesman an all-wise individual, of rare conceit should recognize that the opposition to the direct primary law is well based, especially as his name was used by the "league" which fostered the measure. We find him now trying to create the im pression that the constitution of the United States says nothing about primary elections, from which he concludes that the bill could not be unconstitu tional He suggests that some good lawyer should be consulted on" matters of constitutionality and very promptly offers his opinion. Well, perhaps the direct primary law is not unconstitutional, but at all events it is disgraceful. Our Salem contemporary, discussing the effect of the law so far as it prohibits voters of one party from voting the primary ticket of the other, asks the fol lowing question: "Suppose the republicans should assert their right to hold no primaries; wouldn't that deprive the dem ocrats of their right of suffrage, the same as the direct primary law does!" If the republicans should fail to hold primaries, they would have no ticket, and therefore there could he no possible reason for democrats to undertake interference. The Astorian never asserted that either democrats or republicans were deprived of the right to vote under the terms of the new law. In deed, the law was framed for democrats and repub licans. It aims at the right of the independent ele ment to exercise its prerogative. The Astorian still persists that it is monstrous to require a man to publicly announce his political faith before he is permitted to vote, and even more at variance at least with the Rpirit of the constitution to prohibit an independent voter from expressing his choice of candidates. If there is one good provision in the direct, primary, it has not yet been pointed out by the Salem sage or any of the other politicians who duped unsuspecting voters in the late election. The sting of the ordinary wasp is only one-thirty-second of an inch long; but it's plenty long enough. The Russian soldiers are paid $1.50 a year besides clothing and board, and it's a shame to take the money. ' - ' - . : Jmportad Slavs Woman. 8n Francisco, Sept. lT.--L Toy, president of tht company which hold the Chtnrs concession at the St. Louis exposition, , hts been indicted by the federal grand jury on chra of Im porting Chinese slv women. Toy Mild he win connected with a Inrge oriental goods firm in Philadelphia. . Wins Golf Championship. St. Louis. Sept, RThe Western Golf Association team, Captain H. Chandler and Egan of Chicago, the na tional champion, won the Olympic team golf championship of the world on Qlenroy works today with a score of 1T49. Oregon Cow Wins Prist. 8t, Ixiula. Sept. 17. Orange nioasom. a red shorthorn cow belonging to the Lndd estate of Portland, Ore., won the .vnrl i.kIuv In iha ilnii for need cows. the feature event of the world's fair! cattle show. ; 9-.-. ' China's Detective Force. The detective force in China Is a se cret body second to none in the world In point of organisation. From one end of the Celestial land to the other a very wide open eye Is kept uion every man. woman and child, whether foreign or native, and, for that-mat ter, the detectives watch one another vigilantly. According to a theory set forth by the late Professor Newton of Yale, all comets were originally strangers to our solar system, and those that now re volve about our sun. like the planets, have been "captured" by the attraction of some of the latter near which the celestial visitants passed. Mrs. Spencer Plllsbury of Mount Hol ly. Vt.. has Just received word of the finding of a ring on the battlefield at Spottsyivanla, Pa,, which Is marked with the name of her first husband, Corporal David A. Patch, Company II. Second Vermont volunteers, who was killed in that battle. Bucklen'a Arnica Salve. Has world-wide fame for marvellous cures. It surpasses any omer saive, lotion, ointment or balm for cuts, corns, burnt, bolls, sores, felons, ulcers, tet ter, salt rheum, fever sores, chapped hands, skin eruptions; Infallible for piles. Cure guaranteed. Only 25c at Chas. Rogers', druggist. School Notice. Owing to the repairs not yet being completed at the Adair school build ing the regular school exercises will not be commenced there on next Mon day, but have been postponed until Monday, September 2. The pupils of this school will, however, report there on next Monday morning for enroll ment ' K. Z. FERGUSON, School Clerk. t 'f :suii T "'.'lis fcs. .STOMACH M Fitters As health makes, tonic and monthly regulator, ' the Bitters will be found unequal led. That's why so many women use it to the ex clusion of all other remedies: It never fails in cases of Sick Headache, Crampi, Bloating, Fainting Spells, Backache and Indention. Try a Bottle. 4 7&mi ffll Ill .... FOUR REASONS Why Young Men and' Women Should Attend the PACIFIC LUTHERAN ACADEMY 1. It lias a large, faculty of well-trained .and experienced teachers. 2. It believes that the School exists for the students, and not the students exist for the School. Z. 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