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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2C, 1904. the Morning Morton ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, per year $6 00 By mail, per month..... ' By carriers, per ennth....... 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. Cy mful, per year, in advance $t 00 WOMTlBl THE GROWTH OF TEMPERANCE. The New York Tribune assorts with sober serious ness that the jnvat insurance companies of the United States are prefHring a new fonu of policies to be Issued to persona who are total abstainers from all intoxicating liquors, with a reduction iu premiums of from 15 to 20 per cent over the premiums exacted from those who admit to a moderate use of intoxi cants. This, according to the Tribune, is based on the tables of actuaries, showing that the average dura tion of life of the total abstainers among the insured is sufficiently greater than among the moderate users of intoxicants as to justify the reduction given in their favor. The business concerns of this country are doing more temperanee work of a highly effective character ' and purely for commercial reasons than any other agency, prompted by any other or more exalted motives, says the Post-Intelligencer, commenting on the Tribune's statement. Great traasportation com panies have made it a rule to discharge peremptorily any employe using liquor while on duty. Some of them carry the rule still further and make it a cause of discharge if a man uses intoxicants at any time. They will take no chances with employes of that kind. The man who uses intoxicants to excess at any time finds it more and more difficult to secure or to keep employment. The moderate drinker, who never goes over the line, is also falling under suspicion in many lines of business, and his opportunities for em ployment will grow less as the business sentiment on thia subject stiffens more nd more, as it will. The moderate drinker has heretofore taken com fort in the fact that physicians disagree as to the effects of a moderate indulgence in intoxicants upon the system; and that the great weight of medical opinion has been with the proposition that moderate and temperate indulgence in intoxicants is not in jurious; many medical men inclining to believe that in cases it is actually beneficial. Now come the in surance actuaries and shatter this, with the cold -weight of figures. This is worth quite a number of temperance ser mons. The young man of today finds that he has difficulty in getting and in keping employment in many lines, if he is known to drink at all ; and now he finds further that, if he desires to carry a life insur ance, he will be compelled to pay an additional pre mium if he desires to continue to use liquor intoxi cants in any form, even in the utmost moderation. It is quite safe to say the number of total abstainers will grow proportionately larger year by year. For instance, in 1S50 100 Americans consumed 94 sheep, 118 hogs, and 25 beeves, while in 1890 they ate only 50 sheep, 43 hogs, and 20 beeves. The consump tion of dairy foods is three times what it was 40 years ago. But meat is not losing its hold on Americans by a long mark, nor is it likely to for some time to come, or until the time of the disappearance of the great cattle ranges of the West. The cost of meat to the great American public four years ago was $1,G25,- 000,000, while for vegetables we spent $1,075,000,-000. 00OSOOSOvfO000$00$00OJOi O I i o W 2 11 T f I BTk AMAIIMA I U ut 00 o O Swell Togs For Men. P. A. STOKES Yt tiuuio J a q Swell Togs o DECREASING USE OF MEAT. It probably wasn't entirely due to the arrogance of the beef trust, of which everybody has heard so much, that, os Callier'g has been at pains to show in a recent article, Americans are eating less meat than they did 50 years or so ago, and are taking more to the use of vegetables, cereals, and dairy products. The fact that thi people were altogether too prodigal in the use of animal food, and neglected the cereals, as wellA.aa tlSA'egetables, by which the food of civ ilized man is varied. We could all afford to eat less meat, even though we "had the price," as the saying is. There is no tygbt an active race, like ours needs some stimulating food, such as meats afford, for, although the Japanese are cited as a conspicuous example of what a people can do who eat sparingly, if at all, of meat, it must be remembered we are not built on the same plan. But, again, it must be re membered that meat is a heating diet, and too liberal a use of it is likely to make the user feverish and restless. That Americans are coming to recognize that fact is doubtless the true explanation, coupled with the other fact that we have come to know the nutritive qualities of the other foods, particularly the cereals. We all remember the story of the Scots man's retort to the Englwhman when told that in England "we feed oatmeal to the horses:" "Aye. and what fine horses ye hae in England, and what fine men we hae in Scotland." It is the testimany of the writer in "Collier's" that Americans have grown healthier in the half century that has seen this change in the national diet, but that much of this result is no doubt do to more out door life, better sanitation and cooking; all of which is without doubt true. He estimates, also, that the total use of meat is reduced in the last half cen tury to 36 per cent. Some of his figures of the con sumption of meat in the past are certainly startling.! HAWAII 'S RACE PROBLEM. Hawaii, small and, geographically, remote as it is, has a "problem" all its own which is as troublesome to it as the negro question is to the south, says the Brooklyn Standard Uniou. It is what to do with its 'peasantry," for the group evidently has that sup posedly exclusively European institution in its' 'midst." According to the Honolulu Evening Bulle tin, the "bold peasantry," as the paper calls the class, Is largely Asiatic, the "Princes and Lords' having "flourished and faded," meaning presumably the original natives, such as Captain Cook foumi when he first visited the islands. The Bulletin says there is not the same prejudice against the Asiatic on the islands as exists against them on the mainland nor even as strong a feeling as that of the mainland against the European immigrant. Moreover, it is difficult to induce Europeans to come to the islands and settle. Again, many of these Asiatics are Amer ican born. Recognizing the fact that the second gen eration of the emigrants from Europe, thanks to our schools, become Americanized, what is puzzling th Honolulu contemporary is, whether Hawaii can make the same kind of an American out of the "American born Asiatic" as the mainland makes of the European immigrant's offspring. To us of the mainland it cer tainly seems doubtful, but the Bulletin is sanguine of the success of the American people in whatever they undertake to do, declaring that they "have accom plished many tasks of regeneration that the world has said could not be done." These remarks apply largely to the Chinese and Japanese, with the preponderance in favor of the former, if memory serves. Both these races are "per se, and it would probably take centuries to western ie, Europeanize or Americanize them. o I m HmMhIw V Mm J rhMTMINM Bishop Potter is reinforced by another prelate of the Protestant Episcopal church on the matter of "the saloon where "no treating" is the rule of conduct. It is Bishop Cortland Whitehead, of Pittsburg, and he has declared that he not only does not disapprove of the New York bishop's attitude, but wants capi talists to establish in Pittsburg just such a "tavern" as they have in the subway, in the American metrop olis. He says he believes that treating causes most of the drunkenneas; that nothing can be accomplished by such as Carrie Nation, and that one of the greatest mistakes ever made was doing away with the canteen in the army. With General Miles as adjutant-general of Mass achusetts, everything will be ready for the anti-im perialists to move immediately upon our works as soon as the military tailors and the photographers are ready. That Missouri county that wants to be annexed to Arkansas to escape the disgrace of being in a repub lican state can never tell how long it may have to keep moving if it once starts. mmmk i t! KS" l.-.t:;iK, i vi mv. h 1 lM If TIME o o o o o 01 o 9 o hrrkt itN k Itrt MutMt Sara you were seeing us about your Winter Suit or Overcoat if you expect to be in the "running" with the fashionably dressed men around town. .These garments are "chock full" of good quality, and style tnat is only pro duced by a first class City Tailor. To buy your clothes here is to be well dressed, and to be well dressed is half the battle of life. P. A. STORES We Fit Anyone 21 1 Money Back if Dissatisfied MARBLE GAME ENDS FATALLY. Spokant Boy Kill.d, Perhaps, by Boy Companion. Spokane. Nov. 25. James Shannon the 8-year-old ton of James Shannon railway conductor, waa found dead la bed last night. A tug Drum on 'M temple revealed the cause. Tht lad waa playing marble yester- t'.iy and picked up mm which were In dispute. Henry Cocma, aged U. ad ults that he threw a rock at the boy 1 ut declares it did not atrlke him dulmlng the little fellow tripped bumping till head. An Inquest will be eld. between Peru and Dratil looking to peaceful lettlenient of the boundary disputes between the two natlona .and the adjustment of claim arising out of the boundary line disputes. Bai.ball Score. At Han Francisco San Francisco 3, Oakland 3. At Fresno Portland 7, Tacoma 1. At Los Angeles Lo Angele S. Se attle 4. WEIL CLEAR9f HIMSELF. to Suspect Bear No Resemblance Bate' Murderer. Chicago. Nov. 25. Joseph Well, sun- peeled by the police as being "Dove" the alleged murderer of Chauffeur Wil liam Bate, cleared himself today. At the Auditorium hotel, where "Dove" ordered the automobile for the fatal ride Friday night, It was aald that Well bore no resemblance to Dove. Mr. Bryan has resumed his attitude of total dis satisfaction with Parker, but can say nothmg worse now than his remarks with which he prefaced his Parker vote. The national pure food bureau begs leave to report that there isn't much of any, but the people won't worry until somebody begins to adulterate the adul terations. Scientists are perhaps upon the eve of a great dis covery that kleptomania can be most successfully treated during a period of about four weeks in jail. It is charged that the prohibition campaign fund was misapplied, though it is not explained how a pro hibition campaign fund could be profitably applied. The geisha girls who .fought against returning to the cherry blossoms of their native land, must have seen the Missouri apple orchards in full bloom. If all the radicals want is to read out of the Demo cratic party the people who voted for Parker, it does not look like such an expensive job after all. Mr. Bryan received more votes than Mr. Parker and yet felt the same aching void as to the material inadequacy of the total. Col. Bryan is still poking around in the November debris, hoping to rescue some of his gallant subscribers. Mrs. Wilks Passe Away. Philadelphia, Nov. 25. Mr. Marie B. Wilkes, the oldest actress In the country,, died today, aged 88. Mr. Wllke was the original Widow Mel notte with Edwin Forrest, and was a member of companies of the mot fa mous actor of her time. 67e STAR THEATER ASTORIA'S rASHlONABLC VAUDE VILIC MOUSE IN CONNECTION WITH STAR AND ARCADE TtlEA. TERS OP PORTLAND Save the La Imperial band and get the diamond stud. - Hansen ft McCanna, who occupy the hop formerly used by T. S. Simpson, adjoining the city water office, are prepared to do all kind of sign and carriage painting, Th.y will make a specialty of work of this class and guarantee satisfaction, . Peru and Brazil Agree. New York, Nov. 25. 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