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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (March 30, 1905)
THE MORNING ASTORIAN ASTORIA. OREGON. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1905. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Ettabliihed 1873. fublUhed Dally (Kxopt Monday) by HE J. 8. DELLINGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By nail, pr year It 90 Br malt, er month SO By carrier, per month 10 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. Br mail, per jw. In adrance ..1 00 Entered at the pastofflce at Astoria. Oregen a tecond-claaa matter. CHrOrdMS for the fallmrtnc of Tut Morsiko Ahvbiaji to either iwHteooe or place of bwumw mj he made by pntal tii or tiuuuich Mo rboM. Any Insularity in doliniry hould b InmedfMdiy reported to the offlee of pubiwauoo. Telephone Main 661. MEDDLESOME PEOPLE. Newspapers, as a rule, are not ex empt from the machinations of med dlesome and garrulous people. They ply their vocation upon the incredu lous and innocent, not for the purpose of benefitting them, but to make trou ble for someone else. They Interfere with family matters, with business and in the social life, their chief object being to do some one an injury, or receive their suppdrt in a get even policy over some immagtnary griev ance. They are only happy in seeing other people miserable. They delight in peddling scandal and gossip about their neighbors and their superiors. They chew scandal morsel the same as a cow does her cud, but instead of swallowing it they emit it forth In the ears of those, who oftentimes detest it. They are stlrers up of strife, breed ers of discontent and emmissarles of scandal, both public and private, and have great imaginative powers. When they are denounced by the press or the pulpit, they imagine it refers to their neighbors. They have not sufficient mental capacity to comprehend a state, ment. but misconstrue it to suit their debased and depraved minds in order that it may be used as a weapon to create trouble. While their own boys are out robbing hen roosts, they are remonstrating with their neighbors upon the the lack of paternal author ity over their offsprings. They can plainly descent the mote In their brothers' eye, without considering their own eyes are blinded to their own faults. Oftentimes they have no in tention of doing wrong or creating dis cord, but It is due to ignorance on their part They are Indignant If their neighbors even hint at their short comings, but are ever ready to take up the cudgel of gossip against them when opportunity offers. What Oregon, and In fact, every other state In the union needs, is an asylum for chronic scandal and gossip peddlers. A place where they can work their tongues to their heart's content without curbing and where their ne farious practices can only be Indict ed on their kind. This does not only apply to women but men as well. Instead of being called scandal mongers, they are called "knockers." They lose no opportunity to knock anybody that is engaged in business, or is an aspirant for some elective or appointive political posi tion. No matter how honest and up right a prominent citizen may have been in his business and social rela tions in the community, there are al ways to be found the knocker who will formulate some kind of charges and send them to Washington or some oth er place of appointive power, protest ing against the appointment of the per son to a position of political prefer ment. They are a class of people that do not possess the qualifications for dog catcher, and it is evidently Jealous) on their part, or a chronic desire to knock somebojy or someone else, who they imagine are receiving some bene fit that is not conferred upon themselves. rney xnocK every improvement or the acquisition of capital or the Instal latlon of some industry, fearing some one will reap gome bwieflt out of some project, which thy have not the abll ity or conception to promulgate. They can't bear to see other people pros perous or forge ahead, arid in order to keep everyone else down upon th same strata with themselves, they at tempt to Injure the.e inovations by system of chronic knocking. Accord ing to ineir warpeii ana deprave i idea no one has any right In Astoria or even on this earth, who do not reeog nize them as the par-excellence of all things human and divine. It were useless to call them down, or publish facts that apply directly to them, as they never take anything ol that kind upon themselves, but are up bright and early to start on their rounds, Inflicting other people with their presence In an endeavor to con vince them that the statement made or the article published refers to them. They are what are termed barnacles on the body politic, a sort of an itch baccilius carrying contageon and germs of discord and discontent and scatter ing it broadcast among people who do test the Infinitesimal qualities of the public gossip and scandal monger, They resent imputations cast upon themselves, often deserved, but will go out of their way to Injure someone else Their tongues used in peddlng scandal about their neighbors are worse than a dynamite bomb put under the real dence. The one causes misery here on earth, the other . removes the entire family from the realm, and In either event they are happy and chuckle to themselves of their prowess in Inflict ing punishment upon the undeserving They are entitled to neither pity inn to sympathy, but to condemnation. The saying might well become the motto of all social reformers, and state legislators. The crime of meddling i so prevalent and Irritating aa to call for some revolt (on the part of the commonality. It was the crime of the doctors of the law whom Christ was accustomed to denounce with specific vehemence and it was the crime of the cotton mathers who made Galloway Hill at Salem the mount of the nscen sions or otherwise. It was the crime of the Garrisons and John Brown's who made a settlement of the slavery question In this country impossible by any other arbitrament than battle and bloodshed. The crime still jeni'. Refro i still the slogan of the self-appointed regulators of state and society. And these regulators are beset by the same spirit aa those other regulators w.u used to hang a horse-thief when they caught him or somebody else when they missed him. The people who go about to end card-playing and the ater going and to measure the cut of a lady's bodice, or the lack of length of her sleeves, or to tell men that alt clubs are dens of vlllany, and smoking cigars a sign of total depravity they are the people who would make St. Antony himself have that tired feeling so graphically described in the advertise ments of stomach bitters and nervines, The best way to reform the evil and encourage the good is to live up to one's highest Ideal Things that pay breed a contageon equally with things that kill. It is only the fool who falls to discriminate and the fool Is worse to break of his folly than a wild horse of his head-strongness. Don't meddle, but rather show in yourself to a sen slble world "that more excellent way.' Yakima Apples bring on the same mar ket? Post-Intelligencer. Thirty cents; they look like it. The general Synod of the Reformed church In America struck out of Its marriage service the "obey" promise of the bride, A dead letter law were better repealed. A Kansas paper says; "The reason hired girls are so scarce la because they can make more money writing for magaslnea. We never suspected that was what ailed the literary quality of the magazines. The newspaper which advises Amer ican anarchists to go to Russia Is In- excusably Ignorant. There Is no such thing as an American anarchist. A Rochester, N. T., corpse arose and licked the would-be embalmer. First recorded instance of playing even with an undertaker. Robert Harper of Minneapol's. who was born In 1T9S. has become alarnitHl at the germ theory recently so mu h discussed by scientists and fenrs t.iat he has devoured too many noxlou baccllll during the 105 years of his existence to assure him of a continu ance of the perfect health he tn en- Joyed through life. He sorrowfully ad mits that he cannot now change his habits of life to abstain from eating certain foods such as oysters, that are said to be deleterious to health. DON"! WORK. before buying your spriug suit or top coat. Make your selection here from the best stock in the city and you will have no cause to PERSONAL MENTION. In SALVATION IS FREE The scriptural admonition that while the lamp holds out to burn, me vnest sinner may return, must have actuated the Post Intelligencer In the following notable conversion Roast the fatted sage hen and fry the leaping Jack rabbit! The good news comes from Davenport that Jeems Od gers, tne old reliable war horse of Lincoln county democracy, is seriously considering Joining the republican par ty. This will be better than the re turn of a prodigal son. Every rattle snake In Lincoln county will buzz when he hears the news. Every man, wo man and child In Lincoln county knows Uncle Jeems. He has been a reai democrat for four million years, but If he will Join the party where his heart has always been, all will be for given andj forgotten. There's more shrewd common sense humor In one three-bar blast of Uncle Jeems' hand set Tribune than In forty toolings of these 'ere modern thingumbob weekly newspapers. It Is a liberal education merely to see Uncle Jeems sit down and write a red-hot editorial or the hack of wrapping paper, then tke It to the case and set it up, then to the form and on to the press, next he klckj the press down, and takes off the damp sheet with O! what Joy! To hear him read it aloud is like hearing the morn ing star sing. Talk about the gayety of nations. It Is like bull beef meat compared to yaller leg chicken along side of the gayety which will be caused by the enlistment of Jeems Odgers in republican ranks. All the Spinnings and Inksters and the rest of the boys will sit up and take notlec then, for your Uncle Jeems is the real thing There will be things doing among Lin coln county Republicans when Uncle Jeems as spokesman. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Epitome of Anecdote .and .Incidents With Comments By a Layman, Come to think of it, It is a little hard on the democrats to have gambling closed down and a religious revival on top of It. If wors; comes to worse Chief Hal lock h;is a flam ranch to fall bark on. You can't keep a good man down. The new spring shapes show that it will not be food form for the ladles to have their Easter hats on straight. Mrs. Chad wick's doom was sealed from the moment the loan sharks found she was willing to pay usurious rates. o Andrew Carnegie Is said to be pay. ing fabulous prices for rare fossils. There are a few In Astoria to be had Hood River, Ore., piping have recent ly sold In London for 22s 6d per box, 15.43. On that basis what would our brilliantly colored large Wenatchee or F. W. Preston of Warrenton wa. the city yesterday. T. M. Dlmmlck of Coos Bay was In the city yesterday. T. O. Coleman of Portland is register ed nt the Occident. William Kyle of San Francisco is In the city on a visit. Mrs. L. A. Carlisle of Seaside was in the city yesterday. 1 William Tlm.ion of tlellinghani Is In the city on business. M. Wise of Portland was In the city yesterday on business. Samuel II. Maddock Is reported ser lously 111 at his residence. Thos. Bufford of St. Louis registered at the Occident yesterday. Miss Souventt of Cathlamet visited friends In Astoria yesterday. H. V. Thompson of Seaside was In the city yesterday on business. Peter Johns and Miss Johns of Rock land were in the city yesterday. M. Gorman, wife and son of Cath lamet were In the city yesterday. Peter Relachman of Chinook was registered at the Central yesterday. Frank J. Carney returned last even Ing from a business trip to Portland. W. S. Paige, a prominent attorne of Portland registered at the Occident yesterday. C. E. Palmer, representing Blaka McFall tc Co., is in the city on his semi-monthly tour. Paul Dehmey of the Portland Jour. nal was in the city yesterday and left for home last evening. Al Lelnenwebber, who was Injured several weeks ago. Is able to walk without the aid of crutches. Miss Francis Entes left yesterday morning for McMlnvllle to resume her studies. Miss Gertrude Preston ac companled her. Mrs. J. L. Kline and Mrs. H. Crohn left yesterday for Vancouver, B. C. where they will visit with Mrs. Kline' two nieces. They will also spend a week with friends in Seattle before re turning. 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We hive nothing but the best, Only 5 cents per pound. , ASTORIA GROCERT, THE STAR THEATER Aateria'a Fashionable Vaudeville house In connection with Star and Ar cade theatsra ef Portland. Change of Program Monday. Change of A eta Thursdays MATINEE DAILY AT 248 MONSTER BILL P. M Week Beginning March 17th. Matinee dally at 2:45 p. m. Baby THE THREE VOLTOUS Premier Acrobats Introducing Fern THE HUNNS Comedians and Singer EDITH RAYMOND Wire Artist THE THOMAS TRIO High Class Musical and Dancing Act RICHARD CHARLES Pictured Melodies entitled, "Way Down East Among the Bhady Maple Trees." EDISON'S PROJECTOSCOPE Showing the latest colored film "The Bee Hive Admission, 10c, any seat. Occident Hotel Bar L Billiard Hall. Tables New and Everything Tirst Class. Finest brands of Liquors and Cigars. Sheet Music 21 SHEETS $1.00. See the Show Window. First National Bank of Astoria ESTABLISHED 1886 Capital and Surplus $100,000 JAP-ApLAC THE MODEL FINISH FOR FLOORS. WOODWORK, METALWORK AND FURNITURE. Wears Like Iron. B. F. ALLEN SON The Palace Cafe. The Best Restaurant.' Regular Meals 25c. Everything the Market Affords. Sunday Dinners a Specialty. Palace Catering Co. V " ' 1 1 I J. N. GRIFFIN A ttw that I would like to coll your attention to: One Is that Frank Hart keeps Liquozone, - Vinol, And All the Standard Patent M.dioln.s and another Is that he la stU selling White Pine Cough Syrup In 2So and 50o bottle the same aa In the past five years. Don't forget the Diamond Shaped Ilottle. FRANK HART, Druggist. Corner 14th and Commercial Stau f y ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOI1N FOX, Pnw, and fiupt. y. L.llI8llor,he:rflry A. L. FOX, Vlr. I'rmtdeiit, AHTOKIA HAVINtiH BANK, Treat Designers and Manufacturers of V THK LATEST IMFKOVEO CANNING MACHINERY, MARINE ENGINES AND BOILERS. COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Foot of Fourth Street, . ASTORIA, OREGON