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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1905)
SATURDAY DECEMBER aj, CLEKIENSBANQUETED r One PUno TlcKet With Every $2.50 Purchase New Jersey Cranberries I Guest of Honor at Society of Illustrator Dinner. Los Angeles Celery And Everything Else For A ANDREW CARNEGIE PRESENT Nice Christmas Dinner. THE MORNING ASTOMAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. .FCpinl Y? A. V. ALLEN r Hints For The Holidays DO ITT DELAY-BUT TODAY. Tkcxt are only a few mora days left Our Fine Leather Goods, Pictures, Books, Toilet Sett, and Novelties, Japaaet Brasses, Burned Woo4 and leather, Fountain Peas, Carda and Calendars, aa wall aa onr Silver, Gold, Claaa and Metal wart afford a groat variety ta select from Eaooga Clerks Yoo seed sot wait J. N. GRIFFIN BOOKS STATIONERY MUSIC POSTOFFICE IS BUSY Christmas Season Brings Added Amotmt of Labor. MANY PRESENTS ARE SENT Christmas is Hard Time For Mail Car rier Aa Ee Is Overburdened With Packages and Articles of All tfinds Postal Cards seat. It is a buy place at the post office nowadays and throughout the whole day and a long a the window open a steady atrium of people ran be seen going to and from Uncle Sam's building with, package large and small, either destined for some friend or received from loved one at a distance. The postal authorities say that thin Christmas Gifts Here ! Unexcelled for Beauty and Utility. GOLD AND SILVER NOVELTIES, FINE CUT GLASS, STERLING SIL VER, UMBRELLAS AND CANES, DIAMOND BROOCHES AND A THOU SAND OTHER THINGS. year in Astoria seems to be a banner year, for the number of present both sent out and received even, at this Mmiewhat early date,' is very large and by Tuesday they expect to ! literally swamped with work. This too is the time of the year when the long (differ ing, hard working, mail carrier, i over burdened with labor.' His work at any time of the year at- best, is noire too easy, and when Christmas arrives with the added amount of mail, the poor fel low must do his work jut the same, though often when be starts out on his rout, be is hardly able to carry his bur den of Christmas mail. Yet as a rule the carrier is not one to complain. He finds a certain compensation in the extra work which he is compelled to do, when he sees the faces of the children, atid the elders also light up with a happy and expectant smile, as they see liim coining loaded down with package, some of which miev be for them. The souvenir postal card fad, which has been the rage for the past number of months, is Wing used" this Christmas for all it is worth say the post office people. Many persons feel that they cannot affo-d to give all tlieir friend expensive gifts as much as they would enjoy doing it, and so they find that a convenient and satisfactory way of showing their rememberanee, and one that will not "l.reuk' them, is to send a picture postal with the season's greet ings, to thoe whom they woujd remetn ler. There have ta-en many Astoriuns who have employed this way of Chrjst mas giving. The store are full of ifuny novel as well as beautiful cards of this cha -lifter, and it is not a hard ta.-k to find suitable ones to send to friend. He Makes a Speech and is Admitted to Membership in tot Club Matk Twain Also Makes Witty Remarks Which Are Enjoyed. New York. Dee. 22.-Mark Twain was the guest of honor at the monthly din ner of the Society of Illustrators Ut night in the rooms of the Aldine Asso ciation. Andrew Carnegie occupied the place of honor at the right of Dun Heard, president of the Society ami toastmaster. Other at the guest table were Sir Caspar Purdon Cfarike, Al- phonso Mucha, the poster artists Dr. George R. Halleray, Thomas A. Janvier, Caspar Whitney, Albert lloyden, Frank Vanderlip, Rolkj Ogdcn, Arthur Scribner, Arthur Brisbane, .1. J. Shan non, Henry .1. Wright ami Harrison S. Morris. Toastmaster Beard opened the speeVh- making with a warning to trust mag nates present that they were attending a meeting of trade union a union, how ever, of men who believed in the meas. ure of profit from labor thut come from individual merit. Andrew Carnegie said lie would like to join this young set. He said he had all his lif been tempted by a strain of Bohemitinism. He had known Hreharte ami Joseph Killings, and was therefore used to the highest society, n well as the hosts of the evening. He said lie was proud to call Mark Twain friend, and es he took him by the hand was rejoiced to be told that he might become a iiiemlicr of the society The toastmaster, in introducing Mark Twain said be had associated- with the Tom Saw vers and the Hucklelierry Finns iu his part of the country and he as sure they made beter citizens than the Little Lord Fauntelijoys. 1 lie diners stood up .una gave thre COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. H. EKiSTROM The Jewler. 560 COMMERCIAL STREET. NATURE SPARES The Stricken IUm From GrieC, What a fortunate provision of nature tt Is. . that deprives the roaa of mental suffering; for bow poignant would be Its prlef to discover. In the height of Its blooming ciory, that a canker fed at Its heart, and that Its beauty and fragrance were doomed forever. Nature always spares the suffering-; she is a veritable U re-house of pleasing rewards, for those who seek ber aid. In the years (trie by falling hair and grayness have tist a gloom over the Uvea of thousands of your? women, but thanki to the In vest patiors of scientists the true cause of hair destruction la now known to be a germ or parasite that burrow Into the hair follicles. Newbro's Herplclde absolutely destroys this germ, thus permitting the hair to grow as na ture intended. Bold by leading drug cist. Send 100. in stamps for sample to The Herplcide Co., Detroit, Mich. Eagle Drug Store, 351-353 Bond 6t, Owl Drug Store, M? Com. St, T. P. Lsurin, Prop. "Special Ageiit." Toronto, (Int., Dec. 22. In the jtoiice court yesterday twelve individual mem bers of the Plumbers' & Supply House combine were committed for trial The combination wiw broken recently when the crown attorney secured a convic tion of charges of illegal combination in restraint of trade. The combination as a whole was a-esscd fines aggregat ing KVJMM. The crown is now pressing the cases against the individual mem liers. Of these sent to the higher court yeste-slay the majority are master plumbers, the others being supply men and two members of the local journey men plumbers' union. It was admitted that the agreement lietween the master plumbers and the journeymen was the chief source of strength of the combination. cheer for the man who was dublied their saint and philosopher. It was at this point that Miss Helen Aiifierstine. attended by a page, advanced in the personation of Joan D'Arc, and pre- sented a big leuf wreath to the guest of ionor. Now there," said the veteran au thor in acknowledgement, "is an alius- ration a pure and beautiful young oman. The conventional Joan D'Arc," said he, "is an offense to nil which knew her history. The conventional face given to Joan D'Arc by the artist who paint her as 11 eoiir-e casunt has the fixed expression of a hor-e. "Members of your guild," said he, "addressing his hosts, "must get away from the conventional." Oneo when reviewing some of bis familiar stoiie-, Mr. Clemens hailed for a name and, admitting that he wus three score, he aid "Sometimes a fact of history gets Wity and I could not tell whether it was ltobespierre, John the !apii-t. or lieiijamiu Franklin, that invented the guillotine.' He traced the v. hole gamut from guy to grae with a wreath of interwoven pathos, ri ml finally he -aid of the ele ments that made up the e.s'iieiiee of life, "The illusions are CtWonly things thut are valuable, and xl help the run n who reaches the time w!i-n lie meets onlv the realities." f Smoking- Jackets, Overcoats, Sox Plain and Fancy, Plain and Initialed Handkerchiefs, Suits, Fine Suspenders 60c to $2.00, Underwear, Nightshirts, Lounging Robes, Hats and Gloves, Umbrellas, Separate Handles, 02.00 'to $20.00, Neckties 60c to $2.00, 0ver-VR shirts. Every Artic'e We Mention Is Useful. Every Article We Sell Is of Standard Quality. HI e r m a im Wise ASTORIA'S RELIABLE CLOTHIER city NEW MINISTER. BUBONIC PLAGUE AT KOBE. Victoria. II. C.f Dec, 21. Far Kastern pot are declaring quarantine against Kole on account of increasing preval ence of bubonic plague there. General DHiiilofT. superintending the embark ation of Itus-iun prisoners in Japan uks that no more lie embarked at Kolie, because of tho plague. . Phillip Cherry of this city returned to his home yesterday ifrom Corvalis where lie is a student In the Oregon Agricultural College. Ptruvian President Sends His Brother to United States to Act is Representative.- Xew Voik, Dee. 22. fcenor Don Felipe Pa i do, brother of the president n' Peru, arrived here yesterday on the Orinoco lo occupy tlie post of Peruvijn minister to the I'nited States. President Punlo's choice of his brother to fill this position shows how much he appreciates the necessity of having at Washington an able representative at, the time when the owner-hip of the Tacna and Arica proces is being agitated. This diplomatic question for the last five years' has la-en handled in America by Dr. Manuel Alverai Calde-mn, as sisted by his father's appointment to Santiago, Chile. Senor Pardo proceeded at once to Washington. GERMAN INSTRUCTOR. Yltttria,'B. C, Dec. 21. -Advices from Pekin state. Viceroy Yuan Shih Kai has obtained imperial sanction tTnp point a Go-man military officer either from the German 'force in North China or Ger many as head instructor of the Chinese military College instead of a Japanese instructor as previously intended. PERSONAL MENTION. a Fred Xelson, Mayor of Skamokawa, L in the city on business. F, J. Parson of Portland Is in the city 'or a brief time on business. M. 8. Henm-tt arrived in the yesterday noon from Portland. J. ('. Mayo of this city has returned from a brief hiisine trip to Albany. Knoch Mathi'soit tf Deep ltiver was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Miss Ada Jordan has returned from a brief vsit with friend at Cathlauirt Clin Monroe of Nkaniokawii was a visitor in the city yesterday for a short time, laiwrencp Kane a resident of Kvctctt, Wash., is in town this week visiting friends W. W. (lay ton of Portland is in the city this week, having arrived here yes terday. , Alex Campbell, a resident of ,vkn mo ra we, was in town ycieniuy lor a brief time. William Hu.uuotid of New Astoria wit a visitor in town yesterdiy for a short time. Dr. C. A. (Wdiii'-r, after an illin'-s in this city for u few days, left lust night for Portland. Mrs. Charles Jordan of Cnthlamet' wis in town y cteid.iy for a short time doili; htlsin'-sH. Mr. mid Mrs. John Thompson of Ska mokawa sjM'iit yesterday in the city on holiday business. M. J. Ilurger leaves for I'oitlund on the 0:10 expre.s to spend the gret holiday with friends. Captain Wicklund, of the Point Ada ins life nitirig crew, was in the city yetei''biy on business. Hubert Gray, a merchant of. Ham mond, was in the city this we.k attend ing to bu-ines interests. William Iittie Anderson came down yesterday from her homo at Hkhmo kawa to do some (lirii-tmas shopping. J. Q. A. BOWUlY.-PrwIJent. O. I. rKTKRSOtf. Vk President. HtAXK PATT0N, Csilkr. J. W. GARNER. Assistant Csshlar. Astoria Savings Bank Tapltal Pa'd to li injwo. Ruru'us and rnt'.lrldi-d Profit lAJtM) TrnictaOeuri biikn Bmne. , lolerrst hi la on llm Drpoulu 188 Tenth Street. AITORIA, OPttQON. CHRISTMAS CANDIES and Christmas Novelties Professor Kpping of Portland will sing Wednesday evening 'at the concert for the Methodist Chunh. D C3JTS Cleanliness is a necessity that knows a law Pears' Soap. Pears' is both a law and a necessity for toilet and bath. 4 Sold everywhere. Vauihi lemon Orange Strawerry Raipls-rry Walnut-topping Peean-topping AJmoiul-topping PoffJ Violet Pistachio Jim Cror Co.Co Nut RolU Kfarn'imallow Caramels Xeuga tines Maple Cliij Dipped Almonds Dipped Peanuts Dipped Pineapple Angle Fond Peppermint EU., etc., etc. iWxn Toppings Walnut Toppings AIiik.d Topaings Pln4iu'hi( Toppings fto-CW Nut Ros Iuion (lierry VirWct Vanilla Strawliwty Clusolule llutu-r Cup Piiicupple Marshmallow Ktc, etc., etc. CHOCOLATES. BON B0NS SPECIAITOS. Cream Tallies assorted Ppprmlnt Chews Jg Cabin Cream Wafers aborted Cream Caramels Walnut Brittle Almond Hritths YPwan llrilljles f Peanut IlrittU ! Co-Co Xut ftrittles Tuttl hull III it ties . Miwrshmallow Turkish Xeuget Fig Pasts s French Fruits Joidun Almonds , tryst alizM Violets '. Ciystalil pl(-e I.euvn Crystaliwd Mint I-eaves Ciun Drops IToarhoiind Drops Imon Drops Fruit Tsblets L Mint Isengs ' Ktc. etfl.. etc. " S W nuke In the deaoest factory ia the world, all th candies sni let creams sod sherbets ws sell Out of town orders carefully picked. Candies In large quantities from ts t-i cents per pound up. Baskets, Boxes, novelties and Christmas tree orniments too numeroul'.o mention. Selling below cost. Place your Xmas order for ice cream now at sst-ssl Commtlil Street. .0 RICHEST. GUALITY HOEFLE R'S ASTORIA'S LEADING CONFECTIONER 54-S43 Commerdsfe