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THE HORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. FRIDAY, DICXJSBI1 t 1105. THE MORNING ASTORIAN EatabUihed 1I7J, Published Dally by TEL J. S. DELLINGEK COXFAIfT. SUBSCRIPTION SATES. By mail, per year .....$7X0 67 mil, per month .00 B7 eurier, per month .75 WEEKLY ASTOMAM. By mail, per Tear, in advance. .1.00 VBtflr4 u eecond-Uat mtor June B. U06, t the poatoflkw at A. tori, ore job. under the act or Conf reas ot Marco I, i ft-. tfc AdrMm nf T HSU M uroaua to ciUMW reaMaao or place of nay bo mado by portal card or W LbWteA Am Ii wimUfitt la OA IN7 abould bo IsuMdltter reported to the ofpuouoaaoa. TELEPHOITE UAXS Wu W EITHER REPORT. Western Oregon ami Western Washington Friday occasional rain. Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington Snow. i ASSET OF INFINITE VAIUE. Every community of the population and acope of Astoria has an asset of infinite value. It is not always recog nized, nor employed, and often is not estimated at all. It is the community initiative. And the beauty of it is that it does not differ materially from any'oher initiative that does things. It is of incalculable service when once it fa set in motion, and hss the addi tional merit of leaving the credit for anything it accomplishes, with the home community, instead of dividing the honor with the outside world. Its cul tivation is rich in recompense and rare ly disappoints those who employ it, while its constant application gives the community a prestige abroad it does not otherwise attain. When there U anything to be done, no matter how huge and far-reaching it may seem in its incipiency, the fact that the com munity is willing to take the primary grip .and give the first impulse, of it self, invites the co-operation of the out tide help that is needed. Anyway one may look at it, the Jiorae initiative is the best and first rule of enterprise. 0 MERE SUGGESTION. From all indications it begins to look as if John Stephenson was being made a scape-goat for the Democratic pow ers that be. Without any desire to appear officious in the pn-nii-es, it be gins to warrant the conviction that his case is in the nature of a test; that he is not to be punished so much for his temerity in violating a law as for his eagerness in claiming the immunity promised him for his effoits in the late election, a natural desire Ut make use of his prerogative, an inconsiderate break wholly in conflict with the plans of the party that made tin- promise, which, it seeing was not to lie available until after the June election. Well! How ever, hi trial nijiy go he has the satis faction of knowing that um paynu-iit of th usual licen-e he may le-ume all kinds of biiPim-M at the old Maud just as soon as there ure enough Democratic ballots counted out 1 10111 the June casting, a contingency not yet deter minable. Should there not I quite vnuogli counted in thU behalf, he will be no wor-e off than he is now. Some funny combination are posiiile yet. 0 EDITORIAL SALAD. The cur has substituted the machine gun for the machine. 0 The Russian troubles have rubbed cur fur market the wrong way. - 0 At latest accounts, however, the Pan ama Canal is getting built just as fast .without a commissioa a with one. The Armenians are massacring Tar tars at the rat of 500 daily. A mis fkwiary manifesto is expected. 0 "lneay lies the head that wear crown, we hone will never include Mark Twain's crown of laurel. ' o Senator- Gorman has decided to retire from the leadership, which ha. bee showing a strong proclivity for retiring from him. The Atlanta "Constitution" clac the "delegate" from the He of Pines a among the freaks to be seen at the capital city. n Columbia student have "booed President Butler and the faculty. Prei dent Butler and the faculty are ex peeted to stand the shock. 0 Mr. McAdoo will be interested to learn that one element in the traffic-handling problem is just turning off into a side street toward the Court of Appeals. (President Rotwevelt told a diap pointed office seeker he was "game. whereupon the man. seeing a bead drawn on him, promptly came down, p Senator Ben. Tillman's home town has just voted the Dispensary out by a vote of 8 to 48. Perhaps South Caro Una is tired of being in the whisky business. 0 Now if stepa are taken to prevent the insidious entry of brutality into inter collegiate chess, our universities will be places where any aunt can afely seud her nephew. e District Attorney Jerome is "making good" so far as purifying the bar is concerned. He should now "make good in reference to the bench or retract in manly fashion. 0 The Northampton "Herald" (Dem.), alludes to a proposed statute to "Sena tor Clay," of Pennsylvania. By the way, when did that Jenaior serve ine Kevs-tone State! e jXIr. Bryan decline to sleep in the Governor's house at Manila because it might emnarrass mm in iuiure auat-K .. 1 1 1 it . on the uoverument; ana, Desiaes, trie place is called a palace. 0 , Mayor McClellan remarked at. the Grout dinner: "We build niches in the Hall of Fame that coming genera tions will wall up." This will be sad news to C. Francis Murphy. 0 The burglars who stole cheese and eems combined the useful and the beautiful after their own fashion. Un fortunately, the police seem to have lost the key to their part of the combination. 0 The outpouring of sympathy for Plymouth Church all over the country is pleasant, but probably about as em barrassing a the proceedings were to the gentlemun who unexpectedly walked. into bis own funeral service. WOMEN ARE CAUGHT Betting Society Women Caught In the Act. THROUGH OWN CARELESSNESS isfled now. Word comes from Pari that the full sine model of Maemonnie' "equestrian statue of Gen. McClellan on bowebaok," as a genius once put it. is finished and been accepted by the American committee. And history i vindicated, for it has the "MtVlellau can, not me motion nai. ine uronxe statue complete will stand in Washing ton, where some previous equesluon tatue, that of Gen. Scott, for instance. don't seem to Mend, but appear to lie falling. o The latest Parisian wrinkle I end ing one's voice by mail. The way it is done i by means of a "phonojMmtar or sort of phonograph. A pot card i inserted, the operator, who would other wis be the writer, speaks his message into the instrument by the cutomry trumpet, and the mechanism trace, the mf saage in the usual way. The card is men auaresseu, aiampea, and sent v..-. vi. oa In through ihe mail. At the other eni of I , , . . . I lh ttalaw urn f m VMmth inatl nrnvMl f ha mute m wiiiisut mflh nhfi I no-tal" awaits the receiver, and . the th undoing of a pool room for women receiver, and the voice of the sender ,,ruwn tone b""" ol " Fif,w may lie readily recognired. Surelv, this Wth twt J"1"! InT0' M" ia a irreat age we live in! Uughlin sujectej the place nearly month ago and has been trying to gel Jnicntista are again on the trail of vw,nw 10 r'a " fV,r wm' Axwa I a -a .A .t the "missing link." Two years ago m l P0 P001 m w" certain marks were found on a block irna .v women 01 weaun anu I .1 a t .t . .!..,.... m-..i I : prominence on me esi nwe. wno va ir,iniviir umi s mt 1 iiitii(-ti, 111 1 Australia, which were thoneht to be the 'nt to ,n lhrip triage- , ----- Advertise for French Maid and Watch ful Inspector Supplies Out Detec tives Rush in oa Maid's Signal, Find it Women Studying "Dope" Sheets. imprints of the footstep of a, pre and automobiles. The inspector was historic man. At the time this idea P1' P,p tnr 4t "inf was ridiculed; bu.t a plaster. cast was ent to Germany, and the inevitable German savant went out to investigate the matter. He now nMrts that, in his opinion, they were genuine human imprints, and this, taken in conjunc tion with the extraordinary human kull to be seen in the WarrnamlxK-t .Voung woman threw museum, is supposed to show that a link between humanity and the ape has been discovered. GEARIN'S CREDENTIALS. an advertisement for a French niald to work in the suspected house. Ilia de tectives lost no time in hunting up a young woman who could sak both French and Fjiglih and she had little trouble in getting the job. Promptly at an hour agreed upon, t hi open the front loors and the three detectives rushed in. lhey found three telephones work ing, a race at !Sew Orleans ts-ing called off and eighteen expensively dreed women studying dojie sheet and rac ing chart. The intrusion caused a panic among the women patrons whoae nan and addree were taken by the police. Catherine Uoddy, accused of lieing the The Republican party in New York is now engaged in a year-end hou-e- leaning. The process i not a pleas- nt one, but it makes for political health, and the necessity is ample justi fication for whatever discomfort it cause. Two eu"tom examiners resting under charges are continued at their regular duties in the goverrum-nt employ and secrecy is maintained by tho-e in au thority a to the outcome of the case. Knowledge relating to the public busi ness should not be suppressed. o TIiom; Columbia student who are re solved that life is not worth living any more can't imagine the excitement that is in store for them when they begin to spread the nine-dollar-a-week salary earned by their splendid football tal ents over twenty-five dollar desires. 0 The grandchildren of Senator Wil liam A. Clark, of Montana, the multi millionaire, may be said to have been liorn vtith a golden spoon in their re--pective inoiitlm if ever it could be said of any baby. He has just notified his son, Cliiules W. Chirk, of San Mateo. Cal., that Charley's new baby is dow ered for a million. The Senator got the habit ouie years ngo. 0 The icHtrt that come from Florence of the uti'liirioiis looting of a church at 1'escina. when a work by I.uea dcla llobbin was stolen, is dotihtlc another exemplification of the various form blackmail may take. This work, by one of the Italian masters of sculpture, graced the altar of the church, ai:d it was necessary to move the entire altar. It is hardly Hsihle this is the work of mere souvenir hunter, and it must be the piece is held for a high ransom by some "Black Hand" organization or other. 0 Well, the old survivors of the glorious Army f the Potomac ought to be sat- Sold by Frank Hail OPT. GRAHAM'S GRATITUDE Suffered from Sores on Face and Back Doctors Took His Money But Did No Good -Skin Now Looks Clear as a Babs. ANOTHER CURE BY CUTICURA REMEDIES New York Comment On Oregon's New Senator. The New York Commercial has the following editorial comment anent the proprietress of the place, and three em tyle and struct ure of L. S. Senator I plove were arrested John M. Gearin's credential as made up and delivered to him by Governor Chamberlain: "We are not advised a to how sensi- ive a person the Honorable John M. Gearin of Oregon muy be. But if his epidermis and cuticle are each poseed of only the ordinary thickne-, he must have been made very uncomfortable ifii his credentials as an appointed I nited States Senator, following the leath of Senator Mitchell, were present ed in the upper branch of Coiigre-s lat Thursday. "iney nad been read in the usual way when the Honorable Julius Cner Bur rows of Michigan, who has not hitherto been suspected of over-nicety in the matter of the English language, arow and called atention to what he con -id eder 'defects' in the documents. 'They provide,' he explained, 'that the apjxiin- tee shall hold office until 'hi successor is elected.' Of course, the United States enator to be elected by the Oregon legislature i the sin-ce-or of Senator Mitchell not of Senator Genrin. A fine joint, to be sure, but well taken. The governor of Oregon had simply made his own man uncomfortable mul brought his Stat under a bit of ridicule by add ing that phrase 'iniiie surplusage,' Senator Spooner called it. "Julius Caesar, however, was not yet through with tho-e Gearin credential. He pointed out more 'ill wording in this particular: The governor had appointed Mr. Gearin 'to fill the vacancy' which, it wa argued, the governor cannot do; he may make a temporary appointment, but the 'vacancy' can be filled' only by the Oregon legislature. Another well taken point for the Ocgon vacancy still exits, of course, I, as not been 'filled' at all! All this did not prevent the swearing in of the waiting appointee. Ife is United States Senator Gearin, all right. And the governor of Oregon is in eminent company, too. He may indulge in 'surplusage' occasionally and ill-word hi public documents, but not one bill in twenty- tjiat tf-ts introduction In Congress is without the same defect or worse ones. Some of them would be thrown out of almost any back woods legislature. "Senator Burrows didn't mean to be rude. And he has really done his coun try and the Congre-s thereof a great rhetorical and grammatical service.'' 75C PER MONTH For tlto OR 6 ASTORA Delivered right at your door every morning before breakfast by the BKST CARRIER SYS TEM in the country. The Morning Astoritn Contains the Litest Telegraph News. Shlpptof htelleence. Condensed local News Portland Market Reports, Real Estate Traosxctioss, Society News. Railroad News. Sporting: News. , County Official News. Complete Want Columns And in fact all of the News of the Country Captain W. S. Graham, nil F.off St., Wheeling, W.Va., writing Jane 14, toi, eayi : " I am to eratcful I want to thank God that a friend recommended Cuticura Soap and Ointment to me. I suffered for a long time with sores oa my face and back. Some doctors aaid 1 bad blood poison, and othera that I bad barbers' itch. None of tbem did me any good, but they all took my money. My Incnds tell me my skin bow looks as clear as a baby's, and I tell them all that Cuticura Soap and Ointment did it." STILL ANOTHER CURE Neck Covered With Sorei, Hair Fell Out, Wild With Itching Mr. II. J. Spalding of 104 W. 104th St., New York City, says: " For two years my neck was covered with sores, the disease spreading to my hair, which fell out, leaving an unsightly bald spot, and the soreness, inflam mation, ana merciless itching made me wild. After a few applications of Cnticura the torment subsided, the ores disappeared, and my hair grew thick and healthy as ever." AND STILL ANOTHER 'For over thirtr yeara I suffered from painful ulcers and an eruption from my knees to my feet, and could find neither doctors nor medicines to help me, until I took Cuticura which cured me in six months. ( signed) M. C. Most, Gainesville, Tex." (SrfWrt Son. OtaHML uS nib m HimuftM Q ri4i fvttw Unt Cfcm. 0of Butaa, Sal . 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For saia by Frank 1 IlEAIXjUARTERS, Hart and leading druggists. We Pay The Exoress TT.1t- 1 I. T1 1. 1 1 K. I. I. I simply liquid electricity. It goea to land charge you no more than our next every part of your body, bringing new door neighbor. Send for. Illustrated hW. .irwicth and new fifor. It makes catalogue today. A solicitor wanted tou well and keeps you welt 33 cents, bi erery town. r SIS! Arc You Planning to Remodel? If you contemplate remodeling your precnt home now or in the near future, you should" ituJ ihe lubject of Plumbing. . A Im!e knowledge on the subject will be beneficial to you In the selection of the bcit material inj fixtures inj in their proper location throughout the home. If you will call in J comult ni, we will give you attractive L'tcriture on modem lanl tation and will ihowr you the nmplcl of fiWOofr Ware we hive in our showroom. J. A. Montgomery, Astoria J. Q. A. BOWIJBY, rreaUmt. O. I. rKTERSON. Vice-President FRANK PATT0N, Cashier. J. W. GARNER, Assistant CashUr. Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paid la 1100100. Bur pins and Undivided Proflu W.000. TraasMU a General Banking Ruslneaa, Inlereat lald on Time DepoIU 'M Tenth Street. ASTORIA, OREGON. Weinhard's r Beer. Sherman Transier Co. HENBY BJ1 EUMAN, Manager Htcki, CirriigesBipgige Checker' and TrDfcrred Trucki and Fur niture Wagons-Pianoi Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 ConmercUl Street f flont Main 121