THE MORNING ASTOMAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
WIDHISDAY, JANUARY laod..
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W1XT1T ASTORIA.
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TXUPH0VX MAIN Kt.
the (nod of Astoria. If aU men res
say this when 1(W shall have raised
Astoria will be on the map of the
northwest in rery pronoum-ed and
vital shape, Astoria mill here awsken
ed and taken her place in the world
of commerce, ta the fashion that her
iar, location, wraith, culture, aud
punk demand for her.
e WEATHER REPORT.
0
e Western Oregon and Western
Washington Increasing cloudi-
sen with, light rain n-ar the
aorta coast.
NOTHING TO STOP HER.
We have heard nothing to indicate
any opposition to the work .that this
eity has rut out for herself ia the nut
ter of taking a strong initiative in the
building of a line from here to Tilla
mook, but we expect, at the plan de
velop to hear a good deal of it. There
can be nothing tangible in any obstruc
tion from here; if any are raised they
will be inspired by outside influences.
There ia nothing to stop Astoria from
launching this important project but
ler own inanition. nd that can be
overcome by a genuine and hearty
campaign by those who have the good
of the city at heart and by a diplo
matic use of all the public spirit that
can be roused. It is all in embryo at
this moment, but a cordial, sensible,
emphatic endorsement of the scheme
will go far toward shaping it into a
tangible, practical and wholesome pro
position, appreciable, and appreciated,
from one end of the community to the
other. All it need is INITIATIVE.
TOADYISM GONE MAD.
Wfien the American does taka on
the style and status of a toady, he,
and ibe, fills the bill to perfection. Just
bow there ia a fool mania for doing
something for Mis Alice Roosevelt, to
accentuate the fact of her engagement,
and subsequent man-fog, to Congress
man Long worth. It is in abominable
taste, the whole line of suggest vty;
and the fulfillment of tny part of the
proposed benefaction would be tanta
mount to downright insult to both
families. The mere fact of the promi
nence of the bride to be lends the qual
ity of added and de!ilrate offense, for
the actual merit of a gift dwvll in the
necessity, or aptitude of the donee, to
receive, use and appreciate the endow
ment. Miss Kooselt hss innumerable,
personal friend, who ill undoubtedly
do their whole duty In accords nee with
the custom of the age and see that
i-he is heartily and happily equipped
with everything that their privileged
good will ran suggent; and tliis dune,
.... i - ii.
, the wlinle Utlsine-s is uone. riumr
gifts are not needed, wanted nr in
order.
ASTORIA IN 1906.
AVhen the pre-ent year slisll b- a.
old a I'MKi. it should be the Isast of
every Astorian that he has roiitrilnitol,
in some measure to her poromm-wl ad
vancement j that he IihS lent willing aid
to her every purpose end has not
ought to baffle nor deny her progress
in any line; that he has gone volun
tarily to ber public amblies, and dis
eased, weighed, and given an intetii.
to every scheme of development that
has arisen ia ber behalf; that be hss
yielded money, time and influence to
her up building; that bis band nor
voice nor prestige ha been, lent, dur
ing the year, with any other view thai
GOOD, SOUND ADVICE.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer utter
the following which ia logical and
timely, and we express our co-invidvnc
with it, by re publishing it:
it ia said that more life insurance
premiums fall due in the present three
month period, December, January and
February, than during any other por
tion of the year.
"A sword to all policy holders just
now is timely. . . .
'Revelation made of the conduct of
New York life insurance companies
have disturbed somewhat the old feel
ing of security in thee concerns, tad
have similarly given a rude jar to
confidence in life insurance as a means
of providing an ok! age competence, or
for making provision for a dependent
family in the event ot the death of the
bread winner. This confidence ha not
been restored, and because it hss been
destroyed many policy holder will be
strongly tempted to pass their prem
iums and let their policies lapse.
"To do so would not be wise. There
has been bad management of many of
the leading New York companies. Re
sources have been wasted, to be sure;
but the portion wasted is relatively
small after all. Tie insurance coin
panics are solid, solvent and sound
financially. Their incomes have been
enormous, and the unearned salarie
and commission paid all told make a
very small part of the aggregate reve
nue. The greater part by far ia well
invested, and the values of all insur
ance company properties are multiply
ing rapidly,
"The policy holders investments are
secure. Their premium are fe, and
will constitute an accumulation that
will make provision fr the future.
The real effect of the disclosures made
will be to cheapen the cost ot insur
ance. They have not injured the securi
ties upon which the financial soundness
of life insurance rests.
Pay your premium when it become
due. Do not lose what yon have si
ready paid in. Xo safer provision for
the future can be made thsn invest
ment in a life insurance policy. If kept
up it will afford full provision for the
future."
STEEL FROM BLACK SAND.
An interesting account of experiments
in the smelting of magnetic iron ore by
electricity i given in a late bulletin
issued by the United State geological
survey.
The experiments were conducted in
Portland last October, and the ore fed
to the sp.-cially constructed electric fur
naces was the magnetic irons or magne-
site obtained at Hammond station near
Astoria, on the Columbia river. A cur
rent of fifty-seven volts, tnd 1000 am
peres, leading to twenty-five carbon
electrodes four Inches square and forty-
light inches long, did the smelting.
The slags were a light in color as
those from any well regulated furnace,
and steel was successfully produced at
every run. Reduction in every ease,,
as said to be complete.
The value of these experiments I ap
parent to anyone familiar with condi
tions. There is known to exist enor
mous quantities of these sands along
II the rivers and ocean beaches of the
Pacific Northwest. These sands are rich
in magnetic irons of superior steel-
producing quality. The wealth of wst-
power msks-s i possible to smelt in
electrical furnaces at a minimum of
cost that is mll compared with the
minimum cost of any similar process
nywhere else in the world. And last,
the iron or black sand deposits and the
water power are contiguous, which
means that nature has assembled ore
id fuel at the same place.
Tlie advantages are obvious. The
conditions sliown by the successful
con luct of the black sand experiments
Portland last summer hava an Im
portant b'sring on the industrial future
the Pacific Northwest. Thi experi
ments should not be discontinued.
They ere exploiting a future resource.
Seattle Post-Inteligencer.
HE'LL DO SIGHT ALRIGHT.
President Roosevelt is evidently In
esrne-t in his determination to stop the
stealing of the public domain which
ss been going ou too long, and b.- has
no patience with lax officials who do
not attend to their duty strictly in this
matter or who makes things easy for
the thieves, out of consideration for
their feeling apparently. Dissatisfied
with the result of the prosecution of
wo ot the biggest offenders, who fenc
ed ia 22,000 acre of Government land
in Nebraska, the ssme east which ex
cited Secretary Hitchcock's displeasure
for the inadequate outcome of hi four
years' work, the President has removed
the I'nilcd State District Attorney
who conducted the case and who re
fused to resign. The men confessed
guilt, and the Federal Judge let them
off easily, a the Washington author!
ties regarded it. Part of their punish
ment was to remain ia the custody of
the I'nited 8tate marshal for the term
of six hours. It appears this alert
ollicial delegated the duty of keeping
them in custody to the prisoner's coun
se, and that worthy spent the time
with them at the Omaha Cluh Of
course that marshal is now looking for
a job.
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PROPER PROGRAM.
While they art about It the nava
authorities seem determined to Make
a clean sweep of this hating business at
Annapolis, It is officially stated that
the Hoard of Investigation hss already
obtained sunk-lent evidence to place on
trial a number of midshipmen for that
offense, and their rase will be taken up
as soon a the court-martial of Midship
men Coftin and Vanderveer is com
pleted. And only case that hava oc
curred during the present scholastic
year are to be taken up at that.
) EDITORIAL SALAD.
Morale seems to be about I fugitive
as morals in Santo Domingo politics.
The thousand ton barge is at tho
State Treasury door, with hatches
open.
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Dr. 0h-r returns to find the Osier
pole immune to chloroform.
The New York people probably think
by this time that Mrs. Booth's insti
tution for ex -convicts should be called
Hopeless Hal)."
Indiana Democrat are denouncing
Tom Tsggart a illiterate. The Indiana
man who has not written a novel is at
last discovered.
During the struggle In the New York
stock market, when call money reached
100 per cent, Russel Rage'a compas
sionate soul wss stirred to that extent
that he placed 16.000,000 at that figure.
Charles- T. Yerkes, the noted railway
financier, is desd. Mr. Yerkes was a
remarkable man in hi line, one of those
peculiar financial geniuses, of which
America has so msnytoo many.
0
Ciar Nicholas still "hope tor Uie
best," end hss written to his imperial
chum. Kaiser Wilhelm, to that effect.
Nicholas is the most cheerful man un
der adverse circumstance on record.
Santo Dumont and Walter Wellman
are to hunt the North Pole in an air
ship. They must hava found the
ilirigible balloon practicable, or the
Chicago Record Herald would not have
given Mr. Wellman such an assign
ment.
novo, which exploded white bring open
ed In the St, Petersburg general post
office, must have I wen some of those
"incendlaiy documents that seem to
abound iu Russia.
a
In regard to the old familiar phra,
'a broken heart," there have been
those in the past who asserted that it
wss a mere figure of speech and that
"no one ever died of a broken heart.'
Hut tiiodeia medical scionc seems to
refute that. Coroner' Physic n
O'llsnlon, of Manhattan, had a rase on
Christmas afternoon which apparently
fully justifies the time-honored phrase,
Mrs, Mary McCord, aged 60, dropped
dead Saturday night in a butcher
shop while buying a turkey for the
Christmas dinner, and the autopsy Dr
O'llsnlon held revealed the fact that
the woman's death was caused by s
rupture of one of the ventricle of the
heart. Neighbor said she had been
deserted by her htwband soma time ago,
and had been grieving constantly ever
since, tirief and disappointment are
the causes usuaiy assigned for a
broken heart.
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ach Troubles.
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stomach troubles, and trying all kind
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Father Capon, the Russian priest,
upon whose bead a price been set, is
said to have won large sums of money
t Mont Carlo, which he intends to
contribute to the revolutionists In his
countr. He's a winner if bis friends art
not.
The Providence "Journsl speak of
Intracollcgiate . Athletics," although
most, if not all, of it contemporarie
say "inter." lt' ee, the college i
the "alma mater" of nourishing mother.
Mother W feminine, of course. Hence
intrt." We must speak by the card or
the "P. J." will trip u.
COCXCOXAX nUNKLiX
I found Vlnol deliciou to take, with
out oil or grease; it did swpps) my
stomach like the old fashioned cod liver
oil and emulsion, and ita strengthen
ing properties are truly remarkable.
It entirely cured my stomach trouble,
and I ran eat heartily at any time of
day or night iwthout the slightest dis
tress. Vlnol tones up the stomach, in
crease the appetite and creates
trength."
What Vinol did for Councilman
Franklin, our druggists, Mr. Charles
Rogers, 0 fthls city, guarantees it will
do for every person in Astoria, suff
fering from a tired over taxed, or
worn-out stomsch which rsnnot proper
ly digest food.
Vinol contains no drugs, but it doe
contain all the vital principle of cod
liver oil, without the lystem-rlogging
oil.
Wa ask every person in Astoria suf
fering from stomsch troubl.-s, or every
run-down, week, debilitated or aged
person to try Vlnol on our gusrsntee
to return money If it fails to give,
satisfaction. Chirles Rogers, druggist.
Those letters addressed to Count
C.en. Trepoff and Interior Minister Dur-
Cured Lumbago.
A. D. Canman, Chicago, writes March
4, 1903. "Waving been troubled with
Lumbago, at different times and tried
ona physiclsn after another then differ
ent ointments and Liniments, gave it up
altogether. So I tried once mors, ana
got a bottle of Bsllard's Snow Lini
ment, which gave me almost Instant
relief. I can cheerfully recommend It,
and will add my name to your list of
sufferer" Sold by Hart's drug store.
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0. L PETERSON, Vice-President.
FRANK PATTON, Cashier.
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