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THE MOltNING ASTOMAN. ASTOHLV, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, MARCH it, igoO. THE MORNING ASTORIAN EiUbliibed 1873. Published Dsily by THL J. S. BELLINGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year 17.00 By mail, per month W By carrier, per month 65 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance. .fl.00 Kntered nwnd-olass nrottor June . t the ptwtoltW at Astorin. uiv fon, under the not of congress, ot Mrvh 3, ONION SLuTcD larOnt for tho d4ivmrg of Thi Morn" mo irrouAN to cither msidnui or ptaow ut buKinent n)' b njadt1 by portal card or through tele hem. Any trrrtfuUrity in d liTwy ihMild b mmedUtely reported to the office of pubJioation. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Official paper of Clatsop county 'ami the City of Astoria. boy who Imvo loft srliool utul cannot U compelled to ret 111 u thereto, but who cannot or i'l not rind, work, Such Imy nrc poimittod to roiliu tin1 stict ut will, ami until th.-v mtiiullx become disorderly or crimin.il the olliiirs of the law inuy not intcrtVie with them. i That toii'h loiilinjf au.l sheet education inevitably lead many into vice ami mi--ihie! iMiileiiiii: on ctiiiie has lie n ev eniili;icl in A-to w. What ..in the neM Icp-latuie do (0 pii'teit the -t and at the -a'tic time avc mi.-Ii fiom '.) t.tat ion anil crimed The friend- of chihl labut lej-is-l.itiim au.l I'ojmlar education may a--k the next legislature t amend the cvist injj law in relation to the form I -ub jiit so as !o r iiib'v compulsory attend ance of v'tool children between the I a;ci nf 14 and 10. provided they ale without steady employment. Such a statute would v''V1' '"v "' ''"'! privil p of choosing between the alter- j native of school or work, but would i keep him off the stre t, w ith it' tempt 1 j tions and pitfall. o EDITORIAL SALAD. T. Pierpont Moiyan has pai! .."0,IXH) for a collction of inaiiii'cript of Rob ert Hurns. the jilow-boy poet. We hast en. for the benefit of l'lat-op county poet-, to add that Mr. Hurns is d":ld. WEATHE. Western Oregon Rain. . Western Washington Prob- ably fair. Ea-stern Oregon Rain or snow. Eastern Washington Probably fair. MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS. The message of Mayor Wise to the council Monday night anent contracting bills, contrary to the provisions of the ordinances of the city, is in accord with suggestions made by the Astoria n a long time since. The business of a municipal corporation should be conducted along the same lines as a private business en terprise. No business man would think of allowing his clerks to go out and buy goods or supplies or make contracts, without first consulting him. The many bills on file in the office of the auditor and police judge for supplies purchased by the different departments, show ex travagance in many instances and charg's for goods that is exhorbitant and more than is charged other people. Political debts are often paid by the award of contracts, even for small amounts, and it is to cure this evil that caused Mayor Wise to send his mess.ige to the council. The suggestion that the council make out a list of supplies required for each department, and advertise for bids for furnishing them, is a matter worthy of careful consideration by the council, al though it is doubtful if the suggestions will be acted upon. It will certainly give every merchant an opportunity to bid, and result in securing necessary supplies much cheaper than they are now furnished. In Philadelphia the other day one man tried to kill another after they hud ipiarr led over a put. Kven in the case of the jroat, comedy and tiagedy w ill be -operated by but a whisker. o Siienti-ts ehiiin tliat insanity i- cms ed by -microbe. If proof i- wanted they can point to a large number of people who have giown oray owr mi crobvs and others who are still going. A New York millionaire says his sister-in-law broke five of his ribs because he didn't want her to live in his houe. There really caut ! much sati-faction in supporting such a lady. The dispatches indicate that the gov ernment is confronted with another great problem in trying to find a jury of their peers to try the Standard Oil magnates. Accomplished Facts Are The Foes of Progress By Pruldent WOODROW WIUON of Princeton Unlvtnlty IT is tho duty ut tlic university to sproml out tho map of life Htul to show tho journey. Tho man who is lost is ntill there, even in a wihlerness. ' T1IK ONLY "MKTIIOP IS TO STKl'K rOK FIXKD POINTS. Dollars are not landmarks. T11KV COMK AND 'IT IKY 00. The thim; for tho university is to ilevoto itself to tcut'liing tho lines of safety. We are as li; as the thinp we have eoiiijiiereil. Our com pass is the experience of knowleilire. There are two remarkable things about our race. First and fore most is the KXTKAOKDIN AKY force in this country. The ma jority apparently have overwhelming compulsion. The university men entertain their own opinions. The sivind i that nf an accomplished fact, When otf l.:is done a thing or once a thing has been divided t'ltd you try to do differently, YOU AKK TOLD THAT IT IS XO I'SK TKYIXO TO Klv YKKSK T1IK Till NO. If you were convinced that even the decision of the supreme court was un reasonable, would you say anything? Xo mistakes can be corrected if you believe in ACVOMPMSllKD FACTS. It is the duty of every man to UKAD THK FAST HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY to have opinions of matters that have been decided mid correct any mistakes that have Ikhmi mude. It is no small duty that iies before us. What do we intend to dot Must w not have -nine general scheme of life? Must we not always have the spirit of de-i-.-ing the best -the truth? WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STAGE OF THE WORLD'S AFFAIRS. AND IT WILL BE AWKWARD FOR US IF WE DO NOT KNOW THE PART WE ARE TO PLAY. Political Onformatten Annomiccniciil" of eioi'lMules for nltleo III tie iilihoil In lliin eolillunii al eoii . ul'lonile lor men of ull hoiii. , , REGISTRATION KciiiMrutloll liihikit opeiieil liv County t'lorkn. TiiemtilV , I1IOII111.V J. Wft Itt'illoli'iilloil liiHikiteliMeil (or I'l hoiu V Klecltiiii, April In, H J. ill Kt'Ulol 1 ill hill IxHikii upeiieil nUer iiimiu V ole.-lluii, April '.'i lii'iilslmllou liiHik cloactl for lO'iicoil rloelluii, Muy la,Ai, III. 1MKECT I'HIMARY ELKCTION I'omit v Cli'ikx ifho notice of I'l liiiurv lOlcellou mil loli t llion Mureli'i , I nl 1 1 11 v lor nilim pol 1 1 1 hik lor 1 1 uc 1 1 ) u iiiimea 011 luillol for tte, etui! nuIoiihI unit itUtrloiiiitliHvi, Vluroh im. Ult ilav lor nllllu I'l lllloli" for Counly oirieoia, Aptll I, DATE OF PRIMARY ELECTION, APRIL ao, 1906. I'miviiKslnti oe of pi limn v elciiloiK lot ulale util.'f, Vny .1, , QENERAL KLECTION IiinIiIuj foi llllnu eci tlllciilcn of iioinlmitloii fur lle udlem liv luwmlily of eleeloi, April 1 , IjisI iliiy lor nllnii iioiiilimUuu icllllon lor utiiln oftti on, Muy i. IjihI iluv (or mini! eiirimeiiieo of iiooihutl Ion, tor counly otlticm I'v iiitinljly elii'torn, Mu I 1 ast iluv for llllnu iioinlmillnit i tiMoii, for coiinly nftli e, Mity It', j GENERAL ELECTION, JUNE BE SURE AND REGISTER CANDIDATES ((ANNOUNCEMENTS Tlieiv don't seem to be ns many aspir ants for office in Clatop county ns one would natnr.illy hupposc, ronsiilerinj; tjie fact, that any man has an opportunity of bein-r a candidate. Kanis farm products for the year are reckoned to the amount of $20". for each man, woman and child in the state, and Kansas is likely to be more excited over the cost of ca-tor th.ui kerosene b" fore summw. CHILD LABOR LAW. Remedial legislation in the matter of the child labor law seems to be a ne cessity and one that should be consid ered by the legislative assembly of Ore gon when it convenes next winter. At the request of a number of women, who had interested themselves in trying to gave the young boys from becoming criminals, a law was enacted four years ago by the legislature, prohibiting chil dren under- 14 years of age. from being employed in any telephone, telegraph, manufactures or other indutry. A commission was appointed to enforce the provisions of the law, but so far as the enforcement is concerned, it is ap parent that no well directed efforts have been made and the law to'lay is virtual ly a dead letter and cumbersome to the statutes of Oregon. That some legi-la-tion in this direction is necessary admits of no doubt. Our child labor law is admittedly one of the best in the United States. Its enforcement, however, leaves much to be desired, but supposing for the sake of the argument, that all eva-ions there of can be stopped, there remains the question of the boy of 14 who leaves school but does not go into any gainful occupation. Many instances of this kind not icilile in Astoria and the police find it difficult to even enforce the curfew ordinance on account of strenuous op position from parents. The question is a very seiious one. The criminal classes in the larger cities, and noticably, Portland, is greatly and constantly reinforced by recruits from boys between 14 and 16 years of age; Children Should Be Inured to Hardship By U. H. KINCSLEY, Suptrintr ndent of Schooli. Ivinitou. III. I THINK ten or fifteen vears cm the farm is the best thing for tho hoy of today. NO SYSTEM OF ATHLKTICS over takes the place of the life and training he gets TIIKRK. The i.!ial condition is to have children inured to hardships. For three ve;:rs I got up at 5 o'clock in the morning, milked fivo cowb and walked five miles to school and during that time was never tardy or absent from school or from a recitation, and I have little sympathy for children t.day who live under the shadow of the sehoolhouse and can't get to si-hoo! on time. THE MOST VALUABLE LESSON IS THAT WHICH EXCITES THE GREATEST EFFORT ON THE PART OF THE CHILD. THE COPY BOOK IS THE LOWEST FORM OF EDUCATIONAL TRAINING, AND THE MULTIPLICATION TABLE IS THE NEXT. The name of Dr. '. K. T.inton, Repub lican .uelidatc for coroner was unin- tentional'v ornitt"! from the li-t of j candidates who had filed their nomina tion. Doc. however, is certain he will he .-ct-d and -ays he will put a nail ill til" coUii) tiu-t. The dies-makers in convention as-em-bled have been -howing how it is pos. sible to make a woman with a poor form look as if she lead the physical propor tions of a Venus. Isn't this likely to in terfere with the confidence of the mas culine enthusiast? Cured Consumption. Mrs. B. V. Evans, Clearwater, Kan., writes, My husband lay sick for three months. The doctors said he had quick consumption. We procured a bottle of Ballard's Hoarehound Syrup, and it cured him. That was six years ago and since then we have always kept a bot tle in the house. We cannot do with out it. For coughs and colds it has no equal. 25c, 50c and $1.00. Sold by Hart's drug store. HAS FEWEST MISTAKES. Woman Makes Record for Clean Work on Typewriter. CHICAGO, March 20. In the speed contests on typewriters at the National Business Show last evening, a woman made the record for the smalhst num ber of mistakes in her copy. She was Miss Elizabeth Baker, and in half an hour she wrote 4085 words, making mis takes in only 52 of them. This was sufficient to place her in fourth place, the first prize being caried off by Charles If. Mcfliinin. of Kalamazoo. Mich., who defended his title of champion "typist" of America by writing 4027 words in thirty minute, an average of 154 words a minute, H. Otis Blaisdell, of Chicago, won second place with a record of 4238 words. Third place went to Eniil A. Trefzger of Peoria who last year won the cham pionship r.f Illinois. TALK oa TALCUM? If you are buying talk then buy anything the dealer may choose to say is "just as good." If you are buying talcum, then MENNEN S BOkATED TAL- fS5 Pictimil of Bo CL'M is the only preparation which you can buy with satisfaction. "Talk is cheap." Talcum, however, is not so cheap, bc-ca-.sc it costs the dealer more and makes his pi lit less. That's why he'd sootier sell you talk than "tak'uni"of the .'cm:c:i Brand. Don't be talked out of buying Mcr.nen's Borate'! Talcum, theon'y'imwdcr 'hi h can be used with safety and satisfaction. Have you tried MENNENS VIO LET BORATE I TALCUM TOILET POWDER It's fragrant with the odor of fresh plucked Parma Violets. For sale everywhere for 25 cent mailed postpaid on receipt of price, by GER.HARD NENNEN CO.. IWurk, N. J. Ac I 'T I i l Wjt.E.ov.r ; ' f'v.;".-".'""'' , Fic ilmllt of Br i or TIDE TABLE, MARCH MARCH, 1906. High Water. " I A. M. I P. Date. h.m. ft. h.m. Thursday li 4:30 Friday 21 5:10 Saturday 3 5:58 SUNDAY 4 6:55 Monday 5 8:fl2 Tuesday 6 9:08 Wednesday 7r0:0fl Thursday 8jll:00 9 7.8 5:031 7 f; G:00 7.4 7.3 7.31 7:11 8:301 9:44 M. ft. 6.2 5.7 5.4 5.4 6.8 MARCH, 1906. Low' Water. j A. M. P. M. Date. J b.m. ft. h.m. ft. lifl:'02l I.UjlO :jl 1:501 7.6 10:381 6.4 7.9111:24 8.3l 0:04! 7.6'. Friday Friday 911:501 8.71 Saturday 10 0:4)1 8.2 12:38 SUNDAY 11 1:19 8.6 1:23 Monday 12 1:57 9.0; 2:10 'lueaday 131 2:-35' 9.0 3:00 Wednesday 14 3:lfi! 9.0l 3:51 Thursday 151 4:00i 8.9! 4 Friday 10) 4:501 .0i 5:58! Saturday 17 5:49; 8.2 7:18 SUNDAY 18 6:55' 7.9; 8:43 Monday ...19 8:11' 7.7' 9:5. 7.0 8.9 8.9 8.7 8.4 7.8 0 7.1 6.5 6.2 6.2 0.6 ..201 9: 8 10: 51 1 7.0 Tuesday Wednesday 21iHf:30' 8.0 11 Thursday 22'11:23I 8.21.. Friday 23 0:12! 7.9i!2:10 Saturday 24 SUNDAY 2 Monday 26 Tuesday 27 Wednesday 28 Thursday 29 Friday 30 'iatnrdny Ill 0:471 1:15'' 1:45! 2:15 2:41 3:10! 3:44' 4:201 35 8.iil2:50 8.3! 1:261 8.3 2:02! 8.2! 2:37: 8.1! 3:14 8.0! 3:50 7.91 4 7.71 5:251 7.4 8.2 8.2 8.01 7.8 7.5 7.1 6.6 0.2 6.0 Thursday Friday . Saturday 3! SUNDAY 4 0:34 Monday 5 1:50 Tuesday 61 3:15 Wednesday 7 4:v:i Thursday 81 5:16 Friday 9 6:0.') Saturday 10 6:47 SUNDAY 11 7:2! Monday 12) 8:07 Tuesday 13 8:55 Wednesday 14 9:45 Thursday 15I0:40 rnday n:ii;4U naturdav 17 SUNDAY 18 Monday 19 Tuesday 20 Wednesday 21 Thursday 22 I'nday Saturday SUNDAY Monday , Tuesday. Wednesday .23 .24 .25 0:55 2:20 3:41 4:48 5:40 6:25 7:00 7:35 ,201 8:071 ...71 8:,40 ....28 9:10 1.9 3.8 4.1 4.1 3.8 3.2! 2.6 1.9 1.3 0.8! tf.5 0.4 11 12 1 3 4 4 6 0 7 7 8 9 9 0.510 0.0 Thursday 291 9:45 Friday .iO10:S2l,; Saturday 3111:03 3.5 3.7 3.5 3.0 2.5 2.0 1.6! 1.3! 1.2 8: 1-21 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.3111: :52 :35 :48 :56 :05 :58 :43 26 05 :45 :25 :06 :57 :45 :43 :51 :08 :22 :25 :17 :02 ;41 :16 :45 :13 :42 :12 Am :15 2.9 3.4 1.9 1.7 1.4 0.9 0.5 0.1 -0.1 -0.1 0.1 0.5 0.1 1.7 2.4 3.0 0.7 0.8 0.6 0.4 0.2 0.2 0.4 0.8 1.1 LB 2.0 2.5 2.9 3,3 3.6 Eczema, Tetter, Salt Rheum, Itch, Ring Worm, Herpes, Barbers' Itch. All of these diseases are attended by intense itching, which is almst instant ly relieved by applying Chamberlain's Salve and by its continued use a per manent cure may be effected. It has in fact, cured many cases that had re sisted all other tretment. Price 25c per box. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President. 0. I. PETERSON, Vice-President. rHANK PATTON, Cashier. J. W. GARNER, Assistant CashUr. Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paid In 100,m, Surplus and Undivided Profit fW.OOO. Transact a General Banking Business. Interest Paid on Time Deposits FOR GOVERNOR. Republicans of Oieiron arc herein informed that 1 sin a cuiuli.lnle for tho nomination of (iovertior at the prim aries to be held April 20th JAMES wmiYCOMHK. FOR SECRETARY OF STATE. I hereby announce mymdf candi date for the offlc of NecrfUry of State, and axle the support of all Republi cans. V. T. IU HITMAN. FOR SHERIFF. I hereby announce myself as a can didate for sheriff on the Republican ticket at the primary nominating elec tion. EMSI.EY HOUGHTON. FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Ths undersigned hereby announces himself a a candidate for rr-rl.-ctloi to the office of Attorney-General, sub ject to the approval of Republican voters at t lie primaries A. M. CRAWFORD. FOR STATE PRINTER. The umlerlgmd announces hiins. If a Repuhlleun candidate' for renomliu tion for S tale Printer, subject to tin decision of the Republican voters at the primary elect Inn, April 20, Now serving flrt term. The aam. rutirtrsr that has been accorded to Stale nfllcer cenerally, that of a renonilna tion, would be greatly apprm'iatel. J. It. WHITNEY Albany, Oiegon. FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. I hereby announce tnynelf as a can didate for renonilnatlon for th office of Superintendent of lubllo Instruc tion, and xollcit the support of all Re publicans at the primaries, April 20ty J. II. ACKKKMAN NOW IN OUR NEW STORE COR- BOND AND llth. STREET WE ARE BUSY GETTING SETTLED BUI CAN FIND TIME TO SHOW YOU IIOW COMPLETE AND EXTENSIVE IS OUR STOCK OF WALL PAPF.K, PAINTS, OIL, GLASS, MATTINGS, MOULDINGS, ETC. COME IN AND SEE OUR NEW LOCATION AND LET US FIGURE WITH YOU ON ANY WORK N OUR LINE. 163 Tenth Street, A3T0RIA, OREGON, B. F. Allen Son, and EkJemh St. 1 First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. ii;sT.!tLisiu:i) ish. Capital and Surplus $100,000 Sherman Transfer Co. HEN BY HHEKMAN, Manager Hacks, Carriages llaggage Checked and TransfcrrccLTrucks anil Fur niture Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 ! That All Important Bath Room You have often heard people remark "If I were ever to build, I would plan my bath room first and would not put all my money into the parlor with all Its finery." That is good common sense sentiment, for the bath room is the nost Important of all the household. We would like to help you plan yeur hatf) room and will gladly quote you vrxev oi' "tonJat-J" Ware, the l est at i m om bkiuurv !:xturc inuuc. 1 J, A. Montgomery, Astoria. The MORNING ASTORIAN 65 CTS. PER MONTH Astoria's Best Newspaper