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THE MORNING ASTOlilAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNE I, 1906. THE JIORMG AST0RIAN EsUbUihd 1873. Published Dsily by TEX J. S. DELLINGER COMPANY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 87 mail, per year 17.00 By mail, per month 10 By carrier, per monti 65 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. B, mall, per year, in adranct. .1.00 Bntered at tfOond-oUss matter June . 16, at the postofflce at Astoria, or too, under the aot of Congress ot March S, 1ST. ty-Onter for ,j,e dsirfenn. of Tat Mobs waaxoaiAK taalthnr residence or place ot bootaeas nay bo mad bjr postal card or through tetochona. Any lrnularity la do Irfwr should bo InuaediStely reported to tb flee ot publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Official paper of Clatsop county and Dm City of Astoria. fiod ,in numbers, for tlu purpose of "committee to wait upon (lie governor," and for the lnrger functions of swiiviiujt legislation, they will hardly siureod in a bare squirm; but lie has the ''appoint ing" power loft, and will probably iw it until hi customary "non-part iun" freedom. HE HAS ONE MORE. Brer' Sovey, erstwhile of this city, and now editor of the Aberdeen Bulletin, re lying upon his intimate knowledge of affairs political in "dear old Clatsop." Ventured upon a prophecy the other day. as to the outcome of certain candidacies in this bailiwick, and w ith the surest ion that he has just one more gues "a comin'", we respectfully refer him to the election returns published in these columns 011 Wednesday last. WEATHER. Western Oregon and Washing- Western Oregon and Washing- Un Showers. Eastern Oregon and Washing- ton Showers and thunder storms OVERDOING IT. THAT HOTEL TENDER. Astoria has done herself no pood by the rank indifference with which she has turned down that $100,000 hotel propo sition. The mere giving of a suitable site for the house, was a small bonus to pay for the immense advnntae that would have accrued from the investment. the establishment, and the bringing of new blood, and new money into the city, Such offers as was made through Mayor Wise do not, as a general thing, go beg ging for acceptance. It was an irre parable blunder. 0 000000000000000000 O EDITORAL SALAD. 0 000000000000000000 The open-air band concert will soon be ripe enough to pick. 0 The most popular general with Rus sia's people seems to le general amnesty POLISH CLUB HOUSE. NKW YORK, dune 7, A committee representing wealthy IVIUh business men of Now ork was npiHunted vector day to select a locution and arrange for the building of a popular clubhouse on the east side for the use of Polish resi dents, to cost upward of $00,000. At the same time a local committee appointed by the Polish National Alliance, which lias its headquarter in Chicago, and numbers over IIOO.OOO memlwra, is ar ranging for the building in the neighbor hood of the Mattery of an emigration house for the temporary care of Polish immigrants. The house, with the land which it will occupy, will cot I7.V000 The Polish national home is to be tne name of the new club house. The move ment to erect it was organized in l!'02 It will be the home of .108 P0IUI1 so cieties. . There is a fast growing sentiment in this city against the victimizing plan of the fire insurance companies to impose the 25 per cent advance on the old prem ium rates in existence here, and most merchants feel that it would be cheap er to burn up than pay the thieving toll. It is not that Astoria has done anything to invite the excess; she has not an atom more risk than she ever had; no policies of government have been adopted that warrant the new and oppressive rate; it is a. cold-blooded method of securing money to pay the losses at San Francisco, what of them are to be paid; in other and plainer words, it is nothing more or less than a well-considered hold-up and should be treated as such by every property own er and business man in the city. CLATSOP'S COURT HOUSE. Is it not about time the taxpayers of this county we getting next to the policies of the county court in relation to the new court, house for this county! Or is the whole scheme, with its ex travagant cost to be left utterly to the commissioners? It takes money to pay the constant stream of big bills that are ieing paid out of the treasury here ivery month, and those, whose money is involved in this endless outgo, had better review the situation before the county is wholly committed to some thing far beyond her requirements and her resources. It will soon be too late! Among possible patients for nerve tonic cannot be reckoned the Douma. o It look as if one might soon get used to dispensing with those winter flannels. 0' This is the season when the big fish begin to get away from the enthusiastic angler. o The popular prejudice against "em balmed beef" bids fair at last to become effective. 0 As to Mr. Bryan's visit to the Douma this week, it's sixteen to one that he doesn't enjoy the speeches. 0 The meat packers have as little u-e for an investigation as Senator Reed Smoot has for a quorum. o Five million parasites are to be im ported to prey on the gypsy moth. What will they live on when the gypsy moths are eaten up? 0 If it comes from Chicago, perhaps just as well call it sausage and admit that the precise identity of the meat U an insoluble mvsterv. The failure is announced of the Empress, the leading woman's club of London. We can almost hear Grover Cleveland's smile. 0 A London doctor savs people get heart trouble from not eating enough. A prize will be offered for any two doctors who agree on what is enough. EIGHTY-FOUR TO SIX. With eighty-four solid republican votes to six democratic votes in the Oregon legislature there should be but little left for the "non-partizans" to gloat over at adjournment. The ascend ency of Mr. Chamberlain in June, 1906, will not compare favorably with the les sons that he will have learned by March, 1907. His "personality" ends at the doors of the capitol. Any pronounced success he may achieve next winter will be by the grace republican forbearance, and unless the spirit of the dominant party is wholly unloyal, he will count his office a mere semblance of power, a hallow sham, and a grievous disappoint ment. !Y, . 0 "7 THE SEAWALL PROBLEM. It is Bincerely hoped the conference to be held today between the Seawall committee and Colonel Wiillard Young, the Portland engineer, will be produc tive of something tangible in the way of plans and costs. The question is a large one, and means a great deal to the city, and the committee is to be commended for the deliberateness with which it is acting; and the hope is abroad that the exceeding care it is taking, may redound to the security and permanency of the project, when it shall be set on foot. 0 WE WISH HIM JOY. With a solid republican house and the senate four-fifths republican, we wish Governor Chamberlain joy of his post. His "corporal's guard" is scarcely quali- Every part of the hog is now utilized; the packing houses used to pack all but the squeal, and now they are certainly putting up the squeal. Democratic conventions in Missouri are indorsing Mr. Bryan as a Presiden tial candidate for 1908, but discreetly avoiding the issue whether he shall stand as an unterrified radical or as a convert to "safe and sane" conserva tism of the eastern type. 0 It has been decided by Lord Elgin, colonial secretary, that the wife of the governor-general of Canada is entitled to be adressed as "her excellency." Now that this important matter is settled, our English cousins will proceed to at tend to business and other minor mat tersin due time, you know. 0 The drydoek Dewey has been sighted in the Indian Ocean and has reported all well. How it would behave in a typhoon is not altogether certain, but it is made to ride out any storm and probably will be able to do so. In due time it may be expected to reach its destination in the islands which made its name famous. The senate, has done excellently well in restoring the full amount of the ap propriation for the rebuilding of West Point. That historic institution has, all told, cost the country only the minutest fraction of the indispensable benefits it has conferred upon the nation, and no right minded American will grudge the expenditure of all that may be needed to raise it to the highest standard of efficiency. 0 ( The Morning Astorian prints all the local and telegraph news. The Vary Best Remedy for Bowel Trouble. Mr. M. F. Borroughs, an old and well- known resident of Bluffton, Ind., siyi: "I regard Chamberlain' Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as the very best remedy for bowel trouble. I make this statement after having used the remedy in my family for several years. I am never without it." This remedy is al most to be needed before the summer U over. Why not buy it now and be pre pared for such an emergency? For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggist. HOT IN NEW YORK. XKW YORK, dune ".Signs that the campaign of the lieiit against vitality has begun were observed throughout the city yestenlay and one death and several prostrations were reported. Covcrnment records showed that a miximum temper ature of only iu the upper regions, yet sidewalk temperatures were taken which revealed a miximum of 93. Although yesterday was the hottest day of the year it was attended with more di-stres, on account of the humidity. The rain at nightfall tempered the air eonisderably, although by ! o'clock a temperature uf 76 degrees was indicated. If your stomach troubles you do not conclude that there is no cure, for a great many have been permanently cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets. Try them, they are certain to prove beneficial. They only cost a quarter. Sold by Frank Hart and lead- iig druggists. o In beauty town there dwelt a lass, Her face was fair to see, The secret of her beauty lay, In Rocky Mountain Tea. Frank Hart, druggist. $25.00 REWARD. A reward of $2." will be paid by Beaver Lodge No. :)", I. O. O, F for the recovery of the body of the late H. F. Bruhn who was aeeidentlv drowned in the Columbia River, near the Fort Stevens wharf on Tuesdav, June C. GEORGE XOOXAX, Xoble Grand. OLOF AXDERSOX. Secretary. PURE "TEMSE" AND "THAMES." IN THE pjUHSEHf Y rem Baliy's Bath Baby's Clothes For an Eye Wash, Mouth Wash, 8trl1lln the Bottle and Washing Napkins. ABSOLUTELY PURE Beware of substitutes and bulk boras. Take only tO-Mule-Tero. All dealers. Bend 3c for ampla and illustrated booklet on Boras Id the Nursery. Address PACIFIC C0A8T BORAX COMPANY 8an Francisco, Cat. "20 -MULE -TEAM" BORAX SOAP Saves Hands, Clothes and Labor Present address Pacific Coast Borax Co. Bacon Bldg., Oakland, Calif. tVlsIn of th Sarin About Krttlac tha River cm Klrt. Sometimes whoa n person wnuts to make mi unpleasant remark In n pleas ant sort of way about n dull tray he will say, "That boy will never net tli river on flro." Now, that Is nil very true, for even the smartest man In tli world could never sot n stream of wa ter on lire, and so perhaps many of you who hare heard this expression have wonderod what la meant by set ting tho river on flro. In England nmuy, ninny years ago, before the millers hnd machinery for sifting flour, each family was obliged to gift Its own flour. For doing this It was necessary to use a sieve, called a teniae, which was no fixed that It could be turned round and round In the top of n barrel. If It was turned too fast tho friction would sometimes cause It to catch Are, ami as It was only the snmrt, hardworking boya who could make It go bo fast tho people tot Into tho way of pointing out liny boy by saying that he would never set the teniae on fire. After awhile these, sieves went out of use, but as there were still plenty of stupid hoys lu the world people kept on saying that they would never set the temse on fire. Now, the name of the river Thame 1b pronounced exactly like tho word teniae, and so after many years those persons who had never awn or heard of the old fashioned sieve thought that "setting the teniae on fire" meant set ting the river Thames on fire. Thin expression Invame very popular and traveled far and wide until the people Uvlng near other streams did not see why It was any harder for a slothful boy to set the Thames on Are than any other river, and so the name of the river was dropped, and everybody after that simply said 'the river," meaning the river of his particular city or town, and that Is how It Is that people today talk of setting the river on fire. ROUSED THE AUDIENCE. A Mlnlnc Camp Melodrama With mm t nriperfrd (Umax. Joseph Jefferson used to say that hlB career came very near Mug nipped In the bud In a small western town. lie at that time was a member of a small pioneer company which progressed by means of three "bull teams" from one mining on m p to nnotlicr. They were always lienrtlly received by the min ers and cowboys, who readily paid the $5 in gold required to witness tbelr performance. Mr. Jefferson was the traditional melodramatic villain and Id the third act was supposed to kidnap the child." The supposed mother, hearing Its cries, rushes upon the scene Just as he Is atmut to escape and fires a fruitless shot from n revolver. I'pon this particular occasion nil hud gone well until this scene was reached, and the audience, many of whom had never before seen any kind of theatric al performance, sat us If spellbound. At the crack of the mother's revolver, however, the spell was rudely broken. 'By heaven, she missed him!" a red shlrted miner In the front row shout ed, drawing his own six shooter and leaping to bis feet. "Round to the back door and head him off 'foe he can git a boss, boys!" he yelled, and, following blin, half the audience stam peded for the exit. The excitement was finally allayed by tho "mother" and the villain ap pearing Hjand In hand before the cur tain and the manager's explanation of the situation. When the performance had been concluded the audience Insist ed on paying another admission price and having an Immediate repetition from beginning to end. Success Magazine. Begin Again Today. Emerson said he was an endless ex perimenter, with no past at his back. This Is the secret of finding every day new and delightful. To be bound down by what transpired yesterduy, to as sume that things must certainly be so because they have always been so, Is to limit life to narrow confines. The Joy of existence Is to tackle every day as a fresh problem. Who knows what It may bring forth? Nothing prevents as from living It In an entirely new way, as If yesterday bad never been and tomorrow were not. To be ham pered by no precedent, cowed by no fear, Is to strike out on fresh trails sod find new delight dally. Exchange. Card Marks. It Is conjectured by some writers on the subject that the marks upon the cards designating the four kinds In a pack were originally symbolical and Intended to signify the different class es of society. According to this suppo sition, the hearts represented the cler gy, spades the nobility, some old packs of cards bearing a sword or lance head instead of a spade; clubs the serfs and diamonds the burghers or citisen classes. V Early. "The boss asked me what made me look so tired," said Galley, the clerk, "and I told him I was up early this morning." "Buhl" snorted the bookkeeper. "You never got up early In your life." "I didn't say that I got up. I said I waaup." ITaderirolna; Repairs. Lilll (at a soiree, whispering) What has become of Aunt Lucie's habitual smile? Erna It Is at the dentist's. Tlt-BIts. Catspaw Customers. 4m llTNr" ruiisUit ofs The story of the monkey who used the cut's paw to pull the cheslnutsoutof the fire, finds new illustrations dully. 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