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theCiyrofAjitorla,
THAT FRENCH DUEL
The restoration of Drey fun to the pot
of a brtsadier-Eeneral in the army of
Fran has evoked another duel. The
French duel hns been a standing joke in
this country for year, but this latent
expreosion of the code, was really er
iousj there was blood, actually drawn;
wounds inflicted and life put in peril
Somebody blundered most gravely, and
the press of America has been deliber
ately done out of a humorous morsel,
that, in its infinite and various apti
tudes, mijjlit have kept the country
laughing for years.
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4 WEATHER.
Western Oregon and Washing-
tonFair, continued warm.
Eastern Oregon and Washing-
ton, Idaho Probably fair and
continued warm.
THE REAL THAW.
It is evident from the trend of de
velopmenta to date, that Harry Thaw is
no sort of a hero. He is of the common
est and noorest clay imaginable. Before
he shall have gone through the ordeal
awaiting him, the last and least of his
v weaknesses, and the rotten score of
their indulgence, will be in the mouths
and ears of mankind, to his' utter damna
tion and that of his kind. He has lived
the life of the profligate in its vilest ex
pression and he cannot hope to escape
the exposure his own reckless jealousy
has evoked. It is perhaps, an excellent
thing that the people should know all
about the limitless phases of aristocratic
depravity; the hideous lengths to which
the cultred brute can go; the profound
and filthy levels to which the woman
hood of today can be depressed when
swayed by the will of a degenerate man.
It is among the lessons of the age, and
if it shall have the effect of halting the
on-rush of the indifferent, money-mad.
social concourse; of inciting the thought
and pulse of humanity to something
better and cleaner and nobler, then the
exposure were well unfolded. A barren
hope, however!
, NOT ABOVE LEARNING.
The United States government has de
tailed two army officers to travel for a
month with one of the largest cireues
in the country. It is not an infrequent
occurrence for officer to be -detailed to
schools and colleges, in order to give in
struction in military tactics. This time
the object is not to teach but to learn.
Rustics and city dwellers alike have mar
veled at the seeming ease with which
the transportation and maintenance of a
great circus is managed. A thousand
people, scores of horses, with animals
requiring special conditions of heat, air,
op food, and a mass of canvas cordage,
and other material, " both heavy and
bulky, are carried from' one town to
another with fidelity to a schedule pre
pared long before. In the town at which
the next performance is to be given the
tent is set tip and all other arrange
ments far entertaining crowds of people
are made." Sleeping quarters and regu
lar meals for a thousand men and wom
en are provided. The animals are fed
and watered. The money and other I
valuables are guarded. It may be that
the circus will remain in one town tw
or three day, or the next dav may find
l many miles' away, but whatever the
program the men in charge are capabl
of carrying it out
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O EDITORAL SALAD.
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flame from a gasoline torch is directed
against it. If these brlck prove satis
factory, the building of fireproof struc
tures will be revolutionised.
A queer case is on trial in the circuit
court in tJaleaburg, ill., wherein George
W. Dunbar sues C. It Moon and Kndsl
man for $.1000 damage. Dunbar assert
that a week ago while he was driving
across a bridge near Henderson, hi
horse became frightened at Mme posters
which had been nailed to the bridge po!
and becoming mipatened, were flipping
in the wind. The horse ran away, throw
ing Dunbar1 out and breaking hi leg, and
he has, therefore, sued the men who had
the poster printed for damage.
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There are said to be at leant fully
quarter of a million of American people
settled in the Canadian West, and it is
estimated that nearly 100,000 tnor will
go there before the cloe of the present
summer. This- influx of Americans
particularly welcom to the Canadians,
especially as they go thera with full
pocketbooks.
' Importance's! flobblee.
For the well being and stable bal
ance of every mind It la normally nec
essary that every man should have
some pursuit which shall b uncon
uected with his business, which be
must pursue with absolute seriousness.
The hobby may be a game, It may be
a collection of some sort (even tamps)
or it may be some artistic achievement,
and whether a man scarcely attains
mediocrity even In It matter not at
all, provided he pursue It with the
fixed Idea that nothing else In the
world matters. Loudon Queen.
ELIMINATION.
The bill-posters of Chicago have de
termined to "eliminate" the devil from
the advertising matter of the future, on
the score of the pernicious effect his
"Satanic majesty" has on the public
mind; the inspiration to do something
"devilish," as it were. So far, so good,
But we beg to offer a suggestion, in kind,
that may have even a farther reaching
effect in minimising the teadeney to evil
thought and action. Eliminate any and
every picture that slanders the name
aad virtue of decent womanhood; refuse
to post the nude, the semi-nude, the
suggestive phase, and pose, and line,
that leads to impure thought. The femi
nine nude belongs to the art that is im
perishable; that typifies the glory and
grace of the world in its most cultured
and exalted moods and sonceptions; that
mean only the beautiful and appeals
only to the loftiest purity of mind. All
else is but the coarser manifestation, the
lower example, wrought with deliberate
and insolent purpore. Eliminate the
nude, and the devil will take care of
himself I
' ' LAW VERSUS THE LAW.
The railroad attorneys of the country
are- going into almost immediate confer
ence upon the amendments to the Inter
state Commerce law, recently enacted by
,Cogress. They do not intend to suffer
the imposition of restrictive law if ther
is any prescriptive law to prevent it.
They will examine the new statutes for
flaws and blunders and loop-holes, and
make a complete record of their weak
ness, for the purpose of organic and
united attack later on. There will be
no predicate discoverable to the legal
eye that will be omitted from their pro
gram of demolition, and it is doubtful
if even the supreme court wiH be able
to withstand the concerted fight of these
brainy and well-paid champion of the
eaaHies belonging, presumably, to the
great transportation companies,
Did you ever notice that "talk" doen'i
hurt a man much! Perfection isn't look
ed for in man. and when some one tries
to injure a man by ranting about few
faults he has, the absent one, who is
probably attending to his own affairs, is
elevated in the hearer's estimation, while
the informant is lowered accordingly.
If a man knocks along, doing fairly well
people realize that while he has some
faults, he has more virtues and they are
charitable enough to overlook these
faults. But it is different with a girl
or woman. No matter how good and
pure a woman may be, let someone start
an infamous lie about her and everyone
is willing to pass it along, and there is
always someone to believe it That
lie can never be lived down. It may
burn low but the gossip-loving are ready
with new fuel. Did you ever think how
damnably mean, some goody-good people
are in this repect?
The pestmaster-general has submitted
to the post-office committee of the Sen
ate and House a bill for the issuing of
postal notes of denominations from 1 to
9 cents, inclusive, without fee, and of
postal notes of the denominations of
10, 20, 25, 30, 40, SO. 60, 70 , 80 and 0;
$1, $1.50, $2 and $2.50. A fee of 1 cent
will be charged for notes ranging from
10 to 40 cents, and of 2 cents for notes
from 50 to $2.50. A receipt form, to be
retaiaed by the purchaser, will be at
tached to the not'8 of larger denomina
tions.
Several years before Mr, Lincoln re
ceived his nomination for the Presidency
he received a letter of inquiry from the
east concerning the financial standing of
a gentkman in his own town, and his
reply was: "Dear Sir: I know Mr. II
and his standing. He has a wife and
baby that I think a fair valuation of
might be $30,000. There is a table in
his office that I believe to be worth a
dollar and a half, and there are three
chairs worth about a dollar, and there is
a rat-hole in the corner that would
bear1 looking into." '
There will be fifty-three Sundays in
this year, an occurrence that will not
happen again for 110 years. This extra
Sunday can be utilized in attending
church, calling on your best girl, reading
Rcripture, playing with "the children,
breaking a two-year-old colt, sporting
gophers or some other way. One hun
dred and ten years from this date you
will probably be paying the penalty or
enjoying the pleasures of the method in
which you choose to spend the extra
Sunday,
Tree laakea of Borne.
The flying frogs of the Malaya ap
pear to be mythical, but the tree snake
of Borneo ore credited with taking fly
lng leaps from the bonghs of trees to
the ground. It is found that scale on
the lower part of the body may be
drawn Inward so that the whole lower
surface becomes concave. The resist
ance to the air is thus greatly In
creased and experiments indicate that
the makes do not fall in writhing colls,
but are let down gently In a direct line
by the parachute-like action of their
peculiar bodies.
The Crarat.
The cravat was once the name of
great military nation, trie Croats, or
Cravates, of the Balkans. It was their
fashion to wrap large shawls or pieces
of cloth around their necks and shoul
ders. About tbe middle of the reign of
Louis XIV. he uniformed several regi
ments In the Croat fashion, with huge
shawls about their necks. The fashion
took, and tbe shawl diminished in size
to the slight strip of cloth we still nave
with us.
Bern rear Krldeacc,
"See here, Jokely, I'm surprised to
find you writing such bitter, cynical
thing about married life."
"Weil-er Benedict, you see, the fact
Lb er -
'Oh, don't apologise. It Isn't that
What surprises me Is how, not being
married, you know all these things."
Boston Transcript
Frleada.
"If a man Is friendless It is his own
fault"
"That's right. Why, there are fine
fellows standing on every corner who
Would gladly borrow money from nlm."
-Pittsburg Post.
ONE FOR ALL AND
ALL FOR ASTORIA
Astoria's
New and
HOTEL!
Modern
Mr. Astoria Man:
Did you ever figure how many thou
sand capitalists visit the Pacific Coast
without comisg to Astoria?
WHY?
If only 100 investors came te Astoria
during each year and enry one or tw
them invested, would we all b
benefitted f .
YOU BETI
Deposits of clay have been discovered
in Monterey county, California, from
which can b manufactured ait abso
lutely fireproof brick. Houses built of
this material can net cath fire frnn the
outside ami fin me inide are quenched
by a vapor that rises from the brick
when beat is applied to it. It Is an ex-
flhnt non-cod uetor, and remsw cold
an inch below th surface while hot
Would it injure the restaurant and
lodging houses now here if the tourist
who now stay .away would some te
Aatoriat
NOT MUCH
We cannot harr a hotel in front of
every lot.
Bnt every lot will be benefitted by a
FINE HOTEL
Have you the nerv to invite your
influential friend to visit Astoria newt
Where will they stop fn Astoria?
'Opportunity knock but once otlier
kbouker pleas oopy, ,
You can't go ahead by sitting itill,
Reipectfuly,
TUB NEW HOTEL COMMITTEE.
Opportunity is like a fast moving train
quickly or your chance is lost."
you must get nWird
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F IAN
Makes a Special Statement id the
Fishing' Interests of this
Community
A $500 piano for . .$296
A $450 piano for $265
A $400 piano for ..$237
A $350 piano for. . , . . . . $218
$6, $7 and $8 a Month.
If There is a Piano in the Stock of Twenty-Odd Pianos
That You Want, Select it Now and Make Your Payment
Oct. 1 $7.00 a Month Gets a Standard Instrument
See us Monday
, e understand as well as anybody, the people engaged in the
fishing businss look to the July "run" for their bijr monev. This
"run' never fails, but simply varies in its date-merchants, bank
ers, and canners all know this law. We aTo told, in twenty years,
but one failure is recorded, and the following year's "run" moro
than offset the bad one.
We would have liked to have brought to Astoria our fine stock
of pianos in September, in which ease there could be no possibles
reason for our not doing a big business with the people engaged in
the fishing interests, but we couldn't possibly arrange for Sep
tember, for we have planned to be in Eastern Oregon immediately
after the wheat harvests.
But we are here with the pianos one car arrived yesterday,
and tomorrow brings in the other one. These instruments, every
one of them, the very latest and newest style, were intended for
our fall trade in Portland, but they, can't' be used there as our
store is closed till November 1st. We were forced into new quar
ters on account of increased rent.
The pianos we ask that you look at, include the "Weber, the Kim
ball, Crown, Weser, Iladdorf, Story and Clark, Bailey and Schu
mannany one of them a lasting delight in any man's family.
And the prices are right; our being without a home in Portland,
makes it necessary to cut prices to wholesale and especially so at
this time, for we know you'll say "Wait thirty days to see how the
'run' comes out.
But well wait for the run" take the piano now and pay us
something the first of October. . .
Monday morning we open for business.
Ten days will be enough time to sell every piano, for the
prices are right and the pianos are the best.
Will meet you evenings, if you
Black 2183.
but let us know. Phone
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(V ; WHOLESALING PIANOS TO THE RETAIL TRADE T1L1 NOVEMBER 1ST.
Commercial St., Opposite Sherman Transfer Co.
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