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THE MORNING ASTOMAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
MONDAY, JULY jo, i9ofl.
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QUITE COMFORTABLE, THANKS!
The current news, as it drifts over the
Columbia river from tbe northshore
communities likely to be invaded by Mr.
Hill's new railway line to the mouth of
that stream, is of a cheerful sort and
indicates an honest belief, over there,
in the genuineness of the enterprise.
There is a noticeable readiness on this
side of the river to take a bit of stock in
tbe reputed project, and as long as the
confidence lasts, all hands are entitled to
the comfort it brings. We, of Astoria,
. have something altogether definite to
engage our especial attention, namely,
the positive assurance of the extension
oi the A. & C. as far south as Tilla
mook, and within a certain time. This
is meat for us, and we are digesting the
unctious morsel with quiet satisfaction.
All things come to them who wait, and
Astoria is, and haa been, for many years,
a "star" waiter. Mr. Hill cannot come
to the Columbia bar without bringing this
city its modicum of largess; this city
cannot be ignored in any scheme involv
ing the establishment of permanent im
provement of any sort, in this vicinity.
The Columbia river basin will contribute
something .always, to the city that lies
at its gate, no matter what agency may
direct the movement. We are glad for
the Wasbingtonians that Hill is com
ing to develop their share of the dis
trict; we hope it will be something
immense for the whole state on tbe
north. What we want is to see the
mouth of tbe Columbia taken into the
commercial calculations and maritime
ventures of the future. We do not care
how far the benefits may extend, nor to
whom they innure; Astoria will get her
share of the increment. Between the
two men who are "doers" of things,
Astoria is going to the front, despite the
influence that lurks twelve miles up the
Willamette from its mouth.
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: THE LABOR FAMINE.
There ia a widespread dearth of com
petent, common laborers on the Pacific
coast. The farms, factories, mills, mines
and railways, are short-handed every
where. Even the trades are none too
well supplied with trained men. Wages
are going up all over the land, and the
wilfully idle man is in a class with the
hobo. Just where the shortage is going
to land the newly broached enterprises
all over the country, is a mystery. That
the reaction will come is infallible. And
the wisdom of the employer, and the
employed, should be eagerly at work
fore-stalling the conditions of that
hour. It is one of those things in which
capital and labor are indissolubly and
co-extensively mixed up; and the
blunder of either falls heavily on the
other. In the moment of prosperity
provide for the day of reversion. It will
come just as surely as the sun shines.
The work of the world must go on;
commerce cannot stand still, and
exigencies like the present, make for
the labor of the alien. The Japanese,
the Chinaman, the South Sea islander,
the foreigner of any and all sorts, is
impressed, to carry on the imperative
junctions of the work-a-day world.
It may not be right in the sense that
the white man has the first right to the
task of the day and its emolument, but
it is the inevitable outcome of labor
famine everywhere, and it must be
Iwne, in good part, by nil concerned,
When the situation eases up, and tlv
demand is more easily met, will be time
for adverse expression.
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THE HOTEL.
Every day that pastes over the heads
of Astorians but amplifies tlie necessity
for a first-class hotel in this city. It
is the one thing the ha not trot. Not
another season must pass with such
delinquency. The city is growing too
rapidly to longer ignore so palpable an
advantage a an up-to-date hostelry
There is wealth enough right at home to
provide this thing, and there is the
amplest sort of return awaiting the in
vestors. The continued absence of this
csntial adjunct to the business life of
Atoria, is injuring her; she is discred
itel everywhere, as tiie city without a
hotel. The proprietors and managers of
such house aa we have are making the
best of the situation and doing all in
their power to keep the local houses at a
margin of excellence that will compen
sate in some measure for the dearth of
the real accessories that the ordinary
traveling public is used, and entitled, to;
but it will take something bigger and
letter and more modern in the hotel
line than we possess at present to fill
the exactions of & discriminating pa
tronage.
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DOPED MILK.
There in considerable talk round about
Astoria these days regarding the habit
of the milk dealers doctoring the milk
they sell with some kind of dope to
keep it from souring. It may be harm
loss enough stuff, but in the light of
tie late, lamented exposures throughout
the country, as to doctored edibles and
drinkables, it is expedient that our
milkmen stop it, and stop it at once;
for the people are not in a humor to
telerate anything of the sort at the
present time. The comments are becom
ing very geneiul, and not at all compli
mentary. "A word in time." etc.
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There are over 7,000 parts in a well
known 24-horse-power motor car.
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The American Farm Products com
pany, according to its prospectus, ia
one of the "good trusts."
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"Two pints of milk make one quart," J
says an exchange. So does one pint of
milk and one pint of water.
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Adams and Eve were lucky. They
had no fool friends who wanted to be
funny when they started away on their
honeymoon.
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Bernard bhaw's assertion that "we
are all more or less rascals" looks like
a lame attempt to justify the villains
in his plays.
SHAKESPEARE DOWN TO DATE
Modern Translations of the Bard of Avon's Historic Masterpieces
OTHELLO
By STRICKLAND W. GILMLAN.
rO HKRK was .once a brunette gen
loman living1 in Venice among
nvVv the white trah and other nubil
ity. His name was Booker T.
Othello, and he w the only man of hi
complexion who had ever put hit bro
gans umW the Venetian white house's
napery.
Whenever he came up from Tuskegee
he was consulted about affair of state
and made a perfect fool of. He was
wise one in the matter of war, and a
Venice usually had one war on hand anJ
two on the waiting list, she kept thl"
African immigrant busy planning how to
clean somebody.
A French doctor declares that all
man has to do to live 150 years is to
make up his mind to do .so. That sounds
like a New Year's resolution.
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If, as the poet says, a room hung
with pictures is a room hung with
thought, what would a village barnyard
fence be called after the circus poster
has been around?
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Goods sold by a trust in Missouri
need not be paid for, is the latest ruling.
There are lots of goods sold on trust in
Astoria that" are never paid for,
whether they ought to be or not.
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The postmaster of Detroit declares
the women workers in the postal ser
vice look for the eay jobs. For reasons
cot necessary to mention, he fails to
give the names of the men not looking
for the soft places.
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A Connecticut preacher has declared
that Adam was not the first man. The
Connecticut gentleman, it will be noticed
has taken the precaution to wait until
there would be absolutely no danger of
Adam's bringing witnesses to substan
tiate his claim.
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The census committee of the house at
Washington has made the interesting
discovery that the schedules of the first
census taken in 1790, when the United
Slates were but a year old are still in
e?:istence, giving the names of all the
inhabitants at that time. It is now pro
posed to reprint that report verbatim,
as a great service to people who wi'h
to trace their ancestry back to the birth
of the republic.
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Any husband who, tiring of the wife
of his early years of struggle, seeks to
divorce her in his later years of buc
cess, and stops not at the most infamous
accusations to gain his point, must
needs have sunk to a very low level.
His moral degeneracy would need no
other proof, even though he were able
to substantiate his charges, which in the
present case seems unlikely.
One of the sugar senators at Venice
at that time was Brabant io, who was i"
enthusiastic as other with regard to the
ex-Pulman porter. He thought Othello
woud be a good man to manage the af
fairs of Cyprus, a territory with an al
kaline reaction, which had not yet been
admitted as a state. So he concurred in
in the appointment of hi dingy nibs t'
that job.
As soon as the new appointee took his
place he fired an under secretary to the
governorship, named Iago, and appointed
friend of his named Casio. He give
Iago some sort of- dinky job that wasn't
under the civil service rule, and that
made the lttte secretary sore. The latter
job paid nearly as much sulary, but the
chances for graft were very seldom. So
ago begun to plan to get even, and from
the latest acounts he sure did.
Now, while that inuu Bialantio
thought Othello was a right and proper
person to entrut with the management
of Cyprus, he had never thought of the
coon in the light of a son-in-law. "A
rose by any other name would smell as
sweet," but, preserving the figure of
peech, a negro by the name of son-in-
law would smell worse, though Brab. He
had had Othelo at his houe to spend the
evening many a time, and the man had
told yarns of his African campaigns and
fights with the cannibals and other non-
egetarians, while Senator Brab't daugh
ter sat around with her mouth looking
like the entrance of the Hoosac tunnel.
Thell had noticed this, and was keen
nough to know that the girl was pretty
groggy on him. So next time he would
make' up and hand out a worse thriller
and Dcssie was a whole lot willinger thm
she cared to admit, but she let him
know it was a go.
Now, this tired secretary, Iago, had
said to Rodrigo, a friend of his who was
crazy about Des:
"Rod, I'm sore about getting the guil
lotine when the smoked savage turned
the rascals out; and I think I can make
trouble enough to help us both some. A
tin-badge detective I employed tells me
that Senator Brabantio's girl is about
to skip with this patent-leather finish
governor of ours. AH we have to do is
to put Bmb next, stir him up good and
plenty about it, and let nature take
its course. I'm going to come up good
and strong as Thell's confidential only
one-to-be-trusted friend, and play both
ends against the middle. You can do a
man lots more dirt as his friend than
you can as his enemy."
So they got alantern and went around
to Brab's dump, and hollerr-d him out,
Iago asked him if his daughter was home
and Brab's answer was all it should have
been. Then Iago and Rodrigo got busy
hinting to Brab that Dessie was out with
the ebony. Again Brab arose to the lin
guistic emergency, and Rod and Iago
squatted until the words quit biting the
ground around them. Then Iago said:
"Of course youhave always been sore
on Rod for fooling around yotiu girl, and,
of course, I'm a well-known liar. But if
you'll search your Dessie's boo-dwor at
this present moment you'll find her miss
ing. Cherwise, you can come out and
go around the corner with us and say
what you'll take."
So down to Dessie's stall todlcd papa,
but no Dessie. Then there was more
trouble than you could shake a stick at.
He said he wished he'd married her to
Rodrigo or anybody that was white. He
joined the two muck-rakers and got a lot
of innocent bystanders to fall in, and
away they went to Othello's shack, the
old man swearing at every jump that the
girl had been hypnotized.
When they found the pair, Iago hud
trotted on ahead and innocently warned
them that he believed some one was
coming, and that they had better hit the
grit. He knew mighty well how that
would affect 'Thell. No sprinting for the
coon. He would stay and see what was
what. But about the time the mob got
its tar warm and the feathers dumped
in, somebody threw a scare into Venice
by announcing that the Turks were com
ing with about a million big ships to
make the Venetians hard to catch, and
'Thell was needed right away with his
razzer. So he and his wife went with
Senator Brabantio to- court, and after
the matter had been presented to the au-
atiy sine, While he did It, lit culled
her a mi me occiilnimlly mid told her h
loved her, goh bin nut liar,
, Alwiiit the time i WA through quint-
lug her .Mealy fame breaking In, tint
explanation began, everybody' told on
Iago at once, Rodrigo and Cnlo add
ing tlii'lr dying testimony to J)eeN,
the bandit nit Incident whs elujifd up,
the Moor w whit a fool he had been,
turned Iuo over tit nn "Ulant to
kill as many wy he could think of,
then festooned himself on hi own
sword.
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the main plotter got him ami Rodrigo
to meet nud atab one another, That dis
posed of the two person who had
been annoying him on the hie, aid be
was ready to go on with hi devilment'
lii-clilef.
The blank governor lu the meanwhile
had becu having another lon with
lilt wife, ami a often a she denied he
thoritie the man that corresponded to Ing what she wa icruted of. h said
tha president aldt Innocently, the very thing that would
"If your daughter want to go on with make her man believe the wa all kind
this nies allium .and U really in Iovtof a yaraer. It wasn't nice of Mr.
with hi black sheepship, let her take I Slmpespeare to have her y thoe
him. It' about the only thing to do. I things, for It mad matter worse for
Speak up, lVssie. Is he your only only I'M both of them. Before Del had gotie
"Right along," said lVle. "I take to I to her room she had told Mr. Iago that
him jus the same a ma took pa. lt'li belief vd something wat going to
him, or none for mine.'' I happen, Her corn were hurting her
Tlien Brab said: Hike the mischief, and her left ear was
"Run along then, girl. I'd be a heap burning dreadfully.
jollier If this wa your funeral, and It' "Mealy," she said to Mr. Iago, "I
a mighty good thing for your sMer that I had a chiropodist who worked steady
you're my only child." for me once who went bug over a man.
Then they sicked Othello onto the an- and she took one of the worst caw of
proaehing Turks aud meeting w out I the wootles ever noticed. She hung her
lVsie went with Thell to the war, head one one aide In a way to make
"for," she said, "there won't be anything (your back hair come loose, and ang
doing at home if I stay, only have 'nig-1 ong, 'Willow, all the time. I've
ger' thrown up to me all the while, I'd I simply had to hold myielf all evening
juiit as leave go and lie In Cyprus with I to keep from singing that foolish song."
the army. Mealy gave her ome soothing ayrup
So she went, chaperoned by Mrs. Iago, and put her to bed. and after a bit the
who stayed with the sutler' wagon .1 governor came along and dimlsed
few mile in the rear. Mealy for the night, He told I)ele
Then came the storm. What would about Cassio' injury; ti looked wor
Niaketpeore play have iccn wit mm: men, sna ne wa sure the worst wa
"tonus? He used a sxeat deal of sheet- 'rue,
ron in his piece, and plenty of horse-1 Whirling gayly some popular air. he
llil. lie windtorm. This storm that hit gathered Dessie up In a patchwork quilt
Cyprus at the right moment was a corker her grandmother had pieced for- her, and
It nearly broke the thunder machine, and loved her o hard she hasn't breathed
two new ratchet had to he put lu the
wind-maker next day. That Turkish
fleet was as easily submerged
as ii it luui neen a liusMan notuia ami
met a Japanese torpedo pleasure expedi
ion. Othello had no more fighting to do
than a rabbit. His razzer stayed right
in its case.
In the intervening period Iago had
been buy with that Rodrigo guy. Ho
had contracted to make Othello jealous
of his new assistant. Calo, and he pro
ceeded systemntii-aly and with a cun
ning that would make old Nick look like
an amateur to get lu his work. He got
Casio drunk and managed to let Othello
stch him that way. Othello fired C'asio
that minute. Iago went and told Dessie
what Thell had done, and asked her to
speak a word for Cash with the bos.
She wa awfuly sorry for the fired lieu
tenant, who was filled with next morning
regret and promises.
Iago coaxed his wife to get from Dessie
a bamlnna hanukercincr ol peculiar put
tern tliat Thell had given her for an en
gagement present. He didn t tell hi'
wife what it wa for, but he just coaxed
and coaxed, till one day when Otehllo
had been driven into a splitting head
ache by Iago's kidding him about Dessi
being untrue, Desie was tinkering with
the Mor's think-tank and dropped the
aforesaid bandana. Mrs. Mephisto picked
it rip and took it to hubby.
About that time Mrs. Iago began to
smell a mice. She asked her husband
two or thre times what he wanted with
that rag. but he wouldn't tell. He jut
snatched it and went anil dropped it in
Casio's room so somelsidy else would
find it there and so C'asio would have a
hard time explaining it to his own lady
friend.
Iago alxo had Othello hide and hear
Ca?sio talk about thin aforesaid mis
guided Indy friend who wanted to marry
him, Othello thinking all the time it
was hi Dessie that Cash was luughing
about and roasting,
Like the intelligent beast he was, he
believed everything Iago told him aliout
his wife and Cassio, and when De, who
was as innocent as a last year's bird's
nest, kept her promise and tried to get
him to give Cassio buck his bend clerk
ship, that looked still worse to the en
ameled one. He called her all sorts of
names except a lady, and had her going
south at a weat rate. She thought he
was oft" his nanv, and treated him ncord- . UUWUir, President.
incly. Mrs. Ino was all in the dark rJEKSUN, VIoe-Preldent
and couldn't help out a particle, but she
put in a great deal of time condemning
the practice of inter-race murriuges.
Still, thre was no peace for this busy
Iago. Rodrigo came along and said:
"See here, Mister Smnrty, when aro
you going to have that woman so son
at the liberian that she'll come to me?
That contract of yours is about expired,
and I haven't had any results that 1
can notice. I'm from Missouri."
"Well," exclaimed Iago, making it up
as he went along, "the woman has fallen
in love with Cassio now, and if he were
out of the way all would be right. The
way Cassio talks about that woman is
just awful, as I showed Thell himself
the other day. You kill Cassio easy
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"Aw, I don't wanta," grinned Rodrigo,
bashfully, digging in the ground with
hi big toe.
'Then you don't want Dessie the way
I thought you did, and I'm awfully dis
appointed in you."
"Oh, all right, if you feel that way
about it," said Rodrigo, blushing like a
school-girl and after pulling out his
sword.
So, after a' little fine lying to Cassio,
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