THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER it, . 1909.
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Official paper of CWUop county and
Um City ofjUtorUk
WEATHER.
d Western Oregon Fair, clear in
4 North portion, except near coast.
$40,000 SPENT Ilf 1906.
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The fact that Clatsop county through
its commissioners' court, has paid out
the round turn of $40000 since the
first of January last, on its old and
barely started court house contracts, is
not generally known. It is so, however.
The money has been spent upon old con
tracts for labor and materials and for
hauling and storing the came and for
the plans originally drawn in behalf
of the project.
' The Astorian is not indulging in any
criticism at this particular moment.what
ever it may have in reserve for a more
opportune season; but it declares frank,
ly and unreservedly, that the time has
come for one of two conclusive pro
cesses: The final adoption of plans and
the prompt building of the edifice, or
the immediate stoppage of further ex
penditures of public money in this di
rection. 1 Build the court house, or quit paying
out money upon a useless substructure.
The thing is a reproach as it stands
and unless it is disposed of in definite
fashion, one way or the other, is like-J
ly to develop into something worse.
It is time the people were taking a
land in this grave matter and making
their wishes known to the county court,
in order that there may be a sensible
and conclusive determination of a mat
ter that is beginning to invoke very
dubious comment.
That the building is certainly es
sential as a public improvement goes
without saying. Let it be built and
stop the apparently ceaseless expen
ditures that are swelling its ultimate
and disproportionate cost.
J preaslon, he might as well take over the
I actual proprietorship and put the mal
contents under wholesome federal dis
cipline, that shall mitigate the situa
tion for all, time to come. And the
probabilities ai that Mr. Taft will in
voke this ultimatum if his plans for
peace and progrs and safety are not
recognised without undue loss of time.
Swell a settlement is inevitable some
day and if it be hastened in the pres
ent emergency, it will be a wise and
diplomatic conclusion.
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One of the dortoi aitvs all women
would have good complexions if they
smoked cigarettes, lie must have stock
in some cigarette factory.
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Thin gills ean get join in the bureau
of engraving and printing, but the lit
short eirla are barred. It is in this
deportment that money is made.
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A fourteen-year-old girl socialist was
arrested in New York recently for talk
ing on the street, but was released by
the magistrate.
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"Seek For Wis
dom, Not
For Dead
Facts"
Dy CYNTHIA WISTOyER ALDEN.
Author,
The bank examiner is a good deal like
stroke of lightning. The worst has
already happened when we hear the
report.
0
Mis Frances Hamilton of New York
is the originator of the new profession
of "making up" the faces of society wo
men, and she finds it remunerative business.
0
The first deaf mute in this country
to become a nun is Miss Etta Mao Hoi
man. who was recently received into
the Dominican order at Hunts Point,
N. Y.
AN ELEMENT OF CONFIDENCE.
Not in years has there been such a
feeling of confidence hereabout, in the
matter of the jetty improvement at the
mouth of the Columbia as prevails
since Colonel Roewler made his clear
and definite declaration that the pro
ject must have an ample and final ap
propriation for its immediate comple
tion. It is so much more than anv of
his predecessors ever said, or even in
timated, it is so clearly and cleverly
conclusive, and means so much, that it
has won the instant confidence of every
soul interested all over the state. It
is largely indicative of the man, and
a tacit avowal of his policy, and war
rants the conviction of final, if de
ferred, achievement. We trust he will
be left in charge until the jetties, com
plete and serviceable, shall be accepted
by the government.
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TAFT AND TAFFY.
Secretary of War Taft, now in Cuba
in the interests of peace and such other
good things as may be available, has a
delicate and important mission; and
the common knowledge of President
Roosevelt's abundant confidence in him,
warrants the conclusion that he is over
there with unlimited plenary power in
adjusting the mess. All other expe
dients failing, he! will ' probably annex
the "Pearl of the Antilles," which
would be the most thorough-going, eco
nomical and decisive issue possible.
Uncle Sam has the tacit and sole re
sponsibility of Cuba's future on his
shoulders, in any event, and the rest
less, turbulent, spirit that dominates
the Latin-American being, of itself
guaranty of its constant and costly ex-
A Parisian woman has established an
agency for the supply of bridesmaids
to prospective brides who are in need
of such attendants. As the same girls
in the same dresses take part in many
different bridals, a fee of a sovereign
for each girl is considered sufficient.
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Quite a number of strictly up-to-date
giris in New York have taken to car
rying canes. A goldsmith who caters
to the ultra fashionable trade has canes
at prices ranging from 50 cents to $15.
He says a good many young women hare
taken up the fad, which is a recent im
portation from London.
Prominent temperance workers re
port that while drinking has decreased
among men during the last few years
it has increased proportionally among
women. They are chagrined at the
thought that their own sex has taken
up with the habit, just as their influ
ence upon masculinity was beginning
to be felt.
Mercedes Lopez, a Mexican woman, is
said to possess the longest hair of any
person in the world. Her height is 5
feet and when she stands erect her
hair trails on the ground four feet
eight inches. The hair is so thick that
she can completely hide herself in it.
She has it cut very frequently, as it
grows quickly.
o
Girls of any age up to a century
mark will still find a haven at the
Young Women's Christian Association
home New York. The managers of
the place will not submit them to the
crowning indignity of asking their age,
nor will there be an enforced exodus of
those whose charms are fading in the
twilight of their lives.
The Czar has, by ukase, ordered the
sale of 4,500,000 acres of crown appan
age lands to the peasants on 23 or 60
years' time, and the announcement will
be made in a short time of a similar
sale of 10,000,000 additional acres.
The old system of fining derelict
postofiice employes has been discon
tinued, and in its place will be a uni
form system of efficiency awards in
other words, rewards and merits. The
increase in salary will be based upon
efficiency. A negligent employe will
suffer a reduction for his negligence.
The system of rewards and merits will
accomplish for the postal service what
it has in business service better work
and greater regard for the patTons of
the postofiice.
VIE best lulvico a voting woman who still is studying can
get from a friend in this: -DON'T MAKE A GARRET
OF YOUR MIX IV
It has been suul that one ought to know something of
even-thing nrnl everything of something. But, like every
other m!f. this needs explanation before it can convoy any definite
meaning t tlio mind. The something of which you should know
everything should be RELATED TO YOUR VOCATION IN
LIFE. It should fcivo you an advantage as a worker in your own
field. It r.:ould bo useful, not ornamental. It should not be a matter
of vanity, hut a matter of calculated utility. The something which
you should know of everything is in tho nature of things limited.
Never take trouble to remember what can be searched out in 1
reference library or in reference books of your owu. It ia much bet
ter to kncT WHERE information on a hundred points can bo ob
tained thru to know all about five MinU so that you can givo your
knowledge ns from a book. If you apply yourself to the sort of mem
orizing tit:-1 Turn approving, you will bo astounded at the rango of
your possibilities. Most human knowledge is recorded somewhere.
Make it ;ur business to KNOW WHERE WHATEVER YOU
WANT IS RECORDED. When you read, rend with that end in
a . 1 . ta a
view. Jvcf'p a memorandum that will relresn your memory as to the
exact sort of information to bo obtained from a particular book. Let
your reading cover a field, but don't load down your mind with what
it ia bound to refuse to carrv.
In prr.c'.iee the pigeonhole is everything. It does for a mental
worker w'u.U an automatic piano player does for the person behind
the keys. The drudgery of fingering is avoided, and one can give
exclusive attention to the element of harmonv. So, relieved of tho
drudgery of remembering, tho mind is alio to devoto itself to syn
thetic wor':, to original work, TO WORK THAT MEANS SOME
THING f r oneself and for the world.
Therefore, I end as I began: Throw away the trumpery of knowl
edge. Fc;!; for wisdom, not dead facts. Don't make a garret of your
God given mind. And remember that, for tho mind, as for the stom
ach, ind! ; --;tion always is the introduction to dyspepsia.
wisl. :m and philosophy never are amiss, for they en-
LARGE THE MIND, BUT WHEN THE BRAIN IS MADE A STORE
HOUSE KCH FACTS AND FIGURES IT BECOMES INACTIVE.
ionaires and Jury Duty
. !(. VANDERBILT, Jr, Who Recently SrvJ as Petit Juror
at Mlnol. N. Y.
i Y citizen should do his duty on the petit jury when called
m. His wealth or social position should not sway him.
I i'n jury service is not particularly phwaut, it is iieces.-arv
i.n summoned should serve without gr.imliiimj: OR II KS.
I could be excused, us I am a volm:U'ir fireman, but 1 d
U PROPER to bee off.
The hopes of the people that were
raised to such a high pitch of having
a cheap fuel through the removal of
by an act of the last congress of the
tax on denatured alcohol, are in a fair
way to be entirely dashed by the action
of the big Standard Oil octopus. It is
understood to have gobbled about all
the distilleries of the country, those at
Peoria being turned over to the monop
oly yesterday. Instead of the price of
denatured alcohol being cut to 15 and
20 cents a gallon, it will be kept up to
40 and 50 cents, so as to be held en
tirely out of the way of competition
with the Standard Oil product.
President Roosevelt has gone in heavy
for the Carnegie spelling reform move
ment. He has announced that he will
adopt the new method in all his pub
lic documents and the government print
er will be instructed to print all of
ficial White House literature, includ
ing his messages to congress in accord
ance with the reform spelling plan. This
ia a sweeping scheme for spellers and
proofreaders to follow, as the list em
braces a total of three hundred words.
JIany of them to be sure are already
given two ways of correct spelling in the
standard dictionaries, and the reform
style of these has been generally adopt
ed by teachers and newspapers. In this
class comes those like center instead
of "centre," and luster, miter, fiber, cal
iber, niter, meter, theater, specter, eac.
Then the English way of spelling ar
dour, behavious, favour, succour, rigour,
labour, tumour, and a lot more is
changed to the American way by leav
ing out the letter "u". There are a lot
of other sensible things in the spell
ing reform scheme of the Carnegie meth
od and it is bound to prove popular.
However, many will rebel against "al
tho," for although; "tho" for though;
"thruouf for throughout, etc. Also
"kist" for kissed; "mist" for missed;
and that class also "blusht" for
blushed; "curst" for cursed, etc., will
not strike the average person who ia
not an enthusiastic upellling reformer
so favorably.
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On his ninety-fifth birthday a Maine
man has signed a pledge to quit chew
ing tobacco. Somebody must have told
him that it had a tendency to shorten
life.
candidates. It may be merely that the
saloons are starting up again.
Take your stand in favor of beauty
but forgive the lack of it in others.
Never ask a woman her age. It's a
bad thing to encourage deceit and
falsehood.
Flies will not settle on windows that
have been washed with water with
which a little kerosene has been mixed.
"The peck-a-boo waist is pink poe
try dreaming through dinphaneotis
mist," writes Marsc Henry Wattcrson,
in his esteemed paper. Won't somebody
please shy a brick at the old sinner f
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STARVING TO DEATH.
Because her stomach was 10 weak
ened by useless drugging that she could
not eat, Mrs. Mary n. Walters, of St.
Clair St., Columbus, O., was literally
starving to death. She writes: "My
stomach was so weak from useless drugs
that I could not sleep; and not before
I was given up to die was I induced to
try Electric Bitters; with the wonder
ful result that improvement began at
Once, and a complete cure followed."
Best health Tonie on earth. 60c. Guar
anteed by Chas. Rogers, druggist.
icp
It is reported that John D. Rockefel
ler is going to endow a home for chorus
girls. Say what you will about the
good deacon, there seems to be meth
od in his baldness.
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An eastern firm has received an or
der from San Francisco for six car
loads of pianos. But this does not nec-
I essarily indicate a return to normal
MINIDOKA CONFLAGRATION.
BOISE, Sept, 21. The west end of the
town of Minidoka was swept by fire
last night, causing a loss of $25,000.
The flames started in the Overland ho
tel. Three stores, five saloons, a lodg
ing house, livery stable, and a number
of residences wore burned.
WOOD YARDS.
WOOD
Cord wood, mill wood, box wood, any
kind of wood 1 1 lowest prices, Kelly,
the transfer man, Thona aioi Main,
Barn on Twelfth, opposit opera
house.
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THIS IS A PERFECT REMOVER. HAS NO BAD ODER
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