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SUNDAY, OCTOBER ti, ioo
THE MORNING AST0R1AN, ASTORIA OREGON.
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KUbUihcd 1873.
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"' Oregon, Washington. Idaho
Fair, warmer.
KING CORN THREATENED. .
Now cornea Dr Wiley, of the United
States departmnnt of agriculture, and
tells the farmerg of the United State
what may well set them to thinking;
for he says under the conditions to be
found in most of the lowlands of the
countries which stretch from the Uni
ted States 5,000 miles southeastward,
yuca yields from 16,000 toj 60.000
pounds of roots to the acre yearly, and
about one-fifth of that may be made
Into food fit or mankind. That should
pive 3.200 to 12,000 pounds more than
the average , crop of corn furnishes.
But what is this yuca, which is likely to
become so formidable rival of our king
COTB?
Yet, strange as it may appear, this
rival to corn grows quite as well as
eorn, and give a generous supply of
flour, even so far north and as far back
from the tempering gulf stream as a
line through the middle of North Caro
lina, of South Carolina and the Gulf
States. In all that region) bordering
the warm waters, including all of Flor
ida, yuca gives 14, to 24, thousand
pounds of roots to the acre in the year,
and the flour or starch, with the other
elements-they carry, are not to far in
value from those in potatoes and the
grains commonly used as food.
In scores of tropic lands, through
thousands of years, millions of people
have filled with yuca such places in the
economy of man as in colder countries
have been filled by grains and by tu
bers; for yuca has given to summer
climes many million pounds each year
of food that was as good as wheat.
And yuca has long been giving, to peo
ple of the lands of frost millions of
pounds of nutriment that is palatable
to the most dainty appetite, that builds
up the puny babe, restores strength to
the invalid and sustains the superannu
ated, and now gives us spirits to warm
them withal and lighten the burden of
the day.
In the countries south of the United
States are 5,318 million acres. If a
quarter of those acres should be made
to yield an average of 3,750 pounds of
food nearly like our wheat flour, for
example, they would give very nearly
five millions of millions of pounds.
That would be a little more than
enough to each human being on earth
nine pounds of food for each and every
day of the year which is more than he
could possibly eat.
tors seven have smooth faces.. Seven
teen out of twenty-nine Republican
politicians are smooth-fraced and only
two have beard. In the Democracy
whiskers are held In even less esteem,
fortv-four out of fifty-eight prominent
Democrats bcini? tmnothlv shaven.-
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Chestnuts are ripe. The last will not
be picked until the night of election.
Mr. Hughes is evidently bound to
save Long Island. It's worth it,
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GU eating, it strikes- us, comes un
der violation of the pure food laws.
If you would keep young, never ride
when the distance ran be walked with
ease.
Fresh air is not a thing to be taken
In little doses once a day, but a thing
to live on. i ,
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A woman can add or take off ten
years from her age by arranging her
hair becomingly.
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To give the house a pleasant odor
mnm liva mala and inrinkta around I
cinnamon on them.
GASOLINE
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MENACE
New York Becoming Alarmed on
This Basis.
DIAMONDS AND DEBUTANTES
Explosive Vapors in Sewers a Grave
Danger Cuban Trade an Cuban
Revolution! Diamonds Going
, Up Again.
Is it possible" that the Bryan boom
was earelesslv left out and oecame the
victim of an early frost!
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Mr. Taft is such a handy man for
Uncle Sam that he may yet find a
job at the White House.
For the next few days variations on
the theme, Bertha Kmpp, may be expected.
When Bedlam broke loose it is sup
posed the original Independence Leaguer
of New York mut have been present
and received his tip. Or is it the, same
old Bedlam t
Actresses from the "provinces'
getting into the diamond-losing habit.
In fact, in the stage world only gen
uine "lemons' seem to be immune.
To the girl who has mastered- the
rick of arranging her hair prettily
the change in fashions do not matter
so much. ' " v '
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In Victor, Colo., the entire street
cleaning department has lately been put
into the hands of a woman, Mrs. uar
ry Waters.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 21. The great in
erca in popularity of the automobile
and the growing number of automobile
garages in the heart of Manhattan I
land have brought with them a prob
lem which already is one of the most
serious that the city has to face. That
is the gasolene problem and the percent
ange of danger to buildings and citl
tens which accompanies its wholesale
use. From three thousand to five
thousand gallons are used per day by
the largest of the several hundred gar
ages and the total amount used by all
reaches enormous figures. The fluid
not only furnishes power but Is neecs
sary for cleaning also, and the drip
pings and wastage of gasolene perva
ding the sewers now form a serious
menace to health and property. The
danger would probably have gone un
discovered but for an investigation fol
lowing a series of explosions, aeeompa
nied bv loss of life and the serious in
jury of a number of person, early last
spring. The first explosions occurred
within the none occupied by the great
number of automobile garages on or ad
jacent to Longacre Square. Almost
immediatelv followed a similar series
of accidents in eelbus of tenement and
business houses at distance of two
or three thousand feet from Longacre
... Sounre. At the outset the accidents
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were attributed to me leaKage oi il
luminating gases. The city authori
ties set about an investigation and an
expert was retained by the city to find
the character and sources of the gases.
The result of his work came as a note
of alarm to the public when he an
nounced that the amount of waste gas
oline and the vapor existing irom it In
the sewers and cellars was enough to
blow up half the district. A consider
able portion of the residenta of that
part of the city awakened
to the fact that they had been sleep
ins over a veritable mine for months.
The Reweit Fire, Plaice Health and
If a bottle of the oil of pennyroyal
is left open in a room at night, not , Tenement House Departments estab
a mosquito will be found there in the
morning.
lished emergency offices in the neigh
borhood of Tenement Square. Experts
found it necessary to r . ove manholes
over the entire area within three thous
and feet north, south, east and west of
BLUNDERING CARICATURISTS.
The gentlemen who make cartoons for
the humorous periodicals of the East
long ago decided that the typical citi
zen of Oklahoma was a lean, hungry
looking individual, with a mustache
that could be tied behind his ears, or
whiskers that expanded generously over
his manly bosom and were beautifully
tinted with tobacco juice.
The Oklahoma Journal of Commerce
has just issued an illustrated edition
which shows how little caricaturists of
ten know about their business. Of Its
105 portraits of more or less prom
inent citizens, there are only five ex
hibits of whiskers and four of these are
as closely cropped as Vice-President
Fairbank's. The sole exception is not
a type of funny paper whiskers, but of
the old-fashioned American beard that
is believed , to have had its roots in
the fertile soil of the Western Reserve.
Mustaches are more numerous. There
are twenty-five among the 105 not
Alkali Ike mustaches, but rather of
the well-trimmed New York kind. None
of these Oklahoma mustaches would at
tract particular attention in Wall
street.
But beards and mustaches are In
Denver club women will petition Con
gress for a postage stamp bearing the
picture of a woman, though the eight j tie nter- 0f danger and substitute
for the old covers, others containing
ventilating pipes permitting the esca
of easoline vapor. Owing to the fact
Among the inventions made by weKUhat no eare wag exercised by the env
cent atamn of the current issue has
the likeness of Martha Washington,
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men are copper tips for shoes, the baby
carriage, the varnishing machine, the
bread-kneading machine, a self-filling
fountain pen, a portable typewriter, a
stem-winding watch, the bustle and
three important improvements in the
sewing machine.
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Do not send away for a wife or hus
band in other words, do not patronize
matrimonial bureaus. The Chicago po
lice have closed up 64 of these raeccas
for lovelorn men and women who can
not Ije suited with the home-grown
stock.
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It is said that women are not of an
ingenious or of an inventive turn of
mind, but Mary Jane Montgomery in
vented the mowing machine, and a
woman in California made over fifty
thousand dollars from her invention,
the baby carriage, and a Mrs. Johnson
of .Washington was the inventor of the
ice-cream freezer.
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Virtues, like talents, aren't any good
except when they're working.
The king of Siam has a bodyguard
composed of 400 female warriors.
Raw eggs and milk are a remedy for
poison of any kind taken Into the stom
ach. 0
It was lately discovered that five wo
men at Washington, D. G, are still
drawing pensions as widows of soldiers
who served in the war of-the revo
lution, which ended 122 years ago. Fif
ty years and more from now widows
of the soldier boys of the civil war
will be drawing pensions, from the fact
that late in life many of them married
very young women.
MARKET TROUBLED.
hopeless minority. Out of eight edi-j points
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. The stock
market was demoralized today, due to
the action of the Bank of England in
advancing their rate to 6 per cent, and
by heavy inroads on the surplus re
serve of the New York banks, as re
vealed by the bank statement. The
market closed panicky. Rome of the
principal declines will sufficiently pic
ture the conditions; - Great Northern
preferred broke at 8; Anaconda at 10J;
Reading at 6J; St. Paul and Canadian
at 4J ; Amalgamated Copper at 3 with
a I declines in the list generally up to 21
ployes of the garages In disposing of
the waste gasolene and that great quan
tities of the fluid were habitually per
mitted to run to the sewers through
sink and waste pipes and only the
prompt action of the authorities pre
vented wholesale explosions with great
er damage. This subject will lie taken
up by the Board of Aldermen when it
convenes for its winter session.
The troubles of Cuba, now subsiding
as the result of intervention of the Uni
ted States Government, are recognized
in this city to involve interests of far
more importance than the politics of
the Island. From the New York point
of view, the accession of Cuba by the
United States is, perhaps only a ques
tion of time. And as New York K
and will Temain, the center of Cuban
trade, and commerce, the importance of
affairs upon the island are of double
importance. It has recently become
known, that atemptg have been made
in Cuba, more than once since the ac
cession to power, of former Presidnct
Palma, to foment a revolution suffi
ciently serious to warrant permanent
ocupation of Cuba by the American
forces, with a view to annexation, and
that former Minister Squires, upon at
least one occasion, by his personal ef
forts, prevented an uprising which then
promised to be even more serious than
the revolution just ended. Whatever
the result of the efforts of the revolu
tionary party may be, American enter
prise is surely drawing Cuba closer to
the commercial and financial centers of
this country. Henry M. Flagler's sea
going railroad, which is to connect tlor
ida proper with Key Wfest, by trestles
and embankments across the Keys, will
bring Havana within about two days
of New York, as well as Chicago and
the Middle West, bv ferry to the Cu
ban capital from Florida , and thence
by rail. Fast freight from New York
to Havana by this route will give a
decided impetus to Cuba's production
of perishable articles, and the Cuban
commercial houses in this city look for
ward to the establishment on the island
of new agricultural enterprises as the
result of the building of this new route.
Despite the intricacies of tropical pol
itics, the prospect of Cuba's future
brightens month by month, and the clo
ser alliance between the two republics
becomes more probable.
An announcement which is received
with' varying emotions by tho cosmo
politan Inhabitant of the metropolis
is tho declaration by diamond ilea lor
that diamonds will eust this year at
least twenty per cent more than year
m. It seem that the He Beers Min
ing Company Ltd., which has had to
bear the mm or previous auvanees in
the price of diamonds U not to blame.
The dealers say that the rough stone
which have been Imported during the
lnt year have been of omewhat Infe
rior quality to previous Importation,
and were of such lmpe as not to yield
In the cutting so many high grade gem
in commercial aiws a the atones of
former years. The diamond polisher's
imion ha also got to work during the
last year and hs not only tompelled an
increase In wage but l " decreed
tlmt a ixillsher instead of polishing six
stone at a time, as ha been the cus
tom for years, may now polish only
four. Whereas the polisher were lor
mrrlv nald bv the 1'leoe and earned
wage according to the amount of work
done, they earn only a fixed prlct by
the Jv. Attain the floh are made to
pay the piper and dance to a faster
tune, while the labor unlna Veep m
enacting new industrial .laws. H ja
poor rule that doesn't work bota, ways,
becaue wnrMjof diamonds pnrehswd
last year will find themselves Just a
much In pocket a futyre cuatomer
under the new law will count them
elves out.
The dedication of the new Madison
Square Presbyterian chunk- by Dr.
I'arUiurst this week, wa. a mignt
have ben expected from Dr. Parkhurst,
a ceremony somewhat unusual. The
occasion wa mde by Dr. Parkhurst In
a sense memorial of the late Stanford
White, the architect who designed the
church building, and who was murdered
bv Harrv Thaw, irl Madison Smiar
Garden, early last summer. Ho said in
part: "We cannot refrain from saying
how deeply we lament the absence of
one to whose biff heart and artistic In
spiration the creation of this edifice I
primarily due. Stanford White ha
impressed himself in deep line upon
tho of 11 with him in the work he
has .been most closely associate. With
all the responsible undertakings wun
which he was charged, it was to this
churrh that he seemed particularly to
dedicate himself and to make of it the
idol of hi thought and effort. The
present I a little Urns brlsht that he i
no longer with us to share it fruition
and to contemplate the final outcome of
hi splendid genlu.
An increase much ercater than record
ed in previous years I expected to be
shown by the eenu of school children
in this city which will be taken during
the course of the next three months,
Ten year ago the city authorities for
mulated plans for the doubling of the
capacity of the city school buildings,
loe work ha been pushed, and In that
time more than a dozen new schools of
considerable lamer capacity than the
old buildings have been completed. But
the increase In the number of pupils
has outstripped tjie architects and
builders, and today tho problem of
ousins all the city's school children
is almost a far from solution as It was
a decade ago. Another ten years will
have elapsed before the new buildings
now planned will be completed.'
Sick Headache Cured.
Sick headache Is taused by derange
ment of the stomach and by indigestion.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets correct these disorders and effect
cure. By taking these tablets as
soon as the first indication of the dis-
ease appears, me auacK may or
warded off. For sale by Frank Hart
and leading druggists.
The average young woman of today is
busy. Beauty is only another name for
health, and it comes to 00 out of every
100 who take HolIIster' Rocky Moun
tain Tea. Tea or Tablets, 35 cents.
For sale by Frank Hart.
It is really one of the most wonderful
tonics for ' developing the figure and
soothing the nerves ever offered to the
American People. Hollister'a Rocky
Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 85
cents. For sale by Frank Hart.
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Creator Sht?.$h. toorvitk f rit
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, PORTLAND, ORECOM.
Some say that city girls are poor; Ig
norant things. Some of them cannot
tell a horse from a cow, but they do
know that Hollister's Rocky Mountain
Tea is one of the greatest beautiners
known. Tea or Tablets, S3 cents. For
tale by Frank Hart.
BQ TOIl MLLIflEllY
AUTUMN DISPLAY OF
TRIMMED HATS
For next week we will have on display a line
of hats just received in yesterday's express.
These hats are bcautilul in tberasclvcs-artistic
in line, rich and harmonious in coloring. But
put them on the head and thev leap into even
greater beauty. Variety is (infinite French '
milliners have dreamed beautiful dreams and
the result is Refinement, Destinction, Smart
ness without bixarre effect. Each hat is made
in a different effect of silk panne velvet,
trimmed with Ostrich feathers, in some scascs
fairly encircling the I hats. Others trimmed
, with Ostrich tips, Ribbon, Ornaments, etc.
r Prices are right.
Early Shopping is Recommended
If You Wish the Best Selection
.;t 'i f r (. f--.M-.iai ' '
MRS. GEORGIE PENNINGTON
483 BOND STREET
AMUSEMENTS.
STARTHEATER
P. GKVURTZ, Manager
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Theflack Swai n Theater Co.
presenting tonight the sensational 5-act melodrama
"FEUClA9'
or "HER ATONEMENT"
SPECIAL SCENERY
Popular Prices; 15c, 25c and 35c
BOX OFFICE OPEN 7:45; CURTAIN GOES' UP AT 1:15 SHARP.
ASTORIA THEATRE
Only One Night
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21
-Henry W. Savage Offers George Ade's
Comedy Triumph
COLLEGE WIDOW
. The ' Play Upon Which
All America Has Stamped Indelibly the
Word "SUCCESS."
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The College Widow is assured.
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