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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1907)
,V'i FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1907. BLIND FISH SPOUT. 1 I 20 per cent Discount 20 per cent Discount Underground Stream Brings Stung Creature. to Light THE MORNING ASTORISN, ASTORIA. OREGON, -4 ! t i 5 v. u Special For this Week Only On Haviland China Shown in Our Window ' A. V. ALLEN. BRANCH UNIONTOWN PHONE MAIN 713 PHONES MAIN 711, MAIN 9871 Sole Agents for Baker's Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee TEACH DIPLOMACY Uncle Sam Has Factory for This Purpose. OSBORNE IS CHIEF ENGINEER Shows Consuls Proper Methods For Advancement of American Commerce and Puts Them in Firstdass Shape for Their Duties. WASHINGTON. Sept. 26.-One of the latest unofficial departments maintained (ly Uncle Sam has become known as the "diplomat factor;." It is situated iown in the basement of the State De partment and the chief engineer of the works is John Ball Osborne, head of the Bureau of Trade Relations. His task is the taking of raw young con suls, and transforming them into fin xhed diplomatic products. It's not an easy jh this; for even the crude ma terial is difficult to obtain. In the old days consuls went to their posts with the vaguest ideas of what their duties were to be. Ever since the establishment of the service it has been customary to give the new appointee a period of thirty days before leaving the United States, and officers hava pent the time in closing up their pri vate affairs, calling on the State De- . parUnent only to draw their pay for , the month and obtain their credentials. All that is changed now. The consu lar bureau has begun to educate the ew consuls. A room has been fitted 1 in the building occupied by the' State Department in exact facsimile of an Aberican consulate. Instead of loafing for thirty days before speeding abroad, ; the new appointees are compelled to Mport every day at this headquarters and spend a certain number of hours in tie transaction of business. This busi ei includes practically everything that is likely to arise in the course of tie consuls term abroad. Here i where .John Hall Osborne shines, ne takes the newcomer, drill them in the fundamentals of the diplo mats game, shows them the proper methods for the advancement of Amer ican commerce and generally puts them 'through a course of sprouts" in prepa ration for their duties, Mr, Osborne is an old and experienced hand at the game of diplomacy, and his method of transforming academic young men into seasoned diplomats in the course almost of a single week, has won the admira tion of the administration. So successful has he been, that the government has permitted Mr. Osborne to widen his field of usefulness. With the opening of the year's work id the Colleges of the Political Sciences of the George Washington University next week, Mr. Osborne will be found teach ing the young aspirants for diplomatic honors the right way of representing Uncle Sam abroad. Secretary Root is a firm admirer and supporter of the, local university and permission was given Mr. Osborne to join the faculty of the institution largely because two of the thirteen young men who passed the examinations last month for admission to the service were graduates of the school. That the examinations were dif ficult is proven by thefact that fifty eight endeavored to meet the require ments. The value of this method of instruct ing the candidates before the actual examination test is obvious. The men come to the trial provided with just exactly the knowledge they will require, and in this was there is no waste of mental or technical energy. There is a decided advantage, also, in educating candidates in the national capital, where they have the benefit of all the knowledge contained in. the government archives and the tdvice of government experts. The consular service is probably the most important problem the State De partment has to face ut the present time. FKKSXO, Sept. 20. Fish have been found iu a puddle of water which form ed iu the excavation fop the subway under the Southern Pacific - tracks at Fresno street in this city, though the water is below nu impervious layer of hanlpmt .i,t ten miles from the neret native running stream. Some of the fish are blind, and all come froip a hole about a foot in diameter, from which water pours so rapidly that a turbine pump is kept constantly at work puniphiji the excavation dry. The appearance i must extraordinary and would indicate a subterranean' stream flowing iimuc- liatoly under the city. The fish have come in great jmmbcrs. R, J, Reese. who runs the pumping station, found thorn. The excavation is twenty feet deep and extends through about six feet of hardpan, which was blasted out by foreigners. Under the hanlpan was found a porous layer in -which were sev eral springs. The fish are of several specie, some large and- some small, some with wyes and some without,""They swim about in the little puddle which the pump leaves, In plai sight of the wondering crowd 20 feet above them. No fish of a known species had been discovered. The existence of an under ground stream in this high and exceed ingly dry locality was never even sus pected tefore. The strangest specimen discovered is one about 8 Inches in length, shaped like an electric fish, and entirely -without eves. It was thrown up by the pump and found in the strain er over the sewer. Mr. Reese has noticed enormous numbers of fish, indicating some large breeding gronnd. Lama Back. This is an ailment for which Cham berlain's Pain Balm has proven especial ly valuable. In almost every instance it affords prompt and permanent relief. 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THE TRENTON First-Class Liquors and Cigars J Corner Commercial and I4th. Astoria, Oregon. X n CHALLENGE ARRIVES. Terms Will be Made Public at Meeting to be Held. NEW YORK, Sept. 20. Sir Thomas Upton's challenge for the America cup reached here today on the steamer I'm bria, and members of the New York Yacht Club are awaiting with keen in terest the meeting on Wednesday when the challenge will be formally consid ered. Secretary George A. Cormack of the New York Yacht Club, to whom the clialenge came from the secretary of the Royal Irish Yacht Club, left the city today and no one at the club was in a position to state the nature of the 'con ditions which Sir Thomas desires. Members of the Club feel that unless Sir Thomas has named challenging condi tion the acceptance of which would be out of the question a refusal to" defend the cup under the present governing rules would provoke a storm of protest from the public. It is said by club members th.it Sir Thomas wants to compete for the cup with a sloop 73 feet on the water line and the presnt racing miles o'' the club to govern. With a 7."-foot water line the Irish challenger would spread some thing under seven thousand square feet of canvas. That Sir Thomas has not challenged under the old racing rules under which the Reliance, Columbia and Shamrock were built is certain; for William .Fife, the English designer who has drawn plnns for Sir Thomas' new challenger, informed th Associated Pres wshile here on a recent visit that England would never contest for the America's cup under the old rules, whose conditions made impossible any chance of success for the challenger. If the contest is sailed under the new rules several prominent yachtmen, it is declared, will build boats to compete for the honor of defending the cup. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of FRANK J. 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