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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1907.
BLIND FISH SPOUT.
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20 per cent Discount
Underground Stream Brings
Stung Creature.
to Light
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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.
Mr. Luke LaGrange of Orange, Mich.
says of it: "After using a plaster and
other remedies for three weeks for a
bad lame back, I purchased a bottle of
Chamberlain s Pain Balm, and two ap
plications effected a cure." For sale by
Frank H4rt and leading Druggists.
MRS. AUG. LYON
TIRED AND SICK
YET MUST WORK
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bat woman's work is never done,"
In order to keep the home neat
and pretty, the children well dressed
and tidy, women overdo and often
suffer in silence, drifting along from
bad to worse, knowing well that
they ought to have help to overcome
the pains and aches which daily
make life a burden.
It is to these women that Lydla
E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
made from native roots and herbs,
comes as a blessing. When the spir
its are depressed, the head and back
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reluctance to go anywhere, these are only symptoms which unless
heeded, are soon followed by the worst forms of Female Complaints.
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keeps the feminine organism ina strong and healthy condition. It cures
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ham: "For a long time I suffered from female troubles and had all kinda
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Mrs. Pinkham's Invitation to Women
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to
write Mrs Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. Out of her vast volume of ex
perience she probably has the very knowledge that will help your
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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. DONNERBERG
WATCHMAKER
AND
JEWELER
Will remove on or about
Oct. 1st to
574 Commercial St,
Between 12th and 13th -Sts.
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AT THE
Brownsville Woolen Mills Store
THIS GREAT SALE
will close Saturday Night at 10 o'clock. This notice will give you two I
days to buy your Fall and Winter Clothing and Underwear at the greatest re
duction ever offered in this city. Remember that our goods are not re-marked,
' "Q prices changed, you get everything in the store but the fixtures.
MEN' suits
The highest class line of clothing made in
America. '
$35.00 suits $28.00
30.00 suits .... 24.00
25.00 suits 20.00
22t50 suits 18.00
20.00. suits 16.00
18.00 suits 14.00
15.00 suits 12.00
MEN'S PANT
$7.00 pants $5.60
COO pants 4.80
5.00 pants : 4.00
4.00 pants 3.20
3.00 pants 2.40
Cravanette Rain Goats
THE BENJAMIN KIND
$30.00 raincoats $24.00
25.00 raincoats 20.00
18.00 raincoats..... ; m'qq
15.00 raincoats 2.00
Boys' Suits
Pries Make
Double Seat and Knee
$6.00 suits...
5.00 suits ..
4.00 suits...
3.00 suits...
.... $4.80
4.00
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Men's Hats
The Astor Hats
The best $3 hat sold in Astoria $2.40
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UNDERWEAR
$2.00 wool underwear, garment $1.60
1.50 wool underwear, garment 1.20
1 .25 wool underwear, garment 1 .00
Oregon Wool Blankets
If you are going to need any blankets
this winter it will pay you to come
and take a look at the values we are
offering in blankets.
$15, .00 blankets, in blue, white
and pink :.?..:. $12.00
12.50 white blankets 1 0.00
- 10.00 white blankets .... 8.00
8.00 gray blankets 6.40
. 0.00 gray blankets ? 4.80
5.00 gray blankets 4.00
SOX
50c wool sox
25c wool sox 20c
300 pairs of wool sox at 15c a pair,
tw pair 25c
MISCELLANEOUS
$3.00 sweaters
3.50 blue flannel shirts ..
1.00 working shirts
1.00 neckties
'50c neckties '.I' 40c
50c suspenders "" jo.
"wwu garters
15c collars
..$2.40
... 2.80
... 80c
80c
20c
10c
No prudent man or woman will spend one dollar elsewhere for merchandise
that can be bought here.
Brownsville Woo
len ills Stroe
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557 Commercial Street, Near 12th
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