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f THE M011NIXG ASTOItlAN, ' ASTOHIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1907. .. .. . .. , , 4 Barringtoaflall ' 7 hist nur Mocha and lava prepared in a new "way. The cof fee berry is cut up (not gTound) by knives 01 almost raior snarp. Bess into small uniform particles. Thus it is not crushed, as by the old jnethod of grirfding, and the brae oil cell.? remain unbroken. The essential oil (food product) cannot evaporate and is presenred mdchmtcly. this is one reason rit s. rtound of Barrineton Hall will make IS to 20 cups more of lull strength coffee than will any coffee ground the bid way; why it excels ail Other coffee in flavor and why it'. will keep perfectly until used. ;. But the main thins about Barr- fergton Hall Coffee is that it can be used without ill effect by those who find ordinary coffee injures them, because the yellow tannin Rearing skin and oust (the only iniorions orooerties of coffee) are removed by the steel-cut'' pro cess. A delicious coffee not a tasteless substitute. - " PricCi per pounds 4Gc etits. THEATRICAL CHAT : Gossip of Manhattan's Principal my nouses. , VAUDEVILLE PAYS (ESTSALARY Many Well Known Actors Turning Their Attention to the Coin-Making Stunts- Biblical -Drama to be Drama of Future New Star. ' ' .-V; 1 replied, "01 I go slutumiljr occasion allyr Wt that a classic r. : A. V. ALLEI : Sole Agents. 1I0DERN1ZE LOCAL ' SYSTEM XECOBSTSUCTIOIf OF TELEPHONE WEEK ASTORIA TO HATS PER FECT SERVICE. Manager Andrew J. Brunold, of the Tscific States, Telephone Company an ounces the arrival , here yesterday of the superintended and foreman of con Straction, of tbeeompany at Portland, as the advance guard of the gang that it to reconstruct- - and , modernize the local system from one end to the other. Their entire force will be down from tte roetropoliVhe end of the present week, and the work will be started in good fahfcn' at Uhe beginning of net weekj and VHi be prosecuted to a quick trad satisfactory finish; and when once completed wHl leave the city of Astoria en an equal basis' of complete and per lest sen-ice with any other city on Jhe coast. ' -' - k i T&ia is good news, indeed, and will be welcome to all Aatorians who have long eVsired.to gee The latest improvement .stalled Wfe. V A Significant Prayer. ' "May the Lord help you make Buek 'len'i Arnica Salve known to all," write J. a Jenkins, of Chapel Hill, N. C. It NEW YORK. NOV. 13,-The bleak November winds are sweeping Broadway, and cutting into the thin fall clothee of many a prominent actor and actress, as he or she walks the length of all the dra matic agencies in quest of positions that will assure them sufficient money to fee the. janitor of their departments to turn on the steam for the winter. Truth is, many a splendid actor is idle because of the, unprecedented number of outright failures 'this season. Quite four out of five plays produced have been withdrawn after two weeks, or are dragging on without patronage enough to pay for the electric ajgns in front of the play house. For this reason many well knows players are turning their thought to wards the vaudeville theatres, where the terrors of the two-a-day are forgotten in the joy of the prospect of continued employment at a three, or even four. figured salary. The line between the legitimate, and vaudeville is now almost as completely obliterated as the Mason and Dixon line which distinguished the "rebel" from the "yanks." Tim was when aa actor felt a little ashamed to enter the ranks of the vaudevillians, giv ing as his apology for so doing, "I really need the money.'' Xow all that is ehanged, and the question Is rat hew "Will (fie vaudeville mangers accept Met For an actor must make good in the nwo-a-dny theatres. Shakespeare tell us that "a good name is better than riches' but in vaudeville a good act is better than a good name, and means riches for the actor. A few years ago many "gold bricks" were handed the patrons of vaudeville. Today an act must win out on its merit. This is the reason why so many actors from the legitimate stage fail in this lucrative field they think any old thing will do for Keith and Proctors. As t matter of fact, the audience at these splendidly eonducted theatre are of the beat' types of New Yorkers. Percy William's Alhambra and Colonial are family theatres of the highest type, where H is quite safe for a wife to take ber'. husband. Clean, wholesome enter tainment prevails at these houses, and acts like W H.' Tompson, in "For Love's Sweet Sake," and Robert Hilliard in "The Man Who Won the Pool" serious as they are, have scored tremendous suc cesses. The manager's' of these houses devote all their waking hours to study ing ho to please the fickle public They do not claim to give 'advanced vaude ville," for the simple reason that per fection cannot bejerfeeted, and in their case' vaudeville had already made such strides that it could advance no further. . Speaking of the vaudeville theatres reminds me of an amusing incident that ssuiekly took the pain out of a felon occured the other dag at the Victoria ler me aud cured it in a wonderfully which, as everybody knows is a veritable short' time." Best on earth for sores. arm and wounds. 25 cents at Chal, Sogers & Son's Drug Store. TfllLLINERY Big reduction sale of ; Ladies' and Children's Trimmed Hats, Street Hats Shirt Waists and Notions. MRS. R. INGLETON s Welch Block, Opposite Budget Office, i. Commercial Street. mint for the Hammerstein exchequer, under he astute guidance of William Hammerstein, whose profits each week are so amusingly large as to offset the thousands night salaries that Hammer stein pere is paying to several of his Grand Opera stars. The one and only 0car builder, composer, producer, im presario, genius drifted away from the matinee at his own house where "Car men'' was charming the crowded auditor ium with her seductive notes and absent mindedly walked into his other play house, the Victoria, and took a seat at the rear while Gus Edward "School Days" was being sung. When the lights went out, Theodore Boutonierre Marks was seen nonchantly leaning over Os car's tile, and afcr greetings were ex changed,. Marks said: "Why I'm aston ished to pee you here I thought all your time was devoted to Grand Opera, these days!" Whereupon, smiling like the eat that swallowed the canary Oscar 5wedish Restaurant WILL OPEN Thursday Noon, November 14 Meals 25c At 406 Exchange Sreet. Breakfast served from 7:30 to 8:30 Dinner from 11:30 until 2. Supper from 5:30 to 7:30. la a chat the o'her day with Theodhre l.leblor, the man behind the bankroll in the George Tyler . enterprise, thai gentleman expressed himself as believing that, the biblical ilrama will be the drama of tie future. I have heard nmre than one atule manager say the same thing. Saul Mv. LMur-r, "We r wait ing fr the hoodoo that seems to have nettled ixin the theatrical season this year to lift, he: ore we nut on a product ion that will cost $30,000 w mure. We know it will eclipse any play of thl sort produced. It was written by Paul Potter around Joseph and Potiplmr's Ylfe. 'Kmwiu' the fascination wiles o Mr. Pollphaij, ' I fW sure the pis jr should be actable, uot justly chargeable, as m most poetic play, with having been sacrificed to the purely literar) ide." So we must wait to see tho naughty Mr. pvtiphaiV In the meantime, Mr. Tyler beamingly tells nie that Eleanor Robson is pUyiug to capacity business, But why ahouldnt she! With her sweet, unaffected person ality, and "Salomy Jane" (than which there never has been a better Western play) and a cast of uniform excellence, why shouldn't the public flock to see her? Tyler is truly a lucky mant Things seem to fall bis way. Her he U wait ing for wireless news of the ship that 1 bearing the languorous eyed Mrs. Patrick Campbell to thee shore, and coincidental with this, Walter Lawrence 1 producing kt this hour his new play by Rachel. Cfother, "The Coming of Mr. Patrick." Heme all the newspaper stuff and advertising matter for which Mr. Lawrence fs paying serve a double purpose. Ergo, George Tyler and Theo dor Liebler smile and smile again I Tie an ill wind, etc. Th shocking news of Raymond Hitchcock's fall from grace because of a scandalous charge, and that from his former haunt, has proved bkmemg to an. unknown young msn from I he West, who has been his under study, la single night, this sctor, Wsllsoe Beery (No, I will not make a cheap pun on, the fortunate youth's un fortunate name which Colonel Savage should have ordered changed immediate ly before theeleetrie sign was replaced) jumped from the rear row "to the stage center, and from all report he ha made good. Whether or not he can hold the spot Light of public commendation Is another thing. The heroine of this nau seating Hitchcock affair is the wife of the "late Mr Hitchcock." as he will ever be considered. This plucky little wo man, Flora Zabelle, with beauty, voice. charm, and womanly sweetness, has gone on playing her part, with not only all the agony in her heart of her husband's disgrace, bu the more humiliating thought that the nature of her husband's offence U crushing to her womanhood And her wifehood. Still she sang, and lanced and smiled! Yet men call us "the weaker sex!" She will have her re ward for such heroism, however, for Col Savage baa tseleeted this beautiful Ar menian girl to head the second "Merry Widow organization, and all the world wishes her a tremendous success. " " i Xazimova (with the accent on the second syllable.) Surely the good and bad fates battled at her birth I What she was playing on the East side, in her native tongue, deserted by her husband mana ger, Urlenotl. who decamped witn me funds of the Company, little did she dream that eighteen months she would lie ttie idol of an. American play-going public, or even that she would be acting in English, with only a fascinating ac cent to betray her, foreign birth! Where are the know-it-alls who claim that lb sea will not draw? Xazimova has given us "A Doll's House," "Hedda Gablei' and now the "Master Builder," and lot. this fascinating Russian, with her languorous personality, has made Ibsen spell suc cess. But Mr. Iben s shade must take unto himself only third of the credit and none of the cash, as there are no royalties on the Ibsen plays, a fact for which Mr. Shubeit and Mr. Conby pour out prayer of thanksgiving to Allah not to the adorable Xazimova, although they may at that! FINED ONE CENT. CHICAGO, Xov.' 13. A despatch to the Record Herald from Wabash, Ind., says: Mrs Lucy Burri, owner of two farms and much city property, who was fined by a Wabash Circuit Court Jury on cent for assault and battery on her farm tenant, Tom Sivets, yesterday, was taken to jail because she refused to pay the fine. 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Every bottle is sold under the general guarantee of the Company, filed with the Secretary of Agriculture, at Washington, D. C, that the remedy is not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, June 30th, 1906, CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. San Francisco, Cal. U S. A. , London, England. New York, N. Y. ft Louisville, Ky. LOTTERY EXPOSED Been in Operation More Than Twenty Years. PROMINENT MEN IMPLICATED Under Guise of a Trust Company Lottery Has Been Maintained Thousands of Tickets, Psrapbemalia, Checks and Returns Prom Agents Ars Seiied. CHICAGO, Nov. 1.1. A morning paper today says: , The biggest lottery in operation In the United States, which has been running for niore than 20 years with head quarters in Chit a go, was exposed last night by arrmts in this and other cities of the country. The United States secret service- claim that the promoters of the scheme have made millions of dollsri and that there are big men behind it who will be reached through the prose cution of the men now under arrest. Under the name of the Old Reliable Guaranty Loan & Trunt Company the lottery maintained three luxuriously furnished olTices in OiicUK0 Secret Service agents, Harry T. Don- aghy, ..Otto F. Kllnke and Lawrence fiiehey, raided all four of these estab lishments last night and obtained thou sands of tkkets, lottery paraphernalia, checks anil returns from agents, and th plates from which the tickets were printed. . D. H. Jones, alias D. II. Kissans, who has lived in very expensive style was arrested as the head of the concern. John H Miner was attested, as a partner in the concern, Miner claimed to be in the real estate business. Warrants were issued for Miss Cora Green, the confidential secretary of Jones ami Walter. Schlmbaky, the bookkeeper at the local headquarters. At midnight, Jones, Miner and Jliss Given were, ar raigned before U. S. Commissioner Mark Foote, ' " . ' George E. Gcwlcr, the St. Louis agent of the concern, wss arrested in that ity end a large numltcr of lottery tick ets and records confiscated. Frank Faikner, agent at Fort Wayne, was ar rested by Agent Donaghy, Chaiics and Royal' Hammer were arrested at Indian apolis by Agent Klinke, and John T. Markland was arrested at McKecsport, Pa. i. All were held under heavy bonJu. The secret service men," from the records that they have obtained, expect toWke more than 200 arrests in various cities 'of the countiy. An attempt will also bemade to Involve the express com- wiilii"sll ovr the country, as agents or accomplices under the federal art of 1M!)S forbidding the operation of lot teries, as it is believed that they bandied th busliMMt of the company with the knowledge that it"was a lottery scheme in violation of the law. CommMoner Foote early today heU Jones without bait. Jones is more than 70 years old and very feeble. lie is S sunVrvr from heart trouble and was al lowed to go to his apartment under sur veillance, as confinement la jail might prove fatal. Miner was held in &0O0 buil ajid MU Green in $3000. Under its various name the lottery has been con ducting a full, regular lottery scheme except that the prises have been out of all proportion to the receipts and the coiMiiMons very heavy. ROYAL DAUGHTER, ROME, Italy, Nov. 13.-0.ueea' Helens this morning gave birth to a daughter. Hot h mother and child are doing well. ' King Victor Emmanuel and the Queen who were married October, 180(1, now have four children Princess ifolamle, borm June 1, 100! j princess Mafalde, borni November 19, l$02s Prince, Hum bert, the heir-apparent, born September 13, M04, and the child which came Into the world today. ONTARIO TUNNEL REOPENED. SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 13-Th re poit received from Park City that the Ontario tunnel, which drained the mines of the Camp until it caved in two years ago, had been( reoned, now seems to have been premature. One more ob strnction remains but its removal Is a matter of a few days only. WAS NOT KILLED. STOCKTON, Cal., Nov. 13,-Dr. F. A. McCann received a letter and postal card from , his nephew, Burton Kelly, this morning, Kelly was reported as having been shipwrecked and killed while on the way to Port Townnend on the schooner Glen. Kelly wrote under date of Novem ber and said nothing about having been shipwrecked. ; C ASTOR I A For IoiknU a&A ftildrta. Thi Kind Yh Hati Ahrajs Bears tbs Btgnatareof O SPICES, rf , CG2TEE.TEA CAIflnOFOtYDERa teialurtPurffy, Una sin w, CL0S5ETGDIYIS PORTLAND, CfiCaOri. 1 - BELL AIRSHIP. UADDECK, Nova Scotia, Nov. 13.- After many years of experimental work, the nnichme with which Professor -Alexander Graham Bell hones to solve the problem of aeriainavlgation successfully was launched today. Mrs. Bell broke a bottle of champagne over the bow of the hip declaring its name to be "Signet." m night of the shin was attenmted. The ship or kite is tetrahedron 13 metres long on top, ten meters along the bot tom by throe in depth; mm Pneumonia Follows a Cold. . But never follows the use of Foley's Honey and Tor, It stops "th cough, heals and strengthens the lungs and prerenis pneumonia. T. F, Lsurln, Owl Drug Store. School Shoes FOR BOYS The Billy Buster TSteer Bot- . torn Shoes The Shoe with a Sole ' that Don't Wear Out S. A. GIMPvE 543 Bond St., opposite Flshtr Bros.