Uon
Our Special Sale
of 23 per cent discount ou Cut Glass
proved to be such a successive have
decided to continue it for a week. We
also offer
Our Hand Painted China
At 20 per cent Discount
This means a big saving to you. Come
and take advantage of it.
A. V. ALLEN
Thonbs Brvch Uniontowm
Main 711, MmnjSji There Mam 713
Sole agent for H. C. Fry's Celebrated Cut Glass.
llDIDAfES TRAIN
Setds From Agricultural Depart
ment In Sight
TELEPHONE IN SOUTH AFRICA
William B. Turner Who Hails From Ore
' ton Feels Shaky About Position he
' Has Held Ten Years War Department
' to Test Aeroplanes and Balloons.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. With 1908
fiirly under way, the aspiring Presi
dential candidate for the Republican
aomination hare gone into hard training
for the contest and have undertaken a
systematic speech-making diet. Secre
tary Taft'a address last week before the
Merchant's Association of Boston was
perhaps the initial one in this I'd-like-to-be-Preaident
talkfest series, and his
lead has been followed by Senator
Knox, who has accepted several invita
tions to address political and commercial
bibs in the near future. Even the silent
executive of New York, Gov. Hughes,
has agreed to be the principal speaker
at the annual banquet of the Union
league Club of Chicago on Washington's
birthday, on which occasion he is expect
ed to declare himself as to his stand on
lational questions. The fact that Mr.
Hughes' views oa tariff revision, corpo
ration and railroad control, a greater
nary, and one or two other issues which,
collectively, bid fair to form the bone of
contention in next November's election,
never have been clearly known has caused
much criticism to be directed against
the movement to nominate him. These
criticisms practically all have come from
the supporters of other candidates, but
they nevertheless have served as a brake
to the Hughes Presidential band-wagon.
Thus it is that what the New York Gov
ernor will have to say at the Windy
City banquet is being awaited with much
interest.
American poultry raisers doubtless
will be d-e-e-lighted to learn that the
usual amount of government free seeds
will be forthcoming a little later, per
haps, but still in time to be of use.
When, last fall, the seed warehouse of
the Department of Agriculture was
Tisited by a fire which destroyed some
$30,000 worth of the seeds which had
leen purchased and packeted for Con
gressional distribution, the farmers re
gretfully and even tearfully put asi,le
the thought of producing extra-fine
poultry for the holiday trade and took
other steps to secure suitable fattening
food for the Thanksgiving and Christ
mas birds, for they realized that $50,000
worth of chicken feed makes a big pile.
However the American public can look
forward to frolicsome feasts on fat
spring chicken, for, thanks to the fore
sight of Secretary Wilson and his lieu
tenants, no sooner had the clang of the
Sre hells died out than provisional pur
chase was made of seeds to replace those
destroyed, and thee were deliverd in
Washington and held subject to the
action of the Sixtieth Congress on the
Department's request for an emergency
appropriation to refill the bins of the
restored seed warehouse, The measure,
as everyone knows, went through, and
this week it developd that the Depart
ment is about ready to inaugurate iU
annual distribution of the seeds, as per
Congressional suggestion.
That South Africa is already some
thing of a rival to America in progres
wveness is proved by the telephone ex-
jansion of that British colony. A recent
report received in this city states that
there was opened at Johannesburg on
October 2tth lat a new common bat
tery exchange having a present equip
mcut of 024(3 lines. The cut-over from
the magneto system was made the oc
casion for a complete revision of the
system of rates, so that henceforth, these
will correspond to the methods of the
message rate system as practiced in
most of the larger American cities. In
stead of a flat rate charge of approxi
mately $100 a year, which has hereto
fore prevailed in Johannesburg, sub
scribers to residence service now pay
about $35 a year for a minimum of 000
calls; over that a charge of four cents
for each call up to 800 two cents up
to 2400, and one cent beyond. These
prices for limited service are easily seen
to be rather high, considering the size
of the South African capital. The mes
sage rate plan which has been adopted
in Johannesburg is said to be gaining
in favor all over the world.
The suggestion made by ex-President
Grover Cleveland that the United States
find some method of taking care of its
Presidents after they leave the execu
tive office which will enable them to
maintain the standard of living expected
of them, has met with more or less gen
eral approval. Mr. Cleveland the other
day called attention to the fact that
few of the 24 men who have been hon
ored by their countrymen with the office
of President have enjoyed sufficient in
comes during the remainder of ' their
lives to enable them to maintain the
social standing expected of them, ne
pointed out that very few fields of in
dustry are open to the man who has
once served the nation as its chief exe
cutive, and that still fewer will insure
an income sufficient for him to continue
to live on the same social scale as .when
he presided at the White nouse. The
American people, he declared, thought
lessly have demanded that their former
Presidents shall seek and follow a high
calling upon .retiring, whether or not
they possess the means to do so.
Awakened to the truth of this, it is
extremely probable that Congress will
vote a substantial pension to the men
who for four years or more shall have
steered the good ship of state. Several
Senators and Congressmen already have
expressed themselves as being in sym
pathy with such a course. Incidentally,
some local statistician has dug up figures
which show that the average life of ex
Presidents, after retirement, has been 12
years and 10 months.
To be removed from the uncertainty
of Senatorial patronage and placed upon
the "Senate roll" which practically
means a life job, is the good fortune of
William B. Turner, for 10 years print
ing clerk ofthe upper house of Congress.
Mr. Turner, who hails from Oregon,
was appointed to the place by Senator
JMlride, and because of, his efficient
work and his genial personality Sena
tor Mitchell and Senator Gearin, who
served successive terms, easily were in
duced to relinquish their claims on Mr.
Turner's official scalp. With the coming
of Senator Bourne, however, Mr. Turner
began to feel a bit shaky, for the man
who coddled and nursed the Roosevelt
third term movement wanted the print
ing clerk's job, and said so. Through
the Secretary of the Senate, Mr. Turner
was reqnested to resign some six weeks
before the COth Congress convened, but
the Oregon man unwilling to part with his
official life without a struggle, hied him
self to one or two friendly Senators,
and so popular had he become with the
majority of the dignified solons of the
Senate, that the matter, was taken up
on the floor and a majority vote placed
him on the Senate roll, which precludes
discharge, except by vote of the caucus.
TEA
We sell tons of poof
stuff; but our name isn't
on it Go by the name.
four rrocer returns roar money If 70a dos'l
Be Schilling's Beit; w. par bin.
PRETTY COMPLIMENT.
Mayor Wise Recipient of Fine Photo
graph of Federation Delegates.
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Be
Fooled !
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The object of a majority of Clearance Sales
is to work off on the people a lot of cheap; ,
undesirable merchandise, which .make a
' I purchaser sorry of his bargain when he gets
I home with it.
1 None of that here!
; A dean, honest cut on every Man's
I and Boy's Suit, Raincoat and Over
1 coal of
20 Per Cent Discount.
No cheap, shoddy, undesirable merchandise to sell you.
because we don't let that kind come into our store.
FOLLOWING ARE THE PRICE9.
$35.00 MEN'S SUITS, $27.50
S0.00 MEN'S SUITS, 24.00
25.00' MEN'S SUITS, 20.00
20.00 MEN'S SUITS, 16.00
15.00 MEN'S SUITS, 12.00
$10.00 BOYS' SUITS $8.00
8.00 BOYS' SUITS 6.40
7.00 BOYS' SUITS
0.00 BOYS' SUITS
5.00 BOYS' SUITS
4.00 BOYS' SUITS
5.60
4.80
4.00
3.20
OVERCOATS at same reductions.
t rrrt l (oArj or Ms I
I MADE IN NFW VnDir I
:'flIfftdRcnjni!n8.l
Odds and Ends.lOO Men's Suits, prices up to $15,
Special Sale Price. $7.50.
If yov want good goods at sale prices, come to this sale.
JU D D B R O S.
The Brownsville Woolen Mill Store.
( Next Door to Heilborn's.
Fisher Brothers Company
SOLE AGENTS
Barbour and Finlayson Salmon Twine and Netting
McCormick Harvesting Machine
Oliver Chilled Ploughs
Malthoid Roofing
Thorples Cream Separators
Eaecolith Flooring Storrett'e Took
Hardware, Groceries,lJShip
Chandlery
Tan Bark, Blue 8tone, Muriatio Acid, Welch Coal, Tar,
Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass
Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass s-
Fishermen'a Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Seine Web '
WelWottt'iYoMr Trade
FISHER BROS
i
Bond Street.
A very neat compliment was paid
Mayor Wise by the delegates to the
late convention of the State Federation
of Labor through their representative,
R. R. Wallace, of this city. Last night
this gentleman, on behalf of his organ
ization, presented our worthy Mayor
with an enlarged picture of the visiting
delegates, in a heavy gilt frame. The
picture was taken in front of the hall
in which the convention Was held, and
the Mayor, on the invitation of the
body, is in the picture. There are also
some "bouquets" there. Mayor Wise,
in a spirit of fun, presented several of
the officers and delegates with mocK
bouquets, nicely prepared for presenta
tion. To President Gram he sent a neau
of cabbaire with the inscription on the
'card accompanying, "You are it." Sec
retary T. M. Lcabo received a red beat
and informed that he was hard to beat.
Publisher of the Labor Press, McDonald,
was remembered with a sweet potato,
informing him what he was in the "lan
guage of flowers," ' ft sweet potato.
Delegate Parsons, of the cigar makers
union, was presented with a lemon. The
Mayor sent his card to Labor Commis
sioner Hoff, to which was attached a
large piece of sticking plaster denoting
"I am stuck on you." A bunch of let
tuce neatly placed in a vase was accom
panied by a card reading "To all the
delegates. Let ns be friends." The lady
delegates were recipients of neat bou
quets of carnations,. Everyone took the
Mayor's joke' in good part and to re
taliate placed the presents on a stand
to be photographed with the group. The
picture is on exhibition in the Mayor's
show window.
Badly Burned Arm
A little Finnish girl by the name of
S. lbiailcga, from the Lewis and Clark
country was brought in to St. Mary's
hospital yesterday afternoon, with a
bndly burned arm, 'caused by falling up
on the home stove, and was immediate
ly put undi effective treatment by Dr.
Fosstruni, and at hint accounts was do
ing nicely.
The .Secret of a
Beautiful Face
lies In keeping the skin pro
tectedasweuaicleansed. Just
washing Is not enough that
only leaves the delicate surface
more exposed to the Irritation
of dust and germs to merci
less attacks of sun and
weather. After washing, ap
ply Robertlne and experience
its delightful refreshment.
You willadmlrt the IkeJess
softness it imparts to bee,
neck and arms. It not only
stimulates a radiant glow, but
protects the skin from becom
ing coarse. Prevents burn
ing, tan and freckles. v
MymtDnulilMo '
Aw. AHK.f mJ fS
E. B. Parker,
Proprietor
Manage
I. P. Parker,
PARKER HOUSE
EUROPEAN PLAN
First-class in Every Respect. Free Coach to the House.
Bar and Billiard Room. Good Check Restaurant. Good
Samplo Rooms on the Ground Floor for Commercial Men
ASTORIA, OREGON.
Q. A. B0WLBY, PrtsMsnt. VRANK PATTON, Cnaaltf.
0. L.PETERSON, Vlos-Presid.nfc ff. W. GARNER, Aa!sUnt Caakkr. ,
Astoria Savins Rank
- - - - - ,.
Capital Paid in 1100,000, Surplus and 0ndlvlds4 ProflU 180,000
Transact a General Banking Business, Interest Paid on Time ImikmIU
POUR PER CENT PER ANNUM
Eleventh and Dnane atreeta. ASTORIA, OKZGOM.
First National Bank of Astoria, Ore
j-, '6fr. :IE8TAIILI8IIKD 18ml. i
Capital $100,000
II
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SCOW BAY BRASS Bi
CSrrs C ASTORIA, OUGOON
Hon and brass founders land and marine Mineers
0p-to-DfttelBaw:M!ll Machinery ,g Prompt attention Uvea to al. repairork
18th a.id Franklin J fry yj ' Tl. Main S46fV
Sherman Transfer Co.
HENRY 8HER MAN, Manager ' . - , ,
Hack, Carriagea-Baggago Cheeked nndTranaforreoVTrucka and fnnH.w
" Wagonspianoa Moved. Boxed and Shipped.
433Commerclal Street ' ' Mull Tim ui
ASTORIA
THE GEM
C.F.WISE, Prop.
Choice Winea, Liquors Merchantl Luncn Prom , !
, and Cigars 11:30 a. mi to 1130 p. m.
Hot Lunch at All Hours. . fl cnti
4 corner Eleventh and Commorcial.
OREGON