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THE M011NING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 190S.
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TKIXPHOKi. KAMI
Offitial parr of Clatsop County and
tin city oi fjtona.
WEATHER.
Western Oregon Probably
fair in the north; rain or snow
in the south.
Western Washington Prob-
ably fair.
Eastern Oregon Rain or
snow.
Eastern Washington, Idaho
-Fair.
NEW YORK HAS IT.
One of the chief novelties of 1908
in New York is a mild but interesting
agitation for female suffrage. Under
yellow and black banners bearing the
words "Votes for Women" various
impassioned oratoresses grieving at
the position to which woman is rele
gated in this country are lecturing
from soap boxes on crowded corners.
Just what specific ends this suffra
gette invasion with demand for votes
for women hopes to accomplish mere
man has so far had considerable dif
ficulty in determining. One. of the
more fiery oratoresses has announced
that the country is in need of a moral
revolution whatever that may be.
Another has taken for her theme the
statement that as woman is the boss
of the home which is the greatest fac
tor in the advance of the country, she
ought logically to be boss of every
thing else. Still others advocate the
abolishment of rents. It is noticeable
that about 99 per cent of the street
corner audiences are ccmposed of
men who grin cheerful!, the remain
ing 1 per cent being made up of
women who are extremely disdaining.
One man, apparently of English dis
traction, found himself in consider
able danger y of a serious fight for
shouting "No petticoat government
for Hamerica.' Various requests were
made that he "give the women a
chance to talk" and matters looked
stormy until he explained that he had
left England on just that account
No local Countess of Warwick has
yet appeared to chapion the cause and
altogether the movement, while it
attracts interest by its novelty, is not
taken seriously.
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AGAINST WITHDRAWAL.
Nobody ought to be surprised that
one of the most influential newspapers
in Cuba, the "Discussion" of Havana,
protests prompt and vigorously in a
long editorial against the American
administration program which con
templates the withdrawal of United
States troops on February 1, 1909,
and the leaving of the island to work
out its ewn destiny from that date
on. The republic ought to be re
established, it is admitted, but the
time fixed for it is too early says
this shaper of popular opinions. "It
is a mere exigency of American
oolitics. altogether irrespective of
Cuban interests." declares the "Dis
cussion." "It is very deplorable that
the United States is to loose Cuba on
a fixed date with no reference to the
condition it' will be in on that date.
The program will greatly damage the
country, bringing a sudden accumula
tion of happenings just at the height
of the sugar season, a most inauspic
ious time." And it is further stated
that predictions as to the length of
the new experimental republic's life
are very pessimistic "some think
there will be a revolution as soon
as the American army vanishes be
yond the Morro Castle, while others
think it will stand as long as it takes
to build it." ' If one of the earliest
acts of the next American administra
tion is to send United States troops
to Cuba and "take her over" again,
it will shock none of us wbo know
A DOLLAR SAVED
' IS A DOLLAR EARNED
We pay inter! twice a year la our
ving department. You receive a
passbook on which you can deposit
and draw out a is convenient.
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Savings BanK
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the character of that people. If the
American nation is wholly free of the
Cuba incubus by February 1, 1959, it
will be lucky.
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DIAMOND A DRUG.
Society will soon have to discover
something new in the way of jewels
if diamonds continue to be the drug
on the market which the panic has
made them. As things go at present,
the demands is almost at a stand
still and as for prices, about all that
is necessary to obtain a stone is to
name your own prices, isooouy
wants to buy diamonds and the seri
ousness of the situation in this regard
which has already brought the failure
of several large diamond houses
simply because trade was dead is in
stanced by the fact that the importa
tions of these gems for 1907 was
nearly $12,000,000 less than in 1906
when prosperity was so much in evi
dence. Diamonds which cannot be
sold are just so much unproductive
capital, a fact strikingly illustrated by
the inability of the firm in whose pos
session it is to dispose of the world-
famous Hope blue diamond valued at
$250,000. A serious phase of this
stagation is found in the pawn shops.
In New York more than anywhere
else in the country people of small
means have acquired the habit of pur
chasing diamonds with their savings
instead of banking them, on the
theory which heretofore has always
held good, that the stones would in
crease steadily in value could always
be sold at a profit and most import
ant of all afforded a certain means of
raising cash through the pawn shops.
But where pawnshop" men formerly
lent nearly 50 per cent of its value on
a pledged stone 10 per cent is now
about the limit. Consequently those
in New York who find themselves in
possession of diamonds are curiously
enoush the owners of about the least
profitable and most expensive luxury
Dossible. Not the rich but the poor
are those who have diamonds now. .
03
EDITORIAL SALAD. (!)
Pity Fire Chief Croker is not on
deck to hear some of the criticisms
hurled at his department! The big
chief is something of a fighter him
self.
Why not have a climb over the
ship's ' side on a "Jacob's ladder"
made a test for naval officers so as
to correspondent with the other serv
ice's horseback rides?
The St Paul Western is liable to a
$5000 fine in Wisconsin for working a
telegraph operator longer than eight
hours a day. What would the West
ern Union think of such a law?
Fifth avenue doctors deny that
there is an epidemic of sneezing
among the residents of that thorough
fare. It was probably the talk of the
approaching wedding that the pass
ers-by heard.
More signs of a four-leaf shamrock
sprouting. But Sir Thomas rightly
leaves the fussy New York Yacht
Club to take the initiative. He is
tired of seeing his cup challenges
blocked by technicalities.
Fighting Bob Evans, commander
of the greatest of modern fleets, in
capacitated by rheumatism, presents
a situation that will furnish material
for the paragraphers until .another
Ananias presents himself for official
disfavor.
Vice-presidents of a number of rail
roads will confer with the President
January 27 concerning restrictive leg
islation. This is all very well but it
will not bring back the lost business
or buy food for the men who have
lost their jobs.
Triumphant American Optimism.
Optimistic philosophy is the dom
inant note in American life. It per
meates all classes. The crumbier,
the calamity howler, the predicter of
evil, the man who thinks that the
country is going to the dogs, and
that American institutions are deter
iorating is the exception, not the
rule.
Who can ever estimate what we
owe to that splendid wave of optim
ism which has swept over this coun
try since the panic?
Everywhere we hear strong busi
ness men talking optimism, trying to
reassure the people, cautioning them
against the fatality of spreading the
pessimistic note.
The optimist of the press has had
a wonderful effect on the masses,
especially the ignorant and the timid.
In Chicago, especially, many of the
business and social organizations
have done a splendid work in allay
ing the fears of the people.
If the recent panic had occurred
twenty-five years ago, it would have
been very much more serious. Peo
ple were much more pessimistic than
they are to-day. The leven of op
timism is working a marvelous
change in our people. W are more
hopeful, more confident.
There are not so many people to
day as there were formerly, who be
lieve that things are go.ing to the
dogs.
We have more faith in ourselves,
more faith in our country, more faith
in that great creative principle which
finally rights all wrongs, and which,
in spite of all disaster and seeming
wrong, finally brings harmony out
of discord.
Our people have unbounded confid
ence in America's future and this vig
orous American optimism will ulti
mately make any very extended fi
nancial panic impossible. Our re
sources are too vast, our people too
gritty, too resourceful, too inventive,
too determined, too hopeful, to long
be materially affected by any finan
cial disturbance.
Nowhere in the world is there
crowded together such untold re
sources, such vast unexplored wealth,
as in this country; and nowhere else
have the inventive, resourceful facul
ties of man been developed to such
an extent as here in America.
And better than all this is the fact
that the hopefulness of the individu
al matches our national optimism, for
her no youth is hampered or man
acled in his race for success. His
only limits are in himself.
We have as yet scarcely scratched
the surface of our vast resources.
Even during the recent panic we
knew that the confidence of our peo
ple as to our future greatness and
grandness was not shaken in the least
Everyone knew that it was only a
temporary storm; that behind it the
sun of American progress and enter,
prise was shining and would soon
dissipate all the clouds.
Running all through the American
people is a great underlaying phil
osophy of optimism. Hope, not des
pair, carries the American banner
Success Magazine.
WOMAN'S WHIST LEAGUE.
NEW YORK, Jan. 23,-Detroit
was selected as the next meeting
place of the Woman's Whist League
at a meeting in the National Order
held here yesterday. The week be
ginning May 4, as the date. One
hundred whist clubs, scattered from
Maine to Texas, with an individual
membership of about 3000 are in
cluded in the organization,
COFFEE
The dealing is simple.
If you don't like Schil
ling's Best, it costs you
nothing.
Your grocer return, your raonej It 70a don't
Ilk It; we par bim
SHADOWED GIRL
OFF FOR TARGET PRACTICE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 23. -The
battleship Nebraska under command
f Captain Nicholson, sailed for Mag-
dalena Bay yesterday to make her
first effort at target practice. Follow
ing her target practice the Nebraska
is expected to be in full readiness to
join the ships of Admiral Evans' fleet
next March.
From Abe Ruef's point of view, it
seems that there is unwarranted par
tiality shown in the use of the im
munity bath.
Arrested Man Charged With Murder
of Policeman Mooney.
CHICAGO, JarT-The love of a
girl who, against the wishes of her
mother, had been secretly meeting
Simmons, led to his arrest last night
on the charge of being implicated in
the murder of Policeman William R.
Mooney, who was shot by highway
men on the night of January 2.
Grace Warner, 21 years old, has
been meeting Simmons every night
while detectives were searching the
city for him. The police learned of
this and last night followed her from
her home. Just as Simmons greeted
her, half 1 doxen detectives surround
ed the couple and Simmons was forc
ed to surrender at the points of re
volvers.
Simmons, according to the police,
is the most desperate highwayman
who has worked in Chicago since the
car-barn bandits. William Brown, the
confesed slayer of Policeman Mooney
and Thomas McCann, an accomplice,
both say Simmons was with them at
the time of the murder. Simmons is
wanted 01 an indictment for the mur
der of Herman Hansen, a saloon
keeper who was shot an killed in a
hold-up several weeks ago. Twenty or
more aloon robberies are charged to
him. Recently a reward was offered
for his capture.
CUT THIS OUT.
Fine Recipe for the Quick Cure of
Coughs and Colds.
"Mix half ounce of Concentrated
oil of pine with two ounces of glycer
ine and half a pint of good whiskey;
shake well each time and use in doses
of a teaspoonful to a tablcspoonfut
every four hours.
This is the formula prescribed by
the renowned throat and lung special
ist who established the camp for con
sumptives in the pine woods of Maine
and whose remarkable cures attract
ed widespread attention among the
medical fraternity. He declares that
it will heal the lungs and cure an
cough that is curable and will break
up an acute cold in 24 hours. The
ingredients can be secured from any
prescription druggist at a small cost
and is easily mixed at home.
Be sure not to buy the ordinary
bulk oil 'of pine nor patent medicine
imitations, as they will produce nau
sea on account of the impurities they
contain and frequently do permanent
injury to the kidneys.
The real "Concentrated" oil of pine
is put up for medicinal use in half
ounce vials inclosed in small tin
screwtop cases which protect it from
heat and light. It is also said to be
an excellent remedy for lumbago and
all forms of uric acid rheumatism.
For this purpose it is taken raw; a
few drops on sugar night and morn
ing. Home-made cheese is now a rival
with the rich American girls for
foreign titles. The New York cus
tom has passed through two thou
sand empty boxes bedecked with or
namental labels, which will soon hold
our dairy products after the cheese
has changed its name. ,
PILES CURED HI fl TO 14 DAYS,
PAZO OINTMENT la guaranteed to cure
any ease of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or
Protruding Piles in 0 to 14 days or
money refunded. 60c
the six-per-cent string that it is
proposed to attach to the emergency
currency will prevent any radical
movement in estimating an emerg
ency. .,,
That Boston preacher who insisted
upon taking up a collection for for
eign missions when there were 300
unemployed men in his church needs
fixing. . ".; -
Reports from Wall street are that
everybody makes good progress ex
cept the man who bets on margins.
Mr. Taft points with pride to the
returns from Ohio, while Senator
Foraker views them with alarm.
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