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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1908)
JLIIE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTOltlA. OREGON. SATURDAY. JANUARY 25. 1908. We Have Given Special Attention to Our Tea Department And Offer a Quality of Teaflthat is Surefto Please. The Stock is the Very Choicest English Breakfast Oolong CeylonGun powder Spider-Leg Uncolored Japan. A. V. AIwUEN Phones Main 711, Main 2871 Sole agent for Baker's Barrington Hall Steel Cut Coffee. Branch Uniontown Phone Main 713 DONT WAIT. Take Advantage of an Astoria Citi- - sen's Experience Before It's . " Too Late. When the back begins to ache, Don't wait until backache becomes Till serious kidney troubles de velop; Till urinary troubles desroy night's test . . , Profit by an Astoria citizen's exper ience. Arthur Rooke, 412 Duane street, Astoria, Or., says: "At the time I began using Doan's Kidney Pills I was suffering severely from kidney trouble and rheumatism. There were severe pains in my back and should ers which descended at times into my, limbs. The pains seemed to be as severe during the night as in the day, and many times interfered with my - rest At one time I was so lame that I was i-r.iibic to stoop over to late :y shot s w;hout suffering acutely. My kidneys were irregular in action and the secretions were in a terrible condition. At last a friend recom mended Doan's Kidney Pills to me so highly that I procured a box at Charles Rogers' drug store. They fcelped me from the first I continued using them and it was only a short time before I was entirely free from kidney complaint. I am now entirely well, and it gives me pleasure to rec ommend a remedy that has proven of sath great benefit to me as Doan's Kidney Pills." For sale" by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, IS. Y sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and take no other. UNPROFITABLE DREAMS. Be does not care for common things, like doing simple chores, . Sot how his fancy takes on wings And with what ease it soars Am be sits by the kitchen stove When daylight is near spent .And tells how things would start to mors If he were president The barn needs shingling, since It leaks With every shower of rain. Tor axle grease the wagon squeaks, And tons of hay have Iain ., Through half a dozen showers or so Tn& while his dreams are bent On bow the trusts would have to go ' If he were president XDs fences from neglect are down. The cows are In his corn He saw them, with an angry frown, A week from yestermorn And yet to making some repair No useful aid he's lent SB's thinking how the rogues would far If he were president Be started out to milk the cow A half an hour ago And met a neighbor with his plow, ' So sat right down to show How evil are the times and what This vice of grafting meant And what would be and what would not If he were president. The pump is out of order quite And will but wheeze and squeak. And so his willing wife at night Bears water from the creek Because he must have time to think Hot how to pay the rent, Bnt how he'd muke the neighbors blink If he were president And you, my friend, does your barn leak, Tour fences need repair? Does your pump never wheeze and squeak From lack of .little care? Or do you sometimes shirk your chores And Is your fancy bent On healing economic sores With you as president -J. W. Foley In Woman's Home Companion.- GETTING BREAKFAST. Exp.rl.no THit Taught a Man to Re spect Woman's Ability. 'Ever try to get your own break fasts?" asked the man whose wife la away. "Nor Well, lfa a moat valu able educattou In the art of holding more than one thing In the mind at a time. I can understand after a week of It how women get to be expert In matters of detail. "We men go through life blundering along first at one thing and then at an other, with the Idea that what we are doing at the moment should be finish ed before anything else Is taken np. You can't get breakfast on that princi ple. Women Instinctively know bow to run half a dozen things at once When they have the coffee on the stove and the toast Is browning and the eggs cooking they can put the fin ishing touches on the setting of the table with a light and cheerful heart At the psychological moment the cof fee will be whisked off, the toast ex tracted and the eggs removed to place where further application of heat Is Impossible. If s a wonder to rite how they do It "A man If he essays to make coffee must devote his whole attention to the operation; likewise with everything else. If he doesn't there'll be trouble. He isn't a success In a double act. and when the question is one of a triple or a quadruple act he might as well throw up bis hands. At least," he concluded, with a shade of pride In his tone, "till he's got the hang of it." "So you consider yourself qualified now, do your his friend inquired. with mock seriousness. "If a succession of spoiled meals qualifies me." the first speaker rejoin ed, "I'm If-Xew York Press. Improving the Breed. Shortly after a new administration took hold of a well known southern railroad a great number of claims were preferred against the company on account of burses and cattle beins killed along the line In Kentucky. To make matters worse, It appeared that every animal killed, however worth less it may have' been before the acci dent, invariably figured in the claims subsequently presented as being of tho best blood in Kentucky. One day in conversation with one of the road's at torneys the president became very much excited in referring to the situa tion. "Do you know," be exclaimed, bringing down bis fist on the desk by way of emphasis, "I have reached tho conclusion that nothing In Kentucky so Improves live stock as crossing it with a locomotive." Montreal Star. English Marriages. Every year from 800 to 1,200 couplt go to bnglund rrom me contlnciu. mostly from Germany, to get murrle.L To comply with the conditions of t!c English laws the bride usually goes over first, stays oue night in a .hotel and gives notice of the marriage o.i the following day. Then the mnu a;-; lives and the ceremony takes place. It is generally by license, as other wise both would have to be In Eng land for four weeks. SAVED BY A BET, Pteullar Instance of the Power Mind Over Matter. The power of the huiuau will over the weakness of tho human bmlv has seldom been more curiously exempli' I fled limn In the following lusium-e: One of the bravest oflltrrs In Lord Wellesley'a peulusuiur army was Colo nel liny, who, however, was as uoto tlous for his love of gambling ami bol ting as for his deeds of darlug. At Salamanca he was struck down by a bullet ami lay upon tho Held apparent ly lifeless. Two brother olllww coin ing p, oue of them exclaimed: "Poor Hay! He's gone at last'" He had scarcely uttered the words when n faint voice came up from the ground: "Hi lay you a level hundred hu's not." The colouol had oioiied his eyes, but they looked glassy with death, and It seemed but a case of minutes. "Enter It." ho went on, "and you, Caplalu Marston," addressing tho sec ond officer, "be witness." Then, quite overcome, his eyelids dropped again, and be lay motionless. Major Windsor, the one with whom the bet was made, nt once had the colo nel couveyed to the hospital. It wan found to I a very grave case, and aft er the patient had been restored to couseloutmcs by means of restora tives the doctor told him there was a ball in his back which could only tx extracted by a very severe oeratlou. "But 1 must warn you," added the surgeon, "that ou will very probably die under It." "If anybody will bet tue f."iO on the event, I'll consent," suid the colonel. "Send for Windsor, and I'll eudeavor to persuade him to make it double or quits." The major was sent for and agreed to the terms. "Now saw away with you," cried the colonel. i wuu't die." The oiwrntioii was at once com menced, ami the gallant gambler pass ed triumphantly through the ordeal, while the major, who was a generous fellow, paid the bet with the utmost satisfaction. "I tell you," Colonel Hay used to say when relating the story, "but for thiit bet I should be a dead man now. It was only my determination to win that kept me alive." rearson's Weekly, - MET ir-7r--T-:4 mm in it iyr II in mm nm i inv vi v tii ux 7re 73 1 : .AT ' U . II BAPTIST CHURCH J . Mml 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. Kor she cannot lieln it W'omim nro often cross, irritable, hysteric, and declare they are driven to dbitrao uon at the slightest provocation. Men cannot understand why this should be so. To them it is a mys tery lwcause in nine times out ol ten this condition it caused br a . . - - serious iennnine aerangeineut. A remedy is necessary which acts directly unori tho organs afflicted, re Storing a healthy normal condition to the feminine system, which will quickly dinl all Iwstericul, nervous and irritable conditions. Such is LYDIAE.PINKHAr.VS VEGETABLE COMPOUND Hie following letter serves to prove this fact. , Airs, flattie lownliaver, 815 So. 21st St, lfersons, Kansn writes: " For two years I suffered from the worst lorms of feminine Ills, until I was almost driven frantic. Nothing but morphine would relieve me. Lydia E. llnkluim'a Vegetable Compound brought nie heslth and happiness and made me a well woman." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. link ham's VcKi'table Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the' standard remedy for female ills, and has positively cured thousandsol women who have Iwen troubled with displacements, in nammation. ulcera. tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, Krnxnc pains, uacxacne, mat near-r-down feeling, flatulency,indigen- iion,uiz7.mess,ornerv'ous prostration Whv don't von trv it.? Mrs. Plnklmm Invites all sick women to write her for advice Hhe has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. GOOD MUSIC C. G. Grekn and his two daughters, Misses Beatrice and Jessie Green, of La Grande, Ore., will have charge of the chorus choir. Preaching by the Pastor, January Official! Tide Tables I " V. V' Compiled by the U. S. Government for Astoria and Vicinity. JANUARY, 1908., , JAPS DOING SKETCHING. HONOLULU, Jan. 24.-A Japan ese has been discovered sketching Honolulu, Pearl Harbor and the coast line from the heights behind Honolulu. - TEA ' Good tea, close price. There is no other way to build a good business or keep a good business. Toir grocer returns your money U F ess 'I the Schilling'! test: we par him. No Wonder. Gayboze When my wife saw the rendition I was In when I got borne from the club last night it Just stag tered her. Martlni-I'm not surprised. Yon know you drank enough for two, old man. Illustrated Bits. The Cardinal's Wife. Cardinal Gibbous, the venerable head of the Catholic church in Ameri ca, Is one of the mowt democratic men. in the country. He also enjoys a good Joke, even when told at his own ex pense. ; He once related how a Balti more newRpaiter man who may have been more zealous In Journalism than learffM in religion called. at the cardi nal's house' one day to ask his emi nence for information concerning some church matter. "The cardinal is out of the city," said Ifather Fletcher, who received the caller. . "Then may I see Mrs. Gibbons?" was the startling request -that fol lowed. Llpnincott's. The Family Enjoyed It Too. When the minister, who was a bach elor, had been helped to Mrs. Porter's biscuit for the third time, be looked across the table at Rhoda, staring at him with round, wondering eyes. "I don't often have such a good sup per as this, my dear," he said in his most propitiatory tone, and Rboda's face dimpled. "We don't always," she said In her clear little voice. "I'm awful glad you came." Youth's Companion. High Water. I A. Date n.m Wednesday 1 10:25 Thursday 2 11:15 Friday 8 0:43 Saturday ..4 1:32 SUNDAY 6 2:20 Monday 8:06 Tuesday 7 3:54 Wednesday 81 4:38 Thursday 91 6:28 Friday 101 6:zo Saturday 11 7:15 SUNDAY 12 8:10 Monday 13 8:05 Tuesday 14 8:66 Wednesday 1510:44 Thursday 16 0:151 Thursday 1611:26 Friday 17 0:56 Saturday 18 1:30 SUNDAY 19 2:02 Monday 20 2:32 Tuesday 21 3:00 Wednesday 22 8:25 Thursday 23 3:65 Friday 24 4: Saturday 25 5:10 SUNDAY , 26 6:00 Monday 27 6:66 Tuesday 28 7:66 Wednesday 29 9:00 Thursday 8010:00 M. I P. M. I ft I h.m. ft 11:60 9.0 9.5 7.6! 7.9! 8.1 8.3 8.3 8.4 8.4 8.4 8.2 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.6 7.2 8.3 7.012: 7.4112:40 12:03 12:60 1:40 2:30 3:24 4: 6:30 6:43 8:04 9:23 10:30 11:27 C.9 7.6 7.51 7.7 7.8 7 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.0 8.1 8.4 8.7 1:121 1:46 2:20 3:00 8:40 4-34 6:80 6:46 8:12 9:35 10:44 11:401 9.6 9.4 9.3 8.9 8.4 7.7 7.0 6.7 6.4 6.6 6.7 6.9 8.6 8.3 8.2 8.0 7.7 7.4 7.0 6.7 6.2 6.9 6.8 6.0 6.6 7.1 Low Water, Date Wednesday ... Thursday 2 Friday ....... Saturday .... SUNDAY .... Monday Tuesday , Wednesday ..... 8 Thursday Friday 10 Saturday .11 SUNDAY 12 Monday 13 Tuesday 14 Wednesday 15 Thursday 16 Friday 17 Saturday 18' SUNDAY 19 Monday 20 Tuesaay Zl Wednesday 22 Thursday 23 Friday 24 Saturday 25 SUNDAY 26j Monday 27 Tuesday 28 Wednesday .....29 Thursday .......80 Friday 31 JANUARY, 1908. M. I I ft A. h.m 4:18 5:15 6:12 7:06 8:00 8:62 9:50 10:60 ll:50 12:651 0:60 1:65 8:02 4:04 6:001 5:60 6:86 7:12 7:46 8:20 8:50 9:24 9:62 10:40 11:84 0:12 1:18 2:35 8:56 $:07 3 3.3 3.3 3 3.0 2 2 2.3 2.1 1 2 3 3.3 3.5 8.6 3 3 8.5 8.4 8.2 3.0 2.7 2.3 2,0 ft 8.4 2.7 3.8 8.6 P. M. h.m. ft. 6:30 6:16 7:04 150; 8:36 9:23 10:12 11:00 11:60 2: 05 3:14 4:16 5:06 6:52 6:82 7:09 7:40 8:08 8:35 9:05 9:25 9:68 10:36 11:20 13:26 1:60 3:06 4:10 6:10 6:00 0. 8 1. t 1 -19 -1 -1 -0.5 0.3 1.1 1.4 0.1 0.4 -0.1 -0.6 -0.8 0.7 0.6 0.J 0.0 0.4 0.7 l.t 1.8 2.4 1.1 l.t 0.6 0.1 0.8 -1.3 . Q. A. BOWLBY, President. 0. L PETERSON. Vice-President (HANK PATTON, Cannier. J. W. GARNER, A-a'stant CaaMsj. Astoria Savings Bank Capital Paid in IIOOJXIO Surplus and Undivided Profits 180,000 Transacts a Qeneral Banking BoelnMS, ' Interest Paid on Time beiKMlu FOUR PER. CENT PER ANNUM Eleventh ana Dnane streets. ASTORIA, 0REG0B Rev. CONRAD L. OWEN. Brief, Prompt, Helpful, will be the motto of every service. EVERYBODY INVITED TO COME and lend a helping hand. We wish to do good, and only gcod, to all who attend. Meetings at 2i30 and 7:30 p. m. II M IB aiKs upenana U very body Welcome. II Skew Fisher Brothers Company SOLE AGENTS Barbour and Finlavaon Salmon Twlnt and Netting MeOonnlck Harvesting Machines ' Oliver Chilled Plough ' Malthold Roofing Tborplet Cream Septra tors Rseoolitlt Flooring BtorreU't Toolt Hardware, Groceries,Ship Chandlery . ' Tu Bwrlc, Blue Stone, MurUtlo Aold. Weloh Coal, Tar, -t Ash Curs, Oak Luralar, pip and Fittings, Brass Goods, Paints, Oils and Glaaa . Fishermen'! Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Seine Web WciWatttSYour Trade FISHER BROS. Bond Street. 1 . BBl First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. ESTABLISHED 18841. Capital $100,000 JOHN FOX. Pits. F. L. BISHOP, See. ASTORIA SAVINGS BANE, Tress. NELSON TEOYER, Vice-Pres. and Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IDOPROVEB . ... Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boiler COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. Correspondence Solicited. Foot of Fourth Street WHEN YOU WANT PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT Write us, we're here for that purpose The Work We Do Anything'in the electrical Business. Bell's House'Phones Inside wiring and Fixtures installed and kept in repair.! kWe will be glad to quote you prices. ,,. 1 OUR PRICES WILL DO THE REST . STEEL & E WART 421 Bond Street. Phone Main .1811 A Chance for Quick-Steppers We are setting a merry clip for shoe sellers to waits to. The quick-step prices we have put on winter shoe should quicken their going. It should also quicken the steps of everyone who oaree for a bargain In fine shoes. , OUR SPECIALTY LINE of Loggers' ahoes guarantee satisfaction to the wearer. None letter, but a leader of all. , 643 Bond St., opp. Fisher Bros. Co. S. A. GIMRB