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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. ii .1 1 1 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1908. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By wail, per year.... $7-00 By carrier, per month. .60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance, $1.50 Knlowd u Mttmd-etaw Bt , 1S0S, t th. pntolDo at AiW". Ore on, under Um Ml ot ConrM ol Muob l UT-OwWi tot A 4Urmnt ot Tw Moan nwAVroau tooithtr mMam or puna ol mMJ M BMW OJ P7" ij through tahptaOM. Any trrttoumj m oo- omooofpubUottlsB. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Official paper of Clatsop County and the City of Astoria. oooooooooooooooo Eastern Washington. Idaho Cloudy and threatening with rain or snow in northern por- tion. . Western Oregon Increas- ing cloudiness followed by rain.... , Western Washington Rain. Eastern Oreeon Fair. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE LOSS OF THE REED. There is universal regret here that the ship Emily Reed, practically SO days overdue from the Antipodes, should have been wrecked at the very gate of her charter-port and at the extraordinary loss of life; and her master's accounting for the dis aster is rated as perfectly reasonable and probable. . It is one of those sad messages from the ever treacherous sea that come, always without warning, and laden with bitterness. The ship was well known in these wtaers and by every mariner who makes the farther reaches of the globe, and there is many a story afloat anent her long service and the conspicuous incidents of her career, each and all of which are now in process of eager reitera tion. ! SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS - BANK HAS ., MONEY TO LOAN ON i GOOD SECURITY weight and value. The general idea over the coast has been, during all the time that Ruef's name has been bandied about, that the prosecuting department of the law had invariably held itself absolutely exempt from any such agreement in the case of Ruef, whatever they had granted to others; and now the time has arrived to show the people plainly and hon estly that they never have committed themselves to this man s immunity. If they shall fail to make good, upon the cleanest and most understandable basis, then this wretched criminal's plea must hold and he must be given his liberty without further question No man is ever beyond the pale of justice; and if RuePs affidavits stand, he must have it INTERESTING NOTES Of New York the Great tropolis. Me EDITORIAL SALAD Besides, the insurance companies might reflect that investments of the money recently coming in will show a considerable increase in the rate of income, at prevailing prices. Chairman Woodruff cheerfully ad- nits Charles E. Hughes is, next to Roosevelt, the greatest non-Yale tatesman in the country. The sucess of the sea-going rail road suggests the possibility of run ring a fast limited express service over thePanama Canal Theodore Roosevelt did not win the lightweight championship at Har vard, according to some of the lightweights. There may be some hope if Mr. C. W- Morse took the regular ice famine with him. When a man accused of murder is crazy to get into an asylum he is soon eager to get out THE CITY TEACHERS. The 35 ladies and gentlemen of the Astoria corps of public school teach ers, through their special committee, have spoken very clearly and simply of their claim to consideration on the part of the voters of the district and of the directors in charge of the schools, in the matter of an increased scale of wages. Just where the hitch arises we are not in position to say and have no doubt the issue will be properly and satisfactorily adjusted in due season. But, it goes without saying that people in this walk of life and duty, rarely seek the counte nance of the public in such matters unless every other resource has been exhausted and they feel compelled to revert to original sources of author ity; and it must be credited to this group that they are well within their province, if they have been denied what they say they have. If the scale of pay is inadequate; if this has been conceded by the alleged consent of the board to increase the levy in this behalf; and if the voters at the annual meeting signified their consent and gave authority for that levy ,then the levy should ,be made and increase established. And even in default of these things, if it can be shown that the teachers of Astoria are underpaid, the injus tice should be made good upon the initiative of the board, and no time lost in the doing of it; for it is leading principle of scolastic work that the teachers must be of the best and no best is to be had for meagre compensation, in this or any other channel of public service. RUEF'S PLEA. There is no more despicable figure in current American history than Abraham Ruef, the despoiler of San Francisco; yet even he is not so low in the scale of human appraisal as to warrant injustice at the hands of the law itself. He is pleading at this moment that, by every concievable line of definite commitment, the dis trict attorney's office of San Fran cisco, guaranteed him immunity from all punishment if he would impeach his colleagues in crime, and having done so, now repudiates the pledge made to him and offers him for final sacrifice in expxiation of his and their crimes. ' His affidavits, amply supported on their face, are now before the court, and it is up to the district attorney and his confreres to dispel their The law should positively prohibit women eating alone after 6 o'clock in the evenines. Men are entitled to good company once in a while. The Washington "Post" figures Hughes on the fourth ballot It everybody agreed, nobody would waste three ballots. NEW YORK, Feb, 1S.-U is pos sible that future generations in Greater New York may never see a snowstorm, for a proposition content plates their abolishment has at last been put forward. ' Every fall New York prepares to clean the streets of snow in a miraculously short time and every winter finds the street- cleaning department unable to do so. The city is not quite in the class of Chicago where it was recently dis covered that men were still being carried on the pay rolls for the pur pose of removing the big snow of 1906, but it is never able to do much in the way of actually getting rid of the fall. After every storm all squares and parks are filled with miniature moutnains of snow shoveled together theoretically to be hauled away and dumped in the river, but in reality to await the destroying influence of a good thaw or rainstorim A heavy snowfall too has come to mean the piling up in each gutter of an impass able bunker. Naturally in the light of such conditions suggestons for the handling of the snow have been many. The latest and by far the most in genius does not contemplate the handling of the snow but its complete abolishment A chemist in this city claims to have discovered a chemical which if sprayed into the air during the storm would immediately change the snow to rain at a height of 100 feet above the pavement and at a much lower cost than is now neces sary for snow removed. Those per sons who fatten on street cleaning contracts are naturally contemptuous and call it visionary and impossible. But stranger things than the abolish ment of snow have happened and should it come to pass only those persons whose offices are above the tenth story could ever expect to see a snowstorm. United States officials can straigh ten out a suspended bank and set it going again while State officials are still squabbling about getting started, One consolation is that if by chance just a little good hose should be bought it would soon be all the hose there is . When Mr. Foraker hanging on the ropes, it looks as u tney ougni to stop the bout out in Ohio. Our big fleet is still in fine shape, and ready for anything from a cata pult to a cakewalk. Mr. Hobson has much to say of the rapanese problem. Let him point out how Japan can make both ends meet financially, and he will earn a handsome testimonial from the mikado. Boston has made a contract to drive the rats trom two scnoois, From various parts of the world come the proofs that a rats character is getting to be no better than that of a mosquito. Canada has a fish that, caught through holes in the ice, is frozen so stiff that it breaks like brittle sticks, yet when carefully thawed is found to be alive. David B. Hill's return to politics is not necessarily a joke. Detroit is aiding the unemployed by digging a new canal, and will help itself still more by the operation, as is usually the case in waterway con struction. 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Blackwell's Island, where Father Knickerbocker confines his undesir able citizens, added temporarily near ly three acres to its small area and buildings ordinarily situated at the edge of the water found themselves for the time being a considerable distance removed from the river. With the subsidence of the "gale the water gradually resumed its former level but for a time it looked as though the East River was going to be entirely blown away and New York City in voluntarily annexed to Long Island. Eczema, tetter and salt rheum keep their victims in perpetual torment The application of Chamberlain's Salve will instantly allay this itching and many cases have been cured by its seu. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. j Likewise the merciful man has sharp calks on the shoes of his beast, Mr. Beckham thought the way to cbtain a people's certificate to the Senate in Kentucky was to apply the governor's patronage and hold a snap primary. 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