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S THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1008. THE MORNING ASTORIAN Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. ' 3y wail, per year.. V-M By carrier, per month. .60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance, $1.50 Interrd a wrond-elan nti o'5 30. 19. t tta postomce l Aticw a. Ore gon, under U wo of Confreu oi March S. tar Order tor the deUwnnjt at Tas Hoax imuniu to either rerideno or ple oi burinm T to mad by P" r thnxurta tolechoM. Any tm alw Ity In d livery (hould to Imnadtettr nporod to th oneotpubUcttM. , , , ... TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Official paper of Clatsop County and the City of Astoria. 0000000000000000 O ! WEATHER 0 0 . . ; Western Oregon and Wash- O , 3 mgton Fair except rain near O O coast ;:. ' 0 0 U Eastern Oregon and Wash- O O ington, Idaho Fair. : 0 0000000000000000 SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK HAS I . MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURITY THE MILITANT JAP. It strikes the ordinary thinker, the man on the go, without time to get down to the detail of the matter, that the Japanese are accumulating a huge handful of trouble. What with their ambition to dominate the Pacific Ocean as a war power and as the leading commercial nation on its borders; with a war of reprisal due at any time Russia may find herself prepared; China becoming restive and even warlike tinder the perpetual ag gression the Jap is thrusting upon her; and her alleged ' intention of smashing the United States into shreds, the doughty "little brown man" is taking on contracts that would stagger any nation of the earth of 10 times his resources. , ' "It "is impossible to withhold one's j respect for this ambitious, aggressive j and courageous people; but the con viction that they are altogether too bumptious and grasping for their purse and prestige, is unescapable. They are modern wonders in many ways, with incalculable capacity for absorption and a splendid knack of adaptation, but are growing too fast and are likely to run across a Water loo sooner or later that will fix their place normally and finally on a much lower plane than they now exultingly and somewhat insolently aspire to. . o THE TRAINED FIREMAN. Fire Chief Croker, of New York City, one of the greatest experts in the world on fire-fighting-service, its personnel and apparatus, declares in a recent interview, that the ordinary fireman is not necessarily brave at any juncture of his career; that he is simply trained to do certain things and does them from sheer sense of duty; if his life is sacrificed it is only an error of judgment and not a de liberate consecration of all he has to yield for the good of others. We opine that, the big chief is talking from purely professional grounds and a life-long experience that may, in his own case, justify his deductions; but that is rather an unfair estimate, however plausible it may be to the seasoned expert. What becomes of the novitiate, the voune! inexperienced fireman, who goes up against a terrible climax, and oasses the grave engagement only because he is indomitably brave?: Is be to be denied the honor of having done a trying duty simply because he is oaid for the service and his natural courage forbade him flinch? What of the man who is weakened by smoke and gases and the thousand-and-one impediments that beset the fireman in the course of his high duty, and staggers through them with what of will and endurance he may possess, savins life and property as he issues from the desperate crisis? Is he to be denied all credit for having done his duty under perilous and untoward circumstances? The fireman is in duty bound to save his own life from every hazard that confronts him on the simple principle that his life and strength and skill are imperatively necessary for the salvation of the lives and property he has been sent to save; and when he gives that life up he weakens the service that much and Imposes fresh obligations on his fel lows at a moment when they are not prepared to assume them. We cannot agree with the New York chief. The layman dislikes to relinquish his : old-time diea of the fireman as a brave and resourceful man, doing a splendid duty and taking almost insuperable risks in order that that duty may be the better done. As the life-saver goes to his boat and service with an exalted courage that inspires the utmost limit of his moral and physical forces, so goes the fire man to his apparatus and fire, with a sense of his specific duty very acute, but secondary to the innate bravery that marks him- always and every where, a truly courageous man, duty, or no duty. o A POTTERY INDUSTRY. The expenditure of a few hundreds to determine the almost pre-deter-mined excellence of Clatsop's abund ant clays, by the Chamber of Com merce, is to be commended on the score of its certainty and success. It is one thing that has stared the people of this city and county in the face for years, and that it has never been ex ploited and made the most of, is one of those things that must be charged to the unaccountable in all communi ties. Mr. Ogan is very sanguine as to the workable merits of the clays here and does not hesitate to pronounce them avalible for commerce in nearly all the phases of trade and service known to the expert potter. We hope the tests he is about to make will demonstrate the whole situation to be feasible and prolific of profitable results, to Astoria and to his con cern; and that by this time next year Astoria may be turning out her mil lions of brick and other merchantable articles in this staple to the wide ad vantage of the city and those inter ested directly. ; o TARIFF REVISION. The Morning Astorian hears a great deal these days about the revis ion of the tariff now in force under the Dingley law, and it is always ac companied by a tacit demand for an early revision of that federal schedule. The people are becoming sharply en lightened on many things, nowadays, and they realize they are paying vast ly more than is necessary for the staple things of life; that the margins of profit innuring to the manufac turer, the middleman, the retailer and the wholesaler are grossly exorbitant and that the embargo on which a large per cent of this profit is based must be removed if the ordinary citi zen is to live, and provide for the future of his family.. He is educated to the fact that nine-tenths of the staples he is pay ing heart-breaking prices for, are shipped out of the country, thousands of miles away, and sold to foreigners at 5'j and 60 per cent less than the man at home pays for them; and it is beginning to gall. The revision of this law J3 one of the crying demands of the hour and it will not cease until justice is done to the commonalty of America; Uncle Joe Cannon and all his host of plutocratic backers to the contrary notwithstanding. For a supposedly bright people we are about the dumbest set on the round green earth when it comes to such gigantic frauds as this! o EDITORIAL SALAD Charles W. Morse should be highly flattered at the evidences ot his popu larity. Dozens of prominent financiers and high functionaries of both the Federal and State governments are clamoring to welcome him home. Bryan says Wall Street is the hot bed of monopoly, but Roosevelt will probably tell him, after fighting them for several years, that the especially stubborn and "undesirable ones evi dently are not of the hot-bed variety outdoor newspaper, contain a dis play advertisement of "Engines for Aeroplanes." No better commentary on the growth of interest in aerial navigation possibly could be had. If Kelsey resigns as head of the New York state insurance department, we may find out what kind of bone Governor Hughes has been picking for the past year. REMARKABLY EFFECTIVE. A Noted Doctor's Prescription Checks an Acute Cold in a Day and Cures Chronic Coughs. The wonderfully healing powers of pine have been known for ages, but the comparatively new form of pine product which has the quality of be ing soluble, which is now being gen erally prescribed by doctors, is known to the profession as concentrated oil of pine. A Philadelphia lung and throat specialist declares that the for mula in which he now uses the con centrated oil of pine has produced re markable results, often entirely cur ing a severe cold in 24 hours. This formula is very simple and the ingre dients can be obtained of any good prescription druggist and mixed at home. It is as follows: "Mix a half ounce Concentrated oil of pine with two ounces of glycerine and a half pint of good whisky; shake it thor oughly each time, and use in doses of a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful every four hours." The Concentrated oil of pine comes put up for medical use only in half ounce vials, which are securely sealed in tin screw-top boxes. The boxes are air-tight and thus re tain the original ozone, as well as pro tecting the fluid from atmospheric changes. Care should be taken not to get any of the patent medicine imi tations using similar name and pack age. It is also said to be a splendid spe cific for rheumatism and lumbago. For this purpose it is taken raw on sugar, a few drops each night and morning. No family medicine chest should at any time be without this powerful remedy. AMERICAN BEER. German Scientist Comes to See How Americans Make Beer. NEW YORK, Feb. 20.-For the purpose of studying the American methods of making beer, together with investigations to scientific farm ing, the manufacture of sugar and the refining of spirits, Dr. Adolph Cluss, a German scientist, arriving here on the Prinzessin Irene, bearing a commission from the Austrian gov ernment. "We have eood breweries in Aust ria," said Dr. Cluss, "and good ma chinery in them, but your breweries are such tremendous institutions that I shall study how they are run." Dr. Cluss, who is a linguist and the author of several scientific treatises, will go to Washington to present his credentials to the Austro-Hungarian ambassador. He is to remain in this country six months. The Boddie bill, passed by the Mis sissiooi leeislature, deals a body-blow to trading in "futures." This is no joke, as the bucket-shop people will testily. Why not have cars exclusively for women on the New York transit lines? Then a man could keep his seat without smothering himself with a newspaper. Some unfeeling person has remark ed that the dog show sounds like a famous Harriman interview "Wow I Wow! Wow!" The Field, London's great weekly REASON ENTHRONED. Because meats are so tasty they are consumed in great excess. This leads to stomach troubles, biliousness and constipation. Revise your diet, let reason and not a pampered ap petite control, then take a few doses of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and you will soon be ' weU aa-ain. Try it For sale at Frank Hart and leading druggists. it here." The next moment the naked llamo may may have caused explo sion, and he with hundreds of others be fighting a losing fight for life. A day or so later the experts arrives to try and determine the cause of the disaster. This is only one example of the fatal results of carelessness. It may be a nuked flame, or it may be an overcharge of powder, delib erately used by a miner who thinks to gain by the extra amount of coal dislodged. Sooner of later the re sult is disaster, and recognising this, laws have been enacted In some coal producing countries making careless ness criminals, whether disaster re sults or not From "Causes of Mine Disasters" (illustrated) in Popular Mechanics for March. MINERS' " CARELESSNESS CAUSES DISASTERS. Poor ventilation is not always re sponsible for mine disasters. Side by side with this menace to human life walks the ignorant, obstinate miner, who refuses to adhere to the rules governing his part of the work. By carelessness he holds the lives of his companion workers in the hollow of his hands. If he is working in a mine where firc-damo is prevented, and his safety-lamp is- extinguished by some accident, he has orders to return to the surface to relight ; it ' But that takes time, and time to him means just so much more money. What s the difference?" he says to himself "It won't cause an explosion to light SEEKING THE SPEED LIMIT OF SAFETY. In an interesting article on "Seek ing the Speed Limit of Safety" in the March Popular Mechanics the writer says; ' "There was a time when, a new stretch of railway line having been completed, the engineers of the road ordered a train crew to run a train over it at full sped,,with the idea that if no accidents occured the track had been sufficiently tested and found safe. Such a tune has passed. New devices have come into use which make it possible to determine to the very letter the amount of strain to which a piece of track can be subject "For several months the Pennsyl vania railroad has been conducting a series of tests along its lines to de termine the relative safety of highest speed with steam and electric locomo tives. "To carry out these tests a half mile of track was built through a rural section. The half mile of track has a sharp curve in the center and lies on a stretch of almost perfectly level ground. Over this hundreds of runs have been made with three powerful locomotives and some of the largest steam engines the road owns. Speed of from 90 to 96 miles an hour, timed by accurate electrical apparatus have been made. "To enable the locomotive to attain a high speed the runs commences on the main line several miles djstant from the special track. For the half mile stretch steel beams support the rails, and at the outer ends, which are a trifle higher at the curve, are deli cate gauges which measures the im pact of the heavy locomotives as they pass over it Seicmographs mounted in the locomotives measure the degree of sway in rounding the curve. "The electric engines used in the tests weigh 95 tons and are each equipped with four 500-hp. motors. In reality the engines are each just one-half of the complete locomotives which will be used to draw trains through the Pennsylvania tunnels now under construction beneath New York City. It was considered too hazardous to use the complete eng ines in the tests because of their great weight Fith Spe.ring by Firelight. In the sunny south in the blue wa ters of the Mediterranean one may fre quently behold the strange sight of fishermen reaping a rich harvest with the aid of a long forklike Instrument, which is used In place of a net There the ancient "peche auz flambeaux," a singular custom of fishing at night by the light of a blazing fire, still exists, enabling hundreds of hardy tollers of the deep to gain a livelihood. Wide World Magazine. One Good Turn, Etc Third Floor Tenant-Bee here! I'm one of a committee of men In thl apartment, and I've called to ask yon to sell your flute. ' , Second Floor Tenant-Delighted to see you. I'm one of another, committee and was about to go up and ask you If you'd sell your baby. Llpplncotf s. , Touching. "Not a cent," replied the rich man coldly. "Money is not good for the poor." "Well," responded the applicant, "just pretend that you have a grudge against me." Philadelphia Ledger. , Obliging Jailer. Mayor Where are you going? Vil lage Constable The three tramps I just locked up want to play whist, and I'm looking for a fourtb.-Transatlan-tlc Tales. Fisher, Brothers Company SOLE AGENTS ; Barbour and Finlayion Salmon Twins and Netting McCormick Harvesting Machines Oliver Chilled Ploughs Malthold Roofing 1 Thorplea Cream Separators Raecolith Flooring Storrett'i Tools Hardware, Groceries, Ship Chandlery Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar, Aah Oars, Oak Lumber, Pip and Fittings, Brass Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Fishermen's Pur Manilla Rope, Cotton Twin and Ssln Web Wo Want Your Trodo FISHER BROS. BOND STREET ,"23 Have You Seen The Wash? In Our Hardware' Window The Foard & Stokes Hardware Co Incorporated Successors to Focrd & Stokes Co. 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SCOW BAY BRASS & 11 MS s. j ' r A8T0B1A, OREGON r IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinery. Prompt attention given to all repair work. 18th and Franklin Ave. ' - TeL Main 2461 , Sherman Transter Co. ' HENRY 8HERMAN, Manager. Hacks, CarriagesBaggage Checked and Transferred Trucks and Furniture Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Street ' . . ( Main Phone 121 J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President. 0. 1. PETERSON, Vice-President. 1 ! FRANK PATTON, Cashier J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier Astoria Savings Bank Transacts a General Banking Business i Interest Paid on Time Deposits FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM. -Eleventh and Duane 8 ts. s , Astoria, Oregon. First National Bank of Astoria, Ore. ESTABLISHED 1880. Capital '$100,000