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THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON,
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SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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' 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.
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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