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THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1901, - 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 Rnter4 M tond-clM bum- wj Sn. W(fi iXoi Congress 0( March I tea . - BTOrdcn for tb (Wtwimt ot Hi Mork bMOMM mi b nuvda by paul ' rd o' n?kM ho immadifttalr MOOftM to tb oflloe of publkUo. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Official paper of Clatsop County and the City of Astoria. oooooooooooooooo a WEATHER O O Oregon, Washington, Idaho 0 O -Fair. ' 0 oooooooooooooooo THE DAY WE CELEBRATE. Washington's birthday had its in ception 176 years ago today; and the event still stirs the deep-laid fibres of the American heart as no other na tional episode has ever done. The man and the name are coiled inex tricably in the early rough and sterl ing history of our people, and time, nor the play of great events can dis assoicate them. It is well for us to have this splendid standard, even if we do disregard it and follow the later and . coarser lines that adhert closer to the dollar-route than to the simpler and grander principles Wash ington and his colleagues set up for our guidance. We can, and do, hark back to them, when the underlying force and strength of the national character is evoked by some extraordinary issue or contretemps; and this faculty of taking up the original and cardinal precepts of our fathers and acting on them to the full and final adjustment of all our difficulties, is a basic boon of salvation and never has failed "us yet Washington is the accepted type of the American warrior, legislator, patriot and leader; no matter what, nor whom, else has intervented to make us forget the glory of the first great president, or to share with him the lustre and laurels that have fallen from the historic pageant we have made our own. It is altogether right and righteous that we acknowledge his supreme gifts to the people of America once each year; and the nation will have lost much indeed when it shall have refused, or forgotten; to perpetuate and honor his memory. o im FOUR FINE HARBORS. ' . " San Diego, San Francisco, Astoria, Puget Sound; these four, and no morei These are the marine refuges of the Pacific Coast; the harbors that are to stand for the Commerce, and naval resort, of the nation on the western coasts of the United States, for many years to come; or until other fine bays in various latitudes are so built upon and perfected by jetties and artificial channels as to make them of dependable auxiliary service to the business and government of our people. Three of these great havens are civically independent; Puget Sound being the only one of which any part borders upon alien territory, either in its main waters or the ocean chan nels leading to them. The rest are absolutely and inherently American in every sense of the word and free from all complications. All are for tified and amenable to expansive im provement in that line when occasion shall arise. The people of the coast are pro foundly interested in them all as bases of trade, transportation and protection, inseparable from develop ment and progress, as ' universally understood and appreciated. And a huge section of this populace is al lied, by contiguity, to this harbor and to the great river that unites it to the vast and major element of popula tion depending upon it; a concern that is becoming more and more pro nounced, year by year, and which, in the near future, will attain a concrete and specific form that will be ex pressed in active and expansive work by the government to make the har bor the "northern base of operations, military and naval; the rule of com SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK HAS MONEY TO LOAN ON J GOOD SECURITY mcrcial extension asserting itself readily and immediately after such administrative development; since commerce clings closely to the pro tective arm, as do all communities. We believe that Astoria will fit in admirably in the schemes of the future, as the exigencies of that fu ture are unfolded; that she is natur ally and strategically one of the most important places on the marine line between the Straits of Fuca and the Mexican border; that the occa sion and circumstance that is to for get her peculiar function in that scheme, have not yet arisen, but are certain to manifest themselves sooner or later to the permanent and perti nent UDbuildintr of the port, and of the Columbia river from the jetty to The Dalles. of 1461 years. The standard Oil Co. is not such a great monopoly after all Considering the fact that it had no engineering advantages the Strait of Magellan is not so bad for the pas sage of a fleet. EDITORIAL SALAD The people of Arizona and New Mexico are not discouraged; they still believe iv a future state. San Francisco will shortly be ready with the advice: Come West, young man, and see Uncle Sam's biggest fleet General Grosvenor could clinch his reputation as a prophet by giving correctly the names of the Republican national ticket for 1908, but he isn't saying a word. The writer of an English biography of Abraham Lincoln says the United States should not claim the monopoly of credit for producing such a man, but no one can blame the author for taking this view. Uncle Sam is in a position to de fend his own in the Pacific, and as a consequence the jingo there steps down and out. Another defect in the Oklahoma constitution has been discovered. The lawmakers forgot to prohibit the tak ing of straw votes. A German purveyor of lottery tick ets has just incurred a jail penalty Army enlistments are said to be falling off. The disappearance of the martial spirit may be due to the ab sence of the army canteen. Pittsfield, Mass., found 39 citizens attending a suburban cock-fight on Sunday and fined each $10. There may be lids to put on in a dry town. OTHIB'S GUIDE yiii i " !Mr-- When a young girl's thoughts be come sluggish; when she has head aches, dizziness, faintness, and ex hibits an abnormal disposition to sleep; dislikes the society of other girls; tnen tne motner snouia come to her aid promptly, for she pos sesses information of vital import ance to the young daughter. At such a time the greatest aid to nature is Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- taoie compound, it prepares tne young system for the coming change, and has helped to bring three generations safely from girl botd to womanhood,,. Bead what LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND has accomplished for Miss Olson. Miss Ellen M. Olson, of 417 North East Street, Kewanee,IlL,ina letter to Mrs. Finkham says : " Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound cured me of backache, sideache, and established my periods after the best physicians in Kewanee had failed to help me, saying that an operation was liefces&ary." FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN. For thirty years Lydia E. Pink- nam's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, has been the standard remedy for female ills, aari has positively cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulcera tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bear-ing-down feeling, flatulency, indyjea tion,dizziness,ornervous prostration. Why don't you try it? . ; r Mrs. Plnkham Invites all sick women to write her 'for advice. She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass. WHAT THE PORTLAND PAPER SAYS. Huddled in a clothesbasket, blinking sleepily at the wondering world in a little darkened room of a Portland home, is the Missing Link. He, or it, is 5 years old, fat, somewhat bashful, likes to eat blanc mange with a spoon, prefers to sleep when not eat ing, has a charming croon of a laugh, and will gravely shake hands with people, or pensively gaze at them with his or its hand resting under the chin, as he or it squats like a Turk in the basket. The strange creature is variously called sometimes orang-outang, or man o' the woods; again orang-outan, sometimes ourang-utang maybe oran utan and perchance just orang. "Orang" is the property of Fred Stuhr, manager of the Portland Bird Company, though the man who ob jects to slavery will probably consider it a crime to hold as a chattel such a charming child, but which is said to be worth at least $1000 Mr. "What-Is-It" came from Borneo last week, in care of the Chinese cook en route. He has lovely auburn hair, thick as a mat on his broad fat back, and the man who scoffs at the theory of evo lution of the human species or be lieves that the Bible and Darwin are hoplcessly at variance, might be afflicted with pangs of doubt after gazing at Stuhr's Strang freak a little while. "Orange," though 5 years old, had never heard a word of English until 10 days ago, but seems to haye little difficulty in mastering it. His life, like most of the orangs, has been spent in the simple home of a Bornci bush family, and it's a ten-to-one shot that he can understand as much native dialect as the average bush man chief. He is a bit handsomer than the average native. Though a trifle shy on nose, he has a pair of lips, however, than make up for this. He can do anything but talk; he can laugh, cry and speak his rage in ac cents uncouth but expressive. He is about as emotional, moodish and sensitive as the average child of his yean Pot-bellied little beast, with long, hairy arms and wrinkled forehead, coarse, red hair bristling on his square shoulders, and with squat nose, he seems uncanny to anyone who tries to pry under under his half-shyfi half-sullen reserve. His tiny ear is as delicate and well-formed as a girl's, not large like the chimpanzes, no unsightly arm and prehensile hand like the gorilla's, and no hairy face like the glibboon, these three, with the orang, being the species of man apes The "young man" can undress him self, readily takes off shirt and trou sers, he will take a spoon and daintily feed himself. He will snuggle down in the basket after his meal, pull the covers over himself like a tired child; and with hand under chin, go to sleep His eyes have a hundred expressions which change with every word spoken by those about him; his long, sensi tive fingers play, but never grab, nev er aimlessly play, but glide vonfiding ly up into your own and rest there like a babe's. The gentlemen from the tree families;, of Borneo must be credited with , something more thai) instinct, and with , an understanding as much above that of the chattering apes and .monkeys as he ,is in the j order of species of animal life above , the clams on the beach. 1 Why, he hasn't even a taill Port- I land Telegram. HIT HIM IN TWO PLACES. Th Way Ciearo Trsatsd His Dsvotsd Admlrtr Pttraroh. In the early autumn of 1308 Petrarch suffered an Accident which tuny lie narrated lu his own words. "You slmll hear," he writes to a friend, "what a trick Cicero, the uiau whom 1 nave loved nd worshiped from my boyhood, bas just played rue, I possess a huge volume of his letters, which 1 wrote out some time ago with my own lintul because thoro was no original manu script accessible to the copyists. Ill health hindered me, but my great lore of Cicero and delight In the lottors ami eagerness to possess them prevailed against my bodily weakness and the laboriousufM of the work. This la the book which you have seen leaning against the doorpost at the entry to my library. One day while going into the room thinking about something else, as 1 often do, I happened Inad vertently to catch the book In the fringe of my gown. In Its fall It struck me lightly on the left leg a little above the heel. 'Whatt My Cicero,' quoth I, bantering him, pray what are you bitting me for? He said nothing, but next day as I came again the same way he bit me again, and again I laughed at him and sot him up lb his place. Why make s long story Over and over again I went on suffering the same hurt, and, thinking be' might be cross at bavlug to stand on the ground, I put him up shelf higher, but not till after the repeated blows on the same spot bad broken the skin and a far from despicable sore had res ul tod. I despised It, though, reckoulug the cause of my accident of much more weight than the accident Itself. At last, when tho pain was too much not only for my wit, but for sleep anil rest, so that to neglect the thlug atiy longer seemed not courage, bat mad ness, I was forced to call In the doc tors, who have now for some days been fussing over this really ridicu lous wound, not without great pain and some dauger to the wounded Unit), as they Insist, though I think you' know just what reliance I place on their prognostications either of good or evil. So this is bow my beloved Cicero has treated aw. Ke long ago, struck my heart, and low he has struck my leg." -From II. C Hollway-Csltborp's "Petrarch." GUIDEPOSTS IN FRANCE. A Striking Feature of the Reads Throughout the Country. A feature of the roads of France Is the ever present guldepost These guide nosts consist of an Iron plaque about two feet long and a foot high securely mounted on sturdy posts or fastened to some substantial wall. They are painted In white and blue and show without any possibility of mistake not only the commune or townthlp in which ther stand, but the next impor tant place in either direction as well as the distances between all tne enter points upon that route. Thus you will And If von are traveling on a road which leads to Paris that the name of the metropolis will appear on the sign board, although It may be several Hun dred kilometers distant in addition to these guldenosts the Touring Club of France Has put on tha chief roads a series of signs and symbols to Indicate to motorists and blcvcllsts what sort of a road they are approaching. The sign "ralcnUr," which translated Into good United States means to "let op," bas caused many a motorist who Is unfamiliar with tne road be Is traveling to slow down and to And shortly after the sign had been passed that It was well that he paid at tention to It because or a steep grant or some abrupt turn. There is no ex cuse, in view of the symbols and sign boards, for any one motoring In t raucc to get on the wrong road or to eo.no unexpectedly Into trouble.-Frnnk Pres- brey In Outing Magazine. 8hakspar's Last lllnsss. According to a tradition banded down by Ward, the vicar of Stratford. Shakeaneare's last Illness was a fever brought on by a ','merry meeting" with Drayton and Ben Jonson. Another au thority, Halllwell-Pbllllps, says that the great poet died of typhoid, caused by the filth and bad drainage about New Place. Like nearly everything else about Shakesneare. the question of the character of bis last Illness can be answered only conjecturally.' At the Wind's Msrey. "Scrogglns Is always boasting about his new balloon." - "That's all It's good for." "What's all It's good forf . "To blow abouf-Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' UaeVorThsm All. "Yon have three pairs of glasses, pro fessor." . "Yes; I nse one to read with, one to see at a distance and the third to And the other two," There is nothing worse for mortala than a vagabond life. Homer. COFFEE The world is full of anonymous coffee: "Java arid Mocha." 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