THE MORNING ASTOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1901,
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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.
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im FOUR FINE HARBORS.
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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
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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."
Who returns your
money if you don't like
'em?
- Tear $ntm retains mt moasr M rs sort
w iAflWi Bt; par kits
Fisher Brothers Company
SOLE AQENTS
Barbour and Flniayson Salmon Twins and Netting
McCormlck Harvesting Machines
Oliver Chilled Ploughs
Malthold Roofing
Thorplei Cream Separators
Raecolith Flooring Storrett's Tools
Hardware, Groceries, Ship
Chandlery
Tan Bark, JDlue Stone, Muriatic Add, Welch Coal, Tsr,
Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brats
Goods, Paints, Oils and Class
Fishermen's Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twine and Seine Web
We Want Your Trade
FISHER BROS.
BOND STREET
Have You Seen
The Wash?
In Our Hardware Window
Lhe Foard & Stokes Hardware Go jj
Incorporated
Successors to Fotrd & Stokes Co.
Maraschino
Cherries
DELICIOUS
Try'em 75c and $1.00
a bottle at the
AMERICAN IMPORTING CO.
589 Commercial Street
WHEN YOU WANT PRICES THAT ARE RIGHT
Write us, we're here for that purpose
The Work We Do
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426 Bond Street.
Phone Main 3881
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, Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt
ASTORIA IRON WORKS
DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS
. OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . . .
Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers
COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED.
Correspondence Solicited. . Foot of Fourth 8 treat
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IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS LAND AND MARINE ENGINEERS
Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinery. Prompt attention given to all repair work.
lBth and Franklin Ave. . TeL Main 2401
Sherman Transfer Co.
vtrsatnie saw km h
. . ' ' nfli on it km an, Manager. i "
Hacks, CarriagesBaggage Checked and Transferred-Trucks and Furniture
Wairons Pianna MnvH Ttr.H a A Cf.tnn.I
433 Commercial Street - . Main Phone 121
J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President.
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President
FRANK PATTON. Cashier
J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier
Astoria Savings Bank
Transacts a General Banking Businest-
-Interest Paid on Time Deposit!
FOUR PER CENT PER ANNUM.
Eleventh and Duane Sts. Astoria, Oregon.
First National Bank of Astoria, Ord
Capital 4l66.OO0
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