THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1908. THE M0RINGJIST0RIAN Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, 'per year.... ...... ..$7.00 By carrier, per month........ .60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance, $1.50 Entered m lecond-eUwa mttv jayr JO, WU. at tbe poatofflo at AM w.a. Ore gon, under tht mi of CotigrwH ot March t, 1879 . tarOntati (or th drUtsniic at TBI Hom ota Ajrrottu to etthi raaideBO or vUe of takta nr to wad by pmu! card or through triapbooa, Any trraftaUtrlty in d liwmr ahould be ImiMdUlelr rworwd to tht offlae of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. . .Official paper of Clatsop County and the City of Astoria. WEATHER. Western Oregon and Wash- ton Cloudv with possibly rain. Eastern Oreiton and Wash- ington Probably fair. UNPREPAREDNESS. The Secretary of War for the United States has publicly declared the unpreparedness , of this country for war. This is significant, author ity, fact and peril. It is all very well to arrogantly as sert our resources; to say that we have men and money and factories, skill and credit and patriotism; if we have not TIME, which is the funda mental basis of all preparedness, then we are unprepared in the worst sense of the word. The country is not so long free from an engagement, which, had it been with a country more modern, and better equipped, than Spain, we might be deploring graver issues than remain to us from that war. What scheme of preparation shall ensue we know not; but we do know that the Pacific Coast must be in corporated in it to a vast and tmme diate degree, and that the mouth of the Columbia must figure largely as one of the potent integrals of that program. The quiesence of the years has put this important post and harbor out of the running; but a war on tbe Pacific will make it indispen sable and the government MUST make it impregnable. Time is of the essence of all engagements as well as contracts and when Uncle Sam begins to furbish up and get in line for a Pacific war he will not be likely to overlook so stragetic a point as this, because it stands for a huge range of territory and millions of people and other millions of property. SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK HAS MONEY TO LOAN ON GOOD SECURITY torious existance. According to the old argument that whisky, used mod erately and regularly, that is, daily and in rational quantities, contributes to longevity, this Missourian should have lasted just 50 years longer. But the truth of the matter is that whisky, a good thing in its way and place and unabused, has but mighty little bear ing on any mans lite, it that lite De clean and wholesome and sanitary and honest. These elements have far more to do with ripe old age than any guzzling habit ever heard of. Whisky, as it is known and used in this age, is a worse curse than any thing else, because it leads to all other desperate evils and habits. THE POLITICAL SEASON. The whole country, including As toria, of course, is entering upon an other political season, and the tur moil, jealousies, realignments and bit ternesses, always unescapable, are upon us. New men, new policies, old ambitions, fresh aspiratons; tricks, lies, promises, pledges, schemes and counter-schemes, old "bed-fellows," "dark-horses," new leaders and old counsellors; all the hub-bub, confu sion, doubt, treachery, loyalty, parti sanry, that make for dirt and disaster and disappointment, and leave pre cinct, town, city, county, state and nation but a fraction, if any, ahead-of tbe interminable game. This is what is upon us, what we have got to go through, subscribe to, and swear we are satisfied with. American politics, as practiced to day, has but little to inspire great men or great aims; the dollar, and the personal unit, are about all that loom large in the cult; and while we are not without great national ends to be served, and conserved, we are miserably minus the honest stimulus of hardy purpose and high resolves in the practice of our electoral work. But the drudgery must be met and dispensed, with as good grace as frag mentary hope can inspire and the only compensation to be relied on is that out of the interminable list of successes at the polls of the year, some great and good man will find himself in, a position to compel the better thought and healthier activity of his fellows in the right work of the nation. ONE QUART PER DAY. : A Missouri farmer has just died at 48 years after drinking one quart of whisky per day for the past 20 years. This is a side-wipe to the good old theory that one must drink corn juice constantly to round out 80, 90 or 100 years of hardy, jolly, and no- GOLD FROM OCEAN SANDS. From Shasta to San Diego, all the way along the shores of the Pacific Ocean there is gold in the black sand which, for the greater part of the length of the state, underlies the gray and yellow sand of the beach. This has been known to mining men for emr. r( vMr, nr mnr, hilt vn since they found it out they have been 'um ,n ,,h? behe " completely baffled in all efforts at PureL anJ have ou"d " h,M rec it c. r.t H,rrv H nn ,s ,le reason or whether " is due to in the Technical World Magazine for''1'6 New .Yor.ke? "" years ago the various mixed drink in which gin figured had a great run and there was a famine in limes, cans ed by the consumption of gin rickcys. great demand for Scotch whisky, co incident with the spread of the high' ball habit. Now the barkeepers in the big hotels and other places of liquid refreshment along the Great White Way report that the highball is passing into a decline and attri bute it to the adulteration of Scotch whisky which robbed it of its attrac tion for the man who drinks for taste rather than for intoxication. Rum highballs now have the call according to these same authorities who have the best opportunities for observing the chances of fashion in drinks. In fact rum, the drink of our grand fathers and more remote ancestors, seems to be renewing i" popularity for all sorts of mixed drinks. The reason given is that this is about the only form of spirits that has not been attacked on the ground of impurity and adulteration. Men who have been frightened away from whisky by the exposure of Dr. Wiley and other pure food agitators have taken to March. The values in the sand are low, not more than twenty-five cents per ton and tbe sea washes heavily over all manner of structures which are set up on the beach to separate the sand from its gold. These were the two principal obstacles to be overcome: To, find a machine which would with stand the storms of winter , and the tides of summer, and, at the same time, be delicate enough to draw the gold from the black mass of the beach. N At last, however, the riddle has been solved, despite the wrecking of one of the plants with which the work was commenced, and a recent clean up of one day's run of 1,000 tons of black sand paid $200 over and above all expenses. The full value of the gold in the sand, could it have been entirely removed, would have been $250, the actual amount taken out was about $235 worth, making the cost of handling that 1,000 tons of sand a trifle more than three cents a ton, the cheapest mining yet known to maa A description of the apparatus used to extract the gold from the sands, follows this introduction and it is accompanied by photos of the ma chine at work. for novelty it is interesting as an example of the fact that fashions change frequently even in the matter of drinks. For Consumptive, DICTATES OF FASHION. Few Felt Hats Sean Drapad Skirt Only Suitable For Qlrlith Flour, Very few felt hat are teen at pres ent, and when the hnt la of felt It U odgvd or lined with velvet or aatln, Many hate arc lifted Up on one ltd iter the eighteenth century style. Winter hats for children are aim pier tnd more becoming this winter than they have been for many eaaont. ::infe1!mi : Ultra w.H I'll :f A FLAtM BUST WAXBT. A pattern ot tht wtrfoctlv nlaln ahlrl walat may bo had in all tlioa-sl to 41 Inohea buat mrasura. ttand U eanta to thla offlco. tlvlnt number of ttaUorn (lion and buat maur, and it will ba promptly iwwimw 10 you oy mau. One see very few much trimmed and befurbelowed hat among tbe smaller folk. True simplicity J to be found In th cloth tam-o'-nhanter, which come In all shade and lu all quali ties of broadcloth. Sometimes It has an anchor or an eagle embroidered ou top and a dainty pair of ribbon ends. Indications of the Incoming draped skirts are seen everywhere. The dou ble rwplum skirt is also very popular. Women with plump flenres will be slow to adopt a fashion wh fell neces sarily cuts tholr apimrent height and appears to Increase the sto of the hljis. Those draped skirts are obviously only for young, girlish figure. . The IllUHtrntlon shows perfectly plain shirt waist which will be a fa UwtiJOfl if'4jLr BSi UcV &3' vuui, i ran VKHT. rtomofcsDiitaltonflrnfir1 Hess and ltai.CQiitalninriiI 0)ium.Murpliine nurftxriLl Mi JAItV U I IV llirm Arterftcl Pcmf dv rorCbmflPr llt:i.i'.0LrStjrarh.l)lrrliiM and LOSSOFSua MBBSSHMM"1' raSwkSiatttrtof "a &02 ufiii vinir For Infants and Children. The Kind You Havo Always Bought Bears Signature the ty J(v In I Buct Copy of Wrappaf. For Over v T 1 !ulii Uy finny luars HI mi swkia . t vaaa arm! 'If!. 3 A specialist of a noted Eastern clink' gives the following formula as the best known formula for consumption: .77 " , . ... vorlte for general wear and for golfing eight ounce of good whtakey and add Lnd other ouWwr mrtK The ease with one-half ounce of Concentrated oil of wnich )t can be mado Is one of It at- pine. Take a tewpoonful or a UN ; tractions, and Its adaptability to wool and cotton goods as well a silk 1 an other advantage. A tailor finish will always be adopted. JCDIC OHOLLBT. spoonful every four hours. ' Car should be taken to get th real Concentrated oil of pine, which eomes only in one-half ounce vial sealed in round air-tight screw-top ease. Th in gradient can be procured at any drug store. The above formula will also cure bad coughs and colds very quickly, CATARRH A GERM DISEASE. Success of Hyomei Guaranteed T. F. Laurin. By Catarrh is an insidious disease of most destructive tendency. Its ap proaches are unalarming and its vit tims are well on the road to a chronic stage or to dread consumption before they realize their danger. It is not a blood disease, but is caused by germs that lodge and grow in the air passages, causing irritation with poisonous and offensive mucous discharges. To cure this condition, stomach dosing is ineffective and the only healing agent is Hyomei. It goes directly to every nook and cor ner of the air passages, disinfecting, healing and curing. To be convinced of this, you have only to give Hyomei trial, and T. F. Laurens will sell you an outfit with the understanding that if the trial is not satisfactory, and the treatment does not relieve, your money will be refunded. You cannot afford to trifle with ca tarrhal troubles, for if neglected they grow worse and the annoyance and danger rapidly increases. Jt is best to use Hyomei at the first symptoms of catarrh, such as stoppage of the nase, offensive breath, raising of mucous, droppings in the throat, pasmodic coughing. The sooner you use Hyomei, the sooner you will be freed from all tbetse troubles. DRINKS CHANGE. Fashions in Drinks Change the Same as Everything Else Does. Fashions change in drinks as in everything else and nowhere are these changes more evident than in New York as is natural in view of the fact that the city's drink bill amounts to nearly a million dollars a day. A few THE ODOR OF SANCITY. . t A French Writer's Theory cf How It May Ba Exudtd by Man. Dr. Georges Dumas Is tbe author of an article in the Revue do Paris on "The Odor of Sanctity," Tbe writer accepts as true tbe numerous reported Instances of saints and mystics of tbe Catholic church whose bodies after death or during moments of ecstasy emitted peculiarly pleasing odors o various kinds. Then men and women with whom such legends deal, arguvf Dr. Dumas, were neurasthenes, and li Is not Impossible that tbe aroma of sanctity which surrounded tbem wo? the product of strictly physiological and chemical changes common to all men, but present In highly Intensified form In subjects who, so to spenk burned up the candle of their existence at an unusually rapid rate. He says In part: "So far, then, we have come across a great variety of perfumes cinnamon, clove, orange, pineapple, rose, violet. Illy of the valley, yellow amber and benzoin. ' Now. the natural constitu tion of all of these is well known, and chemistry produces them dally for com mercial purposes. We may therefore substitute the equivalent chemical ex pressions for the ordinary terms, we have employed and say that orange, cinnamon, violet and musk owe their perfume to aldehydes and acetones, aromatic liquids derived from tbe alco hols, just as tbe artificial essence of pineapple comes from butyric ether. We have, then, to ask whether the hu man body can produce odorous com pounds of tbe kind we have mentioned and under what conditions. A a mat ter of fact, It does produce a certain number of such compounds In the de struction of organic matter, which is the constant condition of life, In par ticular acetones and the volatile fatty acids, butyric, formic, acetic, etc. If the process of combustion Is normal all these constituents are burned up, com pletely oxidized, and give as a residue water, carbonic acid and urea. But let some slackening occur In the Inmost nutrition of tbe tissues and tbe same constituents will escape through the breath, perspiration and the skin." REPORT OF THE CONDITION ) OF THE COFFEE ' There is a time for good tea, and a time for good coffee; there is no time for poor either. . Toor (rocer returns your nonty If ye doa't Um Schilling 'g Beit: we pay blot At Astoria, in the State of Oregon, at the close of business, February 14, 1908: , RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $380,786.76 Overdrafts, secured and un secured 2,814.58 U. S. Bonds to secure cir culation 47,500.00 U. S. Bonds to secure U. S. Deposits 20,000.00 Other Bonds to secure U. S. deposits 34,000.00 Premiums on U. S. Bonds.. 3,045.00 Bonds, securities, etc...... 65,921.48 Banking house, furniture, and fixtures 4,000.00 Other real estate owned... 8,233.41 Due from State Banks and ' Bankers 9,921.71 Due from approved reserve agents 140.7oV.51 Checks and other cash items 450.14 Notes of other National Banks 3,600.00 Fractional paper currency, nickels, and cents..... ... 964.86 Lawful money reserve in Bank, viz: SDecie $122,840.15 Legal-tender notes $8,150.00 130,990.15 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 oer cent circulation) 2,375.00 Fisher Brothers Company SOLE AGENTS Barbour and Finlayion Salmon Twin and Netting McCormick Harvesting Machines Oliver Chilled Plough Mjlthold Roofing Sharpies Cream Separator Raecolith Flooring' , Storrett' Tools ' - ;! ' :'- -. J ' , ... " Hardware, Groceries, Ship Chandlery Tao Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar, , Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pip and Fittings, Bras Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Fishermen' Pur Manilla Rope, Cotton Twin tnd 8in Wb We Wotit YoMr Trade FISHER BROS. BOND STREET : Total $855,372.60 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 50,000.00 Surplus fund 50,000.00 Undivided protits, less ex penses and taxes paid.. .. 16,244.41 National Bank notes out standing . 46,900.00 Individual deposits subject to check $278,548.34 Demand certificates of de posit $ 52,716.18 Time certificates of de posit .'.$310,873.67 Certified checks.. 90.00 U. S. deposits.... $50,000.00 692,228.19 Total ...$855,372.60 State of Oregon, County of Clat sop, ss.: I, J. E. Higgins, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. E. HIGGINS, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 24th day of February, 1908. E 2, FERGUSON, Notary Public. 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