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THE MORNING ASTOillAN, ASTORIA OREGON".
BOIEM CLASSICS
One very wholesome effect of the
effort' to keep the clastic alive ha
been a inntleriilicitig of the way. , of
teaching them." It i no ' longer
' eumtgh for the Instructor to drill hit
pupil In the grammar, rhetoric and
vemiflcation of Caciar, Cicero and
Virgil or Xenophon, Pluto and
Homer. The form I of lett Import
ance than the tubttnuce, though the
mental exercise given by mattering
the forme U Mill appreciated, The
student at Brown who trie to get in
trtni'h with 111 miirll (if llm nnrinnta
may do 10 tlirough the medium of the
Greek and Latin language, or he
may um translation, not a a meant
of hoodwinking hi intructori, but
in clause where the ole endeavor li
to Impart inch knowledge at an Eng
lish tpeaking perton can properly
acquire of the Latin etiaybtt or the
Creek dramatist!, ' " '
Particularly for those students who
have no gift of learning languages
and a great many people are to limi
ted by nature these courses in classic
literature minus classic tongues are
likely to be valuable. The involved
periodic sentences of Cicero and De
mosthenes are no longer stumbling
blocks In the path of scholarship,
The oration against Catiline is not em-
ntiivfl fla Ik mnit nf tittllnar Imlit.frv
in the use of Latin dictionary.
The inspiration to good citizenship,
Becoming to tut iirown Men, I the
chief lesson to be learned from the
courses, in the wisdom of the ancients
among whom the idea of the city
state was developed for the first time
in history. Socrates, from a dusty
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I'umicr uiifti in flic turner ui mc icn
ure ball, . became a kindly, patient,
wise old man who understood better
than his, fellow citizens the evil in
fluences that in time must break down
the structure of society. The young
American is taught to know the anc
ient Greek and Romans at living
human beings, just at human a he is,
whose struggle for liberty, (or purity
of government, and for better social
condition were just at real a the
same struggle are in our time.
At they are taught through the
medium of the English language the
classic divide themselves into litera
ture, history and politics. The sole
purpose in all the courses it to span
the distance of twenty centuries and
make flesh and blood out of the dust
One course, (or instance, dealt with
the family life of the Romans, and an
other1 with the home surroundings of
. the Greek. In illustration there are
stereopticon lectures bringing graphi
cally before the students' eye the lactt
of the ancient world at depicted in
vase paintings, statuary and in modern
photographs of famous viewt, Pic
ture of present day happening have
their usefulness, too, for however
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LARGEST FACILITIES
IN THE WESTJrOR
THE PRODUCTION OF
HldH ORADE WORK
tint M.ii4t faarai Aomt
iStlUilii tm
ii PattMainUbilMffitrf
M laaa fwir ail a 'f"!',lT' Talal a
MoCH's Walna(ThQwarf FuNN
hA .bwripilwi u numbari) amu 80 Banta. JflgJ
(wstTM. lubKriU todty.
lAf Aiwnra Waited. Hwtwws wm'M
tAlOTih enmmrnton. f .turn C.i.loa( el So 4
taarftne. Mint T1U MeCM CO-Haw VansJ
much Italy may have changed In tome
rctpectt tlnce Caesar , crossed the
Rubicon many of it physical and
ethnic feature have persisted. The
pasture In which Corydon't theep
nibbled while their master piped ver
tot for the consternation of genera
tiont of school boy to come are un
altered to this day, and the ttereopti
Con give glimpses of , them . which
make Virgil very real. Views of a
villa built centuries ago but still oc
cupled by some wealthy Roman, of
the 'Oldest surviving bridge on the
Tiber across which the trolley now
busies, of the mouth of the Cloace
Maxima, or the Great Sewer, whose
construction dates back into the leg-
cudar&age of the Roman kingt, of the
outline of templet .forum and ampin
theatre which taw the making of hist
ory in an era of activity whote effects
are still felt throughout the civilized
worldthese pictures of the world of
classical antiquity give vividness to
(he impressions of the American stu
dent who kndwi no Creek and "small
Latin" but who wants an intelligent
conception of the debt of modern
timet to old timet.
The purpose of a modern American
university like Iirown it to make In
telligent, clear-sighted and upright
American citizens. It is because
knowledge of the classics, derived di
rectly or Indirectly, it essential to
effective ttudy of the tciencet of gov
ernment and social economic that
such stress it laid upon arousing in
terest in the life and literature of the
ancient. .
Th working out of this experiment
of combining the traditional academic
education with the utilitarian training
of to-day hat thus far promised to be
successful! The head master of Har
row to the contrary, the experience of
Drown bid (air show that the debt
of modern to the classic cannot be
so easily repudiated.
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We (eel ture that the result will bt
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ELECTION NIGHTS.
One of the Five Saturnalia of New
,.r,, ; , t :; York City. ,
New York bnt five saturnalia ever?
year New , Year's night. DciioratUm
day, Fourth of July, election ulgtit ami
Thanksgiving- and not the leant or
these Is election bight If It Is a right
first Tuesday of November, the day
time wind will be veering from west
to south and hnrk. sun and cloud win
equally slmro the hours between them
and a not unnatural quiet, at of polit
ical passions busbed under the blanket
of the Australian ballot, will prevail
The streets will be rather emptied than
tilled, and the litter of straw and scrap
paper and the ordure and other filth of
the great tint torn town will blow
agreeably about under your "feet and
Into yoor eyes and teeth. But with Un
failing of the night there will bo a rim
of the urban spirits; the sidewalks will
thicken with citizens of all sues find
sdxes and nations, and if you will then
seek some large center for the cinemat
ographic dissemination of the election
news you will find yourself one of n
multitude gloating on the scenes of
comedy nnd tragedy thrown up on the
canvas to stay your Impatience for the
returns) Along the curbstones are sta
tioned wagons for the sale of the wind
and string Instruments whoso raw,
harsh discords of whistling and
twanging will begin with the sight of
tbo vote from Uie first precinct. Mean
time ; policemen, nervously fondling
their clubs in their bands, hang upon
the fringes of the crowd, which Is yet
so good nntured that it seems to have
no Impulse but to lift children on Its
shoulders and put pretty girls before
It and to caress old women and crip
ples Into favorable positions, so that
they may see better. You will wish to
leave It before tbo clubbing begins and
either, go home to the slumbers which
the whistling and twanging will duly
attend or join the diners going Into or
earning out -of the restaurants or the
throngs strolling down Into the fairy
realms of Broadway under the flare of
the whiskies nnd the actresses, W. I).
FTowolls In Harper's Magazine. '
..... , Thrift. ...
..There Is an old fashioned word that
flicht to come Into use again thrift
.TlitiM are a distressing number of
shiftless people In the world, and,
while we shall call no names, we hope
every reader will pause at this para
graph and think seriously of thrift and
shlftlessnoss. Atchison Globe,
The Changed View.
fclvery man takes care that his neigh
bor, does not cheat blm. But a day
comos when he begins to care that ho
does not cheat his neighbor. Then all
Kocs well. lie bos changed his market
cart Into a chariot of the suu.-Emer-
SOU. s ........ ...... :-t
A Little Ball. .
Cassldy Ah, well, no wan kin pre
yltjt w'nt's past an' gone. Casey-I
eould if ye wily acted quick enough.
CaBsldy-Qo 'long, man I How could
yer? Casey-Stop It before It happens.
Kansas City Independent
PORTLAND
MARKETS
A common danger produces unanlm
Ity. Latin Proverb.
Latest Quotations Injthe Portland
;Markets.
Complete Karket Reports Corrected lack
Day Giving the Wholesale Prices ti
Commodities, 7am Produce, and
Vegetables.
PORTLAND, Feb. 25. -Hothouse
lettuce is considered a drug today,
and receiptt are much in advance of
the demand. Thit product depends
much on the state of the weather in
order to tell, When the frost It in
the air the deman dit noticeably
good, while the present balmy spring
like temperature causes a declined in
the consumption. Today it was tell
ing at 75c to $1 a box. ,
Grain, Flour, Feed.
Wheat-Club, 83oj Va-Iley, SSej blue
stem, 85oi red Russian. 8I& ,
Oats Producers' prices Wilt $20;
grsr, 27.
. Ifty-Vtlley timothy, 1819, East
ern Oregon, 20f22 clover, $13f chest,
f 13 alfslfs, 13 groin Uj, $UU.
Flour Hard wheat, patent, tOSj
straight, H0 graham, 4.&0 rye, $Sj
whole-wheat floui $4.76 1 Valley flour,
(4.40j Dakota, 0.40 (6;.00j Eastern rye,
18.50, Plll.bury, 7( CorvalUs, H40.
Rye 11.231.30 per cwt.
- Grain Hags Domestic, 8oj Calcutta,
H - v
CoraWhole, 132; cracked, $33 per
ton. v i. .
Barley JVodueert' price i Brewing,
128.60 1 feed, $27 1 rolled, $303L
Buckwheat 53fl par ton.
Millfeed-City bran, $2S country
bran, $24; shorts, 1240; country shorts,
K8 chop, $18: middlings, 129.
Oregon Grsperoot Per 100 lbs, IS
?S7.
Cereal Foods Rolled oats, cream. 90
Ib. sacks, $8 lower grade, 8.507JWi
oatmeal, steel cut, 49-lb. sacks, ISJWj
-lb. sacks, 48 per balej oatmeal
(ground), 49-lb. sack. $8JtO per bbl.t
9-lb. sacks, $4.50 per bale) split peas,
4.25 per 100 lb. sacks) 28-lb. boxes,
1 Ml pearl barley, $4.50 pec 100 lba.i
251b. boxes, $155 per box; pastry flour,
101b. tacks, $350 bbL
Groceries, Provisioiia, Etc. ,
Sugar (sack basis) D. G- $5.60; XX,
UMi beet. M 40i Golden C, $0; extra.
C $8.40; powdered, $5.50; boxes, 60
ot, fruit or berry sugar, $5.00; boxea
50 cwt. advanoe over sack basis (leas
lo. If naU for in IS days).
Coffee Mocha, I428cj Java, faner.
25(ge8e; Java, good, 2024e; Java, or
dlnary, 1720e; Costa Rica, fancy, 8
ZOei Costa Rica, good, I08e; Ar
buckle, $18.83 ewi, Lion. $16.88 owt;
Colombia coffee, 14e lb; Salvador, lle
14lfl.
Rica Imperial Japan, No. 1, $o28;
Southern Japan, fii6e; broken, 6c;
head, fancy, 71o; choice, To.
Sago and Tapioca Scarce, 81&
Figs White, per pound, C7ej black,
67e.. - v -i -...
, Provision Hams, large, 12o; email
12e; picnic, 9c; boiled hams, 22c j boiled
picnic, 18c; breakfsst bacon, fancy, 22c;
English, loc; dry salted short clears,
lOfcj backs, lOJe. .
Dates Golden. 60-lb. boxes, 68!c:
l ib. packages, So; Fard, 151b. boxes,
$1.40 box.
Raisins Loose muscatels. 3-crovm,
10c; 2-erown, 9)e; bleached seedless
Sultanas, 10131c; unbteached seediest
Sultanas, 8o; London layers, S -crown.
whole boxes of 20 pounds, $2.20 j l
crown, $2.10,
Canned Salmon Columbia River, 1
lb. talis, $2.00; 2-lb, tails, $2.95; fancy.
Mb. flats. $2.10! lib. flats. $1.30;
faney, l ib. ovals, $2.89; Alaska tails,
pink, ose; red, ?i.30 nominal, xa, uus,
$255.-.
Salt-Bales of 75-2s, bale, $2.23; bales
of 80-Ss, $2i5; bales of 40-4. bals,
$2.25 1 bales of 15-lOt, bale. $2.25; bags
60s, flne, ton, $17.60; bags, 60o; genuine
Liverpool, $20; bags, 60s, ground, $13;
100s, ton, $12.50; R. 8. V. P 80 81b.
cartons, $2.25; R. 8. V. P., 3-lb. cartona
$1.76; Liverpool lump, per ton, $20.50.
Lard Kettle-rendered, tierces, life:
tubs. 12ot 60s. 120; 20s, 12; 10s.
121c ; 6s, 12e, Standard purei Tierces,
1c lets; empound,tierces, 8c leaf, 13c.
Nuts-Walnuts, No, 1, soft shell, 18c;
filberts. 17e; Brasilste20e; Pecans,. 19
20c ; filberts, 17cj Braslls, 0e; Pecans,
23e; hickory, So j Virginia peanuts, 81c;
Jumbo Virtrlnia peanuts, lOei Japanese
peanuts, 7io; ohestnuts, Italian lOo, Ohio
25c; eocoanuts, doseos, B590e; pine
nuts, 171&
Bpices-ciovea, lto io.i emmes, use
per pound. ;,-u. -
-vegeiaDiesw ,
Oabbaae 78oSl cwt.i cauliflower, 76
ffi$l dot.; celery, 86o$l doa.i parsley,
$li5 hot house lettuoa, $1,003
$U5 box; 'heads, $8 eenta dosea;
spinach, box, $1.25 1 Brussels somite, So;
artichokes, 90o$l,16 dos.; okra, 35c
lb. i tomatoes, $liox.00 erate; peppers.
814e lbt mimokins, 1 $155 , erate;
beans, green and wax, 16e lb.; epg-plant,
ISo lb. beets, $1 par ewt; turnips, 75c
per cwt.; carrots, woQswi per owi.
Peas, lOe lb. .vi ,.
' Hops, Wool, HWes, etc, -Bops
1907 crop, 47ie pound. . '
Fathers Geese. , white, i 8540e;
geese, gray or mixed. 25S0o; duck,
white, 1520e) duok, mixed, 1216o.
Wool Valley, l8zoc; Jflaatern ure-
gon, 1218e, aa to shrinkaga, .
v .m . m asm ta r A
, uascara jsagraaa loniuim oantj s,
7o per pound.. ... ...
Bceewax Oood, clean ana pure, :
ttt per pound.
a allow f rime, oo; jno. x ana grease.
per pound.
' Frulta.
Domestic Fruits Apples, faney, $1.50
i?-5$2 box; good, 1tetl&6 box; twan,
6Oc$10 box) cranberries, $8(jgll par
barrel )
Tropical Friuta Lemons, taAOQiM
box; oranges, saw navels, $2JS2.7f
box; grape-fruit, $4.28 box; nanasuM, It
lb, crated, 6o lb,; pogegranatas, $$
crala; tangerine, $2 box; pineapples,
$4(6 doten.' , .
Dried Fruits Applies, 910e per lb.;
splieots, 10(11901 peaehas, II!3e;
peers, lll14o; Italian prunes, 21e;
California figs, wh Its, in sacks, 6Cte
per lb; black, 416c) bricks, 76c$2f
per box Smyrna, 1820e per lb;
dstas, Persian, 6J7e per lb.
:. Produce,
Buttar-Country creamery, 8035c;
tity creamery, 3537lo; stora, 19tOc;
butter fat, 33i30a
Eggs Banch, eandlad, 30 (332c
Cheese Young America, 18c; Oregon
full creams, flats, 17c.
Honey Dary, 10ille amber, 12
13c; fancy white, 1418c. '
Poultry Old roosters, 9 10s lb; heat,
1314e lb I dressed stock, 23e higher
than live; ducks, 1416o Ib turkeys,
live, 10l,e lb; dressed, 1820e ;
geese, live, 910e lb; pigeons, old, $LO0
par doten; squabs, $23 per dozee
SHIP SIBERIAN TIMBER.
'MELBOURNE, Feb. 2S.-An Aus
tralian corporation hat just received
a concession from the Russian Gov
ernment to take out thirty million
feet of timber a year from a forest in
Siberia, nine hundred miles from
Vladivostok, to be delivered in Mel
bourne, Australia, approximately
eight thousand miles away, and nearly
three times the distance from New
York to San Francisco.
It is likely that no lumbering op
eration of recent year more strongly
illustrates the pinch in the timber
supply in all parts of the world. In
the news of the concession told in an
American journal, it the suggestion of
the difficulty that all countriet may
have to encounter in getting the wood
which thew need in the future. Every
year the timber cruiser are going
further and further afield and cutting
trees which, in former timet of abun
dance, they passed because of the in
accessibility of the forest. . '
In taking out the Siberian timber
the Melbourne lumbermen will have
to ship the entire year! cut in July,
August, September and October, for
during the remainder , of the year
there it no open water at the point of
shipment. What makes this unusual
feature of transporting bulky logs
8,000 miles quite feasible it that such
unmanufactured stock is admitted
free, while there is a heavy duty on
all manufactured wood brought into
Australia, the duty on lumber, for
instance, being nearly $5.00 a thou
sand board feet At Melbourne, a
new mill is being erected to manu
facture these logs into dressed stock,
such . as flooring, ceiling and other
products, as well as into lumber.
These Siberian operations differ
from the lumbering methods in the
United States, in that in this country
it is possible and customary to have
new mills conveniently near the place
of production, though, with the con
tinually decreasing supply, the larger
mills often find it profitable to haul
their timber by trams and railroads
many miles away from their saws.
Forest experts in this country say
that the hope of the United States for
steady supply of timber lies in the
application of forestry 'to all timber
lands, private and public, and . the
careful study of the economical and
better utilization of product Even
so, a severe shortage in twenty to
twenty-five years must be expected
Many Sleepless Nights, Owing to a
Persistent Cough.. Relief Found
at Last
"For several winters past my wife
has been troubled with a most persis
tent and disagreeable cough, which
invariably extended over a period of
several weeks and caused her many
sleepless nights," writes Will J. Hay
ner, editor o! the Burley, Colo., Bul
letin.''; "Various remedies were tried each
year, with no beneficial results. In
November last the cought again put
in an appearance and my wife, acting
on the suggestion of a friend, pur
chased a bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. The result was in
deed marvelous. After three doses
the cough' entirely disappeared and
has not manfiested itself since." This
remedy is for sale by Frank Hart
and leading druggists.
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Successors to Fo-rd & Stokes Ca
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, TURN THEMSELVES. ,
Gasoline engines and electric mo
tors have taken the place of manual
labor in the operation of changing
the direction of a locomotive on a
turntable. These mechanical powers
have reduced the cost of operating a
turntable by hand from about $15 per
24 hours to $5 for turning 400 locomo
tives,.. ..... . ..'..ii: ; t
Now a bright genius has thought of
a method the expense of which is to
small that it can hardly be estimated.
It consists of a compressed air motor
placed beneath the turntable and op
erated from air furnished by the air
brake pump on the locomotive being
turned. Connection is made between
the engine and the motor with a pip
ing and, hose, i An air pressure, of SO
lbs. will turn the locomotive, and its
the turning is done in two minutes,
the amount of steam used to work
the pump is too small to reckon.
From Popular Mechanics for March.
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February Official Tide Tables
Compiled by the IT. S. Government for
A .. .. . . 1 IT' . - . .
nsioria ana v lcinuy.
FEBRUARY, 1908.
High Water. A. M.
Data h.m. ft
Saturday 1 0:30 7.C
Saturday 111:50 I.S
SUNDAY i 1:14 8.1
Monday S 1:68 S:B
Tuesday 4 1:40 8.7
Wednesday ..... 6 8:10 8.8
Thursday t 4:00 8.8
Friday .......... 7 4:40 8.7
Saturday 8 6: SO 8.8
SUNDAY I 1:16 8.1
Monday 10 7:30 8.0
Tuesday 11 8:14 7.8
Wednesday .....13 9:34 7.8:
Thursday .......1310:10 7.9:
Friday ...... .1,., 14 11:05 8.0.
Saturday 15 0:30 7.4
Saturday .......15 11:45 8.1
SUNDAY .1 1:02 7.7:
Monday 17 1:30 7.9
Tuesday 18 1:66 8.0
Wednesday .....19 3:25 8.1
Thursday .......10 1:52 8.3
Friday ...11 8:30 8.3
Saturday 33 8:55 8.2
SUNDAY .......83 4:85 8.1
Monday ..24 5:18 8.0
Tuesday 25 8:14 7.9
Wednesday 2 7:24 7.8
Thursday 27 8:37 7.9!
Friftty 28 9:48 8.3:
8aturday 8910:50 8.8
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Low Water.
Data.
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Monday
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Thursday
Friday i
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