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jTHE WEATHER
Oregon, Washington, Idaho Fair
and continued cold.
WHOLESALING, A REMEDY.
The need of wholesale houses in
this city is becoming more and more
evident all the time and it is believed
here they would do more to fix the
status of the city as a commercial
point and secure it the best transpor
tion rates, than any one thing that
could be done just now.
There is good territory north and
south of the city, on the coast, and
up the Columbia half way to Port
land, to support one, and even sev
eral lines, and their presence and
trade would serve as a check op the
businesses with which we have to
deal now and reduce the buying
stadnards so that the local houses
might make a strong point in hold
ing the limit of home trade and pa
tronage. If we had had a wholesale business
in operation here the chances are we
would not have lost the Tilamook
trade. The common-point rate ap
plies to Astoria, via . the long haul
from the East, on everything except
flour and grain, and nothing will bring
the exception within the general rule
so quickly and completely as the
founding and flourishing of a whole
sale business.
There are plenty of waterfront
sites for the convenient location of
the business; and the up-rearing of
one house will be the signal for the
rapid installation of other lines.
What we do not do for ourselves,
with our own money, lands and in
itiative, will be done by Portland, or
San Francisco, or Seattle, as fast
as the far-seeking merchants of those
centers realize the urgency and value
of the investment Our own mer
chants ought to be alive to the prom
ise of the situation and take over the
cream of it while they have it in their
own hands. It is either this, or an
nexation to Portland for commercial
purposes.
A FOOL POLICEMAN.
Next to a ravening anarchist there
is nothing so dangerous as the police
man who does not know his author
ity and his business. No man, nor
woman, is safe from the mania of
the one or the stupidity of the
other.
Portland has furnished a couple of
types lately that are notable for the
wide divergencies that exist in the
police-mind up there. The man who
killed his friend disguised and oper
ating, in fun, as a highwayman; and the
man who, without warrant of law, at
the mere suggestion of a grouchy
neighbor, enters the home of a re
spectable "family, in the midst of a
private entertainment, and kills the
host because he will not suffer arrest
nor abate the joy of his friends.
The parable to be found in these
cases is worth the profoundest scru
tiny of the commissioners of police
everywhere. The former shows the
officer in possession of his poise and
faculty as a guardian of the peace and
dignity of the people and ready to
Hn his last and whole duty in sup
port of their quietude and safety; the
latter shows an assinine density as
tn nlace and duty and performance
absolutely at variance with every rule
of orotection, and goes to the other
limit an demonstration that with
such a patrolman there is no safety
anywhere on his beat.
The best thing Portland can do in
this latter premise is to make such a
showing in the handdling of this man
Suitter as will, forever, ' supply the
Portland police force with an object
lesson on the common rights of priv
ate citizens, that shall not be forgot
ten. The killing of Henry Shafer was
SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN
SAV. BANK
Courteous and Accommodating
Liberal Methods, . Conservative Management
one of the worst exhibitions of gross
ignorance and brutal arrogance re
corded for many a day on this coast.
SOME MORE MARTYRS.
From the text of the latest Chicago
despatches it would seem thai the
police of that city intend to turmsn
an-
a few days ago has aroused the con
sciousness of the w&ole country to
the per.1 all men are m from tnes i comp,ction of the
misguided ana aonormai oroous , ..,
Colonel Goethals inspected
social malcontents and police orders
have gone forth in every great cen
ter for their immediate rounding up
and accounting.
The anarchist, simple, genuine,
true, cultured, is a veritable priest of
peace himself; he longs for the full
I bm1 tari will vitif fh rnnnl And
of life's best for all men and , . r . ... ,.
holds his creed clean and clear of the
grosser elements of action and
thought; but the madness of the
neoohvte is what the world has to
fear; the man who cherishing these
inftv ideals, eoes mad in the waiting,
and murders to remove the supposed
obstacles. The high type is rare, re
tiring and profoundly conscious that
time alone may point the way he
dreams for the redemption of society;
the low, the bestial type, is at toe
icnorant millions and relatively as
numerous, without the restraint of
educated thought, and the deterrent
influences of culture of any sort.
hampered and'harrassed by the pangs
of poverty and crazed by tne aineren
tiation of the social scale, wherein he
is cast for the lower level and cannot
escape it
The mania is pitiable and bitter;
but all the same it must be controlled
with an iron hand, lest society, right,
or wrong, be brought to a pass that
will be infinitely worse than it is
charged with now by its protoundest
enemies, towit, the anarchists them
selves.
EDITORIAL SALAD
Colonel Bryan counts that day lost
in which he fails to find something to
commend in President Rosevelt
The first reliable sign of spring is
not furnished by the robin or blue
bird, but by some by Eastern river
rolling out of its bed. .
The voyage of the big fleet so far
proves that it works like an exact
piece of mechanism. An exhibit like
this speaks for itself.
Nothing can equal the Democratic
party as an example of condensation.
One person will constitute a quorum
at the Denver convention.
Mr. Taft said in a speech a
that Uncle Sam is not seeking war.
It is a good time to remind all con
cerned that only Congress can de
clare war.
Owen Wister, the author, was de
feated for alderman at the recent city
elected in Philadelphia. Mr. Wister
understands fiction well enough, but
he can't handle fads-
There are many Democratic can
didates for the governorship of Mis
souri, but not one bears a banner
with the old motto of the party:
No sumptuary legislation."
PANAMA CANAL
Bronzed and muscular, like most
Americans who work on the Panama
Canal, and retain their health, Lieu
tenant Colonel George W. Goethals,
chief engineer of the Canal Commis
sion, has spent a busy month in
Washington, Boston and other parts
of the country, looking up details in
reference to his work.
It makes one feel like throwing his
' hat in the air and hurrahing to know
that in January, 1908, 2,200,000 cubic
yards were excavated; for the best
results anticipation a year ago was
not over a million yards. The work
on the Gatum Dam is progressing,
and the concrete for the lock walls
will be laid early next year. The ex
cavation of the Pedro Miguel Lock
is being pushed vigorously. Over a
million cubic yards were removed
during December, and all new work
is being done on the Pacific side.
Everything is going swimmingly, and
with sanitary conditions still improv
ing, the Panama Canal seems very
hopefully on the way to rapid com
pletion. It is, however, more than mere
engineering feat, for it is furnishing
ilustrations in sociological develop
ment in the modes of handling an
army of 30,000 men 6,000 of whom are
skilled Americans and 7,000 laborers
mankind with a new bunch of
archistic "martyrs"; and they are go
ing at it in a fashion that is likely to
forestall anything quite so radical as k Spain nd ,he
the Haymarket riots of long ago. The , . - . w
horrible murder of the Denver priest . eJ
. rAW J-,. .ffA ho Amused the con-1 ....
well-fed, and all alike express regret
that 1915 will come too soon to wit
the
Charles River dam in Boston, and
was especially interested in the roll
ing lock gate, which may be adopted
in Panama. It is likely that during
the winter a large number of congres
keen in touch with the work.
The esprit de corps of the canal
workers is a marvel to ail engaged
in other industrial undertakings; they
seem to realize that they are not only
working for wages, but doing some
thing to be recognized as patriotic
service in the years to come. This
is a distinction that no ordinary work
would confer. In fact, there is a
sort of free masonary among the
people who have even visited or look
ed upon the Panama Canal. Those
who have "been there" once especi
ally if it has been during the last year
are all eager to go again, and are
determined to be present at the open
ing? of the canal, when the Stars and
Crina at Pnlnn wilt trreet the At lan- I wavs thus
tic. bowing to the setting sUn there other arm you had in a sling yester
. . . . i .
and greeting the rising sun on the
WISE AND OTHERWISE. '
. Once a mother's darllng-now a
tramp.' ,.. . 'X ,..v:
Too many cooks may spoil the
broth, but they can't hurt the break
fast food.
Never give unnecessary pain; the
cricket is not the nightingale; why
tell him so? - .
We can not be, at the same time,
kind and wary; nor can we serve two
masters, love and selfishness.
If you will sprinkle the top of your
pie-crust with a little sweet cream
before baking, it will be brown and
flaky, .
We come into the world with noth
ing but a voice; we go out leaving
even the voice. Speak well your
piece while you can, .
. Set the broken umbrellas away and
keep them till the umbrella man
comes round. He may save you the
cost of a new umbrella.
"I don't ice," observed the head of
the house, "why this lace should be
so expensive. It's mostly holes, and
I thought holes were cheap.1! ; ,s
Now that the wet, windy days are
here, make ; the; youngsters some
gloves out of bed-ticking or muslin,
and they will not be troubled with
chapped hands.
The dress that makes people ex
claim. "What a pretty gown I" should
be discarded. Wear the dress that
causes them to say, "wnai a preny
womanl
The men say that any woman who
has common sense can keep bouse
well, but each of them freely admits
that it takes exceptional ability to
manage his business. '
Set baking powder biscuits on top
of the stove, at the back, a few min
utes before putting them In the oven,
and they will rise, no matter what the
state of the oven may be.
Do not entirely fill a rubber hot-
water bottle. When partly full rest
it on something and press in the neck;
then screw on the top; This drivese
out th air and keeps the water hot
longer. ' ' ": "',
Mother used to say. "Do your work
so well that you won't have to do it
over again.
Tramp: "Madam, I was not ai-
Madam: No, t was your
eastern coast, where rolls the Pacific.
Joe Mitchell Chappie in "Affairs at
Washington," February National
Magazine.
50 Cents Worth of Electricity.
An enterprising engineer has' figured
out the number of things which can
be accomplished with but fifty cents
worth of electricity at 10 cents a kilo
watt hour. Here are some of them.
Light an ordinary barn or stable
with three 16-candle power lamps one
hour every night, for thirty nights.
With a small motor attached to the
washing machine and wringer fifty
cents worth of electricity will do
eight washings.
It will also do two weeks ironing.
using a six-pound iron. !
An electric fan can be operated
three and one-half hours a day for
thirty days for fifty cents. '
Two weeks' sewing can be done on
the motor driving sewing machine for
the same price.
It will light the porch for three
hours every night for two months.
Fiftv cents will pay for the current
consumed in using the electric heat
ing pad three hours every night for
thirty nights.
It will grind 1125 pounds of coffee;
broil 30 steaks: cook 20 rarebits in
the electric chafing dish; fry 400 eggs.
It will run the blacksmith s forge
blower for a week.
It will hoist 2,000,000 bricks, two
stories.
A one horse-power motor will run
7 hours at full load for fifty cents.
Operating Electric Devices.
So much has been said anent the
cost of operating electric heating
devices and so few figures have been
actually and authenticaly given that
one of the many users of General
Electric heating and cooking device
hs prepared the following facts:
The family ironing costs four cents
per hour. With the electric six
pound iron one-third to one-half the
time consumed under the old stove
method is sapd, because there is no
waiting for heat or walking to and
from the stove.
The hand that rocks the cradle does
not often wear diamonds.
COFFEE
The dealing is simple. ;
If you don't like Schil- j
ling's Best, it costs you
nothing. ; ; '
Ton grocer return! yew mtmtj U jm 4m1 :
like lit m pay bin "
The young man who does his work
indifferently because he thinks he is
above his job, 'proves thereby his un
fitness for the job that is above him.
"Well, he's not handsome," said
the tourist, taking his first hook at a
Florida alligator, "but he has a deal
of openness when he smiles."
Shut the doors after you, close the
gates, hang up your hat and coat and
wip off your shoes; then this will be
a nice world for boys and every one
to live in.
"How far is it from here to the
next town?" asked the man in the
motor car. "It's four rocky hills,
two deep gullies, and nineteen police
men with stop watches," replied the
up-to-date rustic.
Tom Hughes said: "The only thing
to do with wild oats is to put them
carefully into the hottest part of the
fire and get them burnt to dust, every
seed of them. If you sow' them, no
matter in what ground, up they will
come with . long, tough roots like
couch grass, and luxuriant stalks and
leaves."
A city firm hung out a sign, "Boys
Wanted." In less than five minutes
a redheaded little chap stepped into
the office with the sign under his arm.
"Say, mister," he said, "did you hang
this out?" "I did," said the proprietor.
"Why did you tear it down?" Barfk
of his freckles the boy gazed in
wonder at the man's stupidity Why,
he replied, "I'm the boy." And he
proved to be.
MERCHANTS STILL BUYING.
NEW YORK, Mar. 3.-Fully 1,000
additional buyers for merchantile
houses in the West and South are
expected in New York this week to
make purchases for the spring ana
summer seasons. Thousands of buy
ers have visited the city in the past
few weeks and their purchases have
shown that the financial flurry which
spread over the country in the fall is
entirely past. From all over the
country come reports of increasing
good times and the prospect of com
mercial prosperity. The buyers re
port that business is daily increasing
and that in most western cities the
business of January and February
far exceeded thft of the same month
last year. There is not one of the
western buyers in town who does not
believe that this year's business will
at least equal that of last year and
most of them go on record as predic
ting better business in both whole
sale and retail lines than last year. ;
DANGEROUS.
Little Willie I dream about my girl.
Little Bessie Do you?
Little Willie Yes.' I killed two fel
lows about her last night. , ,
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1901
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