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THURSDAY, MARCH S, 1908,
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A DELIBERATE INSULT.
If, as is reported all over this city,
the Suomi Temperance Society, at its
last meeting, permitted a certain fac
tion of the membership to force upon
it a resolution, in contempt of Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt and to turn
the portrait of the Chief Executive
banging in the hall, to the wall, it was
guilty of a deliberate and braien in
sult for which it has no excuse that
will stand against public opinion in
this city.
. In this, the freest country that most
of the members of that society ever
knew, in their lives, such an action is
construed very harshly. Americans to
the "manor born", would not be
guilty of it except under , the most
extraordinary conditions that vouched
for the turpitude and recklessness of
the man holding the highest gift in
the power of the nation to confer;
and it comes with wretched grace
from people who have been welcom
ed, nourished and freed, and put upon
the olane of opportunity and civic
iortrc nn other country on earth
could, or would, have offered them.
We cannot but believe there must
' have been ' some .;; strong protest
against this untoward action at the
meeting, because there are people in
that society who are better bred and
better informed than f the ignorant
majority that compelled the insolent
act and record; and we hope that
protest is registered upon the min
utes of that meeting for the sake of
the society which has done much ex
cellent work in this community. j
President Roosevelt is but human
he has his faults and indulges them
just as other men do; but he is Presij
dent of these United States and the
foremost citizen of the Republic, and
should be immune from such open
contempt as was expressed in this
case. The act will not hurt thej
President; he will never hear of itj
in all likelihood; but the men who
were guilty of its casting, will find it
a boomerang in this community. j
A TIMELY ORDER. j
A sharp order has gone forth from
the office of Secretary Straus, of thi
Department of Commerce and Labor1,
to the immigration officials of the
country to confer with the police
authorities everywhere and exchange
information that will be valuable in
rounding out the anarchistic hordei
that have eraduallv crept into the
United States, with a view of deport
ing them and otherwise getting a
cinch on them that will circumscribf
their murderous propaganda am)
keep them within sight and power of
the law. ' ' J"" ' j
This is as it should be; and the
country will feel safer for it '
It is high time this menace was
downed and its agents tied in coils of
espionage and restraint that mean
something, and leave them free only
for their vain mouthings. No detect
tive nor policeman in this nation need
hesitate an instant in going to the
limit of his orders in the case of
these people; he will be backed by a
public opinion so universal and con
crete as to make his harshest task
acceptable everywhere. Even justice
has its limitations in the light of the
anarchistic creed and examples,
SIX BIG PROJECTS.
Astoria has six potent projects on
foot, anv one of which will be of in
calculable value to her in a business
tense and an aid to her commerce, to
wit: the establishment of the Port of
Astoria legally and completely; the
development of the gas and oil re;
sources of the county; the utilisation
of the pottery clays that abound here;
the inauguration of the San Francisco
Astoria steamship line; the coming bl
the wholesale meat depot to be set
up here by the Union Meat Company
of Portland; and the installation of
the new coal market by the Kelso
people.
Everyone of these matters ts in the
hands of active and intelligent per
sons and committees who realise the
full significance of the success of their
particular charge or interest, and be
fore the summer wanes; we hope to
see all of them perfected. There is
no reason, free from personal or other
inspired attribute, why any of these
nrooositions should fait and if they
do flicker, out, the sooner the reality
is accounted for on us exact oasis,
and heralded to the public, the better.
The people of Astoria are becoming
weary of the policy of "sucking
thumbs" at the behest of selfish inter
ests, and don't propose to stand for
much more of it; at least, in silence.
It is the common belief here that
we have got to do something on our
own initiative; something that will
count for more than one man s or a
half-dozen men's, success or advant
age; and this conviction is to oc
encouraged no matter whose particu
lar "goose" gets the scorching. It is
either eternal desuetude and a mere
place' on the map; or ample expan
sion and growth and achievement
wrought by our own heads and hands.
LAWSONS ENTHUSIASM.
upwards of $35,000,000.-and his enthu
siasm was so 'unbounded that he him
self fell" a " victim in" the crash that
folowedl " In the Grand River fiasco,
although he knew nothing about the
iron industry, he made the wildest
kind of enthusiastic predictions as to
the wonderful future of mines which
later proved to' be worthless. Suc
cess Magaaine.
Brilliant Man But Lacking the
Solid Mental Substratum.
No unprejudiced reader of Law-
son'a life-story can deny that the man
has an extraordinarily brilliant mind.
The writer, in, doing his journalistic
day's work, has had to brush elbows
with many brilliant men the men
whose stature places them conspicu
ously above their, fellows statesmen,
scholors, scientists, physicians, ex
plorers, judges, railroad-builders, empire-builders
and Lawson ranks as
one of the brilliant men of his times.
Because he is brilliant he is not neces
sarily great, for many brilliant men
are lacking in that solid substratum
of mind without which there can be
no greatness. The story that has
been told bere of. Lawson's life is a
story of a briliant man without the
solid mental substratum.
With his brilliancy go hand in hand
his energy and enthusiasm. His
energy is amazing. Not one man in
a thousand can keep pace with him.
He has a multiple-cylinder, high
speed mind. His enthusiasm is equ
alv amazing. To form a clear con
ception of the man, his enthusiasm
must always be taken account of. H?
is enthusiastic over everything that
occupies his mind whether it be a
design for a door-knocker at Dream
wold or a remedy for a world-wide
panic; and he is enthusiastic over him
selfhis career, his work, his mental
power, his plan of revolutionizing
the social order. All great reformers
have been enthusiasticsfor without
enthusiasm there can be no reform.
The border line between enthusiasm
and insanity is often vaguely defined.
Lawson's enthusiasm over his t Rem.
edy is go amazing that the writer,
after one long talk with him, on one
of the worst days of the bank panic,
was compelled to ask himself; "Has
Lawson's enthusiasm his unbounded
belief in himself and his plans cros
sed, the. border line?". , . ,. . -
; Some of Lawson's most spectacular
failures-failures that have raised the
cry of "charlatan" and "faker" have
ben due to his ungoverned enthusi
asm. His , "Ten-Million-Dollar Cop
per Pool" was a typical Lawson's en
thusiasm ' fiasco. Not withstanding
the inward warnings of his common
sense, he allowed his enthusiasm to
lead him to the conviction that a
Scotch chemist . would revolutionize
the coooer industry by putting the
mental on the market for two cents
a pound, and he boldly proclaimed to
all the world for months that cheap
coooer was "not a surmise, but
statement of fact." When the Amal
gamated Copper Company was. float
ed. despite the fact that he knew
absolutely that his fellow promoters
were! playing , the game foi. the last
dollar of the public s money, he en
thused - himself into . believing and
publicly asserting that there would be
an over-night profit for the public of
Thia is Worth Remembering
Whenever you have cough or
cold, , just remember ; that Foley's
Honey and Tax will cur ft Do not
risk your health by taking any but
the srenuine. It it in a yellow pack
age. T. F, Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
THE WIFE IN THE SHADOW
One of the most pathetic spectacles
in American life is that of the faded,
outgrown wife standing helpless in
the shadow of her husband's pros
perity, and power,' having sacrificed
her youth, beauty, and . ambition
nearly everything that the feminine
mind holds dear to enable an indif
ferent, selfish, brutish husband to get
a start in the world. ; '
It does, not matter that she burned
up much of, her attractiveness over
the cooking stove; that she lost more
of it at the washtub, and in scrubbing
and cleaning, and in rearing and car
ing for their children during the slav
ery of her early married life, In her
unselfish effort to help him get on in
the world. It does not matter how
much she suffered during those ter
rible years of proverty and privation;
just as soon as the' selfish husband
betrins to get prosperous, finds that
he is getting on in the world, feels
his power, he often begins to be
ashamed of the woman who has saci
rificed everything to make his sac-
cess possible. ."- '
It does not matter that the wife
sacrificed her own opportunity for a
career, that she gave up her most
cherished ambitions in order, to
make a ladder for her husband to
ascend by. When he has gotten to
the top. like a wily, diplomatic politi
cian, he often kicks the ladder down.
He wants to make a show in the
worldi be thinks only 'of himself.
His poor, faded, worn-out wife, stand
ing in his shadow, is not attractive
enough for him now that he has got
ten up in the world.
Many American wives look with
horror uoon the increasing fortunes
of their husbands,' which their sacri
fices have helped to accumulate, sim
ply because they fear that their stoop
de forms, gray hairs, calloused hands,
and the loss of the comeliness, which
slipped from them while they were
helping their husbands to net a start,
are likely to deprive them of the very
paradise of home and comforts which
they dreamed of from their wedding
day. They know that their hard work
and sacrifices and long hours and
sufferings in bringing up a family are
likely to ruin their prospects and that
they may even drive them .out of the
Eden of their dreams. Success Magj
azine. ..,..,.' . . , ; '
University Enters Into Co-Opera-tive
Agreement -
THE SPIKE-HOLDING POWER
The Timber Testa at Carried on by
the Government Ar Designed to
Show How Hard, Tough, Stiff and
Strong Different Wood Art.'
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HOW TO GET POORER QUICK.
We hear a great deal about get-rich-quick
schemes, but if you want
to get poor quick, go into Wall Street
without a level head or a lot of. ex
perience; play the races, take a flyer
in the schemes you see advertised, in
mines and oils and real, estater-not
that they are al bad, but most of then)
are not good. -U j
Some time aeo a New York matt
discharged a valuable employee be
cause he played the races. When
asked if he thought gambling wrong,
he said: , ,-r , . .; .: 1
"It isn't so much that, but I am
convinced that aman . who would
make the. loose, one-sided contract,
required by a bookmaker is not com
petent to take care of his own inter
ests or those of anybody else." Suc
cess Magazine. ,;
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The
State University of Idaho, located at
Moscow, has just entered Into a co
operative agreement with the United
States Forest Service to carry on a
series of tests to .determine the rela
tive value of the commercial timbers
of the State All the tests will be
made at thc' Universlty iW accordance
with the methods used by the govern
ment, and at least once a year a test
ing engineer of the Forest Service
will make careful inspection and re
port upon the prog'resa of the' work.
These tests will be of considerable
value in asctaining for what purpose
and use the timbers of Idaho are best'
adopted. , Bridge, stringers will . be
tested to determine the fitness'ot dif
ferent species for the construction of
trestles and bridges; the pike-hold-ino
Dower'wili also be investigated to
determine just what species can be
advantageously used for railroad tlea
and tests will be made to determine
the relative hardness, which "property
is very important in material used for
paving blocks. The Jroresi service
at other laboratories in variout parts
of the country is making testa on im
portant timbers from other sections,
and by co-operating with the Service
the University will secure, results
which will furnish an accurate basis
for comparing Idaho timber with
timber from, other states.
At this period when the supply of
different oecies which practical utili
zation hai shown to be well adapted
to the needs of various industries is
being rapidly exhausted, substitutes
for the disappearing species are being
eagerly sought. The timber testa as
carried on by the government are
designed to show how hard, tough,
stiff end strong different woods are,
in this way making it possible to
determine intelligently what species
will best serve as substitutes for the
ones nearing exhaustion. The results
of the investigations will be published
from time to time and distributed to
the individuals and corporations in
terested in the use of forest products.
Best Healer in the World.
Rev. F. Starbird, of East Raymond,
Maine, says: , "I have used Bucklen's
Arnica Salve for several years, on
my old army wound, and other obsti
nate sores, and find it the best healer
in the world. I use it too with great
success in my veterinary business."
Price 25c at Chas. Rogers & Son's
drug store. '
HUNTING FOR L. L. WATSON.
AYALON, CaL,. March 4.-Weary,
footsore and with their clothes torn
to shreds by the hunt for L. L. Wat
son, who has been missing from the
hotel Metropole here since Sunday,
most of those who sought him have
returned here after beating around in
the maze of brush over the hills and
for three davs. No commtini
cations has been received from Wat
son's brother who is said to have been
located at San Antonio, Texas. (
Fisher Brothers Company
BOLE AGENTS '. Y : ; ' f ' ', '
A Barbour and Flnlysot Salmon Jf na netting ,
McCormick Hirvettlng Machines ' "
i rum. a rimihk. I ?u! I - '
Malthold Roofing ' ' , '
Sharpies Cream Separator
Raecollth Flooring ' Storretfi Toole ,
Hardware, GrocerieiB. Ship
.... .r: :adia mm
Tan Bark, Blue StoneT Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar,
1 Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pip and Fittings, Brass f ;
, Goods, Paint, Oils and Olai j . ' ' ;
Fishermen Pur Manilla Rope, Cotton Twin and Seln Web
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Wo Want Yi
FISHER i BROS.
'our Trade
' BOND STREET
now u tvf; viimi'vt
BOOK
i "ITther ariA 'tminkM "The Leonard's
Spdt7!MThe Chid JLetetVV?i l K
"The Battle Ground," "Lena Rivers,"
lim$$ Claterhouse, "
"Hearts Courageous"'. . . , . . . IMu
' COFFEE -;
Good grocers like Schil-;
ling's Best, for it makes
good-will and riot trouble : ;
y-i-r v iit i.:i !;-i!. t yrt ;jti Ui'.
m case of complaint, the
money is redy.' -
' Yr ffoctt return row moatt K I'M doa't
Ma til w par bi,. ,
' NUGGETS. ,
' "It takes a certain amount of push
to master even a wheelbarrow. ;
"They are never alone who are ac-
prtmnanied with ttoble thoughts.
God educates men Dy casting them
on" their own ' resources. Newell
Dwiarht Hillis. ' ;
"Ai soon as a man begins to love
his work, then will he also begin tj
make orofirress." ' ' ' '
What we would do, let us begin to
day. Every good we would nave aone
must be paid for in strokes of daity
effort William James..
A name that stands for character,
that is synonymous with integrity, is
the best advertisement in the world.
Great minds have purposes; others
have wishes'1 ; ! ' . t:-'.
' "They fail and they alone who have
not striven." ''
."That man lives twice who lives
his first life well." T
Be like the sun which never sees
the dark side of anything. . '
"It's liot the position but the dis
position that makes men happy.
"Success Magazine."
0; W. WHITMAN
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