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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH U, 1008.
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A TECHNICAL VICTORY.
' After all the abuse and reproach
cast upon the Appellate Court of
California for its alleged adverse
rulings on the pleas sent up to it by
ex-Mayor Eugene Schmitz, of San
Francisco, the Supreme Court, in the
appeal filed by the prosecution, de
clares the intermediary court to have
been absolutely right in its finding!
and denies the prayer for reversal.
This is not only a legal victory for
the Appellate Court, but a technical
triumph for the criminals at bar; and
a back-set of no mean proportions to
the men who have figured as the
champions of law and order and
morality there, including the invin
cible Heney and the well-meaning
Spreckles. The whole mis-carriage
illustrating the farcical ends to which
the law, in its innumerable and vic
ious interpretations, can be carried
with enough wit and coin of the
realm. .
justice must oe done, ot course,
even though the moral conviction of
the scoundrels in question be world
wide and complete; and yet there is
a great measure of good to be real
ized from the serio-comic play of
events there. The dirty manipulators
have been , ousted and it is hardly
likely they will carry their pleas for
restitution to the limit of contesting
the status of their successors; and
this, of itself, is comforting, or should
be, to a community that has sounded
the depths of every known civic evil
in the past 23 months; and has freed
itself even through the blunders of
its deliverers.
SOANDINAVIAN-AMERIOAN
SAV. BANK
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Courteous and Accommodating
Liberal Methods .Conservative Management
v" 'He'a down the itreet,' was the
reply. ' 'sellin' yer kissei for two
apples' apiece. Better shet yer eyes
agin. The next three boyt it terrible
ugly. !.""., 1
O PSHAW I
One of the consul vto Persia, dur
ing a recent visit home, laid at a din
ncr in Chicago: , v -
"The present Shah will never : be
the emial of hla predecessor. What
a character the late Shah wail He
west, she will be denied nothing in
the line of genuine and approved
entertainment
THE WINNING TYPE.
AMUSEMENT-LOVING ASTORIA
Astoria is unhappily situated, just
at present, in the matter of the grati
fication of her amusement-loving pro
pensities; she is off the direct line of
the common circuit over which the
best schemes of entertainment travel;
and it is regrettable in the extreme
that she is denied anything in this
line, for she is quick and responsive
to such pleasure-calls, at all seasons.
It is one of those communal at
tributes that should be cultivated to
the limit, since it serves to soften
and placate other and harsher tones
in the public character of a place and
people.
' Popular love of amusement and
Sport is an unequivocal asset to any
city or town and should be fostered
unremittingly, always with the ten
dency to the cleaner and higher levels
of the cheerful cult, and always with
the dominant idea of putting the
fresher and harmless schemes of pub
lic enjoyment above the grosser
phases of indulgence.
We wish it were possible to have
every fine play and game and lecture
here, that reaches. Portland; and yet,
are thankful for such of the best as
we do get. The deprivation is very
real to Astoria. Her people are gen
erous patrons in all such lines and
should have more of the opportuni
ties afforded larger places, as much
for the real beneficient effect of the
higher grades of amusement as for the
compensation of an admirable and
universal local spirit. Some day As
toria will cease to be a tangent-point,
off the beaten paths of the great cir
cuits and when she comes into her
own as an accessible port and sta
tion on the highways of the North-1
The despatches from San Fran
cisco tell of a young man, the son of
an admiral and principal owner of a
great ship-building plant there, who,
in the prosecution of his mechanical
studies, has shipped to sea on the
maiden voyage of the monster me
chanism he himself worked upon in
the shops at home. This is the type
of young American that wins out. r
He has worked at his trade long
enough to learn to love it, and loving
goes about making himself an
adept and a success. This man will
be heard from in the days that are to
demand the highest qualities in his
line. His trade is one of the most
intensely practical in the whole gamut
of human activity; and he is practical
enough to aspire to its very pinnacle
of trained proficiency in order to
meet the last limitation of its de
mands upon him as a representative.
The glory of the thing is all to come;
what he is doing at this time, is but
the hard-headed, logical, manly route
to specific accomplishment by-and-by.
The glory, if any there be, lies in be
ing sensibly devoted, to a masterful
and honorable trade and man enough
to know it from its base to its climax
of achievement He'll get there, al
right I There are many like him, and
yet far too few.
cents, or, including the cost of set-never opened his mouth without say
ing something worth repeating.
"Lady Rrummond Wolfe once got
permission to visit the Shah's harem.
She took a friend, a Miss Blank, who
was about to be married. ; The two
English-women, wandered over the
splendid palace, among the hundred
of beautiful young girls, and pres
ently the Shah encountered them,
Come here,' ' I be ; said to Miss
Blank, In his crude French. '
"She approached. He .: looked
closely at her.
'You are about to be married?
he said.
" 'Yes, YouY Highness.'
" 'It's late!' '
ting, 14 cents. It lasts about two
years. Compounding interest at S per
cent, the annual charge of such a post
is 7.53 cents; that is, it costs 7.53
cents a year to keep the post in ser
vice. Preservative treatment costing
10 cents will increase its length of life
to about eighteen years. In this case
the total cost of the post, set, is 24
cents, which compounded at 5 per
cent, gives an annual charge of 2.04
cents. Thus the saving due to treat
merit is 5.49 cents a year. Assuming
that there are 200 posts per mile,
there is a saving each year for every
mile of fence of a sum equivalent to
the interest on $219.60.
In the same way preservative treat
ment will increase the length of life Prof. H. A. Howell, of Havana, Cuba,
of a loblolly pine railroad tie from
five years to twelve years and will
reduce the annual charge from 11.52
cents to 9.48 cents, which amounts to
saving of $58.75 per mile. ,
it is estimated mat liu.uw acres
Recommend! Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy.
"As long ago at I can remember
my mother was a faithful user and
friend of Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy, but never in my life have I real-
EDITORIAL SALAD
Wish they would change the name
of that newest marvel of mining
camps. Kawnide is far irom elegant
and then, too, the suggestion of
"skin" may unjustly reflect on what
promises to prove a truly rich mining
camp.
English want Churchill's story of
Africa in a blue book instead of
magazine to preserve the dignity of
the writer's office. .Odd none ever
has respect due the White House be
maintained similarly.
The jurors who reached a verdict
by tossing a coin and were fined $50
each by an indignant court, will have
time to study whether their test
proved, "heads you win, tails we
lose."
Havana Electric Company's annual
report shows a potent reason for the
intervention dividends paid, deficit
eliminated and surplus created all
under United States law and order.
Match concern income for last
fiscal year was $2296,000 this at
5000 matches at 5 cents. Yet the
night is not yet when we shall not be
stranded and howling for a light.
Allegation in a receivership case
was that $15,000,000 for collateral to
secure a bond issue was sold for
$250,000. Almost a submarine scan
dalso watery one might say.
DECAY IN WOOD PREVENTED.
It is estimated that a fence post,
which under ordinary circumstances
will last for perhaps two years, will,
given preservative treatment cost
ing about 10 cents, last eighteen years.
The service of other timbers, such as
railroad ties, telephone , poles, and
mine props, can be doubled and often
trebled by inexpensive preservative
treatment. To-day when the cost of
wood is a big item to every farmer,
every stockman, every railroad man
agerto everyone, in fact, who must
use timbers where it is likely to decay
this is a fact which should be care
fully considered.
It is easy to see that if the length
of time timbers can be used is doubl
ed, only half as much timber will be
required as before and only one-haif
as much money will need to be spent
in the purchase of timber. Moreover
many wods which were after a long
time considered almost worthless can
be treated and made to last as long
as the scarcer and more expensive
kinds. ,
Of the actual saving in dollars and
cents through preservative treatment,
fence post such as was mentioned
at the beginning might serve as one
example. The post is of loblolly
pine, and costs, untreated, about 81
are required each year to grow tim- ized its true value until now." writes
ber for the anthracite coal mines Prof. H. A. Howell, of Howell's
alone. The average life of an un-1 American School Havana, Cuba. "On
treated mine prop is not more than the night of February 3rd our baby
three years. By proper preservative was taken tick' with a very severe
treatment it can be prolonged by I cold, the next day was worse and the
many times this figure. Telephone I following night his condition was
and telegraph poles, which in ten or desperate. He could not lie down
twelve years, or even less, decay so land it was necessary to have him in
badly at the ground line that they the arms every moment Even then
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have to be removed, can, by a simple
tretament of their butts, be made to
last twenty or twenty-five years. Sap
shingles, which are almost valueless
in their natural state, can easily be
treated and made to outlast even
painted shingles of the most decay
resistant wood. Thousands of dot
1 4 '
iars are lost every year oy the so
called "bluing" of freshly sawed sap-
wood timbers. This can be prevent
ed by proper treatment, and at a cost
so small as to put it within the reach
of the smallest operator. , , ,
In the South the cheap and abund
ant loblolly pine, one of the easiest
of all woods to treat, can by proper
preparation be made to take the place
of the high-grade longleaf pine for
many purposes. Black and tupelo
gums and other little-used woods
have a new and increasing importance
because of the possibility of preserv-
tnem trom decay at small . cost. In
the Northeastern and Lake States are
tamarack, hemlock, beech, birch, and
maple, and the red and black oaks, all
of which by proper treatment may
help to replace the fast-diminishing
white oak and cedar. In the States
of the Mississippi Valley the pressing
fencepost problem may be greatly
relieved by treatment such as cotton
wood, willow, and blackberry. :U:
Circular 139 of the Forest Service,
"A Primer of Wood Preservation,"
tells in simple terms what decay is
and how it can be treated, describes
briefly certain preservatives and pro
cesses,, gives examples of the saving
in dollars and cents, and tells what
wood preservatioa can do in the fut
ure. the circular can be had free
upon application to the Foester, For
est Service, Washington, D. C.
his breathing was difficult I did not
think he would live until morning. At
last I thought of my mother' remedy,
Chamberlain' Cough Remedy, which
we gave, and it afforded prompt re
liefand now, three day later, he
has fully recovered. Under the cir
cumstances I would not hesitate a
moment in saying that Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy, and that only, saved
the life of our dear little boy." For
sate by Frank Hart and leading drug
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HE GAVE HIMSELF AWAY.
Apropos of the movement in New
York toward the abolition of race
track gambling, Mrs. Jack J. War
ren, the witty Vermont reformer,
said the other day in Burlington:
"Race-track gambler always claim
that everything about the game is
square. ' Cross-examine them very
closely, though; looks into all their
methods; question them on every
point, and usually, like Col. Toddy of
Tin Can, they'll give themselves
away.
"Col. Toddy of Tin Can was a
whist sharp.
' 'I once, and once only," he said.
in the smoking room, 'had all thirteen
trumps dealt me.'
1 'You, I suppose, were er the
dealer?' some one said.
"The colonel turned purple.
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THE MERCENARY WILLIE.
Craig Wadsworth, the best cotil
lion leader in America, admitted at
dinner in New York that men were
colder and more mercenary than
women. "It is born in us," said Mr,
Wadsworth sadly. "Even as child
ren, When I was a boy," he said,
"I had a little friend named Willie.
Willie appeared one day with a fine
apple.!..,,,,, r .
" 'I'll give you this apple,' he said m'
to a little girl, 'for twenty kisses.
"The little girl was amazed. That
was not at all like Willie. Neverthe
less she consented.
, " 'Shut your eyes,' said Willie. Sit
down here and shut your eyes. , And
mind, if you open them, the bargain
is off.
"The little girl obeyed, and slowly,
VICTORY SO-CALLED.
James Carroll, the amateur light
weight boxing champion of San Fran
Cisco, said at the end of a recent
women's boxing and fencing exhibi
tion:
"Physical culture among women,
women's growing strength and pluck,
lend interest , to marriage, change
marriage complexion. j
'How is poor Smither gettin' on?'
said one man to another.
'Well,' said the other, 'Smither is
now almost recovered from the beat
he gave his wife last Saturday
night.'" ;: -''' ;
RICHARD SAMUEL DEAD.
SAN FRANCISCO, March , 10.-
Richard Samuel, one of the very few
survivors of the famous, "California
Hundred," that represented this state
in the Civil War, died at the Soldiers'
very slowly, the kisses began to fall Home at Yountville in Napa county,
upon her lips. , One. two, three, four, Sunday, tie was a native ot Illinois,
a lang pause five, six another
long pause seven pause eight,
nine, , ten intolerable pause, ,
" 'Oh, Willie hurry!'
". 'I'm not Willie. .
"The little girl opened her eyes, in
astonishment, . and drew back , her
pretty mouth from the advancing lips
of a strange boy, a very common,
shabby sort of a boy, whom she had
never seen before. . ., '
",'Why, where's .Willie? she said.
68 years of age.
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poor coffee; we can't : all
be comfortable: but he
needn't sell it to you. j
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Ilk Schilling Bst; w pir him.
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