THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1008.
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THE JAPANESE SPY.
It would seem that the Japanese
secret service man (in plain English,
the spy), is becoming notoriously
numerous in this country, and how
ever happily he may beguile himself
wtih his sense of loyalty, he is only a
spy in American eyes so long as he
is prying into American war secrets,
and will be so considered and treated
as often as he is caught Every man
in such profession knows its perils
and expects to bear its measure of
reproach; these are among its unes
capable requirement
He has figured often enough in
this connection, in this country, since
the close of the Russo-Japanese war,
to put our military authorities strict
ly on guard against his bold, and
rather reckless, encroachments upon
their forbidden domain; and the fre
quency of his apprehension in the
act, is proof positive that our people
are "up to snuff." Questionable as is
the pursuit as he plays it, he cannot
be blamed for following it at the
suggestion of loyalty and love of
country; but, widely advised as this
Government is of his plan and
policy, wrought by the frequent and
compromising arrests made in this
behalf, it has no business to continue
the employment of men of that na
tionality. This is piece of stupidity.
The Japanese is in no wise different
from the rest of his fellow-creatures
about the earth; he is going to work
his ends as deftly and successfully as
he is permitted to; and the last thing
we may expect of him, or any other
alien, is, that he is going to be more
loyal to a transient foreign employer
than he is to the. land he loves de
voutedly; the order should go forth
from the White House that this par
ticular alien be absolutely barried
from all public service in the United
States.
SOANDINAVIAN-AMERIOAN
SAV. BANK
Courteous and Accommodating
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Liberal Methods. . .Conservative Management
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claim him an American man than
anything he can do until the day he
dies.
THE BLUNK CASE.
Henry Blunk is, of course, inno
cent of the terrible charges preferred
against him by G. L. Millard, of Sea
side, until he shall be proven guilty;
but the story told by this father of
two ruined girls, bears the stamp of a
bitter and adamantine truth, too over
whelming to be juggled with or placated.
The one great difficulty in all such
cases is that the. woman involved will
rarely make good on the original
story of her wrongs when the crucial
hour for its re-telling arrives. This
has barred the operation of law and
justice in untold numbers of cases
and may be repeated in this instance.
Society may find tolerance for the
young man who transgresses and for
the girl he lured with him, if there
is honest intent and effort to right
the situation and retrieve the past;
but it has nothing: but disgust un-
thia. insect .will soon cease, as the
transformation to the adult and
harmless stage it about completed.
Entomologies tell ui that this fly
occurs scarcely once tn a decade, and
it has been about twelve years since
its last appearance here, The (ly
does its work by eating the grail
roots Just below the surface of the
soil. Through it destruction of ver-1
dure is great, no remedy is practic-1
able or necessary unless the fly
makes its appearance more frequent
ly. Perhaps, the overflow of last
country is looking well. The crop re- March brought about the1 most fav
ports for 1908 start off in fine shape, orable conditions for its multiplies'
tion. was told that the great in
The leading Democratic paper in I undation. of Sutter county last ipriog
Brooklyn announces its platform to killed every gopher in the district ex
be: "No Bryan on any platform and kept those burrowing in the : levee,
no man on any Bryan platform." land all the jack rabbits were drowned
There are some Democrats who along with the gophers.
know when they have had enough.
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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
note sores, and find it the best healer
in the world, t use It too with great
success in my veterinary business."
Price 25c at Chas. Rogers & Son's
TREATING FENCE POSTS.
preservation so much better than any
named above that it is now being
speakable for he mart who will play , generally recommended. It is the
one sister against the other and drag creosote process.
As dimension stuns gets scarcer
and more expensive the problems of
preserving woods used by farmers
and city property owners becomes
more acute. It is well to know that
experiments have shown that many
remedies for timber decay and sub
terfuges such as setting posts small I drug store.
end down are practically valueless in
preventing post aecay. ruing stone A REALISTIC PAINTER,
around the base, setting in concrete ,
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ana drainage uo not pay tor me cost The ,ate Joh Lambert( the Phil.
in protective effect. Charring the delphia artist whose blindness,
posts, painting, soaking in copper brought on by the daizling sunshine
suipnate ana covering witn cow tar 0 , Spanish ,ummer, caused his
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both to perdition and disgrace from
the same, threshold. Such callous
ness as that is as unforgivable as it
is unusual, and the chances are that
Henry Blunk will be made to realize
the limit he has broken and the un
toward offense that he has wrought
Public feeling is very severe toward
him down Seaside-way on account of
the exceptional standing of the Mil
lard family; and it is a cue likely to
be taken up pretty .generally when
and where his dirt dual-deal shall be
come known.
THAWS THROUGH WITH HER.
Now that Harry Thaw has run the
perilous gamut of the law for mur
der and is safely housed in an asylum
for the insane as a mere expedient
toward his ultimate freedom and res
toration to society; the faithful little
woman who has stood by him in the
very shadow of the. gallows and
shared every horror and pang he has
borne in the fierce contest, the beau
tiful, and to him, staunch and incor
ruptible wife, is to be turned down
and out by the "swell" family tharl
cannot possibly give her social coun
tenance and backing when her hus
band comes out into his place in the
world of snobs and sycophants and
has to take over the aid of his "cul
tured and distinguished" relatives in
order to live at the old standard.
Upon the face of the despatches that
come to the West in this relation, it
would seem that Evelyn Thaw has
voluntarily chosen this attitude and
willingly seeks and will gladly accept
the freedom to be imposed; but we
believe she is a victim of bitter cir
cumstances quite beyond her, and is
party to a hard bargain thrust upon
her from the other side of the house.
No word comes from Thaw himself,
it seems; he may surprise the world
of society, by smashing the wretched
compact when he comes out, boldly
and honestly championing, and cleav
ing to, the girl for, and with, whom,
his first awful sacrifice was made.
Such a step would do more to pro-
ORCHARD'S END IN SIGHT.
Harry Orchard, despite al counsel
to the contrary, and contrary to all
expectation, has pleaded guilty to the
murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg
and will suffer the extreme penalty of
the law in due time.
It would seem that this arch-fiend
was actually converted and profound
ly impressed when the enormity of
his crimes was brought home to him
by the terrific arraignment and the
subsequent efforts that ,.were made
in his moral behalf at the Idaho peni
tentiary. The terrible conviction has
sunk so deeply into the man's con-.
sciousness as to drive out all indif
ference and bravado and leave him
amenable to the honester and gentler
convictions of life; and if this is the
case, then all may join in the ra
tional hope that his end may come
quickly and without further or un
necessary "shouting from the hill
tops." He has won the right to as
peaceful an exit as can be given him
under the 'circumstances; and has ab
solved himself from much of the hor
ror wherewith mankind in general
was wont to regard him.
There are men of his class and com
pany and guilt still unhung, and at
large, who know nothing of the peace
with which tie has blessed the few
days that remain to him, and from
whom the world will one day hear
vastly more.
In every case, whether treated or
untreated, only seasoned timber
should be used. Decay is universally
attributed to the attacks of fungous
or bacterial germs. These influences
cannot prevail to any great extent
where water, air and other growing
conditions are prevented from lead
ing the germs into the wood tissues.
Creosote, applied at a temperature of wort.
portrait
painter of rare talent
"Lambert," said a member of the
Philadelphia Club the other day,
was a realist. His portraits were
true and unflattering. It annoyed
him tremendously to be asked to
make an ugly woman beautiful it
was the same thing, he used to say,
as being to lie.
A Spruce-street matron sat to
Lambert once. At the end of the
third sitting she professed to be quite
satisfied with the progress of the
about 215 degrees , is by far the best
preserving process ever tried.
I he iollowing conclusions as to
selection and preparation of fence
posts may be of value:
The resistance of all treated posts
to decay is alike, regardless of the
kind of wood used; hence only the
cheaper woods should be used, and
the more valuable kinds should be
saved for other purposes. Since sap
wood can be impregnated better than
heartwood, posts with much sapwood
are the best.
Posts cut from woods whose heart
wood cannot be treated are best left
round. When the heartwood takes
treatment reaony either round or
split posts may be used.
Posts should be air dry before they
are treated or set. They should be
cut at least a month before treatment,
Wood dries faster in spring or sum
mer, but with those species which
check badly, such as the oaks, cutting
is best done in autumn or early
winter.
Even the inner bark should be re
moved before the posts are treated
" 'All but the mouth," she said.
'Please make it small and curved, I
know it is a straight, long mouth
really, just as you have drawn it, but
in the portrait I want you, if you will,
to make it very tiny. Will you? .
"Certainly, madam,' said Lambert.
'I'll leave it out altogether if you
wish.'"
CLEARINQ THE WAY.
"The late E, C. Stedman," said
a Chicago publisher, "used to enter
tain his friends with amusing mem
ories of country journalism. He
once edited, you know, a little paper
in Connecticut.
"At a dentists' banquet in New
York, where he read an original poem
he told a story about an amateur
Connecticut dentist, one of his old
est subscribers.
"This man's name was Jake. Jake
was at wark in a cornfield one day
when a neighboring farmer came to
him, holding his jaw. I
"The farmer had the toothache, and
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to save a trip to Winsted and den-
or set, especially from that part of list's fee, he wanted Jake to pull the
the post submerged in the creosote, aching tooth.
Bark reduces the penetration of creo
sote into the wood, besides itself ab
sorbing the creosote without increas
ing the durability of the post.
lhe tops of posts should be cut I
"Jake led him to the barn, seated
him on a saw horse, and took from
the harness-room a pair of very large,
rusty pincers.
Here goes,' he said, bracing him-
slanting, preferably with an ax, so self, extracted a huge tooth.
mat rain water win not remain on
them. When they are cut with a saw
the pitch should be greater.especially
in posts in which there is a marked
difference in hardness between the
springwood and the summer wood.
"The farmer clapped his hand to
his jaw. He pointed reproachfully to
the large white tooth in the pincers.
'Why, Jake,' he said, 'that's the
wrong one.
'I know said Jake, bracing him
self again; but now I can get at the
other handier.' "
EDITORIAL SALAD
The man who is sentenced to col
lege for life by the will of a relative
and who thus far has attached four
appendages to his name may be said
to be dying by degrees.
Dispatches from Nevada points in
dicate that the new gold camp of
Rawhide promises to take the skin
off Goldfield and other metropolii of
recent days.
Minister Wu says he will answer
questions but not ask them. Our
new Chinese ambassador will be
popular with interviewers, but how
about his fondness for Boston ways?
For several years the farmers have
said that they are unable to get the
labor they need. Spring is near, and
a look for employment in that quar
ter would be a benefit to all concerned.
California announces that its orange
and lemon crop is the largest on rec
ord. .Winter grain throupghout the
OBSERVATION CONFIRMED.
A one-armed man entered a rest-
FRUIT FLY DAMAGE.
It is profitable to remind the fruit
growers of California and Oregon
thta they have to contend against I
only a portion of the destructive in-aurant at noon and seated himself
sects species of the world. It may next to a dapper little other-people's-seem
to the growers that they have business man. The latter at once
the major portion, but this is not the noticed his neighbor'! left sleeve
case, though the number of insect banging loose, and. kept eyeing it in
enemies nere is certainty sunicicw. i a now-cua-it-happen sort ot a way,
In looking over a badly-infested dis- The one-armed man paid no attention
trict in this State, we should, note the to him, but kept on eating with his
absence of the Gypsy moth, white one hand. Finally the inquisitive one
fly, melon maggot, Mexican orange could stand it no longer. He chang
maggot, white scale, brown-tailed ed his position a littleclcared his
moth, most of the destructive web- throat, and said: "I beg pardon, sir,
making caterpillars, possibly the psyl- but I see you have lost an arm."
loxera, the army worm, Florida red The one-armed man picked up his
scale, chinch bug, tomato fruit worm, sleeve with his right hand and peer
the long scale, Colorado potato "bug, ed anxiously into it. "Bless my soult
and above all the absence of the many he exclaimed, looking up with great
fruit flies.
CRANE FLIES.
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Large tracts of pasture lands in the
upper portions of the Sacremento
have been injured by, an insect in its
larval form, known as the Crane Fly.
In some uses the pasture has been
entirely destroyed. But the work of
surprise. I do believe you re right."
Everybody'! Magazine.
John Fox, Pre. F. L Bishop, Sec Astoria 8avtngi Bank, Traaa.
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