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THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON.
SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1901
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DECLINED PRESIDENCY
, CHICAGO, Mars 13. It became
known yesterday that Charles Gates
Dawes, president of the Central Trust
Company of this city, has been offer
ed the position of president of the re
organized Knickerbocker Trust Com
pony of New York. It is said he has
definitely declined the place.
Three attempts were made by the
New York interests to induce Mr.
Dawes to become head of the institu
tion. It is understood the final offer
was extremely attractive. Mr. Dawes
as out of the city when the informa
tion became public, but his cousin,
W. R. Dawes, cashier of the Central
Trust Company, gave out a statement
on the matter.
"It is true the offer of the position
of Presideney of the Knickerbocker
Trust Company was made to Mr.
Dawes; he said, "but I think it may
be stated definitely he has declined
the offer. He intends to remain in
Chicago".
HISS-
The nervona ttradn through which
dressmakers hve to pass at certain
seasons of the year seems almost be
yond endurance, and frequently
brings on nervous prostration, faint
in? spells, dizziness, sleeplessness
ana a general breaking down of the
feminine system, until life seems
altogether miserable.
For all overworked women there
is one tried and true remedy.
LYDIAE.PINKHAr.rS
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
restores the feminine system to a
strong, healthy, normal condition
Mrs. Ella Griffin, of Park St7 Can
ton, N.Y, writes to Mrs. Pinkham :
I was troubled for three years with
female weakness, backache, pains In
my aide, and headaches. I wu most
miserable and discouraged, for doctors
rare me no relief. Lydla E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound brought back my
health and made me feel better than
ever before."
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thoasands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that lar-uig-down
feeling, flatulency, indiges
tion, dizzinessor nervous prostration
YVhy don't you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
THREATENING LETTER.
DENVER, March 13. -Governor
Buchtel yesterday received an anony
mous letter in which the writer
threatens to destroy the federal build
ing and the city hall in this city un
less something is done to relieve the
condition of the unemployed in Den
ver within the next 48 hours. The
letter was signed "A Republican who
has voted under the lash of the mas
ter." Although the governor did not
appear to take the threat seriously it
is said that extra precautions will be
taken to keep suspicious characters
out of the capitol and other public
buildings.
Kemp'a Balsam i a sti cough curt,
for it contains nothing that can harm
you. It is the best cough rare, but
costs no more than any other kind. All
druggist sell it
COAL SITUATION.
LONDON, March 13-The colliery
owners who have been conferring in
this city on the subject of the gov
ernment's bill establishing an eight-
hour day for miners decided yester
day should parliament pass the meas
ure, to advance the price of coal 36
cents per ton and to make all future
contracts on this basis. Shipowners,
railways and manufacturers have
been sending delegations to Herbert
Gladstone, secretary for the home
affairs, ever since the introduction oi
the bill, pointing out that the inevit
able curtailment of the output and the
increase in the price of coal will
cause a serious financial strain, if not
bankruptcy, to many of the country's
big industries. Mr. Gladstone thinks
these fears are exaggerated, but ad-
mits that the bill will require some
amendments.
REUF NOT OUT YET.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12.-
Abraham Ruef's release from the
County Jail upon bail aggregating
over $300,000 which he declares he
can promptly furnish, was tempor
arily delayed to-day by the absence of
Judge Frank H. Dunne. Judge M. T.
Dooling, sitting for Dunne in the Te
vis Bulletin criminal libed trial, de
clined to act in the matter of the five
extortion indictments, and upon
RueFs plea of guilty to one of them,
which was nullified by the action of
the Supreme Court.
Henry Ach, leading council for
Ruef, made a motion for the with
drawal of the plea and a dismissal of
the other indictments, but Judge
Dooling declared he had not been
authorized by Judge Dunne to act in
th matter and preferred not to do so.
The court said "now that the industry
these defendants were engaged in has
been declared lawful" but he contin
ued the matter until Saturday morn
ing. He also declined to consider the
matter of bail for Ruef upon the other
indictments in that department.
From that court Reuf and his attor
neys and Assistant District Attorney
Henry and Wiliam J. Burns repaired
across the hall to Judge Lawlor's de
partment. There matters proceeded
for a time amicably between the two
sides, but ended in verbal pyrotech
nics and the utterances of defiance on
the part of both Heney and Ach.
LATEST lil
SUITINGS
Having returned from San Francisco with a splendid stock of spring
and summer suitings of the latest style and having spent several weeks
in studying the fashions prevalent in that city, we are now more than
ever in a position to give thorough satisfaction to the most fastidious
dresser. NOT IN WORDS, BUT IN DEEDS.
HAUTALA & RAITANEN
Tailors, Corner Eleventh and Bond Streets
voices that would seem to startle the
very dead. 1 have often entered the
empty sanctuaries in the mid-afternoon
just to hear the resounding roll
of that majestic basso profundo of the
priests up in the choir at their daily
devotion. Like the booming of the
surf upon the stand, those chants
would come down from the high gal
leries, seemingly hunting out the last
shrinking echo from the farthest
nook and corner of the old temple.
It was an experience never to be for
gotten.
Amonur the neotde. particularly
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those of the provinces more remote
from the city of Manila, there are
number of folk-song ballads deserib
ing local events or celebrations, and
extending to the interminable length
usual to such songs. During passion
week it is common to see at any way
side shrine one or more women kneel
ing by the hour while they drone out
a lengthy poem known as "The Pas
sion." The words are read from the
book and the tune is any is any sort
of inflection that the skill or taste of
the singer may suggest. The usual
effect of the performance is unutter
ably weird and depressing. '
Among these people instrumental
music has outrun the vocal expression
of musical .feeling, which is again
partly the result of the teachings of
the church. Aside from this, how
ever, the people have a unique system
of making musical instruments from
the bamboo cane. The fiber is hard,
of every size and length, and the hol-
and the hollow center is smooth and
of every size and length, and thehol
low center is smooth and of even cal
iber, except for the partitions at the
joints, which are not difficult to re
move, if the length be not too great.
There is every reason to believe that
these instruments were made in prim
itive times. The records of the early
explorers of the island show that the
people were accustomed to hold oc
casional festivals accompanied by
which of course the people made for
themselves. These performances
were presided over by a sort of priest
ess who swayed and chanted while
the "band" played.
The modern successor of this per
formance is the "Bamboo Band" to
be seen and heard in the provinces
today. It is a collection of half a
dozen or more instruments made of
bamboo cane. They are of various
sizes and pitches, and while not in
perfect tune, the results are regarded
as quite musical by the admiring pop
ulace. The lowest "tuba" is made of
a section of the cane five inches in
diameter which is blown on the prin-
cipl of the closed organ pipe. By
opening or closing a hole in the side
of the cane, two notes are produced
at the will of the performer. The
notes are pitched in about the rela
tion of tonic and dominant, and this
serves as the basis of the harmonic
structure. The other instruments are
more easily formed, njost of them on
the flute or fife principle, and the
tonal effect of the ensemble is a sur
prise to any one hearing it for the
first time, though of course the music
rendered upon such an instrumenta
tion must be of very simple structure,
These bands are used principally
at the "bailes" or native dances, and
on the fiesta days of the churches
where they lead the processions
Thire are guitars and fiddles to be
found in every town, but they are of
foreign importation and the perfor
mances thereon are of the back-country
hocdown variety. Traveling one
night along the winding bank of the
Pasig River, I heard a rhythmical
squeak and toot that rose and fell as
I caught up with the sound I found a
full-dress ball in progress on board
a casco (flatboat) tied to the bank.
A Yankee fiddle furnished the squeak,
and a bamboo "tuba" the bass, which
like the "orator Puff" of schoolboy
days had two tones in its voice. "When
it was not sounding one it was toot
ing away industriously on the other.
The sehoritas were hopping about in
all the glory of native full-dress
which surpasses the decollete of west
ern society in that the Fillipino belle
is not only bare of neck and shoulder,
but of foot and ankle as well. After
all, so far as I could judge, her feet
looked as weel as her shoulders, and
what was the difference?
Some of the native women play
more or less on the guitar, and the
sound of the dreamy strumming out
in a grove of cocoanut trees has made
many an American so homesick that
he has stopped his ears with his fin
gers to shut out the sound.
Filipino music reaches its best de
velooement in the church bands.
Every large church in the larger'
towns has a brass band of from
twenty to forty men equipped with
There's this difference between
the cocoa habit and the coffee
habiti Cocoa maKes you Wealthier,
stronger, steadier, better able to
do your share. Does coffee?
LESS THAN A CENT A CUP
J) 7)fl a
Is made with scrupulous, con
scientious care and old-fashioned
attention to cleanliness, purity,
goodness and quality. No cocoa
at any price can be better or more
delicious. Your grocer sells and
recommends it.
D. ChlrrdlH Compear
San Franelieo
regulation instruments imported from
Europe. These bands are always un
iformed, and membership in the band
is a high honor. They play with an
indescribable abandon to the rhythm
of the melody, and an utter absence
of the circus-day blare and crash of
the average town band in tlfe United
States. They will swing along the
street for hours playing march after
march without a note of music before
them, and every man wholly oblivi
ous of the existance of any world
outside of the harmony in which he is
then living. For two weeks before
Christmas these bands go out at S
o'clock in the morning and inarch up
and down the streets playing wild
and beautiful marches, and I think 1
have no more delightful memory than
that of having awakened by these
bands morning after morning as a
reminder that Christmas was com
ing. The sense of rhythm is strong
among these people. I have watched
these bands swinging along in their
dream music, and it was as obviously
impossible for any man to get out of
step or to "lose his place" as it would
have been for him to have changed
his legs for wings and begun to fly.
I stood on a corner one day and
counted twenty-two of these bands
in a great church procession, every
one swaying and swinging' in time to
its free and spasmodic melody, and
when they had passed, I was near to
being a dweller in that land myself
It was an hour never to be forgotten
One of the sights of the rice coun
try is that of a score of men, women
and children strung out in line across
a rice field in which the mud and
water are two feet deep, each one of
them planting rice in time to the mu
sic of a banjo played by an "hombrc"
on the levee. The swaying line
moves with precision and the total
result of the work done is many times
increased by the regularity of the set
of motion by which the young plants
are placed in the mud. .
The phonograph has found its way
into the Philippines, and every "ilus-
trado" owns one, with a fair eollec
tion of records. That these wheez
ing machines are popular needs no
assertion. That blare and squeak is
always popular with an untrained ear
Next to Sunshine
Eura air and deep breathing, the
est medicine for all run-down con
ditions of the stomach, nerves and
blood, is that unfailing renovator,
restorative and tonic
$eecham
IsU Every whr, la box 10, and tU,
and an undeveloped taste. But the
phonograph has i;s great mission for
good in the Phillippincs, and has
conic to stay.
To the American, one of the strang
est of musical phenomena in the Phil
ippines is that of the funerals. Any
family that can aflord it always has
the church band for the funeral The
performance begins outside the house
of the deceased, and when the proces
sion forms to go to the church and
later to the cemetnry, it is always
headed by the band and accompanied
by music for the entire distance. So
far so good; but the music I There's
the rub! Nothing but the liveliest
quicksteps and "raggediest" two-four
jigs are never played. The story
that "A Hot Time in the Old Town"
is a favorite tune for Philippine fun
erals is thought to be a slander or a
joke, but it is nothing of the tort; It
is a very lively truth, and one that the
average American finds very hard to
reconcile with his preconceived ideas
of what is a fitting accompaniment
for the last long procession.
Alt things musical in the. Philip
pines reach their climax in the mag
nificent Constrbulary Band. Eighty
men, all natives, under the direction
of Capt. Loving, himself an Ameri
can negro and graduate of a Boston
Conservatory, have reached a degree
of skill that caused them to be award
ed the second prize at the St. Louis
Exposition. Every American in the
Philippines is justly proud of this
splendid band, and no one factor has
been more powerful in making life
endurable and attractive in Manila
than the Constabulary Band. Two
evenings per week out in the open
Luncta the band plays programmes
that are unexcelled anywhere in the
world. The choice masterpieces arc
mixed with the popular favorites, and
the greatest and most difficult com
positions arranged for big band work,
with the most refined and delicate
creations of the great composers, are
poured out upon the delicious even
ing air, and all are to be had merely
for the trouble of going, out and
listening. -
The American in Manila has many
and mixed experiences, but of them
all, none will be more gratefully re
membered than that of the evening
concerts on the Luneta. The fore
ground of all the wealth and youth
and beauty of the city out on its even
ing promenade, the background of
the glorious and gorgeous tropical
sunset back of old Mariveles, and in
the center of it all, the glittering band
stand with- its eighty men playing the
best that music has to give to heart
sore and homesick menthis is an
oasis in the desert.
The programme always closes with
the "Star Spangled Banner," when
every hat is lifted and every mun,
standi at attention. Then When th
start come out, we go our own ways
with the echoes of the band to soothe
us to sleep and make us dream that
we are not exiles half-way round the
world, but back once more in old
Home, Sweet Home. George A.
Milter, in L A. Timet.
No Use to Die.
"I have found out that there it no
use to die of lung trouble at long at
you can get Dr. King't New Dis
covery," tayt Mrs. J. P. White, of
Rushboro, Pa. "I would not be alive
today only for that wonderful medi
cine. It loosen up a cough quicker
than anything else, and curet lung
diesase even after the case it pro
nounced hopeless." This most reliable
remedy for cought and colds, la
grippe, atthma, bronchitis and hoarse
ness, it told under guarantee at Chat.
Rogert & Son't drug ttore. 50c and
$1.00. Trial bottle free.
BUSINESS ABILITY.
NEW YORK, March 13. Tribute j
to the business ability and useful ac-f
tivity in public affairs of Mrt. Clar
ence It. Mackay hat been paid by the
Board of Trade of Roslyn, LI.,
where she resides, in unanimously
electing her to membership In that
body. Mrs. Mackay three years ago
ran for school trustee against Dr.
Leys and won and since that time
has xtoown great interest in the vil
lage, its schools and its other institutions.
A severe cold that may develop Into
pneumonia over night, can be cured
quickly by taking Foley's Honey and
Tar. It will cure the most obstinate
racking cough and strengthen your
lungt. The genuine it in a yellow
package. T. F. Laurlin, Owl Drug
Store.
SMELTERS STARTING UP. -
BUTTE, Mont., March 13.-An
Anaconda special to the Miner states
that the reverberatory furnaces were
started yesterday afternoon in the
Washoe Copper Smelters of the Am
algamated Copper Company, and that
today the blast furnaces would be
blown in and the smelting of copper
commenced. The Washoe Copper
Smelters are the largest in the world,
their capacity being the reduction of
about 10,000 tons of ore daily. The
limestone quarries of the Amalgamat
ed , Copper Company, west of Ana
conda, resumed operations yesterday
afternon.
When vou need a aouvh our von natd
Afla Miaf mim vaii Miifvli irmn'a
Balsam, th best cough our, will do It.
All druggists tell It for 25 cents.
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