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8 THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNK 5, 1908 0- "The Message of the OLIVE to Man is O-LIVE" SYLMAR OLIVE OIL Guaranteed absolutely pure. Made from the choicest of California Olives. Pint bottles 60c Quart bottles $1 A. V. ALLEN SOLE AGENT FOR BAKER'S BARRINGTON HALL STEEL- CUT COFFEE, 40c PER CAN. PHONES-711 AND 3871 BRANCH PHONE-713 X Oliver H. P. Belmont Not Expected to Live XF.W YORK, June 4. With his family at his bedside, O, II. I'. Belmont was hovering between life ami death late tonight. After an operation for nppendicitis was jterfornied this noon, Belmont de veloped perontonitis and sank so rapidly that it was feared he would not survive the night. Although they would not say that hope has been abandoned, his physicians admitted his condition very precar ious. Belmont's illness dates from Tuesday of this week when his fainiy physician found him in such a serious condition that consul tation was speedily called. Largest, best, most thorough and up-to-date Business Collet west of the Mississippi River, Three times many tails for help as can fill. Graduates all employed. Elicit teacher is tin expert in his line and has had ACTUAL HL'SINIiSS experience. If interested call or write for catalogue "A." I. M. WALKER, President. 0. A. BOSSERMAN, Secretary. STAND FOR SOMETHING ALLEGED BURGLAR CAUGHT. OLYMPIA, Wash., June 4.Gov ernor Mead has honored the requisi tion of the Governor of Massachu setts for John Andrew, who is under airest at Seattle for alleged whole sale forgeries while treasurer of the North Shore Electric Company at Beverly and Gloucester, Mass., last February. Governor Mead has issued a requisition on West Virginia for George Wyatt, who is under arrest at Tilkins, that state, and is wanted for the alleged burglary, November 25, 1907, of Albert Topett's jewelry store at Doty, Lewis County, where $300 worth of goods were stolen. number have been thrown from their foundations. A further rise of one foot will sweep half the town down the river, Stites is a railroad town of KMX) people, located at the Clear water terminal of the Northern Ta- cit'ic Railroad. The damage by water is impossible to determine at thi time, but is known to aggregate many thousand dollars. The flood waters reached Lewiston shortly before noon, and the river is now rising at the rate of six inches an hour. CAUGHT CREMATION IDEA. Burned Body of Murdered Husband Week After Learning Method. FIRST TWELFTH GRADE. WOODBURN, Or., June 4.-The first high school senior graduating class held commencement exercises Jn the M. E. Church last evening. The church was decorated with roses in the red and white class color and was filed with the friends of the cause of education. The address to the class was by Charles V. Galoway, of Sal em, who took the place of President P. L. Campbell, U. of O., who was on the program but unable to be present. The diplomas were presented to the members of the 1908 class by Colonel John M. Poorman, of the board of directors. The graduates were Miss Mabel Livesay, Ray McKinney, Chas. Randall and James Hendrichs. A re ception and banquet by the junior ligh school class to the seniors fol lowed. Woodburn has one of the lest high schools in the state under the superintendency of Professor 'Albert Frost, assisted by Miss Jlaude E. McKinney, W. M. Sanders, J., and Miss Jennie Jackson. i WOMAN FOUND HANGING. APPLETON, Wis., June 4.-The lifeless body of Mrs. Minnie Grunert was found in a sitting position in a closet at her home last night. A small cord circling her neck and at tached to a hat rack had apparently caused strangulation. District Attor ney Roiney is of the opinion that she was murdered. Paul Krause, from whom Mrs. Grunert was divorced a few weeks ago, is in jail here await infi trial on a charge of having fired lis wife's home. For several weeks lie had been out on $1500 bail, but last evening his bondsmen recalled the bail bond and Krause was replaced in jail. Two hours after Krause was again in jail the lifeless body of his former wife was discovered. SEATTLE, June 4.-Mrs. Made line King, of Olalla, now in the coun ty jail here, charged with the mur der of her husband, Edward King, and admitting that she burned his body, and had never heard of crema tion as a means of disposing of hu man remains until a fortnight ago. She was visiting her daughter, Mrs. Anna Marie Fisher, of West Seattle, when a neighbor brought up the sub ject of cremation. "Do they really burn bodies in stead of burying them?" she asked, and when assured of the fact, eager ly asked concerning the details of incineration. f It was a little more than a weel? later that she almost completely de stroyed the body of her husband by building a funeral pyre alongside her little cabin in the woods. So thor ough was her work that an ounce to bacco box now holds all the ashes and pieces of charred bone that the officers have been able to find. John E. Green, justice of the peace for Olalla precinct, and other officers who have investigated the death of Edward King, say this is the manner in which the old man met his death, and they believe that the crime was premeditated. fONTAINBLEAU BEAUTIFUL, woods of Fontainbleau. Otis Skinner. whom he has drawn as "Philippe Hridau" in "The Honor of the Family." ROSEBURG SHIPS 12 CRATES. Two Thousand Boutonnieres Will be Given While They Last ROSEBURG, Or., June 4-Twclve large crates of beautiful roses and about 2000 individual roses prepared for boutonnaires were shipped from this city to Portland last night for display and distribution during the rose festival. The two crates con taining the more choice flowers will Otis Skinner In The Honor Of The Family. There is a line st retch of woodland near Fontainbleatr perfect for picnic ing or for those snddenlly planned ex cursions that break up the monotony of home or of hotel. It is an aspect of that part of France that, with the halo of romance that history has cast over the very name of the place vasny neigntens its value lor an American of any imagination. And Fontainbleau is beloved of the French too; we think of it, cursorily, as the scene ot Josephines humiliation; they think of it as a likely place fur quieting nerves strung taut to the breaking point by the strain of living in Paris. And it is of the woods of Fontainbleau, and they are not far from the delightful little hotel of that town, that an American actor and that American actor's little daughter and her mother think ever so fondly through the dreariness of every American xvinter. Spring does not suggest to them any of the thousand and one of Nature's happenings that poet's sing of and ploughmen work by; it is only another jump of the great hand on the face of the clock of the seasons, towards the time when father and mother and daughter take passage to Cherbourg and so to Fon tainbleau. And it was on one such excursion that these three chums, having rambled deep into the recess es of the woods, came upon an artist at work upon a canvas. Such a sight always excites the liveliest curiosity. Who that was ever there of a sum mer afternoon has not cracked hi shins over and over again crawling about the garden of tthe Musce de Clugny for a sly peep at the drawing boards and perhaps at the pretty faces of the young girl artists whose youth and sprightliness so strangely contrast with the antiquity and som- breness of the prostrate art relics that serve them for models? But they are so easily irritated, these French; and so the American family would have avoided the landscapist but that he saw them and smiled and politeness seemed the better part of curiosity. "I may not seem so, but 1 am a com patriot of yours," said the artist, get ting up from his camp stool and speaking excellent English. "I am Victor Ilecht. I got my training in the schools of Paris, but I was born in your country." "I am Otis Skin ner," said the American "Mrs, Skin ner and my daughter." That was A DELIGHTFUL SUMMER DISH. "A chaudfroid of salmon is suitable for the piece de resistance of a dinner or luncheon during the warm season", says Fannie M;rrit Farmer in Wo man's Home Companion for June. "Take the contents of one can of salmon or equal weight in cold boiled lish, remove skin and bones, and sep arate in (lakes. If the canned pro duct is used, first rinse very thorough ly with hot water. Mix one table spoonful of flour, one half tablespoon ful of salt, one tcaspoonful of mustard and a few grains of cayenne. Add one egg slightly beaten, one and one half tahlfopoonful of incited butter, three t.ihlespoonful ,f vinegar and three fourths of a cupful of milk. k over hot water until the mix ture thickens like a soft custard, stir ring constantly at firt and afterward occasionally. Remove from the range and add three fourths of a tablespoon ful of granulated geletine soaked in two table spoonfuls of cold water. Strain the mixture, add to the fish, and turn into individual molds or a brick mold. Chill thoroughly, and remove from the mold or molds to a serving dish. If I mold the mixture for individual service 1 usually sur round the portions with cucumber sauce and garnish each with a slice of cucumber. If I have a large mold I arrange it on a bed of lettuce and serve with frozen horseradish sauce." SLOVENLY MENTAL HABITS. be presented to the King and Queen j some years back. Hecht was just of the festival. Of the balance in ! come out of an art school he had yet bulk, a large portion will be exhibit-1 to find his metier; he was in the full ed inone of the street windows en, flush of rebellious, overweening youth Meier & Frank's establishment, while ' and was for out-Turnering Turner, the remander will bc arranged in huge Not long afterwards he found his bouquets and placed in the leading j forte by study, by a touch of the hotels. Every rose thus distributed j divine spark and by industry; and it and every exhibit will have attached turned out to be, not attempting with a ribbon bearing the word "Rose- j pigments a rivalry with nature "in her burg", together with a few other wildest moments," but portrait paint- words of advertisement. Upon the ing, notable for a singularly happy arrivel in Portland, the roses will be touch and refinement of composition. taken in charge by a committee ot His finest canvas has just been com it is of an - HIGH WATER IN IDAHO. LEWISTON, Idaho, June 4.-The town of Stites, located on the Clear water River, 70 miles above Lewiston, is swept by a flood today as the re sult of continued warm rain tor the past 48 hours. The business and resi dence sections are practically vacat ed, and a raging torrent four feet , the lady "boosters' club" of Roseburg, pletcd and exhibited Ieep is rushing through the streets, to whom credit is due for the origin American, an American actor, his Buildings are badly flooded and a i of such a clever advertising scheme, chance acquaintance met in the t 1 """.""gggBgg" MVM M lii It rt, -it jr fTL. Grand Prize, Reo Automobile, to be Given Away by MORNING ASTORIAN in Popular Contest. See Page 16 For Special Offer Next Week. The normal mind acts under law. The medial faculties will not give up their best unless they are marshaled by system. They respond cordially to order, but they rebel against slip shod methods. They are like soldiers. They must have a leader, a general who enforces order, method. The majority of people get very little out of their brains because they never learn to think systematically. Their minds are like some country stores where everything is jumbled up. there is no order or method anywhere. They browse, or cogitate, but they do not foctiss their minds and conduct their mental processes with order. Slovenly mental habits will destroy the finest minds. The strength and persistency of our habitual thought-force measure our efficiency. The habitual thought-force in many people is so feeble and spas modic that they cannot focus their minds with sufficient vigor to accom plish much. We can quickly tell the first time we meet a person whether his thought force is strong or weak, for every sentence he utters will partake of its quality. 1 he person who has a negative thought-force betrays his lack of strength in his every word. His language is weak, has no gripping quality. But the man with a vigorous men tality takes right hold of you, grips your mind with every sentence. His power thrills you, and you feel im mediately that you are in the pres ence of a strong personality. It is positive, the aggressive thought that creates, that invents. The negative thought is always weak Success Magazine. The greatest thing that can be said of a man, no matter how much he ha achieved, is that he has kept his rec ord clean. Why is it that, in spite of the rav ages of time, the reputation of l.in coin grows larger and his character means more to the world every year? It is because he kept his record clean and never prostituted his ability nor gambled with his reputation. Where, in all history, is there an example of a man who was merely rich, no matter how great his wealth who exerted such n power for good who has such a living force in civilian tion, as this poor backwoods boy What a powerful illustration of the fact that character is the greatest force in the world I A man assumes importance and be comes a power in the world just us oou as it is found that he stands for something; that be is not for sale; that he will inn lease tits inanhooi lor salary, or fur any amount of money, or for any influence or posi tion; that he will not lend his name to anything which he cannot indorse. The trouble with so many men to day is that they do not stand for any thing outside their vocation. They may be well educated, well up in their specialties, may have a lot of expert knowledge, but they cannot be de penned upon, i here is some Haw in them which take the edge off their virtue. They may be fairly honest but you cannot bank on them. It is not difficult to find a lawyer or a physician who know a good deal who is eminent in his profession; but it is not easy to find one who is a man before he is a lawyer or a phy sician, whose name is a synonym for all that is clean, reliable, solid, sub stantial. It is not difficult to find a good preacher; but it is not easy to find a real man , sterling manhood, back of the sermon. It is easy to find successful merchants, but not so easy to find men who put character above merchandise. What the world Vants is men who have principle underlying their espertuess, principle under their law, their medicine, their business: men who stand for something out side of their offices ami stores; who stand for something in their com munity, whose very presence carries weight. Success Magazine. residences in the country have been built of blocks, and not blocks pro duced In fantastic or intricate shape, but an honest and severely Uii unit that has answered every purpose when treated frankly, And in the matter of monolithic walls there has been a return to common ense n opposed to strained or bizarre theat incut, To sum up the situation, architects and builders are going right ahrad with concrete house con struction producing admirable rcult in every sense of the word, ami mat ters have now reached the point where sonic insist that even the first cost of concrete may be brought down below that of wood, brick or stone, A HOME-MADE PARASOL CASE. x, For a pretty and useful umbrella or parasol cae, cut a piece of cardboard one yard long and seven inches wide. Cover one third of it on one tide with a pretty paiterned chintz of cretonne, and the rest with plain sateen of a harmonizing color. For tthe ocket, cut a piece of the chintz about thirty two inches long and eighteen inches wide; turn down a hem two and one half inches wide at one end, and put in a piece of elastic nine inches long just below the hem. Gather the lower end of the chintz, and sew it and the sides neatly to the cardboard. Trim the top of the back, which stands above the pocket, with a ruche f ribbon or lace. Finish the bottom of the case with a twist of ribbon and a bow at one side, put a bow of rib- ion at each comer of the top, and add a loop with a bow, by which to hang up the case. Put another twist if ribbon finished with a bow across the pocket just below thte frill where he elastic is run. Chiffon and lace trimmed parasols, which should be carefully kept from the dust, are safelv and flnimtv housed" in one of these useful cases. Woman's Home Companion. ROSE STAHL SUGGESTS RULES. "WHAT'S IN A NAME?" "What's your name, sir?" "Wood." "What's your wife's name?" "Wood, of course." "H-m; both wood. A-ah, any kind ling?" Success Magazine CONCRETE HOUSES In a preface to its annual house building number Cement Age says that during the past year considerable progress has been made in the design and construction of concrete houses. Twelve months ago there were many concrete block houses, a few mono lithic houses of moderate cost, with here and there a costly mansion of solid concrete. To-day there are countless block houses and a vast number of monolithic houses rang ing in cost from three or four thous and dollars to hundreds of thousands. Architects everywhere are thorough ly interested ill concrete and its pos sibilities and the result in manifest in recent improvements in design, which has included the block house as well as the more costly and pre tentious monolithic structure. One noticeable feature is the increasing use of cement stucco. There is prom ise that this process will eventually be applied to cheaper houses with great success. Another noteworthy feature is thte discovery of the fact that in a number of instances con crete houses which at first admitted moisture freely have become water proof with time. This is a more im portant consideration than would ap pear at first thought, for dampness in concrete walls has been, the chief objection cited by the opponents of concrete. With the use of a reliable waterproohng compound to start with, wc are likely to hear less and less of damp walls. Another pleas An anxious friend wrote to Rose Stahl recently asking for a few rules that would help preserve her com plexion as successfully as actresses do. Miss Stahl replied in part as follows: "Always remove the face before re tiring, but be sure to place it where it can be easily found in case of fire. "Never use cosmetics they are in jurious to the skin. "Before going out use simply a little rouge for the cheeks, blue pencil for the eyes, a good lip rouge, and , then brush the face ove lightly with, any good face power. "Never drink tea and coffee at the same time; and never eat poached eggs while running fast. ''Ingestion is one of the most fre quent causes of a bad complexion." PRESERVING PROPRIETIES A traveler in the mountains of Tennessee had been stowed away in the best bed the cottage afforded. Late in the night he was awakened bp the voice of the paterfamilias ad dressed to the daughter, who was entertaining company by the fireside. "Mandy," growled the old man, "is that young man there yit?" "Yep, pap," "Is he got his arm around yer waist?" "Yep, pap." "You-all tell him to take't away." "Aw, ye tell him ycrself, pap," re plied the girl, in a dull, lifeless voice. "He air a plumb stranger to me." Success Magazine. Illur fcatlirr, of recent tirnarpua is flip Subcribe for the Morning Astorian, distinct advance made in the use of concrete blocks. Some of the finest 60 cents a r..oi;th. grind Cores Biliousness, Sick' Headache, Sour Stom ach, Torpid Liver and Chronic Constipation. 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