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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1908)
TUESDAY, SEPT. 1 ANERUFT THE MORNING ASTOIUAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. u - in. ii . y.j.ai?JLPW'':'" . ..-I IT""''" ".'"':i.'J . .i , .,, . . ., . Wm ' i I . . T-Tfc 111 Great Bargains Iron beds. All colors and sizes. mil . r F . 'fill WfJ I IP RockersIn golden oak, mahogany and weathered oak and mission de signs. Heaters Its near the season for heaters. A complete line air-tight coal and wood. Also a few "steel ranges and cook stoves left. Come early. Of the Furniture Stock of : " CHAS. HEILBORN & CO. Second week of great closing out sale for less than ' FACTORY COST ' COME EARLY- Doors open 8 o'clock This morning Complete line of granite and tin ware, also import ed quadruple coated pyrolitate ware. These are great bargains. Dining Table In golden oak and mission designs. Carpets Liheoleum Shades Bed Covers Bolder Rolls Dreams In mahogany, buckeye maple, golden oak. Lace Curtains, Portieri, Couch Covers and Curtain Rods. iMMiiig jjjj ,1 1 " 1 1 m Morrii Chairs ! n mahogany gol den oak and miftnion design. ' RESIDENTS OF UNION TOWN GET BLACK HAND LETTERS (Continued from page 1) of the men lying in wait for him, can not be krown. The letters have be: : turned over to the postal department and every effort will be made to arrest the mis creant. Several months ago Mr. Thorndyke, editor of the weekly Leader, received a similar missive. A well known business man also found one in his mail. It is also said that a young lady residing in Uniontown re ceived a series of letters about a year ago, all of a blackmailing nature. The following is a copy of the let ter received by Daniel Hannula: Astoria, Oreg., Ang. 25th. A Draft For $600 Read this carefully, because your life depends on this. We are a por tion of a large gang of robbers who part of whom are out west at present. We have decided in our meeting, and our commander-in-chief has ordered that we will not rob directly, but send ' a demand to persons who have money ! to handle. In this way we can save niimi lifttti fii(iiTia illlArtl i 11 r tScn Bairingtoarlall Is just pure Mocha and Java prepared in a new way. - The cof fee berry is cut up (not ground) by knives of almost razor sharp ness into small uniform particles, Thus it is not crushed, as by the old method of grinding, and the little oil cells remain unbroken. The essential oil (food product) cannot evaporate and is preserved indefinitely. This is one reason why a pound of Barrington Hall will make IS to 20 cups more of full strength coffee than will any coffee ground the old way; why it excels all other coffee in flavor and why it will keep perfectly until used. But the main thing about Barr ington Hall Coffee is that it can be used without ill effect by; those who find ordinary coffee injures them, because the yellow tannin bearing skin and dust (the only injurious properties of coffee) are removed by the "steel-cut" pro cess. A delicious coffee, not a tasteless substitute. Price, per pound, 40 CENTS FOR SALE BY A, V. ALLEN STUDY THE FORESTS. Thirty-nine Young Graduates Have Received Appointments. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Thirty nine young graduates of nine Ameri can Forest Schools have lately receiv ed appointments as Forest Assistant's in the Forest Service and have been assigned to positions for the present field season. The new appointees are drawn from the various Forest Schools as follows: Yale, 18; Biltmorc, 5; University of Minnesota, 4; Univer sity of Michigan, 4; Michigan Agri cultural College, 3; Harvard, 2; Cor- not concerned, and obtain from each nell, 1; University of Iowa, 1, and Un according to his means. We demand iversity of Nebraska, 1. They have from you also $600 in gold. Go to the ' secured .their appointments as a rc Uniontown church, feel under the left ' suit of passing the regular Civil Ser end of the first step and you will find vice examination, which is the Only a can marked "right here," place the avenue to employment as a forester $600 in gold in it so it will be there on under the Govrnmnt. In addition to the evening of the 28th of this month,' these graduates of Forest Schools, at 10 o'clock. . If you do not do this fifteen other candidates passed the ex- j you will soon disappear from the amination. ! stage. You can not live two months j Twenty-two of the new appointees 'after, no matter where you go, be-! are already atwork on various Na ' cause we have each pledged our lives tional Forests, taking parting in this that all our demands shall be fulfilled, administration, and seventeen have and hundreds have already obeyed us been assigned to different projects ; quietly and have escaped from us. connected with the technical study of Our gang is powerful, it is the strong-J silviculture. Forest Assistants are I est of its kind in the world. There is : men who have completed their preli ;3(X'0 men in this occupation. Six of j minary training for the profession of Uis Finns joined last winter, and now ; forestry, as the graduates of a law or were appointed to the portion ! medical school have completed theirs, ' that was sent here. I write to you in J and are ready to enter on practical Finnish so that you will understand j work. Until they have gained exper bettcr without any help, because it is j ience in their work, however, their decidedly dangerous to inform any one of our doings, that is, if you wish to preserve your life. Therefore do I must prove their fitness 'in order to positions arc necessarily subordinate. They are at the foot of the ladder and xactly as we direct, without hesita tion and you are the luckiest man in the world. If you will not obey us, ,we will send you to eternity as a warning to others, and we will honor your memory as that of a stubborn man, as we are ourselves and also our own dead. I have now explained this briefly and. think that you under ' stand this correctly, therefore we wish j you luck and long life, but first do ex actly as we direct. : NEW YORK, Aug. 31.The Trust Company of American upon which the sensational run precipated during the financial panic of 1907 has man aged its business so successfully that 'it was enabled to pay of the loan of .$25,000,000, which it then effected in its entirety. mount higher. The Government pays them $1,000 a year at the start. On the National Forests the Forest Assistant often acts as adviser to the Supervisors in charge, who are wes tern men experienced in afl practical matters, but usually without school training in the science of forestry. Of they may be assigned to the study of some particular problem which needs to be investigated in the interest of good forest management. As forestry means knowing how to get the most out of any given piece of forest land,' it calls for studies and experiments, both scientific and practical, much like those which have to be made in the in terest of good farm management, and the Forest Assistant is.prepared to do valuable work along this line. " There is a growing interest in the profession of forestry now, and many young men are asking how to get in to it and what it promises. Gifford Pinchot, the Government Forester, has lately written on this subject: ' "To be ? good forester a man should combine something of the naturalist with a good deal of the business man. To know how to use the forest he must be able to study it. ,11c must have, therefore, the power of obser vation, a fondness for nature, and the ability to penetrate her secrets. But if he is to succeed he must also have good practical judgment and the abil ity to meet and handle men. He must be resourceful, able to stand by him self, willing to undergo the privations of rough life, and capable of comman ding the respect of rough men, who quickly recognize virility and genuine ness of character, but will not toler ate pretense of the assumption of su periority. A forester needs a vigor ous mind in a vigorous body. He must be of the kind that likes to get things done, and does not give up when things are not going his way. He will have to face difficulties and work out problems far from outside help, relying solely upon himself. He ought to be hard to whip." "The professional forester cannot hope for big fees and certain pleasant surroundings of life which crown di tinguished success in some other pro fessions. The first prizes which are bestowed upon the great lawyer, the eminent physician, are not yet open to him. He must be content without much luxury, he will have to spend a good deafof time out of reach of the ordinary comforts. He must be able and willing to rough it without com plaint to sleep on hard beds, eat home ly fare, endure prolonged exertiorf and get along with plain people. On the other hand, if he is at all fitted for his profession-ami -a few weeks of actual forest work or good .summer-school work will tell him whether he is br not-there is open to him a very rich reward-life in the open, in the midst of beautiful, healthful and congenial surroundings, creative work of un matched usefulness in any material field, a place of large responsibility and dignity, and with it all a fair liv ing. If the foYestcr's temperament is scientific he will have the joy of the discoverer and organizer of know? ledge in a rich and almost virgin field, while if it be practical he wilt have the chance of sharing in a .national work of prime importance to our peo ple both now and hereafter.' MAKES GREAT SWIM. New York Man Pulls Heavy Row Boats After Him. .NEW YORK.'' Aug. 3l.Dragging two henvy rowboau containing nine people through the water after him, Julius Leek, the doorman of the De l. rcy Street police utation, swam the half mile distance from the Black well's Island light to the Cygnet Club, at the foot of Fast Wxh Street, Man hattan in 35 minutes yesterday, among fell excitement among his fellow' numbers, the passengers of the boay and a crowd of five hundred specta tors in Fast River park. The tow rope was tied over his left nd tinder his right shouldet. He swam the English side stroke, pushing ahead, his left shoulder submerged ev ery time he took a- stroke with his right arm. Until his tows slowly ga thered momentum, their dead weight of almost 2000 pounds pttllcd him back every time he took a stroke forward and the tow rope wore a red bruise through the shoulder of his jersey long before he got through. ' ' 1 J X I J 1 1 "' jv . - -. u ' 1 1 til''. -if ''! :-J !. 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