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Oregon Probably showers; slight
ly coier.
BULGARIA
The population of Turkey in Eu
rope is a little over 6,000,000 and that
of Bulgaria nearly 4,000,000. Of the
nearly 4,000,000 Bulgarians but about
half a million are Turks. The Govern
ment of Bulgaria has long been whol
ly independent of Turkey, but by the
treaty of Berlin it pays to Turkey an
annual tribute. Why it should pay
tribute is hard to explain. Infact, the
only reason why it should do so is
that the European Congress of Ber
lin .following the last Russo Turkish
war, said it must pay it. For that mon
ey Bulgaria gets nothing, for the Tur
kish Government has neither the de
sire nor the ability to give anything
whatever in return for the money.
Bulgarians hate Turks and Turks
hate Bulgarians. And no more tri
bute wil be paid. , It is not possible
for Turkey to coerce Bulgaria, and
the feeling is such that the Bulgar
ians are aching to have Turkey at
tempt coercion.
Of course, it is unfortunate that
these things should happen while the
Young Turkish patriots are trying to
create a decent government for their
country, but Bulgaria is for Bulgaria
and Austria-Hungary is. also for it
self, and this transition period is just
the chance they were both waiting
for, when Turkey is least able to of
fer resistance and there is ao agree
ment whatever among the great pow
ers. In neither case will there be
any noticeable change in political re
lations. Bosnia and Herzegovina
will be governed as a province of
Austria-Hungary, instead of by the
Emperor-King as a separate and au
tonomous district. Bulgaria will stop
paying tribute. That is about all
there is of it, and it looks as if "Eu
rope" would scowl and make the best
of it.
in 1896 when he made his memorable
campaign for free silver. They are as
wide apart on this question as are the
poles of the earth. These two recog
nized leaders of the two great politi
cal parties have no views in common
on any of the old issues, nor have
they anything in common in their
views on the Philippines. And on the
latest issue of Mr. Bryan's they are
just as far apart as was Abraham
Lincoln and Jefferson Davis back in
1861.
ROOSEVELT AND BRYAN.
The efforts of the demc era tic press to
couple the names of President Roose
velt and Wm. J. Bryan is about as
successful as that of a few years ago
to couple Mr. Bryan's name with that
of Senator Ben Tillman. Mr. Bryan
encourages this effort by compliment
ing President Roosevelt and asserting
that the President stands for the
Democratic platform and policies.
But there is no excuse for misunder
standing the positions of either Presi
dent Roosevelt or Mr. Bryan. They
have both been very free in expres
sing their views on all public questi
ons and their expressions are public
property. On the tariff the Presi
dent has expressed himself unquali
fiedly as a Protectionist, and said that
the tariff should not be revised until
revision would do more good than
harm to the great interests of this
country. It should then be. revised
in harmony with the protective pnn
ciple. ' i'PllH
Mr. Bryan is one of the most rad
ical opponents of protection. He de
clares that protection is robbery and
that, the tariff should be for revenue
only, There is no more harmony be
tween Roosevelt and Bryan on the
tariff than there is between Speaker
Cannon and John Sharpe Williams,
or than there was between Wm. Mc
Kinley and Wm, D. Wilson, who was
an open advocate of free trade. .
There is the same, radical disagree
ment between President Roosevelt
and Mr. Bryan on the money ques
tion. The President is just as staunch
an advocate of the gold standard as
was President' McKinley, and Mr.
Bryan still believes that he was right
The cheapest things are often the
dearest.
Time flies, and no airship has been
able to beat it.
The poorer a man is the more he
favors an income tax.
If there is any knocking to be done
let opportunity do it.
Some men sit on others while try
ing to stand up for themselves
Keep an eye on your friends; you
know what to expect of your enemies.
Much of a man's interest in a wo
man is due to his inability to under
stand, her.'
, It is easier for the tailor to meas
ure a man than it is for him to meas
ure his bank balance.
Mischief in your own children would
be downright wickedness in the chil
dren of your- neighbor. ;
If a young man shows a decided
bent to get rid of his money it won't
take him very long to go broke.
A woman should never marry a
man to reform him until she can make
a satisfactory omelet out of bad eggs.
When a woman has occasion to vis
it her poor relations she always likes
to talk about the trouble she has with
her hired girl.
COFFEIT
Your grocer must sell
roor coffee; we can't all
be 'comfortable; but he
needn't sell it to you.
Tor f roer return rear oey II jot
n ScUIUbc's Bt; w par Urn.
NEW YORK LETTER
NEW YORK, Oct. lO.-With half
a cozen private detective agencies
and the police sifting every clue on
the face of Manhattan today, it is ex
pected that one of the most bold and
clever gangs of letter-file thieves
will be exposed before the end of the
present campaign. Preying upon the
private documents of what they con
sider big game in the present politi
cal crisis, an aggregation of the most
expert crooks of the country are as
serted by the detectives to have un
derway at the present moment a gi
gantic plot of burglary and blackmail.
1u the mysterious machinations of
these daring operators the investiga
tors are to-day laying the blame for
the present rifling of the letter files
in one political headquarters as well
as other conspicuous losses of the
correspondence of corporations. For
years the police have had an eye on
a particularly clever clique in the
underworld which followed this very
method in-non-political fields. To-day
they declare they will track and break
it up at all hazards. Should they suc
ceed, everybody in town is eagerly
awaiting developments. . '
BALEFUL BIRDS.
'., Scarcely less grave than the prob
lems of handling this harbor's sweep
ing, influx of immigrants is the ques
tion of dealing with the alien host of
sparrows wheh is numbering many
mllions as it settles down upon the
streets and parks of the metropolis
today for the winter season. Half a
century ago a handful of House Spar
rows, imported from England, were
let loose in one of Gotham's church
yards, the ; only representatives of
their race. To-day the descendants
of these baleful birds have taken pos
session of every outdoor inch of the
island, driving the native songsters
from their field of usefulness and
stunting and defiling every growth of
the city's rare vegitation. New York
has fdund no use for the English '
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Ever Held in Astoria
The Workingmen's Store
Is the Place
For Genuine Real Bargains in
...Clothing, Furnishings and Shoes...
bd'r rr- r?i..
Greatest reduction on seasonable goods ever offered in A sloria. Read this li& and
come at once or you will regret it ' o -
$4.50 Mackinaw Coats ,
$4.00 Mackinaw Coats
$4.50 Mackinaw Pants ,
$4.00 Wool Pants .....
$3.50 Wool Pants
$2.75 Wool Pants
$2.50 Wool Pants
$3.00 Sweaters .
$2.00 Sweaters
$1.25 Sweaters
$3.50 Sweater Coats . .
$3.00 Sweater Shirts . .
.50 Woolen Soxs
.25 Woolen Soxs ....
$3.00 Flannel .Shirts ...
$2.50 Flannel Shirts ...
$2.00 Flannel Shirts . . .
,..$3.50
...$3.00
...$3.50
,..$3.00
,..$2.50
...$2.00
...$1.75
...$2.25
...$1.00
,.. .75
...$2.75
,..$2.25
... .35
.20
,..$125
,..$1.85
,..$1.50
$2.00 Dress Shirts
$1.50 Dress Shirts
$1.00 Dress Shirts
.75 Work Shirts
.50 Work Shirts
$1.25 SUk Front Shirts
.75 Shirts .
Men's $5.00 Dress Shoes....
Men's $4.50 Dress Shoes. . . .
Men's $4.00 Dress Shoes...
Men's $3.50 Dress Shoes....
Men's $3X0 Dress Shoes....
$7.00 Logger's Shoes
$6.50 Logger's Shoes
$6.00 Logger's Shoes
$4.00 Working Shoes
$3.00 Working Shoes .... ..
....$1.50
....$1.15
.75
.... .50
.... .40
.... .75
.... .40
....$3.50
....$35
....$3.00
....$2.65
....$2.25
....$5.50
....$5.00
..'..$4.75
....$3.00
....$2.25
Men's $8.00 Rubber Boots $5.00
Long Yellow Oil Costs $2.00
Three-fourths Yellow Oil Costs.. $1.75
$4.00 Suit, Scotch Wool Under- .
wear No. 17 $3.30
$4.00 Suit, Winsted Under-
i wesr $3.00
$3.50 Suit, Wool Under-
; wear , . $2.50
$3X0 Suit, Wool Under-
t; ; wear .....$2.25
$2.50 Suit, Wool Under-
' wear . $1.75
$1.00 Suit, Cotton Underwear... .80
25 PER CENT OFF ON ALL
SUITS, PANTS, HATS,
TRUNKS AND SUITCASES
Tine WorMn'mem's Store
Chas. Larson, Prop. Next to Ross, Higgins & Co.
Sparrow and is mourning the loss of
the good American breeds which he
has ruthlessly driven away. To teach
every citizen to know and value his
own sparrows and other birds the
National Association of Audubon So
cieties has just begun a wide cam
paign of education from this city.
Every dweller in this metropolis ov
erridden by the foreign pests is in
terested in this latest movement of
the tireless Audubon workers. '
GOUGING GAMBLERS.
Tight in the toils of a, sweeping
crusade aginst gambling houses, the
professional gamesters of this town
are to-day wriggling to evade the po
lice on the one hand and the probers
of the police on the other. Not since
the days of the Committee of Fifteen
and the Jerome slidge-hammer raids
has the tenderloin, been so stirred
along these highways whfre bars and
bolts and bargaining wuh the blue
coats have protectcda wld whirl of
gambling all summer.'1 Bingham and
Jerome are grinding hard and fast
as upper and nether millstones be
tween which it will ko hard with a
crooked commander of precincts
where the law has been lax'y enforc
ed. The men behind the many pala
ces of chunce have heaped a fine har-
lily.' Ml mfrJ? WmMfhm
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IS
vent since spring and the whirl of the
wheel kai reached everyone who rai
sed through scores of side streets.
The broken bookmaker has been dri
ven to the green cloth for a liveli
hood and swelled the list of practis
ing gamblers. Altogether it is con
sidered high time that this hising
scandal be stopped and that the pro
tecting police bo made the victims
instead of the confiding players.
SPINAL SPECULATION.
About the tiny torso of little Mr.
Harriman the eyes of all New York
arc focusing to-day. As hang the
siim' of the puny magnate, so, it
would appear, hangs the wagging of
the money world. At the hint of a
knot in the Harriman opinal chord,
stocks sagged in sympathy the other
day, while their course now holds ac
cording to the various denials or con
firmations of the original story of the
malady of the diminutive, financier.
As Harriman is always hid to the eyes
of the general public here, his present
eondition is still a mystery. Just now
the crippled limbs of a couple of base
ball players share public interest with
the plight of Harriman. Whether the
Giants of the Wall Street League can
play the game with a disabled star as
handily as the baseball nine remains
to be seen.
PUMPKIN PIES.
Twenty thousand golden pumpkin
pies have each day begun to slip down
some hundred thousand throats
throughout Gotham and the real nest
of the fall season has at .last laid
hold of New Yorkers, The fac.t estab
lished by figures, that one person in
forty eats a piece of pumpkin pie ev
ery day in this town is not astonish
ing to the observing, who have watch
ed the rural tidbit find its way into ;
the heart of the city-dweller during
the last dozen years. To-day these
yellow orbs of lusciousness out-nttni-ber,
five to one, the apple, mince and
cocoanut confections on the shelves
of bakery, lunch room and kitchen:
Most metropolitans have memories of
the real luxuries of. the country and
among these pumpkin pic stands first.
HERE'S HOPING THAT THIS
THE LAST JUG.
Fifty Years a Blacksmith. ,
Samuel R. Worley of Hixburg, Va.,
has been shoeing . horses for more
than SO years. He says: , "Chamber
lain's Pain Balm has given me great
relief from lame back and rhcuma-
'tism. It is the best liniment I ever
used." For sale by Frank Hart and
leading druggists.
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