WEDNESDAY, DECKMBBR 16
THE MOitXG ASTUIUAN. ASTOlti; OttKGON.
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Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879..
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THE.WEATHER
Oregon, Washington and Idaho
Rain. ,
WHAT IT ALL MEANS.
nu . .u in Attorii who I
have held, and ottered, the conclusion J
that the Morning Astorian has-been
actuated by a mere, momentary po
litical spirit in the candid course it
pursued throughout the recent mu
nicipal election; that it had no other
meant at hand to make an impres
sion on the public mind, other than
by dealing with the more potently
disagreeable facta of her public obli
gations; that there was really noth
ing "in it"; that it would not have
been resorted to, except to arouse a
defensive sense of insecurity and
force the consideration of other men
and measures. All of which is folly.
The Morning Astorian has known
the inexpediency of advertising the
city to the world in this relation, as
a newspaper policy; it has the sense
of its day and age and position. It
had no liking for the plan; but it used
ft in the largest and best interest a
newspaper is compelled to use it
for the common safety. It has never
pleaded the peril of the city in a
financial way; it has wrought against
a system of recklessness that must
have forced that limit sooner or later;
and St intends to keep on, until there
is a radical change in the policies of
the local government; the more so
that now it has some sort of equal
advantage on the "official floor," with
the men whom it contended against.
And before it has finished the fight,
h will be seen that many another
good citizen is squarely behind the
program. There are things to be
looked into; to be explained; to be
adjusted and accounted for; and t
does not hesitate to say that this
work will be done in behalf of those
mhn tisv hrlit th rrcnnnsihilitv. aidea. Keen it ffoine: endorse it fully
well as for those who have footed and set an example worthy of it, for
the bills; it has no accusations toit is worth any example that can be
There is Only One
"BponiQ Quinine"
Thai is
Laxative Brome Quinine
USED THE WORLD OVER TO CURE A COLO III DUE DAT.
Always remember the full name. Look
for this signature on every box. 25c.
wwhhimhi i
To be given away at the
.... BAKERONIAN ....
CHRISTMAS MATINEE
Every lady and child attending the matinee from now to Christmas
will be given a coupon which will entitle them to a drawing on a
free present. The presents will be displayed in the show window
of the Bee Hive Store on Commercial street. Specie! matinee prizes
for children from now till Christmas, Sc. Who are the lucky ones?
ATMurtccTrtM m rF.NTS SEATS FREE
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VICTOR OR AN EDISON
PHONOGRAPH
-)GO TO(-
Johnson Plionogra
Parlors Second Floor Over
Cures Biliousness, Sick
Headache, Sour Stom-
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Chronic Constipation.
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THE J. S. DEIXINGER CO.
.60
make, and hopes it may ever have
any; it can make its exceptions quite
as readily and clearly as most other
citizens and will make them, but they
will not include the "nigger in the
woodpile." He is the particular ob
ject of interest with many of Astoria's
citizens and the paper sunns ,
and for, all citirens, m such a premu
as is believed to exist
THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT.
The holiday season is upon us. It
spirit of goodwill and affection, and
iU best impulses toward charity, are
waking everywhere. Astoria, with its
myriads of little people (always the
prime objective of such a season of
gift-making and comfort-dealing) is
peculiarly amenable to the operation
of this, the most humane and grate
ful of all nr laws and customs. Day
Ty day the largess of the Christmas
hoar will expand and grow, untir it
blooms far and wide and happily.
It is said that the circulating, cold,
exacting money-spirit of the day has
robbed the beautiful cult of its primal
and essential effect; but that has been
' , t. - - . u . ay W. Wdl. I
saia oi ccjj uu j""
ly, with the power that it holds un-
brokenly and perpetually, it has driv
en commercialism aside and had its
own gentle and kindly way, among
all men. When the lust of money and
busines. and bargain doe. force the
old essence of the Christmas signifi
cance down and out of human so
ciety, we may be sure the millennium
is at band.
Gradually the talk of the hour turns
to eift-making; one hears it every
where and has pleasure in the sound;
is inspired to. turns his, and her, own
thought to the delightful duty and
privilege, and soon all hands of us
ill be doing our little best, or our
biggest little, for the good of some
one who we cannot forget
Don't hinder the roeress of this
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T. F. LAUREN
OWL DRUG STORE.
set, if only because of the wonderful
happiness it makes for the children.
In the opinion of the trust, the
president is not improving as a writ
er of annual messages,
The coming tariff debates will
serve to show, for one thing, how far
Missouri i gerrymandered out of the
sort 0( congressmen it majority vo'c
call for.
All that Carrie Nation ever exhib
ited in the line of hysterics is easily
surpassed by the demonstrations of
her English sisters in behalf if
woman suffrage.
France should be credited with
moral elevation in refusing Castro
the right to land. Paris seldom agrees
to exclude a visitor with several mil
lions in bis pockets.
The president omitted any men
tion of tariff in the message, lie
knows that the revision will be con
ducted by the party that docs things,
and along protective lines,
Taft received in North Carolina
114.S87 votes, or 32.445 over the
Roosevelt vote in 1904. Another pu'l
at North Carolina will land it in the
Republican column.
NEW TO-DAY
The very best board to be obtained
in the city is at "The Occident
HoteL" Rates very reasonable
The Clean Man.
The man who delights in personal
cleanliness, and enjoys his shave,
shampoo, haircut, and bath, in As
toria, always goes to the Occident
barber ahop for these thinge and
get them at their best .
Low Insurance.
Call at Van Dusen & Co., 119 11th
street, and insure your dwelling and
furnitnre. The rate is so low that
y00 ctnt affor( t0 go without insur-
A.I t .1.. L.l. ..
jance. mere nas rcceiwy
a reduction in the rates on dwellings
and their contents.
The Palace Restaurant
An? chase of hunger can be daintily
gratified at any hour of the day o.
night at the Palace Restaurant The
kitchen and dining room service are
of the positive best. Private dining
looms for ladies. One call inspires
regular custom. Try it. Commerci-'
street opposite Page building.
Try our own mixture of coffee thf
J. P. B. Fresh fruit and vegetables
Badollet & Co., grocers. Phone Mai
Clean Your Chimneys.
George Ludwig, an expert chim-
ney sweep is in tne cny ana wm
make your chimney clean and safe
from fire for $2 or two chimneys for
$3. Place your order at the Astoria
hotel or telephone Main 3521, or
leave your orders at the Astorian
office.
ANOTHER MAN FALLS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. lS.-Pay-master's
Clerk Wm. McDonough, of
the battleship Missouri, who arrived
from the Orient on the transport
Thomas was arrested yesterday for
desertion and taken in iron to the
prison ship Manila stationed at Mare
Island.
Beware of Frequent Colds.
A succession of colds or a pro
tracted cold is almost certain to end
in chronic catarrh, from which few
; persons ever wholly . recover. Give
i every cold the attention it deserves
j ind you may avoid this disagreeable
i disease. How can you cure a cold?
jWhy not try Chamberlain's Cough
'Remedy? It is highly recommend
jed. Mrs. M. White, of Butler, Tenn.,
!savs: "Several years ago I was
bothered with my throat and lungs.
Someone told me of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. 1 began using it
and it relieved me at once. Now my
throat and lungs are sound and
well.'' For sale by Frank Hart and
leading druggists.
THE KALISPEL CASE. '
KALISPEL, Mont., Dec. 15-The
jury in the case of Joe Hobbins,
charged with being an accomplice of
Fred Lebau in the murder of the Yoa
Vums, father and son, last June, came
in with a murder in the first degree
j verdict at midnight after being out
j three hours and fixed the penalty bt
I life imprisonment.
Cleanses the system
thoroughly and clears
sallow complexions of
pimples and blotches.
It is guaranteed
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John liossiter's
Christmas
Present. .
By GEORGE H. liCARD.
Copyright MW, by 0. H. rtenrd.
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II KM Allen Armltngo died.
which he did suddenly
on his sixtieth birthday,
everybody wondered wliut
would become of Janet-pretty, Irre
snousihle Jnuet. hla vounir wife. She
had been AruUtagtt'e wife- since her
eighteenth birthday. Ho had not made
up his mind to marry until be w
past fifty.
Although he vai sufficiently alert as
to the main chance In business deal
ings, Armltag bud not been marked
ly successful tn Ills venture. The
year teforo hie death he discovered a
promising tied of fire clay on a piece
of land which he ewned on the out
turn of the vlllitire. aud be made up
his mind to exploit tt to his own ad
vantage, rte bad Itttle ready money,
and he mortgaged hie real estate to
the limit to obtain the tneana to float
the enterprise. Itefore It began to
yield an appreciable return he waa
lxTonJ the need of it It was a prom
ising underuiklng-atl Crossklll admit
ted It bat that did not retrain ner
frlenda from wondering a to the prob
able future of Janet
They had not louit to speculate. The
day after the funeral Janet told Tom
Masterson. her father, who was at
least ten yen re the Junior of her late
husband, that the intended to devote
all her energies to the development of
the brickyard. Tom knew from past
experience that tt would be fruitless to
object but be did and In the courae of
the argument which followed became
so earnest in his opposition that be
was led to amilv to his dauKliter an
epithet against the ustt of which the
Scriptures are notably explicit
'I'm not a fooL" she dissented
proudly, "and now that I have a chance
I'm going to demonstrate the fact"
Janet did demonstrate it, and the
way she did It was a revelation. In
less than two Tears sfter she assumed
control of the brtckmaklng business It
became so profitable that she wss able
to pay off all the Indebtedness. Then
she proceeded to enlarge the plant and
to Improve the quality of her product
Almost before she realized it she had
a most gratifying credit at the village
hank. Owlns to tha aurierior nature
of ber product the demand for Janet's
wares became greater than sue could
supply. The man whom she employed
as aunerlntendent turned out to be a
veritable treasure, and under bis hon
est end clever management there ex
isted the most oerfect harmony be
tween the small army of Italian brick-
makers and their capable employer.
Before she was thirty-five Janet naa
become the vlllnire mairoate. Prosperi
ty and the outdoor life bad done great
things for ber. She had fleveiopea into
a noble woman, freed from the trivial
ities which bad been a part of her
girlhood and endowed with that com
pleted comeliness which is never with
in the group of the very young. So
the seemed to everybody who knew
her and inoro especially to John Rossi-
"WHY DID tOTJ, THEN T BUB DEMANDED
ILLOUiCALLX.
ter, the cashier of the village bank,
who had lovwl her since the very day
on which he might do so legitimately
and who hud told ber so as quickly
thereafter as decency would permit.
At the time Uossltcr's declaration
had not impressed Janet profoundly,
nor had she at any subsequent period
found ber persistent admirer more en
grossing than tho business of brick
making, t'nlll she should, she assured
herself and everybody clso who
broached tho subject, It would be folly
to make any clmngo In her way of liv
ing. 8he Admitted, to herself only,
that John was a man among a thou
sand, and It was not nt oil disagree
able to have him fond of her. She hnd
demonstrated, however, that she was
abundantly able to look nfter her own
Interests, and that fact nlone should
entitle her to Immunity from such n
sentimental position as that which
John seemed anxious to have her oc
cupy. She liked him well enough, but
The time enme when Janet believed
that she hated him. It was the day
when she learned that ho had Riven up
his position at the bnolt and had or-
nalwd n company for the purpose of
converting th traprock of Imke moun
tain Into gravel for commercial uses.
At llrxt she refused to credit the story.
It soemed'tsoredlblo that any one who
bad been born within the shadow of
luke mountain, tho historic landmark
which made Orossklll distinguished for
something nobler than the quality of
tt fire clay, could 1 guilty of such
vandalism.
It was true, however, and wheu Ja
uet realised fully that John Itossller
and his company had actually obtain
ed possession of the river side of the
mountain and were preparing to erect
a stone crushing plant aud to Install
an army of Sicilian diggers at the foot
of the beetling height she was shocked
aud Indignant. There was Justltteatloii
suttb-tent for her wrath. l than
two year previously she had loiight I
ploc of land ubuttlng on the moult-
tain and had built thereon a handsome
house In whli b she bad settled herself
comfortably with the assurancs that
no uncongenial neighbor could ever
harass her from the mountain side.
That the unforeseen was actually Im
minent and, above all, that John Itos
siter should be Its agent made her des
perate. She resolved that It should not
be.
S she went to htm with her ava
lanche of protests and reproKches, To
her surprise and Infinite chagrin sue
wna unable to lodge them effectively.
He listened with admirable gallantry,
but Janet Armltage realised before the
had launched a tltbe of ber argument
that John Uosslter bad mad up bis
tailnd.
"I couldn't-nobody could-have be
lieved yon capable of tneb such an
awful desecration!" she declared, with
a manifest Intention to put him on the
defensive.
'I hated to do it be confessed so
berly. "I really did."
"Why did you, thenT eh demanded
lllogh-nlly.
"I must have money." he replied sim
ply, "One needs very little in CrosskUt,"
she sld, "You certainly must need It
very much to be Jetnpted to do what
you e.Hvt. It nlust be another case
of life or death."
"Oh, hardly as bad as that!" He
laughed rather uneasily. Then hi fact
obered aud his voice became lower
and somewhat unsteady. "It might
not teem necessary to another man,
but It does to me. Shall I tell you all
about it, Janetr
"No," the returned hastily. "I must
decline to bav anytblug to do with
ucb a detestable thing."
"Then we must let It go at that," he
aid, with a quick resumption of hit
business manner. "Let It ttand that I
want money for precisely the tame
reasons that Influenca the averago
man for a steam yacht, a bouse In
Fifth avenue, a eastla In In Klllar
ney, a"-
Janet did not remain to hear fur
ther. At bay, but still nnvanqulahed,
the retired and from that day gave
herself up unrewrvedly to tne tasa or
frustrating the design of the traproek
company. The weight of public sen
timent was with ber, and the manipu
lated It in every possible manner that
ber ingenuity could suggest
Nothing was of the slightest avail.
Th hla rruxhln machinery came op
the river In sections, wa unloaded at
tie foot of the mountain and pnt to
gether and began at once it merciless
reduction of the picturesque outcrop
which had been loosened by the mighty
fulmtnatlons and sharp pickaxe of the
gang of dwarfed and noisy ralcrml
tans that had camped Just without Ja
net's lnclosure.
It was a trying period for Janet Ar
mltage. She was the most wretched
woman In Crossklll when the knew
that she should have been the happi
est She was the prey of contending
emotions. It almost crushed her to be
brought face to face with the knowl
edge that the power to make her su
premely unhappy had been delegated
to any ono. and it grieved atd humili
ated her Inexpressibly that the person
delegated should have been John Ilot
tlter. Most exasperating of all wat the
tardy conviction unwelcome, yet un
mistakable tbnt the man who bad
brought her to this extremity of dis
comfort was dearer to her than life
Itself.
All this came home to her with tre
mendous significance as she sat atone
at her dinner on Christmas day. Ev
erything seemed strangely unreal. The
season Itself was at unlike the typical
holiday time a It well could be. Thus
far there had not lodged a single snow
flake on the hemlocks to herald the ap
proach of winter. The air was toft
and balmy, and there wat a bazy lull
in It that sueeested a belated Indian
summer. The unseasonablcness of the
weather was positively dlsqnletlng. It
was Impossible to fit the Christmas
essentials into the scene.
"Open tho windows, Ileppo wide
onen!" she culled out to a half crown
boy who stood looking In on her from
the rerunda outside. "Hi positively
stifling," lieppo wa a swarthy Sicil
ian lad whom she bad rescued from
the mouutnlu gang and befriended and
who was repaying her for her protec
tion with a devotion that was almost
tragic In Its earnestness.
Ifeppo threw open the unlatched door
windows and stood In one of them in
an attitude of rapt admiration. There
was nothing at all reserved about Bep
po. Ills effusiveness was a thing to
bo dreaded and repressed. Standing
framed In the tall window, he seemed
to Jnnet to bo especially out of place
and melodramatic. It irritated her to
see him standing there, so suggestive
of an opera chorus or a trumpery Ne
apolitan fltfurlno. It was all very well,
she told herself, to have him about
Vhcn he was n starved and helpless
waif left to shift for himself, but now
really she must send him down to
the yards to see If anything could be
made of him. "
A Few Suggestions For Xmas
Ladici' and Gents' Watches, rocket Knives,
Fancy Hathroom Fixtures, , Table Knives,
Fancy Lamps, Carving Knives,
Xmas Candies, I'lated Ware,
Danquet Candles, Table Cutlery,
Thermometers, Nut Ticks and Cracks,
Revolvers and Air Rides, Chafing Dishes,
Fishing Tackle, Coffee Percolators,
Carpet Sweepers, Rasori and Raaor Sell,
Bread Makers, Scissors nd Shears,
Meat Choppers, Scissors In Casei,
Cake Mixers, Manicure Sets,
Boys' Wagons, Serving Trayi,
S o'clock Tea Kettle. Crumb Sets,
Tea Sets, Kancy Table Cutlery,
Alcohol Stoves, Berry Spoons,
Fancy Basket, of all kinds j Gravy Ladles,, ;
Thermo Bottles, ' Pocket Traveling Flasks,
Flash Lights, Shaving Mugs,
Corn Raiort, Shaving Brushes,
Watch Charms, Watch Chains,
A large assortment of the above will be found at
FOARD Q STOKES
i Cold Weather Specials ! !
' Now is the time to
of beverages for
I Vigoral Beef Tea $2.50 per jug i
Fluid beef in tubes 50c per dozen, high
grade Rock and Rye and all other stan
dard bottle goods at the most reason
able prices. :
AMERICAN IMPORTING CO.
Phone 1881. 539 Commercial St.
Importers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers
Fast Freig'ht .Service
Daily Service Via?
THE A. C. IT. R. CO.
Through merchandise Cars from Portland to Astoria
leave Portland at 0 p. m. Every Day except Sun
day. All less than carload shipments delivered at
Freight House before 4 p. m. will arrive in Astoria at
9;5o p. ni. For further imformation call on
Q. B. JOHNSON, kn,l Agent A. & C. R. R.
12th St, near Commercial 8t ASTORIA, OREGON.
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FINANCIAL.
First Uational Bank of Astoria
DIRECTORS
Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor G. C. Plavkl
J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon
Capital $100,000
Surplus 25,000
Stockholders' Liability 100,000
KHTAHLINIIKO HH4,
mum mssmsts. i i...... - .x .
J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President J. W. GARNER. Assittsnt Csshier
O. 1. PETERSON, Vice-President FRANK PATTON, Csshier
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $232,000
Trsnsscts a General Banking Business Interest Paid on Tims Depot o
Four Per Cent. Per Annum
Eleventh and Duane Ets. Astoria, Oregon
SCANDINAVIAN-AMERICAN
SAVINGS BANK
ASTORIA, OREGON
OUR MOTTO: "Safety Supercedes All Other Conslderarloa"
Sherman Transfer Co.
HENRY SHERMAN, Manager.
Hacks, Carriages Bagdsge Checked and Trannferred Trucks tad Farmltan
Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped.
4SS Commercial 8treet - . Main Pbona 1
tttM
THE TRENTON !
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First-Class Liquors and Cigars
(02 Commercial Street.
Corner Commercial and 14th. . ASTORIA, OREGON
SCOW BAY BRASS &
ASTORIA, OUIXJON
Iron and Brass Founders, Land and Marine Engineers.
Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinery Prompt attention given to all repair
18th and Franklin Ave. work. TeL Main 2481
HARDWARE CO.
lay in your supply
the winter months
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