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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, m. c THE MORNING A3T0HIAN. ASTORIA, OREGON., t i .5 j f M4HMr4 What You Have Been Looking Fori , . ALLEN'S Boston Brown Bread flour 2 PUG. 2Q CENTS I A V Af I FN Sole Agent for . . . 1 . V f.ititltr Bamneton Hall Steel Cut COFFEE 40c CAN rhones 7", 3S71. BranchlUnionto NEW YORK LETTER NEW YORK, Dec 28. White re torus are still incomplete it is appar ent from those already in band, as tabulated by Postmaster Morgan, that this city sent at least $3,000,000 in the form of postal orders to foreign coun tries for Christmas presents, or an av erage of two dollars for each man, woman and child. When to this is added the money gifts sent in the form of drafts, bills, cheeks and ex press orders, the total will probably exceed $10,000,000, the most striking example this city has ever had of the jrstcice of its foreign population of sending money back to the "old coun try." The 332,875 postal orders al ready tabulated, which are estimated as less than two-thirds of the total, representing a money value of $5,040, 729J21, show in their classification some interesting facts. The smallest was for 40 cents and went to China, while the largest amounting to $2500 went to England. The average amount is about $15, but the most popular sum was $5. To England, as compar ed to other foreign countries, went the greatest number of orders, 73,041 valued at $88,408.62. The smallest number of orders, 2594, went to Greece, while the smallest amount of money, $46,102 . went to France. produced by men who never pene trated west of Pittsburg, which was the inly kind that the East had an opportunity to become familiar with until within the past four or five years. Vhciher or not it is true as sometimes charged that New York is unpopula in the West, it is certainly the case that the West and everything western enjoys a very great popularity in New York at the present time. A case in point in which a western book by a western author is in greater demand in this part of the country than in the West itself is David Graham Phillips' "Joshua Craig concerning which the publishers announce that the advance orders have been heaviest from such places as New York, Washington an I Boston. Particular curiosity has been aroused by this book because the ca reer of its hero follows so closely th .t of one of the most prominent United States Senators who was a boyhood friend of the young Indiana author and who is portrayed in an intimate but not altogether flattering light is New York becoming western tied? That is the conclusion of many bstrvm who point to the increasing prominence in business, professional and literary life of men from the western states. For example, this city has seen a veritable western lit erary invasion this year. An unusual umber of books by western authors w dealing with western life are nun eeifd among the best sellers while the most popular and successful play produced during the past year have come from the pens of westerner, Eugene Walter and Augustus Thom as being the most noteworthy ex amples. Naturally enough the pic tures (I western scenes and characters drawn hy those who have grown up among them are more' accurate than the brand of western fiction or drama Bgbodgs FOR JANUARY will tell you something you may not know about Farming, Fires, Pearl Fishing, Pills, Woman's Invasion, Flying Machines, and Actors. It will give you lots of good short atories and beautiful pictures. You'll like it. Get one to-day. 1001 FOB THE PATCHW0EK C0VE1 For sale by O. W. WHITMAN and SVENSON'S HOOK STORE. Probably the queerest, as it was the most unexpected Christmas present in the city, was the donation of sixty street cars to the poor, and the pro letariat which formerly howled in an ger because of the transfer abolish ment is now howling in joy over the presentation to it of these cars. These vehicles, however, are not can in which the possessors may ride, but superannuated types of construction which the East Side has been allowed to break up for firewood. New York so long without an adequate supply of cart, now literally has them to burn. For a whole week the city has been amazed by the peculiar spectacle of cars being chopped up by East siders to be carted home in the shape of kindling wood. The fuel hat gone where it is needed most and it has been eagerly grabbed and carried away chiefly on the head(of Italian?, at the rate of a dozen cars a day. As fast as one car was demolished an other was hauled forth and turned over to the tender mercies of the mob. The only part of the cars which is not given over to the public is the motors. As they could not be burned there is no lamentation on the part of ihe people. They have gobbled up literally consumed these cars at an astonishing rate. A single hour has been sufficient to make a car disai- "Three years ago I was marked for death. A srrave-yard coueh was tearing my lungs to pieces. Doctors failed to help me, and hope had fled, when my husband got Dr. King's New Discovery," says Mrs. A. C. Williams, of Bac, Ky. The first dose helped me and improvement kept on until I had gained 58 pounds in weight and my health was fully restored." This medicine holds the world's healing record for coughs and colds and lung and throat dis eases. It prevents pneumonia. Sold under guarantee at Charles Roger & Son's drug store. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. I Buy Only Meat!Foods TKat Are j Guaranteed Pure and Wholesome You have only Jto demaudj Union Meat Co. products Columbia Hams, Bacon and Iard, also their fresh Meats, all of which have been inspected by U. S. Government officials before and after kill ing, and passed as proper, wholesome meat food. Free to Our Customers As an appreciation of your patronage we offer ever user of our products who writes stating he has found our products wholeeome and reliable, our large Indian Head Callendar for 1909. This picture ''The First A merican" 16x2 1, is a copy of the Clay model by E. P. Seidel, and could not be bought any where for less than a dollar. Enclose 25 cents to pay the cost of packing and mailing. Address, SHIPPING DEPT. UNION MEAT CO. PIONEER1 PACKERS OF THE PACIFIC pear absolutely since 60 minutes after each one was hauled from the barn there has not been a trace of it left. Trucks, window glass, interior metals and tittiiiR have all disappeared al most in the twinkling of an eye. Ou side of their value for fuel on account of their wooden construction the greater part of each ear has gone t junk dealers, by whom the metal is turned in to foundries and the shades, seats and flooring sold to East Side tenements. Altogether the gifts of 60 cars to the poor was a Christmas pres ent as welcome as it was unexpected. New York is the most wasteful city in the world, according to the figures of a noted economist. From these figures it appears that this city throws into its garbage cans every day enough food to feed the whole city of Paris, or to have relieved any of the more important recent foreign fami lies. This surprising waste is of two kinds, according to the economist in question.- The first is ignorant waste which includes the throwing away every day of all sorts of valuable ar ticles. In the ashes for which it has no further use, more than $10,000 a day is wasted, since in the 50,000 tons of this matter which it daily turns out there is more than 50 tons of fuel Could any one collect the egg shells which the city puts in its gar bage cans each day he would make a fortune since they contain more than $1000 worth of lime. The value of oU clothes and shoes thrown away every 24 hours is more than $7S0O, while the waste paper of the city figured at the lowest price totals more than $10,000 a day. Over $1000 worth of bottles are thrown away daily, . and nearly $1000 worth of string. Added to this figures show that at least $5000 in real money, that is bills and coins, is carelessly thrown out each day and that the value of worn-out linen and hats discarded every day ia upwards of $3000, could they all be collected The second class of waste while nit so striking Is far greater, consisting of partially consumed food, wines and cigars at hotels and cafes, more than $50,000 being thrown away each day of the year in this way according to to the figures. Altogether it looka as if Father Knickerbocker might make a large amount of money by estab lishing a municipal waste commission. Juvenile education in the Empire State is in an inverse ratio to age, ae cording to figures just compiled. In other words the older yon grow the less yon know, so far as public school education is concerned, since less than four out of every ten pupils who start the elementary course ever finish it, according to these figures. The exact percentage of those who continue from the first grade until ready to en ter the high school is for girls 39 per cent and for boys 32 per cent. Boys, it would seem, not only go five-sixths as far as girls in their education. It is a yet unexplained fact that the school enrollment of the state, outsid this city, shows more pupils in th second and third years than in the first year. After the third year the percentage of pupils decreases rapidly so that out of every 100 children who enter the first grade at the average of six and one-half years, only 39 go through the eighth or higher grade before the high school with an aver age age of 14 years. In Greater New York the coefficient of juvenile educa tion is slightly higher than in the rest of the state since 42 out of every 100 pupils who enter the first gradv finish the eighth. In the greater city the nirls who finish the graded school course exceed the boys in number hy about four per cent. Outside of this city, however, the boys surpass the girls in number about eight per cent. In cities and villages outside New York City the total registration this year was 890,205, as compared to 706, OKI iii the city. Altogether the state has more than 1,500,000 school chil dren of whom considerably less than half ever complete the elementary public H-hool education taking them up to the age of 14 years. The automobile may now become a vehicle for the common people. The aristocrats of the automobile world have taken to flying machines. The Atito-nobi'e Club of America has con fided an arrangement with the Aeronautical Society for the use of the old Morris Park race course for experiments with heavier-than-air machines. Henceforth the idle young millionaire, instead of endangering his neck in a 200 horsepower racing machine, will find excitement in tests of skill and daring up among the clouds, or as near to the clouds as his flying machine will carry him. Automobile manufacturers can only view this departure with alarm. They have not forgotten what happened to the bicycle industry when the fash ionable world abandoned the wheel for the motor. Alert bicycle manu facturers who discerned the trend of the timea converted their bicycle plants into automobile manufactories Loss of Life and Damage in Italy (Continued from page 1) rushing waters carried everything be fore them and caused such indescrib able confusion that it will be impos sible for some time to estimate the damage and lives lost, For a period, the town of Messina and the whole province of Reggio were completely isolated through interruptions to teh graph and telephone, and by land slides that obstructed the railroads. Absolutely nothing was heard from the region through the day, while th first news front Messina came in the form of a despatch which a torpedo boat brought to Nicotera. It is chiefly stated that the situation was desper ate and summarized immensity of a catastrophe. The city of Messina has suffered probably more than any one other place, the latest information coming directly. from that quarter stating that two-thirds of the town was destroyed and several thousand persons killed. take no other. They are able to gratify this ambi tion to any extent that money will procure its svatilication, Why may they not, then, render the world a re.il service by helping to solve the prob lem which all men rccoguUe lias only been touched upon? No one is able to foree to what extent flying ma chines may be made to help in vloin the work of the world, but undoubted ly possibilities are there as great as any the past century has developed. Of course, a Perclval or a Reginal or two may break their neck, but it may be they can as well be spared as otlv er men who daily are sacrificed in the cause of human progress. Let us all encourage the gilded youth), there fore, and bid them god-speed In their new pastime. The common man may find consolation in knowing that for .1 time, at least, he will not have to go about dodging their vehicles of trans portation. POSTAL SAVINGS BANK. CHICAGO, Dec. 2&-In a special news article .under a Washington date the Record-Herald today says: Great pressure is being brought to bear up on senators and representatives i'l favor of the passage of the postal savings bank bill. Most of this pre sure comes from the Mississippi Val ley, where public opinion in favor of the postal bank is very strong. To Cur Cold in One Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S It will now be up to the automobile manufactures to begin making flying machines. All this ia very beneficial to the new science of aerial naviga tion, and there appears no reason why the public should have an inclination to complain. When the millionaires quit demanding higher and higher priced machines the manufacturers will be compelled to turn their atten tions to the making of good ma chines which may be sold to people in moderate circumstances at reason able prices. The racing automobile is the highest priced machine now made, and about the least usefuL If the time and talent which go into th: making of racing machines were de voted to producingTnachines of more practical use, the public would be bound to be the gainer. The danger is that this talent will be drafted for the production of racing air machines. Opponents of the theory of civil service reform find joy In a decision recently handed down by Justice Dayton of the Supreme Court. A man had been employed, under the civil service, as a clerk In the Depart ment of Parks, at an annual salary oi $2000. The department was abolished and the man lost his job. K brought mandamus suit to compel) reinstate ment inthe city's civil service, cop tending that a a civtlserviee emplo he was entitled to his position diirim life and good behavior, and that th: city could not legally by aboliihing an office thus throw him out of employ ment. The court sustained this con. tcntion and ordered his reinstatement. He accepted reinstatement, but re signed next day. Then he brought suit to recover the salary he was de pnved of during the time he was out of office. It was admitted that the former clerk had been earning more than 1 $2000-a-)-ear salary during the time he was out of the city's employ, but the court decided he was legally entitled to receive salary for the time he was illegally deprived of his office, and the city has to pay it. Such things as this, declare oppon ents of the civil service system, have a tendency to make the civil service unpopular, and the greatest hope of their lives is that the system may be come so unpopular' that it will be abolished. Politics in New York City isn't what it used to be in the gooi old days when the spoilsman held sway. Whatever one may be inclined to think about the usefulness of these younger sons of the "idle rich," it will have to be admitted that they have physical courage. Polo and au tomobile racing are about as danger ous forms of sport as a man can in dulge in, and these are the favorite recreations of New York's gilded youths. It will have to be conceded, therefore, that they have the courage requisite to navigation of the air. IF WOMEN ONLY KNEW What a Heap of Happiness it Would Bring to Astoria Homes. Hard to do housework with an ach ing back. Brings you hours of misery at leis ure or at work. If women only knew the cause that Backache pains come from sick kid neys, 'T would save much needless woe. Doan's Kidney Pills cure sick kid neys. Mrs. Clara Gcisslcr, living on Third street, Hillsboro, Ore., says: "It af fords me great pleasure to give Doan's Kidney Pills my recommenda tion. I suffered so long from kidney complaint and tried so many remedies unsuccessfully, that I did not think 1 would ever get relief. I was often confined to my bed, unable to move without experiencing pains across m back. My kidneys were disordered, the secretions being so frequent as to cause me a great deal of annoyanc I finally used Doan's Kidney Pills, and in less than a week was a great deal better. I have not had a return of kidney trouble since." Plenty more proof like this from Astoria people. Call at Charles Rog ers & Son's drug store and ask what customers report. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Doan's and Men and interests in New York, and women as well, who have fretted under the autocratic sway of Police Commissioner Bingham are glad to know that one of the recommends tions of the Charter Revision Com mission will be that the office of So permtendent of Police be recreated, The commission believes the superin tendent should exercite powers about identical with those wielded by the late Chief Dcvery and other famous heads of the metropolitan police force in former days. That would mean, or at least they hope it would mean, tha the lid would not be kept on so tight as it has been under Bingham. Things would be a little more free and easy along the "Great White Way," and if a gentleman wanted to put down k bet or sit in a quiet game of draw he would not be deterred by the oppress, ing fear of police interference. Worn en of both the white light and red light districts also would find life, less rigorous. They are very, very tired of Bingham, and they believe th great city, in the main, shares their weariness. Bingham, it will be re called, was an army officer whom Mayor McClellan bad known socially in Washington and whom he persuad ed to take control of New York police department. He did so and took into office with him a big stic that knew neither brother nor friend It is even suspecte dthat Mayor Mc Clcllan is a little weary himself, fo his ability to influence his police com missioner has been just about as great as that of any tin-horn gambler or short-card man. the male chorus girl promises to be our next sensation. He is even now in our midst and it is confidently predicted that we shall have to assiml late him in the not distant future young man styling himself Louis H, Chalif is blazing the trail he expects others to follow. He has graduated from a Parisian school of the ball and has come to New York to intro duce his art. His dancing costume consists of white shirt waists, black knickerbockers and kid pumps. When he dances he smiles and smirks most approved ballet style. If M Chalif ever succeeds in inducing New York theatrical manager to give him an engagement, there will be hot time in the old time for the gal lcry gods. This It Worth Reading. Leo F. Zelinski, of 68 Gibson St Buffalo, N. Y., says: "I cured the most annoying cold sore I ever had, VY,NV. VV V luWi r 01 s W1 iMi Jtru XbO Kind Yon Have Alvrnyi Bought, and which tuta Deea la us for over 80 years, has bonto the lirnataro ef Ana m been mado under hi per tonal ttperYlaioa itnee It Influipy, Allow no one to deceive you la this. All Counterfeit, Imitation and "Jt-aa-good" &r bat , Experiment that trlrta with Mid endanger the hestfthiof InlUnts And Children EipcrlcQC egalmit lpwlutoat What Is CASTORIA Caatorla la harmlea iubitltnte fbr Cantor Oil, rare, gorto, Props And Soothing" Byrup. It 1 Pleasant. II contain neither Opium, Morphine nor other JfarooUq substance. It age 1 It en&mnteo. It deatroy Worm and Alloy FeverUhnea. It cure Dhtrruu And Wind Colic It relieve Teething Trouble, cure Coimtipntioa And Flfttuteucy. It Msliutlatea the Food, regulate the Stomach and Bowel, giving healthy and natural locp The Children' PauAceaTliO Mother' Frloud, a OCNUINB CASTORIA a ivmvo Boar tha Signature cf . - w zar m r mm j ij The Kind Yon Haie Always Bought In Uso For Over 30 Years. va ,mma mhmw. t OTMrf, mm mm wr Parker HouseUnderllew Management On January 1st the Parker House will be re-opened under Management of John Dunham As a first class hotel We invite your patronage. Dining room guaranteed to be the best conducted in the city. Call and get our rates. Bar m Connection. Satisfaction Guaranteed. LET US TELL YOU ABOUT r Tungsten Electric Lamp Ortatwt advance In lighting method since the invention of lncandcat lamps, EXAMPLE . i 32 C P. Ordinary electric lamp consumes 110 wat taper hour 32 CP. "Tungsten" electric lamp consume 40 watt par boar Saving 70 watt par hoar By using "Tungsten lamps you can get 275 per cant Increase In light lor tn same coat er in other word can h ava tha earn quantity o! illumination for 3S per cent of the cost of lighting with ordinary electric tampa. The Astoria Electric Co. "' l!LL.IMgBBBWWMW!JMM SCO! BAY BRASS & 19 I0BP AMTOltIA, OltEUON Iron and Brass Founders, Land and Marine Engineers. Up-to-Date Sawmill Machinery tlth and Franklin Ava Prompt attention given to ail repair work. TL Main 24t Sherman Transter Co. HENRY IHKfilf AM If Hacka, Carriage, Baggage Checked and Transferred-Tracks and Faraitan WagonePianoi Moved. Bonad ,H CVni -A I I Main Ffcaaa vn 431 Commercial Street TIDE TABLE FOE DECEMBER DECEMBER. 104. High Waur. A, M. P. M. Data, j h.m. 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I ap- under guarantee at Charles Rogers plied this aalve once a day for two & Son'i drug itore. 25c. days, when every trace of the' lore ' was gone." Heals all sores. Sold Subscribe to the Morning Astorlan.