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, THE WEATHER
Oregon and Washington Rain or
anow ia west; snow in east portion;
warmer.
? CHAMBER OP COMMERCE. '
The new year will have new de
mands to make upon the Astoria
Chamber of Commerce; They must
be met, and utilized, to the farthest
advantage.
Without deprecating the past, it is
our unescapable duty to grapple with
the newer conditions and meet them
just at though earnest and earlier ef
fort had never been made. We have
been denied, defeated and disappoint
ed time after time, but that does not
mitigate against ultimate achieve
ment; the only real thing essential be
ing to arrange, organize, direct, and
operate, on such bases, with such
men at home and abroad, as shall
more nearly approximate success.
With fhe City of Astoria as widelv
known as the immense scheme of ad
vertising we have indluged, has made
possible, it would seem that our best
and simplest plan would be to choose
some single, valuable prospect and go
after it, to the exclusion of the dozen,1
hampering diseoncerning and ineffec
tive pursuits. One thing at a time is
a good enough rule to follow in a!
city of this size;' beside, it is amen
able to a sharper ratio of success.
The blending of a score of half-con
sidered, half-bolstered, half-wrought
things into one conglomerate failure
in the end, does not contribute to the
support and confidence needed. .
This without reproach to anyone
connected with the Astoria Chamber,
It is a huge and discouraging task at
best, to keep a commercial body alive
and active and confident, under the
mots propitious conditions, and due
allowance, must be made for this, in
the review of the past and the fore
cast of the year. We. with all people
here, are anxious for the success of
this agency in all its departments: and
will contribute to that success as we
may, and always have, but we believe
there must be a new program, new
i lines of work, new blood arty infinite'
ly more concentration. " ;: '
All processes, expedients and plans
have to be tried out, one after the
other; and it is time for us to make
another try along newer lines.
AMUSEMENTS.
AstoriaTheatre
JANUARY
WED.
The Incomparable Comedian
J. C. LEWIS
In the Best of A 11 Rural Comedy
Dramas
Plunkerd
. For 22 years Mr. Lewis has suc
cessfully produced Si Plunkard
and will aooear at each and everv
performance in the character role.
SEE
1 The Mammoth Threshing
Machine in Actual Operation
Magnificent Band and
Orchestra
Heine Quartette
5 Big Specialty Song Hits 5
2 Free street Concerts
Daily
Prices - - - 25c to 75c
POLITICS VS. BUSINESS.
The American people, Oreeonians
included, are wearying of politics; es
pecially the politics merged with bus
iness, and hardly decipherable from
that element We are getting to a
pass where some observance of the
law might figure very happily as
against the illimitable evasion and cir
cumscription of the law, which seems
to actuate every man of affairs in ev
ery notable community in the land
Never was there a time when the
codes of the country were in so poor
a plight as they are now; and never
so vast a movement for the devise
ment of laws that shall adapt them
selves to the supreme greed of the
day.
There is something hateful in the
situation as it presents itself to the
earnest, thinking man of the hour; the
man who respects the law and would
see it exalted. . We believe that poli
tic is at the bottom of the situation
and would be glad to see another pre
dicate, that of actual business, super
cede it. r . , . ... '
And we shall be more than Krateful
if the Oregon Legislature shall, for
the nounce, forget its penchant for
politics, and hazard a cast at genuine
business, just to. demonstrate that it
is there for some other reason than
an inspired desire to "fix themselves
or their "friends.",,
11118 RELIEF HOB
EY SHARKS
THE FEDERAL LEGISLATURE
SHOULD STOP PRACTICE OP
GOVERNMENT CLERKS.
WASHINGTON. Jan.l2-(Snecian
Wanted by the government clerks of
vv ashington. A champion in the Uni
ted States Senate to father aieasure
designed to protect the needy clerks
from the machinations of the unscru
pulous moneylender. This champion
must be fearless in action, possess a
voice vigorous and convincing, a body
capable of endurance, and be able to
hurdle that august chamber with a bill
handicapped by the opposition of a
powerful lobby, A reward in the
shape of the enduring gratitude of If.
B. F. Macfarland, president of the
Board of Commissioners. District of
Columbia, will accompany the passage
of this bill by the Senate.
Perhaps if Commissioner Macfar
land, who in projecting this praise
worthy measure has thrown his pat
ernal arm around the 30,000 or more
Federal clerks in Washington, would
only post a few such notices as this in
conspicuous places on the Senate side
of the Capitol bnilding his attempt to
stanrp out nsury in the District would
not be in vain. At the present writ
ing, unless some doughty champion
fares forth and calls it into action, it
looks as though this bill will slumber
through the session; in which event
the hard up Federal workers will con
tinue to pay, as they have almost
since the government was established,
this illegal tribute to the usurer.
Just how many thousands of unearn
ed dollars annutily go from the hands
of the government worker into the
pockets of moneylenders is only to be
conjectured. Though efforts have
been made by department secretaries
to appropriate the sum, the way is
blocked. The moneylender for busi
ness reasons won't tell, and on the
part of the borrowing clerk there are
obvious reasons for concealing the
facts. All except the usurers agree,
however, that the practice should be
stopped by Federal legislation,
FORESTS MAY BE SAVEO
10 1 COUNTRY
BUT THE COUNTRY MUST CON-
SERVE TIMBER PRODUCTS
AND PERMIT RE-GROWTH
memory, We of Astoria have only
the pleasantest recollections of this
member of the Oregon Pilot Commis
sion and sorely regret that we shall
never greet him attain. He has
myriads of friends down at this end
of the river, some of life-long stand
ing, and others who knew him only a
few short years, but well enough to
thoronghly appreciate and respect him
for the sterling qualities that made
his name a power for good in the
State and the Nothwest.
WHAT NEXT?
The bill by which Commissioner
Macfarland proposes to stop usury
went up to Congress last session. Af
ter much debate and a deal of expert
lobbying, it passed the House late in
the session. Now it reposes in the
room of the Senate Committee on the
District of Columbia, of which Sena
tor Gallinger, of New Hampshire, is
chairman, and there it is likely to re
main with other bits of hold-over leg
islation unless its friends get busy with
seal and enthusiasm.
TEDDY UNDISTURBED.
We have awited for Mr. Tillman's
word of exoneration from the charge
laid upon him by the President It
has come, and it is simply a lot of
explosive objurgation, minus definite
denial, without a sound predicate of
innocence, and quite the bluster that
might have been expected from a man
long believed to have been really hon
est, but who is taken at last, and who
attempts to make his past save him
We are disappointed and so is the
country; the President may have
made his mistakes; - he would have
been a miracle had he not; but the
Senator from South Carolina has
made his blunder at last I
PASSING OF A STALWART.
The sudden death of Hon. Sylvester
Farrell, of Portland, is a distinct loss
to that city and to the State at large
He was one of the strong figures -of
he old and new Oregon, and an hon
or to each.
For nearly half a century Mr. Far
rell has been prominent in all the
walks followed by the man of energy
and probity and high ambition, and
in all of them he has set a pace and
left a mark that will be of value to
the generation that follows him.
As legislator, councilman, frater,
man of affairs, and good citizen Syl
vester Farrell will be a long time in
the memories of his colleagues and
contemporaries; and for all tim6 with
the reflection that does honor to that
CASTOR I A
For Infanta and Children.
1 Kind Yob Kara Always Ikgy
gnnture of
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Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
THE DONALD STOCK CO.
I yuST PLAIN FOLKS'
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Prices 15, 25 and 35c. Box office open from 2 to 9:30
If we of the Northwest are to pre
serve our inalienable right to bra on
our climate and weather conditions
and hold our place on the roster of
truth-tellers in this particular cult.
these blizzards . and eathquakes and
freezes must be abated in some way.
We were about to charge the whole
scheme of. disorder and reaction to
the meeting of the Oregon and Wash
ington Legislatures, as a sort of pro
test from old Mother Natue aeainst
the assemblage of these imposing, but
useless, servants and representatives,
whose superficial uproar and hollow
trumpeting; make for the disquiet of
all mankind; we forego the sugges-
tion in deference to the honestcr. if
graver, signs, given forth from the
abysmal heart of things terrestial, and
in the consciousness that nature has
far too much to do to waste time in
noting such ephemeral, such utterly
barren agencies as are set up at
Salem and Olympia.
The weather, to us, is of far deeper
significance than the Legislature
here, or anywhere else; it is practical
near to us, tangible, to be dealt with
and handled personally; attributes
not attaching to the constitutional
farce up on the Willamette or over on
Puget Sound. Both cost money in
endless ways and amounts; but the
lavish debit incurred by the natural
courses, are as nothing to the swindle
that will be perpetrated this year
(in Oregon, at least), just as it has
been, biennially, for the past quarter
century.
We have but two recourses against
the tremendous play of these climatic
upheavals; prayer nd common sense.
We leave it to the inclinations of
those who want to employ either ex
pedient, and hope both may be sue
cessful in circumscribing the cold-
spell, or attaining to patience enough
to bear it.
But no man is safe from the idiosyn-
cracies of 90 conniving politicians
hived at a point where they may do
pretty nearly as they please because
the law provides a way for their
folly. In both issues, we, the people
can only stand by and marvel, and
try to solve the anxious query: What
next?
The provisions of this bill, while
considered liberal and permitting of
substantial profit to the monevlender.
put an effective quietus on alt forms
of thumbing-screwing, wolfish usury
such as has been practiced in this
Christian community for years. The
moneylender is allowed 2 per cent a
month, with an additional S3 for ex
amining papers, securities and inci
dental expenses. To do business he
must pay a license tax of $l,000annual
ly. This feature of the bill has caus
ed the moneylender's chief objection
and to eliminate it has raised a niichty
howl of class discrimination, inas
much as his banking and real estate
lending brothers are not assessed so
much.
When the bill came up last year.
this heavy license tax was hotly op
posed Hearings at the Capitol and
were held, at which former United
States Senator Thurston, of Nebraska
now a practicing lawyer here, appear
ed for the moneylenders. He argued
against this tax, declaring it to be
without warrant in law, but the Hotit
thought otherwise. Now it remains
tor some of the Senate lawyers to
find some legal precedents, for it is
hard to move that deliberative body
with a mere sentimental plea for the
government clerks.
Now Commissioner Macfarland
knows something of the temper of the
Senate and guided by past experience,
he is prepared to discharge his heav
iest ammunition there. This is a bit
of the letter he has sent to Chairman
Gallinger urging the passage of the
measure:
"A great mass and variety of pham-
plets, cards, dodgers, and other ad
vertising matter representing money
loaning concerns, other than national
banks, trust companies, savings banks,
and the like, are distributed over the
District and illustrate the extent to
which such concerns arc being multi
plied here. Most of the establish
ments which send out these circulars
are, anonymously conducted, and offer
every conceivable inducement to en
tice people to borrow monev from '
them."
Commissioner Macfarland, who is
something of an altruist in municipal
affairs, knows whereof he speaks. He
has delved deeply into this subject of
illegal moneylcnding, and his probe
has shown him that some of these
"anonymously conducted" concerns
are so conducted to hide personages
of some note hereabouts, who would
be made uncomfortably by exposure.
Certain of them, it may be said, are
former government clerks who have
fattened rich by the. practice of the
ten per cent. They mingle in re
spectable society now, but even under
the guise of other business, not so
lucrative as that of the "loan shark,"
the habit of lending is to strong for
them to resist.
Mayhap, if this Senate champion
afore mentioned comes alone, the
heretofore rosy path of the money
lender in the Nation's Capital will be
come a stubblcficld. At cast. Mr.
Macfarland hopes so,
Dont Take the Risk.
When VOU have a bad rniuti nr pnA
do not let it drag along until it bo
comes chronic bronchitis or develops
into an attack of pneumonia, but gife
it the attention it deserves and g-n
rid of it. Take Chamberlain's cough
remedy and you are sure of prompt
relief. From a small hr-cinninir th
sale and use of it has extended to a'l
parts of the United Sta
many foreign countries. Its many
remarkable cures of coughs and colds
have won for it this wide reputation
and extensive use. Sold by Frank
Hart and leading druggists.
NEW TO-DAY
The very best board to be obtained
in the citv is at "The Occident
Hotel." Rates very reasonable.
FreshMeat
Spare ribs, pork tenderloin, and
other meats fresh daily at Bradcn'i
new meat market. See ad, page 4.i
Needlework Sales.
Needlccraft Shoo, formerly 382
Washincton street, now 147 Sixth
street, between Morrison and Alder,
rortland. January needlework sales
now on.
Few people have anything like a
clear idea of the amount of forest
wealth left in this country. Those
who think at all about this natural
resource which has assisted in male
rial development since the landing of
the first settler are usually too much
influenced by the condition of that
particular state or section in which
they are most familar.
If they live in a much deforested or
a treeless region, the people usually
imagine that the country'i timber sun-
ply is even more limited than is act
ually the fact; on the other hand, with
those whose homes are located in a
section where pinch in timber has
not been experienced, the feeling is
likely to be altogether the other Way.
and some become so Indifferent at
times as to think that there Is really
not much reason to worry about a
timber problem, Both can profit bv
a reading of the actual facts.
The forests of the United Slates
now cover about 53t) million acres, or
about one-fourth of the land of the
whole country. The orialnal forests
covered not less than 8JU million acres
or -nearly one-half.
The forests owned by the sovcrn-
ment cover one-fourth of the total
forest area, and contain one-fifth of
all timber standing. Forests private-
.y ownej cover three-fourths of the
area, and contain four-fifths of the
standing timber. Besides having
three times the area and four times
the forests, the timberland privately
owned is generally more valuable.
Forestry, or conservative lumbering,
s practiced on 70 per cent of the for
est piiMkly owned and oft less than
nc pr cent of the forests privately
owned. This covers the country's
forest -resources as they stand today.
Senator Smoot, chairman of the sec
tion of forests of the National Con-
ervation Commission In outlining the
future hat said:
By reasonable thrift, we can pro
duce a constant timber supply beyond
our present need, and with it conserve
usefulness of our streams for irriga
tion, water supply, navigation, and
power. .
"Under right management, oar for
ests will yield four times as much as
now. V e can reduce waste in the
woods and in the mill at least one
third, with present as well as future
profit. We can perpetuate the naval
stores Industry. Preservative treat
ment wdl reduce by one-fifth ths
quantity of timber used In the water
or in the ground. We can practically
top forest fires at t total yearly cost
of one-fifth the value of the itondins
timber burned eadh year, not counting
young growth.
"We shall suffer for timber to meet
our needs, until our forests have had
ime 10 grow again. But if we act
igorously and at once, we shall es-
care er nancnt timber scarcity."
Fast Freight iSeryice
Dally Service Via
THE A. dC, R. R. CO.
Through iuerchafidisc Cih from Portland to Astoria
leave Portland at 0 p. iu. Every Day except Sun.
day. All less than carload shipments delivered at
Freight House before 4 p. tu. will arrive in Astoria at
0:5o p. in. For further irufortmtion call on
a. B. JOHNSON, Qeni Agent ; A. Cr, R.
12th St, near Commercial It. ASTORIA. OREGON.
let us nil you about .
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Greatest advance In lighting mttboda lines tht invention of Incandescent
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EXAMPLE- ,," ,
JJ C P. Ordinary electric lamp consumes ,,, HO wetttper beer
M CP. "Tungsten" tlectrk lamp consomai , 44rttptrbOBr
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the Mm coat or in other words can hava tha um ntuntitv ni.imi...j. !
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Iron and Brast Foundert, Land and Marine Engineers.
Up-to-Dtt Sawmill Machinery Prompt attention given to all repair i '
18th and Franklin Ave. ' work. Tal Main 14ft f J
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FINANCIAL.
First flationalOani; of fislorin
DIRECTORS. . . , ;
Jacob Kamm. W, F,,McGeco G. C. Flavel
Ml , J. VV, Ladd . S.S. Gordon
,Wv'-- $100,000,
Burpros ....... .......... 25,000 ,
Stockholders UkWtj ,....'.....100,000 '
E8TAHLisfri:r Hmt.
J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President J. yf; GARNER, Atsittant CashJW
O. I. PETERSON, Vice-President FRANK PATTON, Cashier
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS a,., $232.CC3
Tranacta Central Backing BwOmm latwtit Paid on Tlmo Oepoc t
Tour Per Cent Pep Annum
.. , .BomthandDnaMfiti..,,,...,.. . ;i .v.'",' . ' Juuii, Oregon "-; .
NAME MEANS SOMETHING.
When A. B, Petersen buBt and
named the "Modern" barber shoe he
meant that it should stand for what
it was called. No patron has missed
a single feature of the modern ton-
sorisl parlor tt that house; and every
new device in the way of oerfect
comtort and service if constantly add
ed as it develops. The latest it in
expert bootblack, the best in the
business; a qualification that makes
hii employment really modern.
Tho Clean Man.'
The man who dellehti in Dwnnnii
cleanliness, and enjoys bit (have.
shampoo, haircut, and hath. In A.
toria, always eoea to tht. (Wi,l,.nt
barber shop for these things and
gets them at their best
SGANDINAVIAN-AMERIGAN
SAVINGS;, BANK
ASTORIA, OREGON
OUR MOTTO! "Smfety Supercedes All Other CoosideretW
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To Cure a Cold in One Dav
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets, Pruifjtlsts refund money if
it fails to cure. E. W. , GROVE'S
BARREN FORMALITY.
DENVER, Jan. 12, - Democratic
electors met in the State House yes-
terday and cast the vote of Colarado
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