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2 THE MOllNI'NG ASTGRIAN, ASTORIA. OREGON. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 20 WBtalvz? "i Rotation. Established 1873. ' Publiibtd Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Ijmfl, per year ly carrier, , per, month WEEKLY ssn . r i Eatered u second-clasa matter Oregon, under the act of Congress Orders for the delivering of The Mr place of business may be made by postal card or through telephone. Any irregularity "in delivery should be immediately reported to the office f pnbBoadoa. TELEPHONE MAIN ML t y' iTKE WEATHER Oregon Ram in west portion; fair and cooler in east portion. Washington Rain. . Idaho Rain or snow THE PORT OF ASTORIA. There is a quiet, yet very general, idea that it would not be amiss for the Port of Astoria Commission to organize; and establish, at least, tentative official status, by which it would be enabled to counter-act any aggressive or invasive movement of the almighty Port of Portland Com mission, which seems to have i state-wide road cut out for itself, and may, by sheer inadvertance, as it were, butt in down here before we are in position to interpose with necessary , , authority and potential reason. , .. , And even if nothing of that sort happens, it might be judicious, and even efficacious, to line up and get used to the trick of weighing and disposing of matters and questions appertaining to the port. There is no need of going at it in a whole sale fashion and spending a lot of money for the purposes of initiating the department. It can be done in a quiet but efficient way, entirely ade quate for the proper expression at the proper time, and for the enforce ment of the civic rights we enjoy un der the new alignment. We are not insisting upon it; it has been talked of a great deal, and some wonder has been expressed that it has not been done before, in view of the extraordinary license given and taken by the "people up the creek." who are never averse to appropriating any old thing that happens to be lying loose and not hedged and guarded. Anyway, it will do no harm to go as far as expe dience demands at the moment and put ourselves in tangible and effective shape for any contingencies that may arise and give substance to one of the strongest prerogatives we possess. IT IS BOUND TO COME. There are those in this city who have come to believe that the new Wienhard-Astoria Hotel will never be built by its projectors; and grant ing them alf reasonable leeway for their conclusion, we must beg to differ. We hold , that the scope of the investment, and the character of the preliminary improvements upon the property, absolutely preclude so radical a negation of the enterprise. It is not within the range of "busi ness," nor of men of affairs such as .are behind this, proposition, to aban don so large a venture, and we know it wfill (be completed within the nearest possible date, if only in justification of the extraordinary and valuable overtures already made. It is just as essential today, and just as promising, as it was when the matter was initiated. It is one of the best things that Astoria has to count on as a distinct and compensat ing departure in her civic program of expansion and improvement, and nothing but the contrary word and act of those at interest may disturb our faith in the timely fulfilment of the promise. A MESSAGE OF CHEER. The despatch received at the Cham ber of Commerce yesterday morning, DIAMOND vBRAND VaMfb, Northwest SoU mni OlIraMfc I. di.pi.ruiMM.n. inkfnrCaia- km I!MoillyorBllortioo, writ m. iirinannor ourdut.r,ui wwiiimii hgas auJt M., Nitumi, tuMH, u sthwu, wiu. Airs' S, stew $7.00 , .60 ASTORIAM. 1.S0 July 30, 1906, at the pottoffice at Astoria, of March 3, 1S79. Morning Astorian to either residence from United States Senator Charles W. Fulton, brings gratifying confir mation of the news at hand a day or two ago, in relation to the generous appropriations to be made for the mouth of the Columbia by the emer gency bill in behalf of the rivers and harbors of the country and in default of a regular rivers and harbors bill. It does not mention the $100.1100, for use upon toe river trom nere to Portland, but that may be because the Senator deemed that a matter of concern to the metropolis and not , to us, and is likely to figure in the concession made to the Columbia. It is needless to My that the intelli gence is appreciated down here, and hat there is a cordial and unani mous conviction that had we not got ten this now, we would have waited for many another long day for it, and are as grateful for the grant as we are conscious of the effective agency that wronght it. WING SHOTS. Brer Bcles, 'the weather sharp. promised Oregon a rest from storms and winds for a few days, whereupon it immediately began to get more in clement than ever; which is neither fair to the prophet nor the people! Senatorial rows are not wholly in digenous to Washington, D- C; we have some specimens of our own, and the Evergreen State manages to fur nish a sample now and then. Why is the X. P. going out of busi ness on the Goble-Portland section of the line on this side of the river, that it raises its tariffs and throws the business to the river steamers? Has Mr. Hill purchased that essen tial little 40 miles? We thought he had a 99-year lease on the property. The "blind pig" has rooted into the saloon business of Astoria long enough. It has ceased to be sty lish. It cannot be ailowed to litter up the pen-insula any longer. (Call the police commission, somebody!) While Astoria is waiting for a deep-sea fleet and trade of her own, she is steadily building and launch ing a splendid fleet of bay and river craft that will stay here and do busi ness. Eggs have dropped 25 cents in 10 days. The hen-union must have brok en up in a row. Now if the cow combine will dissolve and put cream and butter where we can look at them without tearing off a check or two, we will feel that life is possible, even if it isn't worth much. Ladies, if you intend to fall off a street car and sue the company for damages, be sure not to have on French heels when you take the tumble. They are a snare and a de lusion when it come3 to the business of fore-gathering easy money of that sort. ;,,' " A judge, on the bench, unaware of the elements of litigation gathering about him and liable to be presented to him for analysis at any time, may be excused for refusing to hand down spontaneous decisions on important civic matters: though those seeking such relief can hardly be excused for their temerity for asking such a thing. It is too late in the day for the Honorable County Court to get penurious about the court house now, and deny us the improvement of those grounds. It is an imperative duty to put them in shape, in sheer justice to the beautiful structure, let alone the hourly anguish of the fasti dious citizen who has to compare the two every day of his life. Portland is oavinz infinitely more tor her port commission than we are. We will use ours when the time comes, and, we believe, to more real purpose. LAST WORDS BY THE NOBLE AND GREAT OF HISTORY The last words of Charles Wolfe, the author of the "Ode on the Buri al of Sir John Moore," were, as was stated in a recent article in the Daily Telegraph, "Close this eye; the other is closed already, and so farewell," That extraordinary utterance may serve to recall many other remark able and probably better known last sayings of celebrated men and wo men, some nave passcu into mstory. Every one knows the tragic word "Remember!" uttered on the scaffold at Whitehall by Charles 1, nobler and more kingly in death than in life. Equally familiar are the words of his predicate son, CharlcsII, "Dont let poor Nelly starve!" and his jest to those aronnd his deathbed, asking them to pardon htm for being such a long time in dying. When Cromwell was near his end, he continually re peated the words, "God is good," and said, "I would be willing to be fur ther serviceable to God and His peo ple, but my work is done." When Richelieu was asked if he forgave his enemies, he replied: 1 have had no enemies but those of the State" a far finer utterance than that of his succesor, Mazarin, who, shortly be fore he died, looked over all the rich treasures which he had amassed, t and repeated with a sign: ll aut;wjI not separate us; we have been quitter tout cela." Sir Walter Scott U0 happy." Those who know the said to the faithful Lockhart: "Lock- hart, I may have but a minute to;wjl realize the intensity of that cry speak with you. My dear, be a good j0( anpi5t,( as ,hf fear s,ruc) t0 her man, be virtuous, be religious, be a ; nfart ,j,at her brief year of married good man!" Lockhart asked whe- J happiness was to be her last. Equal ther he should call the dying man's y touching, but in a very different daughters. "No," said Scott, "don't ?'n j far happier way, was the death disturb them! Poor souls. I knowjnf( of jjr, Browning, the poetess, they were up all night. God bless trt Browning, her husband, de- you all!" The last words to fall from Goethe's lips were. "More light," words strikingly appropriate to the close of a life of triumph; the last j whispered words of Keats were: "I die of a broken heart " "I am tak ing a fearful leap in the dark," mur murmed the agd philosopher, Hob bes, on whose tombstone are the searchnig words, cut at his own de sire: "This is the philosopher's stone, sire: "This is the philosopher's stone.' George Washington mur mured: "It is well;" Roger Ascham: "I desire to depart and be with Christ." "Don't let the awkward : squad fire over me!" cried Burns, as; he fell in convulsions, with a last j gibe at the Dundries militia, ofj which corps he himself was a mem- ( her. "What a fool I have been!" said Charles Churchill, the disreputable parson-poet. Nelson's last words in the cockpit of the Victory were: "Thank God! I have done my duty!" Jefferson, the American patriot, declared: "I resign my soul to God and my daughter to my country;" John Adams, on being disturbed by the sound of cannon, t When Vespasian, the soldier Em and being told that the day was July pt-ror, who had risen to the purple 4, exclaimed: "It is a great and from the obscurity of a Spanish vil- glorious, day. Independence forever!" When the gallant Dundee lay dying on the field of Killiecrankie, he asked one of his officers how the day went. "Well for the King, but I'm sorry for our Lordship," was the reply. " 'Tis the less matter for me," said Dundee, "seeing the day goes well for my master. The King is innocent, and I hae done my duty." "I hope my countrymen will do me justice," were almost the last words of th. hero of Corunna. Instances of the ruling passion in death are very common. It is said of Dr. Arne, the great English compos er, that he died in the middle of a conversation on some musical mat ter, trying with his last breath to sing a passage the meaning of which he was too exhausted to explain. The last words of Corot, the great French painter, were: "When the spring comes I will paint a beautiful picture. I see a sky full of roses." With the words, he gathered his fin gers, as though holding a brush, made a movement as if he were paint-'artist ing and expired, (jainshorough tit tered on his deathbed the famous saying: "We are all going to hea ven, and Vandyke is of. the company." Lord Chief Justice Tenterden thought that he was back in the courts dis missing a jury. "Gentlemen," he said, when almost unconscious, "vou are By the time that $700,000 is care fully spent on the Columbia jetty and bar, and that Inland Empire ware house is established and doing busi ness down here, we wil be ready to buck up to Portland and declare our real rivalry. We've come out of our hole and seen our shadow, but we refuse to go back for fear Portland will grab something while we're gone. TITTERED' all dismissed." When the famous Earl of Chesterfield, who prided himself on his politeness, lay at the point of death, he said,, as the doc tor, entered the room: "Give Day miles a chair!" Napoleon died at St Helena, dressed for battle, with the words "tete d'armce" : on his lips, winning, no doubt, some last tremen dous conflict of a greater Waterloo. Sir Isaac Newton expired while in the act of winding up his watch. Hal ter was heard to exclaim, as he felt his pulse: "The artery ceases to beat." and died on the iitstnat. Haydn fell into a stupor at his piano after sing ing "Cod save the Emperor" while the French cannon were firing a few yards from his house at Schonn- jbrunn; Moiart died while his dauuh- ter was singing to him his "Re quiem." The last words of John Crome, the great English landseap ist, were: "Hobbema, my dear Hob. bema, how I have loved you!" And Byron closed hii fitful, fevered life with the words: "Now I must sleep." Among the pathetic deathbed ut terances none is more poignant than that of Charlotte Bronte. Reading the anxiety and sorrow on the faces (of those about her, she said: "Oh! r am not Ring to die, am I? He moving story of the novelist's life srribed the scene in a letter written just after her death. "The 1.1st word was, when I asked: 'How do you feel?" 'Beautiful.' " When Coventry Patmore lay dying, he turned to his wife and said: "1 love yon, my dear, but He is my Light and my Life." The gentle Canon Ainger. speaking in his last moments, of the songs of the birds which had entered h chamber window and delighted his dying ears, said: "Those were very agreeable voices that I heard this morning," Addison, the choicest spir it of his atre. said to his stepson, the j Earl of Warwick, when' near his end: "See in what ticnce a Christian can die! But for intensity of pathos - n, (c(.p feeling nothing can excel those simple, beautiful words of the Roman lady Facta to her husband, pjttus They had decided to die to .gethcr to escape the malignity of the u r;iflt on t,c tt,r0ne. The wife stab- ;j.,ea ,erseif finti an(j drawing the i Swc-rcl from her breast, summoned up jai her strength to say, with a smile as she placed it in her husband's hands: "Paetus, it does not hurt." lage, felt that he was dying, he told his attendants to help him to his feet. "An Emperor," said he, "should die siamling:" and then he uttered one of the grimmest jests that ever fell from the lips of a dying man, "Tru- Iv." said he, "I feel I am becoming a god " It was the Roman custom to apotheosize a dead emperor as soon as the breath had left his body, and Vespasian's sarcasm showed how lit tle the rough soldier of the camp be lieved in the servile adulation of pal aces. The death of Nero is one of the most tragic in all history. Sue tonis has described in vivid language how the fugitive Emperor lay-in hid ing in a miserable hovel outside the city, aware that the search parties were close upon his trail, and trying to nerve himself to die with dignity by his own hand. He kept mutter ing: "Come, rouse yourself." "This befits not N'ero," " 'Tis shameful for me to live." Then the consummate actor in his nature came to the sur face, and he exclaimed: "What an perishes in met" And when the sound of horses' hoofs came near aiid nearer, lie quoted a line from a Creek play: "Lo! the sound of swift footed horses strikes upon my car." Then, when at length he took the sword and stabbed himself, his last words contained the bitter cry: "Such is loyalty." Yet he found loyal ty even 'in death, for his old nurse took up the body and buried it with loving care. "Now I am master of myself," said Cato at Utica, feeling the point of his sword, and finding it sharp enough for the stroke. He read Plato through the night and stabbed himself at dawn. Passages from the Psalms have of ten been on the lips of dying Chris tians. The verse "Into Thy Hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit," was breathed in their last moments by Basil the Great in 379, by Charle magne at Aix-la Chapelle in 814, by Martin Luther, and by the pious George Herbert in the rectory home at Remerton. Mary Queen of Scots intered it with a sigh as she knelt be fore the scaffold at I'otherlugay, and the line "Into Thy hands, O Lord, into Thy hands," was the last spoken by Sir Henry Irving on the stage at Bradford before he was stricken down. When Charles Wesley lay dy ing he quoted from the Third Psalm, My flesh and my heart faileth" when his more illustrious brother was on his deathbed, in 1791. it was In the Psalms that he found consolation "The clouds drop fatness," he was heard to say, and again, "The Lord of Hosts is with us, the God of Ja cob is our refuge," and. last of all, "The best of all Is, God it with us." The last words of Pitt have been the subject of controversy ever since Disiaeli on the authority of a garu Ions old waiter started the legend that the stateman's dying utterance was: "I think I could eat one of Bel lamy's veal pics." Bellamy being I noted piemaker of a century ago. The waiter's story of having been awak ened in the middle of the night by a mounted messenger, tent express to letch one of the pica for Mr. Pitt, is inip -sMble enough, but there ia over whelming evidence that Pitt's dying vrurds were: "Oh, my country! How I leave my country!" The authori ty is that of James Stanhope, Pitt's nephew, who was with him when he died and wrote a record of the clos ing scene only three days after it too place. It was the news of Austerlitb tint gave Pitt has death blow, and his countrymen were proud to think that the patriot's last thoughts were of England. Disraeli, with his mor dant humor, was quite capable of in- fitting that garrulously confidential waiter, if only for the malicious rWasure of chattering a popular le gend. London Daily Telegraph. To Cure a Cold In Ont Day Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E W GROVE'S signature is on each box 25c. Condensed Report Scandinavian-American Savings Bank OF ASTORIA, OREGON, as made to State Bank Ex amlner, February 5, 1909. RESOURCES Loans and securities.. .,...$146,579.15 Furniture and fixtures 4,45769 Due from banks.. $ 9,465.04 Cash on band.... 12,51668 Total available funds 21,98172 $173,018.56 MMMWftW4W44WtHIWMMHTTHt)IMWMHYttWWi The J. REPORT OF TiyS CONDITION i , OF THE f ! First National Bank At Astoria, In the State of Oregon, at the close of business, February 5, iwy; RESOURCES. Loans and discount. .$433,89301 Overdrafts, secured and un secured 1,671.49 U. S. bonds to secure cir culation 40,000.00 Premium on U. S. bondi.,, 1.200.00 Bonds, securities, etc ,, 54,430,00 uue irom National uenki (not reserve agents)., ... 46.3Q7.2J uue from State and private banks and bankers 18,145.21 Due from approved re- ' serve Agents ........... 114.190-42 Checks and other cash Items 989,99 Notes of other National , Banks 1,795.00 Nickels and Cents 430.15 Lawful Money Reserve In Bank, via.: Specie . $166,800,00 Legal-tender notes 135.00 166,935.00 Redemption fund with U, S. Treasurer (5 per cent of circulation) 2.000.00 Due from U. S. Treasurer. 334.68 Total $902,322.18 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In...... $100,000.00 Surplus fund 23.000.00 Undivided profits, lets ex penses and taxes paid.... I7,utt55 National Bank notes out standing 40.000.00 Due to State and private banks and bankers 951.53 Dividends unpaid 1.000.00 Individual Deposits subject to check $600,015.98 Demand Certificates of de posit $118,269.09 718.285 07 Total $902,322.18 State of Oregon, County of Clatsop, ss.; I, S- S. Gordon, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge snd belief. S. S. GORDON, Cashier... Correct Attest: JACOB KAMM. G. C. FLAVEL, w. f. McGregor. Directors, Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of February, 1909. V. BOELLING. Notary Public. of Condition of the LIABILITIES Capital paid In $ 50.000.0f Surplus 3.500.QC Undivided profits 367.15 Deposits 119,15141 $173.01856 Why is the Green Round Back Ledger the Best ? Because it overcomes all the objections to any other kind. It is the most approved style of Loose Leaf Book. No exposed metal parts to scratch the desk. Stamped Steel parts no castings with flaws in them. Made with Steel Hinges Leather covered. Standard Binding in a special grade of Green Russia and Green Silk Corduroy. Index tabs are made of green ' lea ther and the sheets are green edged to match. Transfer Ledgers are carried in stock in this binding; also made in Red Russia and Corduroy and special bindings as wanted. Can be made specially in any size or with any guage of posts to match other ledgers. AH Kinds of Loose Leaf Divlces Call and See Samples S. Bellinger Co. REPORT OF THE CONDITION , f OF THE Astoria National Bank At Astoria, In the State of Ore gon, at the close of business, Feb ruary S. 1909: RESpURCES. Loans and discounts $373,016 45 Overdrafts, secured and un secured . 4,03067 U. S. bonds to secure cir culation t. 47,500.00 U. S. bonds to secure U. S- deposits , ; 20.000.00 Other bonds lo secure U. S. . deposit . ,J 34,00009 Premium on U. ,S. bonds.; 4,117,00 Bonds, securities, etc 89,573 38 Banking house, furniture and fixtures ........... 4,000.00 Other real estate owned.,'. 8,23341 Due from State banks and bankers 8,01373 Due from approved re serve agents 92,439 56 Checks sod other cash Items.. 2,366 3,' Notes of other Nations! Banks ,. 1-26000 Fractional, paper currency, nickels, and cents 463f Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, vis-: Specie $72,60195 Legal-tender note 47500 73,076-95 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer (S per cent circulation) . 2,37500 Due from U. S. Treasurer, other than 5 per cent re demption fund 1,000 On, Total ..... -....,$765.4664)6 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid In $ 50.000.00 Surnlus fund 55,000.00 Undivided profits, less ex penses snd taxes paid.... M.oiV' National Bank notes out standing 45,80000 Individual deposits sub ject to check ,$274,53098 Demand certificate of de posit $20,11282 Time certificates of de posit $264,94860 Certified checks . 29175 U. S. deposits.., 40,000.00 399,814 15 Total $765,466 .06 State of Oregon, County of Clatsop, si : I, J. E. Higgins, Csshier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge snd belief. , J. E. HIGGINS, Cashier Correct Attest GEO. H. GEORGE. A. SCHERNECKAU. F. L. 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