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THE MORN J G ASTOKLAN. ASTOKIA. OREGON.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1909.
Established 1873i.
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(THE WEATHER
Oregon and Washington Occa
sional rain; colder in the east por
tions. , , .
WEATHER VICTIMS.
For months the people of the
United States have been storm and
wind awept; the pressure and dark
ness of an abnormal winter have been
constant and severe; the ordinary
physical and mental conditions of the
people have been warped and blended
to the color-scheme, temper, and gen
eral consistancy, of the gray winter
days; as a consequence, we are not
as healthful, happy and peaceful, nor
as busy and prosperous, as we shoufd
be. A" organic bodies, and move
ments, are, notoriously, at logger
heads and accomplishing their ends
by the hardest (witness the Con
gress and the Legislatures); business
is dulled and impeded by delays and
losses that sour and disappoint the
manufacturer and merchant and ship
per, and, incidentally, re-act upon
the patron everywhere; crime and
insanity and accident are on the in
crease as a direct result of the
dubious and disastrous weather; even
our inclination for, and indulgence
in, amusements and social pleasure,
are circumscribed and half-hearted;
and so on, all down the line, the long
and dismal season lends its weight of
cheerlessness to- counteract the nor
mal, everywhere.
There is nothing local about it The
same report comes from every center
in the land; from New England, the
middle East, and West; the Southern
States; and all along the ' Pacific
reaches. Even Astoria feels it.
If there is any doubt about the
matter, we have but to note the vital
izing effect of a vagrant ray of sun
shine that escapes from the muck
of rain and storm cloud, to beam for
a fascinating moment upon the wel
coming faces and hearts of the peo
ple; the sudden warm up-lift; the re
sponsive thrill and distinct energiz
ing of mind and muscle; the access
of cheer and purpose and hope and
every passing proof of the blessed
effect of light and warmth and clar
ity, upon the human organism- No
wonder the country is praying and
hoping and dreaming and longing
for the break that shall herald the
dawn of Spring with all its promises
of light and warmth and inspiration
and inducement and opportunity!
Atmospheric storms beget brain
storms, of a surety!
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My stock of men's and bey's
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expenses enable me to sell the
best qualities at lowest prices.
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MAIN 651.
OF COURSE IT STAYS HERE I
The mighty effort of the Puget
Sound commercial bodies to have the
headquarters and fleet of the Thir
teenth Lighthouse district removed
from the Columbia River to Belling-
ham has fallen flat, and the men and
business and ships remain where
they are; the offices and officers at
Portland, the vessels and buoy sta
tion at Astoria-
There are excellent reasons for
this- Chief among them is the fact
that the steamers must be held where
they can get instant dispatch when
called to the seas for duty. It would
never do to berth them where from
ISO to 200 miles intervene between
them and the coast lines. Hyre they
are within the very hour of deep, blue
water, witn every msnore lacmty tnai
can be imagined, ready at hand with
in actual sight of the sea. It is busi
ness, and good business, that keeps
them here.
As for the offices, the headquarters
should, necessarily, be within easy
touch of the department depots and
docks, and Portland is as good a
place, perhaps, as any within reason
able touch of Columbia; but Astoria
would be the better point and port
for even that element of the business.
Anyway it is easy to understand why
the district department was not sent
over to the Sound!
THE NORMALS.
For years there has been growing
adverse sentiment in Oregon against
State support of the Normal schools;
and it has found its logical expres
sion in the denial of the Legislature
to continue the appropriations in that
behalf. The five schools, with the
single exception of Monmouth, have
been squarely turned down, and it is
likely that Monmouth will figure in
the general collapse, in time-
There is much to be said for and
against the issue of State aid for the
Normals; but the State-wide disincli
nation to foster them is so marked
that argument becomes practically
valueless, at this time- In this utili
tarian age when commercialism
reaches out its profit-grabbing
hand and absorbs every element of
human action and industry, it is not
to be wondered at that the educa
tional interests should be made a
basis of business, and that the old
fashioned and semi-scared notion that
the State must help to maintain all
kinds of schools, should be relegated
to the limbo of things out-grown and
unnecessary.
The idea seems to be very popular
all over the land that it is enough for
the State to richly and generously
maintain the public schools and give
the children the first and best of its
care and support, leaving the culture
fend equipment of the teachers to
such sources, in a business sense, as
they shall devise for themselves or
the perspicuity of others may pro
vide. And the reversion of this
phase of our educational work to the
realm of "business" may yet prove to
be the best and cheapest for all con
cerned, provided always, the State
sets up and cnfoices, the best of
standards for the qualification oi its
teachers, a matter it is not likely to
overlook.
WING SHOTS.
President-Elect Taft has completed
the roster of his cabinet. And As
toria is once more shunted out of
sight. Sometimes we wonder why we
are on the map at all! Discourage
ment seems to be our eternal por
tion! Oregon and Washington seem to
be unified, for once, in the matter of
the Columbia fisheries. At least, it
will serve as an example in the final
adjustments that must be made. That
they can get together is proven at
last!
We notice that these $50,000 neck
laces always drop from necks that
can afford the loss. It is one of the
carking incidents the ordinary work
ing girl is free from. What of shock
there is in the disappearance of Mich
treasures, falls to the vanity, rather
than to the purse, of the loser.
Lighthouse tenders do not have to
waste a day in getting to sea from
this port; it is a mere matter of the
hour, atjd a short one at that. Noth
ing like being next to the sea when
it comes to ships and steamers and
craft and cargoes that require dis
patch! War-paint and weapons are the
order of the day in the national Con
gress. May be "our George" would
do well to tote his veto-axe along
with him Just for emergencies.
The liability of a minor to fine in
the sum of $50, for plaming himself
off on a saloonkeeper as a major
adult, should be invoked in this man's
town often enough to give the young
sters a taste of the medicine where
with we dose th saloonman so
freely. It would be a simple matter
of justice.
There are far more people leaving
Astoria for the cemeteries than for
other cities and towns. The live man
is willing to stay here for the most
part and in another year no man can
be charmed away. Astoria's prospects
are as bright and certain as any city's
on the coast.
NO INSURANCE NECESSARY.
At the recent annual convention oi
the National Association of Cement
Users was expressed the conviction,
amounting almost to utuignaiiun, mat
prevailing insurance rates are unjust
to the owners of reinforced concrete
structures. It is so well understood
that reinforced concrete surpasses all
other materials in this respect that
it was natural to find impatience
manifested on the part of those direct
ly concerned in the matter says Ce
ment Age. There is every likelihood.
however, that it will never be neces
sary for builders of highclass rein
forced concrete structures to impor
tune insurance companies to make
proper concessions. The officers of
the leading fire insurance companies
are too intelligent and far-seeing to
cut off their revenues by perpetuating
the unjust discrimination that pre
vails at present. It is altogether like
ly that they have not given the sub
ject the serious consideration it de
serves. When they do. they will be
quick to see that it is better to ac
cept a low rate on a thoroughly tire
proof structure than to have the own
er decline to take out insurance. That
is exactly what will happen if exces
sive rates prevail. The individual
who owns a structure entirely of re
inforced concrete, with such supple
mentary safeguards as fireproof
doors, wireglass windows and protcc
tedopenings, may insure contents, but
he will not worry about the structure
itself. Doubtless the majority would
prefer to insure against minimum
damage, such as might involve the
restoration of concrete surfaces, for
example, but not at excessive rates
The subject is one that concerns the
insurance companies more than the
owners of reinforced concrete build
ings, as there is increasing confidence
on the part of the latter that such
structures are entirely safe.
NASAL CATARRH.
T. F. Laurin Sells the Great Remedy
That Cured Mrs. Karberg
Here is a very simple yet wholly
sincere statement of a Michigan
woman, who was cured by using
Ifyomei the no cure no pay remedy
for catarrh, asthma, hay fever, croup,
coughs and colds.
"A bad case of catarrh was cured
for me by the use of Hyomei. The
trouble affected my head, nose and
eyes, and was very annoying and dis
agreeable, and the cure, from the use
of Hyomei, was very gratifying.
Hyomei has from me a strong rec
ommend and endorsement." Mrs. It.
Karberg, 213 Kingslcy St., Ann Ar
bor, Mich., Nov. 16, 1908.
Thousands of just such letters are
in existence, and thousands more
would be but for the desire to avoid
publicity.
If you have catarrh, bestir yourself,
and drive it out of your system. Kill
the germs. You can do that easily if
you use Hyomei (pronounced High-o-me).
It is a dry, antiseptic and very
pleasant air that, when inhaled, quick
ly relieves all forms of catarrhal infla
mation, stops snuffles, hawking and
blowing. The price for a complete
outfit, including inhaler, is only $1.00
at T. F. Laurin, Owl Drug Store-
Ell YORK FINANCES
AS TOLD BY CLEWS
TARIFF REVISION ONE OF IM
PEDINQ ELEMENTS IN THE
BUSINESS QUIETUDE. ,
NEW YORK. Feb. JO.-Money is
easy everywhere. Not only in New
York, but in Paris, Frankfort and
Berlin the tendency of interest rates
is still downward. This, of course, is
mainly due to the depression prevail
ing in commerce and industry In all
parts of the world. As a result capi
tal is accumulating and diligently
seeking every form of safe and profi
table employment. The effect of this
situation upon the security markets
is marked. In the first place, it causes
a good demand for high grade invest
ments from conservative investors
and institutions, who have more re
gard for preservation of principal than
either dividends or speculative pro
tits. At the same time another class
of buyers, via., the general public,
continues to abstain from the market,
partly because they recognise that the
prices of average stocks arc much too
high in view of existing conditions.
The insiders and big market leaders
have successfully resisted any impor
tant decline thus far, owing to the
abundance of cheap money. There
are reasons for believing, however,
that those whose policy it was tf
support the market and resist natural
tendencies . have accumulated all, if
not omre than, the stocks they de
;;re. and that in the absence of buy
ers their position is anything but a
satisfactory one, notwithstanding their
unquestioned financial strength .
For some months past all the re
sources and skill of the great leaders
have been concentrated upon the pur
pose of resisting natural tendencies.
onsidering the great shrinkage in rail
road traffic, and the unquestioned
dullness in business, prices ought to
have undergone a considerable reac
tion. Such has been the course in all
previous panics, and it is difficult to
appreciate why the results should be
any different now. There is no doubt
the recovery following the rebound
after the panic was too violent, hav
ing been unduly stimulated by the in
flationary effect of cheap money and
the powerful co-operation of great fi
nanciers. The resistance to natural
reaction was not confined to the se
curity market; it extended equally in
to all of the great industries under
the control of big combinations. It
is to be doubted, therefore, if liquida
tion has been as complete as it
should have been, in order to bring
business to a really sound basis.
Buyers, not only of stocks, but of
commodities, lack confidence. There
is a universal feeling that as prices
are too high, a recession must fol
low; and all buyers as a matter of
self-interest are preserving's hand-to-mouth
policy and obstinately re
fusing every anticipation of future
requirements.
It is this lacl confidence among
buyers that hr ich to do with the
present inertia of business. Nearly all
lines of business to-day are exceed
ingly quiet, the only signs of healthy
activity being where, as, for instance,
in cotton goods, a thorough readjust
ment has already taken place. Iron
and steel prices arc now being reduc
ed to still lower levels. But needless
to say, though this has attracted many
orders, buyers are still unsettled be
cause action has been deferred, and
the market has not yet been suffi
ciently tested y compensation be
tween buyers and sellers -Moreover,
the dullness in trade is being further
aggravated by tariff agitation. While
tariff talk does not lessen the amount
of food consumed, clothes worn or
shelter required, still the uncertainty
has a restraining effect upon new
ventures and strengthens the deter
mination of buyers to preserve a
hand-to-mouth policy. No doubt
when the tariff question is settled
business will instantly take a vigor
ous start in consequence of the ac
cumulation of deferred orders; so
that the total volume of business over
an extended period will have suffered
little or nothing. During the interval,
however, much hesitation will prevail
and must be endured until the tariff
question is settled. Unfortunately,
the prospects are for a prolonged and
bitter agitation, present indications
being for a more or less excited ses
sion of Congress, lasting well into
mid-summer, vireaay an iimnu.ii
length of time has been given to
hearings on the tariff by the Ways
and Means Committee, and with very
unsatisfactory results. President-elect
Taft is expected to call a special ses
sion of Congress beginning the mid
dle of March, and from thence on it
is to be feared that the business i
community will be harassed more
than now by tle uncertainty pend
ing revision. The tariff hat now be
come a political issue of supeme im
portance; too important and complex
to be settled by any tariff commis
sion, and capable of adjustment only
by debate and struggle on the floor
of Congress.
The outlook for the stock market
continues complex. On the one hand,
we have universal ease in money and
prospects of its continuance until the
autumn in spite of Government with
drawals of deposits, gold exports and
possible increased demands incidental
to the first of April. The good inquiry
for bonds and high class stock, is
certainly encouraging. London has
been a larger investor of American
securities than for some time past,
and the general strength of the for
eign markets will, of course, exert a
beneficial influence here. On the oth
er hand, the prospects of continued
trade in th United States the out
look for irritating tariff discussion
and the fact that neither securities
nor commodities have yet undergone
an adequate decline all tend to unset
tle confidence in the future of the
stock market. The new administra
tion wilt shortly he sworn in, and a
reassuring and encouraging message
is confidently expected from President-elect
Taft. The effect of this,
however, can only be temporary, un
less there should be a material change
in other vital conditions. The natu
ral tendency of prices is to seek a
more normal level, and the situation
would be unquestionably benefited by
a grad""1 readjustment, It is simply
a question of how long artificial re
sistance, powerfully aided by cheap
money, can hold in check natural
forces. The market is quite likely to
witness sharp rallies on any favorable
developments of importance, but the
prevailing tendency must be towards
a lower level umu ic lain, timM
and business begins to show signs of
genuine improvement.
WASN'T HUDSON. THEY SAY.
Critics Deny He Was The First Dis
cover Of River.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23-After care
ful investinalion the Treasury De
partment has come to the conclu
sion that Hendrikk Hudson was not
the discoverer of the Hudson river
after all. This fact was made known
at a meeting lat ninlit of the New
York Society of Founders and Pa
triots of America, a committee which
has under consideration the placing
of a tablet on the walls of the new
custom home in commemoration of
Hudson's discovery. Before the work
can be done, the approval of the
treasury department is necessary and
a member of the committee last night
submitted a report, including a letter
sent to Secretary Cortclyou by W. L.
Kunhardt which said that it was not
strictly accurate to say that Hudson
j discovered the Hudson river and that
Ithc river had been visited by at least
two earlier navigators, Verratano
and Gomez. Commenting on this bit
of information Assistant Secretary
Winthrop wrote:
"From this letter you will note that
the accuracy of the legend on (he tab
let is questioned and it is suggested
that before furthe raction is taken in
the matter that you have the state
ment verified and advise this office
of the change, if any, that you con
sider advisabble.
The committee will go ahead, how
ever, on the theory that Hudson was
to all practical purposes the discov
ered of the river and with the belief
that if such technicalities were al
lowed to stand in the way it would
be about the same as denying that
Columbus discovered America, as
this continent had been visited by
Nnrsemi'n manv centuries before.
Discussion of Hudson's claim to
fame is particularly interesting at
this time in view of the approaching
Hudson-Fulton centennial, for which
elaborate preparations have been
made.
The Pure Food And Drug Law
has not only brought the foods and
drugs of this country up to a higher
standard of purity, but it has elimi
nated the harmful medicines with
which this country was flooded. I
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FINANCIAL.
First national Bank of Astoria
DIRECTORS , '
Jacob Kamm W. F. McGregor G. C. Flavbl
J. W. Ladd S. S. Gordon
Capital .........$100,000
Surplus 25,000
Stockholders' Liability 100,000
KHTAHL18HKP HtM.
J. Q. A. BOWLBY, President , J. W. GARNER. Assistant Cashier
0. 1, PETERSON, Vice-President FRANK PATTON, Cashier
ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $232,000
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