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THE MUKM.XC AST0K1AN. ASJTOHIA, OREIJON. SUNDAY, FtoLRUARY 28, 1909. frn LOOK AT A KERNEL.OF COFFEE' Break It and note how much of it la chaff. It fa tliit . chatrthnt contains the unpleasant astringent principle fianuin), o o r , T f test's iiarruvgtoiulall with .on pcori. ffft3 Steel rVtffoA f you coiurry i' (,u Yoo will taste the difference in the first ccpfub. The chaff has been removed from this coflee by wonderful steel-cutting process. Pack ed by Machinery In Muled tins it (a the wily pore coilee, tree from doit and tatmiu-beAringchnfE PRICE, PER POUNO, 4 0 CE.NTS A. V. ALLEN ---------w-wwwwwwwwwwww-wwwdwwwwwvtw-w-t-- rrTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTi oenuflFTCKise YORK JMIONS; JUVENILE MANHATTAN RED HOT CONSUMPTION TO BE FOUGHT AS EPIDEMIC. . NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-Recem ex posures in regard to snow removal hive revealed the startling fact that this article is more expensive here than anywhere else in the world; that it is indeed one of the citys most expensive luxuries. Of late years the cost to the city of this commod ity, which officially is regarded as ans'ihing bnt beautiful, has been go ing up by leaps and bounds. Last year the cost of removing one inch, that is half an hour's fall was $17, 000, a figure which caused all sorts of unpleasant comment and criticism. This year, however, the cost has in creased more than three hundred percent, as a result of which the cost of removal up to date has been $58, 700 an inch, and this too in view of the fact that the city has at no time as yet had any large snowfall. Fig-, ared at this rate one day's fall in a good sized storm might cost the city nearly a million dollars for its re moval, to say nothing of the addition al loss in other fields which might well double that sum. Figured on a snowfall equal to that of last winter, that is, thirtyqtwo inches, the cost of removing it under present conditions would amount to $1,858,400 compared to $551304 twelve months ago. Much of this surprising cost, it is asserted, is due to graft and improper meth ods, under which contractors are paid so much for each cubic yard of snow delivered at the dumps on the river fronts. Under this system each cart is supposed to bear a letter showing its, capacity -It is asserted, however, that contractors whose carts have been in use, and the checkers at the trmps by whom checks on the city are issued for the yardage delivered lave been in collusion, with the result that the driver of a cart containing two cubic yeards of snow received a check calling for payments of three yards, and so on. The additional MOTHERS WHO HAVE DAUGHTERS Find Help in Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound Winchester, Ind. "Four doctors told me that they could never make regular, ana iiiiiuiijii ii.ni....iiiiiiiwii.mujij! -a i. ..v -v ' " i y me that I would event ually have dropsy. I would bloat, and sufferfrombearing- downpaihs,cramps ana cuius, ana 1 could not sleep nights. Mr mother wrote to Mrs. Pin k hamforadvice.and I began to take LydiaE.Plnkham's veeetable Com pound. After taking one and one half bottles of the Compound, I am all right again, and I recommend it to very suffering woman." Mas. Mat Deal, Winchester, Ind. Hundreds of such letters from girls nd mothers expressing their gratitude for what Lydia E. llnkham's Vege table Compound has accomplished for them have been received by The Lydia K. rin.':hamMedicine Company, Lynn, Mass. , Girls who are troubled with painfu1 r irregular periods, backache, head ache, dragging-down sensations, faint big spells or indigestion, should takt immediate action to ward off the seri eus consequences and be restored tr. health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound. Thousands have been restored to health by its use. If you would like special advice about your case write a confiden tial letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lvnn, Mass.- Her advice is free, iul always helpful. amount thus fraudentty charged to the city, it is asserted, have resulted in one of the easiest forms of graft 'since the Tweed days. Altogether the city does not relish the arrival of snow any more than it does the dis tinction of paying more for that ar than commonly looked upon as free, than any other city in the world. 1 With the Fourth of July still more than four months away, young Amer ica, so far as this city is concerned, is tilled with gloom", for according to the edict which has just gone forth Independence Day the glorious fourth will not be glorious at all this year. Instead the city, will have what may be termed a denatured Celebration in which only the youth ful capitalists of the city will be able to participate- Practically N'ew York will have no Fourth this year, and as a result the man who is responsible for the innovation that is. Fire Commissioner Hayes could not be elected to the office of dog catcher as far as the juvenile vote is concerned. The whole sad situation is due to the ruling that no fireworks shall be sold in this city between June 10 and July 10. In other words, only those elect few wlfo are able to import explo sives in the shape of firecrackers, bombs and the like or to tie cp the capital invested in them for nearly month, will be able to celebrate. Nine boys out of every ten in this city irho celebrate the Fourth in the old- fashioned way obtain the materials for so doing only a day or two in ad vance by means of money earned in any possible way during the few pre ceding days. To require them to lay in their supply of firecrackers a month ahead, and thus tie uptheir capital, is to bar them from celebrat ing the Fourth. This, however, nefari ous as it may seem, is jnst what Com missioner Hayes has , in mind, for strangely enough he has figured out that it will be easier and cheaper to prevent the usual crop of Fourth of July fires than to fight them. So un less the cruef edict is revoked the Fourth this year will resound not with the racket of firecrackers and cannon, but with the heart broken howls of the children participating in the city's fir?t noiseless Fourth. That tuberculosis should be fought by the same rigorous municipal ac tion that would be taken to combat an outbreak is the statement with which medical experts have startled New York and which is now being serious ly discussed. Such action and the continuance of experiments upon ani mals to learn additional facts regard ing the disease which- causes approx imately one death in every ten is de clared to be the only hope of suc cessfully coping with it This phase of the subject has been called to pub lic attention by Dr. Herman M. Biggs, general medical officer of the city's health department, who is re sponsible for the elaborate measures already adopted here to combat the spread fo the Great White Plague. "I regard it as the duty of every mu nicipality," he says "to look upon tu berculosis officially as an infectious and communicable disease, dangerous to the public health, which must be stamped out. "Tuberculosis, long rec ognized as one of the most falal di seases to which the human race is subject, was formerly considered as inherited and unpreventable. Animal experimentation, however, showed that it is not inherited but that it is communicable and therefore preven table. I believe that further research in the field of animal experimentation should earnestly be encouraged and not hampered, if we hope eventually to conquer the disease. It is only by this means that a specific treat ment may ultimely be discovered as has been the case in diphtheria." tt tt tt It Anyone who can satisfactorily answer the question as to when a camel is not. a camel will be confer ring a boon on the scientists of this city who delight in the study of evo lution. The question is not a riddle, but a matter of violent debate, in no way related to the conundrum which inquires as to when a door is not a door. The answer Is not nearly so tt . . .. .. . .. ft 1 M M i .W A ii i-vX Inf. rx-ip: 1 1 - - -y i ) ' 1 - 'V ; ?-f - ienjenii CI ofhes for Spring ,You are invited to call and inspect the new Benjamin styles for spring. You will find we are showing something different, some thing new, distinctly new. Benjamin clothes are made in New York and acknowledged to be the leaders in 'fashion. You will see the best tailors in the country show the pat terns and styles that we have in stock. PRICES $20.00 to $40.00 THE MYOPIA The new shirts for Spring have, arrived and are now on sale at our store. Call and see them. Keisers neckwear, new styles for spring. ntMMm mm 1 THE WOOLEN HULL STORE. 557 Commercial Street. h tiammm jo i jj...m.n.Bna-.ji i simple in fact as yet no answer at all has been found, and its final achieve ment is likely to result in all sorts of scientific recrimination. The whole matter takes its origin from a -statement recently made by Professor Loomis before a scientific meeting at the Hotel Astor that the camel as we know it today is of American and not Asiatic origin. He explained, as a result of his investigation ' in the t southwest, that the animal in question j began its existence in this country j some three million years ago, as i shown by fossil remains. In support i of his argument he exhibited speci-', LARGE AMOUNT OF I MATERIALS USED NO SUBSTITUTE HAS YET BEEN FOUND TO TAKE THE PLACE OF WOOD. WASHINGTON', D. C, Feb. 27. ments of the alleged camel varying I hat the humble railroad tie is a from the size of a jack rabbit, andtlost important factor in the material having four toes and no sign of a development of the country is a great hump up to larger specimens of a la-1 truth that is little understood by peo ter period with horns resembling p'e outside of railroad circles. The mall antelopes more than anything puffing engine that speeds at the rate else. Unfortunately for America's (of a mile or more a minute over the claim to the first camel as advanced country is a slave to the two steel by Professor Loomis, various scicn- rails that insure a smooth and safe tists have risen up and asserted that road, and these rails in turn depend and easy preservative treatment. the specimens which he held to be on the old-fashioned wooden cross prehistoric camels were nothing more tie which holds them in place, than prehistoric rabbits and ante-: Yankee invention has not yet found lopes. Back of them is the support of -a substitute which has induced the the laymen who argue that an ani- railroads to give up wood, although mal that resembles a rabit more than experts say that the day will surely anything else was just as much a rab- ;come when the country's forests will bit three million years ago as now, no longer be called upon to supply and that the antelope sized specimens demand for ties. Up to the pres were ana-lopes especially in view of cnt time it seems that no other ma the fact that camels never had any terial has been found which has the horns. So the question, which promis- residency of wood and which at the es to divide scientists into two camps same time causes less wear and tear of supply of tie timber will be opened still remains. When is a camel not a camel? The answer given by those who disagree Vith Professor Loomis is when it is a rabbit or an antelope. with approximately 10 per cent of the total- Naturally the proportion of these two timber will increase as the supply of oak dwindles. This is also true of cedar, chestnut, cypres, west ern pine, tamarack, hemlock, and oth er trees which are coming into the market as tie timbers. Cedar, which is very durable, has been extensively used to take the place of white oak for tics, but It is so soft that it is readily cut by the rails. This necessitates the use of tie plates nd other protective device when cedar tics arc used. As the sup ply of cedar is also running short, it is necessary for the railroads to seek further for new tie timber. One of the woods which has all, the requis ites of a good tie, with the exception of durability, is the beech. A beech tic generally', consists largely of sapwood, which partly ac counts for its lack of durability, but, on the other hand, allows a thorough In Germany and France, beech tics have been successfully preseved from de cay, and are used very extensively. Itccch is found widely distributed throughout the eastern part of the United States, and at the present time is comparatively cheap and abundant. 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N'EW YORK, Feb. 26,-An angry mob seeking to avenge the death of a five year old boy who wa3 killed by a Madison Avenue Street car in Harlem last evening, attacked the motorman and conductor, smashed the Stumpage values have been in creasing so rapidly during the last few years that many railroads have found it necessary to modify their timber policy, and they yearly apply preservatives to a greater number of tics and to more kinds of wood. Sub stitute woods naturally vary with dif on the rails, fastenings, and roadbed. The country's railroads during the last three years used 110,000,000 to 150,000,000 of sawed and hewn ties a year. The ideal tie timber is white oak, which combines the qualities of durability, hardness, strength, and close grain. It is not only excellent for ties, but is widely used in ship building, for general construction, in ferent sections of the country, but in cooperage, in the manufacture of car- most cases they lack the two esscn- riages,' for agricultural implements, taial qualities found in white oak, interior finish of houses, and for furn- namely, resistance to mechanical wear itnre. On account of this wide use, and to decay. Experience proves that the supply has been greatly reduced wear can be successfully retarded by windows of the car and were threat- and some of the railroads have been the use of tie plates and other me- ening a lynching when the police re- forced to pay almost prohibitive pri- chanical devices, and decay ' can be serves arrived and charged with their Ccs for ties, or to substitute other postponed by the application of pro night sticks and revolvers. The victim and cheaper woods to replace the per preservatives. The new condi was Nathan Sadak, who was struck white oak ties rapidly disappearing tions have made it necessary for many while attempting to cross the track from their lines. railroad companies to meet the prob- in front of his father's store. When ' Over 40 per cent of the ties recent- lem of preservation by establishing the motorman and the conductor had ly purchased by the railroads of the treating plants at central points of been arrested on a technical charge country are oak, according to latest distribution alon gtheir lines, of homicide a jeering crowd followed statistics of United States Forest them all the way to the police sta- Service. Cross-ties of Southern pine Hon. j formed somewhat less than 25 cent, Douglas fir tics ranked per Subscribe to the Morning Astorian third, .60 cents per month by carrier. ASTORIA ttll RIVER R. R. Will Mil cheap round trip excursion tickets to Denver May 17th, July 1st and August nth On June and & 3rd, July and & 3rd and August nth and lath, very low round trip rates will be made to St Paul, Duluth, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago and all eastern points, Through Rail and Steamship tickets sold to all parts of the world. For full particulars call or address O. B. JOHNSON, Gen'l Agent A. & C. R. R. 12tb St, near Commercial 8t ASTORIA, OREGON. LET US TELL YOU ABOUT Tungsten Electric Lamp j Greatest advance In lighting methoda since the invention ol incandescent lamps. EXAMPLE 32 C. P. Ordinary electric lamp conaumea ..... 32 C. P. "Tungsten" electric lamp consumes 110 watts per hour 40 watts per hour Saving 70 watts per hour By using "Tungsten" lamps you can get 875 per cent increase In light lor the same cost or In other wordi can have the same quantity of illumination for 35 per cent of the coat of lighting with ordinary electric lampe. The Astoria Electric Co