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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03


ready ana placed In commission with
but little delay the fleet now numbers
lfss, net taking into account the old
style wooden ships that are listed US
9uservieeaele,"
So much for numbers. Hut the etti'
cheney Of che navy Is measured quite
as much by the character Of its battle
ships ms by It's numbers. IN 1898 the
lnatien had three tirst-elass battle.
ships Now it has is, aud viii
have 20 when those now under con-
struction shall have been completed,
| During the war there We're two arm-
nrea cruisers the New York and
brooklyn should there he an im-
mediate prospect of war eight more
could be rushed into completion,
When the war broke out we had no
Iharhor defense vessel, Now there are
sixteen. including. the powerful mont-
tors Arkansas, Florida, Nevada ana
Wyoming. AL most formidable craft,
with li-mch armor and is-inch guns
We had eight gunhoats Of the BAN
croft class when the war broke out
and now We have L., We had no smail
gunboats suitable for police work now
we have fleet OF II, Neither did We
have any torpedo boat destroyers. and
now we have fleet OF 10, while our
torpedo boats have Increased from II
to s5, and our submarines grown from
nothing TO eight
We have Ave fine auxiliary cruisers
OF the Dixie and Buffalo class. where
we had none before the Spanish war,
and fleet OF converted yachts, g3 in
number. where We had no such craft
before. These, with one exception.
are all sizeable vessels OF iron and steel
and what converted yacht can do
when properly handled Is shown by
the record Of the Glouchester at the
sea fight.
Since the war there has been placed |
in the service fleet Of non-combatant
vessels that were nom existent before
We're made for the hostile |
Off Manila. Now there
are 10 colIiers and II hospital and sup
ply ships, including refrigerator dis
Hing ships, repair ships, etc. In ad-
iition to all Of these there are 42 YES
sels, including II tirst-class battle
'hips, under construction. Since the
Of the war the navy has
'uilt or purchased 81 coal barges. nine
Ish lighters, 10 water barges and seven
lighters,
In the matter OF cost II Is stated
hat over s76,000,000 Will be required
n addition to the millions already 4
pent upon them, to complete the ships
ow undergoing construction, includ- h
ng their armor or armament--just to
nut the hulls In shape to receive the !
uns and in condition to have the
rmor put on. =,
1t is becoming more apparent as the
ears go by that future wars must be
aged tnrpaty nm tha Saa ara ,ho
nited States il putting herself In
for any emergency.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03
All Sorts OF Items

New York has had fifty-hve United
States Senators In li0 years.
Lions and tigers are too weak IN tunl
power to run more than half mile.
A recent census OF China shows that
country crowded with "teeming mil.
lions"
In Indian Territory there are 1884
Indian scholars enrolled In the public
schools.
Servia and Greece each have n popu-
lation a little less than the state Of In
diana.
There are 2,4OO publishing houses in
the United States, with a working cap
ital Of $214,O0O,00O.
When railroad train goes off the
track, there you are; but when an air
ship blows up where are you?
1t Is figured out by some one that the
average travelling man, preacher or
teacher, talks 10000 words day. ~.
England gets about $5,OO0,0OO, worth
Of new gold from Africa every month
and S7,o00,O 900 worth out OF Australia
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03

To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tab
lets. All druggists refund the money
II It fails to cure. ID. w. Groves Sig
nature is on each box. 25c. If
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03
AsToRlAN PUBLISHING co.
ABOUT CLEAN MONEY.

We are in receipt of a letter from
the Post check currency bureau, S2'
Vermont avenue. Washington, dealing
with the problem of clean money
1t appears from the letter that oul
present paper money system involves
hygienic evil and 1t is the purported
aim Of the Post bureau TO remedy this
defect. lnclosed with the letter is the
following reproduction from the Phil
adelphia Medical Council:
III you could take an ordinary bill
out of your pocket and mark ii so that 1t
would be Of no use to any one except
to the one to whom you wished TO send
it. and then enclose il in an ordinary
letter and send ID by mail doing away
with the journey for a money order,
YOU would think II great conven-
ience would you not? Yet this is just
what the post check currency would
enable you to do.
When this money has been used in
this manner 1t Is returned to the treas
ury for redemption and fresh bill is
issued in its stead. Thus the circu-
lating currency is constantly kept
fresh, clean and comparatively free
from disease germs. This would ap-
peal to the physician and hygienist as
an important step in our progress to-
wards the final stamping out of all
contagious diseases. What can be
more unhygienic than old. worn
greasy paper money, passing from
hand to hand among all classes and
conditions Of men? Time and again
they have been examined and found
literally to swarm with bacteria. The |
clean, fresh post check would be used |
but little until some one wanted 10 send
1t by mail. when its further circula-
ton would cease, and a new one
would take its place. Business men
endorse it. 1t now re-
mains only for the medical profession
and all who desire clean, healthful
money to see its many good,
money-saving and
health and life-saving qualities and
write their congressman and sena-
tors about it urging them to vote for
the bill III. r. 1976), which win come
up for passage at the present session.
The plan has the approval Of the post
master general and was fayorably re-
ported upon by the house post office
committe at the last session."
While clean money" is pretty much
Of paradoxical subject, it is evi-
dent there is some merit in the post
check system. 1t would seem, how
ever that the matter Is purely one per-
tanning to healthful conditions, and
that medical men should be appealed
to IN the effort to secure endorsement
Of the plan. 1t is further urged that
the system would provide most con-
Venient means Of transmitting money
through the mails. Doubtless the
present congress viii carefully consid-
n it.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03

The French Alpine Club appointed
committee Of scientific men two
years ago to collect annually the re-
suits Of all the studies Of glaciers made
in every part of the world and to pre-
pare yearly report. The second re-
port, covering 1892, just issued, pre-
sents a large amount of evidence to
show throughout the world the great
majority Of glaciers are manifesting
a constant tendency to diminish in
area. Their lower ends are slowly re-
treating up the mountains. There are
exceptions to this rule in small dis
tricts, but these exceptions only en-
phasize the prevailing tendency every
where from the Arctic to the Antarc-
tic zones. In the Alps, for instance,
the elimination of glaciation is every
where noticeable, excepting in the ORR
entail Alps, where the glaciers are now
q little longer and thicker than they
were at the beginning of the century
Throughout the Cordilleras Of the An
des the glaciers are retreating.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03
THE YEAR IN CALIFORNIA.
Chronicle Reviews Result OF Indus
sries and Producers.

san Francisco. Jan. 1.-The chron,
icie's annual is devoted to reviews b,
leading experts of the state of wha
has heen accomplished during the pas
wear end estimates of Callfornla's ahil.
| tty to maintain 10000. 600 people at The
close OF this century. II is estimated
that the population OF san Francisco
IL thGt time will be 100000. During
1903 In round numbers $iS.00O,0O0 II
gold and 100000 In silver were pro-
duced by the mines.
The. orange crop reached total OF
$4,000 cars OF $50 boxes each against
24.o01 cars last year. Two thousand
cars Of this orange shipment went from
northern California. Lemon shipments
reached 1850 cars OF az boxes each.
Other products were AS follows:
Wine s2.OO0.o0O gallons; brandy g..
-oa,;43 gallons walnuts li.60o.O00
pounds; almonds 100000 pounds,
beans lt7,500OO0 pounds; salmon o.
10000 cases, wheat 9,5l7.S00 centals.
barley 9,s5o.O0o centnls; fuel oil 2S,o0O,-
OdD barrels, worth 75 cents barrel at
tid,~ater; prunes ii5.ooooO0 pounds.
peaches 3oOOO,oO0 poGsis; aprlsots
~ 100000 pounds; raisins ii2,00O,000
pounds; canned fruit 100000 cases;
wool 22.50000o pounds and beet sugar
1F4, 900. 900 pounds.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03

Ice was floating This heroic deytcr
was tlrst tested on large scale IN the
Italian army, The percentage of re-
coveries in italy appeared 20 be en-
eouraging, but Il should be )kept IN
mind that most of the patients there
We're hardy, vigorous peasants. Mtlder
and tess violeut plans In the efforts to
lessen bodily heat are more IN favor
ia these days,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03

The illustrated annual Of the Salem
Statesman is Of more than 100 pages
and one of the most worthy New Year
publications that haN reached this Of
flee. 1t contains not only the most
complete information regarding Salem
and the towns Of Marion county, but
also deyotes considerable space to
growing Coos county. 1t is fully up
10 former ANNALS issued from the
Statesman office and should be widely
circulated In the interests of Salem.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03

Addressing the Jacksonian Club Of
Nebraska, on the occasion Of the an
niVersary Of Andrew Jackson's mem
orable victory at New Orleans. Com
gresham DeArmond, of Missouri,
said: Labor and capital bid fair to
unite in support of the democratic
bearer" If we are to take the congress-
mans word for it, those of us who
neither work nor have riches are left
TO support the republican bearer.
Heavens! what discouraging out
look.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03
New Training School Opens.

Chicago, Jal. "A training school
for philanthroplc and social work will
qren January II, under the auspices OF
the university division OF the un!vcrs-
ity of Chicago, with Prof. Graham
Taylor as president.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03

The population OF Seattle Is. accord
ing to the Post.IntellIgeneer. 1880,
This estimate Is based on report made
by the Seattle electric company.
Doubtless the estimate win be verified
hy the corner grocer when he submits
his report,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03
NORTHERN PACIFIC
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Tacoma and Seattle Night
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Take Puget Sound Limited or Norsa.,
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Take Puget Sound Limited for Otym-
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Take Puget Sound Limited or Ian
aas Gty-St. Louis Special FOR prints
on soath Bead branch.
Double daily train service on 0ray's
Harbor branch.
Four trains daily between Portland.
Tacoma and Seattle
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03

An interesting experiment has been
tried In the great London hospital in
The treatment of typhoid fever by keep
ing a patient In water at temperature
OF lOl degrees for days at time. With
In a few years a favorite scheme of
reducing the temperature of sufferers
was to plunge them in bath where
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-01-03
Cyclone Bill Knocked Out.

Baltimore, Jan. 2.--Young Peter
Jackson Of this city knocked out Cy-
clone Bill Larry, Of Philadelphia (both
colored) in five rounds.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
Value of advance in
struction for the repre-
sentative members of a
concern.

Who is not representative men,
Der? From Office boy to the chair.
man of the board and back again
is there any one in any way con-
nected with any kind of an orgcniza.
ton who is not in some sense r,2re.
sentative?
Even customers or patrons are also
representative. Observers are also
representative If any occasion arises
for an expression of opinion.
lnsufticiently instructed messengers
have done much harm while doing
the best they knew how. The right
kinds of instruction will turn indiffer.
ence into earnestness and also ignor
ant earnestness into executive intelli
gence.
An advertising agency man tells me
that boys who go to school to wait fol
school to let out grow into men who
watch the clock to quit work and are
let out. ---- .-.
A messenger from an organization
recently made three commercial er
rors while attending to transaction
and each one of the errors seemed tc
be due to systematic habit to escape
useful effort.
There is such thing as ten.
pound exertion to escape one-pound
duty.
When a person begins to plan to
shirk there is a chance for walking
mile to escape four minutes of
work.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
Nothing Doing-Nothing Done.

These sound alike, and we hear
them occasionally, but there is diff
ference.
There is nothing done more be-
cause we do not get to work than be-
cause there is nothing doing.
Some good planners are at their
busiest work when there is nothing
doing. They are getting ready to take
care of things right when there is
something doing.
Nothing doing simply meas that
we are not forced to hustle by outside
powers.
If we have our inside powers go
ing we will find plenty to dol know
of one person now who has years OF
work mapped out and waiting.
Some forget that there is much do
ing when one is resting. There are
times when the best doing is to go
slow and not get done up.
This subject was awakened this
morning by hearing person at elev.
en- a. m. repeat the time and the
words nothing done.
We should know whether we are
resting or rusting when nothing is be.
ing done.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
A great deal of disa.
greeableneSS can be
c O un t q r a c t e d b Y
thoughtfulnesS.

1t is possible that the charity that
covereth a multitude of sins Is fore
thought under another name.
People may have some unpopular
habit or way which we are made to
forget by their happy wisdom in
prompting or helping us to do some
thing we wanted to do.
Or their forethought may consist
in noticing your work or your chill
dren or your pet subject and in doing
so they cheer you to an altitude above
criticism.
There is a stratum of happiness
where those who get that high are
blind to irritants that would worry all
who live beneath them.
If love Is blind 1t Is blind because
the heart lifts the mind from earth to
heaven, but love is never blind to
everything-only to the nonessential
things.
1t is the nonessential things which
irritate us most and blind us to the
good in the essential.
We should always be in love with
our friends and our work in order to
live while we live. People who do
not care very much for anything do
not half live.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
Dictionaries That Do No Good.

You can get an abridged dictionary
that will not carry you across a rivu.
let.
findings of words worry more peo-
pie than any other part of spelling yet
You can find dictionaries that are use.
less on endings.
1t requires an education to know
how to use good dictionary in a
wise manner and it requires ignorance
to be willing to use poor dictionary
and find that it contains everything
except what you want to know.
Some people are so we'll up on
spelling and definitions that all they
need dictionary handy for is to ac-
commodate their friends. Other peo-
pie have to wear out volume a year
in order to be accurate.
A boy in school wanted to write a
note to schoolmate requesting the
loan of his dictionary but lie did not
know how to spell the word and he
had to retreat to sign language to
get IT..
A man tried to find the word anxi.
GUS in the dictionary but he looked
for anctious and had to give up. Can
dictionary be made that will help
you find word you misspell?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
I AM TIRED.
Everybody is Tired - Spring
Weather Does It-Every One
Should Be Cautious.

Depression Of the nervous system at
the approach of spring Is the cause.
General lassitude, dull, heavy sensa-
tons, continual tired feeling, with ir.
regular appetite, and sometimes loss
OF sleep. Peruna meets every indica-
ton and proves itself to be perfectly
adapted to all their varied peculiari.
ties. Peruna invigorates the system,
rejuvenates the feelings, restores the
normal appetite and produces regular
sleep.
That tired feeling which Is the nat
ural result of the depressing effect Of
warm weather Immediately after the
invigorating cold of winter, quietly
disappears when Peruna Is taken.
Thousands are daily testifying to its
priceless benefit.
Mrs. II. Kassatt, 1909 West 18th
street, Des Moines, Ia, writes: II am
happy to give my endorsement for
your valuable medicine, Peruna, as
consider it a valuable medicine to take
when the system is run down from
overwork. About two years ago felt
that must take a long rest as had
been unable to work for over a month
and could not regain my strength.
could not sleep at night and was in
very nervous, high strung, condition
| decided to try what Peruna would do
to build up my strength, and am
pleased to say that began to improve
very shortly, and in less than two
months l was able to take up my
work. and felt better than have for
years. take 1t now twice year and
find that 1t keeps me in perfect
health" Mrs. Kassatt was for over
ten years the manager of plant fur
nishing ladies' wear and employing
hundreds Of women.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
Is individual care
leSSneSS a cause OF
big orders being lost?

A suburbanite Is a person who car
ries bundles. Such a person had a
big bundle tied with very slim and
short string and under the string on
top of the bundle was a newspaper
when the bundle left the car, but the
suburbanite has not seen the news
paper since leaving the car with the
bundle under his arm.
Bundles, newspapers and string are
wonderful things in many ways, but
they do not mind the careless per-
son.
This suburbanite wanted his news
paper after he reached home, but he
went without it.
Tucked in things are inclined to
get away from you. That is a fore
thought for you provided it prevents
your losing something.
To let a one-cent newspaper get
away from you Is not very much, but
it is carelessness and could not care.
lessness let a million dollar sale of
blank paper get away from a mill
agent?
Carelessness in little thing to-day
may be the beginning of carelessness
in big thing tomorrow.
A desire to be right in all things.
twenty-four hours a day, is the first,
last and all the time friend of accur.
acy.
To be afraid of tiny slips Is to grow
bravery for gigantic tasks-at lea st
this is so where every one has an
equal show.
The gold watch that ticks the near
est to perfection of any will never
be able to drive spikes like sledge
hammer.
But the watch that Is absolutely &C
curate for baking of biscuit Is a
good watch by which to start and
stop the mile-a-minute express train.
Strong people admire exactness in lit
tie things. Have you noticed that?
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
How many pencils
are unin tention al ly
ock e te d h ere an d
there and everywhere
every day?

The pencil with which this Is being
whom I visited yesterday.
When l became conscious of its
possession the man with me said 1t
was not his property.
While planning with pencil and pa.
per at an EDITORS desk l remember
now that he had some yellow pencils
and this Is yellow pencil.
You have heard about yellow jour.
nalism, but such work is not due to
yellow pencils, as the editor with
yellow pencils is not anywhere near
to yellow journalism.
Next Monday am to call on tho
editor again, and 1t will be memory
exercise for me to try to have with
me and offer to him this yellow pen.
Gil.
If can do it may be able to 20
something else sometime a great deal
more important just because of it.
For yesterdays call had a special
subject to speak about and made an
effort to remember it by having it
recorded on paper and the paper in
the pocket where my most alive
things to do are carried.
More than this, told myself to be
sure and speak to the editor about
1t and tried to exert my determine
ton in way to have intuitive fore
thought when l reached his office.
The subject was remembered and
the editor said that the way for him
to do what I wanted him to do was
to do it now and he put the subject
under his most alive paper weight.
Do mechanical helps help you re-
member? Can you tell yourself to do
a thing and think at the right time to
do it? Have you taken memory ex-
ercises that were of any permanent
value to you? A man told me this
week that he could repeat a list Of
thirty disconnected words which he
memorized by association though he
heard them but one time.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
NO APPET|TE-EMACIA TED-NERvOUS.
Many Women During the Spring Months Suffer From
Extreme Lassifude, Loss of Appetite and
Nervousness-What They Need Is
Pe-ru-na, the Great OniC

Miss Bertha M. Rush, 5435 Kincarde
street, Pittsburg. Pa. Superintendent
Junior Society of Methodist Protestant
Church and leading Soprano of the
choir. writes: Words cannot describe
my thankfulness to you for Peruna.
was sufferer from systemic catarrh
for years and was In a very much run
down condition. l was extremely ner.
vous and had the most foolish fears
over nothing. / was thin and ema-
ciated.
"My physician advised me to leave
this climate, but as It was not con.
venient to do SO at this time, l took
the advice of a friend to use a bottle
Of Peruna. took 1t faithfully and
when the first bottle was gone felt
SO much better that bought six more
and took them faithfully, after which
! looked like a new woman.
II gained in flesh, my appetite re-
turned and all my old symptoms had
disappeared. I am more than thank
full to Peruna,"-Miss Bertha M. Rush.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-03-31
Have you had bunch.
ed plumbers where you
made four mistakes in
nine minutes?

Amateurs ere likely to get discour-
aged or ratified il mistakes come so
fast and big that they are more no
ticeable than anything else.
A veteran knows no such thing as
encouragement and when unexpected
opposition comes up or troublesome
internal conditions are found he
knows but one thing to do and that is
fight.
Keep a stiff upper lip and fight.
Make the best of poor conditions and
fight. Be thankful things are not
worse and fight.
Fight for better methods and vic
tory. Fight for accuracy and re-
suits. Fight for forethought and
know more that is worth putting to
work.
We know too much of that kind of
information worth putting on the
shelf. We need to know more in the
way of disable wisdom.
While some amateurs fight like vet.
Grams and some veterans initiate am.
ateurs, the average amateur will take
to the woods where the average vet.
eran will take another breath to re.
main and fight or fail.
This is due to experience and ex-
perience means exercise. Will exer.
cises increase ones experience?
Yes, sire! Thousands and thou
sands of dollars are invested in ex.
ercising machinery for the purpose
of acquiring experience.
You can ward off many diseases by
the physical experience secured by
systematic exercises.
You can ward off many errors by
the mental experience secured by
systematic exercises. Think to pur.
pose a minute day and see results.