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COUNCIL MEETING
Continued from Page S.

surveyor and department payroll
$12.0; city Lumber \ Box Company
$495; Foard \ stokes Hardware Com
pauy, $Ll5: G. W, Sanhorn, $25N0; \
V. Allen, $3.50; q. II. n ~ IS; $
Elmorc $50.
The report OF the auditor and police
judge in regard to liens against the
city was read This showed that from
1895 to December 81, 1906, the city
of Astoria has. been assessed for street
improvements and the construction OF
sewers and dams and these, assess
ments entered In the dockets of city
liens against property owned by the
city by the Water Commission and by
the United states government. Also
that school district number one has
been assessed to the extent OF sS,-
$47,23, And none Of these assessments
have been satisfied The school dis
trict number one assessments amount
to $3,S47.2s. with s1,O5s,SS interest, to-
falling $5,S07.OS The city assessments
were $445sS6. The auditor recon-
mended that he hereafter be allowed to
satisfy these claims as they came up
by warrants,
This was referred to the committee
on Ways and Means ana to the city
attorney.
The report of the police Judge that
s1525,25 had been received was al
lowed.
The ordinance to raise the salary Of
the chief of police and policemen was
passed, but as the bill provides that
the payment begin from the first day
OF the present year. the ordinance Is
an ex post facto ruling and Of doubt
ful validity The mayor viii have the
matter passed upon before signing the
measure.
A measure to license theaters and
other places Of resort was brought up
and reopened the fight on the open
town question. II was declared that
1t was measure providing for the
licensing Of the places OF amusement
which are immoral. After good deal
of discussion the matter was indefinite
ly postponed.
Attention was called to the bell tow
er In Uppertown, which was declared
to be rotting away and dangerous Bids
will be advertised for the removal Of
the bell and the tower will be torn
down.
Mr.. Wick's estimate and plans for
the new engine house were shown. The
building as proposed will be SO by AZ
feet and will be two stories high. The
estimated cost is s10,931.
The board of appraisers were or
dered TO assess the property on Co.
lumbia avenue at a certain point. This
assessment will be the foundation Of
the trial cases to test the validity of
the new amendments to the city char
ter. The assessments will be ready by
and the city council will
meet in special session on that night
to act upon them.
A molten was introduced that the
city attorney be instructed to draw
up an ordinance requiring the A. & c. |
R. railroad to provide a gate and a
1agman at each railroad crossing from
}rd street to 18th street, The motion
was carried.
The meeting adjourned until next
Wednesday evening
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A VALUABLE LESSON.

six years ago learned valuable
lesson" writes John Pleasant, of Mag
nolia, Ind. Il then began taking DR..
Kings New Life Pills, and the long
er I take them the better I find them"
They please everybody. Guaranteed
at Chas. Rogers, druggist 25c.
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but it did her sight Of good. Then we
complied with the instructions in using
the entire set Of Cuticura Remedies
and my wife is entirely recovered. She
thanks Cuticura very much, and will
recommend it highly in our locality
and in every nook and corner Of our
parish. God bless you for the sake Of
suffering humanity. /. NJ. Robert, Hy-
dropolis, La, Jan. 5 and Sept. / 1906"
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FOR RENT
WANTED-To BUY OR RENT.


WANTED-TWO OR THREE FUR
nlshed rooms for housekeeping or
small furnished house. Man and wife,
no children. Not too far out, perma-
nent. Answer this Office. 2-2-1t
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O doctor with no
effect at all until
she employed Gu
ticlra Soap and
Ointment. One
OF her hands and
her left eye were
b a d | y affected,
a n d when S h o
would stop using
Cuticura Soap and
Ointment the &C.
zema came back,
tttlt ynry Eliuhtlsy.
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ll.s5-sg1.Hsas4 i.al4.aa.a ~
FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-UNTIL FEBRUARY l5--
Gasoline Salmon fishing boat with
seine, round bottom. Boat 80 feet
long, beam 10 feet 4 inches, depth Of
hull feet s inches, docked, 9-horse
San Francisco standard gasoline en-
gne was installed, direct from fac
tory, July, 1905. Up-to-date fishing
rig complete. Price 1850. Owner, S.
Il. Watney, Ballard, Wash, 151 Burke
Ave. 1-31-12t
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ARlSToCRATlC ADDITION,

COBURG, Feb. 4~-Grand Duchess
Cyril Of Russia. formerly Princess Vie
toria OF Sake Coburg, and Gotha, has
given birth to "a daughter.
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Builds up waste tissues, promotes
appetite, improves digestion. induces
refreshing sleep, giving renewed
strength and health. That's what Hol-
listers Rocky Mountain Tea will do,
35 cents. Tea or Tablets.
For sale b. Frank Hart.
Morning Astorian. SO cents a month,
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WHALE AMBER. MADE IN NOR
way, guaranteed finest shoe dress
ing out. Your dealer handles It, AL
fred Andersen & Co., Minneapolis
Minn. 12-1S-tf
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wANTED-sAI EsMEN. MANY MAKE

" AN FI7-NAI E~SAIFN. MAN ! hhNE
500 to $3.50 per month. Some even
more. Stock clean; grown on Reser'
vation, far from old orchards. Cash
advanced weekly. Choice Of territory
Address Washington Nursery Company
Toppenish, Washington" o'2h.tf
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wANTm-Two GOOD sUBsCRIP-
tion solicitors TO work. First class
proposition. good pay. Apply Astorian
office.
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SEVERE ECZEMA
CURED IN SOUTH
Suffers Three Years Hands and
Eye Most Affected Employed
Doctor to No Effect Now Entirely
Recovered and viii Recommend
CUTICURA REMEDIES IN
ALL PARTS OF PARISH

any wife was taken badly with &C.
zema for three years, and she employed
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HELP WANTED.

to travel for mercantile house OF
large capital. Territory at home or
abroad 10 suit II desirable tho home
may be used as headquarters. Week
~ salary OF $1,000 per year and cx-
penses, Address Joseph a. Alexander.
Astoria, ore. l-3-3t
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LAVNDRIES.
TROY LAUNDRY
DERTAKERs.

Tenth and Duane Sts. Phone 1901
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PROBLEMS OF THE DAY.

when the long day is over. take mag
aZine
Now for pleasant hour, I think, happy
as any queen.
''Pro.lcm OF Craft confronts me, soon
| turn tie page; >,
Thoughts on the Negro Hronieh'
The Problem of the Stage.
Here is the latest novel. written with lire
and force.
Every page devoted to the Problem Of
Divorce. a ma ono
This is the age of Problems, he who
won't read may run.
At the play in the evening, longing to be
amused
see the Labor Problem, tangled and
much confused.
Plays are to solve the problems of an in
curing age,
Take horrible examples, put them upon
the stage.
I go to church on Sunday, longing 1or
peace and rest.
The sermons all deal with problems, the
preachers are distressed.
Why are the churches empty? Why does
the home decay?
Why don't our young men marry?
Should the rich work or play!
al OF this makes me weary, and sets me
wishing. too.
That problems We're not so many, and
answers not SO few.
Oh, for 4 peaceful country! Oh, for 4
tranquil shore.
Where proah,ers cease from troubling.
and problems are no more.
Cecil Cavendish. in the New York Times
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Psychological Indications OF Genius
Manifested by the Inordinate Attrac-
ton of the Mucilage Reservoir for the
Pen" Yes (hurriedly), we all do 1t,
but really it was interesting to notice
how a carefully study OF years had
proved that it is much more common
in the case of men OF genius.
The judge looked at Cul as though
his visitor had gone mai. Cal buttoned
his gloves thoGshttully and rose with
cut haste from the chair in which he
had been sitting.
It's too bad, as you say he con-
tinUed, but it can't be helped. | sup
pose there's nothing for it but TO start
an investigation at the Post Office. I
shall go to the Department direct, just
as soon as | get back to Washington.
Perhaps his publishers can help us
III see them about it this morning. I
have to drop in there anyway about
his other and more important work
that is just coming out. GoCd-day:'
And he quietly moved towards the
door
Other work. said the judge. What
other work?'
THE History of Legal Oratory,"
in twelve volumes. Of course you've
heard of MISUNDERSTANDING something
we were just putting out. You
haven't: Why, I'll tell them when I'm
i'll there TO let you see enc Of the vol
ulnes; its really wortl while
He bowed himself Cut, and within
twent. -four hours another Of our men
called at the Brooklyn house and sold
a set o. the Legal Oratory,' and Cul
had a check for his commission.
Tile storm didn't breai, until yester-
day, when the legal lH.linary from
Brooklyn shed so much light on this
office that you'd have thought it was
midday on the equator. Heavens, it
was hot for few minutes 1t was let
out Cul. or be denounced from the
bench. so Cul went. New York Even
ing Post.
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p. Canon Harp.

hung His harp Of pines against
- AZ bent above the slope
q, sord which men have crossed
she world to find,
80 answer deep with peace for
II searts which ache
IL On the clouds that thrilled
.ssainst the wind
u h.ve had long to learn it, and
they know;
silent years unsoilcd by
reed Of man,
md snow,
...,eh dawnings hushed with
IN when spring began,
hanging chords have held it.,
nd they know.
a whose hears their answer
= haned Of God,
Ne world shall he to him no more
he same,
j. old maths his tcilins feet
ave trod,
q. aid speech of men in praise
4 blame,
~. hat his listening ears have
harmed Of God.
n d his eyes the old stall be as
rev,
Nd o. his heart the new shall be
80 kiugdom, shining in 4 hare
lells blue; J.,
Ee,en's comfort, hidden in a NY )
Did;
.,ea,s wealth. in barren sands q
nth made new.
y stIung His harp Of pines against
lie wind,
Ind through their centuries they
ing Ills word;
su,ts which have sorrowed, spirits
Which have sinned.
f1eh shall be glad with Him Wien
hey have heard
~ socret Of the pines against the
Wind.
r,bk Earle in Youths Companion.
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Rules in Cases Of Emergency.

In going down a fire-escape never
pracede a lady.
In case of fire leap from the near
est window and tlrn to the left.
In drowning Go not speak. Talk
ing to ones self is always bad form:
but in this emergency 1t would also
be extremely silly.
In falling from the back of a run
away horse always aim to let the left
shoulder hit the ground first, as it is
far better to break ones arm than 20
fracture ones skull.
II heavy plate-glass window falls
upon you some cold winter morning
do not scream, as you might, in ope,l-
ing your mouth, catch tonsilitis-ro
say nothing of several large pieces Of
glass.-Judse.
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Ills Excuse.

A washington woman prominent il
the official set Of the national capital
tells Of a function to which she had
invited an attache OF one of the lega-
tons famous for his extreme polite
ness. The invitation was formally ac-
copied, but en- the morning of the ap-
pointed day she received note. writ
ten by the d!plomatist's valet and
ccuched in the following terms:
"Senor Blank regrets much that he
will not Re able to attend Mrs. So
and-So's repection on the evening OF
the 23d instant, as he is dead. '-Har
per's Weekly.
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The Islands.

The children in a Long Island city
ands off the coast of North America.
They responded variously as follows:
Greenland, Newfoundland and Dream.
land"
"Coney Island, Cuba and Green
land"
Greenland, Blackwell's Island a2d
Ireland" Weekly.
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JOHNNY AND HIS GUN.
He Killed Big Racccon and Farmer
Killed Fatted Calf fer Him.

He Killed Big Rscccon ana FARMER
Killed Fatted Calf fer Him.
Johnny Thompson, of Seymour, q
sixtcen-year-o lad. tramped over the
Woodbridge hills five miles till he
struggled past the house of Jason
Dcolittle without peppecins so much
as gray squirrel. Climbing the rail
fence, he walked through the meadow
beyond Mr.. Doolittle's house, and in a
tree just below the farmers garden
caught a glimpse of wat looked like
the bushy tail of plump gray squir-
rel projecting beyond the limb. He
craftily tiptoed around to the other
side of the tree to get better shot
and saw what was apparently the
squirrels head, fully two feet from
his tail. Must be two squirrels
there. I'll drop one" whispered
Jhclny, as he drew a bead on the
animal. His shot was followed by a
commotioa in the tree and down fell
something which made Johnny rub
his eyes.
Never saw anything like it il Sey-
rAour," said he. Locked like al over
grown squirrel fou: times the size
OF the biggest gray I ever saw tanned
and fat i'll a cage. 1t looked as il 1t
weighed twenty pounds and l found
later that it did. Guess my mouth
and eyes were both wide open when
the farmer came running out"
"D'you kill that raccoOl on my
land?" he asked.
yep, if that's a racccon," Johnny
answered.
"Where'd you come from. anyhow"
said the farmer, and how'd ye get
herc?" {
Il live in Seymour and walked
over" Johnny explained.
well, you neverll walk back" said
the rural gentleman.
Il was so scared dropped my gun
and began to snivel," Johnny told his
friends afterward. J
"Yew just see here, young feller,"
said the farmer, that duinined rae
coon has been hangin' around my
place for four years, and me and my
. uv;.: has st traps and camped out
nights ,c sit line ca him. He has
ate half my garden up every year ald~
has got into my corn bin and about
everything else on the place, but has
lodged US every time. Now, if you've
slaughtered him, I'm just going to
hitch up and take you home as If you
were the mayor Of Ansonia."
The farmer hitched up his Sunday.
chaisc ald while he Was hitching up
his horse he took Johnny into the
house and his wife fed him m;nce pie
and gave him all the sweet cider he
could drink. Then he loaded the fat
racccon into the carriage, aid PIT in
behind big pumpkin and peck of
big apples and they started for home.
Johnny's folks thought he was shot
when he was brought home in such
state as that, and his mother nearly
tainted, but revived when he piled out
and lugged in the raccoon. Wood
bridge for me every time | caa get
gum" says Johnny.-Hartford Cour-
ant.
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THE DOWNFALL
OF THE KING.
How a Prize Book Agent Lest
His Job.

by the Office boy that Mr. Clarkson
was disengaged, occurred bursting
open and banging 70 Of the doors Lead
ing to his Office, as q weli-dressed man
caromed against me On his way to the
elevator. GARRISON. who was holding
open the door TO his private room,
looked past me with an expression OF
sadness tinged with amusement. His
greeting was scarcely coherent.
Its too bad he said. Come in"
l picked up the hat which had been
him that it was Of no consequence.
Whereupon Clarkson informed ne
that did not know what l was talk
ing about, and that it was matter OF
the utmost importance to the firm OF
Porter & Garrison, publishers. that the
services of the King of subscription
agents should be lost to the house.
WAS that the man." l asked.
Clarkson nodded, than muttered
under his breath.
"Abdicate?"
did Alexander abdicate when Peter
dSSStt1cu Tic III Ouc VI OC1 Wa.
why, NO, he was fred
Exactly, SO was Culverson."
Then GARRISON told me this story of
the downfall of the king:
'.Culverson had talent when he first
came to US. Now he has genius. The
man with talent can sell books-sone
times; the man with genius could sell
the Congressional Record in 500 VOL
umcs, bound in half-morrocco to a
miser Yes, sir, he could Go it, and do
it without mentioning the books. You
don't believe it? Very well, let me
tell you what Culverson did last week
and why we were obliged, much against
our will. to let him out today.
"Over in Brooklyn-we'l make it
brooklyn, if you don't mind-lives
Supreme Court Judge. A week ago
last Monday while he was reading in
! his library upstairs his man brought in
card reading Hugh Buchanan Culver
SON. The judge, whose education with
book agents has been neglected, didn't
know the name, hut learning that its
owner was well dressed and appeared
to he a gentleman, tod the servant to
show the caller Upstairs.
What can I do for your he asked
6 Culve-sol was ;.shered in.
May l ask queried his visitor
carefully placing his silk hat on the
nearest chair, whether you received
sc,ne time ago bundle of proofs
Dol
Baker, if you dcat mind-'of the
United States Supreme Court, sent by
II I'll from Washington
Now, the Brooklyn judge and his
learned brother on the Supreme Court
bench of the United States arr closer
than David ard Absalom. Go trout
shinS together and discuss the Con-
slitution between bites.
'""cofs,' said the owner of the
house; why, no, got no proofs.
What
Exactly just as thought said
Cul. Knew if you'd received them
you'd have returned them long before
this
But wyhat are they; proofs OF
something Judge Baker had written?'
Certainly
What was the subject?'
'Well-er-I'm afraid you'd only
augh if / were to tell you. 1t was
merely pamphlet en1bodyirg some OBJ
servations extending over several years
concerning very interesting but al
most ridiculous happening of daily life
But l must know. Really, 1 never
felt so much put out in my life It's
too bad. What was the subject?'
Well, if you won't laugh, I'll tell
you. The little brochure was entitled
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SPANKING MACHINES.
Their Effect on Criminals Discussed
by Mrs. Sabcock.

Their Effect on Criminals Discussed
by Mrs. 5abcock.
A discussion on the treatment OF
crime at the regular meeting Of the
Legislative League, held at the Wal
dorf-Asroria, brought out what seems
to be an entirely novel idea in pen
o.ogy Mrs. Hannah Babcock is OF
the opinion that physical pain is the
only means in some cases OF arou:5-
ing the moral sense, and, as she does
not consider that any innocent In.
diyidual ought 20 be subjected to the
degradation Of inilicting this pain, she
suggested that it Should be done by
ma chirery.
Some nice little electrical device
for administering spanking could
easily he invented" she said, land
would Be much more effective than
some OF our present methods Of pun
ishmeLt."
A nlarnlur CT d.sapDroyal ran
through the audience. and Mrs. r. c.
Benedict s?Targ 10 her feet IN Srea.
Indignation.
We want n2ble mel in charge OF
our PRISONS" she said, and no &C.
cent man would want to have any
thing to do with them if such meth
DDS were adopted. Why. just con-
slider that your own child, in a fit
OF temper, might stab another il the
back. Would you want him treated
with sucn b.U.ality?'
Mrs. Benedict added that, even as
it is our prisoners are treated worse
than those CT heather countries.
I'm not advocating the treatment
for minors" returned Mrs. Babcock.
serenely. Let me tel yea OF two
criminals with whom | had some per-
sonal experience as they broke into
my house. They were lively, 1.-THE
and active rascals, and l had no SYM
patAy fer them at ALL That, think,
is maudlin They had just spent
three years in State prison at the eX.
pense Of the public, and were sent
Up for another three. Now, suppose,
instead of supporting them in prison,
the State had put them to work, com
.pelling them to report to the court
at regular intervals, and using the
electrical device if they failed to re-
port. l think they would not have
been so ready to go into sneak thiev.
ing again
The speaker Of the cay was Mrs.
Frank Church, who maintained that
tie present criminal system afforded
almost 10 protection to the public,
EXCEPT when the criminal is in actual
detention. It inhicts cruel hardship
on the families of prisoners and does
little CT nothing for the victims OF
crimes.
IF a man is the victim of a rob-
berry" she said, "tha law makes no
effort to restore his property to him
unless it is taken With the thief. and
then the police expect a reward. II
lie is needed as a witness, the law
lays hold Of him. and if he cannot
furnish security deprives him Of his
liberty. II his property is essential
| to the trial, he cannot get it till that
IS over. no matter how great the In
convenience he may suffer. and if he
attempts to compromise with the thief
F, it irdicts him for compromising a
, felony and sends him to prison with
| the thief"
In the discussion that followed the
reading Of the paper Mrs. Lille Dew
ereux Blake referred to the condi-
ton of Sing Sing, where "a man goes
in we'll and comes out consumptive,
| IL he does not die first" as DIS
grace to the country.-New York IT'D
une.
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A FURLOUGH
FROM HONE
12s2S2s2S25252S25152S252S2


By Perry Duncan.
"a Us a farm. One need not
M The court records to know that
- i mortgaged farm. The cat
Ahsu. skipping in and out through
= lences. The rain knew, leaking
- I'd spelling the soup on the
Am stove. The rusty, loose-joint-
loueh whispered it to the old
isa4cothed harrow, and smiled to
" 0ey had run their last furrow.
y tk was told in the saggins
II that no longer pretended to
~ the barn, bulging with empti-
the hungry eyes of the slab
stock, but most Of all in the
" despair on Howard Cogburn' 5
MI the shabby attire Of his
Vie, and in the apathy Of the
mother sitting idly locking and
ke her knotted fingers.
- eely thing that did not have
tgsged" written all over it was
baby, and that might have been
lif PISSED. But this Laby did not
y was happy in its blue calico
~ red flannel pctticoat hanging
stlow 1t as it was with it's blue
~ red lips parted beneath.
ne sight Of this laughing, pow
nme baby made all the rest
, bear. It was so bitter not
aings all right for darling lit
1anIie! 4.
1ao!.
Voice was that OF a well known
~ ugent
afd Cogburn limbered himself
Aarisd ont.
letter for you, Hod! Looks
said John Saler, crossing
on the saddle for a good rest
afc broke the seal and, at last,
enee TO Saler's unspoken de-
know brother Jilscn is
heard it. Left you some kids
= up."
os In 1t! He never married.
at . will. The farm must be
q all liens and kept as a
mother. There will be five
4 for me besides"
swear! Hold! You're in it!
3 news to spread" and put.
morse to a gallop, he was
sensitive to the track and
efound him, and knowing ne
- hand that (which had the
mango 1t all, could not 60
med on the porch railing
~ aloud.
ne brother gone! Tears
days when they had play
aght together; but above
own. life. wrecked when
ashed down ambition and
stay with the old folks on
never to have been a
g now the old desire to
w came strong upon him.
e weeping for the man
ave oeer-the actual for
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beside me. I have filed every min
ute with study"
While she was speaking, Fowarl
advanced holding out his arms 10:
her.
oh, Howard, it is good to have
you at home again,-Mother. Rosa
lie. Come."-Thc Zee Hive.