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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

and such knowledge as that robs the
simplest joy Of life OF its attribute.
II ever mortal man had incentive II
do the win Of his people the Car has It
The world would applaud his wisdom
his people would swing the potential
pendulum Of popular opinion from the
dreadful poise Of organic, massed hatred
to that Of grateful and gracious idolatry
and the years that are left him might
be filed with the sum Of Joy and peace
that can never be his 50 long as he with.
holds his hand and heart from those to
whom, next to his God. he is utterly re-
sponsible.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12
DEBATABLE GLORY.

The Russian Reds are after the Car
again. The glory Of being supreme ruler
Of a country of that sort strikes one as
being negative honor.
The young man at present occupying
that debatable post would be far hap
pier if he were simple citizen and his
heritage greatly less than it is. As it
stands, he and his are denied all the
essential happiness that fails to mortal
man; he cannot know at what moment
his enemies are going to be successful,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12
Hard Times In Kxnsaa

The old days Of grasshoppers and
drouth are almost forgotten In the pros.
porous Kansas Of today; although q
citizen Of Codell. Earl Snamburg. has
not yet forgotten . hard time he en-.
countsred He says, II was worn out
and discouraged BY coughing night and
day. and could find no relic. Eli tried
DR.. Kings New Discovery. II took lsss
than ono bottle TO completely cure me-"
The safest and most reliable cough and
cold remedy and lung and throat healer
ever discovered. Guarapteed by Charles
Rogers drug store. 500 and sl.oo. Trial
bottle tree.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12
Dancing Proves Fatal.

Many men and women catch colds at
Aiances which terminate In pneumonia
and consumption. After exposure. II
Foley's Honey and Tar 10 taken 1t will
break up cold and no serious results
need be feared. Refuse any but the
genuine in yellow package. T. +.
Laurin, Owl Drug Store.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12
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Under the operation Of the "blame
Roosevelt" policy it may yet be found
that the President framed up the
Barnes,King game and salted Tom
Greenough's placer ground.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

Admiral Evans reference to western
hospitality reads as il he had, at some
time or other, been forced to dance to
the music of a playful cowman's gun.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12
TEA

The cost of good tea is
so very little: only a third
of a cent a cupl a cent
and-a-half or two cents
for the family breakfast
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

DR.. Hicks said that our winter would
begin last Saturday. Had he not told us
we would have not known il, says the
st. Paul Dispatch.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

The only excuse for referring again
to this weather is that it is such a
pleasant subject to talk about.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

Admiral Evans is sending to Japan
a large consignment OF hot air in ad.
vance OF the sailing Of his fleet.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

We may live without books, but we
can't get along without copper,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

Chapped hands are quickly cured by
applying Chamberlain's Salye. Price. 25
cents. For sale by Frank Hart and
leading druggists.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

Happily the pumpkin pie outlasts the
Halloween season.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

There is an active bull movement in
the turkey market.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

Your grocer returns your money II you don't
like Sehillings Best; we pay him.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-11-12

Morning Astorian, 80 cents per month
delivered by carrier.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
RE%
An Anti.Tip Hayraek.

ments just as l use for mine. which
is the fiat bottomed kind. eight feet
wide and 16 feet long. The bed of
the rack. of course. is made Of 2xS's.
16 feet long with four 2x6's eight
feet long set across to form the sup
port for bottom Of rack. Now it is to
the ends of these cross pieces that the
runners are attached in the following
manner. Take two pieces 2x6 eight
inches long and fasten to the end
cross pieces. letting them extend down
ward and give them slight outward
slant. For the two between, the pieces
should be about IS inches long and
also slantetd. In the lower edge Of
the 1S-inch piece nearest the back,
bore a hole and run an iron brace
through to the side of the rack-bed.
well up past the center of rack and
fasten there securely. Next take six
inch fence board, two feet longer than
your rack and fasten to these four
runner braces you have made, letting
1t project a little at each end. and
your runner is finished, the other side
of course being the same. Now. when
you have on a load of hay and the
sled tips to one side. it will simply
slide along on that runner until you
come to a place where 1t will right
itself.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
FARM WISDOM.

A debt enriches for a moment and
impoverishes for a year.
Never explain-your friends do not
require it and your enemies will not
believe you anyway.
You can always tell a good farm
hand by the way he works when the
farmer has gone to town.
There must be more of good than
evil in the world, or the good would
have been overcome ages ago.
Nine times out of ten. the fellow
who is let in on the ground floor falls
between the Orders and lands in the
cellar.
The summer has been trying both
to the flesh and to the spirit. Try
letting go OF things for a week or
SO. and you will be surprised to find,
when you return from your vacation
how much the atmosphere has cleared.
1t is a good thing to ease up on the
collar little.
Lots of times, when the weather is
warm, we are apt to get into a sweat
over our work. All right to sweat
outside-does a man good; but when
we get to sweating inside, we are apt
to boil over. and that is where the
mischief comes in. Let's keep as cool
as we can-inside. Then we shall
live longer and be happier.-Farm
Journal.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
STORING SEED POTATOES.
How the Tubers May Be Kept In
Splendid Condition.

If potatoes intended for seed are
placed in pits and properly covered,
they will come out In the spring with
out sprout; they will also be as
firm as when placed in the pits. This
condition certainly indicates that no
vitality has been lost.
Every sprout that starts on a po-
tato and is broken OF removes Just
SO much vitality from the seed.
find that 1t is necessary to dig the
pit more than six or eight inches deep.
That is Just deep enough to get a
good, solid bottom. SO that the pota-
toes can be shoveled up easily with
a potato scoop. Fifty to 100 bushels
may be put into one pit safely.
When the pit is full cover with
about eight inches of straw. then put
on eight inches Of dirt. The third lay
err should be another layer of straw
and then another layer of dirt II
the temperature falls below zero for
a length of time, cover the pit with
stable manure. By following this
method, says correspondent of Prai-
rie Farmer. never have any potatoes
that spoil or have been injured in
any way.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
Advantage in the siIo.

During the past fall. winter and
spring, feed was short over much of
the west. The spring was backward
and the grass did not get good start
till along into May. The farmers
were in many cases forced to feed
straw and like nutritious roughage,
muSh to the detriment of the milk
flow. This led many farmer to wish
that he had a good silo in which he
could carry feed from one year to the
next and thus be sure of good sup
ply at all times. This is a good time
to prepare to build a silo. 1t is not
too late now to plant corn for silage,
as this can be got into the silo before
killing frosts come. The corn for the
silage should be planted at once, so as
to be growing while the silo is being
built. The building of a silo is a
short matter.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
DAIRY DOTS.

Sose buttermakers say a second
working two hours after the first.
which shouldn't be too long, insures
better grain and an evener distribu-
ton Of salt
Wire isn't good diet for COWS.
Scraps of baling wire in the hay
killed 40 for an Ell Paso dairy COM
pany before the cause of the trouble
was discovered.
Promptly remove from the herd
any animal suspected of being in bad
health and reject her milk. Never
and an animal to the herd until GER
tain it is free from disease, especially
tuberculosis.
One good feature about dairying is
that the money comes In at all times
OF the year. The dairyman does not
have to wait till certain period of
harvest or thrashing to receive re-
turns for his labors.
Make the acre the unit of measure
In considering the dairy receipts.
Then try to make each acre produce
the largest possible returns. When
this is attempted, the dairy man will
find himself enriching his soil instead
of robbing it.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28

want it. See?" But why continue
these curious variations? It's a
shame, really. to print office boy
stories, and thus prevent their further
exploitation. when so many poor
humorists depend upon them for liv-
ing.
To be wholly frank. don't imagine
the office boy will vanish altogether
for long while yet. Moreover, as lie
falls behind in quantity. he will quite
possibly advance in quality Tolerated
to-day. he will be courted tomorrow
We shall be going around OIL our
Bonded knees to the boy, just as We
do to the former midway characters
who now serve us as cooks and wait
ing maids, and then there'll be nc
holding him. And only think what a
boon his expanded personality will at
ford the humorist! They can get out
their old jokes, magnify them thous
and diameters. and sell them over
again.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
OLD WORLD FEUDS
HERE in AMERICA
NEW YORK'S CARNIVAL OF BLOOD
Hc,o the Hunchakist, the Tong, the Malta, the Black
Hand, the Vendetta, the Athenian Elood Pact, and
Other Complications, Haze Been Imported Into the
Metropolis Breed Violence.

unpublished crimes of the tenement
districts and the quarters where the
aliens of the community make their
homes. For three years desperate
quarrel ragged in Chinatown. 1t cost the
lives of between Is and 20 Cinnamon.
Three were killed in one night at the
Chinese theater in Doyer street. Sud
denly 1t ended short off and there
were no more killings.
The police took the credit for max
ing Chinatown once more safe for the
tourist of the rubberneck hack and the
curio buyer. AS a matter of fact they
had nothing to do with it. Moved by
the prayers of the Chinese merchants
of Chinatown the old Dowager
Empress served notice on the men
whom she knew to be responsible for
the gun fighting in the narrow. smelly
little streets that unless they stopped
their foolishness In New York she
would find 1t incumbent upon herself
to put to death their relatives at home
in China, more particularly parents
and grandparents.
Had Origin in Home Quarrel.
The police had never been able to
make any of their accusations of muir
der stick against the suspects who
trailed at the slipperless heels of con-
sumptive, oily little Mock Duck. But
he old Empress knew the way. The
police know and so does the rest of
he town that in general way Of
speaking the hostile factions were di
'ided then. and are still divided, for
that matter, into the Hip Sing Tong
and the On Leong Tong. But 1t wasn't
until months after the active warfare
leased that the truth came out that
behind the whole thing lay the rival
y between the Reform party in China
md the party which is faithful to the
eigning dynasty.
Frequently in one or another of the
hree large and well-defined Italian
ettlements there occurs a murder
which cannot be attributed merely to
row over chant in some base
nent drinking place. The police sapi-
emily say BLACK Hand" arrest a few
suspects, misspell the names of the
prisoners. keep them awhile and turn
them loose for lack of evidence on
which to hold them longer.
Last fall three such murders &C.
CURED in rapid succession on the low
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
eoyLess ERA SEEMS NEAR.
Writer Laments Growing Scarcity Of
the Monarch of the Office

The shortage in boys has caused the
sign boy wanted to blossom forth
with almost unprecedented ubiquity.
1t meets your eye here in Boston,
even, and in New York city it's every
where, the papers say, while many
philosopher is scratching his pate to
find out why. Two theories are fight
ing for acceptance, says writer in
the Boston Transcript. One says the
child labor laws are being enforced.
In many offices the boy is employed
as a messenger only, and the emolu-
ments are not sufficiently glittering
to attract boy big enough TO dodge
the law. Others call the phenomenon
a by-product of prosperity. If the rich
are poorer by reason of certain eccen-
tricities of the stock market, the poor
are richer by reason of the general
rise in wages; hosts of families.
hitherto dependent upon the earnings
of young hopefuls. can now send them
to school. fancy there's truth in
both theories.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28

But my heart sinks within me when
l look forward to the boyless era that
seems to impend. What, pray tell
me. would a newspaper office be II
bereft of its most lofty dignity?
There fits through the recesses of
the journalistic memory a long and
very impressive procession of such.
How shy, how tender they were on
first arriving! How arrogant ere half
a fortnight. One, as / recall. howled
down the sanctum speaking tube:
''Hully gee. there amt no stamps
left,"-whereupon dozen voices
cried: Grammar! grammar" You
might have supposed this would over
awe a simple child of Is. but he
merely answered. indulgently: Say,
was only akin to de countin'
room," Another young gentleman,
successor to the erratic grammarian.
was one day seated at his little desk.
when a caller handed him manu-
script, saying: This is for the edi-
tor Billie tucked it into a drawer.
and when the caller returned. a week
or SO later, bidding the rogue inquire
what had been the fate of his effusion,
] his highness remarked. sadly: Yep,
| l read the darn thing. an we didn'
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
BANKERS GETTING WISE.
They See Danger In the MaiI-order
System Of Business.

1t is only lately that bankers of the
west have come to a realization that
the mail-order system of business has
been a serious injury to them. killing
of the business of their towns, taking
out of circulation money that should
help swell the local bank deposits and
otherwise interfering with town pro-
gress.
The trouble has been with many
bankers that they failed to consider
the buying -goods-away-from- evil
as anything of particular concern to
them. When Farmer Smith would
buy draft for $50 or 500 to send
to Chicago, the banker got his ten
cents exchange and thought he was
that much ahead. while the facts re-
manned that if he could keep the
money from being sent from home
that $50 of the farmer for the banker
might make dollar or two of profit.
1t was only when the catalogue
houses started in to solicit deposits of
the people of country towns and farm
ing communities that the bankers
took tumble.
Then again some bankers have such
an exalted idea of their position in
the town that the goods to be had
from the local merchants are not good
enough for themselves and families,
and set a bad example before the peo-
Pile by sending away themselves for
what they desire in the way of staples
and luxuries. Bankers are conserva.
tive; and are not forward in making
suggestions to their patrons as to
what they should do with their money
but in this matter it appears sufficient
ly important to justify the exercise OF
what influence the banker can com
mand in behalf of home patronage. II
is the business of the town and sur
rounding country that affords a profit
to the bank. The greater this volume
of business can be made the better
for the banker and every interest OF
the town. and the farmers and Other
laborers as we'll.
D. NJ. CARR.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28

tween the Armenians themselves. The
richest Armenian in America, mil
lionaire rug merchant, was shot to
death from behind as he came out of
the Everett House. where he had been
for his lunch. Investigating the assas-
sination the district attorneys Office
stumbled upon door which. being
opened. showed veritable Blue
Boards closet of horrors. Mr.. Jerome's
young men were able to trace the muir
der of the rug merchant, the butchery
Of the Armenian priest. old Father
Kaspar. three months before. and half
a dozen other unexplained murders
here and in other parts of the globe
to a common cause.
They learned, to their very great
surprise. that for months and years
most of the wealthy Armenians in
America had been living in fear of
their lives because of the threats and
the acts of mysterious Armenian So
ciety formed ostensibly for the pur-
pose of aiding the moribund revolu-
ton against Turkey, but in reality
doing a large mail-order business in
murder, blackmail and intimidation
society which has its headquarters
in Cypress and which, through its
chosen agents. strikes deadly blows at
will in New York or London or Con-
stantinople or New England. The
slayer of the rug dealer came. so the
police believe. all the way across the
ocean from Greece to shoot one of his
countrymen whom he had never seen.
He got his orders and he came.
Trouble Brought from Sparta.
One night last week desperate
| fight broke out among the Greek ped
dlers who sell fruit and peanuts
around the Manhattan entrance of
| Brooklyn bridge. Up and down Park
Row the fight ragged. Fifteen or TWEEN
| ty Greeks, arrayed in equal strength
on either side, deserted their push
carts to use knives and fists and clubs
on one another. They overpowered the
first of the policemen who came
against them and kept right on. 1t
took the reserves from two station
houses to NOV the gladiators down
and drag them away to the station
| house.
In the police court the magistrate
said he supposed they were two rival
groups of peddlers who had fallen out
over the distribution of the fruitful
territory about the bridge entrance.
"Oh. no." explained the interpreter
quite as a matter of fact. 'All these
men come from Sparta. and there has
been a bitter quarrel between theii
families in Sparta for many years
They happened to meet in force here
in New York
He added that from what he coult
gather there would probably be worl
for an undertaken when the leaders o.
the two clans came out of the work
house. And there you are. That's the
way it goes in New York, the worlt
metropolis.
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28

er east side. one in Chrystie street,
one in Forsyth street. one in First
street. few doors of the Bowery. In
each instance the victim was shot
through a window and likewise
through the head. All three jobs bore
the workmanship of the same practic-
ed hand. or set of hands. Said the po-
lice. BLACK Hand which is a blanket
expression. covering for them a multi
tude of sins.
Not Work Of "BIaek Hand"
Eventually it came out in a round.
about fashion that the three dead men
had all been members of the genuine
article, the High Malta, in the Old
country, and although they have new
err been able to prove it the detectives
of the Italian bureau are morally GER
tain that two chosen instruments of
the mother Observation-Disclosures. as
it happened. and both of them dead
shots-were sent all the way here
from Sicily to kill OF the luckless
three for the unforgivable crime of be-
The Lamar register., 1907-08-28
WHEN AND HOW.
Time and Methods of Farm Work De
termine the Measure Of Success.

The work of the farmer consists
largely in stirring the soil in various
ways, but it is necessary to know
when and how to stir that soil to get
the most out of 1t. When and how to
do things comprise the main bulk OF
orr work on the farm. The difference
between the poor farmer and the
good farmer is regulated by the diner
ence of their opinions as to when and
how to do things.
In the west, where the frosts strike
deep into the plowed ground, that
ground should be plowed in the fall
that most needs the action OF the
frost to break it up, says Farmers
Review. There are some soils in
which the work of the frost seems
'unimportant, this kind of soil be-
ing mainly sandy soil. On the clay
soil the land that is plowed deep in
the fall is improved in some way by
the cold. Various agricultural stu
dents have had different conceptions
of how this work goes on, but the
principal thing is that 1t goes on.
The when and the how regulate the
profits of the farm to very great ex-
tent. Many of our readers will re-
member that about three years ago
the rains in the spring in Illinois came
just before the land would naturally
be plowed for the ordinary field crops.
The necessity for getting the crops
early led many farmers to pillow their
fields while the soil was still too wet
to be friable. The ground was Just
in that condition in which 1t broke up
in hard Jumps. During all the season
men were seen in the fields trying to
cultivate those Jumps out of the sur
face SOIL In preparing those fields
for small grain the harrows were
sent over them again and again. That
illustrates the necessity for knowing
when to do work.
The how to do farm work is mat
ter of endless controversy, though in
most things some well-proven rules
are being evolved. One man on land
that does not need to be ploued deep
insists on very deep blowing and dou-
bles the amount of work to be put on
that field. This means doubling the
cost of the labor. which in these days
of high-priced labor Is consideration
of Importance. During the dull days of
fall and winter the farmer has the
best time in which to study out the
when and the how.