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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-01

Try our own mixture Of co6es-sls
J. =. d. Fresh fruit and Vegetable
'abollst q %. groceN. Phone Mss
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Notice

We have silver side and steelhead net.
ting. loaded lead lines. cotton twine AMI
rope. Plymouth Manila rope, oil clothing
and rubber boots and everything for
fishermen. +, J. Carney q Co.
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TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

LOST-A CHECK ON ASTORIA Av.
inss Bank for sca.lo in envelope aued
by Weinhard Estate. Finder retui 10
Leander Lebeck at City Hall. la.s..
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-01

orino Laxative Fruit Syrup, the new
Laxative stimulates, but does not ir.
rate, II Il the best Laxative. Guaran,
teed or yonr money back. Sold by 7. +
Iaurin. Owl Drug Store,
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-01
Notice.

Door Mats, so cents each, Umbslls
Vases rs cents each. You need thei b
this kind OF weather. Sec Hildeb,na
& Cor.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-01

Oliver typewriiers ana automatic
stenographers at A. r. Cyrus. ~
Commercial street. q.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-01

Columbia ana vicvcr graphophones
ana latest records at t24 Commercial
street. A. r. Cyrus. Il.
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of For Europe

of For Europe
Carl johnson, the well known clerk
for the Astoria Box Company. left yes.
terday for New York. on his way Ia
his home in Norway as did Mrs. Anna
Bergman. who will 80 to Sweden for 0
few months visit with her hom,
people.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1907-12-01

Rings Little Liver Pills wake up lazy
livers, clean the system and clear the
skin. Try them for biliousness and
sick headache. Price 25c. Sold by Frank
Hart
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
Rees and RIne Flowers.

Darwins theory of bees and blue
flowers" or the evolution of "the
largest and most brilliant flowers" by
the preference for these of pollen
distributing bees, is challenged by
Mr.. G. w. Bulman in the current
Nineteenth Century. Darwin's view
was thus expressed in his "Origin Of
Species:"
1--WE may safely conclude that II
insects had never existed on the face
of the world the vegetation would
not have been decked with beautiful
flowers, but would have produced
only such poor flowers as are now
borne by our frs, oaks, nut and ash
trees, by the grasses, by spinach.
docks, and nettles."
Mr.. Bulman adduces evidence that
bees, far from resorting for pollen
and nectar to flowers tinged With
blue, as averred by Lord Avebury,
exhibit no especial preference for
them, or for yellow, orange, green,
black, or white flowers; but will
readily lade their hip pockets with
honey from flowers quite despolled
of petals and color. The inconspicu'
GUS blooms of the lime tree, the
holly. the willow, the currant, and
the ivy are alike thronged with muir
murous wings. The instinct of the
azure loving bees" appears, aftei
all, to be strictly commercial.-NaP
York Times.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
AFGHAN JUSTICE.
The Blanket System of Rctribution in
Afghanistan.

"The Ameer's surprise that It
should be necessary to have a sentry
on a cruiser recalls an instance, :"
writes a correspondent, recently
cited by one'of the Inns of Court lee
turers. The learned lecturer OBJ
served that the administration of JUS
tice in this country in the time of the
Conqueror was somewhat akin 10 the
rough-and-ready methods adopted in
Afghanistan, instancing the sxper-
ience of the Yorkshire engineer who
acted for many years as Director of
the Arsenal to Abdur Rahman, who
was fired at by some fanatic in a ba-
zaar, and laid complaint before the
late Ameer. His Highness seemed to
make light of the matter, observing,
4 should not bother about it; you
will find it will be all right The en-.
gineer was by no means satisfied, but
remembering the people with whom
he was, resolved to say no more. a
week or so later he was invited to ac.
company the Ameer on ride. When
outside the town they passed gibbet
after gibbet, each occupied The
Englishman at length broke silence
by suggesting, Your Highness Seems
to have been busy of late The re-
ply was characteristic: oh. no, that
is your little lot 1t was afterward
learned that the Ameer had executed
every male member of the family Of
the assailant upon whom he could lay
hands. London Globe.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
Argentina,s LcyeI Pnmnns.

The pampas of Argentina, so far
as an absolute level is concerned, are
said to exceed any other large area
in the world One railroad runs for
175 miles without an inch of curve,
and it might have continued in the
same way for thirty miles farther
That is indicative of the real
thing" in level land, according to the
correspondent of the Los Angeles
Times.
The people are said to be perfectly
willing to use American machinery,
when it has been proven to them
that it will do more work with less
men than the English. over and
above the steadily Increasing value
of their land, incident to the
growth of the country, landowners
are said to be doubling and trebling
their wealth every few years.
The wagons used are said to be
fifty feet long in some cases and
from twelve to fifteen feet wide. The
hind wheels will be from twelve to
fourteen feet high and the drivers
seat twenty or more feet above the
ground. The horses used at times
number as many as three score to a
wagon. The principal idea of such
a large wagon is to have something
that will not be engulfed by the mud
or dust of the bottomless roads of
the pampas, and it also has its
economical advantage in a country
where men are scarce and horses are
ul.-Manufacturer
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
Heart Burials.

lhe body of Louis TX, after his
death at Carthage in 1870, is related
to have been boiled in wine and water
in order to preserve it for transporta-
ton, and it was then shipped by
Charles of Anjou Q) to Sicily. Here
the flesh and viscera were deposited
in the Benedictine abbey of Monreale,
near Palermo. The heart and the
bones remained. by desire of the sol
diers, in the camp Later his son
Philip (Le HardD having carried
them and those of his brother, iris
tan, into Italy, they were taken to
Paris in 1871. On March 81 of that
year the bones, reduced to ashes,
were deposited temporarily in Notre
Dame. whence they were presently
borne in state to the Benedictine alb
hey of st. Denis, and at each spot by
the way where the bearers paused,
seven in number, Philip subsequent
ly caused a cross to be raised.
Charles of Anjou dying at Foggia,
1885, his heart. was sent to Anglers,
while his body was entombed in San
Gennaro, at Naples. His viscera re-
mained in the Duomo at Foggia.
Philip III. lie HardD died of pes
thence at Perpignan October 5, 1885.
His flesh was buried at Narbonne.
His bones were transferred to st.
Denis. His heart was given by
Philip " Gle Bell to the Domini-
cans of Paris. - London Notes and
Queries.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01

For refreshments anything requir-
ing spoon or a fork may be served,
and no little fun may be added If the
hostess has selected her menu with
a view to the awkwardness of the
company
Just as all are through eating a
large tray may be brought into the
room, set In the centre of the table
and uncovered while the hostess or a
friend counts ten, then covered up
for one minute, then uncovered again
while ten is counted, then each one
writes (or tries to) the names of all
the things remembered as seen on the
tray. There should be a great variety
of common things on the tray. Or,
II it is too much trouble to write the
names the guests may go one by one
into a room with the hostess or a
friend and feel of the things under
the cover with her left hand, an
nouncing the name of what she thinks
each one is, and the one who has
charge of 1t writing down and keep
ing track of the ones who guess the
most correctly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
A Left-Handed I:artr.

good many prospective hostesses
are racking their brains for some new
scheme for entertaining their friends,
The woman who entertains much
knows that the guests whose hands
are full are at their ease, and all stiff
ness vanishes. If you cannot think
of something with which to fill both
hands, let us try to fill one only. You
may either add to the inEitation
Come with the right hand tied up"
or the guest may be left in ignorance
of the fate awaiting her in hall or
dressing room.
Let no one be excepted. The host
ess greets the guests extending the
left hand, and begs as a great favor
that each one will register in the
open blank book which she will on a
table or desk near her This alone
will serve to Danish the formality
which is so apt to settle like pail
upon company of people when they
are met together for social purposes,
especially at the beginning of the
evening. The best of penmen can
scarcely write the name legibly with
the left hand, so all will meet on a
common footing. The page will soon
look worse than any Kindergarten s
first attempt at penmanship, and will
afford amusement for all; while to
the hostess it will become a pleasing
souvenir of the occasion.
After that almost any form of
amusement will be doubly amusing
when performed by the crippled
guests. A soloist might sing to her
own left-handed accompaniment; a
reciter make speech with left-hand-
ed gestures; or all draw some simple
object on piecesof cardboard fastened
to drawing board or on the black
board, in which case II win be very
amusing for the rest to watch the
gestures and positions which the left
handed victim viii unconsciously
assume. on no account must the
right hand be used all the evening"
and comical forfeits should be In
readiness to be imposed upon arpone
caught in the act.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
Jique Wood Ties.

Mahogany is often used for ties
by the railroads in Cuba, as well as
In other tropical countries, but SiI
William Van Horne has forbidden Il
on his road. He considers it crime
to cut small mahogany trees, as there
is plenty of other timber in the for
ests suitable for construction pur-
poses.
Jique pronounced hickey, acana
iucaro negro, all hard woods which
do not grow large and cannot be
utilized for cabinet work, are Just
as good as mahogany for ties and
will outlast steel rails In this climate,
because they won't rust. On the rail-
read between Neuvitas and CANA
guey, the Oldest in Cuba, which was
built in 1898, are tique ties which
have been taken out and used for
fence posts after fifty years. Some
OF them have been taken out and
used for fence posts after thirty
years in the railroad bed. There is
q tramway at Camaguey with rails Of
jique wood. over which the cars have
been running for more than quarter
OF century and they do not show
wear any more than steel after the
same service, Much OF the wood Is
SO hard and heavy that & will ink
IN water. Chicago Record Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01

It is only within recent years that
men have learned how to make
houses and other structures of
cement. This art is probably yet in
q crude stage, and by mankind may
learn to use the material in vastly
more skillful and efficient ways.
But many of the lower animals
have for ages been making their
houses of mud or similar plastic and
hardening substances. The cliff
swallows skillfully built home is, in
deed, wonderful structure, especial
ly when we take into consideration
the simple way in which the bird
does the work. Imagine boy or a
girl trying to make such a structure
of mud and handling the material
only by the aid of pointed pliers.
Yet the bird does It, and does it well
with her pointed bill. In some
cement structures, especially in rail-
road embankments, you have prob.
ably noticed that the workmen first
put in several iron rods to increase
the strength of the wall This is,
practically, what the phoebe, the
robin and other birds do when they
mix liberal supply of grasses and
other plant sfibers, and even strings,
through their concretions of mud
From st. Nicholas.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
What is Worth While?

After being a housekeeper over
|. fifty years, and all that time on a
farm, would it not be natural won
der IL l had not learned that to pro-
vide the wherewithal to eat and drink
is not all of life?
What then is worth while? May
be allowed to say a few words in re-
gard to the family circle (the Oldest
institution on earth)? Is it worth
while to starve the brain and dwarf
the soul by overwork to keep spick
and span, or to get rich in pocket that
some one may live in idleness and
spend it on luxuries? To earn a good
living Is a clear duty, but to have
happy home is a greater one. A
good stock of love is the main thing
in the beginning. Let in the sun
shine, and after the necessary work
is accomplished for that day, swing
quite round-sing, tell stories, or
dance, If there is music, and don't
forget to do a kindness for some one.
AS do not cook much now / can
not send an original idea in that line,
but do go away sometimes, and
will offer some notes on that. Not
long since 1 was at a home where
there was only one child-a daughter
about twelve. Suddenly she cried
out: "Do, mamma, please be quiet!
l am doing the very best l can, and
you are scolding me all the time. ="
The mother was nagger, veritable
In, A1I
such on ducking stool over the
water to wash the sin away-a few
descendants still live
Later on John, the husband, ap-
peared, and then the nagging began
to work again. Why do you do this?
Why don't you do that? He looked
as though good victuals were wasted
on him, for the nagging process '
wearing him away, flesh and :.
1 thought: Poor woman, it Id
be hard to have a brain wi It a
tongue, but deliver us from ongue
without brain"
In case John was little stubborn
and could not see that his wife need
ed help, would it not be better to use
the rule or the statesman or captain
of industry-diplomacy Cor call it
tact. If you like)?
For instance, If you have a large
wash on hand and he has the labor.
ious task of going to the city or TAX.
ing trip to the country, make the
proposition that he help you in the
forenoon, and you ride with him in
the afternoon. He may say: Be
fore I'll come to that, I'll have it
done" But he doesn't need to come
down. The Good Book says: THE
husband is the head of the house
hold" but it also says, THE wife
shall be crown to her husband" and
we all know that the crown is Just
above the head of the good wife who
-nags.-Laura N. Kennedy, In
the New York Tribune.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
Frightened the Brlde to Denth.

In the church at Chrastian at Pi-
SEX, in Bohemia, a marriage was
about to be solemnized between Anna
Roslin, aged nineteen, and a youth
of her choice Bride and bridegroom
stood all ready before the altar,
where were lighted tapers. Before
the priest could unite the bridal pair
one of the tapers became suddenly
extinguished. A loud shrek came
from the bride, and she gasped,
''Meine kerze ist erloschen!" ("My
taper is extinguished)l :" and sank
unconscious into the arms of the
bridegroom. Immediately all atten-
tion was turned to the condition of
the bride. Several attempts were
made to revive the poor girl, but in
vain. The bride, in her chaplet and
veil, died at the altar rails The SUI
perstition of the villagers of the
plain is that If a lighted taper be-
comes extinguished on either side of
the altar the person standing on that
side of the altar where the ligns went
out will suffer dire calamity
London News.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
Is Pe-ru-na Useful
for Catarrh?

Should list Of the ingredients ofpe-
runa be submitted to any medical cx-
pert, ofwhatever school or nationality,
he would be obliged to admit without
reserve that each one fthem was ofun-
doubted value in chronic catarrhal dis
eases, and had stood the test of many
years experience in the treatment Of
such diseases. THERE CAN BE NO
DISPUTE ABOUT THIS WHAT
EVER Peruna is composed ofthe most
efficacious and universally used herbal
remedies for catarrh. Every ingredient
of Peruna has reputation Of its own
in the cure of some phase of catarrh.
Peruna brings to the home the COM
BINED KNOWLEDGE OF SEVERAL
SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE in the treat
ment of catarrhal diseases; brings TO
the home the scientific skill and knowl-
edge ofthe modern pharmacist; and last
but tnotloast, brings to the homo the vast
and varied experience Of DR.. Hartman,
intheuseof ofcatarrh remedies, and In the
treatment Of catarrhal diseases.
The fact is, chronic catarrh is dis
1ase which is very prevalent. Many
thousand people know they have
chronic catarrh. They have visited
doctors over and over again, and been
told that their case is one Of chronic
catarrh. 1t may be ofthe nose, throat,
lungs, stomach or come other internal
organ. There is no doubt as to the ma
ture Of the disease. The only trouble
is the remedy. This doctor has tried to
cure them. That doctor has tried to
prescribe for them.
BUT THEY ALL FAILED TO
BRING ANY RELIEF.
DR.. Hartman's idea is that catarrh
remedy can be made on large scale,
as he is making it; that it can be made
honestly, of the purest drugs and Of
the strictest uniformity. His idea is
that this remedy can besupplied direct
lyto the people, and no more be charged
for it than is necessary for the
handling ofit.
No other household remedy so uni
versally advertised carries upon the
label the principal active constituents,
Ihowing that Peruna invites the full
inspection of the critics.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
The Manners of American Women.

In Harper's Bazaar, Mr.. Henry
James continues his desperate task
of reforming the women of America
1t is their manners that concern him
now, and he writes of them sadly but
frankly.
Let me thus then, making my
image comprehensive, invite it to
cover the case of the whole social
opportunity of women in our rough
American world-that world indeed
whose admirable capacity for still
feeding innumerable millions makes
us even yet resent the application to
its liberality of any invidious epithet.
We have to breathe low that IL is
rough, and that the free hand we
have given on all sides to our women
has done much less than we might
have dreamed to smooth it; we other
wise invite ourselves to taste over
much of certain forms of the rough
ness. This, however, is a trife If we
only succeed in insisting, insisting
with lucidity; than which there is no
better way, doubtless, than to appeal
with directness. Directness is
achieved, accordingly, when this petit
tion to tho American woman is made,
absolutely, against her much-mis-
guided self, and when it is asked of
her to recognize, not that her path
is more lighted than that of her
downtrodden sisters in other worlds,
but that she literally stands in need
of three times their sufiiciency of ad-
monition. 1t is in other words not
three times easier for her to please
and soothe and happily to exemplify,
but three times more difficult--by
reason of the false lights that have
multiplied about her and that an at
mosphere absolutely uncritical has
done nothing to extinguish."
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
The HumilIty Of Greatness.

Our strength grows out of our
weakness. Not until we are prlcked
and stung and sorely shot at awakens
the indignation which arms itself
with secret forces. A great man is
always willing to be little. Whilst he
sits on the cushions of advantages,
he goes to sleep. When he is pushed,
tormented, defeated, he has q chance
to learn something; he has been put
to his wits, on his manhood; he has
gained facts; learned his ignorance:
is cured OF the insanity OF conceIt.
has Got moderation and real skill.--
Home Herald.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
Curioslties Of servant Question.

In connection with the advanced
position taken by labor" in New
Zealand, it is interesting to note the
attitude of the domestic servants of
that colony. A union has been
formed which, through its secretary
at Wellington, sent out circulars to
housewives, informing them of the
claims" of the Domestic Workers
Union, and expressing the hope that
their reasonableness would be ac-
knowledged by signing the cgree-
ment accompanying the circular let
ter, which informs those concerned
that "by so doing you will obviate the
unpleasantness of appearing person
ally or by agent before the Concilia-
tion Board or Arbitration Court. Z"
Here are some OF the claims"
The weeks work shall consist of
sixty-eight hours, to be divided as
follows: Work to commence every
morning, except holidays, at $50 a.
m, and cease on Mondays, Tuesdays,
Fridays and Saturdays at 7.3O p. m,
with three Intervals of one-half hour
each for meals, and one hours in
terval in the afternoon of each day.
"On Thursdays work shall cease
at p. m, with two intervals of one
half hour each for meals.
ION Sundays work shall cease at
2 p. m, with two intervals of half
an hour each for meals. but domes-
tics shall, If required, prepare tea
between the hours of $50 D. m. and
$50 p. m. on alternate Sundays.
ION Wednesdays work shall cease
at 10 p. m, with three intervals of
half an hour each for meals and one
hour interval in the afternoon.
ION Sundays two hours shall be
allowed to attend church in the
morning.
christmas Day. Boxing Day, New
Years Day. Kings Birthday, Ami
versary Day. Easter Monday, Labor
Day, and all statutory holidays shall
be deemed to be holidays. and work
done on those days shall be paid for
at the rate of one shilling (twenty-
four cents) per hour"
TO what extent these claims"
have been acknowledge has not vet
transpired ~ Harper's Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
Doc 2a Years Old.

Bessie, a collie belonging to 8. e.
Clark, of Northview, is believed to
be the oldest dog alive, having at
tanned her twenty-sixth year.
Until two years ago the animal re-
fused to take shelter in the severeSt
weather, preferring to sleep in the
snow and wind. She is now feeble
and stone deaf, but she can see well
and her teeth are in fair state of
preservation. Her age is vouched
for by number of reputable per-
sons who are familiar with her
career Denver Republican.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
A TcrribIc Indictment.

The modern girl is sphinx; a
hybrid kind of creature who dislikes
children, talks an incomprehensible
language, mostly composed of slang
terms picked up goodness knows how
and where, and looks upon feminine
graces as--to use her own elegant"
term" tommy-rot "--Correspondent
writing in the Throne.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-08-01
pnner Kettles For Army.

furnish the soldiers of the German
Army with paper kettles, which are
a Japanese invention. Although the
utensils are made of pliable paper,
they hold water readily. BY pour
ing water into them they can be
hung over the fire without burning
for a length of time sufficient to
boil the water One kettle can be
used about eight times.