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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29

'tc bat and whipping out the scalplne
knife, while the creature Is still culver.
Ing, with swift undercut aud two or
three side strokes the keen blade has
severed the hide and the layers OF fat
beneath SO they can be rolled into a
pelt, the hide holding the fat In its
folds. The next whitecoat IA with ltS
parents. Their hide Is coarser. hl,
worth having. SO the gunner takes /.
quick aim. lodging charge OF shot II,
the head OF the growing mate lust a,
the base OF the brain. Here the skull
Is thinnest. One of the batters stands
guard over the blowhole to prevent
the mother from escaping, while an
other bats the cub Then the female
who would desert her offspring to save
her own life, is dubbed on the hepd
A few strokes Of the knives and three
more bloody carcasses crimson the lee
The pelt Of the first seal is piled with
the other three in pan. The lagmaD
sticks a flag by Its side, and the hunt
ers hurry forward, leaving the pelts 10
be towed back to the ship when the
hunt is ended.
Thus the slaughter continues hour
after hour until nightfall only ends the
stroke Of the bat and thrust Of the
knife. II 1t began at daybreak the
field may be strewn with thousands OF
dead seals, for If the pan OF ice IS
thronged with them, as Is sometimes
the case, a hundred men will kill ten
times their number In day, since most
OF the seals are barps, which seldom
try to protect their young and are
slain without attempting to defend
themselves.--Day Allen Wiley in Met.
rOpolitan.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
WORKED HIS WAY.
VI. Job an Energetic Student Took to
Cross the Atlantic.

VI. Job an Energetic Student Took to
Cross the Atlantic.
Jack had paid his way always. Out
Of the poverty of his childhood he had
Fought his way through the university,
After graduation he felt he must see
Europe. and with the little accumula.
ton he had he crossed the pond
trusting to good luck to get home
again. But. his trip of sightseeing
over. he found himself In Liverpool
without money and with no means OF
getting any.
He thought he would just go down
10 the steamship, go on board and see
how II would seem II only he were 60.
ing home.
! AS he wandered over the big liner
his attention was attracted by cry.
ing baby. The mother was travelling
alone. and while she was attempting
to see to all the thousand and one de
tails incident to the beginning Of an
ocean trip the baby had resented the
neglect he felt he had received and
was crying. The mother was at her
Wits end.
jacks kind heart prompted him to
say: "Let me take the baby. madam
Perhaps | can keep him quiet until
your preparations are made
This request, so unusual from
stranger and especially from man
stranger, naturally filed her with sur.
prise, but she looked Jack squarely III
the eye for second and trusted him.
Il wish you would" she said.
Jacks care was extremely satisfac.
tory to his babyshlp, and when, in
half hour, the mother was ready to
reclaim her child she found happy
baby cooling and trying to devour
bunch of keys at one gulp.
She laughed as she took the young.
ster and thanked Jack. Then she add.
ed, quite in fun, 81 wish yOu were 60
Ing clear across"
Jack saw bis opportunity. He said:
Madam, I'm college student out Of
funds and longing for home. II you
VIII pay my passage to America will
take care of your baby all the way
across"
His proposition was accepted, and he
Kept his word. He is prominent law
yer now. and he looks back with con
siderable amusement to his experience
IN getting home from Europe. Youths
Companion.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
African Natives, Drum Signals.

All through the continent Of Africa
the natives have a very perfect system
Of signaling with drums, by which
means they rap out messages from VII
lage to village, and 1t is quite wonder
full how swiftly and how far they are
able to spread news.
The drumming is always done at
night, when sound travels farther, and
as one lies awake on a still, clear
night the e9r is often gently assailed
by the low, musical roll from a drum
in the village near, and one waits with
pleasant expectancy till the answering
echo comes, muffled by distance, from
village sometimes two miles away
Wide World Magazine.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
PARIS AND LONDON.
eontrasts In People and Manners In
the Two Great Capitals.

eontrasts In People and Manners In
the Two Great Capitals.
In the Streets French traffic all goes
10 the right; London cOachmen drive
always to the left. Parisians live to
eether In large houses like barracks,
GOndoners have one family in house.
The Londoper has latchkey, the
Erenchman concierge.
Paris has its cafes, London Its clubs.
Partisan beds are up in an alcove in
the wall; LoTdoners sleep in the mid
de Of the room. Londoners take three
or four meals a day, Parisians two
Paris dimes, London eats. Paris
Raves are long, L@ldon loaves are
square. Paris drinks wine, London
beer. Paris takes coffee, London tea.
Frenchmen while dining talk to their
Reighbor and enjoy each others SO.
4hety; Brit0ns sit alone at table and
4on't say much, but enjoy their food.
London wcrkmen work In their ordi
nary clothes, call each other "mate,"
smoke clay pipes and punch each 9th.
sFs heads occasionally; Partisan work.
men do their business in bIouses, call
aheir friends "citizen" or "sir,r smoke
cigarettes, take their hats off to each
other and do their fighting with theil
feet. London Tit Bits.
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| PERSONAL MENTION

| Mrs. +, II. Morrison, mother oi
I Miss Hazel Morris, OF Portland, ac.
companied by Miss Green, OF that
city, Is in the city They are guests
Al the home OF Miss Flora Pohl,
I State Fish Warden and Mrs. II. c.
NcAllistcr arrived down from Port
land yesterday, and were Immediately
absorbed in the official Regatta
/ throng.
Senator ]. G. Megler and wife came
over from Brook6eld yesterday to
| take in the pleasures OF the Regatta,
and found them ready to hand, rain
and all.
Admiral Mike German, Of the Cath
lamet Regatta, came down to Astoria
yesterday, on an official visit to the
big festival now underway here and
to say good word for the jollifca-
ton to come off up his way in the
near future.
State Senator W. G. Cole and little
son were Regatta guests in Astoria
yesterday, and will leave Up for the
Eastern country this morning
R. NJ. jenkins Of the A. & c. gen.
eral staff, was well pleased visitor
amid the Regatta throngs yesterday.
fe returns to the metropolis this
morning.
George B. Small, editor OF the
Baker City Democrat was among the
thousands and enjoying the Regatta
fun here yesterday.
Editor S. G. Williams, Of the Skam-
okawa Eagle, who has but lately at
tanned to the dignity Of grandpa, was
down yesterday to look in on the
baby show and get point or two on
the handling Of fragile humanity He
seemed TO be profoundly interested in
the swarming youngsters.
]. B. Eddy, the well known right.
of-way man for the o. r. & N. Com.
pany, came over from the northshore
beaches yesterday to partake Of the
Regatta festivities.
William Harder, Of the Great
Northern Railway service, was an
interested participant in the Regatta
fpn Of yesterday in this city,
Ed Nelson, one Of the best known
tug OF war men on the Pacific Coast
and middle west arrived last night to
attend the tournament ed is get
ting too fat now TO pull, but he Is as
big a fan" as any Of them, lie IS d
guest of Captain Planck of the tour
nament.
! a. Seufert Of The Dalles came
down to Astoria last night.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
RGnions and Rank.

1T Is extraordinary" writes Sir Hen
ry Drummond Wolff in Rambling Rec.
elections" ITO observe In England the
weakness That most people have for
boastlng Of their friends In high places
and the Difference that they show to
them. The daughter Of n lady OF very
high rank had some pain in her foot
Which the mother asked the governess
TO be good enough to leok at. The lat
ter after examining 1t said, If 1t were
not for her ladyship's exalted rank |
should say 1t was bunIon."
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versry, says writer in the pnlladel.

versiry, says a writer In the PnIIadel-
phia Ledger.
Look hyar, boy" he said, 'you goes
to school, don't yer?'
"Yes, sir" replied the boy.
Getting education, amt yerT
"Yes, SIR"
"Larning 'Iithmetic an fggering on
a slate, eh7"
"Yes, sir"
"Well, 1t dom tax two whole days
ter make en- hour. do itr'
why, no." answered the boy.
WAL" said the old man, you was
going ter bring that hatchet back in
an hour, wasn't yer? An hits been
two whole days sence you borrered
hit.
Whats the use of yo' education ef
you go ter school a whole year an den
can't tell how long hit takes ter fetch
back dat katchetT
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
M0HAIR AND ALPACA.
These Fabrics Come From Two En-
/. tirely Different Animals.

J. tirely Different Animals.
The other day / heard a couple of
men arguing about mohair and alpaca,
one Of them gravely asserting that
they were different names for the same
fabric," said a New York importer.
~The assertion was very far out Of
the way. The cloth known as alpaca,
n genuine, comes from the wool of the
animal Of the same name, which
thrives only In the Andean regions
9f Peru and Chile in South America.
The alpaca, or paco, which resembles
the llama, looks a good deal like our
domestic sheep and has most beauti-
xuI fleece. Great focks Of them browse
On the highest ranges of the Andes
and are the property of the native In
dams, who shear them once a year.
Many efforts have been made to breed
the alpaca in different parts of Eu
rope and Australia, but without sue
cess. A cargo of them was brought to
Baltimore some time In the middle of
the last century, but the experiment Of
missing them in the United States wa4
likewise a failure.
THE cloth known as mohair comes
from the Angora goat, very different
&nimal from the alpaca. The angora
II found in, South Africa, but the lar
Eest 6ockS are found In Asia Minor
Exchange.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
Public opinion.

Public opinion is a will-o'-the- -wisp.
1t is here today and gone tomorrow.
Public opinion cruciied the Christ, and
the centuries have condemned it for it's
act. Ever since that time the public
has been making blunders, committing
crimes, furnishing the evidence of its
own unWisdom In every time and coun-
try.-Boston Herald.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
Bohemia.

Bohemia is youth. Youth is every
where. 1t Is bounded on the north and
east by the barren desert of middle age
and on the south and west by the steep
and impossible mountains of success.
The true bohemian is drunk on nothing
but ambitions and ideals, and, though
these leave no headache, they frequent
ly leave an emptiness Of the stomach.
The true bohemian has an appetite the
morning after, but there is often no
breakfast Sydney Bulletin.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
Business Sense.

"Has that titled son-in-law Of yours
any business senseT"
Yes" answered Mr.. Dustinstax. II
must say admire his foresight and
sagacity. He absolutely refused to
take any chances on my regarding him
40 q poor relation. Washington Star.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
Sign of Precocity.

Il belaye,' declared the Irishman,
"thot me youngest sons born t. be q
surgeon"
"Phwat leads ye t say thot" asked
his friend
"Oi caught him usin' th' scissors on
2 book Old lately bought an before
OF cd stop him he cut out th' appin.
x."-Bohemian.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
JOY.

Joy in life is like the oil in the lamp
-when the oil commences to fall, the
wick burns with a glimmering red
fame, filling the air about 1t with q
black smoke, Life also without little
joy burns unprohtably, filing the air
with depression and sadness.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
MURDER OF THE SEAL.
The Way the Animals Are Slaughtered
by the Hunters.

The Ice echoes no footballs, so the
murder of the seal is a stealthy act.
Yes, It seems like murder. On the pan
lies a whitecoat alone. Up to 1t hur-
rles one Of the hunters. Lifting his
Dat above bis head, he measures the
distance; then, swinging downward the
iron shod point, he strikes the skull Of
the seal such blow that 1t Is crushed
~ as II of Dasteboard. Tossing aside
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-08-29
Detective Education.

An old darky in Alabama called
acEugs the fence to his neighbor's son,
wAe is q student at the Atlanta uni
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-01
GIRL SAVED FOUR AS
MEN WERE AFRAID
Using Her Rubbers For Gloves, She
Unwound Live Wire From
Four Persons.

New York, Jan. 1-No one having
rubber gloves to handle a live wire
which was eoiled around four uncon-
seious persons at Metropolitan and
Tenth avenues, williamsburg, young
woman put crowd of men to shame
BY doing the work Of rescue herself.
AIen had tried with sticks TO olsen
tengIe the wire from its victims.
She was one Of many passengers who
alignted from Greenpoint car at the
point where telephone wire hal fallen
over one Of the trolley feed wires and
was dangling over the sidewalk. In its
weshes were John p. DAILY, II years
old, and William Lynch, Is. who mad
been struck by the wire, and John Lena
han and James Dtgan, who had tried to
eNtIieate them
The young woman stopped in the
shelter Of a telegraph pole and in a
minute reaPpeared holding a pair Of
tiny I1ibbers in her hand
Use these she urged. The crowd
Of men neld back.
The young woman inserted her hands
inside the galoshers, and handling tile
dangerous wire boldly soon had its coils
freed from tile bodies Of the young men.
She tied the wire neatly around tele-
graph pole. When a policeman asked
for her name she declined to give it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-01
1908

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Always pure safe and beneficial changes have been
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practically anticipated by years ago. the orignaon Of
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After being before the public than quarter Of
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No other medicine has held prominent position in
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No other medicine possesses so great merit nor effects
such marvellous cures.
Grateful for your past patronage and soliciting con
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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-01
GUARD WOMAN IN
MURDER MYSTERY
Mrs. Hull in a Newark Hotel-Mrs.
Young Alive, Despite Alleged
Identification.

New York, Jan. 1.-THE story built up
by Mrs. Hattie Hull in identifying the
body Of the woman found in the Lamp
black swamp at Harrison, N. j., as that
qf her friend, Mrs Agnes Young, was
shattered here yesterday when Mrs
Young issued a statement in denial. She
says.
II was assistant account at the hotel
Ansonia and knew Mrs. Hull and be-
fiiended lper, but have not seen her for
the past two years. Any other state
nfcnts concerning me are absolutely
false
Mrs. Young denied that she ever saw
man Of the name Of Charles Meyers.
According to Mrs. flulls story. man
iof the name Of Meyers was with Mrs.
Young when Mrs. Hull said she saw
her in the PelIusy lvania depot in Jersey
City on Christmas day.
Mrs. Hull IL now held In a Newark
hotel, with detective stationed outside
the locked door Of her room.
The New York police yesterday went
to the home Of Mrs. Huh and seized a
desk which she said was given 70 her BY
Mrs. Young. This desk II said to con
tain many letters received by Mrs. Young
from her admirers.
Adviees from Camden are that detec-
tiyes are IN that city searching for a
suspect and an alleged accompliee.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-01
Comptroller Issues Financial
Statement
BAD FOR GOVERNMENT
AS Well as Individuals More Than s1o,-
100000 Drop in Receipts-All BUSH
ness Conditions Now Reported
Rapidly Improving.

Washington, Jan. Nv. B. Ridge
ley, comptroller Of the treasury yester-
day gave out a statement dealing large
II with financial conditions during tne
year, 1907, in which he says that the
conditions which made the crisis prom
inent, are the accumulated composite re-
suits of many years Of business. The
whole world has been oyertarding and
expanding and nowhere has il been more
rampant than in the United States The
reaction was inevitable, and though il
might not have taken the form Of q
panic had we been better prepared with
q banking and currency system as we
should have, the time mas come when
some or all must pay for our oyer-in-
diligence
II is the duty Of the banks, says the
comptroller, TO restore business to
normal conditions by resuming their
functions as promptly and as fully as
possible. Fortunately there is not on
ly the strongest desire and disposition
on tine part Of the banks to do this, but
conditions are such as to make it com
pnratively easy and to lead US to ex-
peet much more prompt recovery
than has followed other similar financial
crisis.
@The reports to the comptroller show
that the reserves in the central reserve
cities were but 22.2 per cent, against
the legal requirement of 25 per cent.
The forty reserve cities show 24.27 per
cent. Of legal reserve, OF almost the full
legal minimum, while their total casa
means are 26.55 per cent. of their de-
pBsits.
"FIom Oct. 2 to Dec. 20, 1907, there
have been but 10 suspensions or fail
nres of national banks. OF these two
have resumed and FIVE more should do
50 in the very near future.
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4 - - go.

Cooks in large hotels and boarding
houses may think they get up meals
on big scale but when it comes to
wholesale cookery the little village or
Liss, on the London and Southwestern
railway, England. SURPRISES them all.
AT q barbecue held there some years
ago an OK was boiled, not roasted
whole, and this Is how 1t was done
A large hole was dug IN the ground
and lined with brick Inside this n
tank large enough 20 bold the OK was
built The carcass was then lowered
into The tank. having arst been placed
in a case formed by heavy crossbars.
to which chains were attached, Pull.
leys from seafioiding above were
used to raise and lower the OK. Many
vegetables, such rs carrots. onions. cab
bages aud potatoes. were boiled with
the meat. The boiling required seven
hours.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-01
GEN. sroEssEps MEN UPHOLD HIM
Say He Was Right in Surrendering Port
Arthur.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 1.-THE trial BY
court martial OF Lieutenant General Sto-
essel for the surrender Of the Port Ar
thur fortress to the Japanese entered
upon its final stage yesterday. The
court heard evidence upon the council
OF war Of Dec. 20, when the members
OF the council refused to entertain the
suggestion Of surrender and actual ca.
pitslation.
The prosecution introduced the esti-
mate Of Gen. Smirnoff that the resist
ance could have been prolonged for six
weeks more A number OF witnesses tes-
tilted to the Indignation with which the
proposal to capitulate was received BY
the council of war, but certain officers
from the firing line gave contradictory
evidence. and iiitimatei that the bolner
eounsels against surrender were given by
those who were stationed furtllest from
the enemy.
The troops were dispirdted and sick
almost to a man with scurvy, It was
declared, and il the eapituuation had
been delayed the fortress would have
fallen before the first vigorous attack
Of the Japanese.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-01
Massachusetts Form viii Be
Considered
LIKELY TO CAUSE DEBATE
Talk That the Direct Tax May Be Re
stored--The New Public Service
Commission Is Very
Expensive.

Albany, NJ n. Jan 1.--Republican leg
islative leaders are now discussing an
alnendement to the present law watch
taxes transfers Of stock, BY the levy Of
two cents upon eacn share sold. The
present plan is to 20 broaden the scope
of this law as to make it include all
sales Of features" in produce, principal,
II, Of course, grains and cott0ns. In gem
eral terms this will be levying upon
the New York exchange precisely the
same tax now levied upon the stock ex-
change. This is made necessary by the
great shriDk&ge IN the receipts from the
stock tax, due. course, to the pres
emf dulness IL TIE stock market.
New Yor4 state financies are id bad
shape, largely as result Of the enor-
nous expenses Of the ts%sSSSnsw public
service commissions, created by the leg
stature last year Ii Is expected that
they will ask over $2,0O0,000 for the
coming year and this, in Sle face Of 4
diminished income, spells trouble. In
additiog the cost Of the rebuilding of
the Efis cl,AaI may have to be betrayed
out Of curren income. owing to the fail
ure of bond sales. There il some talk
OF a return to a direct tax, but the Re-
publican party owes its greatest strength
in rural districts to the abolition Of a
direct tax and in the face Of presidential
election, no such step Is expected
As the legislators gather at Albany,
fct - coming session, the main topic
~ Discussion Is the Massachusetts, bal
lot. Tlie Impression Il widely held that
TIE governor viii recommend the adop
tien Of this form Of ballot and here,
II II expected, win be the battle-ground
Of the next few months IN the legisla-
ture. The fear Of the Republican lead
els Is that, ii this ballot be adopted,
New York will 20 Democratic for tae
state, and only Republican Tor the ma
tional ticket, elocting a Democratic gov
eflaor, "a the people of Massachusetts,
did when Roosevelt and Douglass were
chosen four years ago Senator Raines,
VINO ipis the fight against the governor
last ss,ar, has already declared against
the Ballot.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-01-01
ALCOHOL A POISON,
SARD0U DECLARES
Saint-saens, Massenet, D'Tndy Use ii,
quor Spsringiy, They Report.

Paris, Jan. LA French periodical has
sent an inquiry to artists and writer's
asking ii it were necessary for them to
drink alcohol and what they drank
VictoFien Sardnu, the dramatist. re-
piled tilat he holds alcohol to be a poi
son. He could not stand half glass Of
brandy. On The other hand he drinks col
fee three times daily. He does not slcep
well at night unless he has half a cup
Of coffee without sugar after dinner
Saint Saens, the composer says: Il
drink when / am eating and | drfn4,
when | am thirsty, chiefly mineral wa
ter and wine without exces little hecr,
because ! rarely find good beer / fear
alcohol because have an easily irri
tated liver. II can have good, cold,
fresh water, 1 prefer " above all
drinks
Mr. Massenet, repeating the question,
Nhether alcohol was to him happy
exeitant from the point Of view Of must
cal composition, replied that he did not
think 70, since he had always preferred
TO abstain from clarets. He drank little
alcohol. 1t most an occasional sweet
liquer.
Vincent OIndy, being religious in
drinks as IN art. rs one critic says.
takes benedietme aud chaitreuse.
Henri Lavedon dennunces alcohol a.
one Of the worst poisons, and says he
would gladly sign with both hands all
serious anti-aIeollolic appeals.