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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-01-31

ners, luncheons and teas, and while
nearly all OF these affairs were OF the
FIRST magnitude, they were, as a rule,
small and included only select per-
sonal circle.
Mrs. A. Swanson was rendered a
delightful surprise party at her home,
corner Fourth and Bond, by a large
humber of her friends on Thursday
afternoon it being the sixth anniver-
sery Of her wedding. Mrs. Swanson
was presented with beautiful cut
glass vase. The afternoon was pleas
antly spent at six-handed euchre. The
fortunate prize winners being Mrs H.
II. Wherity and Mrs. l.. J. Carlson.
Later in the afternoon refreshments
were served The ladies present we're
Mrs. c. c. Utzinger, Mrs. Y. j..
Carlson, Mrs. E. f. Lewellyn, MRS.
n. L. Ball, Mrs. A. Mac Pharland,
Mrs. Lightfoot, Mrs. Mary Liable Of
Portland, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Babbage,
Mrs. S. Sorensen, Mrs. /. NJ. JEFF
fers, A. L. Skyles, H j. Wherity.
~
Miss Winifred Higgins, one of the
charming girls of this city, whose en-
gagement to Lieut.. Richard Parks OF
Vancouver Barracks, Wash, has re-
Gently been announced, is in Portland
accompanied by her mother, Mrs. J.
E. Higgins. Miss Higgins was the
guest of honor at a reception and ball
given by the officers at Vancouver
Barracks, Last evening Miss Higgins
was the guest OF honor at theatre
party and supper afterwards at the
Hotel Portland grill
80
There will be public dance given
on February 3rd by the A. A. A. A.
Club at their large auditorium. No
invitations will be issued and it is
expected that the dance will be
great success
Mrs. Lynch, who has been teaching
school at Knappton, was yesterday
united in marriage to Mr.. Ole Estoos
of the quarantine station there. Mr..
and Mrs. Estoos have many friends
in this city and in Knappton who
wish them much joy during their mar
ried life.
On Wednesday evening at the
close Of the nterschoolastic debate
the visiting debaters were entertained
at the o. o. F. hall by the mem
bers Of the Astoria High School. The
.oung people had a most enjoyable
time and music helped to make the
banquet a success,
~
The dance given at Knappton last
night was very successful affair
There was good jolly crowd in spite
OF the showers. The Julia B. conveyed
the dancers from here to Knappton
and everyone who attended expressed
themselves as having had very
merry time.
Miss Bess Reed invited few
friends to her home on Bond street
on Wednesday evening in honor of
Miss Ellen Nowlen who left on
Thursday for the Good Samaritan
hospital where she will take a course
in nursing.
s0HN
Miss Barbara Eakin entertained
with a dinner on Tuesday evening Of
nc IT. 4 1
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-01-31
DENTISTS.

If you need any bridgework to be
really well done, come here and he
sure about it, The excellence Of our
dental work in this vicinity has won
us many past friends, because our
patrons have discovered we are OK.
perts and excel in every department
of dental practice We make a prac.
tice of painless extraction and supply
the best of teeth, either on plates or
bridgework
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-01-31
FRILLs AND FRIPPERIEs.

A Blow For the Glove MaR--Ths Cloak
Gown.
Another blow for the glove man Il
the sleeve that not oRly creeps long
and sinuously down over the back Of
the hand, but fsstens over the thumb
with loop like an old fashioned mltt,
When this Is worn a glove Is not es-
teemed necessary.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-01-31

Miss Barbara Eakin entertained
with dinner on Tuesday evening Of
last week. The table was arranged
for six. The guests were Miss Laura
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1909-01-31
The WEATHER

Oregon and Wa:hinston-Fair and
colder in east portion.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
HALLEY'S COMET.

Some people have been blaming
HaIey's comet for the severe weather
that has prevailed all over the coun-
try this winter. Whether or not this
blame is well placed the East Ore
gonian is not saying. It is certain,
however, that at this time the fam
GUS comet is arousing much interest.
From now on reports Ito the eff
feet that Halley's comet has been
seen by other than professional as
tronomers will become more fire.
quent.' says the Christian Science
Monitor. 1T was picked out by a
nine-inch telescope in New England
a few nights ago. According to Flam-
marion it is travelling toward us at
the rate Of 100, 900 miles an hour, so
that while through the ordinary glass
it may appear to be little more than
a discoloration for some time to
come. it will grow perceptibly larger
week by week until the field glass and
the opera glass and, finally, the un-
aided eye will be able to locate and to
hold it. According to present calcu-
lations. the comet will be in perihelion
iu April. In May it will be a con-
spicuous object, and it will continue
as the greatest public spectacle of
the period for some weeks.
Recently it has been thought pos
sible that the earth might be brush
ed by the tail of this visitor, and as
ltronomers have hastened to assure us
that even if this should happen il
probably cause us not the slightest in
convenience. But later calculation:
Iagree that at its nearest approach i
will be many millions of miles out o
the earth's path and far beyond an!
. possibility Of exerting an Influence o
| any kind upon this planet.
"Since Professor Max Wolf of Hei
. dehberg University caught his frs
I glimpse of the returning comet, o.
{ Sept. II, last, a vast amount of mat
q tier has been written concerning il
lbut it is remarkable how little res
= knowledge we possess regarding i
{ beyond that of a purely historica
q character. Whether with improve
Q astronomical instruments we sha
E learn much more about it, or abou
: comets in general, during this visi
y Iremains to be seen. 1t will naturall
g be subjected while visible to constar
n land close scrutiny, for we shall ne
= have another opportunity to gaze uI
on il until 1885 And since GOMEZ
Q have a way of breaking up and di!
4 lappearing altogether, we may not ha'
: an Opportunity of seeing it then
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
CLoRINDA.

Clorinda, in the meeting house
The worthy parson prays,
And goodly thanks he gives for these
Most prosperous of days.
Your stately parents on their ways
Besought you not to stay,
But hasten with your need of
praise
On this Thanksgiving day.
Clorinda, oh, l watch you go
In flowered satin dressed:
You wear my heart upon your sleeve
That all the town may jest.
And when you kneel among the
rest.
Give thanks for this, | say:
You've not the grief that tears my
breast
on this Thanksgiving day.
Clorinda of the rose red lips
That laugh me into scorn.
Must L alone mid happy foux
BE saddest of men born?
All, give me, sweet, this gracious
morn,
The word 1 needs must pray.
And grant unto a swain forlorn
a real Thanksgiving day.
-Theodosia Garrison.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
THE EASIEST WAY.

A company of select colored artists
were rendering a version of "Othello."
The scene between the Moor and
Desdemona had been reached wherein
Othello demands the handkerchief
which he has given to his wife as a
wedding amulet.
"Desdemona," he cried, fetch me
dat han'kerchiefr'
But the doomed lady only babbled
of Cassie, and her liege lord shouted
again:
II asst fo' de second time to git me
dat handkerchief"
Still the fair one parried the issue
with talk of Cassie, and the lordly
Othello, thoroughly incensed, bel
lowed:
woman. fo' de third and las time
I tell you to git me dat handkerchief
Away!
And as he was just about to open
his mouth again, a big, leathery-
lunged patron in the top gallery
shouted down at him:
go de Lawds sake, niger, why
don you wipe yo' nose on yo' sleeve
an let de show go on ?'-Judge's Ii
brary.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
UPSTATE MORSE TRADING.

\ correspondent of the Journal who
attended the horse traders conven-
ton at Monterey on Saturday says
it was a great event. The supply of
trading stock was large and in good
condition Each trader was at his
best. Horses changed hands often
some of them at frequent intervals
The star feature OF the day was the
frequency with which a certain horse
described as a 'quiet animal, warrant
ed not to kick" and which was locat-
ed lin the pasture on a certain farm
was swapped off. Sometimes the
horse in the pasture" brought it's
swapper good boot" then perhaps
the new owner soon Caught on" and
was glad to give a few dollars to
induce some friend to become the
owner of the animal After the con-
vention adjourned the man to whom
the 'horse in the pasture" fell in the
final deal Of the day went TO the pas
ture on his way home and found that
his new possession had been dead foI
| several days.-Corning Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31

In case of another blow, Cook
should be where he can get Copen-
hagen courtplaster.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31

about conditions here and the differ
cent localities,
To-day that man met the writer
and disclosed the frightful condition
of affairs. He said one man would
tell him that certain locality was
ideal; that the land was good, water
plentiful and conditions first class,
Then he would mention the same To-
cality to another individual and it
would receive thorough knocking
and drubbing. causing the prospec-
tive buyer to feel amazed. Another
native will add his mite to the knock
ing which makes the new conner lose
interest in the land and he casts his
eyes around for another location. 1t
is found and the same program fol-
lows. The stranger said he had no
idea how long this would last if man
continued to pick out different lands,
but he was satisfied that there were
enough knockers here to continue the
matter indefinitely"
This habit of knocking the other
fellows proposition in hopes of do
ing something for yourself is not
straight, clean business in the realty
line or in any other line. 1t is a re-
prehensible practice. If your own
is not sufficiently strong
upon its own merits don't try to
strengthen your case by nbelling your
That is not honorable,
Besides when realty men follow such
tactics they serve to create general
iistrust among the intending purchas-
ers. It drives people out of the coun-
Try. The same thing is true to an ex-
tent at least when this knocking hab-
L is followed by those in mercantile
ines. If you have the habit break it
Up.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
COLLEGE WOMEN IN HOMES.

The head of Bryn Mawr college is
a profound, sincere and brilliant wo-
man. Recently she has taken up the
charge that the college trained wo-
man is untitled for domestic life Her
inquiries have convinced her that 80
per cent of college women do their
own housework; that though thew
marry later in life. they marry more
wisely; that they have an average of
three and six-tenths children, as
against the noncollege women's three
and five tenths. Said the Spectator
of 200 years ago:
AS our English women excel those
OF all nations in beauty, they should
endeavor to outshine them in all 9TH
er accomplishments proper to the sex
and to distinguish themselves as ten
der mothers and faithful wives rath-
er than as furious partizans. Female
virtues are of domestic turn
Nobody doubts that the home and
the small child's care will always
fall to the woman. She is the more
directly responsible for the succeed
ing generation. What is receiving
heavy blows at present is the tradi-
tional and stereotyped idea that
knowledge and intellectual training
are less suitable TO these high tasks
than are frivolity and ignorance
Golfers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
PRESIDENT KERR'S WORK.

In his address last evening Presi-
dent Kerr told of the rapid growth of
the oregon Agricultural College dur
ing the past few years. The insti-
tuition has gone to the front until it
now ranks as one of the three great
schools Of the kind in the United
States It is surpassed only by the
splendid agricultural colleges of Iowa
and Michigan. o. \. c. is the leading |
agricultural college of the west and its
natural field is such that it viii hold |
its enviable position.
However. the satisfactory progress
the school has made during the past
three years has been due very largely
to the administration Of President
Kerr. When DR.. Kerr was called to
the presidency of o. 4. c. he saw the
great possibilities Of the school and
began at once to lay broad plans for
the future. Immediately the institu
ticn took new life in all departments
and the growth and general advance
ment since the arrival of President
Kerr has been truly remarkable. Dr.
Kerr is one of the new school of col
lege presidents. AS well as being an
educator he is also a strong, capable
bl siness manager. He has need OF
hn J., nf
property valued at over million dol
lars has a faculty of nearly 100 men,
bers to direct and is also at the head
of the important experimental work
that is underway throughout the
state.
The average man has no realiza-
ton of the fact but the president OF
the agricultural college has about the
most responsible position in the
state. The work he has to do is OF
the utmost Importance to the mater
ial welfare Of Oregon. 1t is the ain
of the agricultural college to fit it
students for practical participation II
industrial and commercial life and Il
does this.
There are 10000 o. A. C. graduate
and former students scattered abou
the state and nation. They are en-
gagged in all manners Of work rangint
from truck gardening to the manage
ment Of great industrial enterprises
There is one o. A. c. man upon th'
supreme bench of oregon, while an
other distinguished graduate, William
F. Herrin, has become leadini
counsel for the hartman railway sys
tenn The army of o. A. c. graduate
offers testimony to the work tn
school has done in the past and is al
80 an index to what may be expecte
of the future with the school unde
the administration Of such men a
President Kerr.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
Happy New Year.

81 am afraid of pain, and that is
why should not like to III the war
den of a JAIL"
why not?"
Because a Jail warden Il bound
to have felon always on his hands"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31

Give a calf plenty of rope and he
will tangle your legs.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
FOR SALE

1900 acres all fenced, good room
house with basement, big barns well
built, orchards, and other improve
ments. This land lies along the foot
hills of the Blue mountains in the
Chinook belt where grows the fine
bunchgrass, and flows the crystal
springs. owner cut $50 tons of al
falfa this year. This is an ideal
stock ranch, 10 miles off a R. r., and
can be bought for $3.50 per acre,
and ten thousand dollars worth Of
cattle and horses thrown in. besides
8 good wagons and all the machinery
and other stuff on the ranch. find
the bargains. that is why sell the
goods.
.. T. WADE,
Pendleton. Oregon.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
BREAK THIS PRACTICE.

In the following the Baker City
Herald calls attention to a practice
that is all too common in this county
as well as in Baker county.
"A stranger arrived in Baker City
several days ago for the purpose OF
purchasing a tract Of land. Being
unfamiliar with the country he nat
uraIly looked around and talked with
anyone whom he chanced to meet
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31

"That'ssright; rail and carry on be-
cause l spend an evening at the club
1 don't expect to be able to make you
see what attracts man to a club"
"No. you don't make me see it. but
you make me smell 1t, all right"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31

Tonight many local people will close
the old year by attending the Bernard
DAILY performance for the benefit of
the city park fund. 1t is good cause
and everybody should be there. Fur
thermore the ladies are managing the
affair.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31

Now some one is going to climb Mt
Mckinley by means of balloon.
This is assuredly a hot air arrange
ment.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31

Pendleton property owners and bus
mess men should take resolution to
secure traction system. 1t must be
had
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1909-12-31
++++++*++ 80
THE BEST OF 1T.

= When the morn wakes overcast :.
= And the loneliness is vast, I
= Make the best of it. /
= II the birds refuse to sing, !
+ If the bells of joy won't ring, I
+ Make the best of everything, /
= Make the best of it. !
+ Nature has her crying spells, I
= Joy can't always ring its bells, ::
+ Make the best of it. I
2 Make the best Of daily life ]
Z When dependency is rife; J
Z Good will come out of the strife I
Z Make the best of it, !
2 Hearts must know their share of /
= pain, !
+ Life must know little rain. ]
Z Make the best of it. !
2 Make the best of every day; !
= Future morns won't be so gray +
Q Fight the gloom that clouds /
2 your way. !
. You'll get the best of it. :
. Boston Herald. !
. = = = = :. 4. !. !. I. I. = !. j. 2
New-York tribune., 1909-03-14

and keep them In shape To merit that commenda-
tiOn has made the companys virgin forest cost
about S45 and its second growth about
81. And the company estimates. from. its own eN-
perfence. that woodlands bought at $3.50 an acre
and carried thirty years. would cost more than
so an acre. Yet with the help Of the small tarltt
protection given II. II has been able to Withstand
the drain its resources which the expense OF
caring for these f0restS-3n expense unnecessarily
syvelied by overtaNatiOn-has entailed. Remove the
tariff however and il may be compelled TO let
posterfty look to itself And what abandonment
would mean can be estimated when il IS consld-
cred that proportionately q their numbers the
amer rnauufacur the largest private owners
decidedly Interested in the preservation Of their
timber for the reason that upon It depends theIT
future supply
To sum up. the stock raiser finds his interest IN
converting his lands into pasture those that are not
already such. tho farmer in clearing his for pur-
noses Of cultivation. The timber man in stripping
his Of all merchantable timber. the lands or the
miner are usually rocky and sterile. ana even
IChere they grow timber the latter Is only con
sidered for its SNORING and fuel value, and the
small owners of various kinds are a neEHglWe
ouantitv since the preservation or destruction or
The few trees in their holdings will not materially
affect either soil china tic conditions. So II Is 10
he seen that il is The large private and owners
the country must look for the efforts. complement
those Of the government 10 preserve me
land IN a habitable condition for poStvrltF- Ana
that these large owners may be enabled to d" ther
sba receive every aid that can he
rendered them. To continue them in their laudahle
desire to safeguard the interests Of posterty. no
incentive must he withdrawn As has been pithlIy
New-York tribune., 1909-03-14

ual. L would seem not difficult. and It would GER
tainly be ecacious extend the principle and the
practice the smaller streams and water courses
of the country II it is wise for the general gov
ernment to spend untold sums in trying 10 confine
that erratie stream the Mississippi. to somewhere
near a given course, and tO-keep 1t from inundat-
ing the entire valley many think 1t would be the
part of wisdom, for example that the state OF New
York should impound the headwaters Of the Hudson
in the Adirondack region by series Of reservoirs
that would keep that river from drowning OUT
Albany and Troy at odd times. and from noodlhS
farmsteads and running almost dry at others,
thereby depriving the industries dependent upon II
of its service and bringing about unsanllary con-
ditions country bordering on II.
The fire service and the water service, the great
corpora tious cannot render: the tasks too big
and too expensive for them But that they
can and will practise forestry was demonstrated
some time since when, at meeting OF the dlfec-
tors of a paper making concern which represents
at least 3S I-3 per of the newsprnt product OF
the Industry. and which IS much the largest lana
among the manufacturers. resolutions were
adopted put this in operation under The guidance
Oft Forestry Department of the nlt"a states
More, not a few Of the manufacturers nave heel
for many wears engaged in t3ls practise one lAIt7
concern, in fact. highly ComphInehted hy me
Special Committee. upon the occasion OF ltS NlSlt
10 the forests Of the former for the very rFSllI-
able manner in which the said forests are hahdieu
and il may be added that this same concern IS
the owner # some 11I0H0 acres of land about one
half of which IS in forests. a E"ndlF portion 'l
which has long been IN its possession. But 70 PUT
New-York tribune., 1909-03-14
WHAT WOULD FOLLOW TARIFF RE
DUCTION.

And now the question arises. What would hap
pen should the tariff paper and pulp he re-
moved or appreciaby reduced 1t requires no
prophetic vision. in the Judgment Of American
manufacturers, but merely knowledge OF actual
conditions to foresee what would follow As they see
them these would be the inevitable results: At hrst
the American market would be flooded with paper
and at prices with which American manufact-
urers simply could not compete. at their present
rate of expense production for. IT must be under
stood freighs present no obstacle and are no
appreciabe addition TO the price of foreign goods
II costs no more in freight charges to bring the
raw material used by the paper maker his mill
from a foreign port than it does from New York
city And the low freights OF to-day are
high compared with those that would prevail. so
far as paper and pulp concerned. at least.
under such tariff conditions: for all the vessels
that now arrive in ballast at the grain and cotton
ports of this country afford to bring these
goods at the mere cost of loading and unload
Then. American manufacturers such as own
TO conserve them; and instead. would have To strip
them clean in order to cut expenses: 10 S@ve Cue
time; and to this drastic measure would he added.
necessarily. the reduction OF the paper maker
wage schedules foreign standards
But even then. the unequal strife would oe short
would move their holdings in Canada ma while the
the book" and the other sTsdeS n oa PaPSr & aR 96n
which the mills in these divisions can now barely
Eiio1ipe this exodus Of the larger newsprint
mills would come ruin and desolaton 10 numerous
paper mill towns, partial paralysis others. and
TTeaf loss of custom TO the many American trades
and industries whose goods the paper manufact-
buys.
The foreign manufacturer having gained posses
sion OF the American market. his goods would
skvbirh therein-up to where "the imported arti-
cis'' aIways has been held; and who then would
may the piper'2 The newspapers but. unfOTtu-
nately not only the newspapers which started this
rresent unwise crusade. The less selfish, the
patriotc and the intelligent newspapers, they
that either their faces against IL. remained
neutral, would have to share the punishment
And what would be the cost to posterity? II.
when we have Just reached the danger line in our
drains upon the forests and the more important
factor in their preservation is forced to that