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THE MORNING A3TOHIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST. 13 Established 1873. Published Daily Except Monday by THE J. S. DELLINGER CfO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By mail, per year $7.00 By carrie, per month 60 WEEKLY ASTORIAN. By mail, per year, in advance $1.50 Entered as second-class matter July 30, 1906, a the postoffice at As toria, Oregon, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Orders for the delivering of The Morning Astorian to either residence or place of business may be made bypostal .card or through telephone. Any irregularity in delivery should be immediately reported to the office of publication. TELEPHONE MAIN 661. Evolution BY LANGDON SMITH ,the:weather Oregon Cloudy tonight and Thurs day; winds mostly southerly. Washington Showers tonight or Thursday; cooler east portion Thurs day; winds mostly, southerly. THE SUMMER RAIN. A felicitous summer rain is upon us here at the mouth of the Co lumbia; light, steady, warm, and quite wet. We do not need it a little bit; it does not appeal to us just at this time and we can dispense with it easily, even for the asking.. It is sur plusage at Astoria; we have our rainy season and never have to com plain of any shortage, hence, we would be very glad to see this move inland and pour its grateful flood on fire-ravaged, or fire-threatened local ities that are yearning and praying for it. That is the place for it. There is something incongruous in the bounty which falls where it is not needed nor desired, while the places and countries where its last trace and element would be a pro found advantage, are denied it. We are not solving insoluble problems this morning and therefore decline to discuss the subject further but leave) it, with the large hope that this rain ! will pass on and do its prime and glorious service up country where great values and the safety and com fort of thousands of people are at stake". problem once for all. Like Alexan der, we may have to solve it our selves, in part, by pulling the hills dfwn to the datum plane of the city and utilizing the vast bulk of earth in filling in the tide-ways and solidify ing the commercial areas of the dis trict; always the dream of the As torian through the century of her existance. Yet, it is not certain that this will remedy the situation alto geher, for a soil that will not stay where nature planted it, is likely to i show treacherous symptoms at any tjme and rebuke the puny hand that tampers with it. It is one of the few really grave things that confront Astoria; and she has contended with it faithfully. She will never find surcease from its fore boding action, until her beautiful hills are levelled and the weight and im petus that now urges the earth over the soap-stone paths in its depths, have been minimized to the point ap proaching stability. THE WAR OF WIRES. The following spendid poem is the creation of a famous New York news paperman and war correspondent, now dead, and is reproduced in these columns through the courtesy of a friend lately in Astoria with the Harper troupe of players. When you were a Tadpole and I was a Fish In the Paleozic time, And side by side on the ebbing tide We sprawled through the ooze and slime, Or skittered with many a caudal tlip Through the depths of the Cam brian fen, My heart was rife with the joy of life, Tor I loved you even then. Mindless we lived and mindless we loved, And mindless at last we died; And deep in a rift of the Caradoc drift We slumbered side by side. The world turned on in the lathe of time, The hot lands heaved amain, Till we caught our breath from the womb of death, And crept into light again. We were Amphibians, scaled and tailed, And drab as a dead man's hand; We coiled at ease 'neath the drip ping trees, Or, trailed through the mud and sand, Croaking and blind, with our three clawed feet Writing a language dumb, With never a spark in the empty dark To hint at a life to come. The war of telephonic wires goes 'Yet happy we lived, and happy we merrily on in Astoria. , ,0VI'1. , , And happy we died once more; Manual and Automatic batteries . .. . . . ... (Our forms were rolled in the clinging are in full action; their thunder re- j n)0j verberates thrillingly up and down ; Of a Neocomian shore. the thoroiuhtares; while the fusil 'The eons came, and the eons fled, lades of argument and counter argu ment crack and rattle on all sides, and the reading eye is riveted every- And the sleep that wrapped us fast, jWas riven away in a newer day, And the night of death was past. I carved that light on a reindeer bone With rude mid hairy hand. I pictured his (alt on the cavern wall That men might understand, Tor we lived by Mood, mid the right of might, lire human laws were drawn, And the Age of Sin did not begin Till our'lmital tusks were gone. And that was a million years auo. In n time that no man knows; Yet here to-night in the mellow light We sit at Dclmonico's. Your eyes arc deep as the Devon springs, Your hair is as dark as jet; Your years are few, your life is new, Your soul untried, and yet ' Our trail is on the Kimmeridge clay, And the searp of the Purbeck flags. We have left our bones in the Bag- shot stones, And deep in the Coraline crags; Our love is old, our lives are old, And death shall come amain. Should it come to-day, what man may say We shall not live again? God wroguht our souls from the Tre madoc bell And furnished them wings to fly; He sowed our spawn in the world's dim dawn, And I know that it shall' not die, Though cities have sprung above the graves Where the crook-boned men made war, And the ox-wain creaks o'er the bur ied caves . Where the mummied mammoths are. Then as we linger at luncheon here, O'er many a dainty dish, Let us drink anew to the time when you Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish FREE TRIAL-AN ELECTRIC IRON Saves backs, footsteps, blistered fingers, and faces fuel and tempers. You feel no electricity attach to any incan descent socket low expense would sur prise you let us explain to YOU. ASTORIA ELECTRIC CO. John Fox, Pres. P. L. Bishop, Sec. Astoria Saving Bask, Treat. nelson Tfojrer, vice-rres. ana Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . . . Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. Correspondence Solicited. Foot of Fotsrth Stmt WASTED LITERATURE. Astoria is one of the best magazine-selling cities on the coast. Her people subscribe for, or buy, and read the whole gamut of monthly litera ture that is 'published in that form and there is a strong clientelle be hind the Astoria library, all of which shows that this is a reading public, while our thousands of summer visi tors absorb all the standard light lit erature that is current. ' With such a host of readers and such a supply of matter, it should be an easy case to keep those who are on the sick list, or on the outposts of duty, or in the compulsory seclusion of the jails, in endless supply of good reading. The fact is we are too heed less of our cheap and excellent books and magazines and allow them to go to waste about our homes and offices, instead of sending them to the people who are barred and denied them. , where upon the puDiisneu slogan oitThen ,j ,)t amJ swift thr0ll(?h the the hour. The battle rages with all ; juge trees the commercial adjuncts in active j We swung in our airy flightSj operation, and the ordinary citizen Qt breathcd in the balms of the fron. may dodge and hide and try to hold j (jej J)ajmSf aloof, but he is in the thick of it all,! ln the mish of the mooniess njghts. and is, at last, the supreme party n ; An1 oh! what beautiful years were interest. j ,i1C5l.( Every man should take a deep and j When our hearts cung each ,0 eager concern in the contention now i eacn; going on here; he is the one the con-jWh ,jj f1,e( ;ul our senses testants are after; it is his patronage i thrilled the battling companies rely on in the. n the firs fajnt (awn o specch end; it is his money that will keep) . . , .... .i. . . ...:i:.;An : .v..? ! one or Dom ine great uuhuh " " i- 11. 1 ' . nlnUa In .'id neia; ne is in nu cuc a um.i - passed engagement, ana ine sooner ne icn-, , . izes his potenty as a real factor and;And brc;uh fay and fey begins to sway things his way and to j MS Own comion, jjcuuc anu jiu i. .Thus life by life, and love by love, through the cycles the better cerneu. it will be and for all con- We followed the chain of change, Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke, and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God. A parcel can now be mailed from any postoffice in the United States to any postoffice in Bolivia, a distance of 4000 miles, for 12 cents a pound. The domestic parcels rate in this j rn.mtrv is 16 cents a pound. Con- j I was thewed like an Auroch bull, gress ought to explain why foreigners re allowed this advantage in the if neglected home interests. UNSTABLE EARTH. This is a lively place, this Astoria; even the earth will not remain quiet and in the place it is supposed to have lodged for a million or more years. There are several streaks of uneasy soil traversing this peninsula that have been, since time immemor ial, the cause of anxiety, engineering interest, and endless expense to the public and private owners thereof; they are all very narrow, and seem to run from a point about two-thirds of the way up the elevations, on thettiat wjH be sufficiently strong, suf northern incline, and operate clear to j tjciently active and sufficiently eager the river's edge. They make from ; tl) I1()V(, wiieru.ver American honor or one inch to a foot of headway, per j American interests are in peril, and annum, according to location and the j t j1e rc!il,it jn November will show that subterranean enditions "besetting j lh(. Hllk 0f the votcrs in the United each locality. They have never been States are of the same patriotic be- And tusked Bear; like the great Cave mails. It has become a glaring case And you, my sweet, from head 19 feet, Were gowned hair. in your glorious Wireless messages are to be sent . ... . . .-. ft( Bwti ir flip fflnnm rt i Cirtiia 3v across the Atlantic irom me wj ui v,. ...wo the Eiffel Tower. A daily chat be twen Paris and the New York sky scrapers will be a pleasing accom paniment of the flying machine experiments. William H. Taft believes in a navy checked successfully, yet, and will probably interfere with the general scheme of public improvements here for all time to come. All manner of clever devices have been employed to obviate the move ment and spare the buildings that have, in times past, been erected up on them, but human ingenuity seems vain and profitless in this fight against the obstreperous and unquiet earth. They are a constant menace to street improvement, where the public work touches the erratic soil and will lief. Subcribe to the Morning Astorian, 60 cents per month, delivered by carrier. COFFfiE Good is so good and poor is so poor; have Schilling's Best tomorrow. Vnnr rrrrw rnrn M If J..t ever be, until science shall solve the uuif.mtptr bim When the night fell o'er the plain, And the moon hung red o'er the riv er bed, We mumbled the bones of the slain. 1 flaked a flint to a cutting edge, And shaped it with brutish craft; I broke a shank from the woodland dank, And fitted it, head and haft. Then I hid me close to the reedy tarn, Where the Mammoth came to drink; Through brawn and bone I drave the stone, And slew him upon the brink. Loud I howled through the moonlit wastes, Loud answered our kith and kin; From west and east to the crimson feast The clan came trooping in. ' O'er joint and gristle and padded hoof We fought and clawed and tore, And cheek by jowl, with many a growl,. We talked the marvel o'er.. . FINDER NAIL SCRATCH RESULTS IN DEATH A short time ago you may have read of the remarkable case where a simply scratch of the finger nail caused death by blood poisoning. At first it was only an annoying itch caused by summer rash. This was scratched by the finger nail to re lieve the itch, but the .skin was torn open, the irritation became worse and finally resulted in a fatal case of blood poisoning. Do not scratch or rub the itch or irritation caused by summer rash, mosquito bites, hives, prickly heat or any form of skin disease or itch, D. D. D. Prescription, the best known remedy for eczema and all forms of skin disease, externally applied, will at once stop the irritable itch. It soothes and cools the skin and per manently cures the itch or disease, j Infants and children are saved many I hours of agony and torture from the unbearable itch if a few drops of D. D. D. is applied to the afflicted parts. Remember the itch is in stantly relieved. Call at the store of Charles Rogers & Son and you can get a bottle. Try it I THE TRENTON First-Class Liquors andt Cigars f 102 Commercial Street f Corner Commercial and 14th. . ASTORIA, OREOON M IMIHUM HlttH STEEL & EWART Electrical Contractors Phone Main 3881 ... . 426 Bond Street Subscribe to The Morning Astoria... 60c pc. month by mail or carrier. TRANSPORTATION. Stmr. Chas. R. Spencer Spencer Line PORTLAND-ASTORIA ROUTE Portland: Washington Street Dock Callender Dock, Astoria Phone Main 8619 ROUND TRIP DAILY Except Thursday and Sunday For Astoria and Way Landings Leaving Portland 7 A. M. Arriving Astoria 1 P. M.; Returning Leave Astoria 2:30 P. M., Arrive Portland 9:45 P. M. FARE $1.00 EACH WAY SUNDAY EXCURSION Astoria and Return Leave Portland 8 P. M. Return 9 P. M. FARE $1.00 ROUND 'TRIP Weekly Landing and Time Schedule Leave 7:00.. Portland ..9:45 Arrive 8:30. ..St. Helens... 8:00 9:15...- Kalama ...7:05 9:35.'.. Rainier ...6:30 10:10.... Stella .. ..5:35 10:25. ..Oak Point.. .5:20 10:35.. .Eureka ...5:05 11:10., Cathlamet ..4:25 11:30. Skamokawa .3:55 12:05.. Brookficld ..3:40 12:18.. .Pillar Rock.. .3:30 12:30... Altoona ...3:10 Arrive 1:10... Astoria ...2:30 Leave Heavy type denotes P. M. Connecting at Astoria for all Sea side Resorts. Renowned for speed, comfort and courteous treatment. II 111 THROUGH TICKETS sold and baggage checked through to all points via the Northern Pacific. Great Northern, O. R, & N.O. S, L. and Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. Steamship Tickets Via. All Ocean Lines at Lowest Rates. THROUGH TICKETS ON SALE For Rates, Steamship and Sleeping Car Reservations, call on or address O. B JOHNSON, Qen'I Agent 12th St., near Commercial St. ASTORIA, OREGON. THE GEM C. F. WISE, Prop. Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars Corner Eleventh and Commercial ASTORIA, OREOON TRANSPORTATION. The "K" Line PASSENGERS FREIGHT Steamer - Lurlinc Night Boat for Portland and Way Landings. Leaves Astoria daily except Sunday t 7 p. m. Leaves Portland Daily Except Sunday at 7 a. m. Quick Service Excellent Meals Good Bertha Landing Astoria Flavel Wharf Landing Portland Foot Taylor St. J. J. DAY, Agent Phone Main 2761. H ESS My stock of men's and boy's shoes is unsurpassed for qua lity. Close buying and low expenses enable me to sell the best qualities at West prices. S. A. ME 543 Bond Street Subscribe to the Morning Astorian, 60 cent! per month.