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ASTORIA, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 28, 1903. Morning Astorian Establish 1873 RATBSi ient bv mail, per year 16 00 Sent by mail, per month &V Served by carrier, per month 60c " . SEMI -WEEKLY. Bent by mail, per year. In advance U 00 By LVON ft PATTERSON The Astorian guarantee to Its ad vertisers the largest circulation of any newspaper published on the Columbia T.lver. - GENERAL MILES ON ROADS It is announced that Gen. Nelson A. Ifiles, Just retired from active service In the army, s about to embark In the movement for a systematic building of good roads. No man can have a keener appreciation of the need of good roads than he who has had such long experi ence In the activities of war, the mov ing of large bodies of men' and heavy equipage,, as General Miles has had. It may be also said that no work in which the General has ever engaged could be more laudable than that of spanning the country In all directions with decent highways, and If he shall only make a commencement of suffi ciently permanent and desirable char acter so that it wil be continued to gradual completion, the people of the great west will rise up and sing peans In bis praise. One difficulty in the way of extensive road building of a permanent and sub stantial character In the United States has been the prosperous condition of its people and the high rate of wages labor receives. No local authorities could possibly think of freeing out a smooth and comparatively level road through the mountain sides of this coast as has been done in Norway and Sweden. And no local authorities had the work done in those countries either. It was done by the government and the work served two purposes. It provided the desired roads and It provided the people with bread. The same Is true of the roads that have been built through - the bogs and over the mountains in Ireland.' Some of them are gigantic undertakings, but the government had thousands of starving people (a starva tion which Its own laws had made) and the roads were needed. So the work was provided at small wages and the great enterprises were carried through to completion. It has been pretty well established In this country, that ood, permanent.level roads cannot be made by local effort or by hap-hazard. The people of the United States have expended millions of dollars in so-called road building, but by reason of its desultory, unsys tematic character we still have lines of clay ridges on the lo-.ver lands that would mire a rabbit, and onthe higher elevations a series of winding, narrow. Made in California where materials' are produced. The lowest C'ced roofing made, sts longer than all others. It is weather and water-proof and fire resisting, The Paraffine Paint Co. Sm F roncbco, Seattl, Portland, Los Angela and Daw, Colorado. there Is a big demand for an "sorts of iron and steel product at the more rea sonable prlces,and no signs of cessation are yet In sight The worst aa to the money market seems to have been anticipated. Crop demand are close at hand, yet banker show no anxiety about meeting them. Should money rates advance much further gold Imports would simply be hastened. Very soon produce bills will be In better supply and tend to weaken sterling bills. London show more in ttrest in American securities than for many months, ad as soon as the dis trust developed by our excessive pro moting has disappeared we may expect a better demand from that quarter if prices do not advance too rapidly. A much more confident feeling prevails on the "Street,' for stocks have passed from weak into strong hands. Invest ment purchases have been liberal, and indications are that the larger local in terests are working in the direction of higher prices." Canada's foreign trode more than doubled the past seven " years. The Increase was about 103 per cent The Increase of the United States' foreign trade during the same time has been about 48 per cent Canada's trade for the last fiscal year was $467,637,049, which reckoning on he population of 5,750,000 was JS1 a head. The United States trade was tt.445.8S9.552, which reckoning on a population of 80,000,000 was a little less than 31 a head Can ada's exports amounted to about $37 a head, ours to $18. This showing of Can ada, figures the New York Tribune, which observes that reasons may be as plentiful as blackberries, comes right out and admits that New Tork's trade is decreasing as Canada's increases, It is pointed out that the process dates from the development of he Canadian canal system and the neglect of the canal system that connects New York with the Great Lakes. THE FREE TRADE POSITION "Is dreat Britain wedded to free trade?' asks the Victoria Colonlst'WV should say that if we consider the length of time free trade has been the accepted dogimi In Great Britain. It position is decidedly weak, or It could rot have been shaken aa it has been by the tour de force of Mr. Chamberlain. Look at the length of time It took free trade to conquer British policy. To one portion of the people It was an unhoard of atrocity, to another, an unhoped for Ideal, but for a long time no. part of the people ever considered that It could be put In practice. Throush the force of cltvutustntu.es It made its way, however. Great Britain was Kiadutilly changing from a self-sustaining agri cultural country, to a manufacturing country, which consumed more fiod products than It produced. Free trade was accepted by the mass of the people simply as a means of obtaining cheaper food. It is more than questionable whether food became really cheaper through the removal of' Import duties o rthrough the exploitation of distant areas of corn-producing country ren dered available by Improved means of communication. However that may be, free trade was accepted as the cause I of cheap and abundant bread, and con sequently the cause of British Indus trial expansion, and became as firmly fixed In the mind of the people as, ap parently, any political dogma ever has been. What we fail to understand Is, why Its advocates should be in such an unseemly state of fear the moment it has been attacked as the last word In political and economic science. If what they believe of tree trade Is true, and they can demonstrate It, why should they be so much afraid, and why should they point with such glee to elections which seem to show that Mr. Chamber lain's ideas have not yet been assimi lated by the mass of the British elec torate? The doctrine they believe In took long years to make the slightest headway with popular opinion. Why should they be jubilant, if that doctrine is true, because the new Imperial idea has not destroyed it in less than three months? The attitude of free traders in Great -Britain does not appear to us to be an evidence of the strength of their position. They seem to claim an outrage in the, attack upon a dog ma, as if it did not require to be de fended upon grounds of reason and common sense, but was to be believed in by everyone upon penalties. They do not meet the arguments of the Im perial unionists, they do not combat them. Thy only reassert an abstract propositon which apparently fitted the facts of sixty years ago, and shriek with rage at the bare suggestion that it may not fit he facts of today." Offics Constructing Quartermaster. Astoria. Ore., August . lDOt-ealed proposals. In triplicate, will b received st this office until 10 o'clock a. m., Sep tember a. 1901 for the construction. plumbing, heating and electric wiring of one field oflloers and one aouoie set of lieutenant's Quarters at Fort Stev !. or. tTnlt.ni Slates reserve the right o reject any or all proposals. Plans can be seen and specification obtained at till ollloe. and at the office of Disbursing Quartermaster at Irt Itftid. Ore., and Seattle, nsn. Mivei opes should be marked "Proposal for construction" and addressed to Captain GoodtUe, Quartermaster. Astoria. Ore, Office of C. Q. M Vancouver Bar racks. Wash.. August 5, 1W3. Scaled proposals, In triplicate, will be received here until II a. u September 4. 190J. and then opened for repairs to Hospital at Fort Stevens, Oregon. U.S. reserv es the right to rojcvt or accept any or all proposals or any part thereof. En velopes containing proposals should be marked: "Proposals for repairs to Hos pital at Fort Stevens. Oregon," and ad dressed to undersigned. F. H. HATHAWAY. C. Q. M. The factional fight of Johnson and Zimmerman in the Democratic party of Ohio knocks into pie the reasoning which the poet Milton put into the mouth of one of his characters, and stony, break-neck trails that are unsafe ! it for man or beast The building of main roads must be conducted upon un extensive scale and must be done under a system controlled and supported by the nation and the several states working together. It can never be done by counties and road districts. These may build and main tain short cross-roads, but the general system of trunk roads, in order to be what the country needs, must lie kept up by national and state forces. Perhaps General Miles is juft the man to head a movement n-hioh wilt nitt. mately bring good roads in a practical, scientific manner. If so, all hail Gen eral Miles: Miles out of the nr.v.y and Miles ad ded to the country's good roads will pot be so bad. was considered downright good reas oning at thae time, too. He said: .... -where there Is then no good for which to strive, no strife can grow up there from faction." What good there is in fighting for a Democratic nomination in Otho under present prosperous conditions Is not ap parent. ' ' SHRINKAGE IN SECURITIES Henry f'.ewa is out with a statement declaring the recent decline in stocks was Intesifitd by artificial mf.ans. A Compilation has been made showing that this year's shrinkage in securities amounted to 2Cf0 millions on a capital ization of 6034 millions, compared with a shrinkage of 1300 milions and a cap italization of 4668 millions in 1893, the year of general financial disaster. Thus in a year of general prosperity there has been a contraction double that in curred in a year of adversity, only ten years a?o. Mr. Clews' analysis of the situation is generally hopeful. He eays "The country is practically certain of a large volume of business this seas on, kjuv larmers are,iineiy to De pros perous for another year; because, while crops are not particularly heavy, prices "are high and afford good profits. La bor is also well employed at good wages Manufacturers are feeling the high cost of production somewhat, and there is likely to be less expenditure for ex travagances than when the "boom" wa at its height, yet the country, as a whole, is in satisfactory condition. Our basic Industry, the iron trade', Is in better shape than supposed. It Is true abnormal profits are disappearing, but Colonel Hofer on the Capital Jour nal is laying himself liable to contempt of court. His paper says.that Birdie McCarthy, whose verdict of $22,500 against James Heryford for breach of promise was set aside by U. 8. Judge Bellinger because she didn't look as sweet to the Judge as she did to the jury or else forgot to make goo-goo eye9 in the right direction. Intimating that the sedate judge on the bench is susceptible to goo-goo eyes. With such men as Whltelaw Reld, John Hay, secretary of state, St. Clair McKelway, Andrew D. White, Victor Lawson, president of the Associated Press, General Charles H. Taylor and Charles V. Eliot president of Harvard as an advisory board; with a $2,000,000 fund and under the guidance of the Co lumbia university, Mr. Pulitzer's school of journalism Is not to be "sneered at" It's Impress is sure to be felt In the newspaper world Just as the energies and money of Mr. Hearst when he em barked In the business. There is really need for the Pulitzer school. The tend ency of journalism the past few years has been In the direction of sensational ism, which breeds recklessness and ir- i responsibility in reporters, and the Pulitzer school will tend to swing the I pendulum back to conservatism. ! Di T. L. Ball DENI.'ST 6!4 Commercial street, Astoria Or. OSTE O P ATH Y DR. RH0DA CHICKS Man sell Bldg. 573 Commercial St Fhone Black 2066 Astoria Or. Dr. Nellie Smith Vernon PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office phone Main 2441. Residence phone Main 2443. Office Over Griffin's Book Store. Don't Guess at it But It on ar towg Bast writ u ror our rat and let u tU you about the service nd accommodation offer ed Of the ILLINOIS , CENTRAL RAILROAD. THROUGH TOURIST Car via the ILLINOIS CENTRAL from PACIFIC COAST to Chlcgo and We will hav our Stock of Stoves Ranges us Cincinnati. Don't fall to writ about your trip as w are in a posi tion to give you som valuable Infor mation and aaslttano; Ult mile of track over which are operated som or is nnst train In th world For particular regarding freight or passenger rata oau on or address. O LINDBET, B. H. TRUMBKLL, T. r. 4 R. A. Coal At. ii i aura bu, Portland, or. 8. Feo. O. P. A T. A- St Paul Minn. In about September 1st . It will pay you to wait W. C. LAWS & CO. Plumbers and Steamfitters ' 527 BOND STREET C, W. Barr Dentist Mansell Building. 573 Commercial street, Astoria, Ore. TELEPHONE RED 2061. lioxoRious Travel Ttu "Northwestern Uml'.A" train. leotrlo lighted throughou', both tld ana out, ana (team hat1. ar with- out ttoeptlon, th flnt train I th world. They embody th litest, rtwtn nd best lds for comfort, convenlw and luxury vr offered to traveling oubllc. and altogsth ar th meat complete and spltndld production of ta csr Duuaera art. These splendid Train Connect With The Greet Northern The Northern Pacific toi The Canadian Pacific AT 8T. PAUL FOB CHICAGO and the CAST. No extra chare for these uprtot commodatlon and all class of tick- t are artllabl for psf cn th train on thl lln r proteottd to tat Interlocking Bloos System. All Kind of Mattreawa Made to Order Furniture luslrl L'jihtililcrlug ft Adams Henning'sen Dealers In , , Furniture, Stoves, Tinware. House FurnlsMngs. Second-banj GooJj Bought And Soil ' r W Dny AH Klndi of Junk. 403 BOND STREET, ASTORIA. OREGON. PHONE, RCD IMS Fulton Bros. - ATTORNEYS And Couiutlon-it-Liw Offices, Odd Fellows Hutu.. Tenth snd Coin merelal His., .Worlii, ore PRAEL & COOK TRAN5FER COMPANY. Telephone ttt DRAYING AND EXPRESSING All good shipped to our car Will receive special attention. No 538 Duan 6t. W. J. COOK. Mgr. AS THE CROW FLIES the roomy retiring room coy com partments and the many little con venience especially arranged for their I comfo.-t on th EXPERT HORSESHOEING General Dlnckamitlilng, Boat and Cannery Work. See us for High CIhss Work. Shop Corntr of Fif tecnth and lnne Strwtn, near St. Mary's Hospital. HOLMES S 8BIBERT Phone 2501". . THE LOUVRE Cor. 7th and Alor Streets. AUGUST EKICK80X, : , VlCTOJt LINDMX'K, Proprietor .: . , I . , Manager Carries the Best of Goods, Nightly Program lor Amusement of Guests. ' The editor of the Everett Record will use the masculine pronoun In referring to Lou Dillon. He thinks perhaps a female could not be so fast. In the apiolnfment of General Luke Wright to the position of governor-ije.u-ral of the Philippines, notwith standing his life-long democracy, Presi i -nt Ifjcsevett has again demonstrated hi ability lo rise above partisanship and select the man he considers best qualified for the place. . "" Th" torn of Dallas Is to have an other bank, the First National with iJj.OfiO capital, the promoters'of which are M Minriville capitalists connected with th" principal bank there. Dallas is one of Oregon's prosperous towns, it has one bank already. v There is one party with which Mm J. Ery.in still has Influence that is the populist party of Nebraska which he has again enticed to fusion and to death. The New Jersey minister who has consented to allow the pretty women of his congregation to kiss men for the purpose of raising money for church purposes should first sample the goods to see if they are worthy of so sacred a cause. An exchange speaks of the game of "gossip" which is having quite a run in some localities In the east. It la played with photographs. They are shuffled and dealt out like cards. Ev eryone In the party receiving a photo. It Is then the play to tell every mean thing that can be thought of about the party photographed. We know of lo calities where that game has been played for years without photographs. An observing individual says a man can today wear paper shoes and clothes eat from paper dishes with paper knives and forks at a paper table, sit on paper m chairs, read the news in a paper, sleep on a paper bedstead, in a room carpeted with paper, wash In paper tub or bowl, live in a paer hous, ride in a paper car or carriage, sail in a paper boat,, be rocked In a paper crable, be fed with a paper spoon, take pop or toddy out of a paper bottle and be buried In a paper coffin. , A genius has been figuring nut how many ancestors a man has. First, he takes your father and mother that makes two human beings. Each of these must also have a father and moth er that makss four more human be ings. Eacli of these must have had a mother and father and that makes eight more human beings. So he goes on back fifty-six generations which brings him to the time of Jesus Christ The calculation thus resulting shows that 130,235,017.489,534,976,458 births must have taken place to bring you into this world-you who are reading these lines. C. J. Trenchard I Insurance, Commission and Shipping. Agent Wells, Fargo and Pacific Express Companies. Customs House Broker. lhe Waldorf CHAS. F. WI8I-:, Proprietor. The Best of Wines, Liquors and Cigars Concert Every Evening Cor. Eighth and Astor Sts', Astoria, Or i Northwestern Limited "THE TRAIN FOR COMFORT" STATE NORMAL SCHOOL MONMOUTH. OUUOOX Training school for teacher' courses srranged especially for training teach- very night between Mlnneapoll. St. I ers for all branches of the profession. raui ana inicago vis Before starting on a trip no matter where write for Interesting Informa tion about comfortable traveling. II . L. SI3LER, Oeneral Agent, 132 Third Street, Portland, Ore .O W. TEASDALE, Oen. Pass. Agt, St Paul, Mln. ASK TUB AOENT FOR TICKETS VIA John Fuhrman, Win. Wertlies G. W. Morton. Central Meat Market 542 C3MVIERCIA!- ST. Votir tinli-m lur P R BS If A K D 8 A i T W ill t'. sir mj)ily nu1 ,itw aC'ir'ly aitmd A to 1 ci'J J Em Governor Odell of New York has shown .himself a keen, merciless die- secter of character In his reply to the Insinuations of that oily politician, P. 3. Hill. Eugene is the first Oregon town to discover that a close relative of Lou Dillon is driven on its streets dally, HOLY NAMES CONVENT ASTORIA, OREGON. Boarding and Day School for girls. Kindergarten, Intermediate, Grammar, Academic and Commercial Courses. Thorough Musical Courses. Private lessons in Elocution. Classes of Physical Culture. Next session opens September 8th. . For Circular addres?, Bisteb Superior j) EXCELSIOR BRAND nil cn ii nrniM SUCKERS Most approved method for graded and ungraded work taught In actual dls trlct whool. The damands for grad uates of this school as teachers far ex ceeds the supply. The training depart ment, which consists of s nine grade public school of about 250 pupils, Is well equipped In all Its branches Including sloyd, music, drawing and physical training. The normal course th best and quickest way to state certificate Fall term opens Sept. 22. For cata logue or Information address, E. D. RESSLER, President, Or J..B. V. BUTLER. Secretary. Strictly First C'lnss The Office Jomk I). Makciht, Prop. 110 Eleventh Street ..TO.. SPOKANE, rST. PAUL, DULUTH, MINNEAPOLIS, CHICAGO AND ALL POINTS EAST. TRAINM DAILY 2 Ul. Tr.d. and uar tiffed tr, Vi-mi lit, liie au-rr,(wi I cMNItiH n Hie world. fie i vmij irw gPrHitrii rM I tl.it ., t , I aim, mi itvfeflbr ,1) f kiuijjiof work. ' Jf not H rWleri, writ to i II. rUWYKH A fcVI Hot Mr,, Kut UaabrMgt, lui, Scott's Santal-Pepsin Capsules A FUSITIVE GlffiE For Inflammation or CaUrrh ftf tbe Bladder and Dlwaae . sv vurm no par Curat qnbklr ud Penni- Uoiiarrboea, ud Ulrtt, bo suttcrof bow long attod. '"K- Almotntclr tiirmkiL ..iA . . . . - Hold bv drnffll i.im (1.00, or by mall, postpaid. THl SANTAi-PEPtll CO, StUIFONTSlHO, OHIO. Sold by Chas. Rogers, 459 Commercial PAST TIME New Equipment Throughout Palace and Tourist Sleepers, Dining and Buffet, Smoking Library Cars. Daylight Trip Through the Coacadt and Rocky Mountains. For Full' Particulars, Rates, Folders. Etc., Call on or Address J. W. PIIALON. H. DICKSON, Trav, Pass. Agt. , City Ticket'Agt 122 Third Street, Portland. 612 First Avenue, - Seattle, Wash A. B. C. DENNISTON, O. W. P. A. NORTH COAST LIMITED. Is only run by the Northern Pacific between Portland and Minneapolis and St. Paul, through Tocoma, Seattle, Spokane. Missoula, Butte, Livingston, Billings, Blsmark and Fargo. Eight of these trains ar on the run dally, four east and four west. Each 1 a solid vestlbuled train, carrying stand ard Pullman tourist sleepers, dining car, day coaches, mall, szprs and baggage car and th elegant observa tion car. Each train I brilliantly lighted with over 800 light and th beautv of lfr all I you can travel just am cheaply on this train as on any other. All representative will b glad to giv you additional Informa tion. A. D. Charlton, Assistant Oen eral Passenger Agent 2S5 Morrison St, Tsese tiny Capiulet tr uprioi to Balsam of Copaiba .. Cubebl or Injections artdun, CURE IN 48 HOURS WTJ th tam dne&Ml with. Vb, out Inconvenience. Split fa all nriiffpiti. m RELIANCE ; ElectricaLWorks 428 BOND HT. W or thoroughly prt pored f of making tlmstas and tiscutlng 1 orders for all kind of electrical Installing and Repairing Supplies In stock. W soil th eelebrt4 SHELBY LAMP. Coll up Pnon Utt. H. W. CYRUH, . Mr LOOk AT Tills tf Looking For Nice Dainty Things For Lunch We have thorn. I'ndorwood's deviled ham. Llbby' deviled ham, Llbby' deviled chicken. Llbby' deviled turkey, Llliby'a Melrose Pate, Llbby' Veal Loaf. Llbby' Potted Delicacies. Hammond' Lunch Tongue. French boncl(s Pickled Sardines. " Underwood' Lobster. High Life Crab. Cooper pure Ollv Oil has no equal. FOARD ft STOKES CO. THE ASTORIAN JOB DEPARTMENT : f o r- JOB PRINT i' NO THE REGATTA IS OVER! Bat the Success of That Event Was in no 7 Manner Greater than that of the CARABANAr I SYMPHONIE AND MANRARA BOQUET Carried at TRULtlNGER'S the only two cigar stores in the city Agents fur tbe Tortlaiid Safe & Lock Co. Call and see samples. Give ti your order for Latest and Best Phono graph and graphophone records. Agent for Portland Sail & Awning Co. ; , Sails, Tenia, AwningBtatid Covers. Two stores, f P Commercial St Pi A. Trullinger. (