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PAGE TWO. THE MORNING ASTORIAN, TUESDAY, Ai'KlL. iz, THE MORNING ASTORIAN. Established 1873. RATES if mail, per year By mail, per month . By carriers, per mouth la 00 50 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. By wail, per year, ia advance fl 00 ASTOIIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. NEW BATTLESHIPS. The Virginia, which was launched last week at Newport News, possesses peculiar interest for those who are watching the development of the American navy. She is the first of five battleships constituting a new class and making a distinct advance upon all predecessors. One of her most admirable characteristics is the itseed she is expected to make. She and her four sister ships are designed to make ninteen knots. How exceptional this is for a battleship belonging to the United States will be appreciated when it is remem be red that the Illinois is good for only seventeen and a half knots, and the Missouri for eighteen. These are not only the latest accessions to the navy, but the fastest battleships this country has. Another group of five vessels, displacing 16,000 tons-or 1,000 more than the Virginia class is now under construction, but they are all designed to make only eighteen knots. Still a third class, about which there has been much talk, but which are not yet under contract, are in tended to have a displacement of only 13,000 tons, but revert to seventeen or seventeen and a half knots. Foreign powers are giving so much attention to speed in new battleships that America suffers by comparison. Another important gain by the class to which the Virginia belongs ia the size of the battery. The Ill inois has, besides her four 13-inch guns, only 14 6 inch rifles in her primary battery. The Virginia will have 12-inch guns in her turrets, but in addition she will carry eight 8-inch guns and twelve 6-inch rifles. Her equipment is distinctly more powerfu than that of any other American vessel. For fight ingand that is the main object for which these ships are built she will be a distinct advance upon the Illinois and the Missouri. In the vessels of the Virginia class a feature has been introduced which was first tried in the Ken tucky and the Kearsarge. She has two-story turrets. One pair of the 8-inch guns of the new ships will be mounted directly above her 12-inch guns at each enc of the vessel. This idea is exclasively American, and has provoked much discussion. There was much opposition to a further trial of the system when the 15,000-ton ships were designated. The friends of the double turret won, but the latter must still be re garder as an experiment. In the gun practice both the Kearsarge and the Kentucky behaved fairly well, but the wisdom of the new policy has not yet been fully determined. New light will be afforded, per haps, when the Virginia and her sisters go into com ' mission, two or three years hence. established in 1889 ; the clearings for that year were $15,000,000. By 1899 they had reached a nannual to tal of $645,000,000." Over $63,000,000 in gold was coined at the United States Mints during the month of March. This is nearly as much as the coining value of all the silver that has been mined in this country in any single year since 1890, and it is far in excess of the coming value of this country's silver output twenty years ago. More significant still, it is equal to double the value of the gold mined in the United States in any single year of the decade ended with 1892 and it is equal to 80 per cent of the gold that we produced even so late as 1902. It is no wonder that former Bryanites now-a-days prefer to talk of the grave and worms rather than discuss the subject of free silver. If abundance of standard money is all that is needed to make everybody rich there ought not be a pauper in the entire republic. t The Chicago minister who staked out a gold mine in Alaska, where he was sent to convert the natives, may have been guilty of an impropriety, but he dis played more sense that the Chicago professor who gave expression of his opinion of Johu D. Oily feller. If there is any danger of sending Perry Heath to represent Utah in Mr. Smoot's place, the United States senators will hesitate in expelling the Mor mon member from their chamber. Appears at 8t Peter's First Time Slnoe Coronation. Roma, April 11. For the first tlma alnce hla coronation, August , 1903, the pope went thla morning to St. Peters' to any maaa in celebration of the ISth centennial of St. Gregory the Great, who died 04 A. XX The Immense basilica of St Peter's waa filled, more than 70,000 persona be ing present The pope waa In the beat of health, lie appeared In the 8edla Qeatatorla, although the motion of thla chair, carried on the shoulders of bear. era, makes him III. On hla eipreaa rec ommendation, the audience refrained from applause or crying out, contenting themselvea with the waving of hiuul4 kerchiefs. Alarmed About Plague, New Tor, April 11. 8trlngent measures are being tnken to prevent the spread of the bubonic plague, says Herald dispatch from Valparaiso, Chile, from Antofognata to other places. Steamers have atopoed calling at the port. Judging from the disorder that has prevailed in recent democratic state conventions, a large portion of the St. Louis police will have to attend the com ing national convention. Perry Heath, of post office notoriety, and Senator Burton, of Kansas, who is under indictment, are about the ouly republicans who are Opposed to Pres ident Roosevelt. The democrats are grooming several dark horses for the presidential race next fall After the run their nag will probably need the service of a veter inary surgeon. New York has half a dozen possible democratic candidates. It looks as if a son of the Empire state would have to stand the humiliation of the democrat ic defeat Hobson's political aspirations are materializing he has at last succeeded in having his name placed on the ballqt for the congressional election in his dis trict. W. Bourke Coekran has been sworn in at the na tional house of representatives amid the applause of the gallery. The gallery expects to be entertain ed. If there are any Mormons on the pension rolls, Uncle Sam can not be expected to provide for five or six iamuies oi each soldier. Just judging from reports, we takj it that Elijah Dowie, when he went to Australia, forgot to take his ravens with him. JAPAN'S FINANCIAL SOLIDITY. The ease with which Japan has recently floated a war loan at home has not surprised those who have followed the developments of the financial policy of the Japanese Government. In order to place Jap anese currency on a solid basis several expedients have been attempted. One device originally adopt ed by the Japanese government was to pay out gold to promote industries whose products were to be exported, and thus attract metallic money to Japan. One of the financial journals reviewing the develop ments of Japanese finance says that later a more sen sible plan was employed, namely, "that of buying produce and manufacturing goods with paper money, exporting and selling these for gold, and storing the latter in the treasury. So sucessful was this measure that it was possible to resume specie payments in 1885. The ultimate adoption of the gold standard was facilitated by the payment of the Chinese idem- nity in 1895. As in the eastern portion of our own country, gold is seldom seen, says the Ledger, as paper money is generally used in its place. Until Japan did adopt the gold standard she could not hope to borrow large sums abroad. Perhaps she was not over anxious to be saddled with a council of foreign bond-holders, like her sister, Egypt. Japan as a government is much more solvent and her re sources are much more elastic than foreigners have been inclined to believe. The latter have found it difficult to understand how, with such slender re sources, she could keep up so large an army as she does. But they forget that the cost of maintenance especially of the officers, is much less than it would be in Europe or America. Two clearing houses were "Who are benefited by wart" asks the peace-lov ing Savannah News. Well, there are the mapmak- ers, for a starter. Korea should get herself measured by the Bertill ion system so that she may be identified after the fighting is over. Cleveland is said to be the greatest living, Bryan the greatest dead, and Ilill the greatest resurrected democrat. An Oklahoma girl won $10,000 at roulette. ' The man who ran the wheel saved his bank by marry ing her. The Q. O. P. has corrected the abuses of the P. O, D. and declared for type-setting machines in the O. P. O. A congressman may be pardoned if he inquires what is the use of having a pull if he is not allowed to use it. - Booker Washington wants to see the negro ele vated, but does not approve the Ohio way of doing it. Bryan is opposed to the yellow metal, but he is willing to lend his support to a yellow candidate. Rockefeller has yet to announce to his bible class that he is willing to go to Korea as a missionary. Bryan is shining up his old oxidized platform hop ing to palm it off on the St. Louis convention. The Mormons have not declared whether they ob ject to their wives having plural husbands. Wilmington, Del., feels respectable after hearing about Springfield, Ohio. POPE 9AYI MASS. V AUG HAN, DmiiT. Pthlao Building, Astoria, Oregon. JAY TUTTLE, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND 8UKQEON I Acting AwUUut surgeon " V. B. Marine Hospital fttrvloe. omoe hours: 10 te II a.m. 1 to 4:10 p.rs, 4TT Commercial Street, tnd Meer, ' Dr. T. L BALL DENTIST ui Ganmertiel street. Astoria Or. Dr. W. O. LOGAN BJCNTIST m Commercial St Bh an khan DuUJlng Dr. IUIODA 0. HICKS OSTEOPATH! MsneeJI Bldg, 171 Commercial gL t r HON I BLACK fee). a W. BAMt, DENTIST MaoMll BailJiBf 573 Commercial Street, Astoria, Ore TELEPHONE BED 20fiL O. J. TRENCIIARD Insurance, Commission and Shipping CUSTOMS HOUSE BROKER. Agent Wetla-rarje and Northern Faelto Bxprtaa Companies. Oar. BLEVaWTH end BOND BT8, W y or ton vfvn am I hoi U tUt't Mil l.m&i.r i IfJ. ITK. J. h7 llotbwilt, 9rri Immiu.I, Room feul Hmdwty, S. V, GIVE the BABY a RIDE! 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Daily ei- I mtut Hun day affanij Columbia River to Portland and Wa landings 4 am Daily eapl Man r 25 2451s Concf EUhtccalh end Frgnkiio ASTORIA AND COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD LEAVE I PORTLAND ARRIVE t:00am Portland Union De- 7:00 p ml pot for Astoria ana way Pomto 11:10 am :40 pm ASTORIA 7:45 a ml Wot Portland and! 0:10 p m Way Poinu U:Mam 10:W p m SEASIDE DIVISION 8:15 a m U:S5am t:60 p mi Astoria for Waxen- 7:40 a m ton, Flarel Fort 4:00 pro Stevens, Hiuunond 10:41 a m land Seaside 1:15 a ml 0:tam t:80ps Seaaldo for War reatoa, FUvel, KAJsweonA, Fertl Stevens AotorimJ U:Mpm 7:Mpa 9:Xaa9 CKnadaw eeUy AH aeaaaa aeal OHO wkh all Nortavsni Paetao trains U aad froai Mm Boat and Soond poeata. 1. C. Uayo, enerei Pnl(kt a4 Pom. Ages. ItuxuRious Travel Tb Northwestern Limited" trains, electrlo lit h ted throughout, both inside and out, and steam heated, are with out exception, the finest trains la the world. Tbey embody the latest, newest and beet Ideal for comfort, convenience and luxury ever offered the travelling duouc. ana aiioc-emer are tbe most complete and splendid Troduotlon cf the oar Duuaerr art. These splendid Trains Connect Wltb The Great Northern Tie Nortkcri Pacific and Tie Can.lio Pacific AT ST, PAUL FOR CHICAGO gad the CAST. hi extra OQarsje (r these supertoi uoniMMliii and ail pleases of tick ets are areilnue for passage on Mm trains on reds are preteoted h) inierloektac Bleolc Srstem. Steamer NahcetU leaves Astoria, on tide dally except Sunday for Ilweoo, connecting there with trains for Long Beach, Tioga and North Beach points. Returning arrives at Astoria same evening. Through tickets to and from ail prin cipal European si ties. O. W. ROBERTS, Agent, Astoria, Ore. wmmh &&dinalBaMsmawJ 1 kete tiny Cipiuleo are superior to uaisam ot lopaiDa, tuoeos or iniectioni no,rmy CURE IN IA HOURSVAoLlI. the same dieeuea with out Inconvenience. 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