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THE MORNING ASTORIAN, SUNDAY, MAY 8,1004. PAGE SEVEN. TO CURTAIL PRODUCTION Representatives of Shingle Indus try Meet nd Agree as to Action. PRICE ' MUST BE RAISED After That Operation of Plant Will lie llCMiimed to Full Ca , iaclty Pacific Coast Cheapens Product. Chicago, May 7. A dispatch to the Inter-Oiean from Kscanaba, Mlcb., ays: Representatives of 31 shingle man ufocturlng companies of northern Wisconsin and the Peninsula of Michi gan, under the name of the Northwest ern Shingle Manufacturer.' Assocla Ton, have met here and a freed to cur tail the production of shingles until the price of the product la rained to the normal level. The manufacturer! claim they are unable to make shingles without loaa at the prevent price, and tome mllle may not open for work at all thla season, The price of shingles tn the central went, It waa claimed by member of the annotation, hue been driven to a, bedrock basis by shipping Into the territory greet qunntltlea of shingles from thes Pacific coast. Officiate Deny Murder Story, ' Rutland, Vt, May 7. Report that the . local authorities hav found .evidence that three men tup posed at the titnfl of their death to have been killed by railroad trains were in reality murdered al a roadhoune near hero, is declared by the sheriff, utate's attorney and the chief of police to have no foun dation. ':,u - Eight. Hour Fund Crowe. Denver, May The quarterl) report of the secretary of the West ern Federation of Miners on con tributions to the eight-hour fund shows that $39,749 has been added to tho fund since the last report. This brings the total up to $1067 033. DON'T CO TO $T. LOUIS 'Till you call at or write to the Chi cago, Milwaukee ft Bt. Paul Railroad Office 134 Thlrt etreet, Portland, Ore. Low ratea to all points east. In connec tion with all tranacontlnental. . II. 8. rowe, General Agent, Portland, Ore. First National Bank of Astoria ESTABLISHED 1886 Capital and Surplus $100,000 ASTORIA SAVINGS BANK Capital I'alJ Id 1100,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits (25.000 Transact a general banking buiinees. Interest paid on time deposits. J. Q. A. BOWLBY. 0. 1. PETF.K80N, FItANK PATTON, J. W. GARNER, President Vic Trcsident Cashier. Asst. Cashier 168 TENTH STREET, ASTORIA, ORE. 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 Sherman Transfer Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager Hacks, Carriages Bnggago Checked and Transferred Trucks and Furniture WngQiis Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. i STEAMER SUE H. ELMORE The Largest; Staunchcst, Steadiest and most Seaworthy vessel ever on this route - Dcstof Table and, State Uoora :,Accomrao dationa. "Will make round trip every five days between Astoria AND Tillamook Connecting at Astoria with the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. and Astoria & Columbia River R. R. for Portland, San Francisco and all points East. For freight and passenger rates apply to SAMUEL ELMORE & Co. General Agents, Astoria, Or. OR TO A. 4& C lt R. Co., Portland, Or. Pacific Navigation CoW Tillamook, Or. 4 O. It 2l N. Co., Portland, Or. COMPANIES ARE MERGED Important Step Toward Comple tion of Consolidation of Coal Interests. NEGOTIATIONS IN PROGRESS Capital Stock and Franchise of Ileech Creek Coal and Coke Company Purchased Iljr Pennsylvania Company. New York, May 7. An Important step has been token toward the com pletion of the Central Pennsylvania bituminous coal consolidation, says a Herald dispatch from Philadelphia. The Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Com pany, through Its president, William Lathrop; has announced that aa a re sult of negotiations extending over several months It has purchased all of the capital stock and franchises of the Beech Creek Coal and Coke Company. The terms were not made public. Negotiations for the purchase were begun last year, but owing to the un favorable financial situation and the demoralization of the bituminous mar ket the plant was temporarily aban doned. Through this addition to Its prop erty the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Company now controls upward of 117,- 000 acres of coal and surfuce land, chiefly In Blair, Cambridge, Cambria. Clearfield and Indiana counties, con taining more than 1,000,000,000 tons of coal. Upon these lands are located 44 operating collieries with a dally ship ping capacity of 25,000 tons. It owns also about 2000 coke ovens with a dally capacity of 2000 tons. The Growth of Labor Unions New York World. From the stutute of laborers, passed in 1351, and the statute of apprentices, passed In 1543 and repealed as late as 1813, no fewer than 30 express statutes were passed In England down to 1825 which, among other things, made the association of worklngmen criminal. The very circumstance that so much legislation Intended to be suppressive was deemed necessary may well Indi cate that the processes began early by which England was to become the mother of labor unions. Where the 30 statutes of suppression were written in vain In those years long past, there were at the close of 1902 more than 1,900.000 organized workmen, in 1183 unions. . It Is claimed that the union member ship in the United States largely ex ceeds that of the United Kingdom now. In proportion to population, however, industry in Britain Is much more thor oughly organled. Following the English-speaking na tions In the number, membership and Importance of their labor organisa tions come Germany 800,000 members; France, nearly 600.000; Austria, more than 157,000; Denmark, nearly 100,000; Hungary, over 64,000; Sweden, about 6,000; Norway, . 24,000; Switzerland, about 50.000; Belgium, between 60,000 and 70.000; Spain, more than 41,000. The figures given are gathered from the book "Methods of Industrial Peace," by Dr. Nicholas Paine Gllman, just Issued by Houghton; Mifflin & Co. Dr. Gllman has ahned to treat the subject of Industrial peace more com prehensively than other writers have done and to make up In part for what he considers "a surprising lack of books" on this vital matter. He traces in brief detail the history of comblna tion among laboring m,en and gives an interesting reference to the times pre ceding the unions, when masters were usually their own helpers, in such times In the duchy of Magdeburg, for Instance, there were (year 1784) 27, 050 masters to 4,285 assistants and ap prentices. At present In this country labor Is better organled than capital. It is Dr. Gilman's philosophical view that on adjustment of the balance In organiza tion must be one of the methods of providing for the permanent settling of difficulties for securing the reason- Sclilitz, "the beer that made Mil waukee famous," on draught at the Grotto. lie Efficacy of the Tomedo. The Whitehead automobile torpedo may be regarded as the parent of al most all the automobile torpedoes which are now in use in the navies of the world. . Our own service torpedoes, which are made at Woolwich, at Portland, and at Leeds; the French service tor pedoes, many of which ore made at Toulon; the Russian service torpedoes, which are made In Russia; the Ger man service torpedoe, which are mode In Germany all owe their ex istence to the original Invention of Mr. Whitehead, an Invention now more than a generation old; and although each national type differs somewhat from every other, each still bears a strong cousinly resemblance to the service torpedo which the firm of Whitehead makes today at Flume on the Adriatic for such powers as have no torpedo manufacturing plant of their own. Among these powers is Japan. It is true that the original White head was a weapon that traveled on the surface of the wster only, while the modern automobile torpedo Is ear sentlally a submarine engine. Many years, nevertheless, have now elapsed since the marvelous weapon, by steady evolution, became extraordinarily per fect and formidable, although it Is but right to add that It improvement ho been continuous from first to last and Is not yet at a standstill. Strange to say, however, the signifi cance of the automobile torpedo u a factor In naval warfare Is only now" beginning to receive adequate recogni tion, be weapon baa always had its enthusiastic champions, of course, al though until quite recently they have been the few, while lt detractors have been In the majority. It was admlttedthat the automobile torpedo had won successes during the civil war In Chile, during the revolu tionary fighting In Brazil and during the confliflct between Japan and China: "But," said the wiseacres, "wait until one of the leading naval powers is concerned, and then you will see that although the torpedo may be all very well against South Athercans or yellow men. It won't work against civilized Europeans." .. 4 In spite of this sort of discourage ment, which reached them from with in the various services as well as from without, torpedo officers have never ceased to study and develop their fav orite weapon. They Increased its speed from. 10 or 12 to upward of SO miles an hour; they increase Its range from 300 or 400 to. a couple of thou sand yards or more; they Increased its explosive carrying capacity from 20 to nearly 200 pounds, and they Increased the accuracy of its submarine flight, both lateral and vertical, until, even In a cross-running tideway, lt pre cision could be depended upon. By means of a device which Ja now being perfected In America the speed of the weapon can be increased to some 40 miles an hour "up to 2000 yards. The process employed Is a mere superheat ing of the compressed air as it Is fed from the "flask," or resorvolr, to the driving machinery; and it Involves lit tle additional expense. We know now what the Japanese, acting not against careless and ignorant Celestials, but against the finest officers and best ships of a leading European navy, f have been able to do with this perfected en gine of destruction. No one wiU ever again decry the power of the torpedo. London MalL able and fruitful conduct of "collect ive bargaining." Borrow ing a figure of speech, the au thor says: "As long as one side is as well disciplined as a regular army and the other more like a home guard, there will probably be no permanent adjust ment of the difficulties between them." The antl-orgonlatlon laws were sup pos'Ml to affect employers as well as employed, but "the law had a very poor vision for employers acting together; and employers were never fined, much less Imprisoned." As late as 1817 10 delegates of the calico printers of BoKon were Jailed for meeting to consider the question of wages. In 1812 the central committee of the Scottish weavers went to prison for di recting a strike to secure wages fixed by a Justice of the peace and refused by employers. It Is well Indeed that we are far away from such misuses of uower and the law. For our own country Dr. Gllman confronts us with the story of a meet ing in Boston In 1832 at which mer chants and shipowners subscribed for a 10-hour day. Morace Mann, Robert Rantoul, James G. Carter and Wendell Phillips sided with the workpeople. Mr. Rantoul defended the Journeymen bootmakers In on Important case, w hich was decided for them in 1842, and finally established the right of work lngmen to combine. "Trade unionism may have a great future before it," says Dr. Gilman, after devoting chapters to the various aspects of Industrial peace and war, strikes, lockouts, arbitration, concilia tion, etc. "I would fain see that future marked by a deep power and by a temperate Improvement of it for the good of all classes." C. R. F. P. Union Notice. The regular monthly meeting of the Columbia River Fishermen's Protect ive Union will be held at Fishermen's hall on Astoria street, Saturday May 7, 1904, at 7:00 o'clock p. m. Shall this union affiliate with the Fishermen's Protective Union of the Pacific Coast and Alaska, and other Important questions will .come ; up. Members in good standing are re quested to be present and have their book or receipt along. II. M. LORNTSEN, Secretary." wHAT5 bred ih th WILL OUT IH THE Fi LESH'SSj mfJ t r.-i m and Is true of mankind as well as lower animals. We do not ex pect blooded stock from common sires, physical giants from dwarfs and midgets, nor well-developed, robust children from tainted ancestors and sickly parents. It is contrary to the laws of nature and heredity, which are inviolable, unchange able and fixed. Children not only inherit the features, form and dispo sition of their parents, but the mental and physical qualities, infirmities and diseases as well. That certain diseases are transmitted ironi parents to children, are bred in the bone and handed down from one generation to another, can not be denied, for we see evidences of it every where and every day. SCROFULA, a disease 'almost as fatal as Consumption, is a disease of the blood, is bred in the bone and will out in the flesh in the form of glandular swellings, deep abscesses and sores, boils and eruptions. It affects the eyes and ears, weakens the digestion and destroys the red corpuscles and solids of the blood, resulting in emaciation, stunted growth and poorly nourished bodies. ' RHEUMATISM is handed down from gouty ancestors and rheumatic parents. The acid poisons in the blood that cause the sharp, shooting pains in muscles and 'joints have been there may be from birth, and exposure to bad weather, night air, or cold, easterly winds only hastens the attack by exciting the acid blood. The blood must be purified the poisons filtered out of the system in order to get relief from this painful disease. CATARRH is something more than a cold in the head; the poison extends into the Throat and Lungs, attacks the Stomach, Kidneys and Bladder, and every part of the sys tem. We inherit a predisposition or tendency to Catarrh, just like other blood diseases; it is bred in the bone and can not be reached with sprays and salves, but requires constitutional treatment and a thorough cleansing of the disease-tainted blood. ' ' CONTAGIOUS BLOOD POISON is responsible for more suffering than all other diseases combined, and none is so surely transmitted from parent to child. Fearful ulcers and sores and disgusting skin eruptions often break out in infancy, and those whose blood is tainted with this awful poison are handicapped from birth, and unless the poison is eradi cated carry the taint through life. CANCEROUS ULCERS and old sores seem to pursue some families through gen erations, and in spite of washes, salves and ointments, continue to spread and grow be cause the taint is in the blood; is bred in the bone and grounded in the flesh. Nothing but a real blood remedy like S. S. S. can reach these deeply rooted, inborn diseases. It goes to the fountain source of the trouble, uproots the old taint, drives out the poisons that have been lurking in the blood for years, and tones up the weakly constitution. S. S. S. reaches diseases"bf this character that no other medicine does or can. It has been tested in thousands of cases during the nearly fifty years of its existence, and its reputa tion as a cure for chronic blood troubles is firmly established. S. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable and suited to old and young and persons of delicate constitution. If you nave inherited a predisposition or tendency to some family taint, the sooner you begin a course of S. S. S. the quicker and more certain the cure. The disease may develop in childhood or later on in life, but is sure to make its ap pearance sometime, " for what 1$ bred in the bone will out In the flesh," as sure as you live. Our physicians make diseases of the blood and skin a special study. Write us all about your case, and medical advice or any special information desired will cost you nothing. TII SWIFT SPECIFIC CO, ATLANTA, 6A