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ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMHKR 4, l!o4. PAGE FOUR. Che morning flstorian established published by ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, rer .vcar By mail, per month . . . By carriers, per month $G 00 50 00 THK SEMI WEEKLY ASTOK! AN. By mail, per year, in advance 1 00 TO OBLITERATE CONSUMPTION-. For many years consumption has been the seours.i' of the raee. Thousands have annually sueeumbed to the ravages of the disease, and in the past it was regarded as incurable. Men and women afflicted with it resigned themselves to their fate and calmly awaited the end. "The great white plague" it was called, and the cases of its victims were considered absolutely beyond hope. But science lias triumphed over tuberculosis. It has been demonstrated beyond the remotest shadow of doubt that consumption is curable. Patients in an advanced stage of the disease have been restored to health and thousands of cures are being effected every year. Lack of funds is about the only excuse that one may nowadays plead if any of his relatives or near friends die of consumption, and in many states even this excuse can not be offered. For a long time it Avas generally supposed that con sumption patients would have to seek the dry alti tudes of certain sections of the west in order to survive the ravages of the disease, but this fallacy was eventually exploded. Long western trips en tailed expense far beyond the means of the family of ordinary circumstances and consumption is most deadly among the poorer classes. Science proved that almost every state possessed some section where conditions were favorable to treatment of the dis ease. Acting upon the advice of scientists, sev eral of the state legislatures have appropriated sums of money for the construction and maintenance of state sanitoria, where consumptive patients are suc cessfully treated. These hospitals are conducted just as hospitals for the insane are conducted w ith out expense to the patients, except in cases where they are financially able to bear the expense to which the state is put. The sanitoria are built with spe cial consideration for treatment of tubercular trouble and the results attained are highly gratifying, to state officials as well as to physicians. Oregon maintains a state hospital, but none but the insane are admitted to it. This state needs a sanatorium for treatment of consumptive patients. In eastern Oregon there are scores of locations where consumption could be scientifically and successfully treated, and a state hospital should be built there. Care of consumptives is as much a moral obligation on the healthy as care of the insane is a duty which the sane must perform. The people owe it to them selves to care for the consumptives, who, left to shift for themselves as best they may, constitute a lasting menace to the healthy. Apart from humane considerations, a state sanitorium is a precautionary measure which should receive the careful attention of members of the legislature. The state of Oregon has no debt, and therefore is well able to support an institution of the kind. It will perhaps be uwd against the idea that "consumption can not be cured," but ample proof to the contrary can be furnished by the officials of other states, where public sanitoria have saved thousands of lives. Likewise it will lie said that the institution will become a political machine. There will be quite as little reason for any such contention as fur a claim that the insane hospital is manipulated for political purposes. Oregon Needs a hospital for care of consumptives, and the next legislature should see to it that the necessary appropriation is made. his power he obeyed the mandates of the dominant court party, bent on manifesting what they con ceived to be Slavic destiny. The oppression of Pole and Finn, and of all the motley races subject to the car. is a measure calculated in cold blood to execute the divine will. Can assassination alter Russian destiny? Prob ably not. The one unmistakable lesson of modern history is that the world is steadily and inevitably progressing toward political and religious freedom. Prom Napoleon's dream of universal dominion proved the last, and the fatal, infirmity of a noble . ... .i . a 'it intellect. Ami what was iiupoNsinie a century aye is vastly less possible now. The one thing fatal to the Russian dream of world imperialism is modern education, and there can be little doubt in an un prejudiced mind that not even the vodka-clouded mind of the moujik can remain forever in its mediae val abasement. Enlightenment and not murder will be the death of the dream of the bouse of RomanolV. There is a difference, meantime, between Brutus and the recent assassinations in Russia. The friends of the Roman republic bad lost their cause in liberal and open tight. The friends of Russian freedom are denied the fundamental condition of advancing their cause the freedom of speech. The murders of Bobrikoff and IV Plehve are at bottom nothing more than a plea for justice and freedom, which an insup portable tyranny has aborted. They cannot swerve the course of Russian destiny, but they may hasten it. When romi- YRicmtu ribc the Hitters fur Poor Appetite, Sour Stomach, fyWa&f&xk LlvrCoipUlBl. 4&rfv StoepkMWM, V,;"? ."SN ,bu Indlrt.tlna. 5T Dyspepsia ind iflh Malarial Fever, you chu make no miBUko in trying n bottle. It Always Curss, Huluiuilrcd liuvf teat i nod. Try It. MANAGEMENT OF THE REGATTA. The people of Astoria have perhaps not realized it, but it is true nevertheless that the regatta has become alomst too big for them under the present method of managing the annual carnival. Primarily the regatta was a local celebration for Astorians. If a few strangers happened to be in town during re gatta week, they were made welcome, but the man aging committee depended upon Astorians for the necessary support. Now things have changed. The regatta is an event of as much importance to 13,0(KI or 20,000 outside people as to a similar munlier of Astorians. It has outgrown the plan of manage ment originally adopted. The suggestion of the Daily Budget that a per manent committee of management should be ap pointed is an excellent one. Every year, as a rule, new men are induced to take hold of the regatta. They must learn from experience what should be done to make the water carnival a success. No one can have any reasonable idea of managing the re gatta unless he has gone through the ordeal. The best laid plans of the most sensible men go astray. and it not infrequently happens that there is a deficit to face. This is due purely to the fact that the com mitteemen are without experience. The regatta is the most important event of its kind on the coast. If Astoria could furnish accommoda tions for 3000 people the city would be crowded with visitors. Held at a season of the year when torrid weather prevails in the interior, the regatta affords an outing of rare pleasure to some thousands of peo ple, and annually there is increased interest in it. The water carnival should be properly managed. It results in lienefit principally to the merchants, and they should see to it that the management is made permanent. t DESTINY AND ASSASSINATION. Apropos of the case of Caesar and his Brutus, the philosophical historians have assured us that murder never swerved the course of human destiny, says the Saturday Evening Post. But the history of Russia, of which the murders of Bobrikoff and De Plehve are characteristic examples, they sum up in the phrase: "Absolute monarchy tempered by assas sination." Wisdom crieth two voices in the streets The difference between the two voices is perhaps not so great as it seems. The theory of the Russian body politic, which has lived and gained strength for centuries, is that the Russ is destined to doni- mate the nations of the earth, and that Greek Chris tianity is the religion appointed by God for all man kind. As keen and experienced an observer as our former Ambassador at St. Petersburg, Mr. Andrew I). White, is of the opinion that De Plehve, whom he knew personally to be moderate and right-minded, was a victim of private ambition to gain and keep Evidently the cyclone is no respecter of cities nor of seasons, for that matter. It has been the fixed theory of the signal service bureau at Washington that the cyclone season ended with the June roses and that St. Paul, Iwcause of its topography, was one of the exempt cities of the United States. But the recent terrific cyclone has swept the theory of the season and the exemption into the lumber room, and, doubtless, the signal service bureau will revise its theories. The bureau intends to go into the in vestigation of the causes of the recent cyclone, which wrought disaster to St. Paul on the bluffs far greater than the disaster it wrought to Minneapolis on the prairie, and the investigation will be of value. It certainly will be thorough. The clearing up of the country, in the rapid strides of deforestation, may be one of the causes of the cyclone of St. Paul and Minneapolis which violated all precedents together with the cyclone at St. Louis by appearing long after the close of the recognized season. It may even be possible that the remarkable change of location observable for the past six months in the gulf stream may have had some effect in the matter, and, if not affecting the cyclone Benson, it may have been the cause of the cooler and the pleasant summer. The results of the signal service investigation will be awaited with interest. Trade and commerce are di rectly interested in the matter, and so are the dwell ers on the prairie, hitherto regarded as the peculiar home of the troubled w inds. Director North of the census bureau predicts that the United States will have a population of 89,000, 000 in 1910, barring wars and the spread of West Virginia republican convention tactics into other states. The husband of Edna May is suing for a divoree, alimony, and the right to resume his maiden name. The Philippine Morog are being given to under stand that extermination follows the flag. THE, HUGE CALIFORNIA. Description of Undo Sam's Largest and Most Formidable War Val. Tli rei'vnt launching of the new .inl roriilliliihlfl unnmeil i-i'uImpi- t'ltlifot nlu from th Ki';it (ihliyioil uf tin- t'lihui Iron Works, Sun PmnrlHc-o, til., provtM a vory Important event In the ainmls of the America n navy. In the hlntory of t ho llohlen State the uiTnlr uih no levx notable. The (.'allfornla enjoy the enviable lUsllnctlon of twin the loiitfext war vessel of her claws In the world. She Im lonKer than the batUeMhlpM iiivkoii, the lowu, Ohio ami other Kreat veneln She I nearly twice the length of the New York ami other oruheio of that i lass. The illineiiHloiiM of the California are Length over all, ;03 feet: extreme breinlth, 7D feet; full hmilfil ilraiuht. t"-t; total displacement, 13,tto ttnn. She hit twin Hcrewn ami triple ex pansion i'liKlnca, whoHo total lndlc.it- fil horsepower aKurenates '.'3,W0. This ureat power Is capable of developing a maximum speed of knots per hour. In both offensive and defensive Unlit iiik the California will lie one of the most formidable wnr vesseln In the American navy. In uddltion to her de structive armament, the new cruiser will be able to offer to hostile pro JertlleH a very strong resistance, In ihe shape of massive hull protection. In every respect the I 'allforiilii is an up-to-date tlrflillng machine, Klectrlc Ity will be used throughout the vessel tor llBhtiiiK, for the turning ifear for the turrets, for the loading apparatus of the heavy mint, and for Various other purposes. The fuHromla will he lilted up in a t!aK ship, and, with a full complement, will carry 47 officers and "Si enlisted men. The construction of thin great und formidable cruiser was authorized by an net of congress approved March, 1S99. The price llxed upon for hull and machinery wan $.1,800,000, and her com plete armament, $1,000,000, thus making u total of nearly $5,000,000. P. A. STOKES "The Store That Does Things Today's Weathar. Portland, Sept. 3. Western ot'-gon ind Western Washington Sunday: (Jenemlly fair; cooler except near coast. Office Constructing Quartermaster Astoria, Ore., August 25, 1904. Sealed proposals. In triplicate, will be received at thin office until 10 o'clock a. m., September 24, 1904, and then opened, for the construction of a frame pump house, removing and resetting; old boiler, smokestack and machinery, fur nishing and setting two new boilers and smokestack and make connections with wells; also change In distributing of water system and the setting and connecting of four generating sets for electric light at Fort Stevens, Ore. United States reserves the right to re ject any or all proposals. Plans can be seen and specifications obtained at this office. Envelopes should be marked "Proposals for construction" and ad dressed Captain Goodale, Quartermas ter, Astoria, Oregon. Sfte STAR THEATER ASTORIA'S FASHIONABLE VAUDE VILLE HOUSE IN CONNECTION WITH STAR AND ARCADE THEA TERS OF PORTLAND .. ., Change of Program Monday. Change of Acts Thuridayt. MONSTEU BILL Week Beginning MONDAY MATINEE, SEPT. 5th THE TWO BENN3, Spectacular 8ketch Artiata and Come dians. 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