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ASTORIA, ORKGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25.
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ESTAHLISIIKI) 187.1
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, THE MARCH OF PROGRESS.
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; If all the people of the world were alike, this
would be rather an Unfortunate and undesirabl
"world. Nature decreed that no person should be
exactly like another, and for this reason we have
our enterprising citizens and our laggards. Tli
enterprising element blazes the way, and eventually
the laggards awaken and tread the path.
The men- who own property on Harrison avenue
between Fourteenth and Eighteenth streets are not
laggards. The spirit of enterprise possesses them
ind they are preparing now to make that thorough
fare Astoria's finest. They will" build an asphaltum
street, with pressed brick curbs and cement sidewalks.
anu improve tneir property to a considerable ex
tent. The work will- be legun in the spring, and be
fore summer has passed Harrison avenue will out
hine all other streets of the city, even that finely
improved thoroughfare, Sixteenth street.
Three years ago Astoria's streets were a positive
disgrace to the city, and the appearance of the prop
erty abutting on them was in keeping with their di
lapidate condition. Quite suddenly, and rather un
expectedly, it will be. recalled, the good-street idea
struck property owners. Some progressive land
holder became tired of paying for new sidewalks
very five or six years and determined to use cement
The idea spread, until now Astoria has many blocks
ef fine sidewalks and streets. The street improve
ments recently made are of a cheap form of ma
cadam, Tut they are so far ahead of the old plank
streets that they may be called excellent in compari-
slimulants also, if he sees fit, nor will he be less of a
temperance man for doing so. Fanatics have thrown
so ninth' dust in the public eye that host of people
have no clear conception of what the real e 'Tec Is of
moderate drinking are. And whatever they are.
drunkenness is not one of the friuts. One litids few
Germans, Spaniards, Frenchmen or Italians, living
in the wine-producing countries,-who are abstainers
yet the traveler who goes through these districts
iituls little intoxication. Maeaulay noted the fact
that an army from a non-wine producing country in
lirst going to a wine country would for a short time
indulge his appetite to excess, but through familiar
ity would soon become temperate.
Intemperance in drinking is largely due to over
legislation ou the subject. In Iowa, a few years ago.
men were compelled to stand up at the bar, if they
wanted a drink, notwithstanding the fact that most
drunkenness comes from bar drinking. One might
call attention to more legislative evils of the same
kind. Less meddling would lead to moiv temperance
in drinking. And the same rule will apply to other
things than drinking.
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XOX-METAUC MINERAL FROnt'Cl'S.
Some surprising figures are given by Mr, Edwin
C. Ekel in an article on this subject in the Mining
on.
But the use of crushed rock in street work has
not been.the limit with some of the property owners,
and it is now announced that asphaltum will be
employed on Harrison avenue. When owners of
property on other streets see the new Harrison ave
nue there will be more asphaltum thoroughfares, and
within a year or two the demand for this class of
improvement will be as general as the demand for
finished rock streets has now become.
5ok only are property owners manifesting more
pride in their streets, but they are also evincing
more interest in the appearance of their homes. Ev
erywhere homes are being beautified, especially in the
central portion of Shively's Astoria, and the great
thang wrought in the short time of two years is
really remarkable. .It is the march of progress, in
dicating that Astoria, erstwhile fishing hamlet, has
Jecarae a city.
' MISUSE OF TIIE'WOIID TEMPERANCE.
No better specimen of a word which, in the course
f time, lias cimie to be much abased may be found
than, the word temperance, says the Tacoma Ledger.
In th classic days it stood for one of the cardinal
Tirvnes.. Today, it has been struck with so uuch
rieg':-r. ni'y that, in the popular mind, it means noth
ing more than a total abstinence from certain kinds
f "liquid refreshment. A man is called a temperance
Bian if he is never known to partake of beverage
ontaim'Dg a certain proportion of alcohol. lie may
fce a glutton, he may indulge in indiscriminate abuse
f iiu-n as good or even better than himself, he may
nuke the lives of his wife, children and employes, a
ncll upon earth, as a hard taskmaster, but, if he
never touches wine, beer or ardent spirits, he is
inowu everywhere as a temperance man.
But is it not about time that someone sought to
rescue so good a word from so narrow a significance?
The word really means self-restraint or moderation.
Temperance in the true sense is one of the cardinal
Tirtuca still. But the man who does not indulge in
alcobotie stimulants may be the most intemperate of
men, while the man who' does indulge may be, in the
true sense of the word, a temperance man.
V A man whose life is governed by the virtue of
temperance will live an even-tempered, rational life
lie w ill aim to see things just as they are. lie m'l
1e devoid of prejudice. He will enjoy all the pleas
Tires of life that come to him, but he will not al
low himself to go to excess in anything. He will
geek the golden mean between excess on the one
hand and abstinence on the other. He will be a
glutton no more than a drunkard, yet he will eat
tnd enjoy his food. He will enjoy the pleasures of
fonversation, he will discuss the issues of the (lay,
Nit he will not allow his tongue to get unruly.
The true temperance man will imbibe alcoholic
Magazine. He says that the value of the total min
eral production of the I'nited States for lOO'J, the
latest year for which complete statistics are avail
able, was iJd,2r!.(io;.nr. Of this enormous value
$tH2,23!5$4 was contributed by the metals, mid
$G17,380.S;1 by the nnn-metalie mineral products.
If these figures could be accepted as a just valuation
of the relative commercial importance of the two
classes, it would appear that the metals had con
tributed fl per cent, and the non-metals -til per
cent of the total.
If the values were based on the same condition of
product in both cases either on the value of th
mineral as mined or on the value of the finished
produce it is probable that the non-metalic miner
als would be found to contribute at least 75 per cent
of the total mineral production of the United States.
From the point of view of human comfort, j
the disparity in importance is just as striking. We
could contemplate with some serenity the possibil
ity of having to live without copper but Hot the
necessity of living without salt. A scarcity of gold i
certainly inconvenient, but not to be compared for
discomfort to lack of fuel. With the single exception
of iron, the nietalie products are objects of conven
ience, while many of the non-metals are necessaries
of civilized life. 1
Speaking of the marvellous growth of the Ameri
can Portland cement industry, Mr. Eckel says that
the gold production of Cripple Creek is parallel tt.
and only slightly above that for Portland cement,
while the producttion of Alaska sinks into compara
tive insignificance. It will be seen that tle most sur
prising part of this increase in the cement industry
has been within the past eight years. A Portland
cement production valued at about $2,500,000 in
1806 had risen to over $22,000,000 in 1903.,
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P.A.Stokes
for
'Swell Togs
Men"
T HIS IS A CUT OF
our swell Helled
Hack Overcoat fifty
two inches long' d a
favorite with the "know
how to dress man." It
is a coat tluit wo have
in all patterns, motor
ials and weights.
$io.
TO
$30.
Of course we have the
ever popular "topkob"
and Chesterfields, in
Melton's, Beavers,
Thibets, Covert and
unfinished worsteds.
Why spend tinio and
aggravation in going
to a tailor's when you
can step in here and bo
fitted with garments
that equal the produc
tion of" a swell city tai
lor at half the cost.
Jmamm-
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Coats!
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T HIS IS A OAK-
ment that every O
gentleman neods and q
we think wo have the
' ' vvullnfct linn of Tin in O
coaw Mat ever
camo a
'into Astoria. Kvery
garment is .guaranteed
to tdiod water, and they
lit, look and take the
placo of an overcoat.
Wo fed certain that
should you need a gar
ment of this kind you
will do well to inspect
our Btock. They are
tailored right and
juiced right.
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$25.
Copyright 1904b
Hart Schaffner (J Marx
P. A. Stokes I
"Swell Togs for Men"
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The utter absurdity of the provisions of the di
rect primary law are apparent already. The regis
tration books were open for a short time this fall.
In Astoria 209 voters registered, of whom 08, prac
tically one-third, declined to state their political
faith. Many avowed democrats registered as repub
licans. The provision in question is so decidedly un
American as to bring the election law into general
contempt. The law would work very nicely in Rus
sia, but it will not take in Oregon. The average
American citizen wants to vote, and he very prop
erly regards it as none of anyone's business how he
votes. If the next legislature does its duty, the di
rect primary farce will soon.be ended.
The available farm land in Indian Territory is
estimated at fifteen million acres. These figures are
taken from the records of the Dawes commission.
Of this 15 per cent was in cultivation last year.
There are about two million acres of land when! pine
Is found in commercial quantities', and there is an
abundance of hard woods of all kinds. The latest
statistics obtainable give the value of farm animals
at 55,000,000. The per cent of the population eru
gaged in agriculture is exceeded in, only three stateln
Mississippi, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
General Miles is going to stump Montana for;
Parker and Davis.' The incident will afford funny
men on the newspapers a splendid opportunity of
writing stories entiled, "Miles Away From Home."
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The Partland executive board has accepted the
Tanner sewer. Thank heaven! - N'ow if somebody
will just annihilate Sullivan's Gulch, we will all lis
ten very attentively to the latest stories of municipal
grafting in the wobfoot metropolis.
In his New York speech a few nights ago, John
G. Carlisle said Grover Cleveland had saved the
country. Not many months ago Mr. Cleveland laid
it onto Mr. Carlisle.
An Oregon girl has been officially declared the
most beautiful woman in Washington. .The sister
state would not amount to much if it were not for
Oregon.
SHOES
That is our subject.
Wc can interest you
in shoes. We have
shoes : : : : :
For Every tody
and no house in As-,
toria can sell better
FOOTWEAR or at
lower prices. : : :
s. a. mm
543-545 Bond St.
' SVcSi ' V- A.
her prom-nt ituluc, whUh will lw lit
the 1'fniriit of the next fw wt-i-U.
xtu to he Hi-lit on th Ikiik trl
hwuiiiI the Horn In onler to permit
of Iho boiler belli Instulletl tit the
viirtorn yaiil.
Owing to Home delity lit the nuit,
however, iho ImlU'rn, which Hhould
now bo wvll under way, have not
Ihvii Mint.''!, owing to thl fact It
him been dm lib-il that It wilt bp
cheaper for tho depurtment to huve
the material fur warded to thl yard
and tiie work done here, than to enil
the Ilnffalo on tho long trip around
t'.ie Horn and place her out of commit
Inn at the eaKtern yard.
t It In expected that 'the material for
the work will rench Mure Inland In
th coure of the next lx wek.
when the bollerl will be Htnrted. The
IHifTnlo will be placed out of lommli
lon here and Kiven a through over
hnullnK. The work to be dope by
the Hteam engineering deportment
will amount to 1100,000, while that
by the coiiHiructloii and repair de
partment will foot up many thounuiul
more.
. Broke Into Hit House.
S. Le Qulnn of Cavendish, Vt," wna
robbed of hi cuxtomary health by In
vasion of chronic coimtlpatlon. When
Dr. Klng'a New Life I'llls broke Ino
hi houiie, lil trouble wo tnetej and
now he's entirely cured. They're guar
tnted to cure, tie at Chan. Rugeri
drug store,
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Parker House.
U Lundberg, I'orlland.
A. Anderson, t'ortlund.
Illll Bulley, city.
K. U Nenmer.
A., Melllck,,
Willie Hull, llender, Wuxh.
A. Hrown.
Jhn Carlnon.
Mrs. C. I'errchke, Atmrondn, Mont.
D.'h, fflurk, Cllftoir.
n. S, Hmlth. ftn Krniuik,o.
Chas. Bender, Wells. Minn.
I). Thompson, city.
' T. Wlnstrup. "Perry."
C. K. Griffiths. Portland.
II. M. Kinder, Mnpleton, N. D.
C. J. Clement, Duluth, Minn.
A. Olsen, Deep River, Wash.
Removal Notice.
Dr. J. A. Fulton has moved from
hls.olj office to rooms 4, 5 and t In
the Star theater building, corner Elov
enth and Commercial streets, on the
second floor.
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of them write lor our catalogue,
which is sent free on application,
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DEPARTMENT B,
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WILL REPAIR AT MARE ISLAND.
Big Boilers Of Buffalo To Be Made
On Coast,
Vallego, Oct 24. Order have been
received at tho navy yard to the
effect that the boilers for the U. S. 8.
Buffalo, which ranks among the ships
carrying the largest boilers In the er
vi'ce, will be manufactured at this
yard. The orders, which mean nn
expenditure of over $100,000, have
come In the nature of ' a complete
surprise, as It was originally Intended
by the navy department to have the
boilers manufactured in the east, and
aa soon as the Buffalo returned
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