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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3. CbtmtrniM ESTABLISHED 1873 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. By mail, per year By mail, per month By nrriers, per pvnith 50 GO THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOHIAX. By m.'il, per year, in advance $1 00 the roach of Ike. railroads. They seem ready to pay yearly tolls of greater and greater exorbitance for theVArryiiur'of thi'ir poods to foreign shores in for eign bottoms. Yet imagine the storm of protest.; that would arise from' these very manufacturers) should the railroads that serve them now so well suddenly become the property of foreign corpora tions and demand excessive toll for the transporta tion of American goods in America. Our ship lines arc the railroads of the sea, says the fall. The sooner a general realization of this fact is impressed upon inland manufacturers the sooner will we haw a merchant marine competent to carry all of our exports to foreign markets. e00000000000000tO!)0 P.A.StoRes for 'Swell Togs Men" ANOMALIES OF MILITARY LAW. The citizen when he becomes ft soldier loses some f his most valuable rights, among them the right to trial by jury, with no jurisdiction in a reviewing court to increase the sentence which a jury may im pose upon him as Private Charles Fields discovered after a court martial some three years ago dismissed him with a trifling penalty for having killed a Fill pino, says tne commercial inbune. ihe case is again brought to public attention by the fact that President Roosevelt has pardoned him from serving ut a sentence of 50 years in Bilbid prison. On the trial of Fields the facts appear to have leen in his favor, for it was shown that the Filipino, intoxicated at the time, attempted to take away his imn, when Fields drew his revolver and fired the shot that killed. But when the record was sent to General Grant, commanding the department, for lis action, he severely rebuked the court, set aside its findings and sentenced Fields to a term of 50 years at hard labor. Like incidents are not novel in military and naval circles. When a naval court martial dismissed an en aign' who had slapped the face of an attache of the German consulate at Hongkong, the language that Admiral Evans used would not have graced a ligh-class publication. Even what he said officially m reviewing the findings was sufficiently vigorous and approached the point of sulphur, neither the ensign nor the court getting over the lashing for aome time. Qoort martials, in the mind of the civilian, ought to stand in the attitude of a trial court and jury tryiag the facts and imposing sentence or acquitting, with the right of appeal to either side to the officer commanding the department for his approval of the finding or his rejection of it, sending it back for another trial. In the rules of military procedure, lowever, the reviewing officer is supreme. In the case of Fields the court martial acquitted him of the eharge of murder, and in civil procedure that would have been the end of the matter. General Grant not only set aside the verdict of acquittal, but rendered a verdict of guilty and im posed, a severe sentence only short of death, though Fields syas Bilbid is worse than death, mentioning it also as being worse than a place in which 'Bob Ingersoll did not believe. The anomaly of military law is further illustrated in the seeming fact thai the only recourse left open to the commander-in- chief the presidents-was to issue a pardon. , Evi dently he agreed with the court martial in its view f the grade of the offense - of which. Fields was fuilty, rather than with General Grant, and he etf libited mercy and human kindness in his exercise f clemency. THE BOND OF GOOD FAITH. There is one vital point in our dealings w ith the strange peoples who came to us as a result of tlt war with Spain which no considerations can bo al lowed to vitiate. It is the keeping of our word with i O 0 o o ? 0 them in every detail, says the Saturday Evening Post. Unfortunately, our treatment of the Indian does not present a record in which we can take pride: "a century of dishonor" it has been called with considerable justification. " Hut we may use our shame as a reminder that history must not be per mitted to repeat itself in our relations with the mil lions of Filipinos and Porto Ricans. In a recent issue of the London Times it was stated that a common incident in the official life of India was to wait patiently while an Indian rever ently unfolded from well-worn rags a tattered, yel low fragment of paper which bore the signature of some British official long since dead, relating, pos sibly, to services in the mutiny, or, it may be, only a cynical recital of faint praise. "The Indian treas ures these scraps of paper," says the Times, "and he has reason, for if they contain a promise unre deemed, or point to good service unrewarded, it will be a point of honor to the reader to fulfill the prom ise." In brief, the written pledge survives as a bond, and, to quote the Times again, "it would be a grievous shock to the Indian if the word of the British failed that one sheet-anchor of the millions who in times past have had nothing sure to cling to." We are new in 'the colonial business, and we are disposed to move almost as quickly as we do in our own politics. Our public men in their haste may forget the value of scrupulous good faith. Their preoccupations may be understood and allow ed for at home, but it is very certain that if America is to carry on the work of higher civilization she must keep the promises of her advance agents. THIS IS A CUT OF our swell Holteil Hack Overcoat fifty two inches long and a fuvoritu with the "know how to dress man." It is a coat that wo liavo in all patterns, meter als and weights. $io. TO $30. Of courso we have the ever popular "topkotu" and Chesterfields, in Melton's, Ben vers, Thibets, Coverts and unfinished worsteds. Why spend time and aggravation in going to a tailor's when you can step in here and bo fitted with garments that equal tho produc tion of a swell city tai lor at half the cost. w (1 I 111 lain Coats o CO o .w o o CO o o THIS IS A OAR- S ineitt that every gentleman needs and q wo think wo have the i swellent line of Ruin J Coats that ever enmo 0 into Atorin. Kverv garment Is guaranteed to shed water, and they fit, look and take the place of on overcoat. Wo ft el certain that should you need a gar ment of this kind you will do well to inspect our stock. They are tailored right and priced rigid. o A TO Copyright I 904 by Hart Schaffner &? NUrx P. A. Stokes I "Swell Togs for Men" f 0000000000000000iS0e00&iO?O0O7O7OOSO0CH :nnm;mmtfflnr RAILROADS OF THE SEA. a Winthrop L. Marvin, secretary to the congres sional merchant marine commission, in a recent in terview for a New York paper, gives voice to the results that have already been achieved by the com mission's partially completed investigation. Though the congressmen have yet to make a study of marine conditions of the southern seaboard states and a re turn visit to the New York harbor, Marvin is as sured that by the labors they have already com pleted overwhelming evidence of the universal de mand for an improved merchant marine has been btained. I "The idea that finds expression in some newspa pers," says the commission's secretary, "that the loss of our ships, our shipyards, our splendid sail are and skilled workmen is a matter of no particular concern, and that if foreigners through cheap wages r subsidies, or both combined, can drive our ships ff the ocean they ought to do so, has no reflection in the sentiment of American business men, or at least of the hundreds of American business men who have appeared before the merchant marine commission." Mr. Marvin does not say that editorial pro tests originate for the most part in the great in terior manufacturing ( towns, centers for webs of raito to carry their finished product to every part f the land. These self-satisfied, land-locked ones snow a phenomenal lack of appreciation for the fact that tie market for their goods is not bounded by OUR NATIONAL NEGLECT. We are told that republics are ungrateful. We must sadly confess that of America this is true, .says the Tacoma Ledger. Great men have fought for us, written for us, guided us and even died for us, and we have forgotten them, or remember their names only in a sleepy way. The average American looks no further back than the civil war. He remembers the heroes of that bloody conflict. He has some consciousness of Lincoln, and there he stops. There were great men before Agamemnon. There were great men before Lincoln and the civil war. It would be well for us to pause reverently now and again to think of the virtues of Washington. Only too often if we hear his name today it is at tached to some stupid, joke. But, when we forget the virtues of the man who led our fathers to victory in a seven years' war; for which he neither asked nor received, compensation, we have forfeited our title 'tci manhood. ;,' Xor.does Washington stand alone in isolated grandeur? Other heroes fought by his side. Other heroes came into action at a later day. Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton and many more are some of the great names we are prone to forget. ' We forget our great writers. Perhaps it would be nearer the truth to say that few care for them. Yet they are our glory. If a man sneaks to an Englishman of Shakespeare, to a Scotchman of Burns, to a Frenchman of Moliere, to a German of Goethe, to a Spaniard of Cervantes, to an Italian of Dante, he may strike a friendship at once. But let one of these foreigners come among us and mention the names of Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau or Whitman, and he may meet with a vacant stare. But a great nation, as distinguished from a big one, will never forget its great men. That is our suhject. We can interest you in shoes. We have shoes : : : : : For Everybody and no house in As toria can sell better FOOTWEAR or at lower prices. : : : S. A. GlfilRE 543-545 Bond St James 'Gibson, who owns ;.a farm in the Salt river valley, Mississippi, reports that a pear tree in his dooryard has borne three crops of pears this year. He Jiad always noticed that it was of auwearly variety, and this season,' along in May, a crop of pears was picked. A little later his interest was aroused by noticing the tree in full bloom again. What is still more interesting is that at the present present time the tree has another fully matured crop of pears on it, which are now ripening as well as did the first crop. Russian authorities are still convinced that me diation is synonymous with meddling. The political coupe loaded with boomerangs is about due. OUR COUNTRY needs today men and women of culture and character, men and women who will do right because it is right, who are proof against bribes, who are honest from prin ciple. THE PACIFIC LUTHERAN ACADEMY endeavors to give its students the RIGHT START, physically, mentally, morallv, that will aid them in attaining true successful life. x Our catalogue tells what edu cat on means for a young man or woman here. Write for it, Ad dress: DEPARTMENT B, PACIFIC LUTHERAN ACADEMY. Parkland, Wash. Notice of Primary Eltotion. Notice 1 hereby given that n pit nmry election for the republican parly will be hcM In (lie city of Astoria, Oregon. Saturday, November 6, l0i between tbe huura of 12 in. an J & p. m. of N.ild day, for the purpose of electing thirty-six (36) delegate to n republican city convention, hereinafter designated, which mild delegate are apportioned us follows, to-wit: Firm Ward 12 delegate. Second Ward 12 delegate!. Third Ward 12 delegate. The following polling places and Judgea for auld primary election have been selected: Flrt Ward Polling place, court house; Judge of election, S. O. Trul linger, P. J. Uoodmuit, J. A. Montgom ery. Second Ward Polling place, office of C. E. Foster, 634 Commercial street; Judges of election, Junie W. Welch, C. E. Foster and D. A. Elgner.t ' Third Ward Polling place, olllce of Aitorla Box Company; Judges of elec tion, Gust Holmes, Iver Anderson, W. T. Schol field. Furthermore, notice Is hereby given that a republican city convention will be held at the court house In the city of Astoria, Oregon, on Wednesday, November 9, 1904. at the hour of 2 p. m., for the purpose of nominating can didates for the following city offices to be elected r,t the city election on Wednesday, December 14, 1904: One city nltoruey, for a term of two years. One councilman from the Second ward, for a term of three years. One councilman from the Third ward, for a term if three years. By order of the republican city celt tral committee. HARRISON ALLEN, Chairman. ('HAS. II. AHKRCROMRIE, See. Not A Sick Day Sines. "I was taken severely sick with kid ney trouble. . I tried nil sorts of medi cines, none of which relieved me. One day I saw an ad. - of your Electric Hitters and .determined to try that. After taking a few doses 'I felt re lieved, and soon thereafter waa en tirely cured, and have not seen a sick day since. Neighbors of mine have been cured of Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Liver and Kidney tioubles and Gen eral Debility." This Is what B, V. Bass, of Fremont, N. C. writes. Only ROc, at Chns. Rogers Druggist, 1 j 16-INCH WOOD Delivered at depot. Carload lots" "Write or phono TONGUE POINT LUMBER CO. Astoria, Oregon. MATTING Just ReoeiveilThe finest stock of matting In the city. In many patterns sod grades. Trices low at -0, 23 and 30 cents a yard. L. H. HENNINGSEN ft CO. trjo Ex. Co. lIllIIIIlllItITTtTTTTTTTTtTHTIlHlItTTa Staple and Fancy Groceries $18 to New Tork irom ail Scan dinavian points over all lines. Tick- FLOUR, FEED, PROVISIONS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS. Supplies of All Kinds at Lost , Prices for ; Fishermen, Farmers ' end Loggers, V ,'' Branch Uniontown, Phones, 711, Uniontown, 713 Tsnth and Cammerelal Streets. " ' ' ASTORIA. OREGON. a . t. -. .. nnitttiitiiitiiirrrmtmiitititiHminmnu OJ0OOSO00 OffiOUO 00000(0000Q o PLUMBING and TINNING 1 v STEAM HEATING, GAS FITTING, Rr-arN0 AND REPAIRING batr .ubs, sinks, closets and other fixtures in stock. Only the bes t. call and get our prices J. A. Montgomery 42S Bond Street Phena 1031 O o o o o et. at Xailunkl'a. 815 Commercial St g000 O00 O O O OSOQ 0 00 0 000O