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PAGE FOUR. ASTORIA, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 16, 1904. Cl)c morning Jlstorian ESTABLISHED 18T3 PUBLISHED BY ASTORIAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. RATES. v.- By mail, p?r voar ........ $6 00 By mail, per month - By carriers, per muth i 50 60 THE SEMI-WEEKLY ASTOKIAX. By m.il, per year, in advance 1 00 A POWERFUL NAVY. The New Jersey, which was lauaehed at Quinsy. JIav., lat week, is the fifth ami last Itattieship of her class to be set afloat. That stac in the history of s:ieh a vessel usually represents from 50 to CO per cent of advancement toward coii'pletion. More than two years have elapsed since the keel of the New Jersey was laid, but a much shorter period in addi tion will probably be required for her eomp'etion It is not unreasonable to hope that she ami her sister will be ready for their trial early in li'lrti This class of vessels occupies a position inter mediate between the heavily -armored cruisers, among which are the Colorado and the West Virginia, and the battleships' of the Connecticut class. The New Jersey will displace 13.000 tons when finished and the Connecticut 16,000, while the displacement of the Colorado is 14,500. Another significant character istic of the vessel which went down the. wavs yester day is that she is expected to develop a spml of nine teen knots, or one more than the leviathan that was launched at the Brooklyn yard a few week a.jo. Iu that respect there is a second point of resemblance to the fleetfooted Colorado. When the members of ad three groups are ready for service the American navy will have eighteen of the best fighting ships in the world, besides those already in commission. Dispatches from Washington report that the gen eral board has recommended to Secretary Morton a program in which three new battleships are included. Inasmuch as homogeneity is looked upon as highly advantageous, the board has decided to advise adher ence to the Connecticut type for the present. There has ben some talk in Washington about a battleship having a displacement of 18,000 tons and mounting nothing smaller than guns of 8 or 10 inches calibre. The idea may not have been abandoned, but it is tt least held in abeyance. Should the secretary of the navy approve the suggestion just made, and should congress provide the necessary money at the next ses sion, the contracts might be let by midsummer and actual work begun a few weeks later. If the same progress is made in construction , that has been ef fected with the Connecticut, the new battleships wight be completed before the close of 1908. sort by a legislature would, without doubt, result ser iously to that body. In our laud church and state are two, or rather, the state is "the" one, while the church has many forms. This is well, siuce it gives sope for that freedom of opinion in matters mm vv.oj.tial on which Americans justly pride them selves, while uniting them on the one thing essential, the sovereignty of the people" TREES FOR CITY PLANTING. The citizens of Sumas observed Arbor day in a manner that many treeless cities might emulate, says the Post-Intelligencer. Business was generally sus pended and everybody engaged in the work of beautifying the city by planting native forest trees. M-u were sent into the mountains to take up the large ninnies and haul them to the city. One force of ex perts dug the holes while another crew sawed the lumber for boxing the trees after they were planted oOOO$OOi!O$OOO0OO$OOOrOfOi o Swell Torjs For Men.. P, A. STOKES Home of o Swell Tog o o max A i AW II fit Overcoats! o a o o 01 4 1 4 Hi, ill By making the occasion a general holiday and getting j O ('ijW iV' all the men to work, four of the principal streets werejg ( iys5u' . ornamented. I ' - iL' Visitors making their first tour of the northwest comment on the desolation of cities having no orna mental shade trees. They see the real treeless plains in the wheat fields and wonder why people living in cities do not attempt to break the monotony by plant ing trees. To the ordinary man of the eastern states a home without .'trees is only a temporary abiding place. It belongs only to the nomadic plainsmen ami kws not indicate any degree of modem civilisation That is the view some western citizens have taken, and are trying to remedy the evils. STATE AND CHURCH. One of the greatest boons our form of govern ment confers upon the people is the absolute sepa ration of church and state, and all efforts to make the former body paramount must fail as long as the American people retain that sense of vigilance which is declared to be the price of liberty. In recent years attempts, more or less covert, have been made to combine the two, in the interest of the spiritual body, but the reception they met with was not en couraging, says the Brooklyn Standard Union. The m: st recent was at the Episcopal general convention. at Indianapolis, where one of the delegates, with the t of "general," moved to appoint a com mittee of clergymen and Jaymen for the purpose of memorizing the legislative bodies of the various states "in the interest of laws restricting the per forrance of marriages to ministers of the gospel." - Probably the mover did not realize the full scope of bis resolution, which was, in fact, revolutionary, since it would debar many non-church members, who do not believe in ministers, yet are good, law-abiding citizens, from contracting marriage, which they can now do by the civil form, through certain duly au thorized magistrates, marriage being regarded by the state as a civil function and not" necessarily a sacra ment, as held by certain sects of the Christian church. It is a concession to the sentiments of many that clergymen are empowered by the state to per form the marriage ceremony, as magistrates, al though many persons are not aware of that distinc. tion. Some races, like those of the European con tinent, employ both the civil and the religious cere mony in contracting marriage, and the "high con tracting parties" are careful to have the civil one first. In this country, among native Americans, the minister-magistrate is preferred to the civil one, largely as a tradition of the fathers. Of course no legislature would for a moment con sider so radical a measure as the one proposed by this Episcopal delegate, as it would be conferring on the church powers never contemplated by the fathers of the republic, and to that extent an infringement va the liberty of the individual Any action of that THE FRENCHMAN AS A PEACEMAKER. We see the Frenchman today in a rede he never before essayed to ply in the thousand years of his country's history. In the world's politics the French man is now the man of peace. Delcasse lias prevent- id a war between Russia and England. It was France's foreign minister that came to the fore and round a peaceful solution of a problem that promised war. says the hxaininer. That France may have had a selfish interest in maintaining the European peace is true, but when it wines to war the Frenchman has not always consult ed bis own interests. From Chalons to Sedan the Fi nchman has usually been the aiostle of blood and von. War was the first thought, and the French diplomat came to the front only to exact a tribute for victory or pay the smallest indemnity in defeat The military man down to seventy always was in the aswndant. The saints of France were soldiers, and her cardinals were great only when, like Richelieu, they made war. Her warrior kings were her heroes Delcasse assumes a new place in French history. V is a product of. the republic, and if the French tepublic is to work for the peace of Europe, France is In-ginning an era of her history that will be more glorious than even those when Turenne and Conde commanded her armies or when Napoleon made the nation the terror of Europe. In Russia's last war with England the French man was England's ally and bore the brunt of the rghting. Now France is Russia's ally; but Bhe elects to play the role of a peacemaker. Delcasse having prevented war bet wen England and Russia, might be the man of the hour to bring about the end of the war between Russia and Japan. The city of Los Angeles has plans laid for con 'Ming a tract of 3000 acres of brush land into a commercial park. At present it is neither ornamental nor profitable. By planting good hardwood timber varieties it is argued that in a few years there will be an income from the forest, and the beauty will not be marred by selling a portion of the timber. Such plantings have been conducted for many years in for eign countries. Good results may be expected wher ever proper methods are adopted. Tree planting on Puget sound should be an easy method of city ornamentation. It is the natural land of trees. All varieties, both deciduous and evergreen, grow to perfection. There is no reason why every city should not have plenty of every va riety. The native trees are suited for all conditions. They have no superiors for street planting. They can te had for the expense of transferring from their homes in the mountains. Let the local Arbor day of every city be celebrated by planting native trees on the streets. . Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffncr 6? Marx Remember we are offering special wmmmmmmmmmmm-mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmm Q values In OVERCOATS, not alone In o , o price, but In overcoats that are "cre J ations" from the best tailors of America. In this vast assortment of swell garments we can "fit the hard to At," "please the hard to please," at about one-half your tailor's price OVERCOATS $7.50 to $30.00 Money back if dissatisfied. Home of Swell Togs P. A. STOKES Swell Togs For Men. 000$000$0000OSO00030&030$0 ' THE BIO CORN CROP. Yi.ld Ii of 2.454,531,000 Buthtl, dicUd. New York. Nov. 15. Th monthly crop report lauetl by the department of agriculture ymterdiiy, figured by Htntlitlclnn Brown, of the Produce Ex change, Indicate a yield of corn ot !, 454.SS1.000 bunheln. comparing with lut month', Mtlmnte of 1463.700.000 buahel, and with the hurvent In 1903 ot 2.244.17.2 bu.helt. The average n acre la 24.7 buh!, an compared with nn average ot 2S.G buxhela In 1003, 26.8 buahela In 1902 and a 10-year aver age of 24.3 buahela. The general aver age B to quality la 812 buxhela, com pared with 83.1 last year. 80.7 In 102, and 73.7 In 1901. It la eatlnmted that about 8.4 per cent of the corn crop of 1903 remained In the hnmla ot farmer. on November 1 tnia year, ngainat hi per cent In 1903. 1.9 per cent In 1902 and 4.6 per rent In 1901. The estimate of the average yield of buckwheat la 18.9 buahela an acre, aa agalnat 17.7 buahela In 1903, 18.1 buahel In 1902, and a 10-yeiir average of 17.9 buahela. The average for quality la 91. S per cent, ugulnat 91.4 laat year, 88.1 In 1902 and 93.3 In 1901. . The eatlnmte of the average yield of ttiixaeed la 10.3 buahela an acre, com pared with (.4 buahela In 1903 and 7.1 buahel In 1902. The average a to quality la 92 per rent, compared with 84.9 one year ago. The eatlmate of the average yield of potatoe, la 110.4 buahela an acre, a ugulnat 84.7 In 1903. 96 In 1902, and 10-year average of 81 buahel. The average a to quality la 83.4, compared with 86.4 one year ago, 80 4 In 1902, and 71.4 In 1901. The eatlmate of the average yield of hay la 1.52 ton, an acre, agalnat 1:54 ton In 1903, 1.50 In 1902. and a 10-ycar average of 1.35 ton. The average na to quality I 92.7 per rent, it agalnat 91.3 one year ago. 85.7 In 1902 and 91.2 In 1901, GENERAL FOCK IS THE HERO. He, Not Stoel, I, Making Remark able Stand at Port Arthur. London, Nov. 15. The correapond ent at Toklo of the Time aaya that all accounta from Tort Arthur concur In attributing the merit for the atubborn drfenae which la atlll being maintained to General I'otk, who commahda the Ruaalan left. SOME SCHOOL STATISICS. Men Are Getting Out of the ProfMilon Very Rapidly. Nine per cent of the entire popula tion of the United Hlatea att'endel the public achool during the Aarul year ending June 30, Thla la ahown by the report of the aecretury of the Interior, which atute that 16,009,631 pupil" wert enrolled. The coat wa, 122.75 per cap ita per pupil, and $3.15 per capita of the total population of the country. The expenee ha increnavd and the attend ance ha allghtly dei-reaaed. One of the feature of the ret-nrt I that ;ho Number of male teacher ha decreased to 26 per cent of the entire number, and that the average rompenaation for male tearhela wa, but $49.98 and 840.51 for female. With auch imall aalnrle a theae It la aurprlalng that there nra people willing to accept the poult lun. With the braina neceiaary to tench an Individual ahould be able to command about twice the aalary In .m.J' olhett. profeaalon. Rave the La Imperial band and get the diamond atud. Doein't Retpect Old Age. ( It' ahamefu! when youth fall to! ahow proper reaprt-t tor oM age, but! Juat the contrary In the cac of Dr.' King', New Life Pllla. They cut off1 maladle, no matter how aeverc und( Irreapectlve of old age. Dyapepala,; Jaundice, Fever, Conatlpatlon, all yield to theae perfect pllla. 25c, at Chaa. Roger' drug atore Ballet Girls! LooK like genuine Pastel worK 15c. See the show window. irttetntttittttntr Mr. Himes' letter bears out what we have re peatedly stated that Clatsop county should be the center of the coast's greatest dairying industry. United, determined effort is surely necessary- to bring about proper development of dairying here, but, in view of the progress recently made, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the people of the coun ty will soon awake to realization of the dairying possibilities o(,this section. Henry Watterwn interprets the election "as the discharge of the existing generation of Democratic leaders from the public service." It looks as though lie party itself,, as well as the leaders, had been dis charged. Kcally, the Philippines are making rapid progress toward self-government. A straw vote at Manila gave Roosevelt 606 votes to 311 for Parker. Next Time ' You nee ! a pair of " MenV, Women's or ' Children's '. . " . . 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