FRIDAY, JUNE i, tool THE MORNING AST01UAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. 8 VOTERS FT Are You Satisfied With Our Present Excellent Local Option Liquor Law? 1 It Iwi proven a upcc and a IiNnIiik whwvcr it ha lwn applied and tried. Do you know that tliU wlw and Jual law U in (lunger of Mug so anmudrd at TiirvUy'a i-Im tlmi tlmt It IwnnflU will I di'troyil I Thti Ilqnur ilitttrri have proposed an aiimniliiiciit wliliJi claim to give "fair play" and " aqtiura ilral" und want you to vot "yen" to favor thfir plan. If tlilx nciiiiidtiii'iit lutili'i on Tuesday It will destroy tbe local option law and maU ll jmiIiIi. for alooiii to tipo la evi-ry piulnct almot without regula ttou. It will fllvc IIik aliH)ii every advance and l W Wooded attempt to fant..n upon tint ut a foul and unjust law nolt-ly In tliu interest of the liquor (Uli'r. Kiauilu Loth Kid- carefully Iefora Mivinj( any ntatmenU In iU favor. Wbo make paupers, rrlmlnaU, wlfe-beatcrs and nuWdeif Not the temper- me iwopln who framed out prewtut excellent law. If you wUh to Imii- fair pluy and to h-t mmigh alone, then help to kill Dili amendment. WATtll VOt'U IIAUiOT AND l'UT YOflt X UKB THIS Mr. fihuUtont. oiu railed dt ink "lh tragedy of rlvitixalion," declaring that war and penllleiire ii.miIhih-iI i iinyn ,ut f, live In comparison with It. A mrciit maasine article. compiled from world statistic, shown that the pin line w not ctitKK''iiit''il. In the Tnili'd Slute above ono billion and a half of dollars--fifteen hundred million dollar, to trtng It down to the unal American unit of values-1 spent every year on ahuholic mid malt liquor. This would pivlil half a million Amcilcan families with incomes of twenty-three hundred a year, giving them comfortable liomo, food, and clothing. The tragedy of poverty In the lend could bo practically wiped out, If the tragedy of drink could ! (topped. Sixty three per rent of all conviction- for crime arc cac where drink hat played a part. Of the eighty-three thounml men and women lying In our juiU today, fifty thousand have Ik-cii made criminal hy drink. The tragedy of crlm could le largely averted if the tragedy of drink wer riot forever making new criminal for our court and prison to receive. me fifth of all the Intuitu in our uylum toby have an "alcoholic hi" ton." Not only the hard drinker end in pan, but the children of the modeiatc drinker hecome mentally weak, epileptic or inan The owful tragedy of hereditary insanity would hadow fur fewer live if the tragedy of drink reaed to wreck nerve and brain. Suicide, vagabondage, crime, insanity, poverty, all look to drink for their recruit. Kvery hour of the day and the night, seven person t-ink into a drunkard' grave, in the I'niled .Slate. What tragedy can le more horrible than the fact of ueh a ghatly profession! Yet miiiic young people smile at the energy of temperance worker. Tin y forget that drink i no laughing mat ter. These figure may help them to realize it. SOI NAIL DRIVING Proceuo That Hive Contributed to Despoil the Columbia. SEATTIE'SSUCCESSFULTACTICS Nam in Which Columbia Valley Com mere Km Been Diverted to the Sound How Portland Stood by nd Tacitly Aided Looteri. After the passing of the land grant allowed in aid of the building of the Northern Pacific railroad to Pugct Sound certain partiea labored for, und obtain' ed, a change in the bill, so at to make line via the Cowlitz. The road- wa then built between Portland ami the Sound and instantly began tapping the business of the CV luinbla river valley, and decreasing it shipping. When the Klondike field were firt discovered, Portland realized that her "hipping Alaka-ward wa entirely par alyzed, and Seattle, by reason of the railroad development attained an in- Mant and tihenomlnal growth. Hie building of the Northern Pacific, by way of the Cowlitz, did not prevent it building the original line directly aero the mountain from Spokane and It wa oori completed, through trains patting from the coast, anil through to the Sound without coming down the Colum bia. And the line down the Columbia lilt not yet Iwn built, and Seattle quietly laugh at the disappointment of thoxe who thought tha the Sound would be cut off by the Cowlitz nmd. If there luiil la-en no railroad Ix-tween Portland and Pugct Sound when gold was found in Alaska, the Columbia river would, loihiy. have Ihcii doing a fine ocean buinea with the northern territory. This wnt the first nail driven into the collin of the Columbia river commerce. The Cowlitz road ha recently reduced the freight rate upon merchandise Ixuind from Portland to Alaska, by one half, thu effectually thwarting the ree.-nt effort of Portland to put on a steamship line to Alaska. A consum mation ably enhanced by T. B, Wilcox ,8ml others, who personally declared that ail shipments from Portland, might, and would be, easily made from Hound points, and that the necessity of a steamship line theme was unnecessary and immaterial. . Seattle was startled, at first, by the announcements of the reduction In Alaskan freights, but she now realizes its wonderful advantage to her shipping to the far north, Thee things, together with the great system of trolley linen thrown into tlio Willamette valley, and other projected, and the Columbia open ed thforjgli, and above, the Cascades, af ford the interior merchant and buyer an easy opportunity to ship directly In to laka, via the Sound ports, at special and incomwtitive rates. This was the second nail driven by the conflicting in terests, Into what should have been. splendid and growing commercial factor in the lower Columbia river country. But, it is on the card that a new turn will be taken before long, that may redeem the situation for this end of the great valley. The Vary Bett Remedy for Bowel Trouble. Mr. M. F, IJorrough-, an old and well known resident of BlutTton, 1ml, says: "I regard Chamberlain' Colic, Cholera, and Diurrhoea Remedy as the very let remedy for Itowel trouble. I make this statement aftt-r having ued the remedy in my family for several years. I am never without it." This remedy is al 1110H to lie needed la-fore the ummer is over. Why not buy it now and be pre pared for such an emergency? For sale by Frank Hart ami leading dinggit.. That Tired Feeling If you are languid, depressed, Incapa ble for work, it indicates that your liver is out of order. Heroine will assist na ture to throw of headache rheumatism and ailments akin to nervousness and restore the energies and vitality of sound and perfect health. J. J. Hubbard Temple, Texas, writes: "I have used Iferbine for the past two year. It has done me more good than all the doctors. It U the best medicine ever made for chill and fever," 00c, Sold by Hart'i dmg slore. The Sultan of Turkey has conferred upon the wife of Ambassador Tower the grand cro of the hefakat. it sounds to the Chicago Record-Herald as if this order ought to t reserved excluively for old maids. Bow to Break Up a Cold. It may be a urprie to many to learn that a severe cold can be completely broken up in one or two days' time. The first symptoms of a cold are a dry, loud cough, a profuse watery discharge irom toe nose, and a thing, white coat ing on the tongue. When Chamberlain's cough remedy i taken every hour on the fiiwt appearance of these symptoms, it counteracts the effect of the cold and retores the sytem to a healthy condi tion within a day or two. For sale by Frank Hart and leading druggists. of fish made by the (team menhaden flatter have a good deal mora to do with it. An enormous seine stretched cloa to the narrow entrance to a bay or sound, scooping in everything that iwimi, seemt pretty well calculated in make flsb scarce in the waters of that bay, N. Y, Exchange. ' The absence of the usual schools of finii from some of the nearby eoat wat er is attributed by some persons to the power lxats, the propellers of which are suiiiMiKed to frighten the fish awav. Maybe. And maybe the wholesale drafts A Word Warning PtcliH est Bel Wsivt't It.... U : . ... t,TT XT svu IUUJT DULRllkUlCa lur iVlC- 0 IMbb BUKATfcD TALCUM POWDER. "Just aa good" is only a deceit by which a dealer tries to make money out of the superiority ana success ot MEN KEN'S POWDER. There's nothing just as good as MENKEN'S and users of substitutes and imitations risk skin, complexion and comfort in doing so. As a protection to health use Mennen's Powder and only Mennen's. Have you tried MENNEN'S VIO LET BORATED TALCUM TOILET POWDER ? Ladies partial to violet perfume will find Mannen's Violet Powder frazrant with the odor of fresh plucked Parma Violets. For sale everywhere for 25 cents, or mailed post paid on receipt of price, by ' ' GERHARD MENNEN CO, Newark. N. J. FKlmilc of Bex lydla Plnkham's Vegetable Compound la positive cure for all those painful uiucuut vi women. win entirely cure the worst forma of Female Com plaint. Inflammation and Ulceration, Falling and Displacements and conse quent Spinal Weakness, and is peculi arly adapted to the Chang of Lift. It will surely cure. ' Backache It baa cured more cases of Female Weakness than any other remedy the world has ever known. It ia almost in fallible in such cases. It dissolves and expels Tumors in an early stage of development. That Bearing-down Feeling, causing pain, weight and headache, is instantly relieved and permanently cured by; its nse. Under all circum stances it acts in harmony with the female system. It corrects Irregularity, Suppressed or Painful Periods, Weak ness of the Stomach, Indigestion, Bloat ing, Nervous Prostration, Headache. General Debility. Also Blzzlness, Falniness, Extreme Lassitude, "don't-care" and " want-to-be-left-alone " feeling, excit ability, irritability, nervousness, sleep lessness, flatulency, melancholy or the "blues," and backache. These are sure indications of Female Weakness, some derangement of the organs. For Kidney Complaints and Backache of either ttx the Vegeta ble Compound Is unequalled. Yon can write Mrs. Pinkham about yourself in strictest confidence. U9U 1. FIXUUX KM. CO., Lfaa, Ills, dies loom, News Herald Building. Commercial Street Between 8th and Qth. 9 The sixth week of the big Creditors' Sale brings larger crowds than ever. Why? Because we bought the stock cheap and you are getting the benefit of it. The proprietors of the Bargain House, formerly at 483 Bond St., were forced to the wall, by their creditors and as they could not make a settlement the stock was sold in a lump and we got it. The stock consists of Clothing', Shoes. Hats and Furnishing' Goods. Read This Price List Over Meu's Dress Shirts, worth up to $1. Sale price. .. 19c Mens Working Shoes, worth $2. Sale price $1.29 Men's $2 Hats. Sale price 9oc Men's Suits, formerly $10 and $12. Sale price....$4.85 Men's Suits, worth up to $20. Sale price $10.85 Men's $2 Working Pants. Sale price 95c Mens Working Shirts and Underwear, worth 65c. Sale price ...odc A CLOTHING SALE WITHOUT A PARALLEL LOOK FOR THE BIG RED SIGN. Mail Orders Promptly Filled. Your Money Back if not Satisfactory. SALES ROOffl-lWS HERALD BLDG., MSf m