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2 THE MORNING ASTORIAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. SUNDAY, AUGUST J, 1900. THE MORNING ASTORIAN ErtabUaned i73. Published Daily by XII J. & DELLINGE3 COMPA5Y. SUBSCSIPIION RATES. By mail, per tut 97X0 By maO, per month .10 By carrier, per month .15 WEEKLY ASTOKLUt. B mitt, per yew, In adTanc..1.00 Entered m jeeond-dasa matter Jane SS. 1, at the pottofflc at Astoria, Ore ton, Mder the act of congress ot March , 1 MVWVnrrr trOnhm for the deUvsnnjr ot Tb Morm aakwmutx to eithr rarideoce or place ot busiaeai ay be made by postal card or ttpoogh teleohona. Any lrrejruUrlty in de li rery abould be immediately reported to the office of publioaUoo. TELEPHONE MADf Mi. Offlelat paper of Clfctsop county and the City of Astaria. DOWIE DOWN AND DONE. When is a suffering world to hear the last of that miserable humbug, fake and fraud. Dowiet Ilia. nam and antfc have Infested the press of the country until the eye of mankind are weary of the type that herald him. and nauseated with the stuff that proclaims him! there nothing to substitute for this worn-out barnacle of the fanatico rvlifsious world? He and hi ilk have oc ctipitHt me loot-Jignts of press-space until patience has gone up against its best limit, and the subscription lists have felt the squeeze of a sick and in dulgent patronage. For heaven's sake chuck the man and his false, farcical and frumpery relations. The world has ceased to care one single blinkety blank- blunk about him, and will be grateful for a paper that appear without mention of him and his affairs. 0 ' ' " WEAXHER, Fair; northwesterly winds. Fair; cooler. ; ' GOOD CHEER AND ENERGY. Let everyone of the committeemen in charge of the forthcoming regatta, go to the meeting at the Flavel building this evening with an open purpose of accomplishing all there is to do by way of making the twelfth annual regatta a jim-dandy from beginning to end. There is much to dot and less time than usual to do it, but that need make no differ ence; all that can be made up in activity and quick dealing in the interests of the festival there are ample funds, practi cally $5000, to do with; and a little cheerfulness will go an immense way in perfecting the task ahead. Discourag ing comment and half-hearted actions are not wanted, nor needed. It is up to the city to do her best, now that she has ordained the holding of the regatta; and those charged with the performance of the work must have the cheery good will of all concerned. Grouch and suc cess are not synonimous terms, espec ially in a matter that demands the spontaneity and energy of the public, therefore, get in, all hands, and make it a ringer, a buster, a hot show, any old thing but a failure! 0 1 CIGARETTE STANDARDS. The cigarette has at last become a thing of importance in the business life of the country; it has become a stand ard for measuring the men who use it, and the result is inimical to the man; and beneficial to the business, by keep ing him out of it. This is just as it should be. A man paltry enough to yield to the miserable little smoke stick, is too paltry to handle anything larger. It is an apt standard, and a reliable. And in thus affording an exact criterion for the ascertainment of a man's general calibre, it has done the only thing to its credit in all its fool history. 0 A REAL FOOL FOLLY. Up in Butte there is a miners' union; a certain miner belongs to this union; he has not and will not pay his dues; the union endeavors to collect from him, and fails, utterly; a committee of five from the union waits upon the general manager of the mines, and demands that the delinquent be discharged; the mana ger absolutely refuses to discharge the man; the committee insists and becomes obstreperous; the manager closes the matter by discharging the five committee-men from the employ of the com pany; the committee reports back, and the mining world thereabout goes on a strike at an hour's notice; they take with them practically 5000 men. Is there anything quite so assinine in the records of strikes! 0 "IT'S AN ILL WIND, ETC." Hill and Harriman have another fierce quarrel afoot, with the Milwaukee in terests deeply involved. They are at it hammer and tongs and somebody is going to benefit largely by the contest that rages between these giants. If it only results in the quickening of the northshore projects and the utilization of the mouth of the Columbia as a terminal, this city and country will gladly hail the cause, abet the row, and add what fuel it may. May good for tune speed all such fallings-out as theirs. 1 COTTON SEED OIL. During the discussion of the pure few J bill in congress it was pretty well es tabhshed that about all the '"pure olive oil sold in thi country is nothing but a highy refined oil of cotton seed. A pro vision was therefore inserted in the bill that hereafter this "refined olive oil" should pass under its own honest name of cotton seed. This wa opposed on the ground that it would hurt one of the south's great industries; but Mr. Slaydon, of Texas, very sensibly thought othewise. Says the telegraph report '1 cannot take that view," said Mr. Slaydon. "Cotten seed oil is an honest, wholesome product and has merit enough to stand on its own inherent worth. Certainly we ought not to foster the trade by telling lies about it. It should be sold for what it is, and if it is as good as we think it is, it will soon be established on a higher phine as a food production that it has ever bad and will command a better price. But whether it is or not, I want to see square dealing in food and drink, and for more than 200,000 Texans I declare here and now that we want no trade based on dis honesty in weight, measure or quality." 0 SUMMER RESORTS CONDEMNED. Rev. Modison C. Peters of the Church of the Epiphany in New York, declares that the so-called summer resorts are the worst places in the world, veritable hotbeds of sin and sinks of iniquity. He says: "I dare not trust myself to describe the things which may be seen in our summer hotels where wealth abounds and beauty smiles. The harvest which will be gathered from summer drinking will be ruined homes, broken hearts, de stroyed hopes, dishonored lives, tor mented souls cheerless graves and an undone eternity. If I could make you see the harvest which will come from the summer sowing it would make your hair rise, your breath catch, your blood chill and would call forth your deepest commiseration on behalf of the victims and rouse your just indignation against the social custom which produces such misery." LOST RIVERS OF THE WEST Mysterious Streams that Disappear in the Earth, Leav ing Man to Guess Whither Their Waters do. 000000000000000000 O EDIT0RAL SALAD. O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Happiness is brave just as gloom Is cowardly. It has been said that with the right amount of faith we might move mountains. Surely we can move the mountains of despondency from our lives and erect in its place the temple of happiness. 0 A woman's paper claims to have found out why there are so few dancing men. I he modern girl, it explains, is so fine and so large that those who should be her partners cease to be dancing men for very shame, fearing to look ridicu lous beside her. 0 Woman has made great progress in the matter of asserting her rights. But she has a long road to travel yet be fore she comes into her own. There ap parently are still too many men who will want to do all the talking. 0 Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Harry Lehr of Newport, R. L, are to give a paryt and the ladies and gents will dance attired in bathing suits, it is said. The dresses will be long and the sleeves short. "Hully gee." 0 The first dollar Mr. Sage made when a boy he saved. Compound the Sage fate of interest on that dollar for 75 years and see how easy it is to get rich. 0 A Philadelphia court has decided that a love letter can not be probated as a will. It is clear that in such productions the sound and disposing mind is entirely absent. Mr. Sage was probably prudent in turning over the job of giving to another member of the family. It was not his forte. Throughout his long life, Russel Sage saved on the average about $1,000,000 a year for a rainy day, which takes the record from Noab; By FREDERICK ORDWAY, X TI1K American continent there are no natural phenomena of more mysterious and fascinating interest than the lost river of the West. These hide and seek streams as a rule head in mountainous areas and rush downward into bowl-like val ley, where they Incontinently vanish. Some of them reappear, miles from the vanishing point, while others are lost forever ami no man knows what be comes of their waters. The tlmrs of the valleys into which they How generally are comparatively level and are built up of lose sands and gravels, washed down from rocky and forest-clad slopes, which absorb the water and through which it percolates slowly beneath the surface. When the slow-moving underground current en counter an obstruction as it often does, in the shape of a liatuiul dyke or the rocky rim of the lower end of the valley, the water is forced to the surfaco and the stream is born again. Thus the Santa Anna River in Cali fornia sinks in the wash above Redlands. ries to the surf aw above Bunker Hill 'dike. sinks below it, rises from River- ide to Bedrock Canyon below El Kineon, inks iu the wash above Santa Aim, and finally partly ri-es aeaiu in the large peat land springs above Talbert The Sao Gabriel and Los Angeles rivers dxliibit) t!he same characteristics, but 1 disappear and reappear less often in their much shorter courses to the sea. At some points these sunken river flow for a long distance, a wide stratum of impervious material where the water is under considerable pressure. When wells are driven through this stratum an artesian flow results. The discovery of this fact added many thousands of acres to the cultivated area of California most of which is in oranges, lemons. grapes, and other higli-priceu products. Another peculiar stream is the De schutes, which drains a large area in Central Oregon. It is known to hydro- graphers all over the world for the ex traordinary regularity of its flow throughout the year. This is accounted for by the porus lava formation, which constitutes a portion of the drainage area, and which is especially prominent here the headwater tributaries leave the foothils of the Cascades. Successive flows of lava, ruptured, fractured, and fissured by convulsions of nature, ex tend over many miles of this region. When the streams encounter this sheet of lava they are taken up by the sponge like material, and disappear from sight, passing beneath and through the lava, and finally emerging through dark cav erns and deep canyons into the main stream. This wonderful lava bed is nature's regulator. It swallows up the floods that come down the steep slopes. It absorbs the rains and snows, and then releases them slowly through a filter miles and miles in length, into the river channel. There are no turbid floods in the Descheutes. In fact there are no floods at all. Day after day and year after year its flow is uniform, and its waters sparkling and clear. For this reason it is probably the finest trout stream in America. New Mexico also has a truant stream, the Rio Membres, It drains many miles of mountain country in the southern part of the teritory, and for a time is a stream of importance. Then, as if tired of existence, it flows out upon the plains near Deming and is lost forever, swal lowed up in the loose sand and gravel. The Pecos, too, is a truant at times, and seeks seclusion beneath the surface, coming up miles below in artesian springs of great volume and (low. Ages ago when the earth was young, the great Snake river plain in Idaho, now a scene of utter desolation, was a semi-tropical garden. Countless sterns crsed it. and lengtUwisJ through it flowed the mighty Snake. I the forest primeval and over the verdure clad plains roamed the mastndon, the mammoth, the camel a queer kind of horse and many other kinds of pro historic animals. e know all this t be true by. reason of the discovery of the remains of these extinct animals iu the recent exevation made at Men idoka Rapids. A great catastrophe overwhelmed this valley. On seven different otxwaloii the lofty Tetons, which frome its east ern boundary, and which were then active volcanoes, erupted and poured forth a sea of lava which swept down ward and eastward, covering the beau tiful valley with a blanket of fiery liquid more than 800 feet thick, In the data clasm all the teeming life was auiiihil ated. ltie rivers were burned up and their channel obliterated, The Snake river cut it way through the lava sheet, carving for itself one of the most wonderful canyons in the Vet other streams from the south persisted and finally joined the parent stream. On the north the river encountered the wall of lava, but did not cut through it. It is a striking hydrographic feature of the valley that for hundreds of mile not a river crosses it from the north. Among the streams which flow south ward from the range of suow-cappod mountains on the northern edge of the valley two are especially interesting, the Big and little Lost rivers. In that long ago before the mountain belched forth fire these rivers formed an 1m portant tributary to the Snake, but the channel was obliterated by sucwi sive layers of lava which flowed over it. Today the floods of these river flow for a short distance on the surface of the plain and then disappear in fissures. crevices, or in the ofter and looser formations. Both are truly lost rivers, It is more than a hundred miles from where they lose themselves In the lava to the canyon of Snake River. Yet It is believed that a part of the waters of these rivers, parsing through subterra nean channels hundreds of feet below the surface, finally reach their former confluent. Shepherds and herdsmen who graze their1 flocks and herd in winter on this broad plain have long Insisted that several place where there were yawning chasms in the lava the rushing waters could be heard distinctly. Further evidence of the soundness of this theory is found in the huge springs which break out along the northern walls of Snake Canyon. One group of these near the head of Hagerman Valley, is the most remarkable in the world. They are known as Thousand Springs. It is as difficult to describe them as it is to find words with which to portray Niagara. Conceive, if you can, more than half a mile of precipitous canyon, with black and frowning face nearly 800 feet high. Then imagine a thousand geysers gush ing forth under tremendous pressure, the water, white with foam, describing a perfect parabola and then falling sheer 200 feet, to be dashed into spray on the rocks below. The roar of all these cata racts is deafening. In the spray which rises the bright sun paints innumerable rainbow of indescribable coloring anl beauty. More than 000,000 gallons of water pours out of fountains every minute in the year. You can travel for ten miles down the canyon and never be out of sight of a dozen waterfalls. More than half the normal flow of the river at this point is supplied by these springs, which have their source prob ably hundreds of miles to the north, and which are drawn from some under ground reservoir beneath the treeless plain. An old bachelor says that matrimony is an excellent training school for women who are ambitious to enter the lecture field. President Roosevelt in the near fu ture may publish for private circulation a book of Irish poems which he trans lated from the Gaelic. Stop That Cough! When a cough, a tickling or an irrita tion in the throat makes you feel un comfortable take Ballard's Horehound Syrup. Don't wait until the disease has gone beyond control. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Anderson, 354 West Fifth street, Salt Lake City, Utah, write: "We think Ballard's Horehound Syrup the best medicine for coughs and colds. We have used it for several years; it always gives immediate relief, is very pleasant and gives perfect satisfaction." 25c, 50c, $1.00. Sold by Hart's drug store. Summer Diarrhoea in Children. During the hot weather of the summer months the first unnatural looseness of a child's bowels should have immediate attention, so as to check the disease before it becomes serious. All that is necessary is afew doses of Chamberlain's Cholic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy followed by a dose of Castor oil to cleanse the system. Rev. M. 0. Stock land, pastor of the first M. E. Church of Little Falls, Minn., writes: "We have used Chamberlain' Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for several years and find it a very valuable remedy, es pecially for summer disorders in chil dren." Sold by Frank Hart, leading druggist, aug Italy's national debt is being re duced at the rate of $50,000,000 a year. SOGIEOFOURSPECIALTBIES WALL PAPER Best Selection in the City at the Low est lances JAPANESE HUTTINGS Just the Thing for the Floor of Any Room; Easily Kept Clean PREPARED WALL BURLAPS For the Den or Dining Room. Made in Beautiful Shades A Large Assortment of Room Mouldings and Plate Rails B. F. ALLEN 0 SON The Art of Fine Plumbing progreued with the development 'of the science of tanititioa end we hive kept 1 1 hu iifyi'i a ii ptce with the improvement!. Hive you f Or Ii your bathroom one of the old fiuhloncd, unhealthy kind I If you are it IU using the "doted In" fijturei of ten ycin ago, It would be well to remove them ind install in their itead, nowy white "SUatdtrir Porceliln Enim eled Ware, of which we hsve iimplci displayed In our ihowroom. Let ui quote you price, Illustrated catalogue free. ?,Xlon.gomery. Astoria. E1HIH1R HSMM0)W!il)CHIISl8P Steam Cleaning and Dying Specialty. Special Attention Civta to Ladlei' Work. All Work CM for end Delivered. 71 NINTH STREET CARL BREON ASTORIA, OREGON. ASTORIA IRON WORKS JOHNiFOX.Fre. F L BISHOP. Secretary Nelson Troytr, Vice-TV, and flopt. ASTORIA SAVINGS UAKK.Treae Designers and Manufacturers of THE LATLdT IMPROVED Canning Machinery, Marine Engines and Boilers) Complete Ginnery Outfits Furnijfu J CORRESPONDENCE SOICITED. 1 1 Foot of Fourth Street. Weinhard's LAGER tfEEiCa First National Bank of Astoria, Ore ESTAULISIIGD 1880. Capital $100,000 Q. A. BOWLBY, Preildmt. I. PETERSON, Vlce-Preldent. if RANK PATTON, Caihler. J. W. GARNER, Assistant Cashier. Astoria Savings Bank Capitol Paid In 1100,000, Surplus and Undivided Profit 168,000. Transact a General Banking Business, Interest Paid on Time Deposit 168 Tenth 8trt, A8TOMA, OREGON. Sherman. Transier Co. HENIIY 8HERMAN, Manager Hacks, Carriages-Baggage Checked end Transferred Trucke ard Furniture Wagon Piano Moved, Boxed and Shipped. It Is easy to waste enough strength dodging youi" duties to do them twice over. 433 Commercial Street Phone Main 121 P0AND USEFUL AND ORNAMENTAL WIRE and IRON WORK of ALL KINDS. 203 Flander St, PORTLAND, OR.